Nashville has an arcade and a place for players to enjoy gaming the way it was in the '80s at inexpensive prices. Think of us as the Pinball Hall of Fame, but in Nashville."

Booze and quarters Operating an arcade isn't easy, and adding a giant variable — drunk people — can make things even harder. Tiffny Chung and her brother Shawn Vergara opened Brewcade, San Francisco's first arcade bar, on Dec. 10, 2014. It was Chung's second bar, having previously opened the nearby Blackbird six years earlier. The main hurdle before they could open? Arcades were prohibited in the district where they wanted to run the business. Arcade prohibition in San Francisco dates back to the 1930s, when the city lumped arcade gaming together with gambling. It gotworse in the 1980s, when local politicians thought arcades contributed to truancy and problems with school-age kids, and San Francisco added rules that arcades couldn't be placed within a specific distance of certain public locations, such as churches and schools. "It started off with Shawn and I just rattling off the games we played when we were younger." Chung worked with her district supervisor to get the restriction lifted, and after a year-long process, the amended legislation passed. Other districts across San Francisco are similarly looking into lifting arcade restrictions as well. "The concept just was so fun and amazing, and it was just something that we don't have over here. And it's by no means a new concept," Chung says. "But we thought it was super cool