About The Game Squad™

The Game Squad™ roots go way back to the year 2003. Founder Zach Terflinger and many of his close friends would get together in his tiny living room and play system link matches on Ghost Recon. Equipped with Original XBOX’s, dinner trays and 13’ tv’s the guys would form a circle in the living room with network cables running to the hub in the center of the room. They would play until 2 or 3 am.

It wasn’t until 2 years later in 2005 that the decision was made to see if people would pay to enjoy multiplayer system link games like he did. Extreme Parties was formed. They would network Xboxes and play them on 6 foot projector screens in homes. This was wildly successful and continued until mid 2007. With business booming, the need to do more parties in a single day and to make life easier for all was becoming increasingly apparent. Soon party planning mom’s was increasing rapidly. There was a definite interest in the ease of a mobile video game party! The mobile gaming room concept was created and The Game Squad™ was born.

Being a gamer himself, Zach wanted to build an experience that gamers would love. The only way to do that would be to give each customer their own console and their own HDTV, housed in a huge, jaw dropping trailer. Split screens would not be acceptable. In addition, the games Guitar Hero and Rock Band were given their own space in the Rock Music room.

Since its inception, The Game Squad™ has delivered the best experience in gaming parties, as validated by all of our loyal fans and repeat customers. From birthday and bachelor parties to fund raising, carnivals and high school dances, The Game Squad™ will make any event a blast!

To top it all off, our culture is one that people love and are excited about the interaction with us! We are fun, our corporate staff persons are fun and we help make the party an experience that will never be forgotten. We don’t show up set up and take off, we are at the party with you, we cater to all of your needs during the party, and if you want us to join in on a round, or give instruction on gameplay and strategy to first timers, we absolutely welcome this. That’s the Game Squad™ Difference!

About Zach Terflinger

Zach has been a gamer since the Atari 2600. He has played on as many systems as he could get his hands on since then and has at one time owned at least one of every major console. His love for gaming, like many of his peers, has spanned a couple of decades. It was the XBOX that really took his love for gaming to new levels. Traditionally an RPG enthusiast the XBOX made it easy to foster the love of co-op and competitive play over a LAN. Online play was fun, but playing with his best buddies in the same room where they could yell and harass each other in person was a whole new level of gaming goodness.

This love for gaming and the camaraderie among his friends lead to the eventual creation of The Game Squad™. With the blessing of his wife, he has been doing gaming events since 2005. During that time he was able to leave his 18 year career with AT&T and begin working on the dream full time. In doing so a new industry segment inside of the multi-billion dollar industry was created while providing the best parties on wheels!

About Elijah Young

Elijah started gaming with the Atari 2600 with his older brothers in 1983. After realizing an intense love for video gaming, Elijah wanted to become a computer graphics engineer to design graphics for video game companies. This desire only grew with each addition to the video game console and handheld markets, touting ever enhancing graphics capabilities and gameplay. Growing up, there was never a time that there wasn’t a video game being played in the home on a daily basis, unless the parents took it away for bad behavior.

He also caught the music bug early and has grown to become a well respected singer/songwriter and has worked and lived in Hollywood, CA. He has sang for several international superstars including P. Diddy, Enrique Iglesias, Sugar Ray, and the list goes on…

Elijah is an infectious leader of people and one of the biggest people persons you would ever meet. That love for people and human potential fueled him to study Communications at Vanguard University and after college he began utilizing his gifts in Training and Equipping Leaders to reach their fullest potential. He has gone through several Leadership Certifications, Facilitation and Design Training, Summits, Including John Maxwell’s Leadership Courses, Dale Carnegie trainings, Franklin Covey courses, and beyond.

In 2007, he couldn’t resist the growth in the video game industry and he began looking for a way to get back to his first love of video games and find a way to make a living at it! He ended up at Play N Trade Video Games™ the United States’ largest video game retail franchise with over 500 stores sold. Elijah headed up the training department as Director of Training for Play N Trade reporting to Sr Vice President of Retail Operations. Elijah was instrumental in developing the business model and plan for the Player’s Club™ an in-store gaming lounge and party place.

Elijah left Play N Trade in May of 2009 to partner with the founder and long time friend Zach Terflinger of The Game Squad™ to take the successful model from single business entity to franchise able opportunity!

Some of Elijah’s mentors in business are:
Nepoleon Hill author of “Think and Grow Rich”
Dale Carnegie “How to win friends and Influence People”
Robert Kiyosaki “Rich Dad, Poor Dad”
Steven Covey “7 Habits of Highly Effective People”
John Maxwell “21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership”