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The bar arcade has always
kind of been a thing.
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At the very beginning
when video games began
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to first hit the beaches
they would go into bars.
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And now, 30 to 40 years later,
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these machines are right
back where they started
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in an arcade bar.
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Oh, they got all your
old favorite games.
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Come on in,
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play the games and have a beer, a whiskey,
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my preference whiskey.
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We've grown up with multiple generations
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of console video game players who are used
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to playing either online or
they're playing by themselves,
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but people are sort of
thirsty for this interaction
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in person where you can see the cabinet,
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you can feel it,
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you can hear all these sounds.
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There are a huge number
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of arcade bars popping
up all over the country.
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They're doing gangbuster business.
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We're building memories
and we're building nostalgia.
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But what happens now,
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because of the arcade bar,
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because of the experience
we had back in the '80s,
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it is now revived with this.
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It's brought a resurgence.
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It's the big kids' man cave and you go,
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hey, you wanna play some "NFL Blitz",
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some "NBA Jam"?
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Dude, this place is off the hook.
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Craft beer and games, come on,
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it just goes together.
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"Token
Taverns", boom shakalaka.
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My name's Michael Burke.
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I own Vector Bar & Arcade
in Clearwater, Florida.
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Going into this,
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my wife and I,
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we wanted a nice,
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cool place that people could hang out with
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and feel like you're in my
basement or my garage arcade.
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Making this whole endeavor possible
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was really my wife more
or less forced me into it.
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We just had games on the side.
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I was fixing them and reselling
them and just as a hobby.
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So when we moved to
Clearwater, we thought,
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what an opportunity for
us to do it on our own.
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So the game selection's pretty amazing.
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It's not always the games
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that are sought after
by high-end collectors,
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but games that people that like to play.
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There are some must-have classics
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that everyone says you should have.
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Like, you gotta have the "Pac-Man",
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the "Donkey Kong".
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And I want to represent games
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that you don't see in every place.
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We got games like "Double
Dragon" and "Street Fighter III",
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not "Street Fighter II".
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They want people to see
there was a huge amount
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of other great games.
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This is another one of those like weird,
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obscure Japanese games.
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It's called "Muchi Muchi Pork!".
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It's super weird, man.
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For us, the most popular
games are "Last Action Hero".
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"'Jurassic Park' Pinball",
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people love just based on the theme.
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And then, "Area 51",
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people just love blasting the aliens.
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It's like the favorite around here.
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Just get that power-up.
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So, the vibe here at
Vector is really cool.
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There is definitely like "Pinball" nerds,
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there's also a lot of beer nerds,
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and then you have a lot
of people in between.
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Our core audience,
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we have two.
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We have the younger 20,
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30-year-olds who like the retro games.
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And then we have the people
who grew up like the older guys
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who like coming in here
and playing "Pinball".
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Vector is both very unusual
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and very comfortable at the same time.
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It's unusual 'cause it's dark.
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There's not a whole lot of
decoration or atmosphere.
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You kind of have the machines
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and you have the people that are there.
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If you're the kind of
person that's looking
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for "Pinball" machines or arcade games,
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you're gonna be right at home.
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If you're the kind of person
looking for a football game
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and the regular kind of bar atmosphere,
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you're gonna be way put off.
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We're not a sports bar.
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You don't have TVs on the walls.
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It's lined with games.
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The games lend to their own aesthetic.
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They're the energy of the space.
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And the lights are dim.
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You got the glow of the screens.
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Now you have a beer in your hand
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and just the fact that
you're standing there
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in the glow of the game,
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it really has a nostalgia
factor, for sure.
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It felt, genuinely like an arcade.
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What's really odd that
it's so uncommon now.
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Just every place I go to,
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it's a bar.
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It really just feels like
they threw money at it.
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There's no soul to it
and this place has soul.
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You can't have a business like this
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and not be passionate about it.
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You can have a bar and
expect people to come
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'cause you're slinging beers.
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But there's a difference when you care
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about all the different beers you order
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and you care about the customer experience
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and giving them something new
and something that they enjoy.
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I really like this one though.
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- What?
- It's a really good beer.
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It's a small operation here.
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It's like one person's manning the place.
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They're handling the arcade.
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They're handling the bar.
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You've been.
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- Yeah.
- Good, I'm glad to see you.
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Jesse's our bartender here.
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He's been with us for
over a year and a half.
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He's amazing, he's one of our best hires,
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so wanted to make sure
we hired the right people
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who had our same vision.
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Mike and Lauren,
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they threw like a base or
a birthday party for me.
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They wanna throw a
going-away party for me.
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They're super cool.
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So other than just having the bar
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and the arcade experience,
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we also wanted to bring some
of our personal life into it.
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So we did Monday Night Fight Nights
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that was where me and all
my friends would meet up
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and we'd play fighting games.
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When I play the game with
the owner of this place
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and he fucking destroyed me.
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That's very disrespectful.
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I might leave that in a Yelp review.
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There's always the person who comes in
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and they wanna challenge the owner.
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So it's like they own the place
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if they could beat the owner in a game,
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but I don't get beaten too often.
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I'll take that.
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Finest
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Cheers.
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And then we would do
semi-quarterly wrestling events.
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- It's was called Bar Wars.
- I was like,
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oh my god,
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this guy's got wrestling
too in this place.
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And he had "Bar Wars I",
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"Bar Wars II",
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"Bar Wars III" all right here.
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I've seen 250,
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300 people total.
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All this epicness is just happening right
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on the other side of this building.
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The main event,
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someone jumped off the roof of the back
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of the building into the ring
for their finishing move,
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which was epic.
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We're sitting on the picnic
table and next thing you know,
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the wrestling guys are like,
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"Get off the table,"
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and they're like DDTing and
power bombing each other
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on the picnic table we
were just sitting on.
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And ridiculous, epic each time,
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and it just grew and grew
and got bigger and bigger.
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Put a wrestling ring
out behind your business
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and throwing a huge wrestling event
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with a hundred-plus people
is a pretty big endeavor.
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Luckily for us,
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the back of our building butts
up to government buildings
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that are closed on the weekends.
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We were able to keep
the ring in our space,
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but we could have the spillover
people all in the back
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and be as loud and
obnoxious as we wanna be.
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Fuck off,.
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Thanks everyone for coming out.
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This is excellent.
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I couldn't ask for a better turnout.
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We gotta get a trilogy in
before the landlord shut us down
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from having too many people out back.
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Thank you guys for coming
out to Vector's open mic.
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My name is P Funk.
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We're over here every Wednesday.
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I'm gonna do all these funky jams for you.
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If you'd like to hear
anything in particular,
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let me know.
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I'll try to do my best
to accommodate you guys.
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Just no Jimmy fucking Buffet.
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Wednesday night was open mics,
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so everyone from the local area would come
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and do music and poetry and a spoken word.
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Crack a beer,
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sip that drink,
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pour another glass of wine.
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There is a war going on for your mind.
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The revolution will now be televised.
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The fact that I could
find like-minded people
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and be at like a Cheers-like environment
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where everybody knows your name,
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everybody is easy to talk to.
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They're weird sometimes, right.
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I'm weird sometimes.
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We're all a little bit crazy,
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but it's like we're all the right kind
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of weird for each other.
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I never had to work to get
along with people here.
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I come here and I'm not judged
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and I could just walk
around and play the games,
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and I've met just some
of the coolest people.
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It's just really welcoming.
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There's not a lot of places
where you feel welcome
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as soon as you walk in the door.
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Really, they offered me something
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that I could not find anywhere else.
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It's like everyone that I've met here
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has been an amazing person.
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They've helped me learn games,
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things I didn't know about,
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which is mainly "Pinball".
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Every person that came
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in just was immediately
almost like a new friend,
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but then it became something
more like family almost.
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We all have these very
different backgrounds,
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but we all connect on
this one, singular thing.
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You know, we're all
into some kind of game,
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whether it be "Pinball",
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whether it be arcade,
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whether it be console,
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there's a connection that
goes beyond the physical game.
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I personally like to
think that it has to be
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with the culture that Mike and Lauren
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have actually developed.
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Here we are experiencing this
environment they have created,
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you know, craftily created.
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Is this whiskey?
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- Cheers 2020, fuck you.
- 2020.
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Yeah, happy 2020.
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There you go.
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- Fuck yeah, Mike.
- Mike.
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Fuck yeah, Mike.
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So before you can really understand
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what is arcades and arcade bars,
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you really have to start at the beginning.
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♪ What we gonna do right here is go back ♪
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Video games are the latest
craze to sweep the country.
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They seem to
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have captured America's imagination
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and its pocket change as well.
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You put a quarter in,
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you play the game that was designed
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to take your money within
a minute and you're done.
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They're taking their lunch money
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and some of them are skipping
school because of arcades.
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When I was 12 years old,
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I used to walk two and a half miles to go
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to my closest arcade.
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And I used to walk in
there and it was like,
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wow, look at this.
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I would still walk around
and just admire the machines
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and just walk through
these gleaming towers
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of light and sound.
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I remember going into
classic '80s arcades
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and they were all carpeted
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and it was very kind of dark and dingy
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and the carpet always smelled
kind of wet and musty.
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Always some classic Journey,
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some '80s playing.
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What makes
video games so popular?
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Well, they come as if from outer space
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in a variety of weird geysers,
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"Defender", "Pac-Man", Asteroids".
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Some of these games
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were just revolutionary at the time.
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There was nothing like them
and everybody was playing them.
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Suddenly, arcades began
to grow all over the place
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and they were making a
huge amount of money.
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When I was a kid,
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we'd go, your parents would drop you off,
289
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they'd give you a couple dollars
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and that would last you for a few hours.
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I think it was literally a place
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where parents felt like they
could drop their kids off
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and it was really a way for parents
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to kind of get away from their kids.
295
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You know, it also gave
kids a place to meet
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and interact and hang out over the games.
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It was a place to go.
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It was a destination.
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So it wasn't just like,
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oh, we're gonna walk
by an arcade and go in.
301
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No, you plan to go to the arcade.
302
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It was like a nightclub
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for geeks or younger people.
304
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Growing up in the
golden age of video games,
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it was awesome.
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Video games really began to explode.
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Everybody loved video games.
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Some of us might've loved
it too much, that's true.
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I played 47 hours
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and I guess that's why
you picked me to be here.
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It did introduce a lot
of people into a new world.
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As the popularity of
arcade and video games grew,
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it was hard for it not to
hit pop culture in general.
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"Pac-Man" is all over
and it's on the lips
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of kids and arcade players.
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"Pac-Man" is without a
doubt the most recognized icon
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in the world,
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more than the ears of Mickey Mouse,
319
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more than a bottle of
Coca-Cola, "Pac-Man".
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When I got involved with
"NBA Jam" and "NFL Blitz",
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that was the huge moment
because those games,
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they took over.
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So things were really
heating up in the early '90s.
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During that time of that resurgence,
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when "Mortal Kombat" came out,
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it seemed like the arcade game
were fighting the home game,
327
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but in reality it was transforming.
328
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The arcades began to collapse.
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The home market was eroding on them.
330
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And unfortunately, you
could experience them at home
331
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and people drove in that direction,
332
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and that's when you saw arcades
just sort of fizzle out.
333
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The industry really went
towards ticket redemption games,
334
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and that was really the be-all,
335
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end-all of arcades.
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Here we are creating these games
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that were so super popular,
338
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and then overnight we went
from being heroes to zeros.
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The games you see behind us here,
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like a car, now they were 20 years old,
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now they were nostalgic,
342
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now they were collectibles.
343
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Suddenly there was a new interest.
344
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So what a perfect time
to capture the nostalgia
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that everybody was
feeling for these things,
346
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and then add an adult
element to it with beer.
347
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So as these arcade
bars started popping up,
348
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it was a great way to
get those people back
349
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in front of arcade machines.
350
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That community-based
experience of the arcade
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of the early '80s is now
reborn in the arcade bar.
352
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My name is Dwight Slamp.
353
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This is Glitch Bar in
Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
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We're a very much a nightlife spot.
355
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We're strictly 21 and up.
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Fridays and Saturdays,
357
00:14:09,865 --> 00:14:11,245
it's like a club in here.
358
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It gets crazy.
359
00:14:13,819 --> 00:14:16,532
Our concept here is our games are free.
360
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All our games are on free
play except for our "Pinballs"
361
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and we make our money on alcohol.
362
00:14:21,346 --> 00:14:22,665
What they have set up here,
363
00:14:22,665 --> 00:14:24,421
it's such a good environment,
364
00:14:24,421 --> 00:14:26,301
such a dope place inside.
365
00:14:26,301 --> 00:14:27,134
I love it.
366
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So one of the cool things
we do here that you don't see
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in a lot of the other arcade
bars is the Indie Arcade Games.
368
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What a block.
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Indie arcade games are
games that are developed
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by individuals or small companies,
371
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but they're writing software
and coming up with these games
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and that's where the
Indie stuff comes out of.
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So the number one Indie
Arcade Game is "Killer Queen".
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"killer Queen's" a 10-player game.
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It's five versus five.
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It's a real-time strategy-style
game and it's really,
377
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really, really addictive and
it's created a subculture.
378
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This is really like grassroots,
379
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almost like social phenomenon.
380
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Like, every major city
has a "Killer Queen".
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00:15:09,120 --> 00:15:11,092
"Killer Queen" people are so passionate
382
00:15:11,092 --> 00:15:12,365
in playing that game
383
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but the game has brought
so many people together.
384
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You can talk shit online
all you want to someone,
385
00:15:16,175 --> 00:15:17,936
but when you talk shit
in person to someone,
386
00:15:17,936 --> 00:15:20,045
it's a completely different experience.
387
00:15:20,045 --> 00:15:21,760
Yeah.
388
00:15:21,760 --> 00:15:22,656
Sweet.
389
00:15:26,277 --> 00:15:28,685
Billy Mitchell's a very
well-known video game player.
390
00:15:28,685 --> 00:15:30,234
He locally plays here.
391
00:15:30,234 --> 00:15:31,430
Yeah, but the first thing is,
392
00:15:31,430 --> 00:15:33,265
I gotta do a perfect score here.
393
00:15:33,265 --> 00:15:34,487
- Again?
- Look at this.
394
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What are you doing?
395
00:15:36,941 --> 00:15:38,130
What kind of place are you running here?
396
00:15:38,130 --> 00:15:40,018
He just did a perfect "Pac-Man"
397
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to celebrate the 40th
anniversary of "Pac-Man".
398
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We're having some fun
this year with "Pac-Man"
399
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because it's the 40th anniversary.
400
00:15:48,256 --> 00:15:49,893
The other times that I
did a perfect "Pac-Man",
401
00:15:49,893 --> 00:15:51,234
they put a new joystick on,
402
00:15:51,234 --> 00:15:54,096
and both times I hit it on the first shot.
403
00:15:54,096 --> 00:15:57,197
To be playing the "Pac-Man"
and to play a perfect score
404
00:15:57,197 --> 00:15:59,794
and to have that energy
and those people around you
405
00:15:59,794 --> 00:16:01,114
and that excitement,
406
00:16:01,114 --> 00:16:04,188
it was absolutely like
being at a sporting event.
407
00:16:04,188 --> 00:16:05,646
- You just did it.
- Yeah.
408
00:16:05,646 --> 00:16:06,878
- You just did it.
- Congratulations.
409
00:16:06,878 --> 00:16:07,995
You just beat the last one.
410
00:16:07,995 --> 00:16:09,328
- That's awesome.
- I've seen kill screen
411
00:16:09,328 --> 00:16:11,721
a million times and not
a perfect score, awesome.
412
00:16:13,372 --> 00:16:14,466
The arcade bars,
413
00:16:14,466 --> 00:16:17,508
you're here and it's just
like the old arcades.
414
00:16:17,508 --> 00:16:21,493
It brings back the fever
and passion from the 1980s.
415
00:16:21,493 --> 00:16:22,663
It's a great place.
416
00:16:22,663 --> 00:16:25,171
It really brings back history
417
00:16:25,171 --> 00:16:27,746
and it introduces that golden age
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00:16:27,746 --> 00:16:29,577
to a whole nother generation of people.
419
00:16:29,577 --> 00:16:31,800
And
going, going. There you go.
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Hi, my name is George Courtney.
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My wife and I are the owners
of Reboot Arcade & Bar.
422
00:16:52,245 --> 00:16:53,910
I always wanted to own a bar,
423
00:16:53,910 --> 00:16:55,414
but I knew if we were gonna open a bar,
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00:16:55,414 --> 00:16:56,387
we wanted to incorporate something
425
00:16:56,387 --> 00:16:58,002
that I was really passionate about.
426
00:16:59,255 --> 00:17:01,501
Because I know when I've walked
into my first arcade bar,
427
00:17:01,501 --> 00:17:02,994
I was just like almost in tears.
428
00:17:02,994 --> 00:17:03,827
I'm like, oh my God,
429
00:17:03,827 --> 00:17:04,660
someone gets me.
430
00:17:04,660 --> 00:17:06,377
I could drink a beer
and play arcade games.
431
00:17:06,377 --> 00:17:07,398
He's just like,
432
00:17:07,398 --> 00:17:09,880
"We need something and
like this in Dunedin,"
433
00:17:09,880 --> 00:17:11,634
so he just kind of ran with it.
434
00:17:11,634 --> 00:17:12,895
If we were to do something,
435
00:17:12,895 --> 00:17:15,722
I gotta do this and share
with people where I'm from too
436
00:17:15,722 --> 00:17:18,515
and Reboot was kind of created with that.
437
00:17:18,515 --> 00:17:20,102
For the first time in my life,
438
00:17:20,102 --> 00:17:21,840
I actually found something that I really,
439
00:17:21,840 --> 00:17:23,828
really enjoy as a business.
440
00:17:25,822 --> 00:17:27,900
For us, we would deem ourselves more
441
00:17:27,900 --> 00:17:31,543
of a nostalgic old school
meets news school arcade
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00:17:31,543 --> 00:17:33,785
with console games that
typically you wouldn't see
443
00:17:33,785 --> 00:17:35,533
in like a Dave & Buster's
or Chuck E. Cheese.
444
00:17:35,533 --> 00:17:36,616
"GoldenEye" is always
445
00:17:36,616 --> 00:17:37,499
- a good go-to.
- Yeah, I remember
446
00:17:37,499 --> 00:17:40,939
- playing that.
- "Super Smash", pretty fun.
447
00:17:40,939 --> 00:17:42,619
Reboot was sort
of created as like a place
448
00:17:42,619 --> 00:17:44,624
for people to just kind of
get away from everything,
449
00:17:44,624 --> 00:17:47,718
sort of like a museum with
a bunch of nerdom in it.
450
00:17:48,953 --> 00:17:52,318
George and his amazing
video game knowledge
451
00:17:52,318 --> 00:17:54,878
helped create this dream.
452
00:17:54,878 --> 00:17:57,246
We've talked about the "Donkey
Kong" tree house theme.
453
00:17:57,246 --> 00:17:58,273
We're thinking like what,
454
00:17:58,273 --> 00:17:59,337
just like a bunch of barrels kind
455
00:17:59,337 --> 00:18:01,314
of set up around the building?
456
00:18:01,314 --> 00:18:03,355
Well, I think
barrels would be good.
457
00:18:03,355 --> 00:18:04,849
Would they have to
be filled with monkeys,
458
00:18:04,849 --> 00:18:06,517
like barrels and monkeys?
459
00:18:06,517 --> 00:18:10,457
So Helen, she has an
incredible eye for design.
460
00:18:10,457 --> 00:18:13,758
She's like a big part of
the brains of this place.
461
00:18:13,758 --> 00:18:16,114
Part of that is artwork, lighting,
462
00:18:16,114 --> 00:18:18,463
the ability to have scene changes.
463
00:18:18,463 --> 00:18:20,072
So at seven o'clock or sunset,
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00:18:20,072 --> 00:18:21,704
all of our lights turn blue.
465
00:18:21,704 --> 00:18:23,337
One of my favorite
movies is "Blade Runner"
466
00:18:23,337 --> 00:18:25,702
and everything in that
was retro futuristic.
467
00:18:25,702 --> 00:18:28,316
So it was sort of like old
school with new school,
468
00:18:28,316 --> 00:18:30,979
almost like if you were in the 1980s
469
00:18:30,979 --> 00:18:33,121
and you imagine what the
future would look like.
470
00:18:33,121 --> 00:18:36,084
And I think this place is
sort of an over exaggeration
471
00:18:36,084 --> 00:18:39,560
if someone had the time in
the '80s to create something
472
00:18:39,560 --> 00:18:41,316
with the stuff from today.
473
00:18:41,316 --> 00:18:43,011
I love this place.
474
00:18:43,011 --> 00:18:43,996
It's very retro.
475
00:18:43,996 --> 00:18:46,261
It's kind of nostalgic
and will bring you back
476
00:18:46,261 --> 00:18:48,278
in time to like the '80s.
477
00:18:49,511 --> 00:18:51,228
I wanted people to feel transported
478
00:18:51,228 --> 00:18:52,497
in this different place, you know,
479
00:18:52,497 --> 00:18:53,801
make them feel like
they're in a different spot
480
00:18:53,801 --> 00:18:58,435
and feel like we did our best
to make sure that happened.
481
00:18:58,435 --> 00:18:59,524
Hey, what's up man?
482
00:18:59,524 --> 00:19:01,687
- George, what's brother?
- How you been?
483
00:19:01,687 --> 00:19:03,027
- Good to see, Buddy.
- Nice to see you.
484
00:19:03,027 --> 00:19:04,235
- How you doing?
- How's been?
485
00:19:04,235 --> 00:19:06,213
- Things are good.
- Yeah, you guys busy?
486
00:19:06,213 --> 00:19:07,895
- Getting back into it, man.
- Nice, man.
487
00:19:07,895 --> 00:19:09,780
Have you seen all the
additions and stuff we made?
488
00:19:09,780 --> 00:19:11,777
Honestly, I haven't
been able to get back in.
489
00:19:11,777 --> 00:19:12,610
But yeah, dude,
490
00:19:12,610 --> 00:19:13,443
look at all the
491
00:19:13,443 --> 00:19:14,276
- "Pinball" machines, man.
- Yeah, I love it.
492
00:19:14,276 --> 00:19:15,359
- I love it.
- Put them all in a row.
493
00:19:15,359 --> 00:19:17,261
- Have you seen in there?
- No, not yet.
494
00:19:17,261 --> 00:19:18,951
- Oh, man.
- Let's check it.
495
00:19:18,951 --> 00:19:21,564
So, Bill did like this honeycomb thing.
496
00:19:21,564 --> 00:19:23,665
So, he had an idea like you
would just put all this stuff
497
00:19:23,665 --> 00:19:25,879
up here and I was helping
him paint and stuff,
498
00:19:25,879 --> 00:19:28,050
- and we used this UV paint.
- Neat, I like it.
499
00:19:28,050 --> 00:19:30,068
So we used this paint
that literally, like,
500
00:19:30,068 --> 00:19:32,295
look at all the UV lights and everything.
501
00:19:32,295 --> 00:19:35,818
Yeah, I love it.
502
00:19:35,818 --> 00:19:37,853
So we have Xbox's, PlayStations,
503
00:19:37,853 --> 00:19:39,937
Nintendo Switches, and they're all up here
504
00:19:39,937 --> 00:19:41,768
on these screens around the bar.
505
00:19:41,768 --> 00:19:44,726
So we kind of designed
Reboot to almost be sort
506
00:19:44,726 --> 00:19:47,253
of like a sports bar feel
when you're at the bar itself.
507
00:19:47,253 --> 00:19:48,175
We have nine TVs.
508
00:19:48,175 --> 00:19:50,094
We have the ability for
people to watch games,
509
00:19:50,094 --> 00:19:51,355
watch other people compete,
510
00:19:51,355 --> 00:19:54,481
sort of almost get like that
sports bar-type mentality.
511
00:19:54,481 --> 00:19:56,164
Instead of, you know,
512
00:19:56,164 --> 00:19:59,499
Sports Center or Fox Sports
or something like that,
513
00:19:59,499 --> 00:20:01,438
it's people playing games.
514
00:20:02,536 --> 00:20:04,766
On the weekends this
place gets pretty packed.
515
00:20:04,766 --> 00:20:05,808
A big party.
516
00:20:05,808 --> 00:20:07,570
Everyone loves to come here.
517
00:20:07,570 --> 00:20:10,180
It's definitely more adult-oriented.
518
00:20:10,180 --> 00:20:13,341
It's just more of a big kid atmosphere.
519
00:20:13,341 --> 00:20:15,479
Definitely, that's what it's about.
520
00:20:15,479 --> 00:20:17,350
And there you are.
521
00:20:17,350 --> 00:20:19,188
It's gotten really busy.
522
00:20:19,188 --> 00:20:21,773
Sometimes it's hard to say that out loud,
523
00:20:21,773 --> 00:20:25,111
but when we see it really
crazy and busy on the weekends,
524
00:20:25,111 --> 00:20:26,455
we just kinda laugh.
525
00:20:26,455 --> 00:20:29,430
I mean, it's surprising
but it's awesome too.
526
00:20:29,430 --> 00:20:31,745
The quarter machine holds like $750.
527
00:20:31,745 --> 00:20:34,728
What ends up happening is
if we have a busy weekend,
528
00:20:34,728 --> 00:20:38,044
it drains all of the quarters
from our change machine.
529
00:20:38,044 --> 00:20:41,227
So Bill has to go in and literally
take all the quarters out
530
00:20:41,227 --> 00:20:43,493
and then count them to make
sure all the counts are right
531
00:20:43,493 --> 00:20:45,951
and then dump them back
into the quarter machine.
532
00:20:46,928 --> 00:20:51,297
It turned down a little
bit this past week but,
533
00:20:51,297 --> 00:20:53,172
I mean, still doing really good.
534
00:20:53,172 --> 00:20:55,415
I've noticed that the
better our drinking sales are,
535
00:20:55,415 --> 00:20:56,731
the less we make in games.
536
00:20:56,731 --> 00:20:58,969
I think it has to do with just, room.
537
00:20:58,969 --> 00:21:00,367
When we opened up space,
538
00:21:00,367 --> 00:21:02,057
arcade sales jumped pretty high.
539
00:21:02,057 --> 00:21:04,256
Yeah.
So as far as arcade,
540
00:21:04,256 --> 00:21:06,728
two player always trumps one player.
541
00:21:06,728 --> 00:21:09,827
Gun games, so far the
better two-player game.
542
00:21:09,827 --> 00:21:13,107
The gun games keep up with the "Pinballs".
543
00:21:13,107 --> 00:21:15,182
"Pinball" is probably
the most played genre
544
00:21:15,182 --> 00:21:17,960
of games here because "Pinball" is huge.
545
00:21:24,937 --> 00:21:26,972
"Pinball" never really died.
546
00:21:26,972 --> 00:21:29,502
They kept making "Pinball" machines.
547
00:21:29,502 --> 00:21:30,789
Oh my God.
548
00:21:30,789 --> 00:21:32,504
You look fabulous.
549
00:21:32,504 --> 00:21:33,796
- Thank you.
- You look great too.
550
00:21:33,796 --> 00:21:35,789
"Pinball" sort of carried the torch
551
00:21:35,789 --> 00:21:38,025
for this whole hobby for quite some time.
552
00:21:38,025 --> 00:21:39,554
Stern "Pinball", for instance,
553
00:21:39,554 --> 00:21:41,064
was almost out of business.
554
00:21:41,064 --> 00:21:43,940
They were at this old kind
of junky warehouse out
555
00:21:43,940 --> 00:21:44,917
in the west side.
556
00:21:44,917 --> 00:21:45,771
They have a big,
557
00:21:45,771 --> 00:21:47,200
beautiful new complex out here
558
00:21:47,200 --> 00:21:49,702
and they said they are
selling like never before.
559
00:21:49,702 --> 00:21:51,376
We're growing about 25,
560
00:21:51,376 --> 00:21:54,633
30% a year for the last
half dozen, dozen years.
561
00:21:54,633 --> 00:21:56,658
"Pinball's" on steroids right now.
562
00:21:56,658 --> 00:21:59,408
It seems like there's a new
machine coming out all the time
563
00:21:59,408 --> 00:22:01,118
and everybody wants one.
564
00:22:01,118 --> 00:22:03,597
"Pinball" machines are
definitely part of culture.
565
00:22:03,597 --> 00:22:06,336
They span from bands, to movies.
566
00:22:06,336 --> 00:22:07,631
You just couldn't see some
567
00:22:07,631 --> 00:22:09,320
of this amazing art anywhere else.
568
00:22:09,320 --> 00:22:11,713
And you can actually stand
there and interact with it.
569
00:22:11,713 --> 00:22:12,546
You can hear the music.
570
00:22:12,546 --> 00:22:13,985
You can see the lights flashing.
571
00:22:13,985 --> 00:22:15,870
It's a whole different experience
572
00:22:15,870 --> 00:22:18,384
where you're actually a part of it instead
573
00:22:18,384 --> 00:22:19,803
of just looking at it.
574
00:22:19,803 --> 00:22:20,698
Currently at Vector,
575
00:22:20,698 --> 00:22:23,196
we have 10 "Pinball" machines.
576
00:22:23,196 --> 00:22:24,783
I think I can't fit anymore in here.
577
00:22:24,783 --> 00:22:27,469
I was trying to find
room and I just, I can't.
578
00:22:27,469 --> 00:22:29,696
I can't get another one in here.
579
00:22:29,696 --> 00:22:31,091
Well, we've got a lot of people
580
00:22:31,091 --> 00:22:32,772
that had never played a
"Pinball" machine before.
581
00:22:32,772 --> 00:22:35,217
I've turned so many people
into "Pinball" people now.
582
00:22:35,217 --> 00:22:37,059
They ask them where they can buy a game,
583
00:22:37,059 --> 00:22:38,280
how they can get one in their house?
584
00:22:38,280 --> 00:22:41,339
That never had seen it and
now just from drinking beer,
585
00:22:41,339 --> 00:22:45,333
they got introduced
into a whole new hobby.
586
00:22:45,333 --> 00:22:46,906
It is an expensive business.
587
00:22:46,906 --> 00:22:51,400
These are physical old objects
and they break continuously.
588
00:22:51,400 --> 00:22:54,357
So the "Pinball" machine
is daily maintenance.
589
00:22:54,357 --> 00:22:57,242
Yeah, so you can see the
drop target snapped off.
590
00:22:57,242 --> 00:22:59,076
And that's one thing that we really take
591
00:22:59,076 --> 00:23:00,540
to heart here is we don't want to have
592
00:23:00,540 --> 00:23:02,643
that poor experience when you come in
593
00:23:02,643 --> 00:23:04,039
and something's not working right.
594
00:23:04,039 --> 00:23:05,520
So we are very vigilant
595
00:23:05,520 --> 00:23:08,413
in making sure that
everything is working 100%
596
00:23:08,413 --> 00:23:10,080
as much as possible.
597
00:23:11,593 --> 00:23:13,634
Mike was the first
person I went to with one
598
00:23:13,634 --> 00:23:15,193
of my machines to work on it,
599
00:23:15,193 --> 00:23:16,514
to get it up and running.
600
00:23:16,514 --> 00:23:19,493
Mechanically inclined, he
knows a lot when it comes
601
00:23:19,493 --> 00:23:21,269
to "Pinball" machines and fixing them up.
602
00:23:21,269 --> 00:23:23,232
I have a long history
of fixing these games
603
00:23:23,232 --> 00:23:24,190
when they're broken.
604
00:23:24,190 --> 00:23:25,605
So here, anything that breaks,
605
00:23:25,605 --> 00:23:28,679
I'm the repair guy and
it gets done that day
606
00:23:28,679 --> 00:23:30,555
or as soon as the park gets in.
607
00:23:30,555 --> 00:23:32,304
The competitive nature of it really leads
608
00:23:32,304 --> 00:23:33,792
to the bar environment.
609
00:23:33,792 --> 00:23:35,871
So, everyone's always
trying to beat your score
610
00:23:35,871 --> 00:23:38,062
or play against you.
611
00:23:38,062 --> 00:23:40,752
Mike is extremely good at "Pinball".
612
00:23:40,752 --> 00:23:42,980
He's tall, he's handsome,
613
00:23:42,980 --> 00:23:45,871
and he has enough weight
to move the machine around.
614
00:23:45,871 --> 00:23:49,734
So Mike can make the ball
do what he wants it to do,
615
00:23:49,734 --> 00:23:51,637
and that's not something everyone can do.
616
00:23:51,637 --> 00:23:54,175
He plays way more than he lets on.
617
00:23:54,175 --> 00:23:55,788
When it's a serious game,
618
00:23:55,788 --> 00:23:58,589
he's one of the best
players I've played against.
619
00:23:58,589 --> 00:24:01,057
He's gonna play the game to the fullest.
620
00:24:01,057 --> 00:24:03,642
I've seen him in
competition after competition
621
00:24:03,642 --> 00:24:06,373
and every time he's like, top,
622
00:24:06,373 --> 00:24:08,117
every single time.
623
00:24:09,185 --> 00:24:10,599
Usually what ends up happening is,
624
00:24:10,599 --> 00:24:11,432
I will lose to him,
625
00:24:11,432 --> 00:24:13,529
but the really cool thing about him
626
00:24:13,529 --> 00:24:18,238
and the community in general
is that they teach me.
627
00:24:18,238 --> 00:24:19,639
Even during the game,
628
00:24:19,639 --> 00:24:21,129
they want me to beat them.
629
00:24:21,129 --> 00:24:23,760
They always are teaching and instructing,
630
00:24:23,760 --> 00:24:26,025
helping in any way they can.
631
00:24:26,025 --> 00:24:27,825
It's easier to get it
from the right flipper,
632
00:24:27,825 --> 00:24:29,441
- like back into it.
- Okay.
633
00:24:29,441 --> 00:24:32,884
He gives a great
expertise from all fronts.
634
00:24:32,884 --> 00:24:35,304
Like, "This machine is
not hitting quite as hard,
635
00:24:35,304 --> 00:24:37,186
so compensate this way.
636
00:24:37,186 --> 00:24:39,117
Or hey, this is where the big points are,
637
00:24:39,117 --> 00:24:40,146
try and hit up there."
638
00:24:40,146 --> 00:24:43,127
He wants the best for
everyone else around him.
639
00:24:43,127 --> 00:24:44,191
It's not about Mike.
640
00:24:44,191 --> 00:24:46,909
It's not about his bar or his image,
641
00:24:46,909 --> 00:24:48,983
it's always about you having the best time
642
00:24:48,983 --> 00:24:51,535
that you could have.
643
00:25:07,269 --> 00:25:10,859
My name is Robert Leonard
and this is Lowry Parcade.
644
00:25:10,859 --> 00:25:14,087
It's a craft beer and arcade
bar in Tampa, Florida.
645
00:25:14,087 --> 00:25:17,587
We specialize in both our
incredible beer selection,
646
00:25:17,587 --> 00:25:21,152
as well as a variety of classic '80s,
647
00:25:21,152 --> 00:25:23,429
'90s arcade machines,
and "Pinball" machines.
648
00:25:23,429 --> 00:25:26,376
Wanting to do some kind
of business on my own
649
00:25:26,376 --> 00:25:30,701
and I had both fallen
into craft beer as part
650
00:25:30,701 --> 00:25:32,149
of a love and passion.
651
00:25:32,149 --> 00:25:34,708
Really enjoyed it and
then with game collecting,
652
00:25:34,708 --> 00:25:37,022
that started way early on,
653
00:25:37,022 --> 00:25:41,485
and realized that there's
this concept of an arcade bar.
654
00:25:41,485 --> 00:25:44,587
I started spending most of my time trying
655
00:25:44,587 --> 00:25:46,663
to make that concept work.
656
00:25:46,663 --> 00:25:49,259
He said, "I need to
learn more about beer.
657
00:25:49,259 --> 00:25:51,297
I need to learn more
about the arcade scene."
658
00:25:51,297 --> 00:25:53,769
So he did the time while
still working his normal job,
659
00:25:53,769 --> 00:25:55,423
started filling up his house,
660
00:25:55,423 --> 00:25:56,984
had people come over to his house,
661
00:25:56,984 --> 00:25:58,239
test the games,
662
00:25:58,239 --> 00:25:59,465
test the beer.
663
00:25:59,465 --> 00:26:01,738
So he had a vision.
664
00:26:01,738 --> 00:26:04,839
So I own about 60 to 70 machines.
665
00:26:04,839 --> 00:26:06,423
It's a very slippery slope
666
00:26:06,423 --> 00:26:08,957
once you start getting the machines.
667
00:26:08,957 --> 00:26:11,507
It develops into a passion.
668
00:26:11,507 --> 00:26:13,366
It can be a little bit of an obsession.
669
00:26:13,366 --> 00:26:16,862
I've spent countless hours
trying to evolve this into
670
00:26:16,862 --> 00:26:18,255
what it became today.
671
00:26:23,175 --> 00:26:25,991
The vibe at Parcade's
really cool, super chill,
672
00:26:25,991 --> 00:26:28,410
very reminiscent of like the '80s and '90s
673
00:26:28,410 --> 00:26:29,941
and you are reminded of
all the games you used
674
00:26:29,941 --> 00:26:32,407
to play back when you were a kid.
675
00:26:32,407 --> 00:26:33,303
During the day,
676
00:26:33,303 --> 00:26:34,144
just like the weekends,
677
00:26:34,144 --> 00:26:37,435
we have families and the
kids and it's really cool.
678
00:26:37,435 --> 00:26:38,449
Like when I was growing up,
679
00:26:38,449 --> 00:26:41,599
my dad on Saturdays would
take me to the arcade
680
00:26:41,599 --> 00:26:43,870
and that's where my
nostalgia was born for it.
681
00:26:43,870 --> 00:26:47,849
And we see the same experience
here with kids coming in,
682
00:26:47,849 --> 00:26:51,481
sons, daughters with their mom and dads.
683
00:26:51,481 --> 00:26:53,744
So they get that same experience
which is awesome to see,
684
00:26:53,744 --> 00:26:56,269
but at nine o'clock we're adults only
685
00:26:56,269 --> 00:26:59,686
and we have more of the adult atmosphere.
686
00:27:00,716 --> 00:27:03,395
♪ I wake up in the
morning and I ask myself ♪
687
00:27:03,395 --> 00:27:06,189
♪ Is life worth living,
should I blast myself ♪
688
00:27:06,189 --> 00:27:08,478
So one of the things
that he's done is made sure
689
00:27:08,478 --> 00:27:09,635
that music was part of it,
690
00:27:09,635 --> 00:27:10,635
from the beginning.
691
00:27:10,635 --> 00:27:12,552
So I DJ here regularly.
692
00:27:17,904 --> 00:27:18,825
I probably have more
693
00:27:18,825 --> 00:27:21,385
of a passion for beer
than I do for the games.
694
00:27:21,385 --> 00:27:23,559
It's as integral as the arcade machines.
695
00:27:23,559 --> 00:27:26,300
It's as important as the games themselves,
696
00:27:26,300 --> 00:27:27,365
if not more important.
697
00:27:27,365 --> 00:27:29,108
I'd say more important.
698
00:27:29,108 --> 00:27:31,236
My first craft beers
were back in the '90s.
699
00:27:31,236 --> 00:27:33,744
I'll quit a job to bartend full-time
700
00:27:33,744 --> 00:27:36,409
and start product managing
so I could then learn
701
00:27:36,409 --> 00:27:38,075
how to do this business.
702
00:27:38,075 --> 00:27:39,972
In Tampa, we're very fortunate
703
00:27:39,972 --> 00:27:44,266
to have the beer scene we
have because we are spoiled.
704
00:27:44,266 --> 00:27:46,866
There's so many good local breweries.
705
00:27:46,866 --> 00:27:48,664
We have so much good beer here
706
00:27:48,664 --> 00:27:51,588
that we can get almost any style
707
00:27:51,588 --> 00:27:54,373
and have an excellent example of it here.
708
00:27:55,985 --> 00:27:58,821
All my staff are really
good at knowing beer.
709
00:27:58,821 --> 00:28:01,021
That's something that we
really pride ourselves on
710
00:28:01,021 --> 00:28:02,940
and they all know how to recommend
711
00:28:02,940 --> 00:28:05,691
and they have all developed
pallets to be able
712
00:28:05,691 --> 00:28:07,291
to know what a customer would like.
713
00:28:07,291 --> 00:28:09,161
They want to be able
to get you a good beer.
714
00:28:09,161 --> 00:28:10,339
They take pride in that.
715
00:28:10,339 --> 00:28:12,451
They want to get you what you wanna drink
716
00:28:12,451 --> 00:28:15,225
and it takes a lot of skill
to develop your palate
717
00:28:15,225 --> 00:28:17,626
and develop what your experience is
718
00:28:17,626 --> 00:28:19,566
to recommend to other people.
719
00:28:19,566 --> 00:28:23,655
It has been a dream come
true to see craft beer
720
00:28:23,655 --> 00:28:25,357
and classic arcades,
721
00:28:25,357 --> 00:28:27,491
"Pinball" come under one roof,
722
00:28:27,491 --> 00:28:31,971
and I'm very fortunate
to have seen that happen.
723
00:28:35,858 --> 00:28:37,838
The craft beer industry started booming
724
00:28:37,838 --> 00:28:40,498
probably 10 years ago and
it's just been on a roll.
725
00:28:40,498 --> 00:28:43,091
It seems like every day there's
a new local craft brewery.
726
00:28:43,091 --> 00:28:46,447
There's a beerfest you can go
to and taste all these beers
727
00:28:46,447 --> 00:28:48,002
from places you never knew existed.
728
00:28:50,309 --> 00:28:53,189
Oh, it is a
celebration of beer and breweries.
729
00:28:53,189 --> 00:28:55,423
That's right, Tampa Bay Beer Week is back.
730
00:28:55,423 --> 00:28:57,174
This is a big, popular week.
731
00:28:57,174 --> 00:28:58,878
All kinds
of stuff all week long.
732
00:28:58,878 --> 00:29:01,537
Tampa Bay Beer Week is
a big deal at Parcade.
733
00:29:01,537 --> 00:29:03,630
It's something that we'd
plan months in advance
734
00:29:03,630 --> 00:29:05,860
to bring in some of the best beer locally
735
00:29:05,860 --> 00:29:10,357
and put that out for people
for Tampa Bay Beer Week.
736
00:29:10,357 --> 00:29:11,599
Our biggest event,
737
00:29:11,599 --> 00:29:14,878
our main event was the
third annual Battle Royale.
738
00:29:14,878 --> 00:29:18,370
Thanks for coming out for
an incredible Battle Royale
739
00:29:18,370 --> 00:29:19,807
for its third year.
740
00:29:19,807 --> 00:29:22,602
The Breweries themselves are
gonna fight the Battle Royale
741
00:29:22,602 --> 00:29:24,657
to decide at the very end of it,
742
00:29:24,657 --> 00:29:28,125
who will go home with the
Lowry Parcade champion belt.
743
00:29:28,125 --> 00:29:31,833
We have a champion belt
that the brewery takes back
744
00:29:31,833 --> 00:29:34,083
and displays it for a year.
745
00:29:35,134 --> 00:29:37,830
It's heads.
746
00:29:41,310 --> 00:29:42,864
You're going down.
747
00:29:42,864 --> 00:29:46,162
The Battle Royale was a really fun,
748
00:29:46,162 --> 00:29:47,795
quirky, weird event.
749
00:29:47,795 --> 00:29:49,303
We'd get five local breweries
750
00:29:49,303 --> 00:29:52,612
and they competed against each
other in a round-robin series
751
00:29:52,612 --> 00:29:55,591
of arcade and "Pinball"
play to try and win.
752
00:29:55,591 --> 00:29:56,730
I lost.
753
00:29:56,730 --> 00:29:58,730
"Ice Cold Beer".
754
00:30:00,267 --> 00:30:02,800
Bam.
755
00:30:02,800 --> 00:30:03,857
So close.
756
00:30:03,857 --> 00:30:05,395
Good game. Good game.
757
00:30:05,395 --> 00:30:06,837
Holy.
758
00:30:06,837 --> 00:30:09,849
I can't say enough
about all of the happiness
759
00:30:09,849 --> 00:30:11,833
that comes from air hockey
760
00:30:11,833 --> 00:30:14,744
because I can't play another
fucking game in this place.
761
00:30:14,744 --> 00:30:15,645
There you have it,
762
00:30:15,645 --> 00:30:17,607
air hockey bringing him happiness and joy,
763
00:30:17,607 --> 00:30:19,858
as it does for all of us here at Parcade.
764
00:30:21,257 --> 00:30:23,187
- That was intense, man.
- That was a good battle
765
00:30:23,187 --> 00:30:24,094
between each of us.
766
00:30:24,094 --> 00:30:26,482
There was a lot
of rivalry involved in it.
767
00:30:26,482 --> 00:30:28,359
Fuck, well he got me man.
768
00:30:28,359 --> 00:30:29,888
- What do you mean?
- Fuck him, he got me
769
00:30:29,888 --> 00:30:30,901
but it's good.
770
00:30:30,901 --> 00:30:32,442
Yeah, they all smack talk each other
771
00:30:32,442 --> 00:30:33,700
but it's all love.
772
00:30:33,700 --> 00:30:34,847
People loved it.
773
00:30:34,847 --> 00:30:37,428
It became a real popular event.
774
00:30:37,428 --> 00:30:40,087
Sweep his legs, Johnny.
775
00:30:40,087 --> 00:30:41,295
Yes.
776
00:30:41,295 --> 00:30:43,158
Escape was super hungry for it.
777
00:30:43,158 --> 00:30:44,692
Good job, buddy. Good job, man.
778
00:30:44,692 --> 00:30:46,680
But Coppertail kind of
snatched it away from him.
779
00:30:46,680 --> 00:30:51,499
The winner of the 2020
Battle Royale three is going
780
00:30:51,499 --> 00:30:53,676
to Coppertail Brewing.
781
00:30:53,676 --> 00:30:58,115
It was super close.
782
00:30:58,115 --> 00:31:00,629
Hold on, dude.
783
00:31:00,629 --> 00:31:02,324
Yeah, I couldn't be happier with
784
00:31:02,324 --> 00:31:03,677
how the Battle Royale went.
785
00:31:03,677 --> 00:31:05,631
It was about the best one we've ever done
786
00:31:05,631 --> 00:31:08,181
and we have a lot more events lined up
787
00:31:08,181 --> 00:31:09,793
for the next rest of the week,
788
00:31:09,793 --> 00:31:13,640
so I'm very excited to
see how it all turns out.
789
00:31:19,629 --> 00:31:21,089
I'm
officially declaring
790
00:31:21,089 --> 00:31:23,381
a national emergency.
791
00:31:23,381 --> 00:31:26,472
Our overriding goal is to
stop the spread of the virus
792
00:31:26,472 --> 00:31:29,886
and to help all Americans who
have been impacted by this.
793
00:31:29,886 --> 00:31:31,797
I'm told,
non-essential businesses will
794
00:31:31,797 --> 00:31:33,151
have to close up shop.
795
00:31:33,151 --> 00:31:34,297
Announcing last call
796
00:31:34,297 --> 00:31:35,630
for bars and nightclubs,
797
00:31:35,630 --> 00:31:36,902
requiring their shutdown.
798
00:31:36,902 --> 00:31:39,988
Bars and nightclubs
are officially closed.
799
00:31:39,988 --> 00:31:44,155
It's hard to put into
words the whole experience
800
00:31:45,008 --> 00:31:46,628
for myself and the people around me,
801
00:31:46,628 --> 00:31:47,461
for all of us.
802
00:31:47,461 --> 00:31:50,310
It is something that it's unprecedented
803
00:31:50,310 --> 00:31:52,570
for at least our lifetime.
804
00:31:52,570 --> 00:31:56,336
I was on the phone with my
staff basically in tears.
805
00:31:56,336 --> 00:31:58,989
It was overwhelming. It was scary.
806
00:31:58,989 --> 00:31:59,916
When COVID hit,
807
00:31:59,916 --> 00:32:01,279
it was a shock for all of us.
808
00:32:01,279 --> 00:32:02,591
We didn't know what we're gonna do
809
00:32:02,591 --> 00:32:04,310
and how we're going to react to this.
810
00:32:04,310 --> 00:32:06,707
Obviously, being a bar,
811
00:32:06,707 --> 00:32:09,457
we rely on the close
inner contact with people,
812
00:32:09,457 --> 00:32:12,730
and the COVID-19 is
definitely a curve ball.
813
00:32:12,730 --> 00:32:14,821
There's gonna be a lot of
places that don't reopen.
814
00:32:14,821 --> 00:32:17,236
We won't be one of them because, you know,
815
00:32:17,236 --> 00:32:20,051
we have a lot invested into
this and we're gonna continue,
816
00:32:20,051 --> 00:32:21,783
no matter what happens.
817
00:32:21,783 --> 00:32:23,290
You know, when we first closed,
818
00:32:23,290 --> 00:32:25,486
we didn't close with the ideology
819
00:32:25,486 --> 00:32:27,062
that we were gonna be
closed for a long time.
820
00:32:27,062 --> 00:32:29,686
We were only supposed to
be closed for two weeks.
821
00:32:29,686 --> 00:32:32,577
It was tough. It was scary.
822
00:32:32,577 --> 00:32:34,841
Hey guys, welcome back to the channel.
823
00:32:34,841 --> 00:32:37,004
I wanted to talk to you
about a concerning trend
824
00:32:37,004 --> 00:32:38,544
that's going on right now.
825
00:32:38,544 --> 00:32:42,434
I'm seeing lots of arcades and
arcade bar locations having
826
00:32:42,434 --> 00:32:45,184
to close their doors due to COVID-19.
827
00:32:45,184 --> 00:32:47,834
I just really hope they
can ride out this storm.
828
00:32:47,834 --> 00:32:50,710
We had to come up some
ways to get some profit
829
00:32:50,710 --> 00:32:51,858
'cause we still have rent due,
830
00:32:51,858 --> 00:32:52,779
we still have bills,
831
00:32:52,779 --> 00:32:54,576
everything's still gotta
be paid, insurance.
832
00:32:54,576 --> 00:32:56,837
So we decided to do to-go beers.
833
00:32:56,837 --> 00:32:58,221
So we have a unique variety of beer,
834
00:32:58,221 --> 00:33:00,762
so we'd let people come here
and build their own six packs
835
00:33:00,762 --> 00:33:01,971
or fill their growlers,
836
00:33:01,971 --> 00:33:03,993
take them home and then enjoy your beer
837
00:33:03,993 --> 00:33:05,472
from the safety of your home.
838
00:33:05,472 --> 00:33:07,863
We all reduced the
prices dramatically just
839
00:33:07,863 --> 00:33:09,257
to encourage things.
840
00:33:09,257 --> 00:33:10,310
The first few weeks,
841
00:33:10,310 --> 00:33:12,987
the community was incredibly
supportive through all of it,
842
00:33:12,987 --> 00:33:15,800
but of course eventually
those sales started dwindling.
843
00:33:15,800 --> 00:33:19,143
We did have one huge boost
from Tampa Bay Beer Week
844
00:33:19,143 --> 00:33:23,310
where they matched $1,000
for bar sales in one day
845
00:33:25,572 --> 00:33:27,201
to donate to the staff.
846
00:33:27,201 --> 00:33:28,909
So that was incredibly generous,
847
00:33:28,909 --> 00:33:30,433
so I'm very thankful for that.
848
00:33:30,433 --> 00:33:33,890
I'm facing weeks where
we're making maybe $200
849
00:33:33,890 --> 00:33:35,546
and I had to adapt.
850
00:33:35,546 --> 00:33:37,382
"We're open and game on,"
851
00:33:37,382 --> 00:33:39,495
that's what a local
arcade owner is saying.
852
00:33:39,495 --> 00:33:40,648
He's discovered a new way
853
00:33:40,648 --> 00:33:42,780
to keep his "Pinball" machines lit up.
854
00:33:42,780 --> 00:33:44,767
The Lowry
Parcade is now bringing
855
00:33:44,767 --> 00:33:46,488
the fun right to you.
856
00:33:46,488 --> 00:33:49,058
We did 14 deliveries in the last week.
857
00:33:49,058 --> 00:33:51,579
Because they
can't have customers inside,
858
00:33:51,579 --> 00:33:54,719
Lowry Parcade is renting out its games,
859
00:33:54,719 --> 00:33:58,139
safely delivering these old
school beauties to your home.
860
00:33:58,139 --> 00:33:59,573
I went from having a business
861
00:33:59,573 --> 00:34:01,413
where I don't ever
wanna move these things,
862
00:34:01,413 --> 00:34:04,068
to now I'm having to move them every day.
863
00:34:04,068 --> 00:34:06,883
It worked, we had a huge response
864
00:34:06,883 --> 00:34:09,081
from both the community and the press,
865
00:34:09,081 --> 00:34:10,542
and suddenly overwhelmed.
866
00:34:10,542 --> 00:34:15,542
Thankfully, the staff stepped
up and was incredibly helpful.
867
00:34:15,774 --> 00:34:19,402
Like James, he's one of my guys
who's normally a bartender,
868
00:34:19,402 --> 00:34:23,157
but he had to figure out how
do I deliver arcade machines?
869
00:34:23,157 --> 00:34:24,327
Does that look good?
870
00:34:24,327 --> 00:34:25,505
Yeah, thank you.
871
00:34:25,505 --> 00:34:27,116
There's good
space on either side?
872
00:34:27,116 --> 00:34:29,045
That looks great.
873
00:34:29,045 --> 00:34:31,156
All of us had to adapt
874
00:34:31,156 --> 00:34:34,411
to completely new roles just to survive.
875
00:34:34,411 --> 00:34:38,135
I mean, our bar
sales have dropped off so much,
876
00:34:38,135 --> 00:34:40,446
so this is helping out a ton.
877
00:34:40,446 --> 00:34:43,297
With all the struggles and
bad things that we've seen come
878
00:34:43,297 --> 00:34:45,047
from the Coronavirus,
879
00:34:46,809 --> 00:34:49,400
one huge positive I've
seen is so many businesses,
880
00:34:49,400 --> 00:34:51,697
so many people have been able to adapt
881
00:34:51,697 --> 00:34:53,958
and become incredibly inventive
882
00:34:53,958 --> 00:34:57,187
and completely change their whole models
883
00:34:57,187 --> 00:34:59,155
in order to survive.
884
00:34:59,155 --> 00:35:02,660
And it's an amazing thing
to be able to do that
885
00:35:02,660 --> 00:35:04,289
and it's inspiring.
886
00:35:04,289 --> 00:35:06,854
Are you guys
planning to open for phase two?
887
00:35:06,854 --> 00:35:09,204
Yeah, we're
still putting together
888
00:35:09,204 --> 00:35:10,484
all the logistics for everything
889
00:35:10,484 --> 00:35:12,359
'cause we need to also
have all the supplies
890
00:35:12,359 --> 00:35:16,178
for sanitizing and prep to
make it as safe as possible
891
00:35:16,178 --> 00:35:17,934
for people, for staff.
892
00:35:20,693 --> 00:35:21,812
Well, it's the day
893
00:35:21,812 --> 00:35:24,248
that non-essential business
owners have been waiting
894
00:35:24,248 --> 00:35:26,946
for after being closed for two months now.
895
00:35:26,946 --> 00:35:28,208
Their doors have reopened.
896
00:35:28,208 --> 00:35:29,929
Bars and
restaurants will now be able
897
00:35:29,929 --> 00:35:32,264
to open at 50% capacity.
898
00:35:33,097 --> 00:35:35,588
We decided on Memorial
Day that we'd open back up
899
00:35:35,588 --> 00:35:38,067
and just have a safe
environment where people can
900
00:35:38,067 --> 00:35:40,608
have a beer and still
play some games and relax
901
00:35:40,608 --> 00:35:43,653
and kind of forget about
it and have a good time.
902
00:35:43,653 --> 00:35:45,444
It's definitely a lot slower.
903
00:35:45,444 --> 00:35:46,705
The people are still nervous.
904
00:35:46,705 --> 00:35:47,570
People don't know.
905
00:35:47,570 --> 00:35:49,582
It's gonna take time
for people to get used
906
00:35:49,582 --> 00:35:51,304
to being able to go back out and go think
907
00:35:51,304 --> 00:35:53,330
that I can go play a game and have a beer.
908
00:35:54,996 --> 00:35:57,133
When we were given the
go ahead for phase two,
909
00:35:57,133 --> 00:36:00,343
and that it was three
months that we were closed,
910
00:36:00,343 --> 00:36:02,292
we looked at CDC guidelines.
911
00:36:02,292 --> 00:36:06,131
We spaced all the machines
out about six feet apart.
912
00:36:06,131 --> 00:36:08,273
We have masks and gloves provided.
913
00:36:08,273 --> 00:36:10,626
We have sanitizing stations.
914
00:36:10,626 --> 00:36:12,944
We go around every 30 minutes
915
00:36:12,944 --> 00:36:14,998
and wipe down the machines with sanitizer.
916
00:36:14,998 --> 00:36:16,246
And I ain't even mad
917
00:36:16,246 --> 00:36:17,650
about how much of this I'm using.
918
00:36:17,650 --> 00:36:20,072
I'm not even mad.
919
00:36:25,046 --> 00:36:26,671
I'm so glad to be back open.
920
00:36:26,671 --> 00:36:29,506
I'm so ready to make real human money.
921
00:36:29,506 --> 00:36:31,251
First, kind of reopen weekend,
922
00:36:31,251 --> 00:36:35,565
and it was really great
to just see people again,
923
00:36:35,565 --> 00:36:37,180
to see faces in here again,
924
00:36:37,180 --> 00:36:39,732
to have people play the games again
925
00:36:39,732 --> 00:36:41,415
'cause you take it for granted.
926
00:36:41,415 --> 00:36:45,737
Now it's nice to really
appreciate just having faces
927
00:36:45,737 --> 00:36:47,578
in your place that are having a good time
928
00:36:47,578 --> 00:36:48,971
and drinking good beer.
929
00:36:48,971 --> 00:36:50,188
300 years ago,
930
00:36:50,188 --> 00:36:51,551
I would've already been
burned to the stake
931
00:36:51,551 --> 00:36:52,466
for being a witch.
932
00:36:52,466 --> 00:36:55,396
Not only do I have the mark
of the witch on my neck,
933
00:36:55,396 --> 00:36:56,949
but who I am as a person.
934
00:36:56,949 --> 00:36:58,450
- 'Cause you're witch.
- Yeah.
935
00:37:06,219 --> 00:37:07,609
How'd last weekend go?
936
00:37:07,609 --> 00:37:09,080
- I didn't come.
- It was good.
937
00:37:09,080 --> 00:37:10,554
It rained a ton.
938
00:37:10,554 --> 00:37:14,209
Fortunately, the space allowed
us to spread out a lot more.
939
00:37:14,209 --> 00:37:16,486
But the community was awesome.
940
00:37:16,486 --> 00:37:18,670
You could tell that people
kind of missed going out
941
00:37:18,670 --> 00:37:20,177
and kind of hanging out with their buddies
942
00:37:20,177 --> 00:37:21,177
and friends and stuff.
943
00:37:21,177 --> 00:37:22,532
It's cool to see people sort of
944
00:37:22,532 --> 00:37:24,097
in their natural habitat, you know,
945
00:37:24,097 --> 00:37:27,346
'cause being closed for three
months was kind of rough.
946
00:37:28,882 --> 00:37:30,397
We're here.
947
00:37:30,397 --> 00:37:34,064
Sam, hello.
948
00:37:35,261 --> 00:37:36,768
Today's our second day opening.
949
00:37:36,768 --> 00:37:38,303
We have a really strong community,
950
00:37:38,303 --> 00:37:41,405
so we were anticipating the
locals showing some love,
951
00:37:41,405 --> 00:37:42,926
which they absolutely did.
952
00:37:42,926 --> 00:37:45,765
This was like one of the
coolest days we've had together.
953
00:37:46,598 --> 00:37:47,955
I was really happy with the turnout,
954
00:37:47,955 --> 00:37:48,852
it was great.
955
00:37:48,852 --> 00:37:51,154
So right now it is happy hour all day.
956
00:37:51,154 --> 00:37:54,664
You get $1 off all our
draft beers up there,
957
00:37:54,664 --> 00:37:57,025
and then a $1 off game controller rentals
958
00:37:57,025 --> 00:37:59,262
if you're interested in
playing around the bar.
959
00:37:59,262 --> 00:38:00,800
How's the brewery coming along, buddy?
960
00:38:00,800 --> 00:38:02,805
It's still on the standstill.
961
00:38:02,805 --> 00:38:04,446
Nice shirt, you hippie.
962
00:38:05,279 --> 00:38:06,737
- Thank you.
- I like it.
963
00:38:06,737 --> 00:38:09,277
We have a pretty strong
community here and I feel like,
964
00:38:09,277 --> 00:38:10,892
'cause we're so fortunate to have a lot
965
00:38:10,892 --> 00:38:12,212
of people that really love this place,
966
00:38:12,212 --> 00:38:14,262
I see us bouncing back pretty quickly.
967
00:38:14,262 --> 00:38:16,519
I'm just happy that people
like to come in here
968
00:38:16,519 --> 00:38:17,726
and enjoy what we have to offer
969
00:38:17,726 --> 00:38:20,314
and it's really giving us an
opportunity to give people,
970
00:38:20,314 --> 00:38:22,145
hopefully, an experience
they've never had before.
971
00:38:25,874 --> 00:38:27,786
Like original "Turtles in Time",
972
00:38:27,786 --> 00:38:28,619
what do we got?
973
00:38:28,619 --> 00:38:30,511
I'm gonna do the original one, yeah.
974
00:38:30,511 --> 00:38:31,587
- Yeah.
- Okay. Awesome.
975
00:38:31,587 --> 00:38:32,783
Now that the bars were reopened,
976
00:38:32,783 --> 00:38:35,063
we were really excited
and we wanted to celebrate
977
00:38:35,063 --> 00:38:36,722
and bring some more excitement in.
978
00:38:36,722 --> 00:38:40,675
So Pierce ordered the new
"Ninja Turtles Pinball" machine
979
00:38:40,675 --> 00:38:42,405
and we were super excited to get that.
980
00:38:42,405 --> 00:38:44,283
So while we were waiting
for that to get delivered,
981
00:38:44,283 --> 00:38:45,116
I was working
982
00:38:45,116 --> 00:38:46,998
on a four-player "Ninja
Turtles" arcade machine.
983
00:38:46,998 --> 00:38:48,729
So we're gonna have a
double unveiling party
984
00:38:48,729 --> 00:38:53,441
where we have a pizza
party and both games open.
985
00:38:53,441 --> 00:38:55,996
We're in Wesley Chapel
at Little Shop of Games.
986
00:38:55,996 --> 00:38:58,211
They get all the new Stern
games right off the bat
987
00:38:58,211 --> 00:39:02,155
and you can always get
whatever you need here.
988
00:39:02,988 --> 00:39:04,209
I was quite surprised this title,
989
00:39:04,209 --> 00:39:06,789
how well its sold 'cause
"Turtles" isn't my thing.
990
00:39:06,789 --> 00:39:09,186
I'd got the arcade machine
done the night before,
991
00:39:09,186 --> 00:39:10,908
like, the paint was literally drying.
992
00:39:10,908 --> 00:39:12,768
So we're gonna go pick
up the "Pinball" machine.
993
00:39:14,045 --> 00:39:16,813
We started getting text
messages off the hook,
994
00:39:16,813 --> 00:39:17,850
both me and Mike.
995
00:39:17,850 --> 00:39:19,694
We both get texts left and right,
996
00:39:19,694 --> 00:39:21,152
left and right.
997
00:39:21,152 --> 00:39:22,693
They've shut it down again.
998
00:39:22,693 --> 00:39:25,433
We just sent this to your
phone, effective immediately.
999
00:39:25,433 --> 00:39:27,458
You cannot drink alcohol at bars.
1000
00:39:27,458 --> 00:39:30,289
Closing bars, wineries
and breweries once again.
1001
00:39:30,289 --> 00:39:33,496
It hasn't even been three weeks
since those bars reopened.
1002
00:39:33,496 --> 00:39:34,979
So if they don't serve food,
1003
00:39:34,979 --> 00:39:37,459
they will have to close once again.
1004
00:39:37,459 --> 00:39:41,536
It sucks to be you but I
understand why they're doing it.
1005
00:39:41,536 --> 00:39:44,443
Yeah, well I was surprised
that they'd shut us down again.
1006
00:39:44,443 --> 00:39:45,884
I was planning on having a pizza party,
1007
00:39:45,884 --> 00:39:47,620
- but there goes that.
- Yeah.
1008
00:39:47,620 --> 00:39:48,983
We were excited.
1009
00:39:48,983 --> 00:39:51,609
We just were reopened and we
thought there was no chance
1010
00:39:51,609 --> 00:39:53,562
that they're gonna close
us down a second time.
1011
00:39:53,562 --> 00:39:55,545
And when that news dropped and it happens
1012
00:39:55,545 --> 00:39:57,664
to be the same day we're
playing the surprise party,
1013
00:39:57,664 --> 00:39:59,069
it was a lot to take in.
1014
00:39:59,069 --> 00:40:00,283
I was telling Pierce,
1015
00:40:00,283 --> 00:40:01,429
I think it's like this is the year
1016
00:40:01,429 --> 00:40:03,458
- "The Predator" comes out.
- Yes.
1017
00:40:03,458 --> 00:40:05,798
It's only on the hottest years.
1018
00:40:05,798 --> 00:40:08,024
We had a brand new game for everyone
1019
00:40:08,024 --> 00:40:09,699
to come and experience,
1020
00:40:09,699 --> 00:40:12,438
but they couldn't legally get
in the door to experience it.
1021
00:40:12,438 --> 00:40:14,512
So we'd spent a lot of money,
1022
00:40:14,512 --> 00:40:18,842
a lot of time and a lot of
effort for nothing, essentially.
1023
00:40:18,842 --> 00:40:20,734
You gonna have a
private pizza party tonight?
1024
00:40:20,734 --> 00:40:22,632
Yeah. Big one.
1025
00:40:22,632 --> 00:40:23,776
While we were shut down,
1026
00:40:23,776 --> 00:40:25,834
we still wanted to keep
up with our friends.
1027
00:40:25,834 --> 00:40:27,234
We're used to seeing
these people every day,
1028
00:40:27,234 --> 00:40:30,916
so we made a Super Secret
Club group on Facebook.
1029
00:40:30,916 --> 00:40:33,535
Mike would send out
an invite on Facebook
1030
00:40:33,535 --> 00:40:35,822
that the bars in Florida weren't open,
1031
00:40:35,822 --> 00:40:38,646
but if you got this invite from Mike,
1032
00:40:38,646 --> 00:40:39,945
you could get in.
1033
00:40:39,945 --> 00:40:41,033
A lot of people, you know,
1034
00:40:41,033 --> 00:40:42,053
they're stuck at home.
1035
00:40:42,053 --> 00:40:45,671
Everything's closed down and
it's a really strange place
1036
00:40:45,671 --> 00:40:48,553
to be in and a little bit
of normalcy goes a long way.
1037
00:40:48,553 --> 00:40:50,972
So if you can just come for one night
1038
00:40:50,972 --> 00:40:54,796
and play some "Pinball"
and still maintain safety
1039
00:40:54,796 --> 00:40:56,019
and social distancing,
1040
00:40:56,019 --> 00:40:57,851
it's still good to be able
to feel that you can go out
1041
00:40:57,851 --> 00:41:00,819
and still blow all that steam off.
1042
00:41:00,819 --> 00:41:03,187
And so I've been neglecting
my arms and shoulders
1043
00:41:03,187 --> 00:41:06,744
and chest so I need to
focus on that, yeah.
1044
00:41:06,744 --> 00:41:09,613
It was a privilege to get
into the cool kids club.
1045
00:41:09,613 --> 00:41:11,312
It can only be done in 2020,
1046
00:41:11,312 --> 00:41:15,895
for something to be shut down
and be open just for you.
1047
00:41:17,197 --> 00:41:18,688
Unfortunately, bars,
1048
00:41:18,688 --> 00:41:20,385
and there's hundreds across the state,
1049
00:41:20,385 --> 00:41:22,224
now have no income whatsoever,
1050
00:41:22,224 --> 00:41:23,604
and we don't know if
there's an end in sight.
1051
00:41:23,604 --> 00:41:24,959
Courtney owns Reboot,
1052
00:41:24,959 --> 00:41:27,516
an arcade and bar in downtown Dunedin.
1053
00:41:27,516 --> 00:41:30,923
He's now contemplating
rebooting the business model
1054
00:41:30,923 --> 00:41:32,358
and serving coffee.
1055
00:41:32,358 --> 00:41:33,639
We're just trying to pivot.
1056
00:41:33,639 --> 00:41:35,416
I don't even know if it's gonna work.
1057
00:41:35,416 --> 00:41:37,581
Yeah, so right now because
we can't open as a bar,
1058
00:41:37,581 --> 00:41:39,408
we're currently serving coffee
1059
00:41:39,408 --> 00:41:41,201
because we can't sell beer right now.
1060
00:41:41,201 --> 00:41:43,123
But we can open as an arcade.
1061
00:41:43,123 --> 00:41:45,412
- Do you wanna do the punch?
- Oh, the punch.
1062
00:41:45,412 --> 00:41:48,702
You gotta drink when your
bar is forced to be closed.
1063
00:41:48,702 --> 00:41:50,896
Do you think we'll have
the same hours next week?
1064
00:41:50,896 --> 00:41:52,377
Oh man, I mean,
1065
00:41:52,377 --> 00:41:54,966
so this week was like a good test run.
1066
00:41:54,966 --> 00:41:57,680
Well, we did three days and
it's still been super slow.
1067
00:41:57,680 --> 00:41:59,385
I mean, I'd like to keep it open
1068
00:41:59,385 --> 00:42:00,748
for the bartenders if
they're gonna make money,
1069
00:42:00,748 --> 00:42:01,778
but you know, I mean,
1070
00:42:01,778 --> 00:42:03,918
I don't know how much business
1071
00:42:03,918 --> 00:42:06,005
to switch the coffee is really gonna do.
1072
00:42:06,005 --> 00:42:07,288
- Yeah.
- You know.
1073
00:42:07,288 --> 00:42:09,413
I dunno, maybe we just
do it for another week,
1074
00:42:09,413 --> 00:42:10,485
just to see what happens,
1075
00:42:10,485 --> 00:42:11,992
gauge everyone's interest,
1076
00:42:11,992 --> 00:42:13,640
and then get an extra mop
1077
00:42:13,640 --> 00:42:15,772
to clean up all my tears off the floor.
1078
00:42:15,772 --> 00:42:17,774
Now there's a whole pandemic
1079
00:42:17,774 --> 00:42:19,274
and what do we do?
1080
00:42:20,584 --> 00:42:21,837
We drink. Cheers.
1081
00:42:21,837 --> 00:42:24,112
It's pretty, thank you.
1082
00:42:24,112 --> 00:42:25,345
You're welcome.
1083
00:42:27,920 --> 00:42:31,434
Have you followed
anything from Lowry Parcade?
1084
00:42:31,434 --> 00:42:33,113
Are they staying open as an amusement?
1085
00:42:33,113 --> 00:42:35,038
No, they're back to doing to-go.
1086
00:42:35,038 --> 00:42:35,996
Oh, they're just doing to-go.
1087
00:42:35,996 --> 00:42:37,080
I thought that they
1088
00:42:37,080 --> 00:42:38,134
were just letting people
1089
00:42:38,134 --> 00:42:39,547
- in to go play.
- They did but they said,
1090
00:42:39,547 --> 00:42:40,380
just like us,
1091
00:42:40,380 --> 00:42:41,648
they said that it was so slow
1092
00:42:41,648 --> 00:42:42,753
that it just wasn't even worth it.
1093
00:42:42,753 --> 00:42:44,246
So they're renting arcades again.
1094
00:42:44,246 --> 00:42:46,010
You know, you try the best that you can.
1095
00:42:46,010 --> 00:42:48,036
This is something new that
people weren't really used to.
1096
00:42:48,036 --> 00:42:49,948
You hope there's enough
public information out there
1097
00:42:49,948 --> 00:42:52,430
for people to make the right
decisions and to be safe.
1098
00:42:52,430 --> 00:42:53,263
What's up buddy?
1099
00:42:53,263 --> 00:42:54,100
How you doing man?
1100
00:42:54,100 --> 00:42:55,081
- How you doing?
- Good seeing you.
1101
00:42:55,081 --> 00:42:57,677
Business owners are not health
officials and we were kind
1102
00:42:57,677 --> 00:42:58,838
of the ones on the forefront
1103
00:42:58,838 --> 00:43:02,006
of making people do the
right thing, you know.
1104
00:43:02,006 --> 00:43:05,215
And you had a large contingency of people
1105
00:43:05,215 --> 00:43:07,129
that didn't wanna do it
and it made it difficult
1106
00:43:07,129 --> 00:43:08,128
for a lot of people.
1107
00:43:08,128 --> 00:43:11,218
You take away like 85%
of your income, you know,
1108
00:43:11,218 --> 00:43:13,096
for the bar at least.
1109
00:43:13,096 --> 00:43:13,929
'Cause, I mean,
1110
00:43:13,929 --> 00:43:15,139
people like to go to arcade bars,
1111
00:43:15,139 --> 00:43:17,065
but they go there because
they like to drink beer too.
1112
00:43:17,065 --> 00:43:17,898
- Yeah.
- You know.
1113
00:43:17,898 --> 00:43:19,987
'Cause you could still get a beer
1114
00:43:19,987 --> 00:43:21,977
and sit at a bar in a restaurant,
1115
00:43:21,977 --> 00:43:23,361
the same exact thing,
1116
00:43:23,361 --> 00:43:24,906
but you can't do it at a bar.
1117
00:43:24,906 --> 00:43:26,824
You know, the only
difference is they have food.
1118
00:43:26,824 --> 00:43:27,855
If there's a problem,
1119
00:43:27,855 --> 00:43:29,119
let's think of a solution.
1120
00:43:29,119 --> 00:43:33,072
So just racking my brain trying
to figure out things to do
1121
00:43:33,072 --> 00:43:34,414
to keep our doors open,
1122
00:43:34,414 --> 00:43:36,806
because if we don't do
something we're in trouble.
1123
00:43:36,806 --> 00:43:39,194
So Reboot bar
owner, George Courtney,
1124
00:43:39,194 --> 00:43:41,977
did a bit of rebooting
of his business model,
1125
00:43:41,977 --> 00:43:43,843
applying for a Department of Business
1126
00:43:43,843 --> 00:43:46,589
and Professional Regulation food license.
1127
00:43:46,589 --> 00:43:48,450
I mean, we probably aren't gonna be able
1128
00:43:48,450 --> 00:43:50,468
to be open for another month
or two unless we do this.
1129
00:43:50,468 --> 00:43:52,027
So, we're excited.
1130
00:44:01,142 --> 00:44:02,713
- Hello.
- I'm Helen.
1131
00:44:02,713 --> 00:44:04,321
- Hi, Helen.
- I don't know
1132
00:44:04,321 --> 00:44:05,806
if you wanna?
1133
00:44:05,806 --> 00:44:07,483
No one knows.
1134
00:44:07,483 --> 00:44:08,442
You guys are open late.
1135
00:44:08,442 --> 00:44:09,612
I was like, I gotta go now.
1136
00:44:09,612 --> 00:44:10,601
Yeah, we're cooking food.
1137
00:44:10,601 --> 00:44:12,120
We got a restaurant there.
1138
00:44:12,953 --> 00:44:14,963
- Well, it's so ridiculous?
- Type of food?
1139
00:44:14,963 --> 00:44:17,342
Yeah, so we have Hot Pockets,
1140
00:44:17,342 --> 00:44:18,805
whatever the little pizzas are,
1141
00:44:18,805 --> 00:44:21,010
White Castle burgers.
1142
00:44:21,010 --> 00:44:23,217
We have the opportunity
now to serve our customers,
1143
00:44:23,217 --> 00:44:24,189
which is great.
1144
00:44:24,189 --> 00:44:26,025
It's just awesome being able
to see our customers come back
1145
00:44:26,025 --> 00:44:28,059
in and be able to get a beer.
1146
00:44:28,059 --> 00:44:31,703
- Where'd you get those?
- At the bar.
1147
00:44:31,703 --> 00:44:34,053
It's like a restaurant now.
1148
00:44:34,053 --> 00:44:36,282
- So it's a restaurant?
- Yes.
1149
00:44:36,282 --> 00:44:37,964
Because this has been so successful,
1150
00:44:37,964 --> 00:44:39,770
a lot of other people
have been doing this.
1151
00:44:39,770 --> 00:44:41,209
They've been opening up as restaurants
1152
00:44:41,209 --> 00:44:43,910
and being able to still
serve beer to their customers
1153
00:44:43,910 --> 00:44:47,681
and be able to play games and survive.
1154
00:44:47,681 --> 00:44:49,809
What up, friends. Welcome back.
1155
00:44:49,809 --> 00:44:52,778
Now we're open and we added something new
1156
00:44:52,778 --> 00:44:53,758
to our menu today.
1157
00:44:53,758 --> 00:44:56,291
We added pretzels so if you're hungry,
1158
00:44:56,291 --> 00:45:00,372
let your server know or come
up to the bar or something.
1159
00:45:00,372 --> 00:45:01,205
I don't know.
1160
00:45:01,205 --> 00:45:02,038
We'll probably be walking around.
1161
00:45:02,038 --> 00:45:04,634
Just tell us you want
food before it's too late.
1162
00:45:04,634 --> 00:45:07,066
It's a loophole, it's crazy.
1163
00:45:07,066 --> 00:45:08,529
That's awesome. I'm glad.
1164
00:45:08,529 --> 00:45:09,960
But it's like,
1165
00:45:09,960 --> 00:45:12,067
having food doesn't make this any safer.
1166
00:45:12,067 --> 00:45:14,159
I'm very grateful we're
able to do something
1167
00:45:14,159 --> 00:45:18,432
to get the doors open because
it's been really difficult.
1168
00:45:18,432 --> 00:45:20,262
I'll take the loophole, you know,
1169
00:45:20,262 --> 00:45:23,648
that everyone else is doing
and we've added a small kitchen
1170
00:45:23,648 --> 00:45:25,904
in the back and we're
ready to get back there
1171
00:45:25,904 --> 00:45:30,833
and sling hotdogs and nachos
just to keep things going.
1172
00:45:30,833 --> 00:45:33,600
It's strange that they just
single out the one community.
1173
00:45:33,600 --> 00:45:37,526
Restaurants, you can go and
go get a Long Island iced tea,
1174
00:45:37,526 --> 00:45:40,287
get wasted, and then you're
shoving food in your face.
1175
00:45:40,287 --> 00:45:42,426
But a bar that's serving beer and wine
1176
00:45:42,426 --> 00:45:44,532
and has arcade games, that's dangerous.
1177
00:45:44,532 --> 00:45:46,429
So I just said screw it and let's,
1178
00:45:46,429 --> 00:45:48,889
we're gonna open up
without our food license
1179
00:45:48,889 --> 00:45:50,909
and they can just come shut us down.
1180
00:45:58,854 --> 00:46:01,502
I have kombucha for you.
1181
00:46:01,502 --> 00:46:03,835
- Chris will be happy.
- Yeah.
1182
00:46:06,024 --> 00:46:07,400
Is this your first time in?
1183
00:46:07,400 --> 00:46:08,867
I've been here before
but it was a while ago.
1184
00:46:08,867 --> 00:46:09,959
Right on, dude.
1185
00:46:09,959 --> 00:46:10,895
It's my first time, though.
1186
00:46:10,895 --> 00:46:12,496
- Hey, well welcome dude.
- Yeah.
1187
00:46:12,496 --> 00:46:14,375
People were yearning to
get out and do something.
1188
00:46:14,375 --> 00:46:16,224
It was really great and
we were really excited
1189
00:46:16,224 --> 00:46:18,515
because we continued the
momentum that we had built.
1190
00:46:18,515 --> 00:46:22,634
Considering that this
is our first night back,
1191
00:46:22,634 --> 00:46:26,700
open, the game plan's essentially just to,
1192
00:46:26,700 --> 00:46:29,185
you know, kind of sprinkle
into everyone's minds,
1193
00:46:29,185 --> 00:46:30,715
like hey, we're still a thing.
1194
00:46:30,715 --> 00:46:31,800
Don't forget about us.
1195
00:46:31,800 --> 00:46:33,772
And just to see our
regulars and all our friends
1196
00:46:33,772 --> 00:46:35,130
and family at Vector.
1197
00:46:35,130 --> 00:46:36,579
- What's up, man?
- How are you?
1198
00:46:36,579 --> 00:46:37,804
Good, bro. How are you?
1199
00:46:37,804 --> 00:46:38,637
Good. Good.
1200
00:46:38,637 --> 00:46:39,723
Good to see you, dude.
1201
00:46:39,723 --> 00:46:43,018
- See half of me.
- Yeah, I know.
1202
00:46:43,018 --> 00:46:46,691
That's the perk of the job is
making sure drinks are filled
1203
00:46:46,691 --> 00:46:49,075
and making sure people are
happy and having a good time.
1204
00:46:49,075 --> 00:46:50,926
Though, it's great to be back at Vector.
1205
00:46:53,831 --> 00:46:55,226
Could you guard my beer for me?
1206
00:46:55,226 --> 00:46:57,076
- Yes.
- Thank you.
1207
00:46:57,076 --> 00:46:59,232
- What's up, dude?
- How are you, man?
1208
00:46:59,232 --> 00:47:01,314
- Doing well.
- Good to see you.
1209
00:47:01,314 --> 00:47:02,333
You can whatever
1210
00:47:02,333 --> 00:47:04,136
bump you want.
1211
00:47:04,136 --> 00:47:05,819
- We can hip shake it.
- I know.
1212
00:47:05,819 --> 00:47:07,664
- Hip check it.
- Let's full on hug.
1213
00:47:09,729 --> 00:47:12,263
Well, it seems to be a
little bit busy tonight.
1214
00:47:12,263 --> 00:47:13,616
How long have you been open?
1215
00:47:13,616 --> 00:47:14,822
We just opened back up today.
1216
00:47:14,822 --> 00:47:16,088
- Really?
- Yeah.
1217
00:47:16,088 --> 00:47:16,921
I felt it.
1218
00:47:16,921 --> 00:47:17,965
I sensed it in the force.
1219
00:47:17,965 --> 00:47:19,548
I thought you had to see
it online or something.
1220
00:47:19,548 --> 00:47:20,410
It was like,
1221
00:47:20,410 --> 00:47:21,260
are you open.
1222
00:47:21,260 --> 00:47:22,233
No, I needed it
1223
00:47:22,233 --> 00:47:23,594
- I had to be here.
- That's good.
1224
00:47:23,594 --> 00:47:24,678
I'm glad you're open.
1225
00:47:24,678 --> 00:47:27,153
Did you wait to open when
you were told you could
1226
00:47:27,153 --> 00:47:29,322
- or did you just decide?
- No, I mean,
1227
00:47:29,322 --> 00:47:32,465
we've always served
snacks and food and stuff.
1228
00:47:32,465 --> 00:47:34,434
We're just trying to be responsible.
1229
00:47:34,434 --> 00:47:35,824
Like, some of the other bars,
1230
00:47:35,824 --> 00:47:37,734
they started serving Hot
Pockets and stuff like that.
1231
00:47:37,734 --> 00:47:39,554
They're like, we're a restaurant now.
1232
00:47:39,554 --> 00:47:41,129
Like, come on.
1233
00:47:41,129 --> 00:47:42,423
You're putting them in more danger
1234
00:47:42,423 --> 00:47:43,928
by giving them Hot Pockets, geez.
1235
00:47:43,928 --> 00:47:44,912
Right, that'll go right
1236
00:47:44,912 --> 00:47:45,745
- through you.
- That's gonna weaken
1237
00:47:45,745 --> 00:47:46,809
your immune system right there.
1238
00:47:46,809 --> 00:47:49,096
Man.
1239
00:47:49,096 --> 00:47:50,609
So we're still here, I guess.
1240
00:47:50,609 --> 00:47:55,276
Yeah, man.
1241
00:48:19,279 --> 00:48:21,346
- Hey, I'm George.
- Hi, Stormy.
1242
00:48:21,346 --> 00:48:22,793
- Hi, nice to meet you.
- Nice to meet you.
1243
00:48:22,793 --> 00:48:24,425
- How was your ride in?
- Good, actually.
1244
00:48:24,425 --> 00:48:25,407
- Nice.
- No problem.
1245
00:48:25,407 --> 00:48:26,316
Yeah, well thanks for coming to Reboot.
1246
00:48:26,316 --> 00:48:29,974
I mean, this is our little
arcade paradise of nerdiness
1247
00:48:29,974 --> 00:48:31,695
and I think we'll have
a lot of fun inside.
1248
00:48:31,695 --> 00:48:33,931
I'm gonna make you
my bitch at "Pinball".
1249
00:48:33,931 --> 00:48:36,411
- Hell, yeah.
- I'm gonna try all 20 beers.
1250
00:48:36,411 --> 00:48:37,929
- Hell, yeah.
- Then you'll definitely
1251
00:48:37,929 --> 00:48:39,026
be my bitch.
1252
00:48:39,026 --> 00:48:40,040
Here's the deal,
1253
00:48:40,040 --> 00:48:42,173
Stormy Daniel's assistant is actually one
1254
00:48:42,173 --> 00:48:43,696
of our patrons that comes in the Reboot
1255
00:48:43,696 --> 00:48:45,726
and he was talking about, you know,
1256
00:48:45,726 --> 00:48:47,823
I'm gonna bring her in
here and she would love
1257
00:48:47,823 --> 00:48:48,656
to see the place.
1258
00:48:48,656 --> 00:48:49,815
And I was like,
1259
00:48:49,815 --> 00:48:51,277
there's absolutely no way.
1260
00:48:51,277 --> 00:48:52,885
But here we are.
1261
00:48:52,885 --> 00:48:54,082
Only in 2020,
1262
00:48:54,082 --> 00:48:56,229
Stormy Daniels is coming in to Reboot.
1263
00:48:56,229 --> 00:48:58,204
Well, welcome to our nerd cave.
1264
00:48:58,204 --> 00:48:59,913
I don't know if this
counts as a nerd cave
1265
00:48:59,913 --> 00:49:01,613
'cause every other nerd cave I've been
1266
00:49:01,613 --> 00:49:03,910
in had at least one naked
picture of me on the wall.
1267
00:49:03,910 --> 00:49:05,343
Okay. Yeah.
1268
00:49:05,343 --> 00:49:06,176
Well, I mean,
1269
00:49:06,176 --> 00:49:08,443
that's a good point.
1270
00:49:08,443 --> 00:49:10,719
I'm just gonna take a drink.
1271
00:49:10,719 --> 00:49:14,992
Yeah, so we want like
classic games like "Pinball".
1272
00:49:14,992 --> 00:49:16,700
I think Donald Trump's favorite character
1273
00:49:16,700 --> 00:49:18,994
in "Mario Kart" was Toad, I believe.
1274
00:49:18,994 --> 00:49:20,627
I'm triggered. I'm leaving.
1275
00:49:20,627 --> 00:49:23,455
Don't do it.
1276
00:49:23,455 --> 00:49:25,255
You know, considering who she was with,
1277
00:49:25,255 --> 00:49:27,551
I feel like I probably should've known
1278
00:49:27,551 --> 00:49:29,165
that Stormy Daniels would
have a great sense of humor,
1279
00:49:29,165 --> 00:49:31,763
but I was really surprised
that she really enjoys a lot
1280
00:49:31,763 --> 00:49:32,765
of nerd culture.
1281
00:49:32,765 --> 00:49:35,195
A little nerdy den for people to play.
1282
00:49:35,195 --> 00:49:36,785
It's like a "Dungeons & Dragons".
1283
00:49:36,785 --> 00:49:38,491
Are they playing "Magic"?
1284
00:49:38,491 --> 00:49:40,405
This is so cool.
1285
00:49:40,405 --> 00:49:42,006
Is that actually the one of the dragons
1286
00:49:42,006 --> 00:49:43,035
from "Magic", though?
1287
00:49:43,035 --> 00:49:43,888
It is.
1288
00:49:43,888 --> 00:49:44,931
Yeah, it's got the Red Dragon.
1289
00:49:44,931 --> 00:49:47,206
Cut that, no one can
know that I knew that.
1290
00:49:47,206 --> 00:49:48,414
It is.
1291
00:49:48,414 --> 00:49:50,489
No one can know that I know that.
1292
00:49:50,489 --> 00:49:52,555
People will love you for it.
1293
00:49:52,555 --> 00:49:53,883
I happen to be a very,
1294
00:49:53,883 --> 00:49:55,733
very good "Magic: The Gathering" player.
1295
00:49:55,733 --> 00:49:56,707
- That's awesome.
- Awesome.
1296
00:49:56,707 --> 00:49:58,222
"Magic" is super popular now.
1297
00:50:09,221 --> 00:50:11,210
We've been here like
two and a half years and,
1298
00:50:11,210 --> 00:50:12,157
you know, it was really,
1299
00:50:12,157 --> 00:50:13,960
we had momentum going and then just,
1300
00:50:13,960 --> 00:50:15,434
- COVID, yeah.
- Shit happened.
1301
00:50:15,434 --> 00:50:16,679
- Yeah, I know.
- Yeah.
1302
00:50:16,679 --> 00:50:17,913
Damn, man.
1303
00:50:17,913 --> 00:50:19,731
Yeah, we just discovered this place.
1304
00:50:19,731 --> 00:50:21,480
When he said that you
were closing we were like,
1305
00:50:21,480 --> 00:50:23,514
wait, we just discovered it.
1306
00:50:23,514 --> 00:50:24,664
I just had somebody in here earlier.
1307
00:50:24,664 --> 00:50:25,497
They were like, "No.
1308
00:50:25,497 --> 00:50:26,663
This place is awesome.
I'm gonna come back."
1309
00:50:26,663 --> 00:50:28,390
I'd be like well, 11 days,
1310
00:50:28,390 --> 00:50:29,286
- yeah.
- Yeah.
1311
00:50:29,286 --> 00:50:30,952
So, it's middle June.
1312
00:50:30,952 --> 00:50:33,732
They just reopened bars but we decided now
1313
00:50:33,732 --> 00:50:36,007
that it's just time to
close down and move on
1314
00:50:36,007 --> 00:50:39,158
and let this whole COVID
situation play out.
1315
00:50:39,158 --> 00:50:40,285
Yeah, it was a tough decision
1316
00:50:40,285 --> 00:50:43,727
but after looking at
everything and the uncertainty,
1317
00:50:43,727 --> 00:50:45,382
we just decided for us it's a lot easier
1318
00:50:45,382 --> 00:50:46,751
for us just to shut down,
1319
00:50:46,751 --> 00:50:50,021
pack it all up and hunker down and wait
1320
00:50:50,021 --> 00:50:51,571
and see what happens and wait it out.
1321
00:50:51,571 --> 00:50:54,404
We're gonna have a party
not this Saturday, but next.
1322
00:50:54,404 --> 00:50:56,446
It's gonna be like our final hurrah.
1323
00:50:56,446 --> 00:50:58,584
- Okay. Okay.
- Go out with a bang.
1324
00:50:58,584 --> 00:51:00,720
We got 11 days left and we're gonna
1325
00:51:00,720 --> 00:51:02,342
have some beer flash sales
1326
00:51:02,342 --> 00:51:06,152
and one last "Pinball" tournament
and send this place off.
1327
00:51:06,152 --> 00:51:07,352
It's not the right time
1328
00:51:07,352 --> 00:51:08,414
- right now, you know.
- Yeah.
1329
00:51:08,414 --> 00:51:11,010
Pull out all you can, honestly.
1330
00:51:11,010 --> 00:51:12,501
We didn't know they were closing.
1331
00:51:12,501 --> 00:51:13,803
We just got that news today.
1332
00:51:13,803 --> 00:51:16,302
We just found out
they were closing today
1333
00:51:16,302 --> 00:51:17,840
and that's rough.
1334
00:51:17,840 --> 00:51:19,509
I was actually,
1335
00:51:19,509 --> 00:51:21,511
we were getting sentimental,
1336
00:51:21,511 --> 00:51:23,967
just kind of bummed out.
1337
00:51:23,967 --> 00:51:25,395
I don't wanna say I was gonna cry
1338
00:51:25,395 --> 00:51:28,930
but I definitely was tearing up, you know.
1339
00:51:28,930 --> 00:51:31,729
It sucks, it's sad to see them go.
1340
00:51:31,729 --> 00:51:33,838
Hopefully somebody will be
able to take their replacement
1341
00:51:33,838 --> 00:51:36,246
and not be like some
corporate bullshit, you know.
1342
00:51:36,246 --> 00:51:38,294
There's not a lot of places
like this around here
1343
00:51:38,294 --> 00:51:40,203
that are comparable so
it's definitely a loss
1344
00:51:40,203 --> 00:51:41,158
for the community.
1345
00:51:41,158 --> 00:51:43,609
Yeah.
1346
00:51:43,609 --> 00:51:45,902
- You got me.
- Got your ass.
1347
00:51:56,287 --> 00:51:59,537
For us, we want to go out
and have a party and celebrate.
1348
00:51:59,537 --> 00:52:01,409
We're celebrating the two and a half years
1349
00:52:01,409 --> 00:52:03,210
that we were open so it wasn't a funeral
1350
00:52:03,210 --> 00:52:04,345
that we're dying.
1351
00:52:04,345 --> 00:52:06,315
All the drafts and the wine, $5.
1352
00:52:06,315 --> 00:52:08,815
Everything's $5 except top row.
1353
00:52:08,815 --> 00:52:10,469
- Okay.
- $7
1354
00:52:10,469 --> 00:52:13,219
- and $3.50 for the shit row.
- Cool.
1355
00:52:14,063 --> 00:52:15,676
We're just gonna do a raffle
at the end of the night.
1356
00:52:15,676 --> 00:52:17,424
You can win this painting,
1357
00:52:17,424 --> 00:52:19,611
the two "Bar Wars" posters
and the framed one,
1358
00:52:19,611 --> 00:52:21,778
or the 64 with "Mario Kart".
1359
00:52:25,358 --> 00:52:26,733
Boost is on when I put the lead on.
1360
00:52:26,733 --> 00:52:27,779
Yeah, when you put
1361
00:52:31,879 --> 00:52:34,166
You can kill the overheads.
1362
00:52:34,166 --> 00:52:35,764
I think we're ready to go here.
1363
00:52:53,439 --> 00:52:54,901
And then, did you wanna start a tab?
1364
00:52:55,777 --> 00:52:58,621
Oh, that's a nice beard.
1365
00:52:58,621 --> 00:53:00,061
- Oh, hey dude.
- What's up, man?
1366
00:53:00,061 --> 00:53:02,734
What's happening? Welcome, welcome.
1367
00:53:02,734 --> 00:53:04,106
Are there villagers here?
1368
00:53:04,106 --> 00:53:05,181
Yeah, we got Pierce.
1369
00:53:05,181 --> 00:53:08,380
Patrick's here and there's
a couple of other villagers.
1370
00:53:08,380 --> 00:53:10,037
All of our "Pinball" people showed up
1371
00:53:10,037 --> 00:53:12,409
and we had one final
night where everyone got
1372
00:53:12,409 --> 00:53:15,202
to enjoy Vector like how it used to be.
1373
00:53:15,202 --> 00:53:17,225
You guys put up a good fight though.
1374
00:53:17,225 --> 00:53:18,692
Yeah.
1375
00:53:18,692 --> 00:53:20,282
It's like, it's a tough market.
1376
00:53:21,274 --> 00:53:22,290
Do you want in, man?
1377
00:53:22,290 --> 00:53:23,226
Oh no, no.
1378
00:53:23,226 --> 00:53:24,751
I'm gonna go into the tournament cold.
1379
00:53:24,751 --> 00:53:26,316
- Okay. Okay.
- Just straight.
1380
00:53:28,737 --> 00:53:30,636
I don't even wanna touch a game right now.
1381
00:53:30,636 --> 00:53:32,015
All right, we're gonna start this up.
1382
00:53:32,015 --> 00:53:33,565
So, we've got 14 people.
1383
00:53:33,565 --> 00:53:35,711
We're gonna do a three-strikes tournament.
1384
00:53:35,711 --> 00:53:38,042
So the system's gonna pair us up in groups
1385
00:53:38,042 --> 00:53:39,717
of four randomly on a game.
1386
00:53:39,717 --> 00:53:40,752
Once you get three strikes,
1387
00:53:40,752 --> 00:53:41,707
you're out of the game.
1388
00:53:41,707 --> 00:53:44,400
We'll go until there's
one person left standing.
1389
00:53:44,400 --> 00:53:45,802
And the winner gets
1390
00:53:45,802 --> 00:53:48,615
the super cool "Pinball" Mashup Translite,
1391
00:53:48,615 --> 00:53:51,455
donated by Bill over here.
1392
00:53:51,455 --> 00:53:53,306
Signed by the artist.
1393
00:53:53,306 --> 00:53:55,340
- Not me, the artist.
- The artist.
1394
00:53:55,340 --> 00:53:57,613
It would be worthless if Bill signed it.
1395
00:53:57,613 --> 00:53:59,203
So everybody have fun, good luck.
1396
00:54:07,298 --> 00:54:09,219
Nice shot.
1397
00:54:12,817 --> 00:54:13,821
So it's great to be able
1398
00:54:13,821 --> 00:54:15,771
to play competitive tournaments again.
1399
00:54:15,771 --> 00:54:17,282
It's gonna be the last
one here, unfortunately,
1400
00:54:17,282 --> 00:54:19,881
but it was nice to have one last hurrah.
1401
00:54:19,881 --> 00:54:22,289
I got to see a lot of
familiar faces again.
1402
00:54:22,289 --> 00:54:23,869
Knowing this was the last one,
1403
00:54:23,869 --> 00:54:26,474
I just felt tremendously sad.
1404
00:54:26,474 --> 00:54:28,615
I knew coming here,
1405
00:54:28,615 --> 00:54:32,834
this was it and that
was extremely sad to me.
1406
00:54:35,565 --> 00:54:36,433
Don't tell that,
1407
00:54:36,433 --> 00:54:40,422
you didn't see nothing.
1408
00:54:40,422 --> 00:54:43,686
I'm not even doing very good.
1409
00:54:43,686 --> 00:54:46,866
I mean, it sucked seeing Vector close.
1410
00:54:46,866 --> 00:54:48,777
Mike had put a lot of work into it.
1411
00:54:48,777 --> 00:54:51,386
And it was good to see him, of course,
1412
00:54:51,386 --> 00:54:54,052
I just wish it had been
under better circumstances.
1413
00:54:54,052 --> 00:54:57,312
Yeah, they let us open one
month and it was really good.
1414
00:54:57,312 --> 00:54:59,811
Everyone was so fed up of being cooped up
1415
00:54:59,811 --> 00:55:01,345
and everyone went out for that month
1416
00:55:01,345 --> 00:55:02,360
and we had a birthday party,
1417
00:55:02,360 --> 00:55:04,130
we had a bunch of stuff and
they closed us down again.
1418
00:55:04,130 --> 00:55:06,408
And it was like a week before
they opened bars back up,
1419
00:55:06,408 --> 00:55:07,428
the governor was like,
1420
00:55:07,428 --> 00:55:08,772
"Bars should prepare until next year."
1421
00:55:08,772 --> 00:55:10,218
And then a week later he is like,
1422
00:55:10,218 --> 00:55:12,512
"Oh psych, we're gonna open up Monday."
1423
00:55:12,512 --> 00:55:14,872
I can greatly empathize with
1424
00:55:14,872 --> 00:55:17,120
what he must have felt at the time,
1425
00:55:17,120 --> 00:55:21,018
because we were very
close to closing as well.
1426
00:55:21,018 --> 00:55:23,594
And to see that happen,
1427
00:55:23,594 --> 00:55:25,761
it's a sharp reminder that
1428
00:55:28,864 --> 00:55:30,416
we should never take this for granted.
1429
00:55:31,649 --> 00:55:33,233
Marshall hasn't rolled in yet?
1430
00:55:33,233 --> 00:55:35,104
Oh, he's gonna be late, as usual.
1431
00:55:35,104 --> 00:55:36,539
He was supposed to be here an hour ago.
1432
00:55:36,539 --> 00:55:37,713
For our last party we're gonna
1433
00:55:37,713 --> 00:55:39,788
have the brand new "'Avengers'
Pinball" machine here.
1434
00:55:39,788 --> 00:55:40,989
And I was reluctant to post
1435
00:55:40,989 --> 00:55:42,340
that we're gonna have "Avengers",
1436
00:55:42,340 --> 00:55:43,933
but we know Marshall's gonna be late.
1437
00:55:43,933 --> 00:55:45,371
That's his MO.
1438
00:55:45,371 --> 00:55:46,366
I see a Marshall van.
1439
00:55:46,366 --> 00:55:48,595
- I just saw him pulling up.
- Yeah.
1440
00:55:48,595 --> 00:55:49,904
But he didn't disappoint.
1441
00:55:49,904 --> 00:55:52,585
Marshall still came through
and we got "Avengers".
1442
00:56:02,289 --> 00:56:04,489
"Avengers" is almost ready.
1443
00:56:04,489 --> 00:56:06,164
There's a lot of good machines here.
1444
00:56:06,164 --> 00:56:07,657
I love that "Jurassic Park" one.
1445
00:56:07,657 --> 00:56:08,567
That one's awesome
1446
00:56:08,567 --> 00:56:09,502
Yeah, what's up man.
1447
00:56:09,502 --> 00:56:10,335
- How you doing, buddy?
- Hey, welcome back.
1448
00:56:10,335 --> 00:56:11,417
- Good to see you, man.
- Good to see you too.
1449
00:56:11,417 --> 00:56:13,445
- Thanks for coming.
- Hell, yeah. No problem.
1450
00:56:13,445 --> 00:56:16,865
Showing support was
incredibly important for me
1451
00:56:16,865 --> 00:56:18,955
because we need more
of these places around.
1452
00:56:18,955 --> 00:56:19,955
Hey, what's up buddy?
1453
00:56:19,955 --> 00:56:21,142
Good to see you, man.
1454
00:56:21,142 --> 00:56:24,122
Seeing everyone here and
having fun is really awesome
1455
00:56:24,122 --> 00:56:25,952
but also a little bit disappointed
1456
00:56:25,952 --> 00:56:28,267
because we know this is the
last day Vector's gonna be open.
1457
00:56:28,267 --> 00:56:29,100
I'm gonna do,
1458
00:56:29,100 --> 00:56:30,741
could I put $10 in the raffle?
1459
00:56:30,741 --> 00:56:31,584
Yeah, absolutely.
1460
00:56:31,584 --> 00:56:33,350
Having all three arcade owners
1461
00:56:33,350 --> 00:56:35,242
under the same roof is pretty powerful
1462
00:56:35,242 --> 00:56:37,835
because we all collectively wanna keep all
1463
00:56:37,835 --> 00:56:41,095
of this culture alive.
1464
00:56:41,095 --> 00:56:42,852
I'm still in
the "Pinball" tournament.
1465
00:56:42,852 --> 00:56:44,396
- Still in the "Pinball" tournament.
- Yeah.
1466
00:56:44,396 --> 00:56:46,151
I got one more strike left in me.
1467
00:56:46,151 --> 00:56:48,810
Yeah.
1468
00:56:48,810 --> 00:56:50,981
I guess that's how you
rank a night like this.
1469
00:56:50,981 --> 00:56:52,965
I'm still in it.
1470
00:56:52,965 --> 00:56:54,530
Still in it.
1471
00:56:55,455 --> 00:56:58,413
♪ I will make you hurt ♪
1472
00:57:04,663 --> 00:57:08,032
The Game Over party was definitely one
1473
00:57:08,032 --> 00:57:10,503
of the best open mic
nights we've ever had here.
1474
00:57:10,503 --> 00:57:12,864
The show-up was great and
my good friend, Andrew,
1475
00:57:12,864 --> 00:57:14,183
he kicked ass on the mic.
1476
00:57:14,183 --> 00:57:16,113
Our set went phenomenally
1477
00:57:16,113 --> 00:57:20,520
and I think Saturday was the
culmination of our career here.
1478
00:57:20,520 --> 00:57:23,077
This place really means family to us.
1479
00:57:23,077 --> 00:57:24,731
You can come for happy hour
1480
00:57:24,731 --> 00:57:26,211
and maybe catch the owner,
1481
00:57:26,211 --> 00:57:27,350
Mike's pretty face,
1482
00:57:27,350 --> 00:57:30,178
or even just to kick your
friend's at "Mario Kart Race".
1483
00:57:30,178 --> 00:57:31,011
Whatever the case,
1484
00:57:31,011 --> 00:57:32,553
just make sure these mics are in place.
1485
00:57:32,553 --> 00:57:35,712
Oh man, this is silly but
I'm gonna really try not
1486
00:57:35,712 --> 00:57:39,232
to cry right now because this
place has meant so much to me.
1487
00:57:39,232 --> 00:57:40,264
If it wasn't for this place,
1488
00:57:40,264 --> 00:57:41,732
I wouldn't be who I am today.
1489
00:57:41,732 --> 00:57:43,992
And I know it sounds silly
'cause it's a bar arcade,
1490
00:57:43,992 --> 00:57:45,660
but it's so much more than that.
1491
00:57:45,660 --> 00:57:47,119
Or so I've come to believe
1492
00:57:47,119 --> 00:57:50,266
at this little barcade
called Vector beside the sea.
1493
00:57:52,468 --> 00:57:54,668
- That's good.
- I will always,
1494
00:57:54,668 --> 00:57:56,638
always cherish Vector.
1495
00:57:56,638 --> 00:57:58,685
It's for you.
1496
00:58:02,615 --> 00:58:06,461
♪ Too many days in the darkness ♪
1497
00:58:06,461 --> 00:58:09,196
♪ Without a glimpse of the light ♪
1498
00:58:09,196 --> 00:58:11,902
Wow, everybody is here.
1499
00:58:11,902 --> 00:58:14,116
I mean, the place was slammed.
1500
00:58:14,116 --> 00:58:15,160
How's it going, dude?
1501
00:58:15,160 --> 00:58:16,269
Good to see you.
1502
00:58:16,269 --> 00:58:17,254
It made it real.
1503
00:58:17,254 --> 00:58:18,733
It's not just me,
1504
00:58:18,733 --> 00:58:21,101
everybody loves this place.
1505
00:58:21,101 --> 00:58:23,360
Vector.
1506
00:58:23,360 --> 00:58:24,540
Yeah.
1507
00:58:24,540 --> 00:58:25,946
"The king of the North."
1508
00:58:25,946 --> 00:58:29,198
♪ Every part of you wants to surrender ♪
1509
00:58:29,198 --> 00:58:30,876
♪ Darling, you were meant to survive ♪
1510
00:58:32,261 --> 00:58:35,470
It was just one of the most welcoming
1511
00:58:35,470 --> 00:58:37,036
but heart-wrenching experiences.
1512
00:58:37,036 --> 00:58:38,500
I see a bunch of friends,
1513
00:58:38,500 --> 00:58:39,849
some I've seen, you know,
1514
00:58:39,849 --> 00:58:42,314
many times over the last couple of years.
1515
00:58:42,314 --> 00:58:44,939
There's fighting games
going on. They are having
1516
00:58:44,939 --> 00:58:46,742
like, their own little side tournaments.
1517
00:58:46,742 --> 00:58:47,902
You sure about that?
1518
00:58:47,902 --> 00:58:49,666
What's the mix, baby?
1519
00:58:49,666 --> 00:58:51,107
You know, I have my girlfriend,
1520
00:58:51,107 --> 00:58:53,893
Jackie, working and she's
having a great time.
1521
00:58:53,893 --> 00:58:55,519
You know, you could
just see she's enjoying
1522
00:58:55,519 --> 00:58:57,444
these interactions with everybody.
1523
00:58:57,444 --> 00:58:59,000
Friends don't shake hands.
1524
00:58:59,000 --> 00:59:00,644
- Friends hug.
- Friends hug.
1525
00:59:00,644 --> 00:59:03,249
Yep, it's how happy they are to be here
1526
00:59:03,249 --> 00:59:06,388
but also how sad they that something
1527
00:59:06,388 --> 00:59:08,483
that has been a major piece
1528
00:59:08,483 --> 00:59:11,025
of their lives is now coming to an end.
1529
00:59:12,266 --> 00:59:13,570
Guys, we're gonna cut this cake
1530
00:59:13,570 --> 00:59:18,319
in honor of Mike and Lauren
and this amazing experience,
1531
00:59:18,319 --> 00:59:21,526
an absolutely magical place
that they have created
1532
00:59:21,526 --> 00:59:23,468
for all of us here today.
1533
00:59:23,468 --> 00:59:25,439
It has really been a special spot.
1534
00:59:27,847 --> 00:59:29,787
When I found out Vector was closing,
1535
00:59:29,787 --> 00:59:31,916
I was kind of like, honestly,
1536
00:59:31,916 --> 00:59:34,456
somebody was passing away or something.
1537
00:59:34,456 --> 00:59:36,356
It was like a mourning feeling.
1538
00:59:38,392 --> 00:59:40,648
I'm just sad with the memories,
1539
00:59:40,648 --> 00:59:42,699
you know, not being able to come back.
1540
00:59:42,699 --> 00:59:44,141
I just know the same people
1541
00:59:44,141 --> 00:59:46,700
and the same place isn't gonna be here.
1542
00:59:46,700 --> 00:59:48,640
You know, I just met a lot of people
1543
00:59:48,640 --> 00:59:51,167
and this is how we met and now,
1544
00:59:51,167 --> 00:59:52,090
I don't know,
1545
00:59:52,090 --> 00:59:56,479
it's just a good crowd and it's
gonna be hard to replace it.
1546
00:59:56,479 --> 00:59:57,610
I can't tell you, buddy,
1547
00:59:57,610 --> 00:59:59,026
how much this place meant to me.
1548
00:59:59,026 --> 01:00:00,352
It was a great two and a half years.
1549
01:00:00,352 --> 01:00:02,160
The whole thing was an amazing experience.
1550
01:00:02,160 --> 01:00:03,221
There was a lot of blood,
1551
01:00:03,221 --> 01:00:04,061
sweat and tears,
1552
01:00:04,061 --> 01:00:07,032
but in the end all the work was worth it,
1553
01:00:07,032 --> 01:00:09,178
all the new friends and
all the new experiences.
1554
01:00:09,178 --> 01:00:11,614
And we have friends that we're
gonna take long past this.
1555
01:00:11,614 --> 01:00:15,630
You know, together we have
become this integral group.
1556
01:00:15,630 --> 01:00:19,497
We have all made this our
own home in our own way.
1557
01:00:19,497 --> 01:00:21,098
It's been very sad.
1558
01:00:21,098 --> 01:00:23,279
Like just in general the mood is,
1559
01:00:23,279 --> 01:00:25,698
it's upbeat as much as it can be.
1560
01:00:25,698 --> 01:00:26,887
We're trying to remain positive,
1561
01:00:26,887 --> 01:00:30,703
but it ultimately is just a sad day,
1562
01:00:30,703 --> 01:00:33,165
trying to find the next
thing for all of us.
1563
01:00:33,165 --> 01:00:34,704
I'm sad to see this place go.
1564
01:00:34,704 --> 01:00:36,102
- Me too.
- 'Cause it's like,
1565
01:00:36,102 --> 01:00:37,520
this is for all of us together.
1566
01:00:37,520 --> 01:00:38,457
- Do you know what I mean?
- Yeah. Yeah.
1567
01:00:38,457 --> 01:00:39,894
Yeah, it's a special place.
1568
01:00:39,894 --> 01:00:42,136
There is a magnitude
of loss you may not see
1569
01:00:42,136 --> 01:00:45,269
beneath charming smiles around this eve.
1570
01:00:45,269 --> 01:00:49,569
The welcome home that we
nerds need must soon close
1571
01:00:49,569 --> 01:00:51,294
the end of an era, indeed.
1572
01:01:16,521 --> 01:01:17,354
I'd like to see us here
for another, you know,
1573
01:01:17,354 --> 01:01:19,104
five years, 10 years,
1574
01:01:20,085 --> 01:01:21,364
five years, 10 years,
1575
01:01:21,364 --> 01:01:23,803
however long we can make
it happen and keep growing,
1576
01:01:23,803 --> 01:01:25,083
keep rotating the games,
1577
01:01:25,083 --> 01:01:27,150
keep bringing in amazing beer,
1578
01:01:27,150 --> 01:01:30,063
keep having really cool events.
1579
01:01:30,063 --> 01:01:32,570
- Say burger.
- How's it feel
1580
01:01:32,570 --> 01:01:36,143
to be kind of like a normal
"Pinball" tournament again?
1581
01:01:36,143 --> 01:01:38,904
It feels great just to come out here,
1582
01:01:38,904 --> 01:01:39,988
play a tournament,
1583
01:01:39,988 --> 01:01:41,813
have some friendly competition.
1584
01:01:41,813 --> 01:01:42,646
It's awesome, man.
1585
01:01:42,646 --> 01:01:44,394
I'm so glad to be able to come out to bars
1586
01:01:44,394 --> 01:01:45,400
and stuff like that again.
1587
01:01:45,400 --> 01:01:46,885
You know, we're able to come
out and meet other people
1588
01:01:46,885 --> 01:01:48,315
and play a brand new game, "Avengers".
1589
01:01:48,315 --> 01:01:50,477
I played and got my kicked
in it unfortunately, but,
1590
01:01:50,477 --> 01:01:51,754
you know, hey,
1591
01:01:51,754 --> 01:01:52,916
what are you gonna do?
1592
01:01:52,916 --> 01:01:53,927
Because I know people right now,
1593
01:01:53,927 --> 01:01:55,988
they probably need this
almost more than ever
1594
01:01:55,988 --> 01:01:58,666
to be in an environment like this
1595
01:01:58,666 --> 01:02:00,566
where they can have a good time again.
1596
01:02:00,566 --> 01:02:03,171
We're all working every day to get there
1597
01:02:03,171 --> 01:02:04,367
and I'm faithful we will.
1598
01:02:04,367 --> 01:02:07,042
I'm faithful that we'll be
able to get back to that.
1599
01:02:07,042 --> 01:02:11,330
It may take some time and
serious effort to get there,
1600
01:02:11,330 --> 01:02:13,163
but I believe we will.
1601
01:02:21,487 --> 01:02:22,893
I'm just happy to be open, man.
1602
01:02:22,893 --> 01:02:25,606
It's great, it's been a
rough fucking five months.
1603
01:02:26,439 --> 01:02:27,359
Because we're able to be open now,
1604
01:02:27,359 --> 01:02:28,364
it's been crazy.
1605
01:02:28,364 --> 01:02:29,226
We've been busy.
1606
01:02:29,226 --> 01:02:31,614
We've been trying to keep
beer stocked, it's nuts.
1607
01:02:31,614 --> 01:02:33,774
Dude, our stacks are getting ridiculous.
1608
01:02:33,774 --> 01:02:36,652
What better time to collect
"Pinball" machines than COVID?
1609
01:02:38,164 --> 01:02:42,274
We've been able to buy some
newer additions to our library
1610
01:02:42,274 --> 01:02:43,716
and it's been pretty great.
1611
01:02:43,716 --> 01:02:45,954
George has been kind
of going a little nuts
1612
01:02:45,954 --> 01:02:48,372
with the "Pinball" machines.
1613
01:02:48,372 --> 01:02:51,240
He just decided to take off the other day.
1614
01:02:51,240 --> 01:02:54,559
He saw that there was a "'Rick
and Morty' Pinball" machine.
1615
01:02:54,559 --> 01:02:57,497
Someone was selling one in Boston.
1616
01:02:57,497 --> 01:03:01,701
We flew there and drove
back 23 hours straight today
1617
01:03:01,701 --> 01:03:03,201
to get this thing.
1618
01:03:04,157 --> 01:03:05,560
He's convinced me with,
1619
01:03:05,560 --> 01:03:06,409
if we need to sell a machine,
1620
01:03:06,409 --> 01:03:08,455
we can sell a machine and
they hold their value,
1621
01:03:08,455 --> 01:03:10,575
and in the meantime they're making money.
1622
01:03:10,575 --> 01:03:13,652
Morty, you're not
even using the pins Morty.
1623
01:03:13,652 --> 01:03:14,851
What a waste.
1624
01:03:14,851 --> 01:03:17,221
Just shut up while I play.
1625
01:03:17,221 --> 01:03:19,539
Just fucking shut up.
1626
01:03:19,539 --> 01:03:21,244
I kind of see us getting more machines,
1627
01:03:21,244 --> 01:03:23,114
spreading "Pinball" joy to everyone else,
1628
01:03:23,114 --> 01:03:24,726
maybe one day another location.
1629
01:03:24,726 --> 01:03:26,247
We're kind of in this phase right now
1630
01:03:26,247 --> 01:03:27,808
where we're just excited.
1631
01:03:27,808 --> 01:03:29,738
Quarantine Pachanga shots.
1632
01:03:29,738 --> 01:03:32,581
- Cheers, buddy.
- Cheers. Cheers. Cheers.
1633
01:03:36,553 --> 01:03:39,634
You know, after the past six
months or so knee deep in this,
1634
01:03:39,634 --> 01:03:41,627
we're feeling pretty good.
1635
01:03:41,627 --> 01:03:44,127
I'm just happy to be open and
1636
01:03:45,141 --> 01:03:47,677
I love my wife more than
anything in the entire.
1637
01:03:47,677 --> 01:03:49,163
- I love my wife.
- I love my wife
1638
01:03:49,163 --> 01:03:50,343
more than anything in the whole world.
1639
01:03:50,343 --> 01:03:52,301
- I love my wife.
- She's the greatest.
1640
01:03:52,301 --> 01:03:54,164
- We all love George's wife.
- And I would never
1641
01:03:54,164 --> 01:03:56,160
ever wanna be anywhere else aside
1642
01:03:56,160 --> 01:03:57,371
from next to her bosom
1643
01:03:57,371 --> 01:03:58,383
every night
1644
01:03:58,383 --> 01:03:59,727
I'm sorry.
1645
01:03:59,727 --> 01:04:01,823
Let's do more shots.
1646
01:04:01,823 --> 01:04:03,064
At the end of the day, you know,
1647
01:04:03,064 --> 01:04:04,969
you only have a short
amount of time on this Earth
1648
01:04:04,969 --> 01:04:07,701
and what better way than
to celebrate with people
1649
01:04:07,701 --> 01:04:09,038
that love all things geeky.
1650
01:04:09,038 --> 01:04:10,511
Perfect.
1651
01:04:10,511 --> 01:04:11,713
Next time.
1652
01:04:11,713 --> 01:04:13,620
Yeah. Oh, yeah.
1653
01:04:19,177 --> 01:04:20,665
Hey Billy, how you doing man?
1654
01:04:20,665 --> 01:04:22,298
I'm George, nice to meet you.
1655
01:04:22,298 --> 01:04:23,398
This is a decent place,
1656
01:04:23,398 --> 01:04:24,858
- your alright.
- Thank you so much, man.
1657
01:04:24,858 --> 01:04:26,986
Having a legend like
Billy Mitchell coming
1658
01:04:26,986 --> 01:04:29,104
to Reboot is pretty exciting.
1659
01:04:29,104 --> 01:04:33,559
He is one of the most prolific
arcade players in the world.
1660
01:04:33,559 --> 01:04:36,005
We're pretty proud of some
of the games that we have.
1661
01:04:36,005 --> 01:04:37,922
We have Nintendo Row,
1662
01:04:38,861 --> 01:04:41,126
"Punch Out!!", "Mario Brothers",
1663
01:04:41,126 --> 01:04:42,796
your favorite, "Donkey Kong".
1664
01:04:42,796 --> 01:04:45,879
Do it.
1665
01:04:54,343 --> 01:04:56,739
We wouldn't want you to
have a bad name around town.
1666
01:04:56,739 --> 01:04:58,099
Absolutely
1667
01:04:58,099 --> 01:05:00,661
Getting the seal of approval signed
1668
01:05:00,661 --> 01:05:02,352
by Billy Mitchell made me realize
1669
01:05:02,352 --> 01:05:04,518
that I'm never gonna sell this machine
1670
01:05:04,518 --> 01:05:05,569
ever again.
1671
01:05:05,569 --> 01:05:07,564
And I got it in my personal collection.
1672
01:05:07,564 --> 01:05:08,426
Certified, not MAME.
1673
01:05:08,426 --> 01:05:10,959
And it is
definitely certified, not MAME.
1674
01:05:10,959 --> 01:05:12,453
- All right.
- If you wanna play,
1675
01:05:12,453 --> 01:05:13,758
- I'll play you.
- Yeah.
1676
01:05:13,758 --> 01:05:16,526
But maybe we'll wager
tonight's tab on it .
1677
01:05:16,526 --> 01:05:17,584
- Okay.
- I mean,
1678
01:05:17,584 --> 01:05:18,636
learn from the master, man.
1679
01:05:18,636 --> 01:05:19,469
All right, how about,
1680
01:05:19,469 --> 01:05:20,746
- let's get a little better.
- Okay.
1681
01:05:20,746 --> 01:05:22,778
- How about if you play.
- Okay.
1682
01:05:22,778 --> 01:05:24,963
You clear three boards, you win.
1683
01:05:24,963 --> 01:05:26,575
Oh, Jesus.
1684
01:05:26,575 --> 01:05:27,689
- Three, come on.
- Okay.
1685
01:05:27,689 --> 01:05:28,522
When I play,
1686
01:05:28,522 --> 01:05:30,151
- I gotta clear 117.
- All right.
1687
01:05:33,446 --> 01:05:35,152
Standing in front of "Donkey Kong"
1688
01:05:35,152 --> 01:05:38,063
with Billy Mitchell is both
incredibly invigorating
1689
01:05:38,063 --> 01:05:40,126
and extremely terrifying.
1690
01:05:48,338 --> 01:05:49,348
One down.
1691
01:05:49,348 --> 01:05:51,989
I'm sweating.
1692
01:05:54,477 --> 01:05:55,310
Oh,
1693
01:05:56,623 --> 01:05:57,456
focus.
1694
01:06:01,285 --> 01:06:03,709
You can't jump over them, that's right.
1695
01:06:03,709 --> 01:06:04,779
- I win.
- You win.
1696
01:06:04,779 --> 01:06:06,424
Thanks, man.
1697
01:06:06,424 --> 01:06:07,679
I did better than I thought,
1698
01:06:07,679 --> 01:06:08,611
- I gotta be honest with you.
- You did good.
1699
01:06:08,611 --> 01:06:09,490
Thank you.
1700
01:06:09,490 --> 01:06:11,710
Having the experience
of playing "Donkey Kong"
1701
01:06:11,710 --> 01:06:12,993
in front of Billy Mitchell,
1702
01:06:12,993 --> 01:06:15,090
even though I cracked
under pressure and I lost,
1703
01:06:15,090 --> 01:06:18,327
I felt like it didn't really
matter how good I did,
1704
01:06:18,327 --> 01:06:20,217
I was a winner at that point.
1705
01:06:20,217 --> 01:06:22,439
You can't jump over the flames, right?
1706
01:06:22,439 --> 01:06:23,317
Oh, I can.
1707
01:06:23,317 --> 01:06:24,337
I don't know how you can't.
1708
01:06:25,619 --> 01:06:27,182
That's true, I definitely can't.
1709
01:06:27,182 --> 01:06:28,972
It's like, if you're
gonna lose to somebody,
1710
01:06:28,972 --> 01:06:31,552
you're gonna lose to the king
and I was happy with that.
1711
01:06:31,552 --> 01:06:35,660
You see, until there was
barcades or arcade bars,
1712
01:06:35,660 --> 01:06:39,839
I had no way to introduce
my son or daughter
1713
01:06:39,839 --> 01:06:42,085
- to what it was I did.
- Sure.
1714
01:06:42,085 --> 01:06:43,990
Now you're sitting there eating,
1715
01:06:43,990 --> 01:06:47,340
drinking and what's behind
you is what dad used to do.
1716
01:06:47,340 --> 01:06:50,367
And before, to them arcade
games were antiquated.
1717
01:06:50,367 --> 01:06:51,200
Right.
1718
01:06:51,200 --> 01:06:53,456
But now it's a way
that it's been introduced
1719
01:06:53,456 --> 01:06:54,491
to a whole new generation.
1720
01:06:54,491 --> 01:06:56,122
And they can't get
that experience at home.
1721
01:06:56,122 --> 01:06:57,507
Right, but when you're here now,
1722
01:06:57,507 --> 01:06:58,842
you're right with somebody.
1723
01:06:58,842 --> 01:06:59,952
You laugh with them.
1724
01:06:59,952 --> 01:07:01,013
You see their reactions.
1725
01:07:01,013 --> 01:07:03,379
It's a representation
of the history of gaming.
1726
01:07:03,379 --> 01:07:04,212
Yep.
1727
01:07:04,212 --> 01:07:06,501
It's hard to argue with the
convenience of playing online,
1728
01:07:06,501 --> 01:07:08,053
but it's not the same experience.
1729
01:07:08,053 --> 01:07:10,272
It's not, I think so many people
1730
01:07:10,272 --> 01:07:13,007
who are in one part would
never experience the other.
1731
01:07:13,007 --> 01:07:14,972
But now that there's a
community, they will.
1732
01:07:14,972 --> 01:07:16,451
Yeah, thanks for noticing that
1733
01:07:16,451 --> 01:07:19,511
and I totally agree with you.
1734
01:07:19,511 --> 01:07:22,044
Oh man, that is fucking awesome.
1735
01:07:22,044 --> 01:07:23,874
"Pardon my French."
1736
01:07:23,874 --> 01:07:25,175
Billy, thank you so much man.
1737
01:07:25,175 --> 01:07:26,143
- You deserve it.
- Thanks, man.
1738
01:07:26,143 --> 01:07:27,953
- Keep up the good fight.
- Thank you so much, man.
1739
01:07:27,953 --> 01:07:29,523
- Keep up the good fight.
- It's an honor.
1740
01:07:32,148 --> 01:07:34,552
Hey guys, welcome back to the channel.
1741
01:07:34,552 --> 01:07:36,198
I've been touring the
country just recently
1742
01:07:36,198 --> 01:07:38,395
and I have some awesome news to report.
1743
01:07:38,395 --> 01:07:41,572
A lot of these arcade bars
have weathered the storm
1744
01:07:41,572 --> 01:07:43,848
and they're bigger and
better than they were before
1745
01:07:43,848 --> 01:07:47,136
and there's bar locations
opening up every single day.
1746
01:07:47,136 --> 01:07:50,746
Everybody's going nuts
going into the arcades
1747
01:07:50,746 --> 01:07:54,233
and arcade machines are
very much in high demand.
1748
01:07:54,233 --> 01:07:57,316
Business has returned very quickly.
1749
01:07:58,170 --> 01:08:02,607
It was an almost instantaneous
return to the arcade.
1750
01:08:02,607 --> 01:08:05,988
Seeing the rebirth of the arcade spirit
1751
01:08:05,988 --> 01:08:09,703
that's embellished in
not only the arcade bars,
1752
01:08:09,703 --> 01:08:13,026
but tens of thousands of
people have home game rooms,
1753
01:08:13,026 --> 01:08:14,620
both of them moving together,
1754
01:08:14,620 --> 01:08:19,340
bringing our ancient arcade
heritage into the modern age
1755
01:08:19,340 --> 01:08:24,340
and bringing it back for life
and giving it a bright future.
1756
01:08:25,285 --> 01:08:27,059
This is the "Monster Bash".
1757
01:08:27,059 --> 01:08:28,657
Yeah, and I checked "Pinside".
1758
01:08:28,657 --> 01:08:30,109
We're 500 above.
1759
01:08:34,225 --> 01:08:36,664
And Rob, you wanted the one
with the fucked up box right?
1760
01:08:37,577 --> 01:08:39,875
I actually specifically requested that.
1761
01:08:39,875 --> 01:08:41,382
That stinks.
1762
01:08:41,382 --> 01:08:42,657
I'm at Little Shop of Games.
1763
01:08:42,657 --> 01:08:45,849
I'm here to pick up "'Godzilla'
Pro Pinball" machine
1764
01:08:45,849 --> 01:08:47,848
from Stern and I'm stoked about it.
1765
01:08:47,848 --> 01:08:50,377
It's awesome to be able
to bring in a new machine.
1766
01:08:50,377 --> 01:08:51,531
It does kind of suck
1767
01:08:51,531 --> 01:08:54,375
that they're a little bit more expensive.
1768
01:08:54,375 --> 01:08:56,667
This is the price of a
pro and not a premium?
1769
01:08:56,667 --> 01:08:59,211
- Yeah, dude.
- Premium is nine.
1770
01:08:59,211 --> 01:09:01,970
- Please, premium is insane.
- I'm just messing with you.
1771
01:09:01,970 --> 01:09:04,710
It's good to see the hobby increase,
1772
01:09:04,710 --> 01:09:06,702
that interest come and flourish
1773
01:09:06,702 --> 01:09:10,166
and be probably bigger
than it's been in decades,
1774
01:09:10,166 --> 01:09:13,850
though, it's not without its own issue.
1775
01:09:13,850 --> 01:09:17,272
I'm excited for all the new
stuff coming with "Pinball"
1776
01:09:17,272 --> 01:09:19,439
and like the fresh energy.
1777
01:09:21,441 --> 01:09:24,296
The little bit of the cost
though is that it's harder
1778
01:09:24,296 --> 01:09:26,280
to enjoy it as a hobby, I think,
1779
01:09:26,280 --> 01:09:27,573
'cause it's expensive.
1780
01:09:27,573 --> 01:09:30,348
You can get a house down
payment for that, you know.
1781
01:09:30,348 --> 01:09:32,160
We're seeing a whole resurgence
1782
01:09:32,160 --> 01:09:34,648
because these "Pinball" machines tend
1783
01:09:34,648 --> 01:09:36,778
to sell out now as soon as they're made.
1784
01:09:36,778 --> 01:09:39,765
I mean, they go real quick.
1785
01:09:39,765 --> 01:09:42,042
It's nice to be back to a place
1786
01:09:42,042 --> 01:09:44,712
where we can start bringing
in new games again.
1787
01:09:44,712 --> 01:09:46,311
Everyone's like, I thought
there was a new game.
1788
01:09:46,311 --> 01:09:47,144
I'm like, yeah,
1789
01:09:47,144 --> 01:09:49,394
- there's a new game.
- Sorry.
1790
01:09:50,366 --> 01:09:52,403
It's like you've done this before, James.
1791
01:09:52,403 --> 01:09:56,327
Is it a little throwback
to COVID rental days?
1792
01:09:56,327 --> 01:09:58,630
Yeah, that was fun.
1793
01:09:58,630 --> 01:10:01,908
It was a really good
feeling to actually be back
1794
01:10:01,908 --> 01:10:04,804
to bringing in a new game and not having
1795
01:10:04,804 --> 01:10:06,364
to do the rental thing.
1796
01:10:06,364 --> 01:10:11,364
I'll get a picture in front
of the mural real quick too.
1797
01:10:11,514 --> 01:10:13,152
It's inception.
1798
01:10:14,593 --> 01:10:17,374
Man, it sure does feel
different than a year ago.
1799
01:10:17,374 --> 01:10:18,663
It feels great.
1800
01:10:18,663 --> 01:10:23,090
It feels like we're finally
getting back to where we used
1801
01:10:23,090 --> 01:10:26,372
to be and we're able to
provide new games to people.
1802
01:10:26,372 --> 01:10:30,158
And I am very grateful for having survived
1803
01:10:30,158 --> 01:10:31,611
and to come through this.
1804
01:10:31,611 --> 01:10:33,138
Oh, that new game smell.
1805
01:10:33,138 --> 01:10:34,700
It's like Christmas.
1806
01:10:34,700 --> 01:10:37,479
That's the face of a
proud papa right there.
1807
01:10:37,479 --> 01:10:39,294
Yeah, it feels good.
1808
01:10:39,294 --> 01:10:41,012
Having everyone together to do that,
1809
01:10:41,012 --> 01:10:41,845
I love it, man.
1810
01:10:41,845 --> 01:10:44,448
It's really cool to see everybody
gather around a new game
1811
01:10:44,448 --> 01:10:47,984
and I had missed that feeling very much.
1812
01:10:47,984 --> 01:10:49,362
Oh, it's so close.
1813
01:10:49,362 --> 01:10:52,058
Very glad to be back to that point
1814
01:10:52,058 --> 01:10:54,626
to where I can see people do that again.
1815
01:10:54,626 --> 01:10:56,156
It's better in here
than it was last year.
1816
01:10:56,156 --> 01:10:58,925
Oh, it's so much better.
1817
01:10:58,925 --> 01:11:00,972
Like, today it was like one of those days
1818
01:11:00,972 --> 01:11:01,952
where I really felt it,
1819
01:11:01,952 --> 01:11:03,327
like oh, it feels so much better.
1820
01:11:03,327 --> 01:11:07,268
It feels like
1821
01:11:07,268 --> 01:11:10,937
a giant weight getting off your shoulders
1822
01:11:10,937 --> 01:11:13,708
and you're able to take a breath
1823
01:11:13,708 --> 01:11:17,325
and enjoy again kind of just a moment.
1824
01:11:17,325 --> 01:11:19,625
'Cause after all that
shit of the past year,
1825
01:11:19,625 --> 01:11:22,643
being able to get back to
where it's just something kind
1826
01:11:22,643 --> 01:11:24,325
of fun and simple,
1827
01:11:24,325 --> 01:11:25,946
you appreciated that much more
1828
01:11:25,946 --> 01:11:27,195
because of what you've been through.
1829
01:11:28,636 --> 01:11:30,469
That was so, so tight.
1830
01:11:31,462 --> 01:11:34,629
Yeah, it's a great feeling to be back.
1831
01:11:42,033 --> 01:11:43,706
People are coming back in the doors.
1832
01:11:43,706 --> 01:11:45,959
We're getting busy again.
1833
01:11:45,959 --> 01:11:48,044
We've just recently got a food truck.
1834
01:11:48,044 --> 01:11:49,537
It's called 8Bit Bytes,
1835
01:11:49,537 --> 01:11:52,359
and we had Mike as one of the bartenders,
1836
01:11:52,359 --> 01:11:55,653
he worked on the art for
it and it looks fantastic.
1837
01:11:55,653 --> 01:11:58,906
We went to serving food just to survive
1838
01:11:58,906 --> 01:12:01,946
and now we have a food truck in order
1839
01:12:01,946 --> 01:12:04,929
to provide on our day-to-day
as part of our business.
1840
01:12:04,929 --> 01:12:07,786
It's very nice to be able to
fill the calendar once again
1841
01:12:07,786 --> 01:12:10,781
with events to bring back live music,
1842
01:12:10,781 --> 01:12:12,226
to bring back DJs.
1843
01:12:12,226 --> 01:12:13,846
I'm happy to be here, man.
1844
01:12:13,846 --> 01:12:14,780
This is gonna be fun.
1845
01:12:14,780 --> 01:12:15,613
This gonna be a lot of fun.
1846
01:12:15,613 --> 01:12:17,110
- It's gonna be a blast.
- Yeah, man.
1847
01:12:17,110 --> 01:12:17,947
I mean, we've been working,
1848
01:12:17,947 --> 01:12:20,788
what, a long time to have both
of you guys here at the same.
1849
01:12:20,788 --> 01:12:21,851
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
1850
01:12:21,851 --> 01:12:25,419
I am incredibly excited
to have DJ Eminent
1851
01:12:25,419 --> 01:12:29,035
with Von Garden both together
at the same time on our stage.
1852
01:12:29,035 --> 01:12:29,868
It seems
1853
01:12:30,758 --> 01:12:33,102
we're back, we're back to being able
1854
01:12:33,102 --> 01:12:35,645
to do what we love to do again.
1855
01:12:35,645 --> 01:12:36,761
- I love it.
- My man.
1856
01:12:36,761 --> 01:12:37,821
- It's awesome, man.
- Let's do this.
1857
01:12:37,821 --> 01:12:38,714
Let's do this, brother.
1858
01:12:38,714 --> 01:12:39,735
- Let's do this.
- All right.
1859
01:12:39,735 --> 01:12:41,701
♪ You feel alive, let's
hit the dance floor ♪
1860
01:12:41,701 --> 01:12:43,687
♪ Don't work too hard,
might break a backbone ♪
1861
01:12:43,687 --> 01:12:45,767
♪ Returning of the mack,
the king is back though ♪
1862
01:12:45,767 --> 01:12:47,807
♪ Corvette and cash, I never lack those ♪
1863
01:12:47,807 --> 01:12:49,915
♪ She saw the stone,
you know how that go ♪
1864
01:12:49,915 --> 01:12:51,815
♪ Fatality, my diamonds that cold ♪
1865
01:12:51,815 --> 01:12:53,897
♪ Versace trunks, I hit my backstroke ♪
1866
01:12:53,897 --> 01:12:55,897
♪ Knock on the door, she at the back bro ♪
1867
01:12:55,897 --> 01:12:57,127
Just heard from somebody
1868
01:12:57,127 --> 01:12:58,898
that he's doing a better job than me.
1869
01:12:58,898 --> 01:13:00,563
And it's funny 'cause we're in an arcade,
1870
01:13:00,563 --> 01:13:02,004
so I might have to go versus him.
1871
01:13:02,004 --> 01:13:04,401
♪ Good times ♪
1872
01:13:04,401 --> 01:13:08,582
♪ Live in the moment, it
feel like summer time ♪
1873
01:13:08,582 --> 01:13:09,915
You know what?
1874
01:13:11,111 --> 01:13:13,180
Let's play more songs about weed.
1875
01:13:14,100 --> 01:13:15,447
- Herd.
- Herd.
1876
01:13:26,806 --> 01:13:28,409
♪ I'm done playing ♪
1877
01:13:28,409 --> 01:13:30,719
♪ Pour, pour in the rain ♪
1878
01:13:30,719 --> 01:13:32,988
♪ There's blood on my face ♪
1879
01:13:32,988 --> 01:13:35,929
♪ I love when I face you ♪
1880
01:13:35,929 --> 01:13:38,015
♪ I'm done playing ♪
1881
01:13:38,015 --> 01:13:40,400
♪ Pour, pour in the rain, yeah ♪
1882
01:13:40,400 --> 01:13:42,605
♪ There's blood in my face, yeah ♪
1883
01:13:42,605 --> 01:13:45,122
♪ Babe, I love when I face yeah ♪
1884
01:13:45,122 --> 01:13:46,507
Things have been going really well.
1885
01:13:46,507 --> 01:13:47,619
The business is booming.
1886
01:13:47,619 --> 01:13:50,359
We've had an opportunity to
bring in a lot more machines.
1887
01:13:50,359 --> 01:13:52,098
There've been some new
games that have come out,
1888
01:13:52,098 --> 01:13:53,526
some pretty high-end "Pinball" machines
1889
01:13:53,526 --> 01:13:54,718
and some really fun stuff.
1890
01:13:54,718 --> 01:13:56,682
Almost every person's playing a game.
1891
01:13:56,682 --> 01:13:57,873
It's pretty awesome.
1892
01:13:57,873 --> 01:13:59,806
I'm happy to say that actually things now
1893
01:13:59,806 --> 01:14:00,989
are better than ever.
1894
01:14:00,989 --> 01:14:03,115
Seeing everybody around
and playing "Pinball"
1895
01:14:03,115 --> 01:14:05,190
and video games and having camaraderie
1896
01:14:05,190 --> 01:14:06,787
with each other is just sort of like one
1897
01:14:06,787 --> 01:14:11,037
of the best things that
honestly any human can see.
1898
01:14:15,763 --> 01:14:18,806
The Tampa Bay
Comic Convention is back
1899
01:14:18,806 --> 01:14:20,328
after taking a year off.
1900
01:14:21,722 --> 01:14:23,602
Organizers say it should
1901
01:14:23,602 --> 01:14:25,685
be their biggest show ever.
1902
01:14:30,479 --> 01:14:32,275
Comic-Con was always one of those things
1903
01:14:32,275 --> 01:14:33,831
where I just felt like
it was bigger than us,
1904
01:14:33,831 --> 01:14:36,800
'cause all that fun
geekiness that's there,
1905
01:14:36,800 --> 01:14:40,051
I never would've imagined that
we'd actually be part of it.
1906
01:14:41,684 --> 01:14:42,632
Yeah, it's pretty cool.
1907
01:14:42,632 --> 01:14:43,515
This place is awesome.
1908
01:14:43,515 --> 01:14:46,365
We're doing a event
for Gamers on the Edge.
1909
01:14:46,365 --> 01:14:48,496
We have all of these game consoles.
1910
01:14:48,496 --> 01:14:49,688
There's like 20 or 30 of them,
1911
01:14:49,688 --> 01:14:50,750
all kids playing,
1912
01:14:50,750 --> 01:14:53,216
and we are the arcade
division side of Comic-Con.
1913
01:14:53,216 --> 01:14:55,812
The reception's been so good
because it's got everything
1914
01:14:55,812 --> 01:14:57,082
in here that kids want, you know.
1915
01:14:57,082 --> 01:14:57,915
You got video games.
1916
01:14:57,915 --> 01:14:58,870
You got "Pinball".
1917
01:14:58,870 --> 01:15:00,990
Being able to see all these
people interact with it,
1918
01:15:00,990 --> 01:15:05,690
it kind of solidifies why
we did Reboot to begin with.
1919
01:15:05,690 --> 01:15:07,071
It's a good turnout today, man.
1920
01:15:07,071 --> 01:15:08,173
- It is.
- Wow.
1921
01:15:08,173 --> 01:15:10,066
He was totally right about
how busy it was gonna be.
1922
01:15:10,066 --> 01:15:12,872
Yeah, well earlier
this place was packed.
1923
01:15:12,872 --> 01:15:14,749
- Wall-to-wall?
- It was a big crowd.
1924
01:15:14,749 --> 01:15:15,756
That's awesome.
1925
01:15:15,756 --> 01:15:17,807
Quite a few people know the brand, man.
1926
01:15:17,807 --> 01:15:18,751
- Yeah.
- They do.
1927
01:15:18,751 --> 01:15:19,584
Reboot.
1928
01:15:19,584 --> 01:15:21,985
That's awesome. Yeah.
1929
01:15:21,985 --> 01:15:24,554
Well, it's such a good crossover
1930
01:15:24,554 --> 01:15:26,611
between the people that
like to come to our bar
1931
01:15:26,611 --> 01:15:29,231
and who usually come to
places like this, you know.
1932
01:15:29,231 --> 01:15:31,726
I feel like gaming and comic books
1933
01:15:31,726 --> 01:15:34,739
and superheroes are sort of
all synonymous with each other.
1934
01:15:34,739 --> 01:15:36,445
Those crowds intersect.
1935
01:15:36,445 --> 01:15:37,510
If you like comic books,
1936
01:15:37,510 --> 01:15:38,769
you probably like video games.
1937
01:15:38,769 --> 01:15:39,795
If you like video games,
1938
01:15:39,795 --> 01:15:41,183
you probably like comic books.
1939
01:15:41,183 --> 01:15:44,039
So coming up with an idea
that kind of brings all
1940
01:15:44,039 --> 01:15:46,294
that together was something
that we were talking about
1941
01:15:46,294 --> 01:15:49,388
and we have a really good idea
for a new business venture.
1942
01:16:02,902 --> 01:16:05,505
What are you thinking
about the table setup?
1943
01:16:05,505 --> 01:16:07,144
- I think it looks awesome.
- Yeah.
1944
01:16:07,144 --> 01:16:09,095
Look how many people
are fitting in that booth.
1945
01:16:09,095 --> 01:16:10,318
Bring it in.
1946
01:16:10,318 --> 01:16:11,151
Bring it in.
1947
01:16:11,151 --> 01:16:13,300
Yeah, we kind of did a thing.
1948
01:16:13,300 --> 01:16:16,238
We opened up a
superhero-themed pizza place
1949
01:16:16,238 --> 01:16:18,478
by the name of Infinity Pizza.
1950
01:16:18,478 --> 01:16:21,381
Infinity Pizza, I honestly
feel is a throwback
1951
01:16:21,381 --> 01:16:23,906
to the excitement that when
you went into a pizza place
1952
01:16:23,906 --> 01:16:24,978
when you were a kid,
1953
01:16:24,978 --> 01:16:26,154
there would be arcade games.
1954
01:16:26,154 --> 01:16:28,083
We wanted to give like an homage to that
1955
01:16:28,083 --> 01:16:30,917
but also tie it into the
geek culture that we enjoy.
1956
01:16:30,917 --> 01:16:32,588
And "Pinball" machines and arcades,
1957
01:16:32,588 --> 01:16:35,403
it gives that fresh take on an old idea
1958
01:16:35,403 --> 01:16:37,059
and I really feel like we nailed it.
1959
01:16:38,043 --> 01:16:39,630
So far, everything's been going awesome.
1960
01:16:39,630 --> 01:16:40,932
We invited a lot of friends and family
1961
01:16:40,932 --> 01:16:42,888
and we had about 60 people show up.
1962
01:16:42,888 --> 01:16:44,544
I don't know if we ordered enough food,
1963
01:16:44,544 --> 01:16:45,677
so it seems like it's so busy
1964
01:16:45,677 --> 01:16:46,964
that we're probably gonna run out.
1965
01:16:46,964 --> 01:16:47,864
It's fresh.
1966
01:16:47,864 --> 01:16:49,854
It's very nice seeing everybody come out
1967
01:16:49,854 --> 01:16:51,031
and support you, you know.
1968
01:16:51,031 --> 01:16:52,613
It's been such a long two years
1969
01:16:52,613 --> 01:16:54,644
and when you can see everyone's
happy to be together,
1970
01:16:54,644 --> 01:16:57,224
it's an uplifting experience.
1971
01:16:57,224 --> 01:16:59,543
It's very humbling but
also very enlightening
1972
01:16:59,543 --> 01:17:02,746
when you realize the
power of people's spirits.
1973
01:17:02,746 --> 01:17:04,516
So far, it seems like
everyone's having a good time.
1974
01:17:04,516 --> 01:17:05,349
And you know what,
1975
01:17:05,349 --> 01:17:06,948
we all have some weight we need to gain.
1976
01:17:06,948 --> 01:17:08,144
You know, we got pizza,
1977
01:17:08,144 --> 01:17:10,372
we've got drinks, you know.
1978
01:17:10,372 --> 01:17:12,164
Everyone's too thin.
1979
01:17:12,164 --> 01:17:13,869
It reminds me of my
grandmother from Naples.
1980
01:17:13,869 --> 01:17:15,319
"You're too skinny, eat."
1981
01:17:15,319 --> 01:17:16,762
Beautifully said. I love it.
1982
01:17:16,762 --> 01:17:18,357
I don't have anything else
1983
01:17:18,357 --> 01:17:20,442
to add other than we need
to take some more walks.
1984
01:17:20,442 --> 01:17:21,481
Take some more walks.
1985
01:17:21,481 --> 01:17:22,457
- Yes. Yes.
- Yes. Yes.
1986
01:17:22,457 --> 01:17:24,085
The soft opening was way cool.
1987
01:17:24,085 --> 01:17:26,502
Just to see people support us
1988
01:17:27,767 --> 01:17:32,184
and get excited about the
concept was really awesome.
1989
01:17:33,051 --> 01:17:34,674
I just wanna welcome everyone here
1990
01:17:34,674 --> 01:17:38,007
to our inaugural Infinity Pizza opening.
1991
01:17:39,332 --> 01:17:40,165
If you're here,
1992
01:17:40,165 --> 01:17:41,315
then we care a lot about you.
1993
01:17:41,315 --> 01:17:43,704
If you're not here, fuck you.
1994
01:17:44,940 --> 01:17:46,024
Nah, I'm just joking.
1995
01:17:46,024 --> 01:17:47,647
But when we envisioned this place,
1996
01:17:47,647 --> 01:17:50,228
we wanted it to be a fun
environment for everybody,
1997
01:17:50,228 --> 01:17:53,210
welcoming everyone and to
kind of celebrate the idea
1998
01:17:53,210 --> 01:17:55,040
of just being a dork and eating pizza.
1999
01:17:55,040 --> 01:17:57,216
My wonderful wife has been my rock.
2000
01:17:57,216 --> 01:17:58,927
and, you know,
2001
01:17:58,927 --> 01:18:01,004
she's my Dwayne Johnson
as I always tell her.
2002
01:18:02,799 --> 01:18:04,692
Getting through the last two years,
2003
01:18:04,692 --> 01:18:06,421
seeing how everything has bounced back
2004
01:18:06,421 --> 01:18:07,775
and how people are more excited than ever
2005
01:18:07,775 --> 01:18:09,448
to come into an arcade bar,
2006
01:18:09,448 --> 01:18:13,851
it's really given me a lot
of optimism for the future.
2007
01:18:13,851 --> 01:18:15,241
I mean, whether it's expansion,
2008
01:18:15,241 --> 01:18:16,521
whether it's adding more games,
2009
01:18:16,521 --> 01:18:19,130
I mean, the culture is
alive and as strong as ever.
2010
01:18:19,130 --> 01:18:20,578
It seems like the sky is the limit.
2011
01:18:20,578 --> 01:18:22,960
To celebrate this
wonderful time of opening
2012
01:18:22,960 --> 01:18:24,072
and seeing everybody,
2013
01:18:24,072 --> 01:18:25,265
we're gonna shotgun a beer
2014
01:18:25,265 --> 01:18:26,759
and regret every decision
we're making here.
2015
01:18:26,759 --> 01:18:28,371
And please toast with us.
2016
01:18:28,371 --> 01:18:29,309
- Yeah.
- Thank you, guys.
2017
01:18:29,309 --> 01:18:31,126
- Cheers.
- Cheers. Cheers.
2018
01:18:37,859 --> 01:18:39,650
Oh, it's so good.
2019
01:18:41,581 --> 01:18:42,414
No, I'm just joking.
2020
01:18:42,414 --> 01:18:44,451
I'm good. I'm just joking.
2021
01:18:50,548 --> 01:18:51,965
Why, thank you.
2022
01:18:53,334 --> 01:18:56,858
So they're supposed to have
a lot of new beers tonight
2023
01:18:56,858 --> 01:18:59,963
- for the anniversary.
- Ah yes, yes, yes.
2024
01:19:07,731 --> 01:19:12,731
It's wild that we are here
where we survived to six years.
2025
01:19:12,999 --> 01:19:15,772
We're gonna have a bunch of
events going on all weekend.
2026
01:19:15,772 --> 01:19:17,241
We have live music tonight.
2027
01:19:17,241 --> 01:19:18,794
We're gonna have beer and barbecue.
2028
01:19:18,794 --> 01:19:20,789
It's gonna be great.
2029
01:19:20,789 --> 01:19:23,292
The turnout so far has been fantastic.
2030
01:19:23,292 --> 01:19:24,603
We're gonna be like a really busy night,
2031
01:19:24,603 --> 01:19:25,758
but it's gonna be a great night.
2032
01:19:25,758 --> 01:19:28,972
We want everyone that's
here to have a good time.
2033
01:19:28,972 --> 01:19:29,852
Throughout the weekend,
2034
01:19:29,852 --> 01:19:31,376
we're gonna be tapping all
2035
01:19:31,376 --> 01:19:33,116
these incredible breweries out here.
2036
01:19:33,116 --> 01:19:35,699
Well, thank you. I thank you.
2037
01:19:36,662 --> 01:19:39,143
And Ross being a huge craft beer lover,
2038
01:19:39,143 --> 01:19:40,649
he's got some incredible,
2039
01:19:40,649 --> 01:19:42,261
insane rare beers.
2040
01:19:42,261 --> 01:19:43,703
Taplist is insane.
2041
01:19:43,703 --> 01:19:45,548
It's gonna be the best we've ever had,
2042
01:19:45,548 --> 01:19:46,510
the shit's fire.
2043
01:19:46,510 --> 01:19:49,190
What do you have that's new or cool,
2044
01:19:49,190 --> 01:19:50,574
like something different?
2045
01:19:50,574 --> 01:19:54,359
Oh, we just did a brewery
collab with Magnanimous
2046
01:19:54,359 --> 01:19:55,494
if you wanna do one of that.
2047
01:19:55,494 --> 01:19:57,016
Yeah, it's one of our newest things we did
2048
01:19:57,016 --> 01:19:58,242
for our six-year anniversary.
2049
01:19:58,242 --> 01:20:01,460
I've been wanting to do a
collab with Magnanimous Brewing
2050
01:20:01,460 --> 01:20:02,684
for a long time,
2051
01:20:02,684 --> 01:20:05,229
and Ghostface Keller is that kind
2052
01:20:05,229 --> 01:20:06,832
of special opportunity to do it.
2053
01:20:06,832 --> 01:20:08,142
And it's a Keller beer
2054
01:20:08,142 --> 01:20:12,068
and it's super crushable,
incredibly delicious.
2055
01:20:12,068 --> 01:20:13,445
I fucking love it.
2056
01:20:13,445 --> 01:20:16,721
And the art is super fitting as well.
2057
01:20:16,721 --> 01:20:19,196
We get to brew a collab
today with Magnanimous
2058
01:20:19,196 --> 01:20:20,587
for our anniversary coming up.
2059
01:20:20,587 --> 01:20:22,621
We actually were able to
kind of go hang with them
2060
01:20:22,621 --> 01:20:24,179
for some of the brewing process.
2061
01:20:24,179 --> 01:20:25,986
Super grateful for that experience
2062
01:20:25,986 --> 01:20:27,710
to be in collab with them.
2063
01:20:27,710 --> 01:20:31,343
I mean, we couldn't have a
better gift for our anniversary.
2064
01:20:31,343 --> 01:20:35,210
I am really excited to share
this beer with everybody
2065
01:20:35,210 --> 01:20:39,268
and I think they're gonna
be stoked to have it.
2066
01:20:39,268 --> 01:20:40,704
- Do you like it?
- Yeah, I do.
2067
01:20:40,704 --> 01:20:41,825
- Awesome.
- Thank you.
2068
01:20:41,825 --> 01:20:42,658
- Yeah.
- Cheers.
2069
01:20:42,658 --> 01:20:46,290
Cheers.
2070
01:20:46,290 --> 01:20:48,513
♪ Movie movie ♪
2071
01:20:48,513 --> 01:20:52,111
♪ With you baby, yeah, yeah ♪
2072
01:20:52,111 --> 01:20:54,463
It's a great way to start
off the anniversary weekend.
2073
01:20:54,463 --> 01:20:56,843
There was a time there where, you know,
2074
01:20:56,843 --> 01:20:59,301
it was a little scary
I think for everyone.
2075
01:20:59,301 --> 01:21:02,331
But now to see everyone back
and almost back to normal,
2076
01:21:02,331 --> 01:21:05,309
sort of give back to everybody
that comes in all year round.
2077
01:21:05,309 --> 01:21:07,268
There's some good beers and good games.
2078
01:21:07,268 --> 01:21:08,435
It feels good.
2079
01:21:11,041 --> 01:21:13,807
I'm very thankful for our community
2080
01:21:13,807 --> 01:21:15,610
to be in this position.
2081
01:21:15,610 --> 01:21:17,252
We wouldn't have come
this far if it weren't
2082
01:21:17,252 --> 01:21:18,085
for all of that,
2083
01:21:18,085 --> 01:21:20,512
so I love them all and I'm
very grateful for that.
2084
01:21:20,512 --> 01:21:21,526
Good to see you, man.
2085
01:21:21,526 --> 01:21:23,760
- Thank you for coming out.
- Bro, I'm glad to be here.
2086
01:21:23,760 --> 01:21:25,209
I mean, I love this place.
2087
01:21:25,209 --> 01:21:27,375
It's cool. It's chill.
2088
01:21:27,375 --> 01:21:28,382
'90s hip hop,
2089
01:21:28,382 --> 01:21:30,507
beers and video games.
2090
01:21:30,507 --> 01:21:32,141
You're doing good work.
2091
01:21:32,141 --> 01:21:34,354
This is good work.
2092
01:21:34,354 --> 01:21:35,713
You're doing God's work.
2093
01:21:35,713 --> 01:21:37,602
You're doing God's work
2094
01:21:37,602 --> 01:21:39,697
by supporting us so thank you.
2095
01:21:39,697 --> 01:21:41,520
You're doing God's work.
2096
01:21:41,520 --> 01:21:42,683
This is dope, man.
2097
01:21:42,683 --> 01:21:43,683
It's a lot of fun.
2098
01:21:43,683 --> 01:21:45,766
When I hear from people
2099
01:21:46,964 --> 01:21:49,664
the love that they have for Parcade,
2100
01:21:49,664 --> 01:21:51,385
the love they have for this spot,
2101
01:21:51,385 --> 01:21:53,784
I mean, it's one of the reasons,
2102
01:21:53,784 --> 01:21:56,382
if not the main reason why we do this.
2103
01:21:56,382 --> 01:21:58,199
You get to do something that you love
2104
01:21:58,199 --> 01:22:02,104
and share it with a community
that's incredibly supportive,
2105
01:22:02,104 --> 01:22:03,634
and I love it.
2106
01:22:03,634 --> 01:22:08,009
You can't own an arcade bar
and lose at "Street Fighter".
2107
01:22:08,009 --> 01:22:09,468
How do you do that?
2108
01:22:09,468 --> 01:22:12,212
Because I'm drunk, son.
2109
01:22:12,212 --> 01:22:15,561
It's something that makes me very grateful
2110
01:22:15,561 --> 01:22:17,641
and thankful that I do it every day.
2111
01:22:17,641 --> 01:22:18,474
I think I won.
2112
01:22:18,474 --> 01:22:21,291
- Oh, I won.
- I'm really proud of you.
2113
01:22:21,291 --> 01:22:25,315
You're six.
2114
01:22:25,315 --> 01:22:27,452
I've seen how much this place has grown.
2115
01:22:27,452 --> 01:22:30,461
It's really great to see
everybody fill back in here,
2116
01:22:30,461 --> 01:22:33,607
to celebrate Lowry Parcade
and what they bring.
2117
01:22:33,607 --> 01:22:34,976
It's really awesome.
2118
01:22:34,976 --> 01:22:36,900
What you've done, like,
2119
01:22:36,900 --> 01:22:39,689
you can just look around
and there's genuine smiles
2120
01:22:39,689 --> 01:22:41,369
on people's faces.
2121
01:22:41,369 --> 01:22:43,754
When was the last time you
seen people playing air hockey
2122
01:22:43,754 --> 01:22:44,768
outside of this place?
2123
01:22:44,768 --> 01:22:46,348
People are playing arcade games.
2124
01:22:46,348 --> 01:22:49,568
You've created this and you've
always had this consistency
2125
01:22:49,568 --> 01:22:53,158
and levelheadedness that I admire.
2126
01:22:53,158 --> 01:22:54,228
- Thanks, man.
- I mean outside
2127
01:22:54,228 --> 01:22:55,768
of the fighting games, you know.
2128
01:22:55,768 --> 01:22:57,436
Outside of the fighting games.
2129
01:22:57,436 --> 01:22:58,652
That's a different story.
2130
01:22:58,652 --> 01:22:59,748
We will talk shit all over.
2131
01:22:59,748 --> 01:23:00,687
Well, yeah,
2132
01:23:00,687 --> 01:23:01,733
we'll talk shit here.
2133
01:23:01,733 --> 01:23:03,963
This guy talks all the
shit but I still love him.
2134
01:23:03,963 --> 01:23:05,820
Do you need me to
sponsor you another coin?
2135
01:23:05,820 --> 01:23:07,148
- Oh no, you got it.
- No, no, no,
2136
01:23:07,148 --> 01:23:07,981
I own this machine.
2137
01:23:07,981 --> 01:23:09,414
You don't need to sponsor shit.
2138
01:23:11,788 --> 01:23:14,414
I never thought when I
first started this place
2139
01:23:14,414 --> 01:23:17,747
that it would become a spot where people
2140
01:23:18,622 --> 01:23:19,842
love it as much as they do,
2141
01:23:19,842 --> 01:23:21,951
or that it is become this
kind of community place
2142
01:23:21,951 --> 01:23:24,555
and people are making new friends,
2143
01:23:24,555 --> 01:23:26,687
they're sharing times with old friends
2144
01:23:26,687 --> 01:23:29,491
and it happening here is something
2145
01:23:29,491 --> 01:23:32,447
that I'll carry with me forever.
2146
01:23:32,447 --> 01:23:35,101
Really proud of you, man.
2147
01:23:35,101 --> 01:23:40,101
There's not a day really that
goes by where I don't think,
2148
01:23:43,065 --> 01:23:46,289
damn, it all happened and
I'm very grateful for it.
2149
01:24:05,143 --> 01:24:08,143
We are here at Free Play Florida 2021.
2150
01:24:08,143 --> 01:24:09,708
The Caribe Royale.
2151
01:24:18,842 --> 01:24:21,030
- Oh, what's up dude?
- You know,
2152
01:24:21,030 --> 01:24:22,393
Just ironing thing out.
2153
01:24:22,393 --> 01:24:23,790
How are you doing?
2154
01:24:26,428 --> 01:24:28,530
It's was amazing to
be back with everybody
2155
01:24:28,530 --> 01:24:29,679
and see everybody again.
2156
01:24:29,679 --> 01:24:31,526
It's been two years
since we've had any kind
2157
01:24:31,526 --> 01:24:33,139
of events like this.
2158
01:24:33,139 --> 01:24:34,986
The comradery, the communities,
2159
01:24:34,986 --> 01:24:37,006
see old faces, old friends,
2160
01:24:37,006 --> 01:24:39,372
and plus, play a lot of cool machines.
2161
01:24:40,418 --> 01:24:42,211
It's nice to see a good turnout here
2162
01:24:42,211 --> 01:24:43,338
at Free Play this year.
2163
01:24:43,338 --> 01:24:44,289
It's a really good show
2164
01:24:44,289 --> 01:24:46,479
and everyone's out having a great time.
2165
01:24:46,479 --> 01:24:47,699
Everyone's still in the hobby,
2166
01:24:47,699 --> 01:24:49,634
just probably even more
than they were before.
2167
01:24:49,634 --> 01:24:51,947
It's been a huge kickoff for
the hobby and the industry.
2168
01:24:51,947 --> 01:24:53,307
It really looks good for the future.
2169
01:24:55,659 --> 01:24:59,174
Get your buzz on for Florida Free Play.
2170
01:24:59,174 --> 01:25:00,394
Take a look at the video games.
2171
01:25:00,394 --> 01:25:01,875
Stop by my booth, I'm in the back,
2172
01:25:01,875 --> 01:25:04,370
next to the "Moral Kombat" crew.
2173
01:25:04,370 --> 01:25:07,057
Mario is the size of
a damn forklift today.
2174
01:25:07,057 --> 01:25:10,217
Yeah, he stole the Big
Head Mode from "NBA Jam".
2175
01:25:10,217 --> 01:25:12,023
What were we doing last night, Mario?
2176
01:25:12,023 --> 01:25:14,038
You closed down that bar, didn't you?
2177
01:25:14,038 --> 01:25:15,530
Yep.
2178
01:25:15,530 --> 01:25:16,925
Great to see the resurgence
2179
01:25:16,925 --> 01:25:18,739
of arcades really across the country.
2180
01:25:18,739 --> 01:25:21,353
And you can see it in the
attendance to these shows
2181
01:25:21,353 --> 01:25:23,013
that are springing up everywhere.
2182
01:25:23,013 --> 01:25:25,773
It's a place where the gaming
community comes together
2183
01:25:25,773 --> 01:25:29,626
and with so many divided
factions in the country today,
2184
01:25:29,626 --> 01:25:31,643
you can count on coming to an arcade bar
2185
01:25:31,643 --> 01:25:34,743
or to do a game show and
you will have your tribe.
2186
01:25:34,743 --> 01:25:37,338
It's really great.
2187
01:25:37,338 --> 01:25:39,244
It feels great to be back at Free Play.
2188
01:25:39,244 --> 01:25:41,626
I get to see all my
friends in the community
2189
01:25:41,626 --> 01:25:42,864
and hang out with them,
2190
01:25:42,864 --> 01:25:43,870
drink beers with them.
2191
01:25:43,870 --> 01:25:45,453
I brought some games out
2192
01:25:45,453 --> 01:25:49,982
and we'll be challenging
people to win swags.
2193
01:25:49,982 --> 01:25:52,515
I have no problem decimating anybody
2194
01:25:52,515 --> 01:25:54,341
in "Street Fighter: 3rd Strike",
2195
01:25:54,341 --> 01:25:55,675
so feel free to challenge me.
2196
01:25:55,675 --> 01:25:58,042
I'd be happy to mop the floor with you.
2197
01:25:58,042 --> 01:26:00,925
This year we closed down Parcade so
2198
01:26:00,925 --> 01:26:02,698
that the staff could
experience it as well,
2199
01:26:02,698 --> 01:26:06,822
and we all came out just
to have a great time
2200
01:26:06,822 --> 01:26:09,405
and enjoy the whole experience.
2201
01:26:15,726 --> 01:26:19,062
It would appear that there's
more enthusiasm than ever,
2202
01:26:19,062 --> 01:26:20,742
a greater appreciation.
2203
01:26:20,742 --> 01:26:22,962
Now, remembering that
the world of arcades,
2204
01:26:22,962 --> 01:26:25,144
it was certainly on the rise before.
2205
01:26:25,144 --> 01:26:29,051
So now it appears that it's
on the rise once again,
2206
01:26:29,051 --> 01:26:32,021
maybe with a renewed
enthusiasm or appreciation.
2207
01:26:32,021 --> 01:26:34,256
I certainly hope so.
2208
01:26:34,256 --> 01:26:38,561
So we're here to honor people
who have made a footprint
2209
01:26:38,561 --> 01:26:40,168
in the world of gaming.
2210
01:26:40,168 --> 01:26:43,227
And one of those
places is Lowry Parcade,
2211
01:26:43,227 --> 01:26:46,623
which is Tampa's first
arcade and craft beer bar.
2212
01:26:46,623 --> 01:26:48,788
It was a kind of surreal experience.
2213
01:26:48,788 --> 01:26:51,422
Having no idea like why
my name was being called,
2214
01:26:51,422 --> 01:26:53,636
I think they had to
run me down to find me.
2215
01:26:53,636 --> 01:26:54,469
It's like, oh shit,
2216
01:26:54,469 --> 01:26:55,302
am I in trouble?
2217
01:26:55,302 --> 01:26:56,611
How drunk did I get last night?
2218
01:26:56,611 --> 01:26:59,216
But is anybody seen Lowry Parcade there?
2219
01:26:59,216 --> 01:27:01,451
Oh yes, I'm staring right at him.
2220
01:27:01,451 --> 01:27:02,435
Come on up here, Rob.
2221
01:27:03,570 --> 01:27:04,653
I know that guy.
2222
01:27:04,653 --> 01:27:06,475
I never expected that for sure.
2223
01:27:06,475 --> 01:27:09,512
I mean, we're just a friendly
neighborhood arcade bar.
2224
01:27:09,512 --> 01:27:11,323
Good man, great energy,
2225
01:27:11,323 --> 01:27:13,719
and he is a fantastic
"Street Fighter" player.
2226
01:27:15,879 --> 01:27:17,276
Hey, thank you very much
2227
01:27:17,276 --> 01:27:18,807
for giving me this award.
2228
01:27:18,807 --> 01:27:22,307
Totally unexpected, but
I really appreciate it
2229
01:27:22,307 --> 01:27:24,037
and very honored and grateful.
2230
01:27:24,037 --> 01:27:25,528
Thank you all very much.
2231
01:27:25,528 --> 01:27:27,464
It's been one of the coolest things
2232
01:27:27,464 --> 01:27:31,887
to see this place grow
to become its own thing.
2233
01:27:31,887 --> 01:27:32,928
It's its own community.
2234
01:27:32,928 --> 01:27:34,985
Like, Parcade is its own world in a way.
2235
01:27:34,985 --> 01:27:35,890
A little, tiny world,
2236
01:27:35,890 --> 01:27:37,790
but it's its own community
and it's been great
2237
01:27:37,790 --> 01:27:41,590
for me to step back and
see it become its own place
2238
01:27:41,590 --> 01:27:44,170
and survive and be its own thing.
2239
01:27:44,170 --> 01:27:47,687
We're a legit arcade
and you gotta love that
2240
01:27:47,687 --> 01:27:50,292
when you're kind of recognized
a bit in the community,
2241
01:27:50,292 --> 01:27:52,820
and it's nothing but good feelings.
2242
01:27:52,820 --> 01:27:56,510
And so, the future with arcade gaming,
2243
01:27:56,510 --> 01:27:59,330
I don't think it'll ever stop evolving.
2244
01:27:59,330 --> 01:28:02,610
I think right now the hobby
seems to be on a rocket ship,
2245
01:28:02,610 --> 01:28:04,170
so I'm hoping that continues.
2246
01:28:04,170 --> 01:28:08,319
Maybe we'll start to see a
blend of modern and retro.
2247
01:28:08,319 --> 01:28:09,152
Because if you look at
2248
01:28:09,152 --> 01:28:11,268
what Doc Mack is doing
over at Galloping Ghost,
2249
01:28:11,268 --> 01:28:14,153
he's had a game in development
for several years now.
2250
01:28:14,153 --> 01:28:15,867
He's doing a game for cabinets.
2251
01:28:15,867 --> 01:28:17,821
He's not doing a game to go to the home,
2252
01:28:17,821 --> 01:28:20,161
but he wants to grow it from the arcade,
2253
01:28:20,161 --> 01:28:21,261
then go to home,
2254
01:28:21,261 --> 01:28:24,851
and I think that that's what
started the whole industry.
2255
01:28:24,851 --> 01:28:29,851
And the ultimate goal is to
hopefully see arcade designers
2256
01:28:29,881 --> 01:28:31,141
and developers come back
2257
01:28:31,141 --> 01:28:34,140
and designing specifically for the arcade.
2258
01:28:34,140 --> 01:28:36,487
And if there's enough places that open
2259
01:28:36,487 --> 01:28:38,281
and there's enough demand,
2260
01:28:38,281 --> 01:28:40,541
all the video game
companies could start doing
2261
01:28:40,541 --> 01:28:44,419
arcade games again and we
could see the resurgence go
2262
01:28:44,419 --> 01:28:45,600
in a completely new,
2263
01:28:45,600 --> 01:28:50,172
different direction with arcade
games everywhere once again.
2264
01:28:50,172 --> 01:28:51,523
The future for arcade bars
2265
01:28:51,523 --> 01:28:53,643
and arcade games is only getting stronger
2266
01:28:53,643 --> 01:28:56,211
because it's this new
meeting ground for people.
2267
01:28:56,211 --> 01:28:57,990
It's something that
brings people together.
2268
01:28:57,990 --> 01:28:58,948
And let's face it, you know,
2269
01:28:58,948 --> 01:29:00,389
the last 10, 20 years,
2270
01:29:00,389 --> 01:29:01,746
a lot of stuff has happened
2271
01:29:01,746 --> 01:29:03,656
and people have gone into their bedrooms,
2272
01:29:03,656 --> 01:29:04,576
into the phone,
2273
01:29:04,576 --> 01:29:06,701
into the tablets further, further,
2274
01:29:06,701 --> 01:29:09,131
and now they can come
out into arcades and go,
2275
01:29:09,131 --> 01:29:09,990
oh, you're my people,
2276
01:29:09,990 --> 01:29:10,843
you're my tribe.
2277
01:29:10,843 --> 01:29:12,808
And I think the good
Pandora's out of our box
2278
01:29:12,808 --> 01:29:15,386
and people are realizing
games bring people together
2279
01:29:15,386 --> 01:29:16,938
and games make people happy.
2280
01:29:16,938 --> 01:29:19,463
It's a drug without
being a drug, you know.
2281
01:29:19,463 --> 01:29:20,634
People get addicted to it,
2282
01:29:20,634 --> 01:29:24,117
but you don't hurt your body
by playing too much "NBA Jam".
2283
01:29:24,117 --> 01:29:25,127
I think initially,
2284
01:29:25,127 --> 01:29:28,704
arcade bars were sort of
focused on nostalgia and saying,
2285
01:29:28,704 --> 01:29:30,726
hey, these are the games
that I grew up with.
2286
01:29:30,726 --> 01:29:32,786
But I walk into an arcade
bar and I see people
2287
01:29:32,786 --> 01:29:35,486
who were not alive when those first rounds
2288
01:29:35,486 --> 01:29:37,173
of arcade games came out,
2289
01:29:37,173 --> 01:29:39,970
and I think they're looking
for a communal experience.
2290
01:29:39,970 --> 01:29:42,357
Now it's very much like I'm
there for the community,
2291
01:29:42,357 --> 01:29:43,537
I'm there for the camaraderie,
2292
01:29:43,537 --> 01:29:45,747
I'm there to have a
drink or two and have fun
2293
01:29:45,747 --> 01:29:48,830
with my friends and it's
something we go out and do.
2294
01:29:50,566 --> 01:29:51,941
So I see a big future in it
2295
01:29:51,941 --> 01:29:54,036
because it's a very different thing.
2296
01:29:54,036 --> 01:29:58,174
It's not really competing with
PC gaming or console gaming.
2297
01:29:58,174 --> 01:30:00,827
It very much is something
that sits alongside it
2298
01:30:00,827 --> 01:30:02,836
and it's a different animal.
2299
01:30:02,836 --> 01:30:05,681
So as big as this arcade
renaissance has become,
2300
01:30:05,681 --> 01:30:09,189
it would be meaningless unless
a new generation picks it up
2301
01:30:09,189 --> 01:30:10,480
and runs with it too.
2302
01:30:10,480 --> 01:30:12,298
There are kids even today
2303
01:30:12,298 --> 01:30:15,243
that are now growing up
around this arcade scene.
2304
01:30:15,243 --> 01:30:17,491
And once they grab a "Pinball" machine
2305
01:30:17,491 --> 01:30:18,811
or a large video cabinet,
2306
01:30:18,811 --> 01:30:21,081
they fall in love with it
because you can't compare it
2307
01:30:21,081 --> 01:30:23,716
to putting your thumbs on a phone.
2308
01:30:23,716 --> 01:30:24,803
I came here with my son.
2309
01:30:24,803 --> 01:30:27,443
He's 16 and it was nice
to be able to show him
2310
01:30:27,443 --> 01:30:30,104
what it's all about and
why we come to these things
2311
01:30:30,104 --> 01:30:31,507
and it's more than just the games,
2312
01:30:31,507 --> 01:30:32,606
it's the community too.
2313
01:30:32,606 --> 01:30:34,431
You got this.
2314
01:30:34,431 --> 01:30:36,424
You got an extra ball too, I think.
2315
01:30:36,424 --> 01:30:38,451
We have the ability to bring these games
2316
01:30:38,451 --> 01:30:39,788
to like a new generation of kids
2317
01:30:39,788 --> 01:30:41,908
that really would've
never had the opportunity,
2318
01:30:41,908 --> 01:30:43,798
where they heard about
it from the parents or,
2319
01:30:43,798 --> 01:30:45,261
I mean, maybe grandparents,
2320
01:30:45,261 --> 01:30:46,807
depending on how old they are.
2321
01:30:46,807 --> 01:30:48,835
It's probably one of
the most important parts
2322
01:30:48,835 --> 01:30:50,356
of having an arcade bar.
2323
01:30:50,356 --> 01:30:53,609
And I hope that the kids
that are being brought up
2324
01:30:53,609 --> 01:30:56,858
into this arcade generation continue it
2325
01:30:56,858 --> 01:30:59,738
with the next generation
so that we don't lose
2326
01:30:59,738 --> 01:31:02,531
that magic that comes
with coming into an arcade
2327
01:31:02,531 --> 01:31:06,093
and escaping into a
pixel world for a while.
2328
01:31:06,093 --> 01:31:10,177
And I'm hoping that this remains with us
2329
01:31:10,177 --> 01:31:14,441
for several generations because
what a sad world it would be
2330
01:31:14,441 --> 01:31:16,143
if you can't play games anymore.
2331
01:31:16,143 --> 01:31:17,336
At least while I'm alive,
2332
01:31:17,336 --> 01:31:19,761
I wanna make sure that
this keeps going forward
2333
01:31:19,761 --> 01:31:22,231
and keep giving a little bit of that magic
2334
01:31:22,231 --> 01:31:25,221
and that nostalgia to everybody.
2335
01:31:25,221 --> 01:31:28,352
Arcades, arcade bars are
gonna continue to open.
2336
01:31:28,352 --> 01:31:30,049
If they have a new spin on it,
2337
01:31:30,049 --> 01:31:32,071
probably an inevitability,
2338
01:31:32,071 --> 01:31:35,004
but where they'll go
it remains to be seen.
2339
01:31:35,004 --> 01:31:37,479
I think it's a pretty
exciting time to be a gamer
2340
01:31:37,479 --> 01:31:39,541
because pretty soon around
your corner there's gonna
2341
01:31:39,541 --> 01:31:40,486
be an arcade bar,
2342
01:31:40,486 --> 01:31:43,706
and I think this is something
that's here to stay.
2343
01:31:43,706 --> 01:31:45,593
To me, the most unique phenomenon
2344
01:31:45,593 --> 01:31:49,310
of the arcade era is
that the games were born
2345
01:31:49,310 --> 01:31:50,650
in a public setting,
2346
01:31:50,650 --> 01:31:52,130
and now in the arcade bar,
2347
01:31:52,130 --> 01:31:54,469
they're being reborn in a public setting.
2348
01:31:54,469 --> 01:31:57,223
So it's the rebirth of the opportunity
2349
01:31:57,223 --> 01:32:01,390
to play video games as a
community-spirited event,
2350
01:32:02,459 --> 01:32:06,185
and that's the spirit coming alive again.
2351
01:32:06,185 --> 01:32:09,935
I believe as long as
the arcade bars evolve
2352
01:32:11,527 --> 01:32:13,213
to entertain people,
2353
01:32:13,213 --> 01:32:15,924
people are gonna enjoy coming together,
2354
01:32:15,924 --> 01:32:18,062
sharing a pastime that they did.
2355
01:32:18,062 --> 01:32:19,138
If you think about it,
2356
01:32:19,138 --> 01:32:21,136
you go to a football game,
2357
01:32:21,136 --> 01:32:23,169
there's a hundred thousand people there
2358
01:32:23,169 --> 01:32:24,872
and they don't know each other,
2359
01:32:24,872 --> 01:32:27,772
they just share the same passion.
2360
01:32:27,772 --> 01:32:30,105
And since the beginning of civilization,
2361
01:32:30,105 --> 01:32:32,292
we've always had the passion for gaming.
2362
01:32:32,292 --> 01:32:34,498
From the coliseum
2363
01:32:34,498 --> 01:32:36,162
to the stadium,
2364
01:32:36,162 --> 01:32:38,580
from the arcade to the console,
2365
01:32:38,580 --> 01:32:40,143
from the internet
2366
01:32:40,143 --> 01:32:41,343
to the phone,
2367
01:32:41,343 --> 01:32:43,405
we've always been playing games
2368
01:32:43,405 --> 01:32:45,089
and we've always
2369
01:32:45,089 --> 01:32:47,300
been passionate about playing.
2370
01:32:47,300 --> 01:32:49,083
It's a passion that's within you.
2371
01:32:49,083 --> 01:32:51,208
It's a passion that doesn't die.
2372
01:32:51,208 --> 01:32:54,108
It's just a passion that's screaming
2373
01:32:54,108 --> 01:32:56,738
for a place to enjoy itself,
2374
01:32:56,738 --> 01:32:58,838
that's what arcade bars are.
2375
01:33:09,595 --> 01:33:10,428
To Vector.
2376
01:33:11,904 --> 01:33:13,675
Keep up the good fight.
2377
01:33:16,640 --> 01:33:18,815
So it's a very interesting
phenomenon to watch
2378
01:33:18,815 --> 01:33:21,675
and it should probably grow
for quite a while before
2379
01:33:21,675 --> 01:33:25,110
that too becomes a cycle
that extinguishes itself.
2380
01:33:25,110 --> 01:33:27,260
Game over.
2381
01:33:27,260 --> 01:33:29,729
And that'll do it for
"Token Taverns" tonight.
2382
01:33:29,729 --> 01:33:30,638
So long everybody.
2383
01:33:30,638 --> 01:33:31,549
See you next time.
2384
01:33:31,549 --> 01:33:32,566
Thanks for playing.
2385
01:33:32,566 --> 01:33:36,795
♪ We grew up with posters on the walls. ♪
2386
01:33:36,795 --> 01:33:41,174
♪ The Pepsi generation,
thought we'd seen it all ♪
2387
01:33:41,174 --> 01:33:45,488
♪ Brightly lit future with flying cars ♪
2388
01:33:45,488 --> 01:33:49,927
♪ And we'd all be superstars ♪
2389
01:33:49,927 --> 01:33:53,968
♪ Energy is endlessly ♪
2390
01:33:53,968 --> 01:33:58,481
♪ Entertaining us violently ♪
2391
01:33:58,481 --> 01:34:02,714
♪ Commercials play on TV ♪
2392
01:34:02,714 --> 01:34:06,086
♪ And nothing was ever free ♪
2393
01:34:06,086 --> 01:34:09,596
♪ Ever free, ever free,
ever free, ever free ♪
2394
01:34:14,814 --> 01:34:19,814
♪ Ever free, ever free,
ever free, ever free ♪
2395
01:34:24,357 --> 01:34:29,247
♪ Time flies so fast in an instant flash ♪
2396
01:34:29,247 --> 01:34:33,597
♪ I could drive all
night, going anywhere ♪
2397
01:34:33,597 --> 01:34:37,942
♪ Life moves so fast in an instant flash ♪
2398
01:34:37,942 --> 01:34:42,732
♪ I could fly all night,
going everywhere ♪
2399
01:34:59,725 --> 01:35:03,801
♪ We were young, we were full of it ♪
2400
01:35:03,801 --> 01:35:08,282
♪ We had it down and stayed silent ♪
2401
01:35:08,282 --> 01:35:12,565
♪ We worked hard, we were self-aware ♪
2402
01:35:12,565 --> 01:35:16,953
♪ Made mistakes that land us anywhere ♪
2403
01:35:16,953 --> 01:35:21,336
♪ With corded phones and tape machines ♪
2404
01:35:21,336 --> 01:35:25,716
♪ You could do anything,
if you just believe ♪
2405
01:35:25,716 --> 01:35:30,055
♪ Commercials play on TV ♪
2406
01:35:30,055 --> 01:35:34,258
♪ And nothing was ever free ♪
2407
01:35:34,258 --> 01:35:39,021
♪ Time flies so fast in an instant flash ♪
2408
01:35:39,021 --> 01:35:43,406
♪ I could drive all
night, going anywhere ♪
2409
01:35:43,406 --> 01:35:47,741
♪ Life moves so fast in an instant flash ♪
2410
01:35:47,741 --> 01:35:52,407
♪ I could fly all night,
going everywhere ♪
2411
01:35:54,883 --> 01:35:57,829
Well, I think he's thinking,
2412
01:35:57,829 --> 01:35:59,890
is there any new "Donkey
Kong" games coming out
2413
01:35:59,890 --> 01:36:00,782
in the pipeline.
2414
01:36:00,782 --> 01:36:04,257
He's actually on the phone
with the president of Nintendo.
2415
01:36:04,257 --> 01:36:06,098
And the president of Nintendo said,
2416
01:36:06,098 --> 01:36:07,306
"Stop calling me.
2417
01:36:07,306 --> 01:36:09,548
Yeah, you've called too many times.
2418
01:36:09,548 --> 01:36:11,238
We're not making a new "Donkey Kong".
2419
01:36:11,238 --> 01:36:15,321
So pretty sure that's
what's happening right now.
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