Remember this? That contest Ground Kontrol won declaring it the greatest arcade in, like, anywhere? The grand prize was a cool $25,000, and since pulling down that cash the people behind GK have been remodeling the place into something they’ve oh so technofetishistically dubbed “Ground Kontrol 3.0.”
Come tomorrow evening the new digs open to the public via 21 and over party.
Pertinent details on the above poster (more voluminous, slightly less pertinent details at GK’s official site).
(Addendum: If you just can’t wait to find out what’s been done to the interior of your favorite arcade, the Ground Kontrol 3.0 Upgrade Center blog has reams of details on all the DIY table construction and fiber optic cable snakery that’s been going down over the last few months. No shots of the finished product though, likely in an effort to drag Internet people from their misanthropy and out into the real world tomorrow night.)
TechnofetiSHITically?
Nex for Typo of the Week!
Inspired by TRON!
I wonder, does that mean it’s inspired by the crappy-looking arcade in Tron? Or by the Tron mainframe?
@ Todd: Dammit, I KNEW I was going to ruin that word somehow. My brain can’t handle that many syllables before my morning cigarette. Fixing now.
@ ROM: Neither. Tron: Legacy (and, by extension, Daft Punk).
They jumped the shark when they took out my precious Street Fighter II Original.
@Nex Well, Legacy takes place in the mainframe. Amirite?
Dunno. Never saw it.
Yeah, it does. It’s inside the computer (which in Tron is called the mainvein… I mean, mainframe).