What a wonderful movie documenting our generation's "Cheers". Highly recommended!

This movie documents a growing trend in family entertainment - the barcade. In a time where people have been stagnating at home playing video games and growing apart, the barcade is bringing us back together in a warm friendly place to have fun while meeting new people, The movie shows how this trend was building quickly until the Covid pandemic abruptly shut them down, threatening to close them. It demonstrates the perseverance that the owners showed and the patrons who have become extended families pull together and fight to keep them open. A must watch movie!

My husband wanted to watch this documentary and at first I wasn't sure, but I'm so glad we took a chance on it. At first, it looks like it's just about arcades. But there's so much more going on here. It's about friendship and community and people coming together and BEING together in a deep, poignant way.

This is well made, with funny, compelling characters and locations that take you back to your childhood. Well, that's what it did for me, anyway.

The movie flew by and I found myself totally engrossed in the storytelling and the characters. There's one of these throwback arcades about 20 miles from us and now I feel compelled to go there. And I'm def in the mood for beer. Ha ha.

More than just the nostalgia and the games I love, there was more connection and substance than you usually get from a nerd culture documentary like this (IMHO, as a period owner of things like "Get Lamp" and "BBS: The Documentary). They also managed to give perspective on the impacts of challenging times without getting invested in political arguments, rather it was clearly about the people, their passions, and the ups and downs of their journeys. I was on that train and invested, smiling broadly and actually getting emotional at times. Bravo to everyone who worked hard to make this happen and congratulations to all those entrepreneurs. Vector, you are missed! I may be biased, but I thought it was one of the most engaging and real documentaries I've seen.