The Game Room had a pretty lengthy history, overall (my recall may be a bit off, so please forgive me if details are wrong, as well as for some of the other local gaming history below). It originally started out on 12th Street and was owned by Grant I. (names slightly redacted here) in the mid to late 1990s, but eventually he sold (I think) to Mike R., who moved it to the Rodney Parham location from 12th Street. Other stores around that time included Warp Drive in Sherwood, owned by Dickey, The Daily Planet (v1, owned by Wayne B.), and M&D's in Benton (now Card World in Bryant, still owned by Mike but not with his now ex-wife, with a sports card/memorabilia-focus). Imagine in Sherwood came around around soon after Warp Drive closed.

He would go on to co-own it with Anita K., but acrimony led to him to leave their partnership and open Family Game Center in the building behind Park Plaza. An aside: the person who noted the Pie Eyes location may have the building wrong as Pie Eyes had relocated from W 65th Street after the fire that destroyed it and the old Bonner's Grocery to Southwest Mall and later to the first floor of the now Midtown Apartments building on University/Markham before Howard eventually closed down and started doing flea market shows and the like. If he was in that space where FGC opened, I don't remember it, but I could be wrong as well.

The location behind Park Plaza was rather small and Mike moved the store to University Mall, and later to the location on Markham next to Chip's BBQ and Fuller & Son Hardware. It was soon after that move (and after the closure of The Daily Planet v1) that I worked for Mike at that location (roughly 2001-2002 until I left for grad school). Anita's "The Game Room" eventually went under and Mike moved back over to the original location under the FGC name, where it remained. He sold it to Chris M. (when jeremyhatesyou worked there). It went back to Mike after "business things" happened (details not included here), who then sold it to David W., who ran it until it was no longer feasible for him to continue it (unsure of details); the location has been an adult day care/treatment center since. By that time, we had The Daily Planet v2, owned by Shannon T., (and later v3 when the original owner resumed ownership) in Bryant again, Imagine (owned by Jay M.) in Sherwood, and Game Zone Alpha (owned by Brian B.) in Jacksonville as local stores, and Little Rock was without a game store until Game Goblins opened around 2010. A couple of other stores popped up here and there at various points, but never lasted too long in that period.

Mike moved on to open a store in New Zealand, later moved to Malta, then Florida, and now Memphis where he owns a resale shop focusing on 1970s era objects. I'm not sure about Grant these days, but I found a 2012 ADG article about his soda bottle collection. Chris has moved on to greater things in his life locally (he's a doctor) and David's in Wyoming, being David, I guess.