Recapture your childhood at a video game store in NYC, where you can find old-school games, superhero T-shirts and even action figures of characters found in comic book stores (you know you want one). To dig up the best shops in the city, we polled frequent patrons and gaming experts to get their thoughts on why video game stores and electronic stores shouldn’t be obsolete, despite a little thing called the internet. After all, there’s a reason bars with games are one of our go-to first date ideas.

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