Compleat Gamester

Compleat Gamester caught my eye while I was walking down Moody st. in waltham. It seemed like a cool little store from the outside but what really drew me in was the signs on the wall. They were hilarious! They had a few of the newer monopoly boards (the revised edition and the national parks one too), which I quickly bought. They also had board game parts which was perfect, as I had lost some of the parts of my chess set. Overall it’s a great store and the service was pretty good too (very helpful staff).

The store sells a number of gaming items from poker chips to pool tables to board games.
I went there looking for new darts to replace the ones that came with my dart board. They had a great selection and were very knowledgeable and helpful in selecting the right darts.
The prices were also much better than other places I have visited online.
I highly recommend!

I think Compleat Gamester’s major business comes from the sale of stuff like pool tables, foosball tables, etc. That’s cool, but I don’t have a house to put one in (otherwise I’d be all over that), so I really only examined their smaller items. They have an entire wall of board games, from classics like chess and checkers to new-​fangled forms of edutainment such as Cranium. Also, there are a ton of different specialty Monopoly boards (I liked US National Parks Monopoly — you can buy the Grand Canyon). This would be a cool place to come if you’re looking to find a gift for a kid, or to find something to do indoors on snowy winter nights.
In addition to complete (compleat?) board games, the Gamester also sells board game parts. Missing a die or a Parcheesi game piece? Need a new one-​minute sand timer for Boggle? Looking to find another colorful plastic choo-​choo train to replace the one your little nephew swallowed out of the Monopoly Jr. game? They have all that stuff. Also a small selection of non-​six-​sided dice (d10, d20) for you role-​playing dorks out there. We bought a d20 to use in lieu of the alphabet die in a homemade game of Scattergories, and a 3-​minute timer for it, too. They also sell thick wads of Monopoly money, if you want to pretend you’re stinkin’ rich. I love the fact that you can find such random stuff here.
Somewhat weirdly, the store also sells tons of whimsical signs you can hang on your wall, which range from «W.C.» labels for the bathroom to lengthy pontifications on the state of being Irish. Some of them are kinda kitschy-​cool, like «Hippies use side door» and so on. I’d hang them in my game room, if I had a house with a game room in it. And I’d probably buy the pool table from Compleat Gamester, too. Too bad I suck at pool…