G2K Games — Attraction in Rock Hill

11/14/2018

I had a great return visit here this summer and picked up a few items while here and had a chance to meet and shoot the breeze with the owner.

Since my previous visit in the summer of 2017 they've made a few changes to the store. In the back they have gaming tables now and customers were taking advantage of those.

Over at the consoles I found a 2nd gen PS3 at a great price and grabbed that along with a copy of Need for Speed Underground. Along with that I found a couple of odds and ends like a mint original Atari 2600 joystick and some Dreamcast games. Nice haul indeed. Everything was in excellent condition and the prices on my purchases were more than fare. I'm looking forward to another visit next year.

6/28/17

G2K Games was the second stop on our retro gaming quest while in Rock Hill. This shop can be found within the Rock Hill Galleria Mall.

This is a nice shop. It's pretty large and there's a there's more to it than just retro gaming. In fact G2K actually reminds more of the traditional hobby shops that all but disappeared back in the 90's. In addition to current and retro video game platform's there are all sorts card games and board games. You'll find all sorts of collectibles there as well. In the back half of the store there are also tables setup for gaming.

I looked over quite a bit of their retro stock and found prices to be in about the range I was expecting. There were some deals here but not as many as I would have liked. They did however cover the spectrum of classic consoles. I saw cartridges and consoles for the Atari 2600, 5200 & 7800. Sega Master System & Genesis. Nintendo NES, Super NES, N64 and of course Xbox, Xbox 360, Playstations 1-3. The current generation PS4 and Xbox One were also present as well.

All in all a decent place, that I'll certainly put in my rotation next time i'm...

Lately, I've been stopping by G2K a lot over the past few months. I really enjoy the selection of classic games here. There is a wide collection of games for all kinds of different consoles. They also sell some accessories for older consoles, like memory cards for PS1/2. The big hitter games are generally in glass cases and usually fall around eBay prices. The other games on the shelves in general, though, can be grabbed at a great deal. I picked up about 5 PS2 games recently, each game cost anywhere between $5 and $15 dollars. Not bad, I'd say.

The staff is friendly and helpful. Everyone always asks if you need any help. I've also had good experiences with returning games. Here and there you'll get a disc that doesn't work properly (as is natural with older, used games), and it's never a hassle or anything. I was even able to apply the cost of my returned disc toward a different purchase.

I haven't gone to any card game events, but usually there's a pretty large group just hanging out on those days.

Overall, I really enjoy going to G2K to look for cool retro games. I usually check out this store, and also Joe's Video Games, but you just can't beat that wall of used GameCube and PS2 games here at G2K. It's definitely worth a visit if you like 7th gen...

This store used to be a good place to find reasonably priced used games for current and older gaming systems, along with some pretty good sales. Then the sales stopped being pretty good, and became oddly specific. Finally, over the past 2 months or so, I noticed that they started jacking up the prices on basically everything. I've seen stuff with new stickers showing a price twice as expensive as the old price underneath it. It's a shame, because this honestly used to be a place that I would go to regularly. Now, it's tough for me to justify ever going again. Because even when they have a sale on certain stuff, the sale price is still at or above what you'd pay on ebay. It's tough seeing a company purposefully try to drive customers away, and I feel bad for the employees who clearly don't like it. Also watch your receipts! I bought a game and was charged a higher price and had to take it back...