Old Gamestop Logo
The yellow version of the logo used on some signs on august 15 2000 gamestop made a logo with two colors.
Old gamestop logo. On a 5 25 floppy disk branded by the company babbage s 1984 1994 gamestop traces its roots to babbage s a dallas texas based software retailer founded in 1984 by former harvard business school classmates james mccurry and gary m. Shop a wide selection of gamer centric apparel collectibles and more. Gamestop is an american video game consumer electronics and wireless services retailer. Buy a new or pre owned xb1 ps4 xb360 or p33 console get 5 pre owned games 19 99 or less for 50.
The font used for the gamestop logo is imapct a realist sans serif typeface designed by geoffrey lee in 1965 and released by the stephenson blake foundry of sheffield. Gamestop s official investor relations page for the second quarter showed that the company earned total revenues of 1 73 billion for 2014 2. In addition to retail stores throughout united states and other countries gamestop also owns kongregate a site for browser based video games and the video game magazine game informer. I used to stare at funcoland mail order ads with price lists in old video game magazines.
Most eb stores in the us were converted to gamestop stores after the purchase of the chain in 2004. Yeah gamestop bought up babbage s funcoland and eb. Canadian logo canada still uses eb games with a variant of the logo. The new generation of consoles the playstation 4 and xbox one are selling much better than expected and the demand by customers is actually more than the supply sony and microsoft have right now.
The logo is set in the impact font. Shop gamestop the world s largest retail gaming destination for xbox one x playstation 4 and nintendo switch games systems consoles and accessories. About gamestop logo font. It does not meet the threshold of originality needed for copyright protection and is therefore in the public domain.
Before gamestop ate them. I think eb bought up software etc. Although it is free of copyright restrictions this image may still be subject to other restrictions. So now we have one big bland chain unless you re lucky enough to have a mom pop or a regional chain around.
In this case smashburger copying gamestop s logo is only a small part of gamestop s entire promotion as a company. Logo of retailer software etc.