On August 13th 2014 we officially had our 4th year anniversary. Each year the arcade keeps getting bigger and better. We want to take a few minutes and really thank everyone who has made this possible. I first want to thank the guys I work with, Brandon Diaz, Soonk Delgado, Jeremiah Smith, Pete Hahn, Fill Pops Diaz & Jenkins. Also the new comers Sam & Nick. We could not do this place without them. These guys are truly amazing and deserve huge amounts of the credit for making this place work. Huge thank you to everyone who plays here! Our regulars, you provide so many amazing feats of gaming that capture the attention of players around the world. Guys like Fred DeHart (our newly crowned GOTY) Matt Walters, James White, Matt Rocco, Brian Kita, Jamie Tibbets, Chris Teter, Duc Dang, Norbert Vale, Edward Lee, Anthony Paparo, Caitilin Oliver, Sean Quigley, Davin Loh, Jason Latko, there are so many people, thank you all! All the people that have traveled in from around the world to come play here, thank you! I greatly appreciate it when you I get to talk to everyone and here what you think of the place and hear about where you are in from. It means a lot to me to know weve built something that is worth traveling for. Its meant so much to see the community step to and help us grow even bigger. Huge thank you to everyone who has donated to our FundRaiser, Mases Hagolian, Matt & Rachel Walters, Dan Iacovelli, Pete Gorz, Marc Antos, Edward Lee, Tom Steinke, James White, Jason Latko, Jason Krough, Duc Dang, Matt Rocco, Brian Kita, Danny Luburic, Phillip Ahn, Kristy Mikos, George Gaynor, Tim Vermeulen, John Hruza, Anthony Lijovic & everyone else - Thank you so much for making this place better. I will be making a big announcement very soon on the fundraiser end of things. Thank you to TEAM GGA - Its been so much fun having you guys represent us all around the world, 16Bit, Han, PimPimJim, Dizzy, Max, Saucy Jack, Jeremiah, Wafflez, Moe30W, Fill Pops, Soonk, To the Chicago fighting community, thank you for making our Ghost Battle Series so successful and thanks to Pete Hahn for running it. We look forward to the new tournament room and look to make this year really amazing for the fighting community. We cant wait to increase what we do for the Anime scene and the Capcom scene. Huge thanks to the Mortal Kombat crew that came out and made such an amazing event, Daniel Pesina, Philip Ahn, Rich Divizio, Carlos Pesina, Lia Montelongo, John Parrish, Sal Divita, Kerri Hoskins, Brian Glynn, Tony Marquez, Talyor Marquez, John Vogel & Steve Beran. Thank you to all my industry friends who stopped by over the last year, Brian Colin, Ed Boon, George Petro, Eugene Jarvis, Larry DeMar, Steve Ritchie, George Gomez, Jeff Lee, Todd Allen, Mike Vinikour, Tanio Kylce & David Bishop Weve been buying so many games and really have to thank everyone for parting with so many great titles for everyone to enjoy here. Jeremy from Arcade Sellers, Tom Brady, Mike Biel, Bradley and so many others. Thanks to Mark Sullivan from Happ, HUGE thanks to Bryan Armitage from Paradise Arcade! Thanks to everyone who watches our streams. Thanks to everyone that has written about us Ars Technia, Kotaku, Maximilian and so many others. Many thanks to the places that have invited us to run events, such as Midwest Gaming Classic, & Glass City Con, Walter Day and the Twin Galaxies Icon Event & Trickman Terry & Sushi X of VGEVO. Thanks to the other arcades we have run events with, Underground Retrocade, Game Grid, Richie Knucklez, Kencade. We look forward to more cross arcades events soon! There are so many others to thank, Gerry Cantu, Steve Campbell, Charles Moisant, Tonys Restaurant, David Hernley of Aurcade, Jason Hodges & Mark Alicz, and everyone we have dealt with. And lastly thanks to my girl friend Danielle, who has been so cool with me working so many hours at the arcade & on Dark Presence. Shes truly amazing! Thank you everyone for a great year and we hope we have made it fun for everyone. We look to make this upcoming year even better with more games, more tournaments and events and raise the bar even higher for ourselves.
Posted on: Fri, 15 Aug 2014 17:48:45 +0000
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