Editing GameStop (section)

===Babbage's (1980–1994)===
GameStop traces its roots to Babbage's, a Dallas, Texas–based [[software]] retailer founded on August 20, 1980 by former [[Harvard Business School]] classmates James McCurry and [[Gary M. Kusin]].<ref>{{Cite web |last=Manharjoshi |date=2021-02-01 |title=Decoding the GameStop Scene-2 |url=https://medium.com/business-club-iit-bhu-varanasi/in-this-piece-lets-look-at-the-company-in-the-middle-of-all-this-gamestop-88186f1ad01 |access-date=2025-05-23 |website=The Business Club, IIT (BHU) Varanasi |language=en}}</ref> The company was named after [[Charles Babbage]]<ref>{{Cite web |last=Cain |first=Áine |title=4 retro video game and software stores that have been deleted from malls across America |url=https://www.businessinsider.com/video-game-computer-software-stores-closed-history-2019-7 |access-date=2025-05-23 |website=Business Insider |language=en-US}}</ref> and opened its first store in Dallas's [[NorthPark Center]] with the help of [[Ross Perot]], an early investor in the company.<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.bizjournals.com/austin/blog/abje_news/2010/07/the_perot_factor.html |title=The Ross Perot Factor | first=Jeff | last=Bounds| work=[[American City Business Journals]] |date=July 1, 2010 |archive-date=September 10, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140910200141/http://upstart.bizjournals.com/companies-executives/2010/06/25/three-entrepreneurs-look-back-at-advice-from-h-ross-perot.html?page=all|url-status=live}}</ref> The company quickly began to focus on video game sales for the then-dominant [[Atari 2600]]. Babbage's began selling [[Nintendo]] games in 1987.<ref name=":4">{{Cite web |title=History of GameStop Corp. |url=https://www.fundinguniverse.com/company-histories/gamestop-corp-history/ |access-date=2025-05-23 |website=FundingUniverse |language=en}}</ref> Babbage's became a [[public company]] via an [[initial public offering]] in 1988.<ref name=":4" /> By 1991, video games accounted for two-thirds of Babbage's sales.<ref name=":4" />