The 8-BIT Gaming Bar
Update #1 - 22nd June
Great news!
YouTube legend Dan Bull (http://www.youtube.com/user/douglby) has offered to let us add some of his music as contributor perks, and we couldn’t be happier!
Probably most famous for his Skyrim Epic Rap, his support to this project is incredible, and a huge boost in morale and confidence for everyone involved.
You can watch it here
Summary
This is a campaign to raise the final bit of funding needed to bring my dream to life - a full, comprehensive Gaming-themed bar for my hometown of Falmouth, Cornwall. With the only remotely similar bar closed and moved to London, the time is ripe to make this happen!
The plans include
- Three dedicated HDTV sets, one each for Sony, Nintendo, and Microsoft
- Another HDTV easily switchable between a Megadrive, SNES and N64
- A full-size standing Arcade Cabinet, boasting over sixty popular, classic titles (Including a number of Street Fighter and Mortal Kombat titles, Metal Slug, Bubble Bobble, Donkey Kong, Pacman etc.)
- A dedicated, seperate area for either card gaming or the playing of RPGs (Need a specific night for your group? Hire the space!)
- Full, free, high-speed customer Wi-Fi
And that's just the gaming side of it!
What We Need & What You Get
We already have a premises picked out at 29 High Street, Falmouth (Currerntly "The Underground"), and we already have £35,000 in funding - it's enough to cover the premises and all expenses with buying the remainder of the lease. This is in part personally, and in part bank funded, but the amount we have isn't quite enough, though the hard part is done!
What we need now is the capital to furnish and stock the Bar, and bring it to life.
The £5,000 funding we're asking for is going to the following places.
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£1,200 for out standing arcade cabinet. This is already picked out, and earmarked for us!
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£1,000 for the purchase of all four major consoles, and enough peripherals to enable simultaneous four-player on each, at once.
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£1,800 for four Samsung 42" 5-series 1080i Full-HD TVs, including wall-mounting
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£1,000 budget for the purchase of a wide range of titles for the consoles. The aim is to have a comprehensive, if not exhaustive range of titles for each system to keep everyone entertained. Any remainder from this sum will be kept seperate to fund new releases as they happen!
Overfunding
If we manage to get over our target (!) we'll be spending the money on the bar, in the same vein as above. Every single contribution will go straight into enhancing the bar for every single customer, in the following order.
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£1,100 A tabletop-style arcade maching to compliment the seating area, of the same quality and depth of choice as our standing arcade cabinet (From the same people).
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£950 A ceiling-mounted projector to turn the back wall of the bar into the ultimate competitive gaming ground. Life-Size Mario Kart, anyone?
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£450 An accompanying surround-sound system for the projector, making it the focal piece of an evenings competitive gaming. You've never played Guitar Hero like this, I promise!
And on, and on, and on!
The Perks
Alright, so besides giving yourselves a new place to drink and enjoy the latest games, with friends, in spacious, comfortable surroundings, what's in this for you?
Well, at the very least, (£5) you'll have your name (Or your gamertag, if you prefer!) drawn into a mural in the hallway leading from the front door, forever showing every person to walk through the door exactly who made this possible. You!
At £10, you'll get yourself a free drink, and ten free credits for our standing arcade cabinet, to spend as you wish.
At £25, we'll make that three drinks, double your number of free arcade credits to 20, and make sure your name is listed higher in the list of thanks!
At £50, we'll sweeten the deal even further. You'll get the choice to inspire either a cocktail or a shot/bomb from your favourite game, name it, and see it immortalised on the menu, alongside your name! You'll of course get three free samples of your creation to help "playtest" it. Not only that, you'll still get thirty (30!) free games on our Arcade Cabinet, three more drinks of your choice, and your name will be even higher on the Mural of Thanks!
The Impact
Every single penny of your contribution is going straight into making the 8-BIT Bar everything it needs to be. Every person who donates, as well as adding to the dream, re-enforces the idea that this is the right thing to do.
I sincerely and honestly believe in this idea, and that's why I'm willing to put my money where my mouth is. Unfortunately, there's just not quite enough money to fill my mouth just yet, and without this comparitively small amount, there will be no Bar.
The whole reason behind choosing Indiegogo for this was the fact that, if some of you believe enough to donate, to fund this wonderful space where we can hang out in an area designed for people who share our interests, then I still get what you put in without meeting that goal. Because this bar will happen. It will. And every penny goes to that eventual goal - Not funding this is not the end. It just delays it a while.
The reason for wanting it funded now is the fact that the premises we've found is perfect. I'm in love with it. Genuinely, I feel this is the best place the bar could ever happen. Missing the goal will mean time to build more funds to reach our target, but also losing out on this beautiful building
That's why I'm reaching out to you.
Other Ways You Can Help
Some of you just don't have the funds to help out - that's fine! I understand! You're in no way obliged to donate to help us out. Just get the word out! Let everyone know what we intend, and we'll see you when it happens!
You could always...
- Post this on Facebook, Tumblr, Twitter etc.
- Tell your friends!
- Make new friends by telling people about us, then take them for a drink after we open, find your true love and hold your wedding reception with us! (Or, y'know, facebook is fine too...)