Has anyone else noticed a rash of new Eb's and Gamestops opening in your area? I've had about 3 EB's and 2 Gamestops open within about 5 miles of me in the past 3 months. This may not seem like alot, but these stores are opening within a mile or two of already existing EB's and Gamestops! There is not a video game store in just about every shopping center or strip mall near me! I'm not complaining, becuase it gives me more locations to scour when deals happen!

Has anyone else seen a proliferation of new stores recently?

FS

They're all over the place here in Dallas/Plano. According to thier website there are exactly 20 Gamestop's within 10 miles of my apartment.

I just noticed yesterday a stand alone EB is being built in my area close to a stand alone gamestop.

So far i seen 3 Ebgames store open near meeh....

1. 1/2 mile away from home
2. 15 miles or 1 1/2 mile near my school
3. 12 miles or 5 miles near my friend house (NEW STORE)

2 more NEW ebgames store will open soon.......unknow location

I miss FuncoLand.

Theres 13 Gamestop stores within 13 miles of my house. Hmm, what a bad number.

Anyways, yeah they've been popping up everywhere around here. I remember walking into Gamestop once and one of the employees was like "Yeah, we're going to be like 7-11, everywhere!"

Its not bad though, everytime I walk into one of the newer stores I find rare games like Tactics Ogre, and Ogre Battle, realtively cheap when you see what they go for on Ebay.

I dunno if that is a good thing or a bad thing, lol. BTW Pixy, what happens in six days?

I'd say it's a bad thing.. I'm none too fond of them.. but nice to go and window shop, evry once in a while they'll have a nice NES or SNES game I want that's not 3x it's value.

6 days = Married with Children box set.

Damn you Pixy, now that means I have to buy that now. I love Married With Children. Any good deals on it?

I liked Funcoland better too

$22.06 at DDD.. still waiting for the Best Buy ad to come in.

1 Gamestop near me, but no EB's. I wish some would more would open up, it'd give that lone gamestop some competition and maybe they will start treating people like they are human beings and not wandering wallets.

How do you find out if a new EB or Gamestop is opening in your area? They usually have raffles for a console or something for the grand opening...or so I heard.

Wow, that is a good deal. I have to jump on this one for sure

We had a new EBGames open about 4 months ago, and driving to work today I seen another new one in a strip mall next to Best Buy. That brings our total to 4. We have never had a Gamestop (Software Etc. left town ages ago).

There is ONE GameStop 5 mins away and ONE EBGames 20 mins away. That's IT.

Come on people we need more of both! We need an EBGames around HERE!!

One Gamestop in the mall, one Gamestop that just opened by HEB... about two exits down from the mall.

Tons of both opening up in Southeast Houston and Pasadena, Texas.

One of each opened up over the summer in Fayetteville, AR...

Yup, new EB up here. Totally random.

It used to be a strange thing seeing one of these outside of the confines of a mall but not anymore.

They probably have one of the highest profits/sq. feet of any store. They have such little overhead and only have to hire a few people.

6 EB's and 3 Gamestops within 20 miles of my zip code.

I just checked mine...24 EBGames and 35(!) Gamestops within 20 miles of me!

FS

Third EB opened up on the other side of town recently here in Wichita

Yeah that was the one I referred to above (about 4 months ago) and we have a 4th now at 21st & Rock (by Best Buy).

There are 2 Gamestops within 5 mins of me with a third one opening soon and 1 game stop within the same 5 mins of my location here in the Eastside of Houston, TX.

Also have 2 Game Crazy's in the same distance. I even live in the ghetto side of town.

Yeah, we just had an EB Games open in Manhattan. I hardly go though because I was somewhat disappointed.