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Title: New Classic Barcade in Denver!
Post by: idsane on April 11, 2011, 04:54:02 pm
Can't wait to go:

http://blogs.westword.com/backbeat/2011/03/the_1up_vintage_arcade_and_bar.php (http://blogs.westword.com/backbeat/2011/03/the_1up_vintage_arcade_and_bar.php)
Title: Re: New Classic Barcade in Denver!
Post by: JMB on April 11, 2011, 05:01:39 pm
Looks pretty nice.

Industrial strength Jenga?

(http://blogs.westword.com/backbeat/3-1up-arcade-bar-denver.jpg)
Title: Re: New Classic Barcade in Denver!
Post by: VanillaGorilla on April 11, 2011, 05:06:26 pm
Wish I had the resources to do that in the Chicagoland area....
Title: Re: New Classic Barcade in Denver!
Post by: Harakiri on April 11, 2011, 05:37:39 pm
I would go straight to the pinballs for sure... :)
Title: Re: New Classic Barcade in Denver!
Post by: opt2not on April 11, 2011, 05:49:25 pm
Wish I had the resources to do that in the Chicagoland area....
Same here in Vancouver.
 :-[
Title: Re: New Classic Barcade in Denver!
Post by: boardjunkie on April 12, 2011, 11:05:48 am
Sick Joust. Stuck in the test loop.....
Title: Re: New Classic Barcade in Denver!
Post by: bkenobi on April 12, 2011, 12:45:59 pm
DANGER...DANGER...

Look how close jumbo janga is to the pinballs.  Someone is DEFINITELY going to smash the glass on that poor Road Show!

Looks fun.  I'd check it out if it weren't 1400 miles away.
Title: Re: New Classic Barcade in Denver!
Post by: RayB on April 12, 2011, 02:15:43 pm

This quote makes my head hurt:
"I think it's going to be completely different that nobody's tried yet here."
Title: Re: New Classic Barcade in Denver!
Post by: meany on April 12, 2011, 05:27:55 pm
Wish I had the resources to do that in the Chicagoland area....

The only resources needed is $15 and you can have all the fun you want at the http://www.gallopingghostarcade.com/. (http://www.gallopingghostarcade.com/.)  They have 225 arcades and 6 pins.
Title: Re: New Classic Barcade in Denver!
Post by: idsane on April 12, 2011, 06:06:02 pm
Yes but it doesn't look like they have one very important thing at the ghost place.... beer  :cheers:
Title: Re: New Classic Barcade in Denver!
Post by: ahofle on April 12, 2011, 11:36:46 pm
Thanks for posting this.  I will definitely be checking this place out -- sounds like a great place to hit after a Rockies baseball game.  :cheers:
Title: Re: New Classic Barcade in Denver!
Post by: VanillaGorilla on April 13, 2011, 12:18:42 am
I am aware of galloping ghost in Brookfield.  Its 15 minutes away from my house. Great place, bigger than most arcades in the area back in the day...But it doesn't have beer, thats a neg. And $15 bucks is a lot of scratch to play games, but I understand its the necessary cost to make it viable.
Title: Re: New Classic Barcade in Denver!
Post by: Gray_Area on April 13, 2011, 04:28:04 am
"Adler says the 1Up will offer...upscale twists on bar food, including a quarter pound bacon cheeseburger on a glazed donut."

Oh, gross.

That's a great place, though. Mint Journey cab. Nice! And...well, except for Mortal Kombat...all RETRO!

By the latest comments, it wasn't looking stellar for the place. But wait: http://blogs.westword.com/backbeat/2011/04/1up_arcade_denver.php (http://blogs.westword.com/backbeat/2011/04/1up_arcade_denver.php)
Title: Re: New Classic Barcade in Denver!
Post by: solinvictus21 on April 13, 2011, 01:12:29 pm
By the latest comments, it wasn't looking stellar for the place. But wait:

I live in the Denver downtown area and have been to the 1up about a half dozen times since it opened, and it looked like it was doing extremely well the last time I was in there. There were lines for many video games, and it was pretty tough to secure one of the jumbo jenga tables.
Title: Re: New Classic Barcade in Denver!
Post by: upprc04 on April 13, 2011, 01:28:04 pm
There is one of those down in Austin (barcade that is).  I think I went around Christmas and there was a big bar crawl going on, so a lot of people were just there for the bar and not so much the arcades.  Several cocktail machines and arcade machines had people around them, but not playing.  It was a good time to get there before it got packed and play a bunch of old arcade games and skeeball.  I need to go back on a Sunday when they have free play day.

kungfusaloon.com
Title: Re: New Classic Barcade in Denver!
Post by: rohan on April 13, 2011, 09:27:34 pm
That TV above the Skeeball makes me nervous, but I'll have to check it out the next time I'm in Colorado.