Game Stop

storehistoryguy · July 16, 2005, 09:21:24 AM

Discuss.

store215 · July 16, 2005, 02:27:16 PM

I know they just bought out EB Games...we should sadly be seeing lots of empty spots in malls and shopping centers where both stores operate.:mad:

d_fife · July 18, 2005, 10:13:11 AM

I love GAmestop as it has used Dvds, it has some action figures.

They are cropping up in strip malls. Like recently one in Gilford in the Wal-mart Plaza opened and last year one opened in the Upper Valley Plaza in West Lebanon.

d_fife · February 25, 2006, 09:23:03 PM

here is what a gamestop looks like. this one is in south portland maine in the maine crossings. I love the stores.

Crawford · January 28, 2007, 09:03:57 PM

QuoteOriginally posted by MBZ321
I know they just bought out EB Games...we should sadly be seeing lots of empty spots in malls and shopping centers where both stores operate.:mad:

Both stores are in the Emerald Mall in North Attleboro Mass and are doing very well. Oddly enough, there is another Gamestop across the street which was FuncoLand.

XISMZERO · January 28, 2007, 09:32:05 PM

Like the recent "fye" rebrand (phasing Strawberries, SunCoast, Record Town, Saturday Matinee, Media Play) along with the infamous and somewhat critcized Federated rebrand into Macy's & Bloomingdales, GameStop has joined that bandwagon.

They are slowly phasing out existing EBGames/Electronics Boutique and EBX (once sought to be EB's smaller stores located in malls like parent EB stores) stores as well as their own former affiliated stores Babbages (which is officially a goner now), Software Etc. It's getting ridiculous all these companies; now you can have as much as two or three GameStops and FYEs polluting your local malls with their overpriced junk. All these places are really just making malls so much more uniform and cookie cutter.

I'm a long time EB customer, always liked them better than Babbages/Software Etc before they themselves rebranded as GameStop. Their stores weren't that nice but now they pollute their own stores wiith overstocks of overpriced used games and other junk they can't move (like action figures, PC games without boxes, etc.).

Retail Fan+ (Justin Hill) · February 03, 2009, 03:27:19 PM

GameStop is a specialty store found mainly inside shopping malls. They have a great selection of video games.

DISCUSS!!!

wwefan101 · February 03, 2009, 03:37:04 PM

all eb games became game stop this is the one in the aburn mall used to be eb games

<a href="http://s199.photobucket.com/albums/aa150/websterma101/stores/?action=view&current=gamestopabunmall.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i199.photobucket.com/albums/aa150/websterma101/stores/gamestopabunmall.jpg" border="0" alt="aburn mall"></a>

C. Fontaine · February 03, 2009, 03:58:47 PM

and before that it was Electronic Boutique!

wwefan101 · February 03, 2009, 03:59:56 PM

yup im going the one in the aburn mall this comeing week and puting in a pre order for sims 3

TRJ22487 · February 03, 2009, 05:34:27 PM

I hate Gamestop. They killed Funcoland.
In the days of Electronics Boutique (before EB Games) I also liked the store Babbages, they were a similar chain in the 90's

C. Fontaine · February 03, 2009, 05:45:29 PM

Over time I bought the entire Doom series and Duke Nukems at Electronics Boutique.

XDeSuEhTX · February 04, 2009, 03:08:18 AM

QuoteOriginally posted by C. Fontaine
Over time I bought the entire Doom series and Duke Nukems at Electronics Boutique.

Me too. Classics.

XDeSuEhTX · February 04, 2009, 03:12:21 AM

We had two stores originally. One Software, etc... and an EB Games. Both became GameStop in 2006. Then we got a third Gamestop in 2008.

Further back in the day, I used to go to Babbages in Ohio. It also became GameStop the same year I believe.

I guess there is no other game store left.

XDeSuEhTX · February 04, 2009, 03:16:42 AM

QuoteOriginally posted by wwefan101
yup im going the one in the aburn mall this comeing week and puting in a pre order for sims 3

The Sims 3 is coming out soon huh? Have to look into that.

wwefan101 · February 04, 2009, 07:28:49 AM

pre order on simes 3 comes out the 20th

wwefan101 · February 04, 2009, 03:55:57 PM

now sims 3 will be out in june

Crawford · February 05, 2009, 07:30:44 PM

QuoteOriginally posted by XDeSuEhTX
We had two stores originally. One Software, etc... and an EB Games. Both became GameStop in 2006. Then we got a third Gamestop in 2008.

Further back in the day, I used to go to Babbages in Ohio. It also became GameStop the same year I believe.

I guess there is no other game store left.

The only other store that is exclusively games is Gamecrazy but I don't count them since they are usually attached or are an actual part of Hollywood video.

EddieJ1984 · February 06, 2009, 12:51:51 AM

^ There's also Game Trader, there is one in the 2 malls near me (Franklin Mills and Neshaminy Mall)

videogamer75 · February 06, 2009, 05:29:31 PM

There is a really great, independently owned game store near me called ''Bandit Video Games'' in Turnersville, NJ. I don't think it's a chain store though.

By the way, there was already a GameStop thread back on the 6th or 7th page of this board, which was made in 2005. I guess this should be merged with it.

Marc82 · December 20, 2009, 08:07:01 PM

There are 4 Game Stops in Watebury, CT - 2 in The Brass Mill Mall. One on Route 69 in Shoprite Plaza and one across the street in Walmart Plaza.

TRJ22487 · February 06, 2010, 12:43:30 PM

Still unremodeled from 1990's as of October 2009, taken in Ann Arbor, Michigan
From Wikipedia

Marc82 · February 06, 2010, 01:03:07 PM

Quote from: XDeSuEhTX on February 04, 2009, 03:12:21 AM
We had two stores originally. One Software, etc... and an EB Games. Both became GameStop in 2006. Then we got a third Gamestop in 2008.

Further back in the day, I used to go to Babbages in Ohio. It also became GameStop the same year I believe.

I guess there is no other game store left.

We have 2 Gamestops in Bristol. One in The Annex Plaza next to Blockbuster. The other in The Stop & Shop Plaza (formerly EB Games). The nearest Software Etc is in the Meriden Square Mall 2nd Floor near Sears.

EddieJ1984 · February 06, 2010, 06:17:31 PM

Nice pic of the eb thats still open.
I definably liked that EB logo than the one they would use for EB Games.

TRJ22487 · February 06, 2010, 08:02:41 PM

Quote from: EddieJ1984 on February 06, 2010, 06:17:31 PM
Nice pic of the eb thats still open.
I definably liked that EB logo than the one they would use for EB Games.

Me too, I seem to remember the one by me (Holyoke Mass) was blue text and all one line...those were the days of SNES Saturn and Playstation

C. Fontaine · February 08, 2010, 07:55:50 AM

Haha yes. I remember buying my first non-shareware copy of Doom at Electronics Boutique in the Auburn Mall!

videogamer75 · February 08, 2010, 05:14:53 PM

I remember that EB logo, I think the one in the Echelon Mall in Voorhees, NJ had it.

david121 · February 08, 2010, 07:23:08 PM

I've seen a Gamestop still called EB at Westfield Montgomery Shopping Mall in Bethesda, MD.

kendra · February 09, 2010, 06:05:21 PM

I visited a mall in New Jersey a couple months ago that had both a Gamestop and an EB still open and operating in the same building, which seemed a bit odd. Here in Bangor, we've got a EB-turned-Gamestop in the Bangor Mall as well as a standalone Gamestop in a power center on the other side of Stillwater Avenue. Both situations seem a bit redundant to me...

Bdubs · February 12, 2010, 03:27:34 PM

Quote from: kendra on February 09, 2010, 06:05:21 PM
I visited a mall in New Jersey a couple months ago that had both a Gamestop and an EB still open and operating in the same building, which seemed a bit odd. Here in Bangor, we've got a EB-turned-Gamestop in the Bangor Mall as well as a standalone Gamestop in a power center on the other side of Stillwater Avenue. Both situations seem a bit redundant to me...

3 GameStops operating in the same mall, on the same level here. Crystal Mall, Waterford, CT. lol.

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