Cartridges Galore Video Games

High Street's retro game counter doubles as a Pokemon buy/sell/trade stop — walk in for an N64 cart, walk out with singles and a booster box.

Most people find Cartridges Galore looking for a Nintendo 64 cartridge or a working Dreamcast, and then notice the card case. The downtown Morgantown store sits at 40 High Street, deep in the WVU foot-traffic zone, and runs a full retro video game operation — vintage and modern games, consoles, accessories — alongside a trading card business that buys, sells and trades Pokemon and other TCG product.

That dual identity is the point. Reviewers who call it 'the most resourceful video game and Pokemon card store in West Virginia' are reacting to the fact that you can offload a box of old games and walk out with card credit, or the reverse. For students without a car, it is also the only card counter in Morgantown reachable on foot from most of downtown, which matters more than it sounds.

Pricing is the other recurring theme in a 4.7-star rating built on roughly 230 Google reviews: competitive, and quoted without games-playing. The staff get named as passionate rather than merely present — the kind of counter where a question about a regional Pokemon set turns into a ten-minute conversation.

Hours are consistent and generous by Morgantown standards: 11AM to 7PM Monday through Saturday, with a shorter Sunday afternoon window from noon to 5PM. Street parking on High Street is metered and competitive during the week; evenings and Sundays are easier. It pairs well with a downtown walk rather than a dedicated drive.

Set expectations correctly and it delivers: this is a Morgantown card shop with a video game store attached, not a tournament venue. There is no weekly organized play here. What there is instead is steady turnover, fair buy prices, and the specific pleasure of finding a sealed booster and a copy of a game you had as a kid on the same counter.