tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6874013862434397626.post3588875347669682926..comments2023-08-22T13:59:23.795+01:00Comments on Slide23: Esdevium (the Bazaar of the Bizarre)Alanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05140345209343325701noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6874013862434397626.post-83263923502041705972011-08-31T17:37:39.622+01:002011-08-31T17:37:39.622+01:00The Kingston ref was for this tatty little shop no...The Kingston ref was for this tatty little shop not far from the GW. It was run by a woman, one with big hands.Alanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05140345209343325701noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6874013862434397626.post-42240850197579315012011-08-29T11:39:21.652+01:002011-08-29T11:39:21.652+01:00I remember Games Workshop in Kingston, Eamon behin...I remember Games Workshop in Kingston, Eamon behind his little counter, SPI & Avalon Hill games upstairs RPGs downstairs. Good times.JanMcManushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13117541775287089225noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6874013862434397626.post-1298312620655227492011-08-25T08:40:03.069+01:002011-08-25T08:40:03.069+01:00They'll have to team up with other specialist ...They'll have to team up with other specialist shops to sell monocles, side-buttoned boots, and maps. The musty scent of linseed, varnish and peculiar oils will only add I feel to the ambience. It will be quite a find, what with only selling anything released before 1990. We can all stock up on the Runequest boxed packs and James Bond adventure boxes we could never afford at the time. Also, monocles and side-buttoned boots (for the lady).Alanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05140345209343325701noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6874013862434397626.post-74546263742145127182011-08-22T22:24:55.537+01:002011-08-22T22:24:55.537+01:00It was a place called Jade for me - it's still...It was a place called Jade for me - it's still there,but they don't sell games anymore, just martial arts ephemera,apparently your teenage years are not complete without a pair of plastic nunchuks. Sadly the games shop opposite the British Museum vanished a few months ago, they hid all their supplements in the basement. Strangely cheerful as I recall,next to the jigsaws.Xavier Blancmangehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15593415135559566667noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6874013862434397626.post-26499164845622343712011-08-22T06:59:13.688+01:002011-08-22T06:59:13.688+01:00A place of magic and wonder. We all had one and th...A place of magic and wonder. We all had one and this was mine, albeit through uncertain eyes. There was a similar clotted games shop in Kingston that a few of us popped into about ten years ago. It was creepy. Worryingly so. A hundred thousand dusty old game supps spilled a foot deep upstairs. Hiding the bodies. Gone now but those supps would probably fetch the price of a small house on fleaBay nowadays.Alanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05140345209343325701noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6874013862434397626.post-6525158561832225712011-08-22T00:45:29.417+01:002011-08-22T00:45:29.417+01:00My word.
A mystery solved. Somewhere in the regio...My word.<br />A mystery solved. Somewhere in the region of a quarter of a century ago, back when C&VG had a PBM page and I put a great deal of effort into being off games, I played a PBM (still do) that had it's own fanzine thing. On one of its pages was beautifully and intricately illustrated and had the words, "I think I'll make my way to Esdevium." I've always wondered what it was. Turns out it was an advert. I spent turns looking for Esdevium in the game (no one had the heart to tell me). A mystery solved, cheers AlanXavier Blancmangehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15593415135559566667noreply@blogger.com