It seems that retro gaming nostalgia is keeping this market alive. These nostalgic games take people back to their childhood. Right here in New York, there's a bar that combines craft beers and retro arcade machines. The dimly lit bar on Union Avenue in the heart of Williamsburg, Brooklyn, opened in 2004 and is called Barcade. There are currently three locations, in Brooklyn, New Jersey and Philadelphia, with a fourth opening soon in Chelsea, Manhattan. Four friends, Pete Landway, Kevin Beard, Scott Beard and Paul Kermizian, opened the bar. The bar's walls are lined with classic 80s arcade games such as Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Dig-Dug, Pac-Man, Gauntlet, and Rampage, to name a few. Take these games and combine them with microbrews from breweries such as Abita, Lakefront, Stone and Harpoon to name a few, and you have hipster heaven. The bar welcomes a predominantly male hipster clientele in flannel, between 20 and 30 years old, who bring their girlfriends there to relive a part of their childhood. Michael Ajami, 22, a big fan of the bar, often comes to escape reality. “I come here all the time just to have a beer and play games for a few hours, it cheers me up when I'm having a hard day at work,” Ajami said. Ajami was born in the 90s, it's funny that he finds these games nostalgic. “My brother would take me to the arcades and let me play his Super Nintendo while I was growing up, he was the one who introduced me to video games in general,” Ajami added. Video games are passed down from generation to generation, which explains why bar patrons in their 20s find these games nostalgic. It's no surprise that Barcade is located in trendy William...... middle of paper ... with film or music history. There is still a market for old video games, exactly in the same sense that there is a market for old music and films. This is an important and crucial cultural element,” Taber said. Taber, a fan of Video Games Live, thinks the music in older games was more creative. Hardware limitations forced developers to be very creative with the music they produced. The music from these games will last forever,” Taber said. So here we have a subculture that dresses up in their favorite characters, tends to live in the past, and sways to video game music at live concerts. Video game music doesn't seem much different from other music genres and should be considered a serious music genre. Nothing is better than the classic music of the Rolling Stones and The Beatles, just like nothing is better than the sounds of Super Mario and Tetris..