The Gaming Goat


The Gaming Goat is the largest board game specific retail chain in the US!


The Gaming Goat is the largest board game specific retail chain in the US!


So I grew up in DeKalb, I lived here all my life, actually just a few blocks away is my mom's house. And when I was five my dad died, he owned an important business here in DeKalb, a guitar store. I ended up being really popular and attracting a lot of famous musicians. It started across the street as just a guitar studio. When he died I kind of. . . it changed me and I always looked up to The Gaming Goal is the only game store I've ever worked for. I was kind of lucky, they came into DeKalb out of nowhere at the beginning of last year in January. So I came and I was excited to have another game store to go to in the area. Yeah, I think my employees do need to have a passion, maybe not strictly for gaming, but a passion for serving people, When you have a family that comes in here and sometimes they're . . you can tell they're a little bit distant from each other, maybe they don't hang out as much, or they come in, they're not really talking, But once you get them playing a game, We sell more board games than card games, so we do sell a good amount of card games. The board game market's pretty big, whereas anyone I do business with becomes a friend. Before I took over, But she was also really confident in me the whole time I was growing up that I was going to be a great businessman. So she didn't know I was prepared yet, but we ended up going with it.

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Mon 02:00 PM - 10:00 PM
Tue 02:00 PM - 10:00 PM
Wed 02:00 PM - 10:00 PM
Thu 02:00 PM - 10:00 PM
Fri 02:00 PM - 12:00 AM
Sat 12:00 PM - 08:00 PM
Sun 12:00 PM - 08:00 PM

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