In the basement of an ordinary-looking computer repair shop in downtown San Jose sits a Library of Congress worth of video games, vintage consoles and assorted memorabilia.
Okay, it doesn’t have the pomp and circumstance of the country’s oldest federal institution. But Gameshop Downstairs on East Santa Clara Street has its own niche as a cultural curator, offering a portal into digital entertainment’s past.
“I think we’ve really gotten to a point where we can sort of look at older tech like an art style rather than obsolete,” said Anthony Guarino, who runs the vintage video game and collectibles store Gamestop Downstairs along with his wife Hannah Yo. “Just like charcoal isn’t obsolete now that we have iPads.”
Anthony Guarino, co-owner of Gameshop Downstairs, stocks a wall of vintage Teenage Mutant Ninja figurines at his store in San Jose, Calif., Tuesday, Aug. 1, 2023. , comic books, every video game you could wish for, action figurines, manga books, a life-sized Power Ranger and a wall of VHS movies.
Anthony Guarino, co-owner of Gameshop Downstairs, shows off a 1970’s-era Atari 2600 video game console at his store in San Jose, Calif., Tuesday, Aug. 1, 2023. A lot of people ask me if this is for sale. It was the hugest pain to get it down the stairs. It took me and a sumo wrestler to get it down.
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