EB Games is an American computer and video games retailer. First established as an American company in 1977 by James Kim with a single electronics-focused location in the King of Prussia mall near Philadelphia, the company has grown into an international corporation. EB Games's parent company, GameStop, has its headquarters in Grapevine, Texas, a suburb of Dallas. When Electronics Boutique was an independent company, its headquarters was in West Goshen Township, Pennsylvania, near West Chester.
An Electronics Boutique store (later GameStop) at Ann Arbor, Michigan's Briarwood Mall in October 2009. It closed on January 20, 2013.
An EB Games store (later GameStop) at Hillcrest Mall in February 2015.
An EB Games store (later GameStop) in Edmonton, Alberta in February 2017.
GameStop Corp. is an American video game, consumer electronics, and gaming merchandise retailer. The company is headquartered in Grapevine, Texas, and is the largest video game retailer worldwide. As of January 28, 2023, the company operates 4,413 stores including 2,949 in the United States, 216 in Canada, 419 in Australia and 829 in Europe under the GameStop, EB Games, EB Games Australia, Micromania-Zing, ThinkGeek and Zing Pop Culture brands. The company was founded in Dallas in 1984 as Babbage's, and took on its current name in 1999.
Logo of retailer Software, Etc. on a 5.25" floppy disk branded by the company
Customers lined up outside of a GameStop store in 2006 to purchase the Wii
Interior of a GameStop store in San Francisco in 2010
A store in Manchester, Connecticut in 2014
