A fantastic store with a fluid, but limited, selection of products. Staff are always friendly and ready to have a conversation about your hobbies! This review is written from the perspective of a retro video game collector.Inventory: 3/5- Not many games at any given time, but they are constantly bringing in new stock and rotating product. Its worth it to visit once or twice a week.Value: 5/5- They base their prices on current market value and always try to beat the trend by at least a few cents. In addition, Managers Specials and 20% off storewide sales are common.Location: 4/5- Plenty of parking. Bathrooms are under lock and key and leave something to be desired. Organization is there, but not perfect. Games are often separated and stocked in 2 or 3 different sections of the store.Overall: Im giving a 5/5 due to friendly staff, great value, and constantly rotating stock. The records are clearly a primary focus, but The Great Escape is still worth visiting for game collectors!

I am a minority. It seems they are very demeaning to minority customers. They requested photo ID for a 5 dollar item. I have knowledge that they did not ask for ID for non-minority customers. They were essentially asking for your papers before allowing you to buy with a credit card. They would not even let me use my debit card which requires a pin. I spoke to a manager about this policy over the phone and he lied about their being a sign about this policy in the front of the store or in on the website. How can they accept payments on their ebay store with credit card without ID but not in the store? Pure hypocrisy. They should really put a sign about this and all acceptable payment methods. If you are a minority beware of shopping at this location if you dont wish to be insulted.

I have been to the other GE in the Nashville area. This one had nice and helpful staff like the other locations. Good stock.

Super well-priced vinyls, CDs, and DVDs; awesome staff; and a great treasure hunt experience

I hadnt been to this business in several years, but Im extremely grateful that they helped me out and bought my video games I needed to sell and they were only open for 5 minutes. I wouldnt have blamed them if they had sent me away until they opened the next day. Great customer service!

I always find the comics Im looking for here! The store also has a nice, quiet atmosphere I also really appreciate.

Pretty cool new and used record store

Great store, always friendly and willing to answer questions.

Ive been buying comics from here since before they were at this location and were still called Pac Rats (over 20 years now). They have always been helpful and typically have a good variety on hand. They also carry games, cards, movies, toys, records, and more.

Awesome. Took a trip out of town. Lots of cool dc and power ranger stuff. I came on a surprise date my girl planned. Good stuff.

I found more movies I was looking for. Staff was helpful.

Great place, very friendly staff they even had some used dungeons and dragons things. Very glad a place like this still exists.

Stores like this are a dying breed. This one does media sales great. The prices are reasonable and they seem to have the required passion for media. The staff maintains the 90s cooler-than-you music store clerk vibe as youd expect. Im okay with that. I bring my kids here to experience a great physical media store.

Awesome to see all the new items as well as vintage pieces!

My favorite place for records and comics. Good variety of of collectables and staff is helpful and friendly.

Its my local comic shop, they have a good selection of newer and older books for fair prices.

The focus of the store has.changed a lot since the Pac Rats days. For me, I rarely find what I want here and special orders have gotten shuffled into the regular inventory.That said, everything else about the store is great. Friendly employees. Fun atmosphere. Good spot for comics and vinyl.

The staff at Great Escape is wonderful. They will take the time to talk to you. Prices are very fair. I always enjoy a visit.

The people are always nice, the prices are right. They have everything, if they dont they can get it for you. They have incredible events too just stay posted with the email newsletter.

Staff is a bit rude. Once I was in a hurry and instead of checking my things out they talked amongst themselves for almost ten minutes while I stood at the counter. They have lots of good deals on the stuff on the shelves, but Id stay away from the display case. They could at least do some research on their games before they price gouge. Im not a cheapo, I just do research online before I drop money. Another problem I had is when me and a friend purchased a Sega Genesis model 1. The controller ports were messed up and we couldnt play anything. They should really test out their consoles before they put them out to be sold. And beware of you do decide to buy from the case. I managed to find a good deal on a PS1 game, and it was the only game in my collection to give me the red screen of death. BOTH discs. Very disappointed.

Its a unique store but what a lot of people call atmosphere I call run down. It seems rather unorgainzed. This might be the place for record heads, but as someone who likes to check out video games and board games, there is much better selection and service elsewhere.

Competitive pricing and always a pleasure going there.

This is one of the few places that has a decent size of vinyl records. The people are always nice & courteous. Their collection of old toys will bring you back.

One of the nest places to buy comics in person!

Great store. Great staff. Have the biggest supply in town of retro video games, comics, records, toys, etc. Staff is very helpful and they sell for similar prices to eBay. Would highly recommend.

Great place to hunt for what you want. If you are in any of the collecting hobbies they service, chances are you know more than the staff. They are generally friendly. Wide selection of LPs, DVDs, Comics, and Toys.

An excellent place for new comics. They regularly have sales and all back issues are 25% off.

Neat place

This is a great place to find classic video games and replacement cords for discontinued systems. The staff are great.

Great Escape comic holds: They have yet to get my hold on Old Man Logan comic correct for several months. I placed the hold order for Old Man Logan in March and every month I go in for my hold and every month I take an issue from the wall because my book has not been held for me. Each month for 7 months it has been incorrect. September will my final visit if my hold isnt correct.

Best place in town for retro games. Really the only place in town, but great nonetheless. The prices are for the most part great. I see people writing bad reviews for their lowball offers to buy things, but thats because they sell things for CHEAP. Most of their PS2 games, many of which will run you 10+ dollars online, are only $2.99 to $6.99. I went in expecting to get one $20 game and walked out with a stack for $15. All games were in great condition and complete, great value for great products.

A good selection of old and new comics, with a selection of collectibles, DVDs and Games. Its a no frills shop with a healthy used media selection, and always worth a visit when Im in town.

They are nothing like the website Says! Dont waste ur time going there

Love the free comic books day. This place has a lot to choose from and are very friendly and helpful.

Ive been shopping here since I was a little kid buying Pokemon cards. Every game Ive purchased has worked flawlessly. I bought a GBA once that wouldnt power on, and they swapped it out no problem.

Always a great source for vinyl. I could spend hours going through the vinyl, and the staff is very friendly and helpful as well.

Fantastic inventory and friendly staff.

Definitely one of my favorite stores in Bowling Green! Its one of very few places in Bowling Green that carries comic books, but it also has an array of musical selections, movies, figurines, trading cards, and games!

Place was loaded with cool stuff but I was going in to trade a couple games that were unopened didnt get much for them. But awesome store!

Cute little theater. Sweet staff. Definitely coming back.

Good selection of LPs, and comics. If your looking for any RARE items dont look here, they sale on line or the employees buy them then put them online in their Ebay stores. Thanks.

Awesome for going through records and cds and wasting time when you need something to do. Plus the card collections and action figures are abundant.

I started going to the Great Escape back when it was Pac-Rats over by the old Kroger. I used to love going to that place! This place is ok but still not what I fell in love with. And maybe Im biased by the old crew and experience. Prices here are a little high for used and the selection doesnt seem to be what it was even 5 years ago. I still stop when Im in town but its just not the experience it used to be.

This place has so many good vinyls, cds, dvds, comic books and so much more!

The movie screening was perfect and the staff werent rude or anythint

Great service, nice employees, wonderful atmosphere. Shop here all the time and the prices are very cheap. Love it

Good place to check when your look I g for some rare movies

Only place in BG to get the retro toys and vinyals you want. They also have video games which is awesome. Staff are usually very nice and can help you find the stuff you want. They also have some really good sales like the 1$ DVD sale.

Always can count on them having something interesting on the shelves

This is THE place to go for comic books. They have the absolute best selection in Bowling Green. Coming here definitely is a great escape.

Pretty well organized. I do wish theyd get rid of the LPS and add more obscure comics and graphic novels.

Who gets a purse check when they go to the movies, anyone that goes to great escape.

The store is fine and has a big selection of random vinyls, collectibles, movies, and games. However, dont try to sell anything to them and expect to receive anything notable . I recently gave them a large bag filled with CDs, DVDs, video games and controllers, as well as dozens of collectibles in new condition (some were special edition) and was offered $25 for the whole thing. Not selling here again.

I took in over $1000 worth of my walking dead comic collection expecting them to at least offer a decent price, despite their horrible reputation in the southern Kentucky community for ripping people off. When I came back to pick my comics up after they looked at them, they offered me $310, so I left. Long story short, Great Escape is always going to rip people off, so dont ever take your belongings to them, unless you want to be disrespected with their lowball offers.

Great variety of records and comics (didnt look at anything else). Will definitely return.

I love this store cant wait to return.

Good place to get and sell all your comic books

Too expensive. Ive. Had credit of $25 that I cant do anything with since I sold my system and theres nothing else to buy in there. Total waste

This is one of my favorite stores in all of Bowling Green! Good deals and people!

Outrageous prices.... better prices online, or Mellow Matts!

I bought a game system from here an XBox 360 E 500 gb to be exact. The system is a potato tried to get my $75 back and return it. An what do you know their games work but not mine. How ironic. So then I decided to go purchase more still doesn’t work. So since they wouldn’t work with me at all and were really rude about it when all I was wanting was help with a purchase, you get one star. I’ve never wasted a good amount of money like that before and will not be back, considering it was my favorite place to buy comics as a young teen. Extremely disappointed. Took it to gamestop and just got $20 so at least it wasn’t a big rip off, even the GameStop guy took it apart and showed me it was fried. 👎🏻 Know what you are selling to people, please and thank you!

Gave this place second chance, staff was great, great selection on comics and found some stuff i have not seen in years

Really neat store, awesome $1.00 DVD deals. Packed full of nostalgia, I loved it.

Friendly staff. Great finds. Awesome prices.

Really good deals on DVDs and fun looking at old vinyl records

Best comic book shop in town! Best music shop in town! Used dvds, blu-rays, video games, and more! Great staff on hand as well.

Lots of vinyl, 33 & 45. The higher priced 45s were not in great condition, but there were tons of $1 45s in good shape.

Customer service is NONEXISTENT!! The staff has little to no interest in comic books!! The atmosphere is more like a booth at a flea market.

Love this place. I get comic books and action figures there

I usually go to the Louisville store, but the anniversary specials (including freebies) got me to finally check out their BG store. Overall a better layout than the Lou store, but almost no RPGs. Staff seemed OK to me when I went.I have also been to a GE store just north of Nashville, TN, and it was similar to the BG store but bigger.

Been visiting Great Escape for years. Great stuff for collectors.

Great place, found a comic that I have been looking for many years.

It is an all right place dont expect lots of money from selling your stuff to them, but hey they gotta make money. If you really want to sell your collectibles try selling them online like eBay or something.

Grea treasures

Talk about some vintage stuff! In tendo 64 games and NES out the Wazoo, plenty of CDs and movies enjoy your stay here

Best kept secret in Bowling Green for toys, video games, DVDs, comics, and records. Friendlyest staff in town!

This place is terrible. Not only are the prices high and they wont give you anything on trade ins. But the staff and employees are really rude and unprofessional. Only the manager will greet you, other than that they will ignore you and just sit in complete silence while they check you out. Probably the most annoying thing is that they talk a lot of politics in there, which I dont want to hear while Im shopping. They will talk about guns and how much they love them, which I dont know why they need any guns cause they all live in their moms basement anyway.

Nice place but I want more information

A good place to find older games, consoles, records, and more

Great place 2 go and buy games and movies and more

Good place to search out hidden gems! #guybadly

Great store. Great prices. Great selection.

Record Stores are notorious for indiffrent/inexprienced/un-concerned staff...blame the one who does the hiring...a reflection of that person perhaps? Anyhey....best best is to locate a true audio facility that knows....yes those are almost on the non-existent side.....if one has a Technics 1200 series with the screwable mount, plenty of stylus/needles will work...I use Ortofon. Most likely, many of you all have other turnatables...would suggest Jerry Raskins Needle Doctor (online) who do have a wide variety of stylus/needles....good customer service who will help you fit your turntable (and they do have a physical store too! Grand Rapids Michigan I believe)As for trading in records....Great Escape is notorious for lowballing offers/bad service for evaluations of the vinyl....try either Grimeys or Phonolux in Nashville......not the best service at times either...but somewhat better offers.As for the record selection at G.E.,quite good depending on ones musical taste(s)Best bet is to just browse and get your music and dont bother the ones on that day....injoy the experience and check out and then go!

A great place to find good used movies

If you like vinyl, start here.

A solid place to pick up music, comics, games and the like. Very limited stock on tabletop games, though they do get some through from time to time. Worth going just to see what geeky nonsense they have in stock.

Clean and well organized.

Awesome place to get used games and funko pops.

Need better people including management

I love great escape

Fair selection, fairly clean, and fairly reasonably priced.

Lots of dvds vhs toys comics records

Great fun. Comics, movies, games and more.

Slow and rude. will never return. major rip off.

Meh each time they move I like them less, ok place to find local comics but are worse than Rick Harrison if you want to sell something.

I’m just glad a place like this exists even just for nostalgia kick.

Great place for finding movies and music !

Nice clean place to see a movie

Good selection with a friendly staff.

Ok cinema. Snacks over priced.