Game Night!

That's awesome. I love it when kids play my games. I just love it when anybody sees the games and get visibly excited.
Does an arcade even exist before a player 1 button is pushed?
 
I know the feeling all too well. Best feeling in the world seeing friends and family enjoying your creation.

Man, can you imagine having an uncle that had a basement full of games back in the 80s? I'd never want to leave!

Jason
 
I know the feeling all too well. Best feeling in the world seeing friends and family enjoying your creation.

Man, can you imagine having an uncle that had a basement full of games back in the 80s? I'd never want to leave!

Jason
Absolutely 💯. When I was 14, I was good friends with a girl who's parents owned a KOA Campground. It was closed in the winter, but her dad brought myself and some other kids to help winterize the camp. We didn't know they had an arcade with about 15 games. After we finished working, he led us into a lit up arcade. We were all freaking out. He set out a coin bucket full of quarters and all the stale Butterfingers you could eat.
 
Had my nephew and niece over for pizza tonight. They were all on their iPhones playing games upstairs with my son and then I came up and said "hey guys, I turned on all the games!" I've never seen them move so fast to get down to the arcade. Had to snap a pic.

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It brings a tear to the eye.
 
It brings a tear to the eye.
Then I asked, are you guys hungry? They said yes and proceeded to polish off two Bellatori's pizza's in the span of 15 minutes, then my wife made them a hotdish after that. I went to bed about 1030. They were still down there playing hide and seek with all the games off and just the black lights on.
 
Awesome! We hosted the post-prom party a couple weeks back for my son and his friends. I fired up the arcade and thought it was great seeing them all in there playing in their suits and prom gowns!


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That's fucking awesome. Now I have had past teen parties in my arcade that had a lot more participants, but this is the first time anyone's been down there in months. So I was pretty excited.
 
Excellent, sir. Excellent.

I missed out on a pin this week, will probably need counseling for that, lol.
 
It's been a weird life for most kids today. But from what I've seen, most of them find an arcade and meeting up with friends pretty interesting still. At least when in measured doses. Don't expect your own kids and their friends to find your home arcade interesting over and over. After like 2 visits, the kids seem to be over it. It can't compete with the short attention span hipnotics of TikTok and social media. Hopefully some of them give that up in the long run. The world is better without it.
 
It's been a weird life for most kids today. But from what I've seen, most of them find an arcade and meeting up with friends pretty interesting still. At least when in measured doses. Don't expect your own kids and their friends to find your home arcade interesting over and over. After like 2 visits, the kids seem to be over it. It can't compete with the short attention span hipnotics of TikTok and social media. Hopefully some of them give that up in the long run. The world is better without it.
Agreed 👍
 
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