I’m still so fucking mad people still were being lazy when you and others were doing this.
Posted a link to your blog on the main post.
I’d like to give an account of my own experience with arcades, hopefully for the benefit of Mike Watson and everyone reading.
I’m from Reno Nevada, and I live within a half hour drive of around seven or eight arcades, and about 45 minutes away from one or two more. All of these arcades are subsidized by some other business. One of them is part of a water park/mini golf/bowling complex, another is part of a deli/art gallery and sells art, accessories, prints, and t-shirts, and the rest are inside casinos. A few of the casino arcades have built in laser tag or mini-golf. I’ve lived in this city my entire life, and I’ve never seen one of our arcades close permanently. This is at least in part because of NV gambling laws, which make it illegal to gamble with your kid; the casinos keep their arcades open to give parents somewhere to leave their children while they go gamble (and to get the kids hooked on gambling themselves before they’re old enough to do it for real money). The games in most of the casino arcades range a gamut of prices, usually a quarter for the oldest games (Pac Man, Galaga, etc.) up to a dollar or a dollar-fifty for the newest/fanciest cabinets. Popular games like DDR (we have a huge DDR scene here) usually go for fifty or seventy five cents.
The nearest thing Reno has to a truly independent arcade is a place called The Artcade, which is the art gallery/deli I mentioned earlier. They’ve managed to stay open in their current form for a few years now (founded apparently in 2006, moved into their current location in 2010) and don’t show any immediate signs of failing. I haven’t been to Super Arcade, so I don’t know exactly what’s going on in there, but I think Artcade’s business model (at least the art gallery and retail elements) could work really well for Super Arcade. If you’re reading this Watson, I’d like to entreat you to get in contact with Artcade; the guys who run it are really cool and I’m sure they’d be happy to talk to you about arcades and the business thereof. I wish you all the best and hope you find more success in the coming years. I’ll be hella sad if Super Arcade closes and I can’t watch Runback or Smash Sunday streams anymore.
Still the mystery of why anybody listens to Triforce lives on
so is there any kickstarter for super arcade?
LOL, are you kidding me?
@Sesshomaru on Watson’s last blog post, he mention that he needs to finish his kickstarter video before he lauches the kickstarter. That was maded in Feb. 22, so he may lauch it maybe this month?
Been going here for almost 14 years and I’ll be damned if this place closes down!!!
Well, I’m out in Ontario Canada, so pretty far from socal, but I’ll be damned if I don’t get one of those shirts.
I bought a shirt
Wish there were more colors than black though! Black is a bad news color for us pasty non-tanned Alaska white guys
Black is slimming, I’m willing to bet fgc is more chub than #FFFFFF
Unfortunately black is also fucking hot, get a room of dudes sweating and that room is going to be stank until the next major.
Watson release a hint of when the kickstarter is going to be live in his latest blog post.
Cool, its almost the 15th
So it went from almost closing to a kickstarter for “renovations” ?
Did I miss something?
Never been to SA (but I plan on getting out there for a WNF one of these days), but I’mma still throw some serious cash at that kickstarter… That place is a historical landmark!
Yeah, Watts had a blog up that basically has the rundown on everything. Hit up google.
Welp…