What's Happening At R-CADE In September

Well that was a very wet and miserable summer we just had! We hope you all managed to squeeze some fun times over the past couple of months. Now its time to dig out those cardigans, get the pumpkin spice ready and join us for some cosy autumn gaming.

R-CADE Over’s Dinosaur Quiz

This months quiz theme for our grown up nerds is all about DINOSAURS! Yes enjoy a good rawr too. Book in your team, or join one and test your prehistoric knowledge.

Saturday 7th SEP. Tickets HERE

R-CADE Over’s Craft Club

Yes you read that right, craft club is BACK! We will be hosting our first club meeting on Thursday the 12th of Sep from 6pm until 9-10pm. The theme of our first meetup will be ‘bring your own craft’. On the night we can discuss and organise future meetups and themes. This event is over 18’s and is BYOB too. Buy tickets HERE

Family Zelda Quiz

The theme for this months family quiz is ZELDA. For kids aged 10+, parents can join in to make a team too. Test your knowledge and win some goodies!Sunday 15th Sep from 5pm. Buy your tickets HERE

R-CADE Over’s Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater Challenge

To celebrate 25 years of Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater we are hosting an evening of skate challenges. Each participant will receive a bingo card of challenges that they must complete throughout the night. Saturday 28th Sep 7pm. Buy your tickets HERE

What Other Events Do We Host?

On the first and third Friday of each month from 4:40pm we host our R-CADE Friendship Club. This club has been created for gamers aged 8-16 who would like to meet fellow gamers and hopefully build new friendships in the arcade. Tickets can be bought HERE

Every Friday from 7pm in the cafe we host our Over’s Boardgame Meetup. This event has been created for grown ups who would like to learn new boardgames and meet fellow gamers. You can reserve your seat HERE.

Every Thursday from 12-2pm we host our quiet sessions. During this time we reduce the noise and capacity of the arcade and encourage an overall calmer atmosphere in the whole venue. You can book quiet passes HERE.

Our pals ROLL WI’ IT host D&D and TTRPG nights in our cafe every second Thursday for over 18’s. You can book your space by visiting our bookings page HERE.

Welcome To R-CADE Retrofest

This June we will be hosting our first retrofest here at R-CADE Glasgow. We have a jam packed schedule of events to celebrate the best in retro gaming, including some epic retro tournaments, high score challenges and even a family video game quiz!

To kick off the month we have not one, but TWO quiz events all about video games. Visit our Eventbrite page HERE to book in your team and join us from 7pm on Saturday the 1st for our over 18's video game quiz. If you want to test your trivia with the kids then get booked in for our family video game quiz on Sunday the 2nd from 5pm. Tickets for this event are available HERE.

Saturday the 8th kicks off our tournament month with our over 18's Mortal Kombat 3 tournament on the Sega Mega Drive. Prizes for our top two players and BYOB on the night! You can enter via Eventbrite HERE.

The following week we will be celebrating one of the best arcade games of the 80's; Space Invaders! On Friday the 14th we will be hosting our Space Invaders Boardgame tutorial night in the cafe. Tickets for this can be found on Eventbrite HERE. On Saturday the 15th we will be setting up our arcade table to give everyone a chance to enter our high score challenge. At the end of the day the high score winner will receive a Space Invaders wall light! On Thursday the 20th of June we will be hosting our monthly Party Games night in the cafe. This month we will be playing one of our favourite retro party games: Worms Armageddon! Tickets for this event are not yet on sale but keep your eyes peeled on our socials for updates.

Friday the 21st we will be hosting our first ever Date Night in the arcade. 3 whole hours of unrestricted gaming for over 18's. You can bring a date, a friend, your aunty Gene, we don't judge! It will just be a great evening of multiplayer retro games and fun times! Tickets can be bought from our Eventbrite page HERE. Please note that ticket prices are for two people. Over18's only, BYOB.

To end the month, and to celebrate the finals of the Classic Tetris World Championships in The US, we will be hosting our very own Classic Tetris tournament in the arcade. This event will follow the Classic Tetris rules (well, as much as we can!) The winner will receive a pretty epic prize too; a GT Omega Elite Series Gaming Chair! To enter our tournament you can visit our Eventbrite page HERE. Of course we will also be running our usual family friendly sessions every weekend, our over 18's sessions from 7pm, our quiet game sessions every Thursday from 12-2pm, our TTRPG and D&D events hosted by Roll Wi' It, and our board game meetup every Friday from 7pm. Tickets for all of our events can be found on our arcade page. We hope to kick off the summer with a retro gaming BANG, so make sure to buy your tickets, pop in for a wee game or snack in the cafe, tell your family and friends and we will see you in June!

R-CADE Lates Is No More!

Goodbye R-CADE Lates, hello R-CADE Over's

At first they were called 'Adult Passes', then we tried 'R-Rated', but this didn't go well. People thought we were hosting naughty game events! So we landed on the title 'R-CADE Lates' for our over 18's game sessions, and it did quite well, for a while...

As many of you know, our venue has two different types of gaming sessions. We are family friendly from 12-7pm, then from 7pm onward our whole venue is only accessible to players aged 18+. After 7pm all of our age restrictions are lifted on our video game catalogue & boardgame collection and we allow BYOB (bring your own bottle).

We gave our over 18's sessions the title of 'Lates' as it was later in the evening, (that made sense, right?) but over the past couple of years through feedback from customers, followers and interested folk telling us that they had no idea what a 'Lates' session was meant to be, its time for a change.

Introducing: The R-CADE Over's!

We know it may be a little difficult to prise yourself off the sofa, what with the multitude of streaming services, convenient fast food delivery services, and news stories beamed straight to your smartphone, but it gets lonely and pretty boring on that sofa...

Why not get yourself down to R-CADE, we have created a bright, fun, and relaxed venue for you to hang out in, enjoy a wide range of retro games, make new friends and have a wonderfully nostalgic experience. No cover charge and no ticket required for the coolest retro cafe on the planet, and just £10pp for access to our incredible retro video game arcade for 90 minutes. You are never too old to enjoy games, and you will find plenty of awesome folk over 18 who enjoy them just as much as you do when you book in for R-CADE Over's!

IMPORTANT UPDATE

Not only have we changed the name of our over 18's event, we have also changed the session times and ticketing format. We no longer host our tickets directly via our website, (but they are still advertised there). Instead we have gone back to Eventbrite for all of our over 18's gaming sessions, quiz nights, tournaments and special events for gamers aged 18+. (All events for families and kids are still hosted directly on our website) We have also changed the session time*. Instead of a single 3 hour session at one price, we are now hosting two 90 minute sessions, each at a cost of £10 per 90 minute session (plus Eventbrite booking fee). Our session times will run from 7-8:30pm and from 8:30-10pm every Thursday, Friday and Saturday. This gives visitors the option to stay for a single session or book two sessions for the whole evening. We had comments in the past that some gamers didn't want to pay the full 3 hour fee as they only wanted to play for an hour/90 minutes, so we thought this would give everyone more options.

Our Over's tickets are now on sale on Eventbrite, alongside our other over 18's events. Please make sure to follow our Eventbrite page for updates on new events, alongside other fantastic events happening in Glasgow at other venues!

We hope that using such well known sites as Eventbrite will help spread the word about our wee venue, and that our new event title will encourage more mature gamers to visit and experience our fantastic retro community without fear of being judged. We are just a couple of middle aged gamers ourselves trying to create a fun and inclusive hangout in Glasgow city centre, come hang out with us!

*Don't worry if you have already bought Lates tickets for sessions over the coming weeks, we are still honouring your tickets and you do not need to change anything.