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Scott claims the largest private collection on the East Coast of working Golden Age '80s arcade games, and he showed the private arcade to our friends while they were in town, staying at his Airbnb (continue reading). If you want to see it, you really need to time your trip well to the area or live near Winston-Salem, North Carolina. You sign up on his website to be on the
home and the way he takes care
of everything, including your experience with the arcade and the Airbnb, is very understandable.
It was created largely in one day from mostly items already in his collection in November of 2021.
Scott: “Well, we had this giant room up there, and I don't know what that room was originally. It looks just like some huge den or something. It was a room that we weren't using; it's just this huge room. We just started working on it and launched it in 2021. In the room, you have an '80s stereo stocked with '80s vinyl. There's a VHS Library. You have access to every game console ever made, from the beginning to CD platforms.”
Two single beds that look like my bedroom from the 1980s, Cabbage Patch Kids and Care Bears waiting on the beds for us, posters from Ferris Bueller's Day Off, and '80s hair bands. Keep it going with a couple of couches directed at an awesome entertainment center circa the late '80s, a collection
of practically every video game console I could imagine,
and a VCR with dozens of tapes of movies from the era. The stereo system
is just like what all of us wanted back then, with an ample collection of vinyl and cassettes.
So, on request, he will hook up any console for you. Remember that
this is, to a degree, a museum that you are staying in, and a full- service operation so as to not have any trouble or cause issues with the collection. Scott lives onsite with his family and is available to
mailing list for announcements. When announced, the arcade
will be open one Saturday of each month, with two three-hour blocks to go into this “Living Museum of Arcade Games.” If you are one of the 50 people for each three-hour block he allows, you pay your $15 entry cost and go through the door.
Scott: “They're walking into a time machine, they're walking into 1984. I get the pleasure of seeing people our age completely lose their minds; their eyes bug out. Jaws drop because they see and hear things they've not seen and heard in 40
capsule. It's 1984. The popular titles are still popular with the general audience. They want to play Galaga, Pac-Man, Frogger, and Star Wars. There are a lot of uncommon games because it's a 26-year collection. Six games here have less than 10 copies in the world (Levers, Munch Mobiles, Victory, Locomotion, Extra Bases, and King and Balloon).”
The scene is set with retro signage, restaurant booths that bring me back to pizza places in the '80s, Pac-Man memorabilia, and more, but that is nothing in comparison to upstairs where my wife and I stayed on our trip to the area!
THE '80S-THEMED BEDROOM FOR YOU VIA AIRBNB
years. There have been occasions where people have started crying because it's such a good memory... a long-gone memory. It's a time
Upstairs, as part of this “heaven for the '80s kid,” is the '80s-themed bedroom that you can stay in while in the area or passing through. Rated in the top 5% of all Airbnbs, it has a 4.99 Star Rating
(163 reviews, two four- star ratings, 161 five-star, with the only negative comment coming from
it being tough to find and the way you have
to get around inside). Remembering that this is part of the owner's
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