Fingers crossed

[TheDaddy]

Spitted this :-

Arcade Enters "Survival Mode" As It Seeks To Avoid Closure

"This is the last go to keep it open"

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Hope they manage to stay afloat , i hate to see any arcade shut be it new or old.

Anyone near it support it !

Dave.

 

[John Bennett]

Yes, genuine good luck to them.

I'm surprised folk take the risk with retro arcades. There was a reason arcades died out, and you've got to an uphill battle to start one up and succeed nowadays.
I spent an hour in one on my last night out. As much as they had some good stuff, it was depressingly dead for a Friday night in a busy city.

 

[kingtreelo]

there have been a few popped up a bit local to me, the obvious one is AC which is superbly popular, almost like the Amazon of retro Arcades these

we visited a few and they had a very small selection of machines, and if you are going there purely for nostalgia and they have very few games you are interested in, then it isn't going to work

i absolutely adore AC, i get to play ALL of the games from my youth and games that i love, but also get to have a dabble at games i have never seen or played before to give them a chance, if i walked into an arcade with games i had no connection to...i probably wouldnt play anything and walk out

 

[TheDaddy]

Yeh you gotta do food , Drink and poss darts and pool to get the crowds in. As said if they are small and not many machines or not originals us ' Oldies ' grab a drink and go home. Me , Lurch and Nathan went to a local one and we had a few drinks as the games were all Modern Pandora jobbies. I was not putting a £1 for a game on them. I aint much of a snob , I have a couple of LCD cabs but again I aint paying for that , When i go to an Arcade I expect it like the 80's.

Dave.

 

[Flyback2021]

Really wish them the best and good luck over the weekend . Tough Business climate out there currently as we well know. Huge admiration and respect for anyone running a retro arcade.

 

[Bods]

Few things that stand out to me when looking at that

Based in Shopping Centre, Crikey how much is that costing? Personally I never go to Shopping Centres (did when they had Warner Bros Stores)
Too much space not enough machines!
Website I can't find anywhere that tells you or shows you all the machines

I think the guy says it all, "There was massive interest when I first opened," says Petherick
Now added problem as people got less money and you only have the people that live in the area likely to pop in or book
You need an extensive amount of classic machines to get people travelling a long way to visit

It's a real shame when people have invested so much into them and hope they can sort something out, maybe a cheaper place to start

 

[Retroman839]

Today in Ilfracombe
Before ..
But I have seen some old
Pics of this arcade! Lovely to see some
Of the original Arcades still with the doors open The games inside will never match them heady days of the 70&80’s.

But to just to see them as amusements warms the cockles—.

Owner the case family for 52 years.

And I can tell you the dumping of raw sewage on the beaches is what drives down the economy of towns like this through the Floor !

What are our govermemt & previouse doing about this ?

Clean up the water
Then the beach
Clean up the towns
The arcades would return
Buisness would
Boom ..

Tried to find info on beach water quality for this town ..

And what i found said it stopped being monitored in 2022 after an incident ?
All signage says this is an unsafe beach to bath on due to bad water quality ?
😱. Incident ?
Is it radio active ?
Does it have human shit bobbing about ?

Didn’t stop some people 😂

 

[eliotcole]

I know this place ... my oldest friend lives and works down that way ... so I like to go down there ... plus ... used to holiday in Croyde every year until sometime in the 90s!

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Today in Ilfracombe
Before ..
But I have seen some old
Pics of this arcade! Lovely to see some
Of the original Arcades still with the doors open The games inside will never match them heady days of the 70&80’s.

But to just to see them as amusements warms the cockles—.

Owner the case family for 52 years.

And I can tell you the dumping of raw sewage on the beaches is what drives down the economy of towns like this through the Floor !

What are our govermemt & previouse doing about this ?

Clean up the water
Then the beach
Clean up the towns
The arcades would return
Buisness would
Boom ..

Tried to find info on beach water quality for this town ..

And what i found said it stopped being monitored in 2022 after an incident ?
All signage says this is an unsafe beach to bath on due to bad water quality ?
😱. Incident ?
Is it radio active ?
Does it have human shit bobbing about ?

Didn’t stop some people 😂

 

[neoretro]

I stick by everything I said when our place closed years ago.

You’ve got to run them as a bar with arcade machines in them or they have to be bloody massive to draw people from out of town. There generally isn’t enough people interested locally to keep arcades open. It’s special interest. Might be enough to keep a bar open though.

And once you’re travelling, you’re then asking the question should I drive a few hours for a mid size arcade or a couple more hours for the biggest in Europe. I did a 4 hour drive just to do a Friday night in there the other day.

There’s probably a market for an Arcade Club somewhere on the A3 to sweep up the people south of the Thames.

But ultimately, how much time have people in their 30s-50s got at weekends to keep so many places open.

Best of luck to him I hope it turns a corner. And if not, that Andy pulls his finger out and opens a southern branch

 

[neoretro]

Even back in the day, the seaside is what got the people there, the arcades then feasted on it. It was a small bunch that went to the beach for the arcades.

That’s why seaside arcades in Southend are still booming, the seaside is still pulling people in