I thought someone with a more informed answer would reply but since they haven't...

There are two gaming stores in the New Orleans area.  Galactic Games and Galactic something else.  Both seem heavy on the wargaming.  I tried, once, to go shopping for a minature and found both places to be uninterested in new business.  Maybe I just don't look like their sort of people but I got a bad vibe from both, like they wanted to ge back to thier minature game.

On the other hand, one of the former stark players used to go every saturday and play the minature thing with them and I think she'd did other stuff (movies, ren fair) with them.

Either way, they seem to be mostly interested in minature but they have some books.  I thought the selection was much like many od gaming stores.  They seemed to have some older books but they weren't cheap and it was all the more common for each game.  I didn't buy anything and I was bored and looking to spend a little.


For gaming books I usually go to the B&N on the westbank.  Not because its selection is any better but because its convienient.  I have tried a few of the comic book shops on the west bank and like the minature people, they seemed to think I wasn't their sort of geek.  They didn't have any gaming stuff.

Maybe its just me but the gaming and comic shops seem a lot more nichy than they used to be.  They all have magic cards and will sell you that but unless you buy their niche don't bother.  Maybe its just this area but I don't see how they stay in business.

I was moving back when Katrina happened and only looked at gaming after Katrina.   There are two gaming stores with galactic in their name, both on w. esplanade in metairie.


Galactic Games Emporium Inc‎ -
3544 W Esplanade Ave N # 5, Metairie, LA
(504) 885-4263‎

Galactic Goods Cards & Comics‎
343 W Esplanade Ave, Kenner, LA
(504) 466-8470‎


Oops... one is in kenner... but its the same road. And going in, I couldn't tell them apart.

One of the two had a big wall of gaming books but to my eye, it didn't have obscure or the most recent books at the time.  As I recall there was  a lot of storyteller and D&D but just the more common books.  I just wasn't impressed but everyone should go once and decide for themselves.

Galactic games, is indeed a Wargaming store pretty much, and has always suffered from "Cliques"  The same thing from Wargames and Fantasy the store that proceeded it.  ( rather the one they put out of business)  I hang out there occasionally, and while the people are pretty nice, you have to be the one who starts talking to them, they are all going to absorbed in what they came to do.  The current store owner pretty much runs the store as a hobby, not as a profit making venture.  So investing heavily into a particular game isn't a wise move for him, unless Alot of people make sure he knows they will be buying the products.  One or two people at a time isn't going to do it.

Galactic goods on the other hand is in kenner, and the shop owner and his wife are pretty open to conversation (its a smaller shop, not many places for wargaming, and specializes in MTG and comics, I think) IF you talk to them first, about something their interested in (try MTG, or just general conversation)

BSI comics carries a little of everything (on severn, by lakeside mall), and was the home for the local RPGA for a while I think (I have no idea if they still go there)

Gamers conclave is across the lake on the northshore, as well as a couple other shops.  It ALSO recently changed hands (past year or so)  It has a younger group of wargamers, magic players and carries a large computer network for lan gaming.  Don't know too much about the current owner, but the last guy was pretty nice once you got talking to him.

Overall, regardless of what store you go to, you have to be the one who initiates any type of conversation.  Gotta remember we are all Nerds here and alot of us have a tendency to just shut out the rest of the world, and do what we want to do.  We like new friends, but going out of our way to find them, even when they walk in the door, is asking us to not be who we are.

Explain what you want, and let the owners know how many people you represent (essentially), and how often you guys will be buying (remember its a business, and I'm sure each of these guys has been burned by people saying one thing and doing another), and Keep Coming Back!  Nothing makes a shop owner trust you more (other then just buying GOBS of books) then just seeing you on a regular basis and talking to you, heck they may just start to remember your name!  Once that happens you should feel much more comfortable. 

Remember game shops are more of a social club then they are a retail store.  If you walked into a country club or bar off the street would you expect all the members to run right over and ask about your day?

Priest, Amen to that.

It all sounds like the typical New Orleans service industry.  The customer is more of an annoyance rather than a way to make retail income.  It's a surprise that some places even stay open.  However, if they are the only two left open, I guess they're a monopoly of sorts...and can act as they please.

Do these myopic shops carry everything one would need?

Good thing I have the internet. 

And there I was thinking that a nerd opening a store for nerds and expecting them to be social first was a great business plan....


If the wargamers want an area to post meeting times, recaps of games, ads for tourneys at the local shops and so forth, I will make it.  I don't want posts that are purely commercial and/or spam, but gamers posting about any kind of table top gaming is cool.

I'm not sure how I'd feel about WOW people or MMUORPG people posting here.  I'd have to think about it.  But any social gaming group  that needs a way for people to meet locally is fair game. 

And if people want areas to talk about other D&D mechanics or other gaming systems, just say so.

You can just put:

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as the URL.  If you go to that you will be directed to the forum.