Following a test program, retailer Toys R Us rolled out a used game initiative to all of its U.S. locations today, enabling gamers to exchange their old titles for in-store credit.

The program supports "more than 25 current and classic systems," ranging from the Atari 2600, Intellivision and Sega 32X to PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and Wii. The only stipulation is that games need to be in their "original cases," complete with original artwork.

"This program is designed to make the exchange process completely hassle-free for customers by accepting games from even the oldest systems," said VP Bill Lee.

However, Toys R Us will not be putting the used games on it shelves, as it did during the recent test program. The company told Joystiq that trade-ins "are taken by a third party company that refurbishes them for resale."

The trade-in process, similar to every other one out there, is outlined below... Read more

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.