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neon retro arcade is a reboot of the classic American arcade it's it's not just a trend it's not just a Fed people have strong connections to the things they grew up with and a strong affinity to recreate those experiences when he first told people we wanted to open a retro arcade they all told us it can't be done don't bother isn't gonna happen but we really knew there is great appetite across multiple generations I really think the Golden Age of arcades in general started in sort of the late 70s early 80s and they kind of started to die off in the late 90s and so after a certain period people are kind of remembering you know I loved going back to the arcades and just playing it was such a fun experience and there's something that you miss in our current culture that these games bring back ok I think I just we've been collecting these games for a number of years all the way back in college in fact we had a pinball machine and I don't our dorm room and that's sort of how we met some of the games we've gotten are really just been trades you know I say hey I have this game that you've been looking for for a long time you have a few that I'm interested in let's just do a straight swap well for all we have about 90 games probably so we have a good bit in storage when people call the arcade to see if we have specific games they always want to know if we have centipede they always want to know if we have Street Fighter 2 they always want to know if we have Mortal Kombat those are really popular games that come out but you definitely see a pop-culture bump for a lot of these titles for instance when ready player one comes out I guarantee the price of joust is going to skyrocket so I'm glad we have ours now we had one instance where the world record-holder of doubts came in if you look over at the high scores there you'll see you know kind of the highest possible score that you can see and I think he still had like you know plenty of lives to continue on if he want to do I like playing current consoles as well but it's still kind of an isolating experience it's just not the same as being shoulder-to-shoulder playing the same game with someone being able to trash talk and have fun it's just such a great social experience people who are in there kind of late 20s to 40s who just you know kind of have a little bit of nostalgia for their youth for a time when things were simpler when things are easy and I think kind of stepping into the arcade really kind of sends them back in time a little bit you