Emporium Arcade bar gives hipsters opportunities to play video games that were around before they were born

Baxter Lomax

   Emporium Arcade bar is in the heart of Chicago's hipster twentysomthing community and about a year ago it opened up along Milwaukee Avenue

This place is utterly ridiculous and somehow I have to wonder if the mixture of alcohol, video games, and twenty year old stupidity is a toxic mix in this place on the weekends. The bar is filled with all the old great classic arcade games of our day and not their s. That's the thing I cannot seem to understand as these retro arcade/bars open up all over in urban areas of America. These people didn't grow up with these games but instead grew up with the first Sony PlayStation or Sega Genesis. It would make more sense just to fill these bars up with hundreds of televisions hooked up to games from the very first Nintendo box. I guess this is what happens when a neighborhood gentrifies itself and pushed out the urban poor and working class minorities from neighborhoods they have lived for generations. They get businesses that were last seen in eighties suburbia and couldn't last more than a few years.

I don't know how many people under the age of thirty realize this but arcades were a common feature on the American landscape about thirty years ago. 

 all of these business eventually failed and had to disappear from the landscape as kids were able to get their own systems at home. It also didn't help that the prices of these games kept going up and you had parents unwilling to subsidize little Johnnie with money to waste hanging out arcades. These business ventures plotted by lame thirties dorks who wear goofy t shirts will untimely fail too once the people get bored with these same games and the electric bills start to rise. I already see many idle games in these establishments and wonder how much longer this concept will exist.