March 1, 2012 scottcjones 2Comments

One last GameStop story, then I’ll move on. The Xbox that I spent my final night in New York with wasn’t my first Xbox. My first Xbox came from the GameStop store in Hoboken, New Jersey. According to Google Maps, the store is still there, on Washington Street, in case you’re ever in the neighborhood. I had been dating a girl who lived in Hoboken when the original Xbox debuted in 2001. She lived in a tiny rent-controlled apartment that her dead grandmother had once lived in. She had inherited–or rather “inherited”–the apartment through some kind of illegal real estate…