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It's the Saturday night before Christmas here at The Arcade! We wish a safe and festive holiday season from us to you!

As for tonight, it's quiet, so if you've got your holiday shopping done and need to blow off some steam, come on down! $20 is all you need for six decades worth of arcade gaming goodness, all you can play!

Okay, on to me. This is day 13 of 13 of consecutive work days, so I'm meandering over the finish line. Even though I have the day off tomorrow, I can't rest because of the upcoming holiday and also I have other stuff to do. Trust me, at my age I need a day where I don't have to do anything, and I'm trying to make it happen.

I'm working on Episode 79, and I think tomorrow evening I'm going to stream editing it and some game play too, so by all means join me on Twitch. Twitch.tv/arcadeaddictbrian

I'm going to finish uploading the Let's Play videos to Tiktok as well, I think I'll do that tonight when I get home.

I'm looking forward to having a couple days off this coming week. The lure of getting actual sleep is very strong....

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Amd here we are on chilly Saturday night here at The Arcade! It's not too busy, so if you wanna get your game on, come on down! $20 gets you in, and we have over 150 machines representing six decades of arcade gaming ready for you!

As y'all can see in the second picture, I got the GC on Pin*Bot! I had been playing this game for months just trying to consistently break a million points, and as with almost all Williams machines of that era, if you miss your shots you pay a heavy price for it. I didn't miss many on that game, and quite by accident I got the Solar Eclipse bonus of almost six million points. While that's impressive for me, who is an average pinball player at best, that's not the all time score on that machine. I've seen someone straight-nine the machine, scoring 9,999,999 points. But that's okay, I'm happy with that score. I can leave that machine alone now.

I have been feeling wiped out all week. All I have wanted to do is sleep. I hurt my right shoulder last week but it seems to be on the mend, as it's more sore than anything. I think it's time to get a new mattress, because I'm starting to get hurt while sleeping again. Getting older is not fun at all.

I think I'm going to record episode 79 tomorrow night if I don't have to go to work, as I'm on call. I'm getting back into New World, as the storyline and the low level experience is much better with the new content. I'm still playing Division 2, and once I get Splatbook 185 done for @thacoshammer, I'll get back into my D&D projects and stream them as always. Oh yeah, if things aren't too hectic tonight I'm going to record a couple of Let's Play videos for editing and posting over the Thanksgiving mini-break. And also, I plan on going up to @lastlevelfenton next Sunday. So yeah, I got plans!

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And it's near the end of a busy night here at The Arcade. It started off busy and it pretty much stayed that way. But as the saying goes, tomorrow is another day! Price of admission for Sunday is just $15 for unlimited free play! I'm still in recovery mode and now my right shoulder is giving me issues. I don't think it's anything serious, but doing anything is painful even though I have full range of motion. Between that and my knee and ankle giving me problems, yeah it's not been a fun week. I was going to do a let's play tonight but I think I need to take my tired ass home after cleanup. I'm working on episode 185 of @thacoshammer, and I think my voice has recovered enough to record a new episode of COAA. I'm trying to remind myself not to take on too many things at once, that's how I got sick in the first place, but stuff needs to be done and I'm the only one that can do it. Whoever said life is fair?

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And here I am, on another double at The Arcade. I opened about half am hour ago, so come on down! $20 is all you need for unlimited free play!

Okay, on to me. I'm still reeling by the sudden closure of @retro.electric.arcade in Lowell. Carl just sold off most of his games and is going to move to Grand Rapids to start up an 80s style nostalgia type store. I wish him and his wife the best of luck of course, but this one hurts a little bit. This place had the best ambiance of any arcade I have been to, past or present. I had plans on going there next weekend but that's out the window now.

I'm always a little bit sad when am arcade closes down, especially when I thought the place was awesome, and this place was all that and a bag of chips.

I have plans on recording episode 77 this week then editing and posting the week after, all on Twitch, course. I haven't heard from our producer in a couple of weeks so I might have to edit our latest episode of THACOs Hammer as well. Busy busy!

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And it's a busy, hot evening here at The Arcade! Despite of balmy temperatures indoors despite the best efforts of our AC, its been a busy evening! There was a big party this afternoon, and a steady stream of customers besides! It's seeming to slow down now, so that's good news for you! $20 gets you over 150 machines representing six decades of arcade goodness!

And even better news, John Wick is here! Well not him in the flesh (though that would be awesome), but the brand new pinball game by Stern! I would include a picture, but people have been playing it nonstop. I can't even get 10 seconds to snap a photo.

I tell you, this week has been ridiculous. First all of the stress from not getting paid for homecare when I should have and bills becoming late, then Tuesday I get knocked on my butt by a vicious stomach flu. I had to call in that day, because, well, I was in bathroom every 25-30 minutes, and the stomach cramps were crippling. The less said about that horrible experience, the better.

At any rate, I made it to Friday when both checks came in, I paid all the bills and got groceries, so yeah, things are looking up again. Just have to keep the momentum going in that direction. As long as I don't have *too* much to do tomorrow, I think my voice has recovered enough to record episode 75. It's a game time decision.

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Amd here we are again on a Saturday night at The Arcade! It's been really busy throughout the evening, but it's starting to thin out a little which means if you've got a hankering for some good old arcade action, we've got it! $20 gets you in, and we have almost 140 machines representing six decades of arcade gaming.

Okay, now on to me. Between work, transporting my roommate and son hither and yon, and my girlfriend finally coming home,I haven't had time or energy to stream more than once. I know I have posted about recording episode 73 for a couple of weeks now, but I have been really tired by the time I get home, and felt that I couldn't do a quality recording. I am going to try and record tonight when I get home and thanks to my co-worker, I might have time to do some test shots for the let's play video series before I leave for the night. She was quite happy when I told her that. I still plan on shooting the real thing on Sundays before we open for the day. Stay tuned!

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And it is positively JUMPING tonight at The Arcade! We've had steady stream of customers coming in and it not showing any signs of slowing down yet! There is still elbow room for you, however!

All you need is $20, and we have almost 140 machines representing era from the 70s to the 2020s waiting for you!

As I said in my IG reel last night, I am a tired mofo. I'm in the middle of working almost three weeks straight. I tried playing games before my shift and I just could not concentrate to save my life. Everything I played was below par, but I know what it is so I'm not too discouraged.

Provided that I am not too exhausted tomorrow night (and no guarantees), I'll stream editing episode 71, and then maybe Monday or Tuesday night after work I'll record apisode 72. As always, stay tuned.

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Ans here we are, another Saturday night!

When I rolled up it was looking fairly dead and then oh boy did things change the moment I clocked in! It's still pretty busy but there's room for you! $20 cash is all you need, and we have 137 machines waiting for you!

Okay on to me. I recorded episode 70 on I think Wednesday night, and I'm going to start the editing process most likely Monday. I'm not 100% happy with the recording but I'll make it work.

Also, I've been slowly putting up past episodes on YouTube. I'm up to episode 12 there and when I find free time I post them in two or three episode blocks. I'll get caught up eventually.