Nationwide retailer Toys R Us has begun testing a program to buy back used games and sell them at its stores, similar to that of GameStop and other gaming specialty stores.

"We are testing out a program at a couple of our stores in the New York area," Toys R Us public relations manager Bob Friedland told Kotaku. "We are selling used games in the stores participating in the test."

Among those participating stores is a location in Nanuet, New York, which was noticed by Cheap Ass Gamer user phear3d. That store is apparently part of a 12-week trial program, which has been running at that location for about four weeks.

It seems that the chain hasn't yet decided if it will take the initiative nationwide.

The used game market has been extremely lucrative for GameStop, with the company buying games at a low cost, typically a third of their worth, and reselling them at a much higher rate, sometimes just five dollars less than the price of a new game.

Despite accounting for only 26.1% of the GameStop's total Q2 2008 sales, used game sales made up 49.7%, some $234M, of the retailer's overall quarterly profit.