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Dance Dance Revolution DDR Games + Metal Dance Pads
Description
The history of our company all started in 1991 when our founder was heavily into the computer "demo scene" in the early days during the time of the Gameboy, Super Nintendo, Sega Game Gear, Genesis and Commodore Amiga. Game Asylum's founder had a knack for programming cheat and trainer menus into many games of the day, which did the job of the modern day Codebreaker or Game Shark products. He found it much more entertaining and educational to hack the games himself and make them do what he wanted to as opposed to actually sitting down and playing them. Today many products are on the market for sale at most major department stores which do the job of the game hacker but back then, game enthusiasts were on their own, so to speak. Of course the art of hacking video games was not just confined to the founder of our company but is a hobby that many people all over the world are very fond of. Many of these people communicate with one another sharing ideas and even form groups dubbed "demo groups" for the occasional demonstration they would program as a team on the given platform of the day. This whole "underground" movement of video game enthusiasts is commonly known as the "demo scene." This demo scene was our founders initial inspiration for getting into the video game business. You can check out our Link Section if you want to learn more about the computer or video game console demo scenes.
In 1993 our business began as a small business selling software and hardware via the computer bulletin board systems. Because the founder had an intimate knowledge of the innerworkings of video games it was only natural to find an interest in turning his hobby into a business. Since our founder ran his own BBS this was quite nice because the BBS would get phone calls from all over the world and with every file downloaded, there would be a list of available inventory for sale. It started slowly but after a few months of this form of advertising and advertising on the trainer menus of games, the word started spreading. Business was slow but was steady. At any rate, the business did not make nearly enough money to live on so it was only a part time hobby/income.
A few years later, our first retail store was opened. It was started in a local and existing hobby game store called Level 12 . Level 12 offered all kinds of Role Playing Games "RPG", like Dungeons and Dragons, Gamma World, Paranoia, Boot Hill, Warhammer, Battletech, etc. They carried hundreds of games, but not a single video game. We saw an opportunity and so we sought permission from the owner to share space and thus share rent. With his blessings we opened "Game Doctors". Setting up only a couple glass display counters and some limited peices of slat wall, we stocked our store with maybe 200 video games. Mainly SNES, Genesis, NES, Playstation, Saturn, Dreamcast, Gameboy and Gameboy Color and a few retro games like 3d0, Atari 2600 and Intellivision. Within a year we had over 2000 games. The video game business had become a full time venture however, after a few years, it was apparent that although things were going well, this was not exactly what the founder had in mind.
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