As you already know, Players Fun and Games is gone. However, its certainly not forgotten. Players was owned by two business partners. Bob and Buddy. Due to certain issues with the mall supposedly being slated for demolition, they closed. Then later reopened when the mall was semi remodeled. Eventually, I think they did tear down part of the mall forcing them closed for good. Bob went on to become manager of a business incubator in south west VA until his death a few years later. During those years, Buddy had a great many of the games and assets stored in a couple of the areas of the business incubator. After Bob's passing, Buddy was eventually forced to clean out his areas. Sometime during all this, he continued to operate many games on route. One of those areas were a Theater. When the owner of the theater decided to sell out, he purchased it. He now owns 2 theaters and a Gatti's pizza in VA. All have games in them. And even the neon sign from Players Fun and Games still hangs in his multiscreen theater's game room. Just this year, he completed a party room at his other theater. He rents that out on occasion for various parties. Currently, he has about 19 pins in it and probably 7 or 8 arcade games and a few redemption pieces. When he had to remove his items from the incubator, he sold me his basket case Star Wars Cockpit w25" monitor and assault. He is a member on here, but he seldom posts. He can be seen most times at the arcade auctions in Kingsport with our local collecting club, "The Pinball Mafia". Buddy's a friend and fellow club member, and that's about as specific as I would want to get without him chiming in. A few auctions ago, he had a fairly bad experience with another KLOV member. I won't go into it, but the guy really needed an "ass whoopin." But Buddy's a fairly nice guy and I'm sure holds no ill will. He just doesn't post that much. Maybe he'll make an appearance when he sees this tread...