what games at which stores do you remember being able to play (or at least watch) video game demos?

I remember:

Little Nemo for NES at Sears

Super Mario World at Toys 'R Us

Legacy of the Wizard for NES at a local crappy store (one of my favorite games of all time)

I remember being at a mall with my aunt when I was very little and they had a demo machine I remember two of the games were little mermaid and rescue rangers both for the ness

also at the px on the base near where I used to live they had demos of the first two bonk games for whatever system it was on and a power ranger game for genesis later on and mk 1 on the snes (the toned down one)

I remember the demos. I remember with the SNES target and some other places had this pad with some games, and when you pressed the certain game, you would get information about that game. I remember I would always go to retail stores just to try out the games.

The places I'd go to the most common SNES demo was Super Mario World. Though I do remember seeing Star Fox in quite a few places after that game came out.

For the Genesis it was either Sonic 1 or Sonic 2.

The only place I saw a TG16 was Toys R Us, they switched off demoing Bonk 1 and 2.

This may sound odd but I once saw a demo of Donkey Kong Country in the Hardware/Sports Section of Sears at a local mall.

all I remember was the Pokemon snap demos where you could buy cards to make stickers of the 1st level snapshots you took

that reminds me dudes, is there a gamestop in your area that has old game systems in the back of the store with games in them? there's a gamestop in around a shopping center in my area, and in the back are an snes and nes. i saw a couple of kids playing boogerman and super mario 3

I remember playing that as well, like wise with Mario 64.

I also remember playing Virtual Boy at Wal*Mart.

I know Target use to have game demos going back in the day, likewise with Service Merchandise.

Nintendo used to have a kiosk in which you pressed a button for a particular game and were then shown a short movie about it. Anyone else remember these?

I remember playing:

Asterix on the Super Nintendo
James Pond 2: Codename Robocod on the Game Gear
Talespin on the Game Boy
Kirby's Pinball Land on the Game Boy
Night Trap on the Mega CD
Sonic Spinball on the Mega Drive
Pete Sampras Tennis on the Mega Drive
Battle Arena Toshinden on the PlayStation
Fifa 96 on the Sega Saturn
Panzer Dragoon on the Sega Saturn
Extreme G on the Nintendo 64
Fighter's Destiny on the Nintendo 64
Racing Simulation Monaco Grand Prix on the Dreamcast

That is all I can think of

I also remember:

In a Virgin Megastore, There was a pod where you could watch videos of new games in action. You highlighted the video you wanna watch by waggling the arcade joystick, press a button (twice) and the game video of your choice will play.

The only 2 videos I remember from that pod were:

Sonic The Hedgehog 3 on the Mega Drive
Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles: Tournament Fighters on the Super Nintendo

yes k-mart in newport, KY had one of those

Bart VS. the World at Toys R' Us
Super Mario World at Target
Donkey Kong Country 2 at Walmart
Donkey Kong 64 at K-Mart
Mario Party 3 at Target

found all in eb games

I remember playing the Star Fox demo in either K-mart or Sears, one of them...

One of the "Sonic the Hedgehog" games (I forget which one)
Parappa the Rapper (Playstation)

Both around 1996.