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One of the game shops my granddad and nan would stop at if we were out and came across one. great memories of buying games from there!

It's logo was very memorable. Bright pink on black with the bold typeface.

Never bought anything there.

Goths looking at posters. The cd machine where you could listen to new albums. And, latterly, goddamn funkopops.

Buy CD's, opening them by the hinges being careful not to damage the seal, copying the CD, then returning the CD for a refund.

Buying a really shit record called 'Lolipop' because I needed a 3rd one to get the '3 for £10' deal and there was nothing else that I didn't already have.

Games, posters, and singles in the basement. Albums on the ground floor. DVDs and classical upstairs. It was fun just to look through stuff, but I think I did actually buy all my music and a lot of my game boy games from HMV.

I remember when it opened in my hometown by Julian Clary.

If regularly go every Monday to see what the new VHS releases were and then on a Friday for the latest games.

I'm sure I went for a midnight launch of something but I can't remember what. It might have been The X Files on VHS?

Just double checked on a Wiki, they started releasing two episodes a tape, two tapes a month. But the show became so popular, they scrapped that after just a couple of months and decided to do it differently.

This was before major internet, so I would discover things at hmv if never heard of before.

I remember discovering a 4CD soundtrack set to the Star Wars trilogy. A CD for each film with the fourth CD containing rare unreleased music. Bought that instantly I think.

Yeah, lots of other memories too. 😁

It was no Virgin Megastore.

I was about 15 and queued up for hours to get tickets for me and my mate to see Nirvana. I think they were about £13.50 each and then £1.50 ticket fee. Between then and the concert Kurt Cobain killed himself. I marched right back to HMV and got my £13.50 back. 🤦

Imagine how awesome it would be to own one of the few, complete, tickets for a Nirvana concert that never happened.

I'm now excessively mature so my memory is seeing multiple covers of the Sex Pistols' Never mind the Bollocks filling the HMV window (I did say I was old) but with the word Bollocks covered up. That and CD's first appearing in the store at more than twice the cost of vinyl LP's (£13 vs £5.49).

Trying games on the demo machines, finding the Cure's discography at £3 a CD, marking big events with a new CD... ahhh such nice happy times before panic and no money :) damn life was easy :)