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To: Marc Newman who wrote (8871)	12/6/1998 3:13:00 AM
From: Kory	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 14266

Did some channel checks and Christmas shopping today. Channel checks are from Walmart in Pinehurst, NC. Spoke at length to the electronics manager at Wal-Mart. They have a HUGE selection of games added in the past few months, with PC games the main focus, although Playstation and Nintendo still outsell the PC games. Playstation seems to be killing N64. Manager states that he is selling 4-5 new Playstations for every N64 system sold. Revenge selling very well, as was WCW/NWO - this is also Wrestling country and all wrestling games move quickly. They were on their third shipment of 20 carts for Revenge and had only 6 left. Rugrats for both PSX and Gameboy were moving slowly. Lots on hand but few sold. Color Gameboy moving very well and Bug's Life selling well. Small Soldiers surprisingly selling very well. On a couple personal notes - purchased Nitro for the PC. Sorry guys, but IMO, this is a terrible game. Also, the shrink wrap on the package makes the 3D hologram look poor. That said, I got the last copy in the store after an initial shipment of 6 earlier this week. Novelty and monopoly in the PC market will probably move this title, but word of mouth won't. Also bought Devil Dice for a nephew and played quite a bit today. This is a great game! Store still had 6 copies left of an initial shipment of 12. Too bad that more people don't give this one a chance - it is excellent. Kory

To: Marc Newman who wrote (8871)	12/7/1998 12:09:00 AM
From: Marc Newman	Respond to of 14266

I spotted Rugrats PSX in the Target and Sears circulars. NWO/Revenge also made those two, as well as CompUSA. I don't get Kay-Bee or Best Buy fliers, so maybe we had some THQ action in those too. God, it's nice to have more than one hit game. Seems that a lot of stores are having trouble stocking Revenge and some are having trouble with Rugrats as well. It's a sign of phenomenal sales both specifically and throughout the industry. It does seem that Toys'R'Us has more stock right now than other chains so if one is looking to buy a copy, it might be the place to go first. Thanks to BigBill for that amazing and thorough channel check, and here are two more, showcasing some nice quantities: From: NJChuck EAST BRUNSWICK, NJ TRU Thanksgiving Friday > today COMMENT N64 REVENGE 18 20 have gone thru 4 cases (24 ea) "these should be gone by tomorrow nite" "no more in stock until next truck" N64 NITRO 31 5 he said "these maybe from 2nd carton N64 QUEST 6 16 orig 6 sold "this is selling because Zelda was not delivered on time and is always running out of stock, same genre" PSX RUGRATS ZERO ZERO GBOY RUGRATS ZERO ZERO My question: why are u out of stock always on weekends..." Answer: We get delivery on Mon/Wed/Fri and by Friday nite we're sold out...till monday....I said "isn't Sat/Sun your largest demand days....YES but we're still sold out... so why dont you order extra for weekend.,..we did but it sold out on Friday nite!!!! GAME BOY Small Soldiers 6 ZERO Bug Life ZERO ZERO "selling faster than we can get them" Madden97 6 3 NBA96 2 2 Hunchback 1 0 Mulan ZERO ZERI Pocohantas 12 10 Urban ?? 7 Lion King ?? 3 Duck Tales ?? 16 WorldCup 98 5 1 PSX Devil Dice ?? 21 GDarius 5 4 Red Jack ?? 3 RayTracers 13 9 $19.95 GranStream 5 4 WCW/World 17 6 Nitro 31 24 orig sold out 24 just received SNES Madden 98 12 5 $54.99 now $14.97 NBA live 7 6 NO BRUNSWICK RECEIVED NO PC NITRO RECEIVED ALSO: EVERYTHING FROM JAKK IS SELLING GREAT EXPECIALLY WRASTLING FIGURES. WHAT A GREAT SELLING SEASON THIS IS SHAPING UP TO BE.... WAIT UNTIL ALL THE NEW SYSTEMS ARE SOLD.... FIRST QTR WILL BE ALMOST AS GOOD. NJChuck ------------------ From: W J Hyland Had an outstanding CC at BestBuy in WPB, FL. Got lucky and was able to speak to a very articulate and knowledgeable teenage sales clerk. She told "we've sold hundreds of Revenge". When I questioned the credibility of her statement she was very resolute, telling me that they sold 250 in the first 3 days they had it, and sold out every subsequent re-stock within 2 or 3 days. She said "re-stocks" are usually about of the original order, and that she guesses they've been re-stocked at least twice. I said "thats 500 games!" -- she said "yes, for sure". She volunteered that Zelda sold about 500 games within the first 3 days and that re-stocks have been similar to Revenge, only larger (about 250 games in each re-stock). I also asked about Rugrats. She said Rugrats was selling well, but not in the same league as Revenge -- she was less certain of the Rugrats sales, but guessed "probably 1/5 of what we've sold of Revenge, and thats good -- remember, Revenge is a star." The BestBuy in WPB is a very busy store; so busy that it's a pain in the _ss to even get in and out of the parking lot -- just a hot store. Having said that, however, I am still astonished at the amount of wrestling we are selling. Revenge alone will make this a stellar quarter. If Rugrats sells well and we are, in fact, selling some of the older (Quest, NWO, etc.) and newer titles (Devil Dice, Bowling, G Darius, Gameboy titles), this will be a most memorable and remarkable quarter. While I don't have as good a handle on Rugrats sales, I see a number of posts suggesting that the game is selling very well (comperable to Quest?). If this assessment is accurate, we will see huge numbers for 4Q. Deck the halls, Bill. ----------------------- It seems that not only are just about all the games moving, but that we have re-orders this quarter of Quest and WCW vs the World. Plus, one poster in Miami noted a large quantity of Nitro PSX, so maybe one last shipment of that game too. Marc