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| - Dundas Video was a spur-of-the-moment destination. A friend of mine knew the owner of the bar and asked if I wanted to check it out. He told me there were a number of retro games stationed all throughout the bar and I figured it was worth looking into.
When we arrived, I was pleasantly surprised at the atmosphere. A small, but cozy dive that had, as my friend promised, retro video game stations dispersed all throughout the bar. There was a SNES, NES, Genesis, N64, a duck-hunt station and an arcade machine with 500 games loaded into it. I had to do a double-take to realize this was a bar and not an arcade, but if you recorded a video in here and applied a VHS filter on it, it would certainly look like it was filmed in the early 90s.
The owner treated us to a beer and a glass full of quarters to enjoy playing some games on the arcade machine, which we happily did. Although, it was interesting to note that the machine had games loaded that were perhaps not even arcade games to begin with. My friend and I struggled with a few of them to accept the coin for player 2 to begin playing. It undoubtedly ate a few quarters but considering we spent none to begin with, this really wasn't a problem. For actual paying customers though, this machine may best be approached with caution.
I noticed a large menu on the wall that listed nothing but video game titles. For a moment, I thought that all the drinks in the bar were named after video games. On a second glance, however, I realized that they were literally the entire catalogue of games available to play. My friend and I requested Super Mario Bros 3 for the NES, and the bartender opened a drawer behind him and pulled out a NES cart. He slid the NES and TV towards us, and before we knew it, we were jamming to some Mario Bros 3 on a CRT display while downing a beer. The nostalgia was overwhelming.
The basement was dedicated to the bathrooms but even so, it maintained the design motif. There was a lobby of sorts downstairs that separated the men and women's bathroom. In it there was another CRT set laying plainly on a table. A VCR with a cassette of Back to the Future was sitting next to it just waiting for someone to hit play. I thought it was rather funny. I can't imagine anyone stationing themselves between two bathrooms to watch Back to the Future. In the main area there was a projection screen showing Ghostbusters, while a DJ spun some laid back electronic music.
The crowd was, to my expectation, a rather hipster showing. The sorts of folks you might see doing school work in a local coffee shop. Not that this was a bad thing by any means, it's just the sort of crowd this place would undoubtedly gather.
All in all, fantastic atmosphere, fantastic premise, worth seeing just to relive some 90s nostalgia alone. Highly recommended.
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