Mike’s Current Top 5 Games at Time Rift Arcade
Everybody asks me the same question when I’m working the floor: “What’s your favorite game in here?” Fair warning, the answer changes. My tastes drift. Something I’m obsessed with in September might get replaced by whatever I fixed last week or whatever movie I just watched. The floor changes too. We rotate cabinets, we add […]
A Customer Asked Us 5 Blunt Arcade Questions
Every so often we get an email that’s more interesting than the usual “what time do you open?” A customer recently sent us a list of questions about how an arcade actually runs behind the scenes. Broken cabinets, whether four player games really get four players, whether we track play counts, how we handle “grown-up” […]
Home Consoles Will Never Replace the Arcade
Somebody has been declaring the arcade dead since 1985. It was the NES that was going to kill us. Then the Genesis. Then the PlayStation, the Xbox, online multiplayer, smartphones, and now VR. Every few years, a confident guy on the internet writes the same obituary, and every few years he’s wrong. Arcades are still […]
The Claw Cave: A Brand-New Claw Arcade Inside Time Rift Arcade
The Claw Cave: A Brand-New Claw Arcade Inside Time Rift Arcade Something new is lighting up the Time Rift! We’re excited to announce the opening of the Claw Cave — a glowing new claw arcade inside Time Rift Arcade in Bedford, TX, filled with plushies, prizes, and fun for all ages. What used to be […]
