Ok let me say that I had my doubts about Barcade, but I was pleasantly surprised. In case you didn’t figure out the name it’s a Bar + an Arcade, which equals a Barcade. Pretty straight forward, mix in alcohol with old school arcade games and you have a recipe for good times.

The place is a pretty large bar in the middle of Williamsburgh, Brooklyn that caters well to having 20 plus old school arcade games littering it’s walls. The games are in working condition and still operate on quarters. You have such classics like Contra, 1943, Q-Bert, Donkey Kong, Tapper, Out Run, Centipede, Ms. Pac Man, Frogger, Dig Dug, Rampage, Zaxxon, Spy Hunter, Tetris, Asteroids, Ghosts and Goblins and a few more I can’t remember.

Walking in here made me feel almost like a kid again, especially seeing all of those arcade cabinets in working condition taking quarters, pretty great feeling. Just like being a kid again except now I can have a beer as well. The mood in the bar is great especially once it starts to fill up and more people start playing games and jawing at each other.

What ever happened to the old arcades, almost all of the ones I can recall are gone. Has the console era completely killed the old school arcade? Every time I come across a decent arcade I get thrown back in the day when gaming was about putting a quarter up on the machine to call next.

Barcade has a good selection of games as well as a pool table and a decent Beer on tap variety. There should be more of these across the nation, except I would make the games free. What do you think?