Arcadia National Bar - From One Year To The Next - Documentary
46A community of game players is brought together at the Arcadia National Bar in Portland, Maine USA.
This documentary short by John Andersen shows the transformation of Arcadia from one year to the next as it goes through a renovation to offer more games with expanded space for the community to come together and play. Arcadia was opened in 2014 by Dave Aceto and Ben Culver serving local southern Maine brews, classic pinball, arcade games, game consoles and tabletop gaming. Numerous arcades games and pinball machines that are decades old have been acquired by Arcadia and are kept running by Aceto and his staff. In an era where multiplayer gaming has permanently established itself online, Arcadia is also preserving and saving the person-to-person social element of gameplay.
WRITTEN, DIRECTED & PRODUCED BY
JOHN ANDERSEN
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INTERVIEWEE
DAVE ACETO
NARRATOR
JOHN ANDERSEN
MUSIC
"Cascade"
"Overlord"
by kubbi
kubbi.bandcamp.com
Used under creative commons sa
& used with permission
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"game on"
music by clerix
http://youtube.com/Clerixofficial
used with permission
ARCADE & PINBALL PRODUCTION DATA COURTESY OF
IPDB
THE INTERNET PINBALL DATABASE
WWW.IPDB.ORG
GAMING-HISTORY
WWW.ARCADE-HISTORY.COM
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Photograph of Keith Egging Courtesy of Don Marshall
SPECIAL THANKS TO:
Dave Aceto
The Staff & Patrons of Arcadia National Bar
in Portland, Maine USA
Steve Poulos
Nance Andersen
Ruth Egging
IN MEMORY OF
Keith Egging
1945-2018
Creator of "Ice Cold Beer"
for Taito America Corporation
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Saving The Video Game
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