Babbage's: Before GameStop – Post-Mortar
Babbage's: Before GameStop – Post-Mortar
The story of how Babbage’s (later GameStop) went from a small Dallas computer software/video game specialty store, with competition like EB Games, Software Etc, and WaldenSoftware, to becoming the largest electronic entertainment software retailer on the planet.
New computer systems like the Commodore 64, Apple II, TRS-80, and Atari 400, among others, had created a great new market for video game/software consumers. Gary Kusin and James McCurry were determined to make a name for themselves in this new market, founding Babbage’s in 1983. Little did they know just how far their venture would take them…
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Roloff โDeletoโ de Jeu – Atari/Sony 35mm Ads
Cyrus Martin – WaldenSoftware / Babbage’s store footage…
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0:00 – Intro
0:24 – Viacom and DVD
1:26 – The $40 Late Fee and Reed Hastings
4:36 – How Total Access Totally Failed Blockbuster
6:28 – The Beginning of The End
8:45 – Final Words
Long Stroll by Kevin MacLeod
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0:00 – Intro
0:50 – McCurry, Kusin, and Perot: A Market Emerges
4:43 – New Rivals and Ambitious Expansion
10:02 – A Merger Looms as Gaming Grows Up
14:23 – Barnes & Noble, Funco, EB, and The Late โ90s
18:06 – The Rise of GameStop and EB Games
21:05 – Babbageโs Legacy
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#gamestop #retro #80s #retail
Alex Nuelle 2021
Former Babbage’s and Egghead Software employee here. You did a very good job on this overview; it jives with what I remember from the 1980s and 1990s. I have to ask, though: How on Earth did you track down that in-store footage?
Better name when i was a kid now fkn gamestop smh dumb fkn name
This is my childhood hall of fame! Babbage’s before becoming Gamestop. Forget Xbox’s and PS5’s. I used get my games here. The good old fashioned days. Back when SNES and Sega where the shock items. SNES games for $59.99 brand new out of the box. Those were the days.
Amazing vids. ๐ฏ Keep making great content! Do you know of promosm!? You should use it to help get your videos seen!
Excellent overview. I hired in at Babbage’s in 1990 and left in 1999. Babbage’s was a great place to work in the early years.
Commodore 64 all day
10:36 damn that’s a cozy place to play some games!
Amazing video as always. Your editing and the quality in general is great. Keep up the good work! Your so underrated. ๐
How is that this channel has only 529 subscribers ???
Should have thousands at least
Really good content
Jam-packed with information, the constant visuals are a feast for the eyes that keeps all the facts from seeming overwhelming. Very well edited and enjoyable.
Babbage’s was my Graceland.
Been subscribed for a while and the editing is getting better!! I’ll definitely be telling friends to give you subs.
Just became your 1k subscriber. ๐
Great videos by the way!
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I canโt wait to see this channel hit millions of subscribers soon all of your videos are so high quality I feel like Iโm watching some super fancy video
Great job! This brings back so many memories. I was fortunate to work at Babbage’s starting in 1995… and when our store closed in 1996, I moved over to the Sofftware Etc. located in the same mall. The stores were awesome back in the day.
I love watching things like this! Thanks!