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For what it’s worth, the Trumbull, Connecticut location of Chuck’s Arcade isn’t necessarily towing the Chuck’s party line. It never changed its sign from Fun Spot when it first “rebranded.” If I hadn’t seen news articles I never would have known it was supposed to be a Chuck E. Cheese. There’s no branding inside at all either. It’s a modern arcade just like before, only they’ve added about four classic machines, Donkey Kong, Defender, or some such. If someone wanted brand synergy and a triumphant return of Chuck E. Cheese, they’ve completely pooed the bed with this.

I’m glad to see this finally being taken seriously! It’s a fine plan. Hopefully will be enough to turn around customer perceptions!

“Bullish” is right. This whole thing has been has been a massive load of bullish.

Still not as ugly as the Princess sprite from SMB1! 🤣

I’m sure Slap Fight is a great game, but I’m disappointed it’s not what I thought it would be, given the name.

I wonder why Klemens Kundratitz renamed the company from Koch! 😅

I really dig the art style. I have a lot of nostalgia and love for this D&D-style B&S art.

Ohhhh, I can’t wait for the new version of that sick “Monty on the Run” music!

I know LRG has had their share of incontrovertible scandals over the years, but for this kind of thing, when it comes to this kind of tech programmed by this kind of developer, maybe just this once, we could keep our moaning, negative speculations to ourself if we don’t actually know things?

This sounded awesome to me and I wondered if I’d ever get to visit one. Then I saw my own town on the list above! I looked into it and it seems they’ve rebranded a generic mall arcade as Chuck’s Arcade. I haven’t been yet to determine whether they’ve made any actual changes to it. For the past year or so, the arcade has been a very unremarkable standard modern arcade with no retro cabinets at all, and one that not many people frequent. I really hope they’ve made some changes. It’s right near my house, but I’m out of town for a couple weeks as luck would have it, so I can’t check. Will edit once I get to investigate.

Wait, the intro is 42 minutes long?

Divide Comedy? It’d better be friggin’ funny, that’s all I have to say.

This warms my heart! Kudos for being so responsive to the community suggestions.

Oh, wow, this looks so neat! Playing an early build of it one day would be amazing, but probably a pipe dream, pun not intended.

So glad they’re bringing it back! I only played this game a bit back in the day, but I thought it was really neat. For whatever reason, the hitscan gun with the muzzle flash struck me as particularly novel at the time and it’s what I remember most from the game. BlackThorne would do something similar a year later. More hitscan weapons in 2D platformers, please!

I applaud this level of introspective mea culpa. I wish all companies in this sector that have let customers down had the guts to be this candid and open.

If you follow the XBox naming convention, 1 might very well come after 5, so maybe some people are fooled!

This is great news! I’m really happy for the guy. He’s earned it.

I like how all the protagonists in the Sonic games are furry woodland creatures like hedgehogs, foxes, echidnas, moles, and snipers.

The man is incorrigible!

I’ve just read the intro and watched the video and haven’t read any further yet…but everything I’ve seen so far has been absolutely, unmitigatedly freakin’ awesome.

Looking forward to the full thing being ready! Loved this game as a child. No telling how long it’ll take, I reckon.

Good for them. I just don’t get how this happened. I’d understand collecting the funds, stealing the money, and never make the game—it’d be scummy but at least I’d understand the motivation. But going to all the trouble of making the game and just never delivering it to people? Bizarre.

Even Roberta doesn’t own KQ8! Lulz

This is terrific. I’m stoked for more accessible Misters. Well done, that man!

@Daggot 100%, myself included!

Kind of him to humanely move them out! A lesser man would’ve vacuumed up the entire colony.

@Damo thank you so much for the responsiveness!!

Anybody know which games these were? I’m just curious. I’m inferring that it’s not easy to find out which games these are, or else it would probably say it in this article.

Okay, but why did they remove the sperm as a menu item?

Whatever it is, they won’t make enough of them! 😅

“armed robbery with a deadly weapon”!! 🤣🤣

An excellent behind-the-scenes piece! Curse is one of my favorites. I really hope it’ll get a remaster one day.

Neat article! On a technical level, the Barbie character is very colorful for an NES sprite. It looks like she consists of two or three different sprites stuck together to bypass the four-color sprite limit of the system, no?