THIS IS HUGE! Let me know yalls thoughts below, would love your input!

It will forever blow my mind you started the channel after loving what we do. Then we became friends. Then good friends. Then started to help you with your channel. And now we are headed to help you in the process of owning your own massive store. This is wild yall Proud of you my guy!!!

Rick, starting my own retro gaming store was the scariest moment of my life- more so than fatherhood, because the entirety of our family's financial safety rested upon it. It will bring you immense joy, fear, but ultimately it changed my life for the better. We've created something beautiful that bring so much happiness to other people. Live this dream. Take it in. God bless.

So happy for you. Please document everything it takes to “open” and maintain a business so other people with this dream can see what it takes.

I would like to see a series called "Trade-in Tuesdays" or something like that. Because you probably won't film your store every single day, have a day of the week where you give customers incentives to trade their stuff in. This way you could get a bunch of footage of trades all at once. I'd like to see rare or crazy stuff people bring in.

There is so much potential here, Rick. One big possibility is you could host your own retro event convention on opening to get people in store, then host it annually. You could even host meet and greets with Riff, Ricky, Gabo from Pixel Game Squad, bring famous actors, voice actors etc from the 90's etc. Besides that we all know Phoenix Resale will bulk buy from you lol. You've got this bro.

Dude that’s dope! I’m not one to comment under videos, but the passion you show in your videos can truly reflect onto the store. You have the knowledge of the subject areas, plus the resources at the tips of your fingers like your buddies and online communities. I’m a supporter and I’ll be sure to visit that store one day! You got this Rick

Man!! I just found your channel, I'm in Hot Springs and own Chaos Comics, opening a brick and mortar early next year!

Hey man. I've been really struggling with my depression and anxiety lately its an everyday battle. It's always fun going on adventures with you in every video. Helps me remember all the cool stuff out there to discover and always is a trip down memory lane to better times. Keep up the great content and always remember you got a fan-base who loves you!

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So excited for you man! Love this video update. Your honestly and openness is so refreshing. The best is yet to come!

This is HUGE news and I'm very happy for you. This channel inspired me to go hunting and to buy to sell and put work into my collection "without spending a dime" and I'm grateful for that. But that's what this channel is, inspiration to myself and many others who are incredibly happy for you and your channel and your family. Good luck, cannot wait to see what this store does for this channel!

I would try to keep the employees that are in good standing with the couple you are talking about. Make the transition into a easy as possible for the employees and the customers. If you keep them, you keep the trust in the store to give out good deals on both the selling and purchasing side.

Congrats rick! Hard work pays off, can't wait to see all the future shenanigans 😜

I always thought if I ever had a game store, I would have a section with retro 90s consoles hooked to a CRT with a nice audio system so that the younger generation can sit down and experience what sound and vision was of those great games that paved the way for what we have today.

Congratulations Rick!!! I would love for the store to still remain the “Clean” store lol. Keep it visually stunning.

This is amazing to hear!!! Huge congrats to everyone involved and best of luck on the store! Definitely gotta check it out if I'm ever in the area!

Congrats man! So happy for you!

Owning a game store sounds amazing. Hope you know what you're getting into. Be awesome if the owners can show you how they do everything to run the store. Hope you get some great employees you can trust to run the store without you eventually so you can game hunt or do more conventions

Comic Book Men+Storage Wars+ American Pickers+Pawn Stars+Challenge KZfaq Channel+Travel Convention KZfaq Channel=New and Improved Retro Rick

Man’s got to make a place for Jeffrey 🤣 But on a serious note, your content is some of the best I’ve seen, and I love your channel, I hope you do good in this new chapter of your life. Keep up the good work Rick

For starters, you deserve this! This is an absolute blessing! Can't wait to see more and hopefully, someday, I can come visit your new store! Collectors unite!! 😁😁😁 God bless my friend!

You should add toys into your video game store. Especially all those cool 80s and 90s toys you come across. Make it into exactly what you love.

You’ve talked about wanting to have your own retro booth at an antique mall or swap meet, and you should make this store exactly that not just a retro video game store. Congrats, man!

First and foremost make your family a priority. That being said. Congrats Rick ! Please be aware of the layout of your inventory and any blind spots in your survalence system . You can take a ball roll it around the store and any place you don't see it is a blind spot . Greet all customers introduce yourself remember as many names as you can . Think of the things you like at other game stores and build on that.. Ask the former owners what worked and what didn't .

There are so many things I could say or comment on from this video. But just congratulations and best of luck. This is the dream for me and so many others and honestly cannot wait to see what you do with it and how the future content evolves. Hopefully get to fly over and stop in for a visit when you’re up and running.

Wow! That’s really cool! Very happy for you! What an amazing journey. You’re my favourite channel for several years now. Aways looking forward to watching your video’s twice a week. Very pumped about following your new adventures! Wish you all the best! ☺️ Cheers from the Netherlands!

Rick im so happy for you and your family I hope everything goes well with the new store. As a fan of the channel all I ask is please don't stop going to flea markets thats what makes this channel so authentic. SHOUT OUT to Riff and Ricky and even the hole retro team for helping with the channel 👏

That's some awesome news Rick. Owning a frigging game store would be absolutely sick. I think maybe putting in a small arcade part of the store would be awesome and it would help generate some extra income to help with the store or whatever you may need it for. I can't wait to see some Killer videos of it. Keep up the great work man and keep doing what you do,your doing it right.

Congrats Buddy! This will definitely be a great progression for the Retro Rick Channel! Can't wait to see what kind of new content this brings! Love the channel and keep up the great work!

Been with you guys a long time. Definitely don't limit yourself to retro videogames. Buy/sell everything pop culture including sports cards, Pokemon, Magic, merchandise, retro arcade games. The possibilities are endless.

What a great opportunity! Congratulations! I would make a retro corner (or halve) what is styled and decorated entirely for the 80’s / 90’s perhaps a couple of arcade units. Retro diner theme with the checkerboard tiles etc. That pawn stars idea is great, would be allot of content.

Hey I appreciate you opening up about the difficulties of your life and of doing KZfaq. When I watch you guys you make it look easy to pump out quality content. But I know just starting out that editing takes 4 EVER! I am still editing a video from SEGE and am maybe 20% complete... I have a family and work 40 hours a week and run a side computer consulting business. It's not easy. But thankful for you opening up about how you made it and have help. I thought it was somehow just you doing it all still. And congrats on the business! That is the dream of any video game collector is to own a store. Thanks again for all you do man!

Huge congratulations brother! Hard work pays off 🙏 👏

Congrats on everything, I think its easy to say that a lot of kids dreams growing up is to own their own video game store! If anyone else hasn't recommended this for future content yet, maybe you could record when people trade in huge collections to the store. People might have interesting stories on how that person collected over the years and why they are trading it in. Obviously people bringing in huge collections wouldn't happen everyday but when it does happen it would be cool to see.

I've watched dozens of videos now but this is the first one I'm commenting on. This channel is so awesome and binging your channel on the videos for the last two years has been a blast. Seeing so many old games and memorabilia has been a joy to watch. Keep up the work Rick and the rest of the Retro Team.

Congrats Rick! Can’t wait to see the store. I think the one thing I just implore you to consider, remember that you are trying to please the masses, not just the retro gamers or 90’s collectors. You don’t want to just please them and forget everything else because you don’t know much about it or don’t care for it. You want to be a store where you can please everyone as that means good business. Leaning into one area because your passionate about it is not good business. Keep things open, make sure your store can please everyone, and don’t get caught up. It’s all about providing the best product, not just the stuff you like.

This is going to be amazing. I can’t wait to see what you do to the store!! Super proud of you homie

I love the fact that you're not afraid to mention prayer! the shop's looking great Rick!

Rick, this is a big door opening for you, and one friend offering a price for the store not just any store it's a game store.. This could make a difference in your life but it's going to get you where you want to be. Please take it because it's what makes you happy! God bless you Rick! 😇🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼

Congrats! Really happy for you! Love the content you guys put out and I should say you are my favorite youtuber to watch (no 1 spot with harry tornado). Both of you makes me so happy to watch and im pretty sure your gamestore will do great. Im really rooting for you!

So happy to see this news finally out there! The twin bros wanna come film a hunting episode when you open, dude!

KZfaq blows my mind.. I've found and been enjoying your videos very recently. Making a video is like making a song, it lives forever. Even tho i'm late, I can enjoy in your excitement thanks to your documentation. Your store is craaaaazy! I cannot get enough nostalgia, which is literally something you deliever daily. It's unimaginable to think that ..people will be able to take the rabbit hole ride, ive been on since I found your channel for years to come. You're building an incredible "origin story". Keep up the great work. I hope your channel continues to grow. We were lucky to grow up in the 80's-90's, as you know. Go Retro!!

Dude, CONGRATULATIONS!! 🎉 I'm so happy and excited for you! I've always loved that store specifically from your videos because it looks so epic inside. This whole thing is heartwarming. And you have tons of opportunities for new content. I would love to see "day in the life" type stuff for one.

I... You know when you get so excited for someone that you empathize and cry happy tears for that someone? I appreciate all you do for KZfaq and WhatNot, the Retro Games and Retro Toys community but most of all what you do for others. This opportunity is amazing 👏 and I am so happy for you and your family both extended and chosen. I remember seeing the vid about that toy store and I kid you not, I said 'it would be cool if RetroRick would buy(own) that'. I wish you nothing but success and blessings seriously for your new endeavors and this new business. May it blossom and bloom. I'm a fan, and a whatnot content seller as well and because of you I had to pivot and its scary and exciting. So thank you for having such a positive effect on my life. I Have so many ideas that it would be too much to write here but to be honest these words mean more at the moment. Stay happy, stay blessed and stay awesome. ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜

Soooo so happy for you brother! Whenever I'm anywhere close to the store you know I'm gonna come support it! And I'm sure many people are with me on that. Like you said film what you're doing..cleaning out the rooms. Bringing new items into the store. And the pawn stars idea sounds awesome! But I'm not sure people would like to see how business actually works and that you have to make money so I'm sure you would get alot of hate in the comments If you did so. But trade in value would be cool. Going through stuff other people bring in. I'm excited if you can't tell 🤣 it will all work out in the end and this is what 100 hour weeks bring you. Congrats dawg ✊🏼

Been loving your channel/content since early in Covid times. Congratulations on the life changing event. I will say that someone who lives, breathes, and loves this lifestyle/hobby you will be an amazing owner. Congratulations again and I hope it all goes well the next couple weeks for you and your family.

Don’t be terrified.. breathe your success into existence you already are about to open the doors. Be happy every morning for what’s “in store” for you brother. Gratz

Congratulations man! That is awesome and looking forward to the new content (and the new WhatNot streams)

I got Shaq-Fu for Easter the year it came out. The copy I got came with a cd of Shaq rapping. I’m sure it would be worth something if I had kept it. I think about all the stuff I had as a kid and I trashed. It really makes me sad I didn’t take better care of my stuff.

Congrats Rick, I am so excited for you and thank you for taking us on the journey with you.

Congrats man! well deserved! I hope you have a great time making this store your own and keep building the Retro empire! Best of luck!

That is a very nicely laid out, organized and maintained store! Really cool game store for sure!

I would like to give praise to the person that composed the excellent intro tune of the channel. I strongly believe it has played a big part in the channel’s success

Love your channel Rick. Can't wait to see your store grow and evolve. Your going to knock it out of the park for sure.CONGRATS!!!!

Rick, thank you for sharing your story. My husband and I have been fans since the beginning of 2020, when the pandemic led us to scouring KZfaq while the world shut down. Your kids are similar ages as ours and we are huge retro gaming nerds, so when we stumbled onto your page we were instantly hooked! So excited to follow the continuation of your gaming saga with you.

Congratulations on your latest endeavor! Glad to hear you and your wife are taking this on! So excited to see what comes of this and may pay a visit from TN. KEEP IT UP!!

Good luck Rick and family! Can't wait to see your future store uploads and how your life changes here on out x

Congratulations Rick! Much love from a NYer who watches from Japan. I do game hunting in Japan when I can and have watched many other channels over the years of people hunting in the US. As I no longer live there I feel that I get to be part of the community through all the awesome content youtube producers like yourself make. Best of luck with the store! I can't wait for the vids!

Congratulations Mr & Mrs Retro! This is an insanely huge move but I know nothing but good things are coming for y’all. This is going to be absolutely amazing. Definitely gonna have to take a road trip just to check it out. One idea for videos I think would be cool is just a daily update. Of anything new that came in or anything different/weird that people don’t normally see. I’ve enjoyed watching your videos the past month & I can’t wait to see where this channel goes. Good luck & god bless!

That's a very good point! Record what you're already doing and go from there. Love the videos Rick and loved how God is moving through your passion for video games.

I was one of your first 300 subscribers and have enjoyed watching your journey. I truly believe good things happen to good people. Here is more proof. I look forward to your future videos. Thank you.

Wow Rick, I'm so happy for you! Please do document buying the store, and making it your own!!!

Been a subscriber for a long while now, so happy for you and the family Rick - excited to watch the process of opening a store, always been my dream. Best wishes from England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

Congratulations Retro Rick!!!!! That’s awesome. Hoping and praying for success for you and your family.

The thing that attracted me to your videos bro was not only did you love video games but also your a man that loves God. im glad your prayers have been answered and im so happy to see how much your channel has grown brother!

Congrats! glad to be part of the retro team. I will say you could have a few booths were visitors could play arcade games and more in the future.

Congratulations Rick! I hope the best for you and your family in this new adventure.

Thank YOU for inspiring us to start our KZfaq channel. Congratulations on the game store, can't wait for the new content.

I'm 15, you've inspired me to resell games on ebay, I dont think that it could be my full time job, but that game store purchase is the stuff of dreams, congrats man!

Dude this is so impressive from when I started watching you when you were under 5000 subs I never imagined you would own a video game store. This is also very inspirational because I saw where you started and you have been reaching so many incredible and unbelievable things. Owning a game store has been one of my dreams and you have shown me that it’s truly possible.

Thank you for including us on your journey Rick! been a fan since 2019 during lockdown in little old New Zealand and loved EVERY video since! You sir have put me on Phoenix Resale, Riff and the boys etc and you are all now KZfaq staples for me so very excited to see what’s to come in the future!

THAT store?! HOLY FLIP! I fell in love with the place when you showed it off and I already associate it with you, so now it's crazy that it IS you!

So excited for you , hope it turns out amazing! Excited for you personally as well as to get to watch what you do w channel content in future!!

What a very cool new adventure for you and Miss Retro! I'm very happy for you both! Congratulations!!!

This is awesome. I can't wait to watch future videos of this progress and the vlogs of daily store business, hunts and everything.

Congratulations Rick! I couldn’t think of a better person to have their own video game store.

New to the channel so I don’t know if this has already been suggested or talked about in newer content you’ve posted, but an idea I have would to make the shop a new “local” type hangout. Host retro and modern game tournaments, some TCG tournaments, etc. Good luck w the store! I will definitely be tuning in more often! Also s/o Caleb for helping introduce this channel to me through his channel. Best wishes!

Oh my goodness! How exciting! I am super happy for you! I can't wait to see how your content will change. Congrats!

So excited to see what the future holds for you and the channel. Can't wait to see what you do with the store. Keep up the amazing work.

TALK about a DREAM come TRUE! Congrats Rick, very well deserved 👏🔥

Congrats Rick! Good luck on your endeavor! You got this dude!! Also…thanks for making friends with me along the way!!

This is awesome! My wife and I make the drive through Little Rock quite a few times a year from Texas! We will definitely be adding this to the route! Can’t wait to visit it!

Congratulations Rick & family on the new business. Wishing you the best of luck in the new venture! Definitely put out content about what's going on in your life running the store. Can't wait to see more.

Huge congratulations! I have been subbed for about a year now. Im not even a game collector. I collect comics. But you got me hooked. Can't wait to see how this part of your journey goes.

Awesome Rick! Would love to see a Neon Retro Rick's sign glowing outside the place! "You build it they will come". Congrats

I’m so happy for you! I want to go visit your video game store! You are the reason why I got back into retro gaming!

Such a great video. Excellent to hear how is al began and were this has taken you to. Good luck with the store, this is an amazing idea. We are only at the start of the journey and just on instagram at the minute, but moving onto KZfaq is always something that has interested us.

Congratulations on the store buddy , well deserved. So happy for you both 👍👍

I’m super pumped bro!! Congrats on EVERYTHING and you know me and ol adventurecoats got your back! NEXT STOP---> 1 MILLION SUBS!!!🎉🎉

I wish you the best brother, wishing you the best for you and your fam in this new adventure. Hopefully I get to visit your store in the future.

Congratulations! Store is SUPER FUN, but a lot of work! Good Luck!

Really well deserved. Huge congratulations. Live the dream! I think incorporating/letting your customers know about the channel would be a cool touch. Also keeping/having a retro/vintage area to have some of your other interests besides the video games.

Geoffrey will look fantastic in that space. Bro, be true to you. This is a fantastic adventure. You will find your path. All my support is behind you.

Congratulations Rick! God bless you and your family on this new endeavor!

Rick, I hope you take excellent care of the place! I was just there and heard the news she was selling the place. I’ve been going to that place almost weekly for about 12 years and it’s always held a special place in my heart, and it’s the best game store I’ve ever been to. Looking forward to seeing what you’re gonna do with the place.

I’m so proud of you Retrorick hope everything goes well on your own retro game store and make sure to document everything and good luck I love watching your video it was amazing congratulations

Awesome, been making videos and just having fun since 2006 and still edit myself, It’s incredible that u r living the dream to own a store. God bless and good luck with the store

Rick, this store kept us sane during the pandemic. When my kids saw you were buying it they FLIPPED! We are so excited to come see you and good luck with everything. We are all rooting for you! -The Howard Family

Changes are what life is all about. I'm glad to see your success! I'll have to stop by the store the next time I visit my brother in Greenbrier.