Last month I visited Bury in Lancashire. The trip was to meet up with a bunch of folks I know from online interactions and visit Arcade Club, a videogame arcade with hundreds of games, all free to play once you pay the entrance fee. It’s the second time we’ve done this – the first being so much fun that it’s probably going to become an annual event from now on. Most of the people in our group were middle aged blokes who’ve grown up with a love of videogames dating back, in some cases, to the 1970s.
Last year I just traveled there for the day, but on hearing of the pub and curry evening that some of the others had enjoyed, this year I traveled across the day before the Arcade Club meet so I could get in on the curry this time. Next year I think I’ll stay the following evening too as Arcade Club is open until 11pm and I was told by those who stayed that it became much less crowded in the evening (there were lots of kids having parties and stuff earlier in the day) and it became a lot easier to get on all the machines, especially the linked up racing games and similar competitive machines.
Despite being at Arcade Club all day, I took no photos other than a few snaps on my phone, but I did take a few pictures, including the couple of rather random shots made while walking through Bury town centre, and a bunch of pictures of a steam locomotive that I made the following morning after breakfast (I’ll post those tomorrow).
Anyway, if you live in the UK and enjoy arcades and videogames, Arcade Club is a great place to visit.
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Taken on 15 March 2024
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