Will Luna City ever have another gameday?

[Droler]

It's his PERSONAL arcade. He can do what he wants with it.

Yeah it sucks that some of us local didn't get a chance to go but that's they way it is.

Yeah, I saw the post about him being wrong to exclude people and thought WTF?

If he wants to burn it to the ground and collect the insurance that's his prerogative. The man makes a lot of money, builds his own arcade, and that doesn't give anyone rights to see it or enter its doors.

And we don't know for sure that he's not still having game days and if he is not, why. This is all conjecture.

 

[Droler]

As Dan eluded to earlier......

While Peter was pissed at the file sharing stuff....anyone visiting his site knows that the real reason there are no more game days has nothing to do with KLOV. A very close family friend of Peter's died from cancer. Peter was devasted, he lost his drive to continue with the game days because soo many of them were to benefit his friend that died.

I presume that after the grieving process and time passes, he'll resume game days. But there's no reason to blame it on KLOV when Pete gave his explanation on his Luna Arcade website. He may not come here because of the experience here, but that isn't the reason he gave for his hiatus with Luna Arcade.



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Ah, so not all is conjecture.

I didn't think he was petty enough to stop them for the Chasing Ghosts issue.

I think I can sympathize; if my best friend (who I spent 2 months restoring a Missile Command for this past year for a Christmas gift) passed, I don't think I'd want to see or play any missile command again.

Makes sense.

 

[PhoenixStar]

I think this needs to be posted for all who don't understand, but I can probably be nearly certain that the lack of Luna City game days have nothing to do with the movie or anger from posts. In general, and respectfully without much specific detail, Peter posted a certain weekly blog on the Luna City website which stated that someone within his family was battling with a serious illness and going through treatments. The last recent Luna City game days were held for free, however on the agreement that you'd make a charitable donation to the treatment plan of his family member. His last Game Day was cancelled because unfortunately this person lost their battle with the serious illness, and I can only imagine he's been devastated ever since, especially since the Game Days were held as a fundraiser event.
I hope I didnt overstep my boundaries too much, but I thought it was important because I wouldnt want Peter to come back one day and read the forums with the facts mis-understood.
Maybe one day he will decide to open the doors one day, but I don't think it would be anytime soon.

 

[IvanTT]

Thread officially hi-jacked ...



I guess I need to watch it again. The only person I thought really came out looking like a dick was the "Donkey Kong Cheater", but IMHO he did that to himself.

OK I don't think they looked like dicks but they sure did look sad for the most part. One guy kept his wifes ashes in a cardboard box for Christ sake on top of a bunch of other junk. The whole movie left me rather depressed instead of happy or even a melancholy after watching something cool and nostalgic. I was very disappointed as it could have been so much better.

 

[Mattroid]

Another issue that Peter probably had was that the person that initially passed out the torrent link was a moderator here. I didn't realize that before - I thought it was a low post count member that was being beligerent.

I probably should just keep my silence, but as has been mentioned, I was not a mod at the time. However, I probably should go on the record as admitting that I did fuck up - big. I didn't read through the whole thread at the time and didn't realize who was who (as in the posters), either. Looking back, I realize what a dick move I made and every time something makes me think about it, I feel like hell.

While the torrent is long gone where I posted it, the damage is more than done and it's something I can never take back. To everyone involved, I am truly sorry, though that can never make up for it. I guess all I can say is that on the off chance a DVD is ever sold and distributed, I vow to purchase as many copies as I can possibly afford and give them away here for Free Fridays or something. Again, not that that can make up for my actions.

And this will (should) be my only comment on the matter.

 

[vicjw66]

Regardless of how people percieved chasing ghosts I enjoyed it. Sure people are portrayed in the light of the director's editing choices. I never thought bad of anyone in it. Made me feel nostalgic. It really seems like a non issue in the scheme of things. As for losing people. I lost my sister to a rare form of breast cancer in June. Treatments for avastin and other experimental drugs were more than $10,000 a month. Her favorite game was centipede as a kid. I bought it but never had the chance to give it to her like I had planned. Not that arcade games would matter much to a woman who worried about leaving four kids under 7 years old without a mother. I play it with her in my thoughts. I don't know Peter but certainly can sympathize with him losing a family member. 2009 was a shitty year.

 

[TheRickster]

As Dan eluded to earlier......

While Peter was pissed at the file sharing stuff....anyone visiting his site knows that the real reason there are no more game days has nothing to do with KLOV. A very close family friend of Peter's died from cancer. Peter was devasted, he lost his drive to continue with the game days because soo many of them were to benefit his friend that died.

I presume that after the grieving process and time passes, he'll resume game days. But there's no reason to blame it on KLOV when Pete gave his explanation on his Luna Arcade website. He may not come here because of the experience here, but that isn't the reason he gave for his hiatus with Luna Arcade.

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IDK anything that happened really, but if there is this much of a interest in his arcade he could collect money to donate to a cancer charity of some type. Just throwing it out there as cancer will touch many peoples lives and every little bit helps.

 

[vintagegamer]

Thanks to all who helped to paint a clear picture of what took place with all of this, and also to Mattroid for coming forward and apologizing for what went down. Matt, everyone makes mistakes and does stupid shit in their lives (myself included). Although at the time it is evident that what happened wasn't in the best interest of the crew here, you've done the right thing by coming forward and letting people know who it was. I personally had no clue because somehow I missed when all of this went down. But from reading about the cancer piece of the puzzle, in my eyes the whole link thing was almost completely (if not completely) irrelevant in this issue.

I feel bad for Peter and how the death impacted him personally- however I would hope that if he ever reads this thread, that he will see how many others his creation has touched and positively affected. If I can provide my insight (coming from a man who has tried many different ideas and had them fail), I think if he could find a way to keep going with it, and maybe get others to help him with it, that his arcade would be not only an honor to his lost loved one, but that he could keep doing the arcade game days and donate the funds to a cancer research organization. That way, it would be a help for everyone. We can't bring back those whom we've lost, but man if I was in Heaven and knew there was an arcade still running back on Earth in my honor, I'd be finding a way to send quarters down from the Pearly Gates! I've seen the pictures and the youtube vids of the place, and there was definitely too much love and pride put into the place to not display and share it any longer with those who share in the enjoyment/addiction of this hobby.