It’s a tabletop bubble hockey game where players manipulate goalies, wingers and defenseman attached to rods, battling it out with a dime-sized, free-flying puck. The most popular game, though, doesn’t use electricity. Lit’s collection spans decades, from a 1967 machine to brand-new computerized pinball machines themed around “Stranger Things” and “Rick & Morty.” It also has a four-player Pac-Man arcade game that, like “Stranger Things,” is a newly minted creation that pays homage to the 1980s. (Rick Egan | The Salt Lake Tribune) A close-up of a Beatles-themed pinball game at Lit Arcade Bar, in Ogden, on Thursday, Dec. For a spell, the collection lived in the Smiths’ home basement. Smith said he started collecting pinball machines close to a decade ago as a passionate hobby before he thought about parlaying that into a business. “When I travel to a new city for business - let’s say I’m going to Denver - I search, and it tells me where all the pinball machines are,” he said. It’s crowdsourced, he explained, with map pins that give an address and list the games a venue offers. Smith pulls up an app on his phone that’s like a Google map for pinball machines all across America - whether it’s a huge bank of them inside an arcade bar in New York City, or some hard-to-find vintage pinball game in the corner of a laundromat in Peoria, Ill. 2100 South, secured its liquor license in June.Īrcade bars are pretty recent to Utah, Smith said, “but they go way back in other places - like 10, 15 years.” ( According to Eater, the earliest one surfaced around 2007 in New York City.) “We’re buddies with the owners of Quarters, buddies with the guy who owns Utah Pinball, and has 55 machines that he owns,” Smith said. Its sister location, Quarters Sugar House at 1045 E. 400 South, in Salt Lake City, which opened in 2018. The first was Quarters Arcade Bar at the DLC, at 5 E. (Rick Egan | The Salt Lake Tribune) Nate and Kristy Smith, owners of the Lit Arcade Bar, in Ogden, on Thursday, Dec.
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