get expensive. Brewcade charges 50 cents for each of its games (with no cover charge for the bar), so it takes quite a few rounds of getting stomped by Goombas in the arcade world to equal what a person would spend on drinks back in the real world, where Brewcade makes most of its money. Just over six months into the bar's existence, things are going well, and while Chung declines to mention specifics, she says San Francisco's first arcade bar is off to a good start. "We've been well received, and it's pretty much in alignment with our expectations," Chung says. "The ability to play upon that nostalgia and play those favorite games that you played as a kid — and enjoy your other favorite pastime, which... at some point accessibility to these is going to get tough." Finding the machines can be a trick with sellers often wanting to be paid in cash and buyers hoping the machines show up in workable condition. For the next location, Horne has games shipping in not only from other spots in Texas, but from as far away as Pennsylvania, Ohio and New York. And after all the work that goes into finding these machines, they are then introduced to a world very different from the arcade homes they once knew. It's akin to taking fragile dinosaur fossils from a museum collection and throwing them into the middle of a party. "We have 20-30-plus-year-old video games in a very high-traffic, kind of high-energy environment," Horne says. "The