"Real" Arcades

Cpen5311

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Hey everyone

Just curious if anyone here has ever opened their own working commercial arcade? Not counting running one out of your basement. :p
I would like to hear some stories!
 
Here's the one in Springfield, MO: www.1984arcade.com Here's a post from Devin in another thread awhile back:

My name is Devin. My arcade is 1984. You can find us on the web at www.1984arcade.com. This past July we celebrated our 5th year. We have now been open longer than MOST of the original 80's arcades, and we seem to be recession proof and going strong. Three Saturdays ago was the biggest Saturday we have had to date.

Last week was the slowest week we have had in a very long time. We are open from Wed through Sat and had bad storms on Wed night, then a tornado on Thursday night, all on top of a labor day weekend... HOWEVER if you all would like, I will track down every one of the 348 people we had in last week and tell them all that they didn't want to be there, that our arcade would never work, their kids didn't have fun, that nobody wants to play 80s games, and that they couldn't possibly have fun in a no alcohol environment. Oh and I almost forgot, I'll explain that to the three birthday parties we had there AND I'll call up and refund the money to the seven that I booked during the course of the week.

I guess that perhaps a modern arcade won't work and that we are on some railroad track to failure. I have to say that it sure doesn't seem like it, and that we are all enjoying the ride in the meantime.

And yup, that pedal on Spy Hunter just won't stay calibrated, usually you have to end up sort of stomping on it to get 100 percent throttle.
 
We're about to open a second Game Galaxy again near where we had to close the second one last year temporarily....we're at 2.5 years right now so far.....
 
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