What it's like to work at R-CADE

In April of 2022 we extended our opening hours for the Easter school holidays. This meant that we needed an extra pair of hands to help out. We threw out a wee job vacancy online, interviewed some folks and choose Gary to come work with us for three weeks.

It has been a crazy three weeks with almost every single session being fully booked with families visiting to play games and hang out. We threw poor Gary right in the deep end from day one, but after three weeks he is still here, about to work his last shift at R-CADE, and we wanted to ask him how he felt about his R-CADE experience: So you have survived three weeks working at R-CADE, how are you holding up?

I look and feel like Rocky after his fight with Ivan Drago. Haha only joking, I'm sad it's coming to an end soon. I've had that much fun it didn't feel like I was actually at "work" once.

What has been your favourite thing about working at R-CADE?

Definitely the whole community/family feeling. From the staff making everyone feel welcome to the customers who all bring their own unique vibe, it's just a great place to be and it made me feel extremely happy and not self conscious at all about being who I want to be.

R-CADE has a trending hashtag on Twitter called #thingsheardatrcade , what has been your favourite thing overheard at R-CADE during your time here?

Some middle aged lady telling her child that "Mario was her bitch"

What is your favourite game to play or set up for families at R-CADE?

Unfortunately I never got to play any games due to how crazily busy the shop has been but a family favourite definitely has to be Mario Kart on the Wii or N64.

Will you be coming back for some game sessions even after you stop working here? Hell YES! Without a shadow of a doubt.

2-Player games in RCADE

Sometimes there's too much choice in RCADE. With over 1000 games, its difficult to know what meets your needs.

And so we have a handy little guide of 2-player games to check out across all of our consoles while you're here.

Atari 2600

Combat - Battle it out with tanks and physics

Freeway - Race to cross the road with as many chickens as possible

Joust - Ye olden horse game, with computer

Outlaw - An old western shootout

RealSports Soccer - The oldest football game on the shop floor

NES

Ivan "Ironman" Stewart's Super Road Off - Top down racing with dirt rally cars

Lunar Pool - A mixture of pool and mini golf

Soccer - Football

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles - The titular turtles battle their way through the sewers

WWF WrestleMania Challenge - Take control of your favourite 80s wrasslers

Master System

California Games - A series of mini-games to compete in

Heavyweight Champ - Play as some of your favourite boxers throughout history

Smash T.V. - Work together to traverse a series of shooter arenas

Sonic the Hedgehog 2 - Race your friend as a blue hedgehog or a yellow fox thing

Super Kickoff - Fast paced football action

Mega Drive

Eternal Champions - fighting game with beautiful graphics AND magic

FIFA 95 - The oldest FIFA available in RCADE

Golden Axe - Medieval side scrolling beat-em-up

Micro Machines 96 - Race across common household setups as tiny race cars

NBA Jam - 2-on-2 basketball with added shoving

SNES

Clay Fighter - A fighting game of claymation monsters

F-Zero - Futuristic racing (think pod-racers from Star Wars)

Street Fighter 2 Turbo - The classic fighting game

Super Bomberman 2 - Drop bombs to eliminate opponents and open areas of the map

WWF Super WrestleMania - Your favourite wrestlers are back with improved graphics!

Sega Saturn

Daytona USA: Championship Circuit Edition - Race across the United States as a stock car driver

Saturn Bomberman - Drop bombs to eliminate opponents and open areas of the map

Street Fighter: The Movie - A Street Fighter game, made by the Mortal Kombat people

Virtua Cop 2 - Lightgun game, shoot the baddies!

Virtua Fighter 2 - A fighting game

Playstation

Battle Arena Toshinden - Compete against friends with a range of medieval weaponry

Crash Team Racing - Crash and friends race to the finish, and use special powers along the way

Destruction Derby - Destroy cars better to earn more points

The Simpsons Wrestling - Throw people around the ring as your favourite Simpsons characters

Tony Hawk's Pro Skateboarding - Compete with friends to pull of the sickest trick

Dreamcast

ChuChu Rocket - Guide your mice into a rocket to escape cats. You kinda have to play it to understand...

Marvel vs Capcom: Clash of Super Heroes - Fight amongst the Marvel heroes and the Capcom characters you've grown to love

Power Stone - Fight other magical characters with fists or weapons you pick up around the map

Toy Commander - Take to the skies to destroy or race your friends in model planes

Virtua Tennis 2 - Choose your favourite 2000's tennis player and take to the court

PlayStation 2

BCV: Battle Construction Vehicles - Fight one another using cranes and other JVC equipment

Crash Nitro Kart - Crash and friends race to the finish, and use special powers along the way

FIFA Street - Football is taken back to it's home, the streets, but with some of the biggest stars in the world

Lego Star Wars - Experience Star Wars as Lego versions of your favourite characters, and solve two person puzzles

Time Crisis 2 - A light gun game, which allows you to use some special gun controllers!

GameCube

Dragon Ball Budokai 2 - Battle with your favourite characters from the Dragon Ball franchise

Legends of Wrestling 2 - Challenge your friends in the square circle as wrestling giants from the 80s

Mario Kart Double Dash -The superior Mario Kart game, where you can either work together or against each other

Pokemon Colosseum - Traditional Pokemon battles, but on the big screen!

Super Mario Strikers - Mario and friends swap plumbing for playing football

XBOX original

Amped - Race down the slops in snowboarding action

Burnout 3: Takedown - Compete in races, or challenges to destroy as much as possible!

Dead or Alive 3 - A fighting game, featuring characters each with a different martial arts discipline

Lego Star Wars II - Experience the first Star Wars trilogy as Lego versions of your favourite characters, and solve two person puzzles

Star Wars Battlefront - Take control of the planet of your choice from the Star Wars universe, and conquer/defend its people

XBOX 360

Blur - Modern day cars, with Mario Kart style power ups

FIFA 11 - The oldest modern football game we have

Lego Marvel Super Heroes - Play as over 150 of your favourite Marvel characters

Marvel vs Capcom 3: Fate of Two Worlds - Use our special fight stick controllers to battle Marvel characters again Capcom favourites

Minecraft - Build things! Or harass villagers. You've seen this at this point.

Playstation 3

Dirt: Showdown - Rally racing against your friends in the most modern cars

Dragon Ball Xenoverse XV - Battle among the world of Dragon Ball across the green hills

Little Big Planet - Solve physics puzzles with a friend as little Sackboy's

Sega Superstars Tennis - Smash it back and forth across the tennis court with some of Sega's most popular properties

Tekken Tag Tournament 2 - 2-on-2 combat with mythical creatures and martial artists

Nintendo Wii

Carnival Games - Enjoy a day at the fair with some of your favourite tests of strength and accuracy

Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games - be a star athlete of the grandest stage of them all, while also being an anthropomorphic animal

Pokken Tournament - A Pokemon fighting game like you've never seen it before

Super Mario Galaxy - Your standard 3D Mario game fun, but with a second player to support your journey!

Wii Play - A collection of the best retro games/arcade games, but in a lofi Wii aesthetic

You can check out our full games list on the R-CADE website HERE. Grab a friend, book your passes and head down to R-CADE for a wee game session! Article by Sam Roberts

R-CADE Covid Update

On Tuesday the Scottish government made a statement updating the country with their new schedule for reducing restrictions. The following changes will be made at the following dates in Scotland: -vaccine certification will no longer be legally required from Monday 28 February, although the app will remain available so any business that wishes to continue certification on a voluntary basis to reassure customers will be able to do so.

-current legal requirements on the use of face coverings, the collection of customer details for contact tracing purposes, and for businesses, service providers and places of worship to have regard to guidance on Covid and to take reasonably practicable measures set out in the guidance are expected to be lifted on 21 March, subject to the state of the pandemic.

- access to lateral flow and PCR tests will continue to be free of charge, ahead of a detailed transition plan being published on the future of Scotland’s test and protect programme in March. We have discussed these changes with our staff and have decided that due to the size of our venue and the small number of staff we have, to keep our current restrictions in place until at least one month after the above restrictions change. This means that: -Vaccine passports were never required in R-CADE previously, and we will not ask for passports moving forward.

-Masks will still be mandatory for every person over 12 attending any of our gaming sessions up until at least the 21st of April. We will still require everyone to check in using the Scottish Track and Trace up until this date too. - Lateral flow tests will still be taken by every member of staff before every shift, and we will still require proof of a negative lateral flow test taken on the day of your visit if you are mask exempt or attending our R-CADE Lates over 18's sessions. Just as we are doing now, the only people allowed to attend R-CADE family gaming sessions without a mask are kids under 12 and people with a valid exemption who can provide proof of exemption and a negative lateral flow test. We will not grant entry without proof of both. We will review our rules in the week running up to the 21st of April and will update everyone with any changes. We are fully aware that mask wearing will no longer be a legal requirement after the 21st of March but as a small independent business we reserve the right to keep these rules in place to keep our staff and customers safe. We resent these rules as much as everyone else but we have agreed as a small team that keeping these restrictions a bit longer will help everyone in the long run. We hope everyone can understand why we are keeping these rules in place.

If you no longer wish to wear a mask after the 21st of March we fully support you, but ask that unless you are happy to wear a mask when visiting R-CADE, to wait a little longer to visit until we can reduce our restrictions in the future and you can visit us mask free, just not yet. Thank you to everyone for the amazing support. We very much hope that this is the last hurdle in a truly crazy two years!

You can still book your family gaming passes or over 18's Lates passes on our website or order from our online store at www.rcadeglasgow.com