The Game Room

The first thing that went through my head when I thought of arcades and video games was a stereotypical ‘nerd’, glasses, intensely focused on there game. When I first visited The Game Room, located roughly 17^th and O St. in downtown Lincoln, I didn't know what to expect or what type of people I would find. The first thing when walking in was that it was mainly a store that sold video games, and movies, with maybe a few arcade games.

I noticed that the arcade games were sitting in the corner and no one was playing them. One had a note that said, “Play at your own risk”. They were kind of pushed to the side, with the main focus on PlayStation or X-box games. This goes to show that arcade games aren’t as big of a deal as they may have been back in the day. As our society becomes more and more technologically advanced and more focused on making things smaller and more compact the idea of arcade games is sort of fading in the background.

As for the people that were found at The Game Room the majority of them to me looked like nerds, with the majority of the people wearing glasses, and looking like they would be some hard-core gamers. Most of them were older with a few younger kids looking at movies. What did surprise me as far as the type of people that would be found in a store like The Game Room was an athlete from the University of Nebraska – Lincoln. That was a big surprise to me because coming in with the idea of the typical nerd was changed by seeing an athlete from the University because he was the total opposite of what a stereotypical nerd might look like.