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It's been a little over a year since Goozex closed its doors. One of the greatest trading sites available on the Internet saw the site sputter and die as it tried to climb back to its former glory. The members of the Gamer’s Lounge takes time to reflect on the Goozex experience and what it meant then and now.

The crew of The Gamer’s Lounge has gotten together and discussed our game of the year picks. To some of us, our GOTY candidates were epic 60 hour RPGs, for others it was new IPs destined to change the face of gaming, and for some of us our choices were games that flew under the radar. 2014 was truly a great year for gaming for every platform.

The Gamer’s Lounge Crew has put together a list of what they are hoping to pick up for Black Friday. Along the way, they are mentioning the “must buy” deals for video games on Black Friday, as well as which store has the best deal for consoles or the new AAA games.

Another fall has come and gone and as we move into 2025 its time to reflect on last years Portland Retro Gaming Expo aka PRGE. This year PRGE was focusing on the year 1994 with some interesting exhibits and some great guest panels. One cannot forget the vendor hall and freeplay area. Overall the biggest question was how was the selection and prices?

Portland Retro Gaming Expo continues to be one of the best places to hunt for retro games. This year with the layout changes there were more opportunities to see and play the games from yesterday. The biggest questions this year were what were the prices like? Were there any unique pieces or odd historical gaming items?

Portland Retro Gaming Expo (PRGE) finally came back to Portland in October 2022. The show hadn't happened in over 2 years mostly due to the pandemic. Join Erik from The Gamers Lounge as he ventured into the large convention searching for the goods. Will the prices be high? Will there be a mad rush to get Mario 3 CIB?

Stuff at yard sales is getting tougher and tougher to find, 2018 was great, 2019 was okay. There were some good yard sales in 2019 including a few unexpected and interesting finds. Join Erik as he summarizes the yard sale season of 2019.

Outside of 2018 I did a great job of reporting back what I found at yard sales. Although I didn't write much on this particular topic in 2018-2020 I did have some luck. Here is a look back in 2018 at a few of the interesting things I found yard saleing.

Retro gaming is alive and bigger than ever and Portland Retro Gaming Expo proves it once again. There is something there for everyone from PCs from the 1980s, to Atari games, to rare SNES and TG-16 titles. The Gamers Lounge got a chance to visit the show once again and was lucky enough to experience everything.

Join The Gamers Lounge on a quick trip to PAX West 2019. We spent some time there and played a lot of good games. Find out what we really liked and were ready to buy at the show. The biggest question is did we see any celebrities this year?

Join Erik as he checks out Seattle Retro Gaming Expo. This smaller retro gaming expo is a fantastic way to shop for games. There is something here for everyone.

Garage sale season has been done for a few months now. There are still a few things to find. Join Erik for The Gamers Lounge as he details his thrifting and social media finds for the last part of the year in 2017.

Portland Retro Gaming Expo is the largest retro gaming expo in the United States. People come from all over to attend but even after it's 11th year the convention still feels like a local thing. This is a great feeling, there is so much to see and do at PRGE.  Join The Gamers Lounge as we talk about what we saw and did at the Portland Retro Gaming Expo 2017

Welcome to another installment of Garage Sale Adventures. Join Erik from The Gamers Lounge on his chronicled adventure as he hits up garage sales and thrift stores in his local area and sees what he can find in the way of video games and other interesting items.

Welcome to another installment of Garage Sale Adventures. Join Erik from The Gamers Lounge on his chronicled adventure as he hits up garage sales and thrift stores in his local area and sees what he can find in the way of video games and other interesting items.

Welcome to another installment of Garage Sale Adventures. Join Erik from The Gamers Lounge on his chronicled adventure as he hits up garage sales and thrift stores in his local area and sees what he can find in the way of video games and other interesting items.

Welcome to another installment of Garage Sale Adventures. Join Erik from The Gamers Lounge on his chronicled adventure as he hits up garage sales and thrift stores in his local area and sees what he can find in the way of video games and other interesting items.

Welcome to another installment of Garage Sale Adventures. Join Erik from The Gamers Lounge on his chronicled adventure as he hits up garage sales and thrift stores in his local area and sees what he can find in the way of video games and other interesting items.

Welcome to another installment of Garage Sale Adventures. Join Erik from The Gamers Lounge on his chronicled adventure as he hits up garage sales and thrift stores in his local area and sees what he can find in the way of video games and other interesting items.

Welcome to another installment of Garage Sale Adventures. Join Erik from The Gamers Lounge on his chronicled adventure as he hits up garage sales in his local area and sees what he can find in the way of video games.

Welcome to another installment of Garage Sale Adventures. Join Erik from The Gamers Lounge on his chronicled adventure as he hits up garage sales in his local area and sees what he can find in the way of video games.

Retro gaming is getting bigger. Portland Retro Expo is the largest retro gaming expo in the U.S. This year there were a ton of panels, great vendors and more than enough games from everyone’s childhood to make any aging gamer happy. The Gamers Lounge had the chance to attend and here is what we saw.

Welcome to another installment of Garage Sale Adventures. Join Erik from The Gamers Lounge on his chronicled adventure as he hits up garage sales in his local area and sees what he can find in the way of video games.

99Gamers is officially dead. People are no longer able to list games and as of yesterday (May 24th) the site is offline. Join one member of The Gamers Lounge as he reflects back on the site and asks what went wrong? Was this another Goozex? Why was 99Gamers so popular in the beginning?

Welcome to another installment of Garage Sale Adventures. Join Erik from The Gamers Lounge on his chronicled adventure as he hits up garage sales in his local area and sees what he can find in the way of video games.

Pokémon Go is immensely popular everywhere. People all over the world are playing it anywhere they can. Nintendo’s stock has climbed due to the success. The game is easy to pick up and play for anyone. With this much initial success, will this game pave the way for other Nintendo games to come to mobile? Will this change how big gaming companies look at mobile gaming? Is there is going to be something that changes gaming forever?

Welcome to another installment of Garage Sale Adventures. Join Erik from The Gamers Lounge on his chronicled adventure as he hits up garage sales in his local area and sees what he can find in the way of video games.

The last few weeks have been buzzing with more tragic news concerning gamers’ buying options. The apparent news is that the brick and mortar store Hastings is in serious financial trouble. Hasting is known for selling comics, video games, collectibles, dvds, music, and books. They often have good sales on used games. If this truly is the last gasp of breath for this store, will gamers get to see fantastic clearance deals? What was the final nail in the coffin?

Welcome to another installment of Garage Sale Adventures. Join Erik from The Gamers Lounge on his chronicled adventure as he hits up garage sales in his local area and sees what he can find in the way of video games.

It is time to celebrate, The Gamer’s Lounge Podcast has been around for over two years. The crew of the podcast has been around since 2012 and has recorded on other podcasts together. Join us in celebrating a milestone. We have made it to episode 100. This is very important to us and we couldn’t have done it without the community.

Welcome to another installment of Garage Sale Adventures. Join Erik from The Gamers Lounge on his chronicled adventure as he hits up garage sales in his local area and sees what he can find in the way of video games.

The announcement of Disney canceling Disney Infinity so many gamers were disappointed. The last few years have been good for the so call life to toys games. Skylanders, Lego Dimensions, Disney Infinity, Nintendo’s Amiibos have all filled this niche. The bigger question reminds is this the slow decline of the popularity across the genre?

Welcome to another installment of Garage Sale Adventures. Join Erik from The Gamers Lounge on his chronicled adventure as he hits up garage sales in his local area and sees what he can find in the way of video games.

Record of Agarest War is a PS3/Xbox 360 title that has been revamped and brought to the Nintendo Switch. Featuring a unique hook where there are multiple generations and who you court changes the stats of the next protagonist, the title does struggle with a bog-down of features to where it’s hard to pay attention to them all, especially when “stand still and whack things” seems to work so easily at the beginning.

God Wars: Future Past was released last year for PlayStation 4 and Vita. The Complete Legend releases September 4th for Nintendo Switch and contains the Labyrinth of Yomi DLC which releases day and date for PS4/Vita. Given review of such a long game doesn’t allow you to see every inch of endgame content, Ryan Johnson at The Gamer’s Lounge was able to speak with Yoshimi Yasuda, director of God Wars, and found that the new content is more than expected.

Seedi is a retro emulation device that has a few days left on its Indiegogo campaign, and is in need of about half of it's funds. As an easy way to play classic CD based games, the Seedi stands out as a good chance to experience some early disc-based classics with some extra modern love options baked in. 

Night Trap is a classic in the annals of video game history as one of the titles that brought about the ESRB ratings we all see on the boxes of our games today. While a review is forthcoming for the rereleased title, Ryan Johnson of The Gamer's Lounge was able to sit down with the lead of Screaming Villains for an interview to see what brought this title back from the grave.

Ryan Johnson at The Gamer's Lounge got a chance to sit down for an interview with David Rusack of Drinkbox Games to learn why they decided to port their touchscreen enabled game Severed over to Nintendo's new console.

Whether a vision or a crazy fever dream, Ryan Johnson at The Gamer's Lounge had fun envisioning what he'd like to see in a new Mario series game that plays off of the Switch's name and gimmicks. Ryan takes his crazy thoughts and puts them down, asking if you have any dream games of your own.

Episode 6 of the classic Evolution of a Gamer series, where Ryan learns lessons about life while teaching his kids about gaming. This time around, Ryan's learning why the repetition of games his son loves is worth more than another few hours in front of a solo game of his own. 

Continuing the run of classic Evolution of a Gamer articles, this one reflect's Ryan's gamer-geek attempt at prepping for major surgery through his love of video games. Not for the feint of heart. 

Ryan brings back Episode 4 of the Evolution of a Gamer series to commemorate it's return and introduce a new crew of readers to the important life lessons he learns whilst teaching his sons about his favorite hobby.

In Episode 3 of the original Evolution of a Gamer series, Ryan teaches his son how to overcome some difficult boss enemies, whilst learning the parental skill of building encouragement and confidence in his young gamer son. 

Rebooting his 2010 Evolution of a Gamer series for a new crew of readers at the Gamer's Lounge, Ryan pulls up the second in his archive of articles where he teaches his son about gaming, and learns something about life in the process. Here, Ryan learns a valuable lesson in trust when his son figures out how to save data on his DS.

Back when I wrote for a site that is no longer with us, I wrote this series, Evolution of a Gamer. With the site now defunct, it has disappeared from the internet. This was one of my favorite series of articles to write, where I teach my kids about video games and learn a little bit about real life myself in the process. I've decided to resurrect the series, because I've still had plenty of life lessons with my kids, but want new readers to be able to catch up. Over the next few weeks, I'll be posting the previous articles to get you up to speed. Without further ado, here's Episode 1, from way back in 2010! We'll catch up soon. 

SuperFans rejoice! Your beloved game has returned! In an exclusive interview with The Goofer's Lounge, Reggie Fils-Aime sits down and discusses Nintendo's plan to jump into the "what's old is new" fray even further than before.

A few weeks ago, I was given the opportunity to review a little Wii U title, I've Got to Run! Developed by the one-woman team at Four Corner Games, Syrenne McNulty got to forage ahead in her passion for video games by releasing her first game ever on a home console.

Squids: Odyssey came out for the Wii U a few weeks ago, and I was fortunate enough to review it. Now, The Game Bakers have offered me the chance to see the 3DS edition as well. In Europe, gamers who picked up the 3DS edition can get the Wii U version free, but this offer has not extended out of that territory. Gamers in other nations at the moment need to choose, but which one should you pick up?

Curve Studios has been around for a while, and while it isn't a huge studio, it's pedigree is one that makes this reviewer know that whatever they put out guarantees a great time.

Ryan returns to his favorite article series in GoozerNation, where he shares his favorite hobby with his children while learning something in the process.

Nintendo holds it's digital rights extremely tight in this modern age of digital gaming. Changing systems requires a full wipe of the previous system, and usually a brand new system to transfer to. However, one specific loophole has been found. While it may not fit your particular situation, this is a handy bit of information that could help you in future purchase decisions.

The String Arcade released on February 11th, and offers gamers a chance to see a new take on some of their favorite games' soundtracks. After a successful Kickstarter campaign, The String Arcade is looking to capture the heartstrings of the gaming public via the strings of a violin. Pulling from almost every era of video gaming, you will hear Galaga, Zelda, Ecco, Sonic, Minecraft, and others, arranged for a string quartet.