The Game Preserve- Bloomington

We carry Family games, Party games, Strategy games, Chess, Card games, RPG, Kids games, and Puzzles!

We have a large selection of hobby items such as Euro strategy games, Games Workshop and Wizards of the Coast products.

There is almost always a table open so come in and play a round of your favorite hobby game!

Hours:
Monday - Friday: 10AM to 10PM
Saturday: 10AM to 9PM
Sunday: 12PM to 6PM

We are closed on the following Holidays: New Years Day, Easter, Thanksgiving and Christmas.

Gaming Room Calendar
Weekday groups meet at 5 PM and weekend groups around 12 PM

Monday: MTG Standard & Legends of the Five Rings

Tuesday: Pokemon & MTG Tuesday Booster Draft

Wednesday: Jr. Magic (13 and Under), MTG Commander & Jr. Pathfinder

Thursday: Warmachine, Heroclix, MTG Modern & Legend of the Five Rings CCG

Friday: Friday Night Magic and Warhammer

Saturday: Tournaments and Demos!

Sunday: Yu Gi Oh weekly tournament 2pm and Warhammer League

Kit Newkirk opened the first Game Preserve store October 1, 1980 in an old house in the funky Broad Ripple neighborhood of Indianapolis. The shelves were stocked with Monopoly, Scrabble, chess, backgammon, Pente, and playing cards. Trivial Pursuit would soon be invented. Dungeons and Dragons was a little known newcomer. Bill Lorton joined her as a partner in early 1981.

In 1983, we decided to move the Game Preserve about a mile from Broad Ripple to the Galleria at Glendale, Indianapolis' oldest enclosed mall. The move brought many new customers to the store and made it a viable business. After five years at Glendale, we built in the Fashion Mall at Keystone Crossing, two miles north of the Glendale store.

In 1989 we added a second location in the Greenwood Park Mall, south of Indianapolis. After five years in the mall, we moved the store north on US 31 to Stop 12 Road, where you can still find it.

In 1991, an employee came forward with the idea of adding a third store in Bloomington in the newly renovated Fountain Square Mall on the courthouse square. In the same fashion, staff members instigated adding a store in West Lafayette in 1992. You can now find our newest store in the Pavilions Mall on State Road 26 east of highway 52 in Lafayette.

The web site came into being in 1996. The goal was to offer web shoppers the great games and hard-to-find titles found in the stores, and to provide clearer, and more accurate information than was generally available. Today The Game Preserve has about 30 employees at five locations. Many staffers have been with the company for years. Many customers are "second generation" patrons.

We still offer the same service and satisfaction guarantee upon which our reputation is built.

The Bloomington store opened in 1994. Staff here enjoy role-playing games, Magic the Gathering, WizKids figure games, Games Workshop games, classic board games, and the occasional game of Go. There are games and puzzles for all ages along with some toys and other amusing items. During the off season you can often find a game of one sort or another in progress in the back of the store or in the 1200 square ft of gaming space downstairs.