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Level Up BarKade Limerick
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14-09-2019 10:08pm#1
Level Up BarKade is a new experience opening in Limerick which consists of a Bar/Kitchen/Arcade. Level Up BarKade’s story so far consists of months of planning, countless hours of hard work and we’re excited about the launch of our brand new venue. We’ve already acquired 50+ Arcade Machines coming from Ireland, United Kingdom, USA and some even all the way from Japan. We also will have between 6 - 10 Pinball Machines at Launch too.
We’re going all out with this venue and we want to bring you a truly unique experience while maintaining the highest quality of service in the industry. We look forward to welcoming you in our doors on November 1st when we finally open. This is only the start of our journey, with the overall plan to expand our machine count to 80+ over the next year all going well, while hoping to continuously improve as time moves along.
We have compiled a sneak preview list below of what's planned for launch, holding back a lot of our Retro Machines and heavy-hitters, which will be revealed closer to launch date (There are some real surprises to come, will be posted via Social Media)
Arcade Machines:
Pacman
Initial D8
Afterburner Climax
Time Crisis 4
Sega Rally 2
Groove Coaster 4
MaiMai
Initial D4
Virtua Fighter 5
Taito Chase HQ
Basketball
Outrun 2
Ferrari F355
Killer Instinct 2
House Of The Dead 4
Sega Power Drift
Need For Speed
We also have acquired around 25 Jamma Cabinets (Electrocoin Goliaths, some others) with original boards to provide a truly authentic experience. We have many more boards too, and we plan to regularly rotate these (every couple of weeks) and will have a community vote to help decide what's next.
Jamma Cabinets Teaser
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Pac-Land
Vendetta
R Type
Savage Rein
Super Sidekicks 3
Sky Shark
Puzzle do Pon
Ghoul's N Ghosts
Street Fighter 2
Metal Slug
Final Fight
Aliens
Puzzle Bobble
Double Dragon
Bubble Bobble
Midnight Resistance
Bubble Symphony
Tekken 2
Pinball Machines:
Iron Maiden
The Beatles
Metallica
Star Trek
The Munsters
The Getaway High Speed
Finally, I want to ask you what you'd like to see in this venue as that is the main purpose of this post, whether that's boards, machines, beers, food. We're open to all suggestions and want to deliver the best experience possible.
(I hope this type of post is allowed too I read the rules and seems okay, if not apologies and feel free to delete)
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/levelupbarkade/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/levelupbarkade
Website:https://www.levelupbarkade.com11
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good to see some more candies in Limerick!!!
Looking forward to getting a go on id8
Any more shmups coming in?
Is that an LCD Parkman?
A couple of more looking shoot'em ups on their way, I know of about 3 in storage but whether they're working or not is the next thing. If they're not they will be in at some point but have to make sure they're working and ready for launch before they're in & announced.
And yeah it is, I know I know. But a good few of our older machines had their CRTs replaced over the years with LCDs and restoring them back to CRTs is probably asking for trouble with reliability, considering they're going to be on a lot. We do have CRTs in some machines but with the number of machines we have, it probably won't be feasible for fixing maybe 2 CRTs each week so we won't have a massive amount, but some. It's a small trade-off for having probably 80+ machines (within the next year) but we'll definitely keep our boards original. We have some scan-line generators and some other tricks up our sleeves for some machines to make it look nicer for those purists 0 -
This has set off shudders of joy in my little heart!
If the food is half decent and the beer is cold...
I and a few mates shall quote possibly be regulars!
Best of luck with the venture, its great to see a bit of bravery in the Limerick bar scene
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This has set off shudders of joy in my little heart!
If the food is half decent and the beer is cold...
I and a few mates shall quote possibly be regulars!
Best of luck with the venture, its great to see a bit of bravery in the Limerick bar scene
I've tried some sample food and it is, we'll have a good mix of craft beers and regular beers with loads to choose from. Highly experienced bar manager and highly experienced chef to oversee things. Thank youSsf2, sf3rd strike would be great for a tournament or 2 and some bullet hell would be great for high score challenges !!
Any vewlixs coming in or cough Darius burst? Also more curious on this than anything, any plans on running a exa Arcadia system when they become available ?
We actually have a Super Street Fighter 2 board I believe, and yeah that would be great! Also, we plan to host competitions and tournaments regularly, have some VGA streaming hardware being looked at which will be used for tournaments.
As for Taito Vewlix, we were offered a few from Japan I believe so we'll see what happens there. I'm not overly familiar with Exa Arcadia but I assume it's some sort of Jamma Arcade FPGA hardware? We want to keep everything authentic and on original hardware and would rather not, however, if the demand is really there for rare boards and as long as it's above board then we'll definitely consider (we have a few more rare boards already, need to be tested shortly however, its a pity one or two of ours like Salamander has issues).0 -
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johnnyryan89 wrote: »Chicken wings, bottles of beers and sega rally. My dreams have come true, can you say where this is going to be located in Limerick?
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I can't right now unfortunately with our lease and legal stuff going on. As far as I know, we'll be given the all-clear to announce this coming week. It's quite accessible which is the main thing.0 -
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I can't right now unfortunately with our lease and legal stuff going on. As far as I know, we'll be given the all-clear to announce this coming week. It's quite accessible which is the main thing.
I'm racking my brain trying to rack my brain for a premises that would suit in Limerick and city centre there are really only 2 that spring to mind.
3 if I include a premises that is likely ideal but wasn't previously licensed.
Wherever it is, I really do wish this venture the very best of luck.0 -
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I'll be making a visit for sure. Great selection and I for one absolutely love the old electrocoin cabs.
For the crts, there is a guy in the uk named grant who will fix and service the chassis making them good for years to come. Here is the website:
http://www.error24.co.uk/
Price is reasonable too - most of the chassis I've sent have cost around 60 to repair. Just one cost over 100 due to needing a ton of parts.
Those electrocoin cabs will all have common monitors in them. A "cap kit" takes around an hour to install DIY and would restore picture to it's former glory.
Wish you the very best of luck in your new business venture!
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80s Synth Pop wrote: »I'll be making a visit for sure. Great selection and I for one absolutely love the old electrocoin cabs.
For the crts, there is a guy in the uk named grant who will fix and service the chassis making them good for years to come. Here is the website:
http://www.error24.co.uk/
Price is reasonable too - most of the chassis I've sent have cost around 60 to repair. Just one cost over 100 due to needing a ton of parts.
Those electrocoin cabs will all have common monitors in them. A "cap kit" takes around an hour to install DIY and would restore picture to it's former glory.
Wish you the very best of luck in your new business venture!
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Cheers! Yeah we honestly would love to keep it as traditional and authentic as possible and we will be doing so to the best of our ability. We're well aware of Grant and I believe we'll have some chassis going his way shortly, if they haven't gone already. It's been really ticky with monitors and CRTs, for example out of the 20 Electrocoins we bought in unknown condition, 2 CRTs worked and a similar number of gameboards were functional too (they apparently mostly worked when they went into storage). Some chassis, some tube issues, Hantarex mtc 900 I believe they mostly are. There's a lot of work needed on that side of things and not a lot of time but we'll see what we can do.RocketRaccoon wrote: »This has made me very very excited, I'll be a first night customer for sure.
Great, I hope you'll enjoyShapey Fiend wrote: »This is excellent news. I can have a few drinks and still get the bus back to Ennis.
My main thought with this place is give some thought to the accoustics. The Dublin and Cork barcades are stripped back concrete boxes which is why i expect they've the volume off on half the machines which i find a bit of a buzzkill.
Good stuff, we're keeping that in mind for sure. A lot of the newer styled machines will be quite loud and noisy, we have a plan to keep them upstairs and away from tables to ensure guests are comfortable at their tables with volume. Our older retro machines will be downstairs and shouldn't be as loud but we want to ensure everything about the venue is top class, so if we don't get it right we definitely will work on it if we're given feedback after launch, but it's something we've considered already and we're aware of. All of this is info subject to change. too but that's the plan. One of the team members has been to 10+ similar venues around Europe & America too so he's been keeping a keen eye on things on his visits over the past couple of years and see's how they work.0 -
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