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<blockquote data-quote="Davelozzi" data-source="post: 1128329" data-attributes="member: 771"><p>The main WotC store in Seattle (the Game Center in the U-District) has been closed for 2-3 years, it's now a Tower Records. But it was probably the one your friend was talking about. It had the store section (similar to any other WotC gaming store at the time), a video arcade (which included some pod like machines that you sit in as well as several PC terminals), and a whole lower level for gaming. There was also an attached fast-food restaurant called Dalmuti's, that originally had boardgames available to play at the table, although that didn't last long, since no one ever returned the pieces. Soon, you were lucky to get a handful of mismatched trivia cards and pretty sure even that was gone. The food quality started out okay (somewhere around Friendly's quality, a step or so below Round Robin) but got continualyl worse until it was on par with the other fast food chains. The restaurant is closed now too.</p><p></p><p>All of the other WotC stores in the Seattle area were nothing special when I lived there (3 years ago). Lots of board games, some computer games, halfway decent RPG stuff tucked away in a corner and a few game tables or PCs. From what I understand, since then they all got a lot worse, following the same trend as Wizard's other chain The Game Keeper, which was that the RPG/miniature stock continued to dwindle while the focus shifted to family friendly board games and some puzzles. Now the only Game Keeper around here (Boston) is closed. I was in Seattle a few weeks ago and didn't get a chance to check out any of the WotC stores still open but I did get a chance to check out a local game store in the U-district a few blocks up from the old game center and they sure seem to be doing a lot better without the competion.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Davelozzi, post: 1128329, member: 771"] The main WotC store in Seattle (the Game Center in the U-District) has been closed for 2-3 years, it's now a Tower Records. But it was probably the one your friend was talking about. It had the store section (similar to any other WotC gaming store at the time), a video arcade (which included some pod like machines that you sit in as well as several PC terminals), and a whole lower level for gaming. There was also an attached fast-food restaurant called Dalmuti's, that originally had boardgames available to play at the table, although that didn't last long, since no one ever returned the pieces. Soon, you were lucky to get a handful of mismatched trivia cards and pretty sure even that was gone. The food quality started out okay (somewhere around Friendly's quality, a step or so below Round Robin) but got continualyl worse until it was on par with the other fast food chains. The restaurant is closed now too. All of the other WotC stores in the Seattle area were nothing special when I lived there (3 years ago). Lots of board games, some computer games, halfway decent RPG stuff tucked away in a corner and a few game tables or PCs. From what I understand, since then they all got a lot worse, following the same trend as Wizard's other chain The Game Keeper, which was that the RPG/miniature stock continued to dwindle while the focus shifted to family friendly board games and some puzzles. Now the only Game Keeper around here (Boston) is closed. I was in Seattle a few weeks ago and didn't get a chance to check out any of the WotC stores still open but I did get a chance to check out a local game store in the U-district a few blocks up from the old game center and they sure seem to be doing a lot better without the competion. [/QUOTE]
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