If you ever come to Maine, you must go here!

Captain M4d

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There's this place in Portland called the Fun Box Monster Emporium, and it's basically a pawn shop completely injected with geek culture of the past. They have huge collections of vintage video games, comic books, sci-fi/fantasy books, action figures (anything from Street Sharks to GI Joe to extremely obscure things) and random knick-knacks. I don't know what other big cities have for places like this, but I'd like to think these places are pretty rare.

I just bought Final Fantasy II & III (Snes) there a few weeks ago. They have the original boxed Super Mario RPG for $50.

Here are some pictures I took for my blog:

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You can read and see more at my blog post here: http://thesubengy.wordpress.com/2009/08/31/geeky-dreams-come-true-at-fun-box-monster-emporium/
 
i go to maine a few times a year, where exactly is this place for those of us who are too lazy to google?
 
I have a place about 45 mins away my friend and I wandered into about 2 weeks ago and its going to be our new retro hangout. they have like 15 arcade machines, thousands of ps1 games, thousands of snes, genesis, nes, atari, etc games. its amazing
 
Pff, Seattle has Archie Mcphee and we have A COOLER STORE HERE, EVEN.
 
Warped said:
I have a place about 45 mins away my friend and I wandered into about 2 weeks ago and its going to be our new retro hangout. they have like 15 arcade machines, thousands of ps1 games, thousands of snes, genesis, nes, atari, etc games. its amazing
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Oh man, that's awesome. There's this LAN center 20 minutes away from me, and it looks like they're setting up an old-school game room on the other side of it. I'm going to check it out as soon as it's open.
zombieturtle01 said:
Pff, Seattle has Archie Mcphee and we have A COOLER STORE HERE, EVEN.
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Wanna tell me a little more, Mr. Turtle?
Tyguy said:
i go to maine a few times a year, where exactly is this place for those of us who are too lazy to google?
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656 Congress Street. It's attached to this comic shop called Coast City Comics.
 
I used to have that playset, its long gone.

*remembers trying to fit the broken hinges together*
 
You could've told me about this back in May before I went to Maine.

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Corp. Sheepo said:
You could've told me about this back in May before I went to Maine.

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I don't think it was there back then. Opened up in June or July.

But you could have come to my birfday party and see me stuff cake down my pants!
 
Man the closest thing I can get to those epic stores around here is some lame collectable card shop, where the fat greasy guy hisses at you whenever you come in close proximity with the unopened R2-D2 thing.
 
And zombieturts, that place is pretty epic. For Maine however, Fun Box is pretty damn awesome. C'mon...IT'S MAINE!
 
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