LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Weeks before The Louisville Game Shop is supposed to close, the owner is remembering what it was like owning the business.
“A lot of people got attached to this place and I’m one of them,” Founding Owner Colin Moore said.
He announced the closure in early January.
New and old customers shopped the remaining games, figures and dice. They said the Facebook post was the reason for their visit.
“This is a social center, a place where I met a lot of people. A lot of people met each other. So of course, we’re gonna miss that,” Moore said the day before hosting his last Dungeons and Dragons event at the shop.
Moore was 27 when he planned to open Louisville Game Shop. Two days after turning 28, he did, but his interest in tabletop gaming began much earlier.
“My brother, Kevin, had me playing AD&D when I was five,” Moore said.
That was back in the 1980’s when “there weren’t stores like this,” he said.
After 11 years as the sole proprietor, Moore joined with a partner: Clay Hall.
“It was good to have my friend here working with me,” Moore said. Hall took over some of the accounting. Together, they received inventory.
It gave Moore the flexibility to have the occasional weekend off work and reduced the headache of operating alone.
“I’m gonna miss it,” Moore said. “Since we made the announcement, it’s become clear that a whole lot of people are gonna miss it.”
Moore provided a space in the back of the store stocked with terrain and tables for Louisville’s tabletop community. On the wall is a mural of mountains, castles, dragons, giants, dice and more. Now a relic.
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