Chinatown arcade in NYC has finally shutdown

[Oyeve]

I was around yesterday getting my takeout from wohop.

 

[Miramonti]

I have to assume these guys didn't serve alcohol when I was there because I never heard of them.

 

[Howard]

Chinatown Fair?

 

[Mermaidman]

You think it was a front for what?

 

[SKORPI0]

You think it was a front for what?

 

[JEDI]

hm.. wonder how's the old owner's plans on opening a new arcade is going?

edit:
still around- http://www.nycnextlevel.com/

but looks like a MTG card gaming place and console game place instead of a old style arcade like it was in Chinatown.
kinda like Neutral ground??

Next Level is still around:
http://www.nycnextlevel.com/staff

who would have thought pay for console gaming would survive?


and the Chinatown Arcade is also still around, altho more of a skeetball/ticket for prizes type of place. a shell of its former glory.
http://www.chinatownfair.biz/
the new owner's name is Sam Palmer(?)

/obligatory Holy Necro Batman!

 

[JEDI]

yeah, that's the documentary i'm making with director kurt vincent- ARCADE: The Last Night at Chinatown Fair. we're in the process of collecting as much history about the place as we can, especially from the 50's, 60's, 70's, and 80's. there isn't much documentation for CF during those decades.

they finally finished the film in 2015:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sM1goDcEepk

also: http://watch.arcademovie.com/

 

[JEDI]

and it opened as a penny arcade in 1944?!
wow... survived 60+ years at that location. (and still going.)
http://laughingsquid.com/the-lost-a...ndary-chinatown-fair-arcade-in-new-york-city/

and oh man, this brings back memories:

 

[JEDI]

film debuts aug 12, 2016

https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/the_lost_arcade_2016/

 

[JEDI]

they're now selling t-shirts and the tic-tac-toe chicken.
http://www.26aries.com/shop

 

[John Connor]

i cant believe its been in business for decades.
this is the 'famous' one w/dancing chicken.

my theory is that its a front


4/27/13 update:
It's open again!

Wasn't that where you go to get a briefcase of money in GTA III?

HAHA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CT_AW4Ng2X4

 

[JEDI]

The Lost Arcade is out of the theaters and now available on iTunes and Amazon:
http://www.arcademovie.com/watch