Went back to the Quarter Lounge tonight, hoping it would be fairly quiet, which it was when I got there around dinner time. Really great place! The employees are super nice, they all talked to me and explained how the place came to be. Here's the interesting part - these are the owner's machines, and he's modded them in a novel way. To save space, in a lot of the machines he put in two boards and a switch on the front to toggle between games. Usually games that have the same kind of button layout or controller - I played the hell out of Heavy Barrel, finished the game, and then switched over to Time Soldiers (and didn't get very far because it's been such a long time since I played it I couldn't remember what the mechanics of it are). So Tekken and Primal Rage are in the same cab, just push the button and you can switch at will.
The entrance fee is $3, and then there's a charge for extra stuff like playing consoles or their VR headset. Arcade games are 25¢ each and pinball games are 50¢. And for some reason, paying for games rather than a lot of places that have a cover charge and all games are set to freeplay felt a little more natural to me. Popping in a quarter into the machine and paying for each play felt better than a free game. I have nothing to lose if I don't like a game I haven't paid for, but if I threw a quarter into a cab I'm going to play it through even though I might not take to the game at all.
I'm glad to know that the deafening music from Saturday was only because it was their grand opening. I talked to the employee who was the DJ that day and now I feel bad about talking shit about his music in the previous post. I'm also amazed that I randomly searched for "arcade in Fort Worth" on Google Maps, found the place, and actually showed up on their opening day. Talk about random luck!
I took a few pictures, the place is kind of small but they make good use of the space. It definitely has the feel of an '80s strip mall hole-in-the-wall arcade. It looks like it might have been a converted house or something, it's an odd structure. Anyhoo, here's the photos. Sorry for the picture quality, I never got the hang of picture taking in low-light situations.
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