A friend of mine is opening up a very cool store next week called Good Game. The store will carry tabletop, board, war and card games like Warhammer 40,000, Magic: The Gathering, A Game of Thrones, Settlers of Catan and Lord of the Rings the Living Card Game. They also have space in case you want to play any of the games in the store as well as accessories like paint and various gaming components. The store which was designed by a very talented friend of mine (Nesef Al Nesef) looks ridiculously cool as well.
The store opens this coming Monday and will be located in Sanabil Tower (opposite Souq Sharq) on M2. Their phone number is 22397548 and you can also check them out on the following links:
37 replies on “New Store: Good Game”
Nesef Al Nesef if you’re reading this, you just DEBUNKED the monopolistic theory that only deep pocket Kuwaiti’s in flashy malls can deliver good meaningful results!
Can this possibly be the beginning of young Kuwaiti’s teading down the un beaten path and steering clear of cup cakes and burgers? I say it is!
All the very best.
Magic: The Gathering….. ah the memories 🙂
Amen to that. +1
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You should include yugioh!
Gaahh missed first blood.. GG
Nice design 🙂
I, for one, am well pleased at this development.
I have 500-700 board games here in Kuwait and MrBabu is good but VERY expensive. Looking forward to seeing what they have to offer from an old skool wargamer.
I have to ask this mandatory question, do you have girlfriend?
Happily married for 10 years thanks. You?
Happily not married oh yeah baby.
lol
Alf Mabrook to the owners/partners/designers.
So glad to see something other than a burger place opening up, eventhough I’m a crazy foodie and a huge burger-lover.
From a business point of view is this profitable? No idea about the board game scene in Kuwait, but as I’m looking around myself for commercial space, the prices in Kuwait City are quite high and as the new towers seem to range between KD 17-40 per square meter, just wondering how much turnover Good Game is going to reach on a daily basis to beat the cost of rent. Let alone if they had to pay key money (I hope they didn’t, I hate the concept). Regardless, all the best, love that entrepreneurs are looking beyond cupcakes and being so called “fashion/interior designers”.
hello party pooper.
Hahaha, I knew it would come across like that. I’m not trying to put it down, I’m asking honestly because these are things that I’m facing.
For example, you can afford the rent in X tower, but you need to ensure that you reach so many sales a day in order to cover your costs, but looking at X tower’s average footfall that doesn’t seem realistic.
I’m asking because I don’t know what the footfall is like at Babtain Tower.
Khaled has a point.
In the end, let’s all just open up a Burger Place, fatten our crowd and make monies.
17-40 is the 6’ra6 you get 😛
Actual rent prices are 5.5-14 max for normal area’s, luxurious shit usually reach 25 max, and im talking al hamra top floors which they claim they rent for 40-50…
that’s called feasibility study 🙂
well, i hope they did their assignments and calculated accurately, besides, expect a much higher price for these games anyway.
No need to get overly defensive. He raised some good questions and you might not be interested in the answers but others are.
I sincerely hope it succeeds … Really … I do … Maybe some kids learn to get off their fat lazy behinds (I’m politically correct 🙂 ) and try out these board games.
Nesef if yer reading this consider free group vouchers being given out at private schools. Maybe get school vs school challenges going …
uuuuh – what part of board games involve getting off fat lazy behinds?
The part where they walk to the store ….
You have to walk to restaurants too
The only walking they do is their fingers as they dial for fast food deliveries :p
Why only private schools? I went to one but I don’t get why you think they should only do that with private schools.
Before video games, Board Games were the only source of entertainment.
Till you hit puberty 😡
This is actually really cool. BUT there are places in Rehab where people already gather and play some of these card games (I think yugioh mainly). Dunno if they’re still there. I haven’t played Magic in years but I kind of want to buy a booster just to see what I get.
Most boardgame stores in the US and UK survive by selling Magic and other similar collectible card games. Also good if you can sell paints, hobby knives, etc to the modelling crowd. This helps to fund the boardgame section of the store.
We aren’t talking chess, monopoly, risk here. We are talking some fairly complex strategy games that have a strong narrative element.
if only someone could come up with a group where people could share their board games and then call other people to play together maybe on a beach or somewhere like a social gathering. would be amazing.
or come up with a restaurant/cafe where people could play and eat at the same time. it would be a nice concept.
You can play and eat at Java Detour, they have a bunch of board games available.
How do I know this? Google Developer’s Group meets there and we use the game boxes to prop up our portable projector (as no one seems to use the games). But hey, they are there.
thanks burhan. 🙂
Reality is board games are a very small niche group of people. To make it a fundamentally sound business – owner should already have a strong network of connections and market within the relevent communities – else overheards and operational costs will be unsustainable in the long run.
As I say, selling Magic, Game of Thrones, Yu Gi Oh, Pokemon to the youth is what keeps these stores alive.
Mind you, I thought Pokemon cards got banned in Kuwait about 20 years ago.
Sorry 10 years
Another way of profit to the store is by hosting events, each event for a certain day, fees to enter the event and contestants should buy boosters to form their own deck .. That’s how card/board game specialised stores profit here in Melbourne.
This is good news. If they start stocking the Games Workshop models and paints, I might get back into the model-painting as hobby.