I worked at a game store in high school, around 1987 to 1989. This was before Magic: The Gathering was released, which really up-ended the game world. We carried the full contingent of Avalon Hill games, including a big war game selection with a whole library's worth of ASL books. You could always tell the guys who were coming in for Squad Leader stuff. They stood apart from the D&D nerds.

At some point in my tenure there, I traveled up to Baltimore to go to Avalon Hill with my boss. They had some sort of distribution center there, with a lot of miniatures, and I went to pick through their bins of random stuff and select the things that I thought would sell well. It's a great memory.

For any 40-something folks from the Washington DC suburbs out there, the store was Dream Wizards, in Rockville.