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Old August 6th, 2008, 03:17 PM
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Gamer's Paradise Closing! Buy Now!

Hello everyone. I was recently in Chicago and in the Water Tower Mall I went into the Gamer's Paradise store there. Apparently the whole chain of the stores are closing and everything in the store was at least 40% off! They mainly have a bunch of mass market games like Monopoly and stuff. They have a ton of Heroscape. I ended up picking up 2 Militia and Wolves and Star Wars Original Trilogy Risk all for around 35 bucks! I didn't see anything else posted about it anywhere here so I thought I'd let you guys know.
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Old August 6th, 2008, 03:44 PM
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Re: Gamer's Paradise Closing! Buy Now!

They must be closing due to Ticala Jungle feaver...
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Could be Raelin Pnumonia or the Otonashi Flu...


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Re: Gamer's Paradise Closing! Buy Now!

Don't count out the Krug Bug.
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Re: Gamer's Paradise Closing! Buy Now!

This is not surprising. They've been closing a store here and a store there over the last couple of years. Too bad because they were an excellent source for Heroscape (way better than the big retailers and at MSRP most of the time). I'd say about half of my large HS collection came from Gamers Paradise.

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R.I.P. Gamers Paradise. I knew you well. Maybe if I hadn't moved to Georgia, I might have supplied enough funds to keep you going.

(sigh)

Then again, your owners bought a whole bunch of crap that either made no sense being associated with you, or bloated your shelves so that others didn't think the product was worth buying.

Goodbye.

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Old August 6th, 2008, 10:31 PM
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Re: Gamer's Paradise Closing! Buy Now!

Can't argue with you there. The kept getting more and more novelty garbage and putting it all in the front of the store, leaving most of the better games hidden in the back of the store.

I tried to tell the manager at the Straford Mall store to break out some Heroscape terrain and build a big battlefield in the front window display in order to draw in more customers. He should have listened to me.
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Re: Gamer's Paradise Closing! Buy Now!

Thanks for the post. I may have to check that out. The one on Clark St. isn't too far from me, though I hate driving in that neighborhood. Anyone know if there's still a store in the HIP? That was the one I used to go to 20 years ago to get my gaming schwag. I could never believe how much stuff was jammed in there.
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Re: Gamer's Paradise Closing! Buy Now!

The Rise of the Valkyrie display at the Orland Square Mall location was what prompted me to actually buy the game. I had been mulling over it for a month before actually seeing it sealed the deal.

Come to think of it, I knew the franchise was hurting when I noticed all the "Sell Quick" crap they were starting to buy. Even the employees complained that they didn't apply there to sell novelties.

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Re: Gamer's Paradise Closing! Buy Now!

Ok. Stopped by the store at Woodfield and briefly talked to someone working there. The big sale is to reduce inventory before consolidating down to three stores. If I remember correctly, it should be Woodfield (Schaumburg), Yorktowne (Lombard) and WaterTower (Chicago) malls.

But it sounded like this consolidation is a last-ditch effort to avoid going out of business altogether. I definitely don't want to pay Cook County sales tax (highest in the country) at Woodfield or WaterTower. Maybe I'll buy HS at the Yorktowne store once in a while...
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Re: Gamer's Paradise Closing! Buy Now!

Old thread but this looks like a good place to mention this...

While at Woodfield Mall in Schaumburg I walked into a store called Gamer's World. Looked like they had all the old inventory of the defunct Gamer's Paradise (including some Wave 2, 5 and 8, and a few Marvel sets.)

The manager walked right up to me to see if I needed help finding anything. When I asked him about GP he said that yes, after 30 years GP went out of business. He was a long time employee of GP and managed the Woodfield store. So he took the remaining stuff from GP's owner and is starting up his own store. Guy's got some guts starting up on his own like that at a mall like Woodfield ... some pretty expensive retail realestate.

I mentioned wave 9 just to make sure he orders when it's made available.
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