My recent video on the new Time Rift Arcade in Bedford, Texas has really blown up, especially for a channel my size. You can watch it by clicking HERE. Featuring a quick interview with co-owner The 8-BitGuy, it has well over 28,000 views and counting, with tons of great comments. I’ve posted some of the better ones here:
@torham – Toobin’ would be enough to get me in the
door if I lived in the area.
@davidworley6342 - No Rastan? Blah. Cool arcade,
though.
@ComdrStew - I've been to newer arcades. Well, they
call them arcades, but they are usually crap. This looks like a real arcade.
They are even using the CRTs for the old consoles, the only way they look good.
@Jad_the_Taff - Just found out this is about 5 minutes
from my house. I will definitely be coming by. Thanks for the video because I
didn't know just how nice a place this is on the inside. Great job 8-Bit guy!
@user-tb5ns7hc5i - I have never seen an arcade with
machines all in that good of condition and working order. Omega Race! Terrific.
@JasonDavis103 - WOW. I wish this was in Atlanta. It
seems to only be missing Satan's Hollow and Crazy Climber. I'm so jealous that
you can go there on the way to work.
@JimmyRussle - Great tour and great commentary! David
is a cool dude. Definitely going to check out the arcade when I’m in Dallas for
work next month.
@Jolly-Green-Steve - A very well-balanced arcade that
I wish had a location in Central Florida. All the best arcades seem to be in
Texas for some reason, besides Galloping Ghost.
@dave4shmups - This looks like an awesome arcade! I really hope that it does well. I’ve seen some of the videos of The 8-Bit Guy
helping refurbish some of the arcade cabinets and he put in a lot of work.
@xtremejay2000 – Dang, there is one glaring genre that
is my favorite, missing. Where are all the beat-’em-ups? Final Fight, Double
Dragon? I spotted Simpsons, and I am sure Ninja Turtles was there but still
very slim on the beat-’em-ups and almost NO vertical shooters.
@michaelcharach – Wow, looks great. Most important thing to me is that all the
games work properly. Nothing worse than playing these old games and the controls stick, etc. With the 8-Bit guy
at the helm, I bet everything works perfectly.
@voodoomotion5855 - These bring back memories of the
arcade at the swimming pool in the ‘80s. We couldn't afford to play and had to
pretend we were playing the demos.
@piggsinablankie - This is awesome. Thanks for the tour. Hope the 8-Bit Guy has much success. I was
hoping to see the Sinistar arcade game and the Gorgar pinball machine. Two voices
that used to scare the heck out of me as a kid. Really nice ones there like Spy
Hunter and Mr. Do!
@ChrisH0Y - Awesome -
Rad selection! I played so many of these when I was a kid. I'm so glad
my parents were generous with the quarters on pizza night. The background music
for RallyX still is stuck in my head to this day. Maybe they will find a
Sinistar machine someday? "Beware I Live!"
@Starchface - Damn. Is there no game you haven't
played? This place looks magnificent,
full of pristine machines each carefully restored by David and his brother
Mike. With them and Electric Starship
Mike as the 3 partners, I think it will do well. I don't even want to imagine
the electric bill, though!
@andymanaus1077 - I live on the other side of the world, and it's bittersweet to me to see such an amazing arcade appearing 40 years after most of the games were new. It's incredible to see the favorite games of my teenage years side by side with games I've never heard of and other games I know but have never seen in real life, all in perfect working order. I wish the guys every possible success. Are all the games free play? That would be the icing on the cake for me. As a kid, my family and I were poor, and I had to carefully pick and choose the games that were worth my money. I could spend days in this arcade. I hope it does really well.
