I sorely miss shopping at Software Etc & Babbages back in the 90s. They had such a great/niche selection of PC games and also made bold, customer-friendly move

I sorely miss shopping at Software Etc & Babbages back in the 90s. They had such a great/niche selection of PC games and also made bold, customer-friendly moves like importing Playstation and Saturn games from Japan along with the Action Replay carts needed to play some of them. They even sold Magic the Gathering packs at reasonable prices when the product was new and scorching hot. I would literally walk into the two stores (which were close to each other) every day after school just to catch anything new/rare before it sold out. GameStop is such a far cry from that experience and has been this way (in declining fashion) for 20 years now. I knew some folks who were in Software Etc & Babbages management both pre and post merger and they were saying back then that all of the problems with the company were top-down and it seems things haven't changed a bit. Their management has run this company completely into the ground.