Comment by nkrisc
13 hours ago
Oh I’m glad this popped up. I was trying to remember the details of a computer store I remembered visiting with my dad when I was maybe 4 or 5, ‘93-‘94, Chicago.
But as soon as I read it all came back and I’m certain this was it. I tried looking but couldn’t find out: does anyone know if there was an Egghead in Chicago at that time? Based on what I could discern about their stores is that seems likely there would have been one there.
When I was about 12 or 13, I was hanging out in my local Egghead so much playing Rebel Assault on the demo machine that the guy who worked there gave me a free mousepad just to leave the store.
I remember visiting the Egghead in Lansing, Illinois (just south of Chicago, at River Oaks south) more than once. I think I actually bought Visual Basic there at some point.
I would be shocked if there wan't one - they were a big chain about that time. Though already dieing, so maybe you were 3 in the memory?
I grew up in the Chicago suburbs and there definitely was an Egghead in my town.