When I was a kid, I thought that Showbiz Pizza Place was the best restaurant in the world. It had: 1) Video Games. 2) Pizza.
QBert, Sinistar, Spy Hunter… ah, heaven. Of course, this was before Showbiz and Chuck E. Cheese merged and discovered that there was even more money to be made through games that rewarded tickets and tickets being exchanged for knock-off crap from the dollar store. And not just a few tickets. Like, 25 tickets for a spider ring. Dude! Those 25 tickets took about 2 bucks to get! You’ve spent 2 bucks on a six cent ring!!!!
Anyway, where was I? Oh, yeah. Showbiz. Well, when they got rid of the video games there was really no reason to keep going and, quite honestly, I really haven’t thought much about that place much ever since.
Until now. This video game explores the idea that, honestly, these places were really, really creepy.
And that’d never occurred to me before.
So… what are you playing?
I died on the 2nd Night.
It startled the ever living crap out of me. I’m not saying “I leapt out of my skin” or anything dumb like that but I started and turned off the game and said “You know what, I’m not going to play that again.”
It’s a game that manages to be legitimately creepy as hell.
Why in the world would I want to do that to myself?Report
@jaybird
Brooklyn (and now Jersey City) has a place called Barcade. It is exactly what it sounds like: a bar arcade. Craft beers and classic video games. It’s very hipstery (the original is in Williamsburg). Do other cities have such things?
More info here: http://barcadenewyork.com
And it appears this particular joint has outposts in Manhattan and Philly as well.Report
The best combo has got to be the bar/laundromat. If they’d had those near my college I would have ruined a lot of clothes.Report
That was one of JD’s schemes in Hill Street Blues: the Saloondramat.Report
Austin has one called Recess.
The bowling ally bar is the hipster combo here.Report
Stupid hipsters…bowling alleys were ALREADY bars.Report
Now they’re basically nightclubs. Disco bowl.Report
@chris
Hey… they opened up an Alamo Drafthouse in Westchester County!Report
I don’t know how close that is to you, but if they do sing alongs or quote alongs, go!Report
Oh! We’ve got a place called “Supernova” here in town that has mostly late 90’s games.
It’s juuuust outside of walking distance.
So hell with that.Report