Gaming Paradise

Gaming Paradise is a video game store in Cross Lanes, West Virginia. It buys, sells, and trades video games, consoles, and collectibles, serving retro collectors and modern gamers alike. The shop carries titles across generations, from SNES and PlayStation 2 through PlayStation 4, along with Funko pops, keychains, bags, hats, wrestling figures, VHS tapes, vinyl records, and DVDs. Trade-ins are welcome, with free shipping labels offered on most online trade-ins, and a Buy 5, Get 1 FREE mix-and-match offer. Mystery boxes are sold by genre across Bronze, Silver, and Gold tiers for DVDs, Blu-rays, and VHS, with every item inspected before it is listed. The store's team brings over 20 years of knowledge to questions about games, systems, and orders. Gaming Paradise holds a rating of 4.60 from 252 reviews.

The store's shelves lean heavily retro: customers describe finding older games they had been hunting for, and one notes that nine times out of ten the shop has what they came in for. Inventory spans a PS2 console, SNES and PS4 games, a mouse and copy of Mario Paint for the SNES, and niche finds alongside the mainstream. Mystery box selections are chosen by the team and randomly picked within the genre a buyer selects, and cases may arrive as slip covers or clamshells. Items are graded between disc-only, missing-manual, and complete-in-box listings. The shop also keeps a mailing address in Saint Albans.

Gaming Paradise sits on Big Tyler Road, about a tenth of a mile from West Virginia Junior College-Charleston and Cross Lanes Elementary School, and roughly a quarter mile from Med Express. The Kanawha County Public Library is about four tenths of a mile away, near the intersections with Cross Lanes Drive and Goff Mountain Road.

The store stands among the strongest in its category locally and has built a solid reputation among the customers it has served, including shoppers who drive over an hour to visit.