"If you were to open a place like Barcade, what would you name it?"

As I was tucking Katie into bed just now, she asked me, "If you were to open a place like Barcade, what would you name it?"

That's a tough question. Barcade is a perfect name for what Barcade is: a full-service bar with a couple dozen arcade video games. (All games are from the 1980s and all cost 25¢ to play. Barcade used to have Smash TV—it was their newest game (1990)—but it was removed last fall. The less-addictive (and frankly lamer) Crystal Castles stands where Smash TV once stood.)

Is it possible to top (or even match) the name Barcade?

Here are some stabby answers to Katie's idle & difficult question.

• Hun's Video Game Bar
• Video Drink
• The Little Brown Joystick
• Q-Beert
• Super Mario Brews
• Donkey Keg
• Tokens
• Tokens'
• Token's
• (The) Tap-N-Token
• Dubbel Dragon
• Space Alcohol
• The Thirsty Coinslot
• Ms. Pac-Pub
• Blip's
• Mojito Kombat
• Vs.
• Vs. Beverages
• The Numb Thumb
• Gin & 'Tronics

What would you name your Barcade-like establishment?

SOME FUN 1980s ARCADE GAMES NOT FOUND AT BARCADE: Double Dragon (1987), NARC (1988), Shinobi (1987), Kung-Fu Master (1984), Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1989), Karate Champ (1984), Bad Dudes (1988), Pac-Land (1984), Joust (1982), Hogan's Alley (1984), Commando (1985), Rastan (1987), Final Fight (1989), Renegade (1986), Rygar (1986), Operation Wolf (1987), Splatterhouse (1988), Vigilante (1988), Altered Beast (1988), Karnov (1987), Spy Hunter (1983), Burgertime (1982), Cameltry (1989), Golden Axe (1989), Strider (1989)

OTHER FUN GAMES NOT FOUND AT BARCADE THAT COULD AUGMENT THE JOINT WITHOUT SCREWING UP THE 25¢ VIBE: Pit-Fighter (1990), Rampart (1990), Moonwalker (1990; feat. dance magic), Guardians of the Hood (1992)

Comments

[Publicado por: Ed]

Centi-mead
Beer-zerk
Ms. Six-Pac Man
Ga-lager
Grogger

Not clever enough:
Bar Wars
Beer and Burgertime

[Publicado por: mcM]

Thanks Ed. Also:

Maltered Beast
Pints N Points

[Publicado por: voorhees]

Hooch N Stuff
21UP

[Publicado por: voorhees]

The Barcade website makes the place look quite a bit more pool-centric than I anticipated.

[Publicado por: voorhees]

History's first documented BurgerTime champion was Franz Lanzinger who scored 1,081,900 points at the Sunnyvale Golfland in Sunnyvale, California on November 1, 1982.

Franz Lanzinger designed Crystal Castles.

It's on Wikipedia. No links, though, bums!

[Publicado por: Brian]

Barcade has one pool table.

[Publicado por: Katie]

Bonus Point Bar
Extra Man Bar
Invincible Barkeep
Whisky Wins
Quinine & Quarters
Game Over Bar
Arkatie's Bar

[Publicado por: Chimney Dubloon]

1-Up Bar
I'm not really a game person so I can't really come up with a good name, but I like that you tuck your wife into bed. tuck tuck

[Publicado por: mcM]

Hops & Coin-Ops
High Spirits, High Scores

plus these two, emailed by my mom:
Ar-bar
Root & Beer Tappers

[Publicado por: rebecca]

i would be into it if someone did a fake match.com video ad.

[Publicado por: mcM]

Joust N Juleps
Zima 2 Zaxxon

[Publicado por: mcM]

GIMME! Gauntlet