My Barcade, in BK, NY Experience With Pics

[mrclean]

Not sure if anyone from this forum has been to the "Barcade" in Brooklyn NY. I went a few weeks ago, and wanted to share what games they had and what I thought about the atmosphere. Got to Barcade around 11:30pm and it was pretty packed.. It was soo packed that you needed to push people outta the way to walk to a different area. Once around 1am rolled through things began to thin out and the games were alot more accessible. Alot of people were just leaning on some of the games, with girls who had their pocket books and coats on them using them as coat racks..But would be curtius to move their junk if you wanted to play.

Here is a list of the roughly 25 games that were availble / working :

When you first walk in to the right you will see

1943 *horrible screen burn in
Zaxxon

Then the first big row of games are on the left :

Tapper
Dig Dug
Frogger
Marble Madness
Punch Out!
Moon Patrol
Donkey Kong
Asteroids
Rampage
Ghost N' Goblins
Bezerk
Lady Bug

Then a small mini pool table maye 7ft?

Then a smaller row of games by the 2 tables / bench area:

Centipede
Arkanoid *spinner felt wobbly ; or broken
Q*Bert

keep going around or if your walking in from the front door on the right you will see this row of games:

Sinistar
Tetris
Galaga *Icade PCB installed? :-(
Ms. Pac-Man *bad condition metal control panel was cracking / had a hole in it
Pengo
Outrun
Rolling Thunder
Crystal Castles

**Robotron 2084 not working unplugged near the bathroom

They had the highscore chalk board floating above a row of games lit up which I thought was cool. Has anyone from BYOAC checked out Barcade yet? I wanted to know what other members thought of this place. Personally I felt they had the most classics in one public location closest to my house, but they just need to better maintain them. I understand that it's a Bar and not a private collection. All and all I would say go and check it out, it's worth poppin' by, unless your own private collection trumps it. Most of what's available is pretty much common classics, which appeals to the masses.

[srarcade]

I've been there and its absolutely amazing, a great story it is too. The chalk board is epic- you can even spot it in the Cinemax feature "Chasing Ghosts" when they interview the dude who keeps records for Twin Galaxies getting his score put up for Star Wars. Its a nice bar, plenty of good ale on tap and always great games. I'll be heading over there in a few weeks for a few pints and some games!
 

[mrclean]

I didn't see chasing ghosts yet!

[foleykoontz]

I didn't see chasing ghosts yet!

I thought the King of Kong was a great documentay (or whatever you call it since so many people say it's been altered like crazy) but Chasing Ghosts does not compare at all to it. I don't even think there's a point to the movie unless I missed it, its just interviews with new people and some of the ones from KOK and let me tell you, there's one person in particular that you'd rather have not known more about his story...

[Mauzy]

I didn't see chasing ghosts yet!

I thought the King of Kong was a great documentay (or whatever you call it since so many people say it's been altered like crazy) but Chasing Ghosts does not compare at all to it. I don't even think there's a point to the movie unless I missed it, its just interviews with new people and some of the ones from KOK and let me tell you, there's one person in particular that you'd rather have not known more about his story...

Yeah. He was already a little weird to begin with but...

[Ginsu Victim]

Barcade sounds awesome and all, but I know someone local with a bigger private collection with more classics than that. I visited about two weeks ago

http://www.robohara.com/?p=1175

[mrclean]

That's pretty sweet, i didn't see a game list on their site, do you need to pay a fee for playing ? I would be curious to know what they have. I think push comes to shove your own collection will always be the best because it's based on games that you love and want to own.

This is pretty insane: [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EqxfDnmRB1M[/youtube]

[Ginsu Victim]

No fee. It's a private collection playable by invitation only.

Here's a partial list:
MAPPY
QBERT
FROGGER
JOUST
MSPACMAN
JUNGLE HUNT
DIG DUG
KANGAROO
ATARI BASKETBALL
PUNCHOUT
SUPER PACMNAN
MS PAC-MAN
DEFENDER
STARGATE
ROBOTRON
CENTIPEDE
MILLIPEDE
TEMPEST
SPACE INVADERS
MOON PATROL
ASTEROIDS
ASTEROIDS DELUXE
GALAGA
MISSLE COMMAND
BURGERTIME
DONKEY KONG (PLUS D2K)
DK JR
POPEYE
BUD TAPPER
WIZARD OF WOR
TETRIS
TRACK AND FIELD
OUTRUN
HANG-ON
FINAL LAP 2
KUNG FU MASTER
CRAZY CLIMBER
SUNSET RIDERS
CRYSTAL CASTLES
GORF
JUNO FIRST
GRAVITAR

[srarcade]

I still think Peter Hirschberg's personal 2400sq ft arcade takes the cake. Check it out on YouTube as well, he has open houses every once in awhile. Hes an old AOL tycoon- yea big dollars.

http://lunacityarcade.com/photos.htm

EDIT - Oops- I dont have any plug-ins so i completely missed the previous post about the same guy! 

[Ginsu Victim]

That

I still think Peter Hirschberg's personal 2400sq ft arcade takes the cake. Check it out on YouTube as well, he has open houses every once in awhile. Hes an old AOL tycoon- yea big dollars.

http://lunacityarcade.com/photos.htm

That's what the video above is about.

[srarcade]

Ahh sorry bout that- i don't have any plug-ins enabled on this browser so I completely missed a video.

[mrclean]

I don't know how Peter Hirschberg likes galaxian more then galaga ! I'm the oposite!!! and speaking of incase anyone missed it Although I'm selling the NOS Galaga 88' Sideart 1x piece.. I did scan it for the community for it to get repro'd it wasnt on joymonkey or localarcade art's site etc.. download here:

http://www.sendspace.com/file/lj14lf