{"id":1174,"date":"2009-12-23T02:00:46","date_gmt":"2009-12-23T07:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=1174"},"modified":"2010-10-28T00:49:15","modified_gmt":"2010-10-28T05:49:15","slug":"game-crazy-6080-b-garners-ferry-road-december-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=1174","title":{"rendered":"Game Crazy, 6080-B Garners Ferry Road: December 2009"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/09\/12\/game_crazy06.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/09\/12\/game_crazy06_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/09\/12\/game_crazy05.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/09\/12\/game_crazy05_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/09\/12\/game_crazy02.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/09\/12\/game_crazy02_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/09\/12\/game_crazy03.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/09\/12\/game_crazy03_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I've never been great at video games, though I used to go to arcades pretty often.  <i>Galaga<\/i> is my favorite, and the one I was\/am best at, though that \"best\" was no great shakes on an absolute scale.  I never did make the transiton from arcade games to computer\/console\/online games and so have never been in a store like <i>Game Crazy<\/i>.  As far as I can tell from googling around, the chain has not declared bankruptcy or made the news for massive store closings, so I guess this closing can be chalked up to local conditions probably exacerbated by the recession in general.  Now if they could only put some place you could get coffee and a snack in that little strip..<\/p>\n<p>(Hat tip to commenter Jason) <\/p>\n<p><b>UPDATE 28 Oct 2010<\/b> -- This place is nearly ready to re-open as a <i>GameStop<\/i> (In fact if they made the opening date promised on their sign, they <i>are<\/i> open now):<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/10\/10\/p1170770.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/10\/10\/p1170770_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I've never been great at video games, though I used to go to arcades pretty often. Galaga is my favorite, and the one I was\/am best at, though that \"best\" was no great shakes on an absolute scale. I never did make the transiton from arcade games to computer\/console\/online games and so have never been [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[15,4],"class_list":["post-1174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-entertainment","tag-stores"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1174","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1174"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1174\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}