Office Arcade — Origin Story
I grew up in the 80s with a pocket full of quarters and a head full of dreams.
Every weekend, I'd bike to the local arcade — that dimly lit cave with carpet straight out of a Pizza Hut, neon lights reflecting off CRT glass, and the symphony of 8-bit beeps, coin drops, and the occasional "GAME OVER" groan. I'd stand on my toes to reach the joystick on BurgerTime, pump quarter after quarter into TRON, and watch older kids dominate Galaga like it was an art form.
I told myself: One day, I'm gonna have my own arcade.
Fast forward a few decades. I've got an office. I've got a paycheck. And I've got that same itch I had at 10 years old standing in front of Lunar Lander.
So I built it.
Piece by piece, I turned my workspace into the arcade I dreamed about as a kid. Real cabinets. Real CRTs. That same neon glow I remember from 1987. The miniature cabs on the shelf. The synthwave lighting. The whole vibe.
But here's the thing: I can't fit a full-size arcade cabinet on your desk.
So I made the next best thing.
Office Arcade is my way of sharing that nostalgia — the blueprints, the exploded diagrams, the technical breakdowns of the machines and gear that defined a generation. The posters you see here? They're love letters to the tech that made us who we are. BurgerTime. Atari joysticks. Game Boys. Walkmans. Fax machines (okay, maybe not love letters for that one).
Every design is a piece of my childhood, packaged for your workspace.
You can't always turn your office into an arcade. But you can hang a poster, dim the lights, and remember what it felt like to have 50 cents and infinite possibilities.
Welcome to Office Arcade. 🎮📼