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Kevin Smith’s Clerks as told through a 90s videogame retailer at Babbage’s
With console makers intent on selling games digitally, it certainly looks like standalone game shops are a dying breed. In a fond retelling of his days working at Babbage’s, a former major game retailer ubiquous in shopping malls across America in the 90s, Lee Hutchinson says that is a sad thing, though he made a paltry $4.25 an hour. While people have every right to complain about the uncomfortable experience of shopping at GameStop, it didn’t have to be that way, and at one time, it wasn’t. Game retail stores were the port of call where nerd culture collided with…