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Babbage's was great. When I was a kid they only sold PC software & games. If you wanted games for a console, you had to go to a toy or department store. Funcoland, on the other hand, sold used console games. It was weird how they all merged together into GameStop.
Funco was based in Eden Prairie. After B&N bought Babbage’s (and their GameStop brand) in 1999, they then bought Funco (and Funco’s magazine, Game Informer) a few months later and made Babbage’s a subsidiary of Funco. They then renamed the whole stack as GameStop before doing an IPO in 2002. GameStop later took over EB Games in a 2005 merger.
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FuncoLand Goes Public With Great Success. When FuncoLand started selling shares, they were available for $5 per share. At the beginning of December, the price went up to $7.75, and by the end of the year, it had climbed to $9.50. Just a week after the company’s stock closed out at $9.50, it rose again to $12.
Mar 29, 2018 · The story of FuncoLand is the story of a guy who pulled a success story out of a corporate bankruptcy. David Pomije, the Minnesota-based founder of Funco, didn’t have things easy when he launched his budding used video game empire. In fact, he was running at a deficit to get the thing off the ground.
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Number of employees. 1,500 (1999 [4]) Parent. Barnes & Noble (2000) Website. Funcoland.com (archive) FuncoLand was an American video game retailer based in Eden Prairie, Minnesota, that specialized in selling new and used video game software. It is considered the first major video game retailer to allow consumers to sell and trade used video games.
A few years later, practically every suburb had one. Brings back memories! Worked at Funcoland in high school. Was a sorta fun job, but ultimately it was retail and had all the pros and cons of that. It was best when Barnes and Noble bought them because they upped the discount on new games.
