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I would like to put a story together (in the memories section) about 2 good shops in Stoke road, Gosport.
The 2 shops are J Records and Gosport Games Centre, both are gone now, and are really missed, back in 1998 there were 3 good video game shops
in Gosport, Novatec, M P Video and Gosport Games Centre, and now sadly all gone, Novetec was the first to go, then a year later M P Video closed down, saying that they could not compete with GGC, and
then a few years later Gosport Games Centre shut, I think the owners of GGC went to live in Spain.
My memories of these shops were going from one to the other asking for the best price for selling my unwanted games, and to be honest Gosport
Games Centre offered the best prices all the time, and he gave you a better price if you had brought the game from him in the first place, I remember the owners Andy and Dee, and they had a their boys
work there too, and also a dog (a border collie)Â use to be in the back room, I always use to go in for a chat and a coffee, and Andy would show me what new games had come out that week, and we
would have a game of V Pool on the N64, while Dee put the kettle on….my membership number was 451 and at one time they had over 700 members, I remember Andy saying they started off buying games
consoles and games out of the free-ads on a Wednesday and Saturday, he also had a friend with a games shop in Southampton, Steves Video Games and they use to swap games around because some games sold
better in other towns than others….what great times.
J records I really miss, he was the best dvd shop in town, always a friendly face, and always gave a good price when buying dvds of me, does
anyone know what happened to John.
I really miss these old times and wish things didn’t have to change, but of course they do!
If anyone reads this and knows how I can contact GGC or J Records, then please let me know.
Mike & Carol Flynn (2010)
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