The Game Room arcade in Republic, WA...

[NERDtendo]

Finally got around to replacing the crappy plexiglass on the Carrier Air Wing cab….

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[NERDtendo]

Tonight was the first Wednesday so we had both Gaming Club and the arcade was open. We had 15 kids at the gaming club and 37 people at the arcade! Sadly my PS4 Pro bit the dust at the Gaming Club…

 

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You can see my lady in the picture of my living room…baby is due in June!

 

[wataru330]

June birthdays are great; kiddos birthday, Father’s Day…just make a month of it, lol.

Congrats!!

 

[Neodogg]

You can see my lady in the picture of my living room…baby is due in June!

Congrats! seems like you need more arcades to keep you busy...

 

[NERDtendo]

I got a comment about having Shikigami no Shiro II in my arcade…pretty neat!

 

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It’s Spring Break this week so attendance was lower than usual, but it was a lot of fun and it was nice to have something for those kids that didn’t “do” anything this week…

 

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Got some work done in the arcade today. Rotated the monitor on the SEGA Blast City horizontally so now we can play some NAOMI fighters!

 

[NERDtendo]

After having DJ Boy in the arcade a couple months ago, I decided that it might be interesting to have a cheap crappy game in the arcade for one month. I always remember seeing a few games that were really lame in arcades back in the day. I figure that after I run a crappy game for a month, I will throw it up for trade and get something different. See if I can’t get a “Dance of the lemons” kinda thing going. I just made a deal for Street Smart and it is en route to start things off…

 

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Wednesday was my after school Gaming Club. They decided on the next tournament…Undernight In-Birth! They have been playing it on the PS4, but for the tournament I will bring in my RingEdge II and some PS4 arcade fight sticks to do this up properly! Next week is the tournament…

 

[Dinodoedoe]

Keep up the good work! I love seeing so many people enjoying arcade games!

 

[NERDtendo]

Street Smart arrived today…

 

[wyo]

Street Smart arrived today…

@GregN

 

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Testing equipment for today’s tournament!

 

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Tomorrow is Gaming Club and Arcade Night. This is the last Arcade Night of the season until the next school year starts because my baby is being induced at the end of the month!

Got a couple things in the mail for tomorrow. Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 1 & 2 Remastered for the Gaming Club and long legs for my Capcom IO to mount over the Naomi and save some space and tidy things up in the Blast City! I had Tony Hawk downloaded on my PS4, but my system died a few months back during the club fun. They’ve been asking to play it again for a while now. Now they can!

 

[NERDtendo]

Another awesome thing I wanted to share…

A few months back when my PS4 Pro had died during Gaming Club a couple of game shops over on the coast reached out to me and wanted to make a donation to help me out. The result was incredible! I’m about 5.5 hours from the Pacific coast so I got some really nice packages in the mail. In total, they donated to me completely free of charge 2 PlayStation 4 consoles, 2 Xbox One consoles, and 2 Nintendo Switch consoles!

 

[NERDtendo]

I decided to bring in an old Windows XP lappy to offer some classic PC gaming to the Gaming Club today. I couldn’t find my StarCraft, WarCraft, or Command & Conquer, and Diablo is rated M so they get to check out my favorite school game from back in the day…Oregon Trail!!!

 

[NERDtendo]

Today was gaming club and I brought in the PSVR setup that we will use for our last tournament of the school year next week. They will be doing time trials for Gran Turismo Sport. They had a blast since it was everyone’s (save one) first experience with VR racing. We will be bringing in a racing cockpit next week to really make it a fun day.

I attended the school board meeting today to formally ask the school to fund an eSports team for the next school year. They were very receptive. I have a meeting with the Washington State Scholastic Esoprts Association in the next week to iron out the details. After that meeting, I will submit a write up to the district office for it to be voted on at the next board meeting.

At the board meeting I met someone who enjoyed hearing about the arcade and gaming club and summer tournaments that I run and wanted to make a contribution…she wrote a check out right there! Crazy day today was!

 

[NERDtendo]

So the VR racing time trial event is going on tomorrow, but it will be ran by my colleague because I am at the hospital with my wife having our newest baby a little earlier than planned…it was supposed to be on Thursday so it’s not a problem that it’s today. Yippee!

 

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Miles Prower Sampsel was born 5/29/2024 @ 1:18am measuring 19” long and weighing 6 lbs 9 oz…

 

[dspoonrt]

Congrats! We named our 1.5 year old Miles. My wife wouldn't go for Prower as a middle name, though. Had to settle for a lame family name. Enjoy the newborn time. There's nothing like it.

 

[Arcademan]

Congratulations. Time to pass out them cigars

 

[NERDtendo]

Tonight I presented financials to the school board and they unanimously approved the formation of an eSports team for next year…all of the hard ground work has paid off!!!

 

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After a few weeks off for the new baby in my house, I’m back in the swing of things and we’re 2 weeks into our Summer Gaming Tournament Series! A different tournament every Monday all through July and August. Cash prize for first place. Here’s a couple pix from the first two weeks…

 

[NERDtendo]

The arcade has opened back up after being closed for the summer. We had a Back to School tournament event tonight with prizes for the top 3 highest scores as well as the lowest score!