Arcade games? At work? Wha...?

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I sold a game over the weekend and I delivered it to the buyers work, which happened to be Google. In through the front door, up an elevator and we walk in to a room with an Atari Football 4-player in the middle of it, and a Lunar Lander and Space War against the wall. They were all on and ready to play... There were one or two others there, but those were the ones I noticed. They also had a Tornado foosball and a nice air-hockey table. My Zaxxon is in fine company now...

I wonder if they're hiring over there...
 
Sounds like google... Write before read error. Yes, they usually are.

I bought my Golden Tee from an office and picked it up from the break room.
 
I really think more workplaces should adopt a game or 2 in the break room. Its a fun way to relieve stress from workers. Happy worker is a productive worker.
 
I really think more workplaces should adopt a game or 2 in the break room. Its a fun way to relieve stress from workers. Happy worker is a productive worker.

when the dot coms were booming many bay area companies did have games in the office. As these companies went away the games went away too. Only the companies that make a ton of money or are ran by someone who appreciates these games seem to have them now.
 
when the dot coms were booming many bay area companies did have games in the office. As these companies went away the games went away too. Only the companies that make a ton of money or are ran by someone who appreciates these games seem to have them now.

That's true I think. My Defender was bought from such a person, when his small start-up company went under he took the game home and it sat in his garage for 10 years until he sold it to me. It even had an asset-tag on the back from his old company, which he kept. Those were crazy times back then during the boom/bust...
 
I bought my Asteroids from a guy who worked a game development company and he also worked for Atari at one time. The place was full of empty liquor bottles and had a tiki bar. I wonder how anything got done.
 
VectorJunkie put a few games in our downstairs break room at work. I modified the Pac Man with Souzilla's 4-in-1 setup and it's nice. :)
 
Games wouldn't work in the breakroom where I work. Its barely big enough for the fridge, pop machine, candy machine and break table. The people I work with aren't really video game types anyway.
 
A former intern of ours works there now. He always shows me pics of their arcade games because he knows I'm into them. And yes, he was talking about the "new" Zaxxon, too! Who ever buys games for them has an eye for the classics.
 
If my memory serves me right, the employees each get a budget to personalize the work space. Assuming a $1,000 budget and judicious,shopping 2 or 3 employees could put together a nice collection of classics.

Given that the gen X tech crowd (us) is now reaching places of prominence with increasing frequency, arcade games in the workplace isn't surprising.
 
We have a Defender, Super Sprint, and Super Offroad at work. They used to be in the lobby, but now they are waiting for the office expansion to be done on the floor below. They didn't look professional enough for our new lawyer neighbors to be in our lobby anymore. :(
 
I heard there was a guy.....

I heard about a Google employee that has a massive collection of arcades that he pays someone to restore and keep in working order, something like 400-500 games...

....Is that true, anyone else heard about it ????


I sold a game over the weekend and I delivered it to the buyers work, which happened to be Google. In through the front door, up an elevator and we walk in to a room with an Atari Football 4-player in the middle of it, and a Lunar Lander and Space War against the wall. They were all on and ready to play... There were one or two others there, but those were the ones I noticed. They also had a Tornado foosball and a nice air-hockey table. My Zaxxon is in fine company now...

I wonder if they're hiring over there...
 
VectorJunkie put a few games in our downstairs break room at work. I modified the Pac Man with Souzilla's 4-in-1 setup and it's nice. :)

It only took me a good four years to get the company to buy some. :)

We have the following games...

4-in-1 Pac (Souzilla)
Millipede (Multipede kit)
Phoenix (Jeff's Romshack freeplay)
Neo Geo (WindJammers, Bust-a-move)
Galaga (Galaga Enhancement Pack)

I have seen some of the games at Google. In their Android building they had a DOT in the lobby and a full arcade in a hallway in the same building.
 
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I have a couple of games in my office waiting room. 3-in-1 Ms Pac/Galaga/Frogger, and SMB. I used to have a Galaga cocktail, PC-10, and a MAME system with a separated control panel (sit on the couch and play on a 29" monitor). I keep meaning to bring SMB home to get new T-molding as the kids kick the shit out of it, but it gets played too much to pull out!
 
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