The arcade
Around forty cabinets, all on free play with a wristband. We don't use tokens and we don't hand out prize tickets — nobody is trying to get you to keep feeding a machine.
What's on the floor
| Cabinet | Year | Condition |
|---|---|---|
| Pac-Man, upright | 1980 | original board, monitor replaced 2022 |
| Galaga | 1981 | runs well, joystick rebuilt this spring |
| Track & Field | 1983 | the buttons take a beating, spares on hand |
| Street Fighter II, six-button | 1991 | the most used cabinet we own |
| Daytona USA, four linked seats | 1994 | seat two has a sticky shifter, we know |
| Time Crisis | 1995 | one pedal rebuilt, second gun on order since May |
| Dance stage, two pads | 1999 | pads resurfaced every eighteen months |
| Air hockey, two tables | — | the loudest thing in the building |
The rest is a rotating mix — pinball, a couple of racing sit-downs, some newer redemption-free cabinets. If something specific matters to your afternoon, phone ahead and ask whether it's working, because sometimes it isn't.
How they get fixed
Rob does the repairs. He learned on the Daytona cabinet, which arrived in 2018 in four pieces and took eight months. Boards get recapped, monitors get swapped for LCDs when the original tube finally goes, and control panels get rebuilt with new microswitches roughly once a year.
We keep the original artwork wherever it survived. A few cabinets have reproduction sides because the originals were water damaged, and those are labelled on the cabinet itself.
If you collect or restore these, come on a Wednesday morning and ask for Rob. He will talk for longer than you planned. Several of our cabinets came from people who did exactly that.
Age and the arcade
There's no minimum age for the arcade, but the racing sit-downs need legs that reach the pedals, which in practice means about seven. The dance pads have a weight sensor that toddlers don't trigger, so they'll jump on it happily and nothing will happen.