Tuesday 7 April 2015
Lowering the Bar cadia
But I visited my brother and his wife in Fort Worth, Texas, and on my last night in town they took me to the unique Barcadia, a more-or-less normal Fort Worth bar with bar food, drink, and pool tables. The place also sports a giant Connect Four-style game on the patio, and an oversized communal Jenga stack. There are also several Skee-Ball lanes, and most relevant to this post, a small but working and well-maintained collection of classic early-1980s arcade games!
You can just about make out Q*Bert and Frogger plying their trade in the background of this blurry cell phone photo:
And here are Street Fighter II Turbo, Asteroids, Spy Hunter, Burgertime, Paperboy, Tempest, TRON and Track & Field -- my photo of Donkey Kong, Ms. Pac-Man, Ultimate Mortal Kombat and Star Wars didnt turn out well:
Best of all, every Tuesday night everything is set to free-to-play, requiring a restart and a wipe of the high score tables. And even then, all the locals have apparently tired of playing these machines, so it wasnt too hard for me to post embarrassingly low top scores on several classic machines!
Thanks, Barcadia!
