It's kind of sad to see it go. I worked at one over winter break one year back in college. It was kind of an awful job but to see the whole thing collapse now is just disheartening. Maybe I'm just old but there is something appealing about the ability to just paw through all the physical game boxes looking for one game and discovering others along the way.
Mom and pop game stores were not at all universal. Many people had maybe a limited selection at Toys R Us or whatever Blockbuster was cycling out. Oh and whadda ya know, both of those are gone, too.
I don't think I've ever heard of a mom & pop game store near me. There was a comic shop that I went to for a bit as a kid. Maybe they did eventually pick up selling video games but not when I used to go there.
That's hard for me to believe considering I lived in a town of 20k at the time and we had.... at least 3 independent game shops. Plus the shifty Hollywood video chain
It's not about Gamestop specifically, it's about the loss of the brick and mortar experience. As retail stores die, we stray further from physical ownership and closer towards a model of digital renting for all future media. That alone is something worth mourning.
B&N owned Gamestop. They used the same business model of buying out the competetion to build it up. At some point Gamestop may have separated from B&N but for the longest time if you worked at one you could get employee discounts at both.
It's kind of sad to see it go. I worked at one over winter break one year back in college. It was kind of an awful job but to see the whole thing collapse now is just disheartening. Maybe I'm just old but there is something appealing about the ability to just paw through all the physical game boxes looking for one game and discovering others along the way.
Mom and pop game stores were not at all universal. Many people had maybe a limited selection at Toys R Us or whatever Blockbuster was cycling out. Oh and whadda ya know, both of those are gone, too.
I don't think I've ever heard of a mom & pop game store near me. There was a comic shop that I went to for a bit as a kid. Maybe they did eventually pick up selling video games but not when I used to go there.
That's hard for me to believe considering I lived in a town of 20k at the time and we had.... at least 3 independent game shops. Plus the shifty Hollywood video chain
It's not about Gamestop specifically, it's about the loss of the brick and mortar experience. As retail stores die, we stray further from physical ownership and closer towards a model of digital renting for all future media. That alone is something worth mourning.
B&N owned Gamestop. They used the same business model of buying out the competetion to build it up. At some point Gamestop may have separated from B&N but for the longest time if you worked at one you could get employee discounts at both.