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Electronics Boutique
1977–2005
“EB — trade-ins and the new-release wall.”
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“EB” — the mall game store where you traded in a stack of old titles for credit toward the next one, put down a reservation slip for the big upcoming release, and studied the wall of new arrivals behind the counter. For a lot of teens it was the weekly pilgrimage. It was absorbed into GameStop in a 2005 merger and rebranded away.
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