If Sacramento ever needed a new motto (we've gone from "City of the Trees" to "Farm‑to‑Fork"), I'd…read morenominate "Good Enough." With so many State employees, "good enough for government work" fits a little too well. We've gained better boba spots since the pandemic, though still not at the Bay Area level. And from all the Bay Area people that I've met, they like Sac's housing prices, but miss their favorite restaurants. The Bay Area also has better board‑game cafes, but after my visit to Galaxy Game Cafe, I can say this one feels right at home, and that's good enough in the best possible way. (If you don't know, there's been a trend of Bay Area people moving to Sac). My friend suggested we check it out; he'd been before and enjoyed it. My first impression, was the "X" in "Galaxy" cleverly mimicking an X‑wing. Inside, a gallery of Star Wars 3.75" figures greeted us, with display cases thoughtfully placed throughout the store. It's a fun theme, and the shop fully embraces its geeky niche. A quick glance around the room revealed a game-focused layout. I was surprised because when I hear "cafe," I usually picture coffee, pastries, and light lunch options. If you just want a snack, Galaxy Game Cafe has you covered although there's no blue milk offered. My desire for more food variety was quickly forgotten once I looked at their game selection. I've been to game cafes where pieces are missing, boxes are dirty, or things are disorganized; the kind of place where you end up focusing more on your food than the game. Here, it was the opposite. I enjoyed my snacks and the games. In my small sample size (Dice Forge and Kronologic), everything felt like new. Out of curiosity, I checked Heat for expansions, but they seem to stick to base games, and again, everything looked liked like new. After we finished playing, I placed our games on the return shelf and realized they care enough to check. I appreciated the care they put into maintaining a good gaming experience- isn't that good enough? If you are in the area, I highly recommend them! They also list their board game collection on BGG: https://boardgamegeek.com/collection/user/GalaxyGameCafe

Over 1000 games to play if you want to hang out with friends for a bit - bring in your own snacks…read moreor buy some here. We came in to check out their amazing Star Wars figure displays and more importantly buy some new games. The owners made some great recommendations for our upcoming family gatherings. Well priced and a better buy than going to Amazon or a big box store. SUPPORT SMALL FAMILY BUSINESSES! Check them out for your holiday shopping- great unique t shirt selection, kitschy items and stocking stuffer ideas, puzzles and games for ALL ages.

friendly staff, I came in to check if they had dragon ball z tcg but unfortunately nothing. Also,…read moresmall selection of pokemon but they said it was going to get more into pokemon. Hoping the prices are under market for my local card shop!

About six months or so ago my boyfriend and I decided to check out Corey's card shop and the first…read moretime we went it was an okay experience. The second time we dealt with his wife (Corey was not there) and she was friendly which was just fine. Now the third time we went we were looking for some destined rivals packs and/or booster boxes. We had picked out one booster bundle for me and one for my boyfriend and then realized he was selling a whole box set which we asked if we could get just the box set instead (this is all before purchase). He must of either jumped to conclusion or didn't understand what we were asking. He loudly scolded us for buying too much (which is insane as a business owner) and started to humiliate us with demeaning comments. He was saying that he had people he needed to sell to and would not let us buy anything else. Mind you the store is almost a 4x4 shoe box so everyone could hear a pin drop. I'm not sure why you have product on the shelf and were showing it to us if you didn't want us buying anything. Safe to say I went from an excited newbie mtg and Pokemon fan to being very uncomfortable in most shops I go to now. I do not know if Corey owns this shop purely to hang out with the only regulars he deems worthy or because he likes public humiliation towards customers but there is no way with the amount of attitude and disrespect he holds towards all customers that this business will last long. Save your hard earned money and look at reviews before checking a shop out.

I remember as a kid I was an avid reader,but for some reason I thought comic books were really lame…read morebecause they weren't real books.They were just pictures with a few words and wasn't even close to what I was doing knocking out multiple books in a week. Sometime in my 30s though that all changed.As I got older,I came to appreciate the high quality of the medium,in regards to being able to have such complex stories work with such high quality artwork. So I started collecting comics and became a frequent customer to A-1 Comics in Roseville located on Sunrise Avenue. The top two things I love about this location are as follows. -Their employees really give excellent customer service.They are very helpful in assisting the customers in finding whatever they are looking for. A-1 has two other locations in the Sacramento area and multiple times I've been in Roseville and they were sold out of what I was looking for and they took it upon themselves to call their other locations to check if they had what I wanted-that's excellent customer service. -Second thing that truly stands out for me about A-1 is they aren't cheap on inventory-every week when new releases come out,they always have plenty of copies so that as many customers as possible have a good opportunity to get the issues they want-not all comic shops do this-others keep such limited inventory that they sell out too fast-A-1 rarely lets that happen. This Roseville location pretty much has its own parking lot,so there's always has plenty of parking available for its customers. In closing, I really do recommend this shop for all your comic needs-it's a pretty awesome place filled with pretty awesome employees and I always look forward to heading back out there.

Came to visit my brother for the 4th of July weekend and stumbled upon this shop and boy was I…read morepleased! I found a lot of issues that I was looking for and their back issue were categorized by title and volume. Hope to come back tomorrow and also visit their Auburn store. Wish I had found these shops earlier!

This review is long overdue! My husband and I come to NorCal Sports Cards & Collectibles for our…read morehockey cards and Pokemon card needs. The staff here is amazing & huge shout out to Greg who is always super helpful. If you haven't stopped by let this be your sign to come in & get a pack of cards or walk around and check out their amazing selection. They have a point/reward system you can sign up for which is a nice perk. Pokemon cards are normally marked up which is to be expected but their other sports cards have been super reasonably priced.

I was not planning on leaving a review, because I understand that you're not always going to get…read morewhat you ask for. This review is specifically about going to trade or sell cards here. Again, I wasn't going to leave a review, but after going to another place and thinking about what I was offered on the Pokémon cards I wanted to sell/trade it almost feel downright criminal and like I was almost robbed. I went in with a good amount of graded slabs and raw Pokémon cards to sell or trade. The guy who was "helping" me started off doing the slabs and gave me the offer for those , it was a bit below what I had hoped for, but I had driven 1hr and 45 minutes to get there, plus I understand not all comps are the same. I didn't mind that offer. The PROBLEM came when he got to comping out my raw cards, it was a good amount of cards, close to 100 cards I'd like to say. When he was done comping them out and gave me an offer of around $700-$800 for all the cards. I had do a quick overview of which cards he was taking in. I immediately knew something was off because a card that was around $700 market he was offering $115 because the condition "MP" he said.. I chose not to accept the offer for the raw cards, but still closed the deal on the slabs. Got some things for trade. When I got home I started doing a bit more research on the raw cards he was going to take in and that's when I started to feel like I was almost robbed/scammed. I understand cards vary in condition and on top of that you only get a percentage not the market price for cards when selling to vendors or LCS, but the market for all the cards he was going to take was around $4k for all, the offer I was given was less than $800.. even if those cards were in awful condition (which they weren't) that offer would still be criminally low! After seeing that myself and going through the numbers again and again I felt so disappointed , irritated that someone would even do that especially at a shop!! What really pissed me off, still in my head trying to give them benefit of the doubt, trying to remain a bit positive was me going to another LCS and them telling me that I was being ripped off with that offer. I'm still in a bit of disbelief, idk how many times they do that where based on "condition" they openly rip off people who have no idea what they have, many people look towards their LCD and community to trust, but this shop has definitely failed at that for me. That aside, the staff comes off nice and welcoming, but after my experience it all seems that at least the person who deals with the Pokémon side of things has other intentions.

This is my favorite card shop in the area! I love to take weekend trips to Sac and this is always…read moreat the top of my list to visit. The employees are wonderful and so friendly and helpful! They genuinely enjoy being there and getting to know people. They are always so welcoming to my 4 year old and make conversation with him, instead of making us feel like we're an inconvenience. The store is well lit and spaced out, so it's easy to look through their display and their bulk. This is always my top recommended card shop.

Golden State TCG is an amazing trading card store. The staff members here are all amazing and super…read morefriendly. I love their wide variety of Pokemon trading cards. They have great prices on their trading cards. They also have the best prices on their Japanese Pokemon sealed products. Out of all the local card stores I feel that this store is the most clean and organized. If you collect Pokemon cards or Magic cards, you definitely need to check out Golden State TCG.

Poor selection and the owner Ron Petersen is extremely condescending and rude. You can find games…read morecheaper online.

Called Game Getaway for a card game and mat , but they didn't have it and said it was ordered and…read morewould be coming in some. He took my phone number and texted me right away when the items came in. He was very professional with excellent customer service. Great value for money. The store is amazing and will definitely be back. Thank you so very much!!!

Great store! The set up is vast and fun, but the employees are what sold me. Very knowledgeable and…read morehelpful especially for beginners. Highly recommend trying out their events too!

Great selection of things. Slightly more expensive than the regular shop I go to. Staff member…read moreseemed annoyed with a question I asked but maybe they were having a bad day.

I came to Go! Games and Toys on 03/05/22 with my older niece, her mom and family friend. I…read moreabsolutely LOVE this store as it has something for EVERYONE here. It is very huge inside. Upon entering they have cutouts of things you can take pictures of. Batman and I think another superhero was out. My niece and I took pictures with it and it was a lot of fun just channeling my inner kid with her. We explored the store thoroughly. They had a lot of kids toys and plushies. I was impressed with the amount of UNIQUE board games they had especially several different versions of Monopoly which is one of my favorite games. They had like hundreds and hundreds of them. They also had party games, adult games, children games and so much more. They have books, puzzles, card games, calendars and other unique items as well. We spend about an hour in here easily just exploring. It was seriously exhausting. There were too many options. They even had kitchen toys, play sets and much much more. Great shop. I ended not getting anything but I should've got a monopoly or board game to play. We didn't have any interactions with staff but I wanted to find the Princess Calendars but couldn't find it as they had one displayed on their window walking by. Overall, I am seriously looking forward to coming back to this location as I do want to get a few games here. Probably, the best toy game shop I have been to in a while. It was very clean and organized inside. No complaints at all. I would recommend. My niece had a blast inside and she of course seen a lot of things she wanted.

I actually wanted to give the store Zero Stars! We bought a puppy pal and asked if it barked…read morecontinuously. The sales girl said no. We ask if there were any that we could see demonstrated and she said no. We tried it at home and the puppy barks continuously and the battery life was about 5 minutes. The sales girl lied. We tried to bring it back and the manager told us they do not refund things that are opened. We would not have bought the toy if the sales girl would have told us the truth. Then we had to open it to see what it did. I tried calling an area director at another store. After ringing the phone for 3 minutes during open hours with no answer, I gave up. BEWARE! I will never go back and I recommend going somewhere else.