R U Game

This store is a great place for old school cartridges and game systems. They also carry POP vinyl figures and Magic the Gathering cards, as well as many other video game related items. The employees are friendly, knowledgeable, and approachable. And yes, before you call and ask, they do have Battletoads in stock.

In comparison to Play N Trade, this store was many notches below as to what a retro gamer is expecting. Assosiates were eating greasy pizza at the counter, made the store smell disgusting.
The selection is really bad and worse the prices are top retail. even more than what a retailer should ask for. I was looking for GameCube games and the selection was absolutely dire. Maybe 20 games at most.
Also, they don’t accept American Express. Rule #1. Never go into retail unless you can accept any major credit card. Either try play n trade or continue shopping online. This place stunk.

We love this place! Customers of play and trade for awhile, but R U Game is much more reasonably priced and honest. We’ve traded in many games and systems for double and triple what competitors wanted to give us. Great selection of games between this and the Brandon store. We won’t shop at any other game store now!

The staff here is great. They have things that are hard to find at game stop. Just note that the selection is smaller

Brought my Playstation in to get fixed. The employee said it would take «a couple days.» I called him after four days for a status, and he said that he hadn’t heard from the «guy who fixes them.» I inquired about my unit one week later after no response, and the guy was snippy, saying that he would call me when there was a diagnosis. Over two weeks passed without a word from RU Game. I called again and found out that my Playstation was brought back to the store the week prior, and they didn’t bother to call me up. The employee on the phone (a different one) was friendly. He stated that my Playstation was not fixable, but was unable to provide an explanation why and did not know the diagnosis.
If I don’t get an explanation after a second inquiry, I’m taking it somewhere else for a diagnosis.

I’ll gladly make the trip from South Tampa. As opposed to Gamestop, who seem set on feeding the AAA, sixty-​dollar addiction with zero retro stock, this place has carts to the heavens and plenty of Gamecube/​PS2 discs. The good stuff is under glass and priced competitively to eBay or Amazon. I’ll definitely be back, and write more. Got my eye on that Metroid edition Gamecube.

This store opened a few months ago in Tampa near USF and the University Mall in the Sweet Bay plaza. It’s similar to Play N’ Trade and has your retro gaming needs, but what seemed to be a better stock of current generation video games as well. They have some DVDs as well. It’s great to see new video game stores taking root, many of them have been starved to death by Gamestop’s rapid takeover of the video game scene in the last ten years.
R.U. Game? has all your old systems in case your Nintendo 64 dies (as 2 of mine have), the prices are similar to Play N’ Trade, and the employee in the store had far better service than any Gamestop I have visited. They buy, sell, and trade video games. We chatted about the latest games coming out and he was happy to take any suggestions I had about adding certain games as well.
I’m really happy about this place and wish them the best of luck. There is a huge retro scene today and real gamers will certainly enjoy the beauty of an independent game chain. If you’re game then head to R.U. Game? today!