GOAT Store

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.

History

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.

The GOAT Store focuses solely on retro products from Atari, Nintendo and Sega as well as off beat consoles such as 3DO, ColecoVision, Intellivision, Magnavox Odyssey², and TurboGrafx-16. Additionally, the GOAT Store stocks collectibles such as action figures, cards and more with thousands of unique items in stock.

GOAT store publishing

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 $15. All independent games until 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.