It's time to take me back to the arcade paradise!!! I got some laundry to do! These clothes won't ignore themselves while I play video games!!!

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August 9, 2023 - Day 221 - NewPlay Review
Total NewPlays: 241

Game: Arcade Paradise

Platform: Steam
Release Date: Aug 11, 2022
Library Date: Aug 4, 2023
Unplayed: 5d
Playtime: 54m

There comes a time in every monthly Humble Bundle where you hit the cruft. The games they chose to pad out the bundle to eight games.

...and so we come to Arcade Paradise, game number five.

This is not that game.

I really didn't expect much of this from the title. The apparent love of retro games by indie devs is lost on me, and going on the name and the artwork, I made the assumption that this was going to be something a la Capcom's "Arcade Stadium" with a bunch of retro-styled games, and maybe some vague narrative thread to string them together.

Having just finished re-assembling my PC at 11:45pm, I figured I'd put in my 15 minutes and write the review later.

The game intro didn't do much to assuage my fears. A bunch of hand-drawn animated graphics. Not *badly* done, but I've been burned before.

The intro ends, and the screen morphs into... full first-person high resolution 3D.

*blink* wut.

This is a pleasant surprise.

As it turns out, Arcade Paradise is a love letter to retro arcade games, wrapped in a business sim.

As 19yo college dropout Ashley, you've been handed the keys to one of your father's run-down laundromats, in the hope that you'll "make something" of yourself.

The game opens with you dropped off by the bus in front of said laundromat, with a series of answering machine messages from your father telling you each step of managing the laundromat.

Hope you don't mind doing laundry, kid. There's a lot of it to do. There's also cleaning, garbage collection, maintenance, and emptying coin hoppers.

Oh, and there are a couple of arcade machines in the back room.

This is the heart of the narrative. Yes, you need to do all that stuff in the laundromat, working long days, to earn money... so that you can afford to buy more arcade machines, and prove to dad that there's more to life than just the grind of doing laundry.

I was hooked, and am tired this morning as a result.

There are some things that frustrate me about the gameplay. The "opening the safe" process gets old *very* quickly. The inability to interact with the garbage piled outside the laundromat just annoys me.

I WANT TO CLEAN IT UP. There are empty vending machines that I want to fill, and cannot interact with. I don't just want to build the arcade, I also want to clean up and renovate the laundromat, but that's a "me" thing.

Ironically, you can also play the arcade games themselves, something that just doesn't grab me at all, but that's OK by me.

In a completely unexpected twist, Arcade Paradise is:

4: Good

#ArcadeParadise #FirstPerson #Simulation #HumbleChoice #MastodonGaming #Gaming #Project365ONG #Project365 #NewPlay

Finally got around to playing #ArcadeParadise, where you take over the family laundromat business with designs and dreams of turning it into a bustling arcade! Very cool game so far, super chill with very little urgency in what you need to do. And everything is a mini game, from doing the laundry for your customers, to throwing rubbish in the dumpster, picking chewing gum off the bottom of seats, to of course the arcade games themselves. It's on #GamePass - check it out! #ShareYourGame #Gaming

Playing #ArcadeParadise via #xboxgamepass. The game wants you to focus on building a great arcade but I want to make the best laundromat possible whilst invoking the most capitalistic price gouging possible.

It’s fun and meditative. #gaming

Started playing #ArcadeParadise on #XboxGamePass tonight. Pretty fun 😀🎮

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@iieksi

Not the best way to start a day!! Starting playing #ArcadeParadise tonight 😀🎮

Need for Speed Unbound, The Bookwalker y más llegan en la segunda tanda de Xbox Game Pass para junio

https://powerups.es/need-for-speed-unbound-the-bookwalker-y-mas-llegan-en-la-segunda-tanda-de-xbox-game-pass-para-junio/

#Noticias #ArcadeParadise #BrambleTheMountainKing #FISTForgedInShadowTorch #NeedForSpeedUnbound #STORYOFSEASONSFriendsOfMineralTown #SwordAndFairyTogetherForever #TheBookwalkerThiefOfTales #XboxGamePass

🔥🚨 Coming Soon to #XboxGamePass ! These look good. Eyeballing #Bramble and #ArcadeParadise

Bramble: The Mountain King

F.I.S.T.: Forged In Shadow Torch

Need For Speed Unbound

Arcade Paradise

Story of Seasons: Friends of Mineral Town

Sword and Fairy: Together Forever

The Book Walker

What’s your take? See anything that caught your eye?

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Living the dream
#arcade #arcadeparadise #neon

My post-#EldenRing palate cleanser is #ArcadeParadise on the #SteamDeck

Another entry in the ever-popular Laundry/Arcade Management Sim genre, the game sees you doing laundry, picking up trash and buying arcade machines for your secret arcade out back. Each game is original and playable, and completing challenges in them gets you more money to buy more luscious neon 80s nonsense.

Rad!

Ihr wolltet schon immer mal eure eigene Arcade eröffnen? Dann gibt euch unser heutiges Türchen im #NewseuleAdventskalender die Gelegenheit. Zu gewinnen gibt es einen Key für #ArcadeParadise für eure PS5 oder Xbox Series X|S. Schaut mal vorbei https://www.newseule.de/adventskalender/der-grosse-newseule-de-adventskalender-2022-tag-14-26783

I play #HundredDays - Winemaking Simulator and #ArcadeParadise

https://youtu.be/R0OMSXi5iD4

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