GOAT Store

The GOAT Store (Games Of All Type Store), LLC is one of the largest retro gaming online stores, and an Independent Video Game Publishing Label. Additionally they are one of the primary sponsors for Midwest Gaming Classic.
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, Nintendo and Sega as well as off beat consoles such as 3DO, ColecoVision, Intellivision, Magnavox Odyssey², and TurboGrafx-16. Additionally, the 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 in 2003, the game was released on Mil-CD instead of Sega's standard GD-ROM in order to release the game at $15. All independent games until 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.
Despite announcing 12 games at Midwest Gaming Classic, the GOAT Store went into a 3-year hiatus after Lik-Sang shuttered, they returned in 2009 with IRiDES: Master of Blocks, unlike previous releases the game sold commercially via several retailers.
On August 3, 2010, the GOAT Store announced that they would be relaunching their publishing website on September 9, 2010; September 9 was the date when IRiDES release date was announced for Dreamcast, and the eleventh anniversary of the Dreamcast launch in North America.
On April 12, 2014, the GOAT Store announced a new partnership with TDGMods / Isotope Softworks. This partnership will include the distribution of two new Dreamcast games, Hypertension: Harmony of Darkness and Scourge. The game has been in development for over a decade.
On September 9th, GSP announced SLaVE in collaboration with Jay Townsend / Isotope Softworks.

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