Went to Cidercade yesterday.

It’s an arcade that serves cider.

The kind you have to be 21 to order.

And no, it’s not a remixed Dave & Buster’s.

Couple reasons:

  1. All the games are set to free play
  2. They only serve pizza

It’s Chuck E. Cheese without a ballpit.

Circus Circus without the clowns.

Had a blast playing games half-remembered from the few times I went to an arcade as a kid.

There’s nothing profound about Cidercade.

Except that we just went there to play.

Something we do less of as adults.

If we do it at all.

We’ve been robbed of that, chasing likes and clout and virality.

Forgetting what fun was like.

When you did things for their sake and not for the clicks.