Phronemophobia 2024-11-07 10:40:08

Kmart was no more or less different to me than Target or a less kid-centered ToysЯUs. As a child, we had a Kmart near where my great grandmother lived and while it was a bit of a drive to reach it, we didn't have an alternative until a Wal-Mart showed up years later just down the street from my home. I can vaguely recall one unique part of the layout... the electronics section was in the middle of the building and had these temporary walls built around it with games and... um, electronics (duh) shelved on them with a relatively small checkout desk in the center and only one entrance, so the whole thing felt like a tiny store inside of a larger one. One side had a floor shelving with all the games and consoles while the opposite side had a floor shelving phones, stereos, VCRs, and TVs. I did wander to the toys section, but it was as you would assume - blue sections with boys stuff and pink sections with girly stuff. Typical set up. Outside of that, I remember there being a bunch of junk piled around the end of the line of checkout registers that were available but usually ignored unless the store was extremely busy and it had an arcade of Kung-Fu Heroes that I wanted to play but couldn't cause mom and dad didn't want to give me any money to waste on it. I later saw the game for the NES at the video shop we would visit on the weekends aptly named "VIDEO" and I got mom to rent it for me. I thought it was so cool to play an at-home version of an arcade game because that was always amazing to my kid brain and I eventually added a cartridge of it to my decaying library of old-stuff-you-might-as-well-emulate-instead for no better reason than that single moment of not-so-interesting nostalgia.

Phronemophobia 2024-11-12 23:01:33

@Bertn1991 And thank you for being the best Brent a Bunn could possibly be(rtn1991)!