My name is Ryan Stone.

My name is Matt And we got to ta and we just kind of help run the place.

So yeah.

So my background i and I've done a little bit engineering to application engineering systems, administration kind of all over the place.

So so I wear multiple hats.

I'm actually a music teacher from my full time job.

I work at the middle school.

I teach fifth grade music all day.

We're coming up with names like, we just want to add something fun, something where we're just throwing things at the wall Ye ah, that is actually when the Let's power.

Up.

So yeah, so.

I'm born and raised in Sedalia, and I actually grew up in an area because of my en They've been saying, we need an arcade.

So is I'm going to get so.

Grew up And so it's k to provide some form of enterta So it's been a long time in the making.

Yeah.

texted to me at the time a Craigslist ad, that's it.

And he said, Here's a broken arcade.

Do you think we can fix it?

I said, We We started flipping arcades, basically buying, selling, trading.

And that's how we kind of got start, was kind of invitin And it's been seven years in the making So I always love video games yo u know, you learn a lot of.

Video games can in s Play doesn't fix everything.

And to that end, it's there.

It's not Right?

We just did a fundraiser with CASA, which We went there and had some of our games be part of the highlight there.

But also we'd like t where children who have had not a great family life can and just kind of just kind of be a kid, you.

Know, And both you just come in here, spend an hour or two just, yo having fun yourself and just go and play some ski ball it is really relaxing, I guess just, you know, be your mind off the world what's going on and we've seen we've bought out a lot of our kids.

That's how we got all of our games.

We bought out so many and we see what works And that's what we kind of follow this into something that we think that would do prosper really well.

Crazy enough, we bought half of these new but you can't get many of these becaus so well.

In our case, you just can't buy them, you know?

So we had to you know, we were we had to buy a ne We worked very hard.

The games th It's a smaller space, so we had to pick the right games.

But again, we had to be really selective for the ones that we want in We don't want just, you know, a certai ten year olds to come in here, play it.

We want everybody to come here So we had to get the ski balls, We had to get th but we also had to get the new games Superbikes three and the racing game And take Take Tank is a unicorn.

It's in Japanese.

We bought it from an arcade We bought out that whole arcade.

It's pretty powerful.

You can hear it.

You're going to.

Hear pressur When you fire.

It lit It's really it's a crazy thing.

It's kind of what it was going to Like we love the vid part and the halo, and we love that.

It's like, well, the taxi r But I wanted to call it more popular.

It's kind of on the bottom.

Of the list, more because some of the And honestly, the demographic and everything has been changing from when we open to now because people now that they're knowing more about us, are we are seeing more people wander i We'll see a lot of it.

say 4056 year old men go straight to t you know, and, and play that during the days it's switched.

Nowadays, kids love the redemption.

They love getting tickets and up there at the right moment.

We're kind of unique.

We you know, you can' We want unique stuff in here that And you know, we don't want to spend 20 bucks a week on a We want to give them so Either board actually with the adult that comes in all the time.

You that w for a month an That's a lot of tickets so it comes in a lot of our.

Regulars center three, five seven to shout out to him Yeah.

Then we got 30,020 6000 like we get we're getting some regulars They love ju Well and see he said he wasn't even s if he wanted to cash it.

He said, well I alr I don't know if I want to do So we'll have to get a dune buggy or something, And one of the things we want and on our prize will feature local businesses and their gift certificates and whatno We've got, you know, chips and soda.

Along with our food.

Also, really cool slushies that we've been making.

People always talk about it, ta p again, it's c and we kind of made it but it's kind of based on Harry Potter's B But it is.

It's pretty if you ever We also are going fu We just finally had our first event that w and we had our costume contest.

We had a runway righ and we had the fog machine It was a blast.

It was a lot of fu And And Brian can say that.

Yeah.

So all.

They do is You get more in the tournaments, you're responsible for You just get people in there just, you know, to show off their skills and their ga Even cosplay stuff, you know, trivia nig you know, anything suitably nerdy and f We think the image says it all.

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