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<blockquote data-quote="Glyfair" data-source="post: 3622446" data-attributes="member: 53">Discussion in <a href="http://www.enworld.org/showthread.php?t=200391" target="_blank">another thread</a> got me wondering about the rise of the hobby game store.&nbsp; I'm curious about when your area gained it's first hobby game store and, if different, when it got it's first successful gaming store?Here in Delaware the first gaming store we got was &quot;Strategy &amp; Fantasy World.&quot;&nbsp; Unfortunately,&nbsp; it was in inner city Wilmington which was certainly why it didn't last very long.&nbsp; Still, it ws my first exposure to the FLGS.Before that I got my gaming stuff from &quot;Hobbi-Art.&quot;&nbsp; It was an art store that happened to dip a bit into hobby stuff and had a corner for miniature games.&nbsp; That corner had a small selection of RPGs (of course, there wasn't a large selection of RPGs then).&nbsp; I also ended up getting some thing from a local puppet store, of all things <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink&nbsp; &nbsp; ;)"&nbsp; data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />In 1981 friends of mine opened the first long term hobby gaming store, the Days of Knights, and it's still in business today.&nbsp; Unknown to me, north of the city a bookstore (now Between Books) had a significant RPG presence adn even in store gaming.How about your area?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Glyfair, post: 3622446, member: 53"] Discussion in [url=http://www.enworld.org/showthread.php?t=200391]another thread[/url] got me wondering about the rise of the hobby game store. I'm curious about when your area gained it's first hobby game store and, if different, when it got it's first successful gaming store? Here in Delaware the first gaming store we got was "Strategy & Fantasy World." Unfortunately, it was in inner city Wilmington which was certainly why it didn't last very long. Still, it ws my first exposure to the FLGS. Before that I got my gaming stuff from "Hobbi-Art." It was an art store that happened to dip a bit into hobby stuff and had a corner for miniature games. That corner had a small selection of RPGs (of course, there wasn't a large selection of RPGs then). I also ended up getting some thing from a local puppet store, of all things ;) In 1981 friends of mine opened the first long term hobby gaming store, the Days of Knights, and it's still in business today. Unknown to me, north of the city a bookstore (now Between Books) had a significant RPG presence adn even in store gaming. How about your area? [/QUOTE]

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