GameTime Hobby Shop

Retro video games meet modern and vintage sports cards at this Santa Clara Town Centre shop, with Pokemon product and daily 11AM-8PM hours.

GameTime Hobby Shop is the crossover stop on Santa Clara's El Camino Real — half retro video game store, half card shop, and the mix works better than you'd expect. One side of the store handles modern and classic consoles and cartridges; the other holds Pokemon and TCG product alongside modern and vintage sports cards. Collectors who grew up on both N64 carts and Topps wax tend to walk out with something from each wall.

On the card side, the store (which also operates under its Collector's Club branding online) keeps a rotating stock of Pokemon sealed product and gaming cards plus a sports card selection that spans current releases back to vintage cardboard. It's one of the few places for trading cards in Santa Clara where you can realistically hunt older sports issues in person rather than online, and the inventory turns over frequently enough that regulars check in weekly.

The location in the Santa Clara Town Centre retail strip at 2100 El Camino Real makes it an easy errand stop — ample strip-mall parking, and consistent seven-day hours from 11AM to 8PM mean no puzzling over an events-driven schedule. That predictability makes it a reliable after-work browse.

Reviewers describe a well-organized floor and staff who are patient with kids picking their first packs, which fits the shop's family-friendly, something-for-everyone character. If your interests run across video games, Pokemon, and sports cards rather than deep into one lane, GameTime covers all three under one roof.