Friendly Local Game Store

Friendly geeky and filled with my childhood! Great place to make friends and full tour geek needs!

Arr this be my game store! With such a name I expect a friendly staff, but they are almost family-​like in their behavior with their customers. This place keeps my gaming group in the good minis. My only complaint is that their dice selection is generic and overall kinda weak. But honestly they cater more towards the wargamers than the d20 types. They’ll still have what you need though.

Friendly knowledgable guy who was very helpful made our first visit great. Demo-​d a couple of games and ordered one I wanted. It’s obvious the staff here knows their stuff. Looking forward to buying from them!

I just love the name of this place. I literally saw the sign in the corner of my eye and did a U-​turn to check the place out. Decent size store. Walls lined on one side with magic cards and folders, the opposite side lined with game books, back wall of comics and plenty of games displayed in the window to intice you to peak in.
But the sign saying «Magic Played Here» had my dork mood on high. I spent maybe an hour just flipping through cards and chatting with the owner. I finally found a store that carries individual cards. This place has soul.
When I’m searching through cards I create an imaginary bubble where I can longer see or hear anything that isn’t on the cards but bits and pieces of conversations cracked my defence and I just smiled at the random conversations that were occuring. People discussed making repairs on vehicles, Obamacare, difficulty of playing in Florida weather, and gave each other updates on the Jaguar game. This place really feels homey.
Can’t wait to incorporate the cards I purchased into my decks and maybe come back and play someone.

Friendly Local Game Store is what has become of Sun Coast Comics. While the owners of Sun Coast took their brand to the online market, they sold the business location back in December. I was never really a fan of this place while under the Sun Coast name, but I must say that I am already liking the new store and new management.
Unfortunately, upon transition, Sun Coast took most everything merchandise wise when they departed and left next to nothing for FLGS to start off with. So the new management has basically had to start from scratch to rebuild this store, which is happening rather slowly, but surely. I am also happy to notice that they finally removed the Sun Coast sign from the building. Hopefully, that will ease confusion as well.
I’ve stopped in a few times since the changeover and it seems to get better with each visit. The store is going to dabble in as much geekery as it can — Magic: the Gathering, Pathfinder, Heroclix, comics, board games, Munchkin, miniatures, and the list goes on. I’ve chatted with the new owners a few times and they have the heart and the drive to make this store a staple in Jax again.
This past Saturday was Free Comic Book Day and I stopped in with my niece. For the first year, I’d say they didn’t do too bad. They definitely have growing to do and that’s perfectly okay. There weren’t many choices of 2013 FCBD comics, but I liked their idea of putting out back issues that they’ve had a hard time moving as Free Comics as well. I do go out of my way to give business to each comic store that I enter, especially on FCBD, and I was able to find an addition to my Thanos collection that I’ve been looking for as well.
All in all, I’m glad to see this store getting some life breathed into it again. I had many qualms with Sun Coast when they were at this location and FLGS has already started squashing those.