The Goat store LLC is one of the largest retro gaming online stores, and an Independent Video Game Publishing Label

Independent record label

An independent record label is a record label operating without the funding of or outside the organizations of the major record labels. A great number of bands and musical acts begin on independent labels.-Overview:...

. Additionally they are one of the primary sponsors for Midwest Gaming Classic

Midwest Gaming Classic

The Midwest Gaming Classic is an annual convention for all forms of electronic entertainment, including video games, arcade games , computers, and more...

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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

Atari

Atari is a corporate and brand name owned by several entities since its inception in 1972. It is currently owned by Atari Interactive, a wholly owned subsidiary of the French publisher Atari, SA . The original Atari, Inc. was founded in 1972 by Nolan Bushnell and Ted Dabney. It was a pioneer in...

, Nintendo

Nintendo

is a multinational corporation located in Kyoto, Japan. Founded on September 23, 1889 by Fusajiro Yamauchi, it produced handmade hanafuda cards. By 1963, the company had tried several small niche businesses, such as a cab company and a love hotel....

 and Sega

Sega

, usually styled as SEGA, is a multinational video game software developer and an arcade software and hardware development company headquartered in Ōta, Tokyo, Japan, with various offices around the world...

 as well as off beat consoles such as 3DO

3DO Interactive Multiplayer

The 3DO Interactive Multiplayer is a video game console originally produced by Panasonic in 1993. Further renditions of the hardware were released in 1994 by Sanyo and Goldstar. The consoles were manufactured according to specifications created by The 3DO Company, and were originally designed by...

, Colecovision

ColecoVision

The ColecoVision is Coleco Industries' second generation home video game console which was released in August 1982. The ColecoVision offered arcade-quality graphics and gaming style, and the means to expand the system's basic hardware...

, Intellivision

Intellivision

The Intellivision is a video game console released by Mattel in 1979. Development of the console began in 1978, less than a year after the introduction of its main competitor, the Atari 2600. The word intellivision is a portmanteau of "intelligent television"...

, Odyssey 2, and Turbografx-16

TurboGrafx-16

TurboGrafx-16, fully titled as TurboGrafx-16 Entertainment SuperSystem and known in Japan as the , is a video game console developed by Hudson Soft and NEC, released in Japan on October 30, 1987, and in North America on August 29, 1989....

. Additionally 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

Sega Dreamcast

The is a 128-bit video game console which was released by Sega in late 1998 in Japan and from September 1999 in other territories. It was the first entry in the sixth generation of video game consoles, preceding Sony's PlayStation 2, Microsoft's Xbox and the Nintendo GameCube.Dreamcast sales were...

 in 2003, the game was released on Mil-CD

Mil-CD

MIL-CD is a compact disc format created by the video game company Sega in 1999.The main purpose of MIL-CD was to add multimedia functions to music CDs, for use in Sega's Dreamcast games console...

 instead of Sega's standard GD-ROM

GD-ROM

GD-ROM is the proprietary optical disc format used by the Dreamcast games console, as well as its arcade counterparts and the Sega/Nintendo/Namco Triforce arcade system...

 in order to release the game at an economical price of 15$. 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.

Despiting announcing 12 games at MGC

Midwest Gaming Classic

The Midwest Gaming Classic is an annual convention for all forms of electronic entertainment, including video games, arcade games , computers, and more...

, GSP went into a 3 year hiatus after Lik-Sang shuttered, they returned in 2009 with Irides: Master of Blocks

Irides: Master of Blocks

Irides: Master of Blocks is an Independent developed commercially released videogame developed by Madpeet and the first game by GOAT Store Publishing in 3 years. It is a puzzle game for the Sega Dreamcast and iPhone that combines strategy and action, an easy to pick up and play and hard to master...

, unlike previous releases the game sold commercially via several retailers

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

North America

North America is a continent wholly within the Northern Hemisphere and almost wholly within the Western Hemisphere. It is also considered a northern subcontinent of the Americas...

Midwest Gaming Classic

In addition to the online store and publishing label, the GOAT Store has regularly sponsored the Midwest Gaming Classic

Midwest Gaming Classic

The Midwest Gaming Classic is an annual convention for all forms of electronic entertainment, including video games, arcade games , computers, and more...

since its inception.