| Type | Limited liability company |
|---|---|
| Industry | Video games |
| Founded | May 15, 2001 |
| Headquarters | Wisconsin |
| Key people | Dan Loosen, Co-founder Gary Heil, Co-founder |
| Products | Retro Video Games & Consoles, import games Video Game Magazines, obscure adapters and controllers for various game platforms |
| Employees | 2 |
| Website | www.goatstore.com |
The Goat store (Games Of All Type Store), LLC is one of the largest retro gaming online stores, and an Independent Video Game Publishing Label. Additionally they are one of the primary sponsors for Midwest Gaming Classic.
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Dan Loosen and Gary Heil established The GOAT Store, LLC officially on May 15, 2001, although the business was started informally in 1999 in a more limited capacity.[1]
The GOAT Store focuses solely on retro products from Atari, Nintendo and Sega as well as off beat consoles such as 3DO, Colecovision, Intellivision, Odyssey 2, and Turbografx-16. Additionally GOAT store stocks Collectibles such as Action Figures, Cards and more with thousands of unique items in stock.[2][3]
In 2003, The GOAT Store launched a publishing division GSP (GOAT Store Publishing) with the independently release of commercially released independent game release of Feet of Fury for Sega Dreamcast in 2003, the game was released on Mil-CD instead of Sega's standard GD-ROM in order to release the game at an economical price of 15$.[4][5] All independent games till 2006 were sold exclusively via their and Lik-Sang, the exclusive agreement expired when Lik-Sang was forced into bankruptcy by Sony Computer Entertainment Europe, although Sony refused to take responsibility for the store's bankruptcy.[6][7][8]
Despiting announcing 12 games at MGC, GSP went into a 3 year hiatus after Lik-Sang shuttered, they returned in 2009 with Irides: Master of Blocks, unlike previous releases the game sold commercially via several retailers[9]
On August 3, it was announced that GOAT Store will be relaunching their publishing website on 9 September 2010, 9 September was the date when Irides release date was announced for Dreamcast and it is also the day the Dreamcast was launched in North America[10]
In addition to the online store and publishing label, the GOAT Store has regularly sponsored the Midwest Gaming Classic since its inception.