Compucentre - Remember them?

[Kanata23]

After watching the WAN show and listening to Linus talk about the demise of NCIX (RIP). 

 

I gotta ask Linus and everyone here, have any of you ever shopped or worked (I worked @ Metrotown) at Compucentre?

 

It was an old Montreal based retail computer & software franchise, it got me started in my life in IT. I believe they were killed off by EB Games & Futureshop.

 

Oh the memories...

[Crunchy Dragon]

The name sounds vaguely familiar to me...

[Tribalinius]

I remember buying Baldur's Gate 2 there around 2000-ish iirc. I think it was at Place Versailles but it's kinda far in my memories, I was around 12-13 at that time and just started getting into computing.

[BlueChinchillaEatingDorito]

3 hours ago, Kanata23 said:

After watching the WAN show and listening to Linus talk about the demise of NCIX (RIP). 

 

I gotta ask Linus and everyone here, have any of you ever shopped or worked (I worked @ Metrotown) at Compucentre?

 

It was an old Montreal based retail computer & software franchise, it got me started in my life in IT. I believe they were killed off by EB Games & Futureshop.

 

Oh the memories...

Do you remember Playdium? That place was the bomb.

[Ertman]

I would frequent the the Compucentre that was once in the St. Laurent Shopping Centre in Ottawa. They always had the occasional good deal on software and peripherals.

 

I purchased a rerelease discounted Fallout1/2 from there many years after its original release for $10. Fallout became one of my favourite games and series thanks to that purchase.

[divito]

7 hours ago, BlueChinchillaEatingDorito said:

Do you remember Playdium? That place was the bomb.

Still exists in Mississauga.

[BlueChinchillaEatingDorito]

16 minutes ago, divito said:

Still exists in Mississauga.

The one at Metrotown (the mall OP used to work) closed down a decade ago pretty much. Was replaced with a Winners... boo...

[WkdPaul]

I worked at the one that was in the Montreal Eaton center (food court floor), that's back when I first arrived in Montreal, so around 2003 ... damn I'm old!

[AshleyAshes]

Honestly you could probably do a whole thread about 'Dead Computer Store Franchises'.  And that's just small franchises before we get into one of mom-and-pop type stores.