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Computer and Games Shops in Birmingham, West Midlands*

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  • Waylands Forge - RPG, boardgames, wargames. Excellent.
  • Gamestation on New Street is the best place, and you can trade in loads of stuff at CEX on Corporation Street
  • Forbidden PLanet, near to Oasis market, Games Workshop(next door to oasis market)
  • go 2 gamestop in bullring! best trade ins and brilliant deals every week! stuff is well cheap, cheaper than all the others i have found!
  • PC Worx Hagley Rd West Quinton. If you want to be insulted in the friendliest manner go here, The guys know their stuff and will help anyone (EVEN IF YOU DID'NT EVEN BUY FROM THEM) Really helpful and if they haven't got what you need will get it for you. P.S make sure you buy them a cup of tea from the cake shop for even better service !! ***** star
  • Navs copied warez INC.
  • cex, gamestation, game, are the only ones i bother with, however if your trading a game in, make sure you use CEX if possible, gamestation gives cack amounts of money/trade in value.
  • i don't know....gamestation... is there one of those in birmingham?
  • Waylands Forge in the Five Ways Shopping centre, with extreamly friendly staff. just dont trip over people sitting on the floor.
  • VXG is good butit is hard to find, it is near the station off a side road, if you do find it they have weird and wonderfull stuff and old cartoon memrobelia (sometimes a bit pricey) the people in there are not always to friendly about people under the age of about 16 though so beware!
  • Cex under virgin megastore.
  • Game station is the only cheap shop. 2nd hand stuff there. PS2 games 4 under £30!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
  • computer exchange underneath virgin megastore
  • For roleplaying games, try Weyland's Forge in Five Ways (take the number 1 bus along Broad Street). Very friendly, also has Web presence.
  • Mr Disk don't exist anymore. They were taken over by Software Plus, who have closed the shop now. PC World (Highgate, Selly Oak) sometimes have good deals (especially on bank holidays or when a new game is released. Theres an Electronics Boutique in town. Again, they occassionally have some good deals.
  • Birmingham is quite well endowered for gaming shops, there is a games workshop in the centre, for all the Warhammer, and 40K fanatics. Magic players should head on to Dungeons and Starships, which also does a big line in Warhammer. SWCCG and STCCG players are best served by Nostelgia and comics by the chinese pavilion roundabout thing.
  • Mr Disk, also on Queensway, beside Richer Sounds.
  • Largs Connections
  • Computer exchange and Games Station for cheap 2nd hand pc and console games

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