Barcades Hitting Mainstream?

Meh. We'll see in 5 years when hipsters don't care about games anymore. Looking forward to getting cheap games at all those bankruptcy sales.
 
Meh. We'll see in 5 years when hipsters don't care about games anymore. Looking forward to getting cheap games at all those bankruptcy sales.

I already have that on my to do list, go after bankrupt bars and their games!
 
the Chicago scene is all about calling them "beercades", hence Headquarters Beercade. I don't affiliate with any of those locations, I stick to the purity of Galloping Ghost Arcade, Underground Retrocade, and Pixel Blast Arcade. and eventually the arcade I've been assembling for an eternity, when the ownership decides to open it.

to the latter point, when I was planning the new arcade I wanted it to be pure and free play, and incidentally serves pizza and beer, but they're apparently shifting to the beercade concept.

I don't know if it's necessarily a hipster thing, but I do think the beercade thing has a limited shelf life and a bubble that will inevitably pop. the 21 year olds of the last 5 years at least had some semblance of exposure to video games in arcades when they were little. there will come a new batch of 21 year olds that weren't even alive during the first run of arcades and will have a disconnect. these are the same people that don't grasp how to plug a Game Boy cartridge in or put a cassette tape into a Walkman.

by that metric I have to believe the old crop of 21 year olds will eventually learn that getting hammered every night isn't viable and start taking their lives seriously, and the new crop won't have any concept of what it is. the beercade bubble then pops.

more for us? most likely.

our scene has kind of an old vs. new thing going on already, where there's people that just think anyone can own video games in their homes while totally neglecting any fundamental concept of how to maintain them. so they wind up trying to fix them themselves, when they don't even know how it works, and wind up destroying hardware in the process. I'm not going to dig any deeper into how I feel about preserving games, but I think my bosses are missing the mark going in the wrong direction on something that probably has about 3 years left to live max.
 
I don't know if it's necessarily a hipster thing,

There are two sets of two words in that article that literally scream, "HIPSTER!!"......

"Craft Beers", and "The Scene".

Beer aficionados never use the term "Craft Beer".... "Micro-Brew" is acceptable, though.
 
There are two sets of two words in that article that literally scream, "HIPSTER!!"......

"Craft Beers", and "The Scene".

Beer aficionados never use the term "Craft Beer".... "Micro-Brew" is acceptable, though.

I don't know what "The Scene" is, but craft beer is a common term; nothing wrong with it.
 
Pretty sure "Barcade" is TM'd to Barcade in NY and it's franchise locations.

The idea that 21 year olds won't want to play these is not entirely true... But it is also the responsibility of these new arcade owners to create a family type atmosphere (ie Grinkers) so the younger kids and adults learn to like these games and therefore creating a new generation of classic game/pinball lovers.

And looking at what I've been seeing lately with classic arcades that don't have age limits....The kids love this stuff.

Adult only locations are the ones that I see this just being the latest bar trend...And dying off fairly quickly.
 
There are two sets of two words in that article that literally scream, "HIPSTER!!"......

"Craft Beers", and "The Scene".

Beer aficionados never use the term "Craft Beer".... "Micro-Brew" is acceptable, though.

I think it's just a change in terminology. When I was in college we used the term "micro-brew" to describe Rogue, Sierra Nevada, etc. At some point the good beer thing really took off and the "craft beer" terminology seemed to replace "micro-brew". I was still drinking said beer but I was not in the "the scene" so I didn't know what the hell people were calling it. I mean, it's fucking beer okay. But anywho, beer aficionados definitely do use the term "craft beer". My sister in law owns a bottle shop and she and all of her cronies say "craft beers"
 
All of our kids are going to grow up playing arcade games and they will fill the void. If they don't just blame yourselves for failing as parents.
 
I think it's just a change in terminology. When I was in college we used the term "micro-brew" to describe Rogue, Sierra Nevada, etc. At some point the good beer thing really took off and the "craft beer" terminology seemed to replace "micro-brew". I was still drinking said beer but I was not in the "the scene" so I didn't know what the hell people were calling it. I mean, it's fucking beer okay. But anywho, beer aficionados definitely do use the term "craft beer". My sister in law owns a bottle shop and she and all of her cronies say "craft beers"

I'm more of an "enthusiast," than an aficionado. I really don't care what you call it, as long as it's good beer. If it ends in any variation of "Lite," or requires fruit or salt, it's not on my list.
 
Here in Utah we have "soda bar arcade". Great place to play classic arcade games and a cool place to make your own specialty soda mixes.

www.flynnsretrocade.com
 
"barcade" = hard alcohol, "beercade" = beer/wine only. this can refer to locations that are all ages, 21+ only, or a mix of the two (daytime all ages, nighttime 18 or 21+.)

most of these locations are run by collectors. i don't see some sort of massive fire sale should the hipsters stop going; they'll just take the games back home where they had them before they ran out of space and decided to open a storage facility that pays for itself. :) i'm involved with two such locations and know just about everyone in the area that runs the others and this is universally the case. i can't say they might not lose their games in a sudden bankruptcy but i wouldn't count on it either.

and yes, Barcade is a trademarked term used by the original location in NY.
 
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