We’ve also acquired nine operators by putting together All You Can Arcade. We’ll buy an entire shop with every game inside of it, including all of the tiny components that are so hard to source. I recently snagged a Pac-Man from a guy who had the game in the dining room of his trailer. Where do you find these old machines to restore? We want to help them find the games, sell them and fix them. Ultimately, we don’t just want to be a website where arcade operators go to rent their games. Now, we’re figuring out what kind of infrastructure we need, not just to rent games to our customers but also to support operators and make it easy to schedule rentals and to fix machines when they break. We also have operators who help fill some of the demand.
We manage a portfolio of about 200 games that we deliver to customers in the Bay Area.
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When we finally got around to learning how to work on them, we knew there was some magic there. We started off by buying and selling games online, and doing salvage. My brother Timothy and I wanted to start a business. How did you get into the arcade service business? Here, co-founder Seth Peterson discusses what it takes to give decades-old machines - and their owners - a second life, where to scavenge for parts that haven’t been produced in years, and how a career as a stockbroker led to field service, anyway. For $75 a month, All You Can Arcade delivers 30-year-old arcade machines to private homes and corporate offices in and around San Francisco, giving kids at heart and millennials alike a taste of old-school gaming.
But for some game enthusiasts, Angry Birds just can’t top a classic like Donkey Kong, Space Invaders or Ms. It’s been a tough decade for the coin-op industry, with $1 apps replacing $0.25 plays at the local arcade.
Director, Product Strategy FieldFX at ServiceMax
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