What's Happening in R-CADE In September

Summer is officially over, we have stocked up on pumpkin spice lattes and are ready for a fantastic autumn in R-CADE. Here is what we will be up to in September:

R-CADE Pop Quiz: Saturday 2nd Sep 7pm (18+) It's time for a POP party quiz! 6 rounds of pop culture, pop music, popping candy and pop vinyls, basically anything that pops! Prizes for all teams!

Rock Band Party: Saturday 16th Sep 7pm (18+) Let's turn it up to 11! 3 hours of classic rock with a full Rock Band setup. Our full games catalogue will also be available to play on our other consoles during your session too. Check out our games list on our website.

Roll Wi' It D&D Takeover: Saturday 23rd Sep 7pm (18+) Roll Wi' It are taking over R-CADE for an evening of D&D. Perfect for beginners looking to learn how to play D&D. The team will take you through a 3 hour 'one shot' campaign, help you create a character and show you the basics of role play.

R-CADE regular events....

As always, we run our weekly and bi-weekly events in our cafe and arcade. Tickets for all of these are also available on our website too:

Join us for an evening of role playing hosted by Roll Wi' It every second Thursday from 7-10pm. We will be hosting two ongoing campaigns every second Thursday in the R-CADE cafe. There will be two dedicated tables running D&D and one other TTRPG on a fortnightly basis. Don't worry if you miss a week, you can join in the campaign at any time. All materials, character sheet, dice (and even props and minis) will be provided on the night, no need to bring your own, unless you want to!

It's R-CADE Lates Thursday Club! Enjoy 3 hours of gaming in our retro video game arcade for a reduced fee of £10, with B.Y.O.B (Bring Your Own Bottle) available for a nominal corkage charge for each beverage consumed on the premises.

INTRODUCING.....

For the first time, we will be introducing one bonus quiet time session on the last Sunday of each month. This month our quiet time will run from 12-1pm on Sunday the 24th of September. During our quiet time sessions video game audio and ambient music will be reduced, all patrons will be asked to keep noise to a minimum, and the creation of a low stimulant environment will be our top priority.

Coming soon: Indie game party! co-op party games in the R-CADE cafe. Details TBC

You can purchase tickets for any of our events via our website. If you are a Superpass Patreon member you can use your monthly free pass to book a standard game session or get in touch to be added to our guestlist for any of our events. Sign up to our Patreon for discounts, arcade passes and first dibs on all of our content and events HERE!

Book your passes at: rcadeglasgow.com/bookonline

World Cycling Championships come to Glasgow

From August 3rd to August 13th, the UCI Cycling World Championship comes to Glasgow - including Glasgow Green. Over the ten days a number of streets around R-CADE will be full of cyclists, cycling enthusiasts and of course, road closures/disruption. While the event website suggests that Saltmarket will not be part of any race course, this week the street has been lined with barricades, So if you're coming down to 121 Saltmarket, please be aware of this, including issues with parking.

Glasgow Green will host the BMX Freestyle events for the championships, with action across the weekend (if you're willing to get up for 8am qualifying rounds...).

For more information about how this event could effect your journey to R-CADE, visit Get Ready Glasgow.

In celebration of this special event, here's some of the games you can play in our venue to get excited about bikes! If you want to see what other games we offer, check out our list!

California Games (Mega Drive)

While not the soul focus of this game, one of the many mini-games within California Games is BMX racing.

The bile riding accompanied a number of other West Coast favourites such as surfing, roller-skating and... footbag?

No Fear Downhill Mountain Biking (PS1)

Nothing screams late-90's alternative like No Fear. Even more so when you screamed "No Fear!" while riding downhill on a mountain bike.

Each track in the game is inspired by a legendary real life route that riders challenge, including San Francisco's Telegraph Hill and New Zealand's Matukituki Rapids.

BMX XXX (GameCube)

There aren't that many naughty cycling games... This is definitely one we only have on during our Over 18's R-CADE Lates events.

Originally intended to be the next iteration of Dave Mirra's video game series (Freestyle BMX 3), the executives at Z-Axis and Acclaim saw the success of the Grand Theft Auto franchise and chose to insert mature humour and nudity into the franchise.

Paperboy (Master System)

One of the most iconic games of it's era, I remember an old friends dad once told me he spent an entire Summer working so he could afford to buy this game... as a paperboy.

The concept is simple, the execution is hard. You are the local paper delivery boy, on their route through a sometimes standard other times extra dangerous neighbourhood. Along the way you'll be confronted with moving cards, kids on big wheels and angry dogs. The hard part is remembering which houses have ordered papers and which haven't, as the graphic only appears on the screen momentarily before a level begins.

--- Make sure to book your arcade passes to get a chance to play all of these games and over 1000 more!

Soph's Favourite R-CADE Games

Have you ever wondered what the R-CADE staff like to do during a quiet game session? Today we find out Soph's favourite games to play at R-CADE.

Bratz: Rock Angelz (PS2): Favourite games are about so many different factors. Gameplay, design, what console you grew up with and the memories attached to playing it.

For Soph, Bratz: Rock Angelz is intrisinctly tied to positive memories with their older sister Beth. “Cause we were both big fans of Bratz and she used to play it a lot. I didn’t really know how to play to when I was younger.

“We’d take it in turns, but it would end up being that I would watch her play it and pretend that I was the other Bratz talking to characters in the game and making up my own stories based on what was happening.”

A lot of our early memories as gamers are the times spent with older siblings, parents, neighbourhood kids - observing but not necessarily taking part. How many times have you heard someone talk about giving a little kid an unplugged controller?

“We were doing it together. She understood that I didn’t know how to play it, cause I was small and my brain didn’t comprehend the controls. I understood what was happening, I just didn’t know how to do it. We managed to find a way that worked for both of us, in that she could play the game and I could play along in my own way.

“I would talk to the characters or talk to my sister while she was pretending to be the character that she was playing as. So to us it kind of became an in person game.”

The gameplay itself is pretty simple. Based on the movie of the same name, players speak with characters from the Bratz universe, while also trying on different outfits and recreating scenes from the film.

“[The Bratz] have a magazine, and they’re trying to get their magazine to be big, but there’s this rival magazine company, with this woman called Burdine and her assistants the Tweevils (cause they’re twins and their evils, hence Tweevils).”

Eventually a magazine isn’t enough, and the titular tweens form their own band, The Rock Angels, and manage to play a concert in London! Damn nepo babies…

Burger Balance: We talk about food a lot in R-CADE. Whether it be what’s on offer in our cafe, Sams love of Za (pizza but funky) or discussing the best looking food from anime - it’s always on the brain. Even apparently when it comes to our selection of board games.

In Burger Balance, players compete to stack elements of a burger balanced atop an upturned ketchup bottle. Each player rolls a dice, telling them which ingredient they have to try and slot into place. Will you try to play it safe? Or take a chance in hopes of making the next turn harder for your opponents?

“It’s kind of like Jenga but reverse because you’re not taking away, you’re adding.” says Soph.

As board games should, Burger Balance appeals to a wide variety of players. “You can show it to anyone, anyone can enjoy it.” Soph says about their favourite board game we have. “Kids like it because it’s like a cute burger balanced on tomato sauce. But adults will get into it because there’s a lot of strategy involved and they’ll be really focused in on it.”

If you want to find out more about what Soph likes, or the entire R-CADE staff - make sure to check out out meet the team videos.