# 1999 Game Trader Commercials

The Kim family owned and operated Portland area video game retail stores called "Game Trader" from 1997-2002. Young Kim purchased the Portland Mall 205 location from Bruce Wattles, who was the father of the founder of the "Hollywood Video" video store chain. Young Kim's oldest son David Kim operated the Jantzen Beach location from 1999-2000. David Kim wrote and directed a series of commercials for Game Trader using costume building skills he had learned from his former roommate Bill Manspeaker, the founding member of the Los Angeles area comedy rock band Green Jelly. The commercials were produced at KPDX FOX 49 by David Price and David Biggs in Beaverton Oregon.

- Kind: Commercial
- Year: 1999
- By: Dan Kim
- Genres: Industrial and advertising
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/gametrader)
- Licence or status: [CC BY-NC-ND 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) (as the archive states it)
- Who can watch: Tweens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

Not offered: its uploader states a Creative Commons licence, but that it is the rights holder's is not shown: its record does not date the work from 2002, when the licences were first published, or the work is another's (an older work under a later date, or a video set to another's song), and nothing else the site holds shows where it is free. Unclear is not offered.