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Scott's avatar

Nice post, Matt. Of course it is only a short distance between Boston and Middle Earth. Pretty sure you have to stop by Games People Play in Harvard Square on the way!

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Matt Thompson's avatar

In the 1980s, we had two great excursion options for combing music and games. Either 1) Harvard Square for Games People Play and hitting all the used record stores or 2) Mass Ave in Boston for the Compleat Strategist and Daddy's Junky Music. Although I preferred Compleat Strategist over Games People Play for RPG stuff, Harvard Square wins for me for the music options (and pizza and bookstores and comics...). Plus I was too intimidated to try out any of the guitars at Daddy's Junky Music in front of all the Berklee students.

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Scott's avatar

Compleat Strategist had a wider selection of the less mainstream games than GPP had. Do you suppose the Dream Theater guys were at DJM while we were passing through there, or would that have been too early?

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Matt Thompson's avatar

I don't think they were together at Berklee very long before they dropped out of school and went back to NY to focus on the band

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