Downtown game store popular among students
Magic: The Gathering players now have a place they can play in downtown Milledgeville.
Since Oct. 1 the new addition to the downtown scene—Good Games—has been providing an area for gamers of all sorts to come and play.They offer tables for games of Magic: The Gathering, Dungeons and Dragons, HeroClix and much more.
When walking in, you’ll probably see a huge stack of Magic: The Gathering cards on the poker table in the middle of the store, an action-orientated movie playing on one of the plasma screen televisions and a few laptops sitting amongst the papers and cards.
Their largest event is Friday Night Magic. Every Friday, a Magic: The Gathering tournament is hosted at the store. It’s $5 to enter, and the four players with the highest overall record of the night continue on into the final four.
They also have plasma televisions dedicated to PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and Nintendo Wii consoles available for rental.
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Keith Rich, co-owner of Good Games, studies his laptop in the newly opened gaming facility. Students can visit the store to play a variety of card games, most notably Magic: The Gathering, and other various electronic games.
“(The store) came about because we’re all Magic players, but there’s no real place in town to play. So we started playing here at the Pet Store after we closed, and then every Friday night it kept getting bigger and bigger. It got to the point where we said ‘we ought to start doing something on our own,’” said Ian Poole, co-owner of Good Games.
Currently, Good Games is focused more on Magic than anything else, but they have plans for expansion.
“Eventually we’re going to start getting into some Madden, Halo and Call of Duty tournaments,” Poole said.
Not only does Good Games host a buy-in tournament, but they also hold a free-for-all night every Saturday that is free to join.
“Saturday night is just chaos,” Poole said. “Whatever you got, you bring it and play it.”
For those in attendance including Neil Rentz, a regular at Good Games, Saturday night is about having a good time.
“(We) sit down and have fun,” Rentz said. “We do all kinds of things.”
One of the main advantages the owners feel is the community provided by the regulars at Good Games. They strive to make the environment friendly and welcoming to newcomers.
“It’s just a place to hang out, play games, kind of like our own man cave.” Poole said.
Posted by MarkWatkins
on Dec 2 2010. Filed under Lead stories, News.
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