If youâve got $75 a month to burn and live in California, you can get a 250-pound arcade cabinet running a 30-year-old game delivered to your door. This is the service offered by All You Can Arcade, a San Francisco business that opened shop last month. If all goes well, itâll expand to the east coast.
Brothers Seth and Timothy Peterson had been acquiring and fixing up the cabinets, valued between $150 and $200, for several years, and decided it was time do something with the stock. San Francisco would seem to be a good place to do it, as vintage game cabinets are quite the hip accessory. An AP profile of the business this weekend noted an advertising firmâs employees âclapped and hooted with excitementâ when All You Can Arcade rolled up with a Galaga machine.
Obviously, anything a customer rents doesnât need quarters to play.
Rummaging through a listing on All You Can Arcadeâs site, one sees machines ranging from 1980âs Berzerk to 1991âs The Simpsons and, of course, 1988âs immortal Bad Dudes. The Petersons hope to set up shop in the eastern U.S. later this year.
Rent an Arcade [AP via Polygon]
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