Retro Game Store Simulator
Run your own Video Game Store in 1984. Everyday until the end of 1989 gives you the opportunity to stock shelves, cycle your inventory, manage your prices, and analyze historical trends to make your game store profitable. Use era-relevant technology and systems to prove that gaming is not dead!
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Purchase, stock, and sell video games, consoles, posters, and magazines for a profit.
Increase your store’s reputation to secure essential product licenses.
Optimize your store’s productivity by investing in new gadgets and systems that are released over time.
Discover over 80 unique video games and consoles to sell to customers.
Take pride in your products' designs with 100% commissioned, hand-drawn art. Every placeholder AI-generated product art is currently being replaced!
Attend video game conventions and collect business cards to call vendors, fellow mall tenants, and other businesses.
Take claim to new units as they become available.
Purchase shelves, posters, and demo booths to impact customer engagement.
Continuously refine product placement in your unit to maximize your profit margin.
Consider genres, release dates, console compatibility and additional metadata when introducing a new product to your inventory.
Analyze inventory spreadsheets to learn about the performance of your products.
Adjust product prices as needed to gauge fluctuating customer interest.
Use the provided time before and after mall hours to handle company business.
Proactively order hot products to maximize release day sales.
Be opportunistic during Christmas seasons to earn big bucks.
This is just the GENESIS! Can you make it to the 90s?
