Wednesday night Julie and I finally went to Barcade to spend all of our quarters in vain trying to defeat the Deathstar. Barcade has about 30 arcade games (all are only $0.25 per play) and even more beer on tap in what looks like and old garage. Julie and I found out the Mario Brothers is much harder to play with a joystick than a controller as we both really didn’t get past the first level. Also, Punchout (minus-Mike Tyson) is just as hard with joystick considering Glass Joe whupped my ass. I did my best work playing Tapper which seems to be a Budweiser promtional game. The idea is your a bar tender and you have to serve drinks before the customers get to the end of the bar or you break a pitcher. My kind of game.

Some other games of note:

Ghost ‘N Goblins, 1943, and the Star Wars game from my childhood.