May 16, 2025 • 13 mins
Gaming your way to wedding bliss might sound unconventional, but as Adam Walton of Walton's Games reveals, arcade machines are becoming the surprise hit of modern wedding celebrations across Cincinnati. This refreshingly different entertainment option solves multiple reception challenges while creating unforgettable experiences for guests of all ages.
The gaming revolution starts early in the wedding day with "grooms' get-ready rooms" featuring classics like Big Buck Hunter and Golden Tee Golf. These setups acknowledge the reality that grooms typically need less preparation time than brides, providing entertainment during those pre-ceremony hours when nerves might otherwise take over. One practical bride even attached a note: "The wedding starts at six. This game shuts off at 5:50. You will not be late to marry me because you're playing Golden Tee Golf."
Cocktail hours transform from awkward mingling into dynamic social experiences when arcade tables featuring 80s and 90s classics like Pac-Man and Donkey Kong are strategically placed throughout the venue. These games serve as natural conversation starters for guests who might not know each other well. One wedding spontaneously organized a Pac-Man tournament that continued throughout the reception, with guests competing for a dance with the bride. For favors that guests actually want, custom-filled claw machines offer branded teddy bears commemorating the special day.
With packages starting around $595 per game (comparable to photo booth rentals), this entertainment approach provides excellent value while setting your celebration apart from cookie-cutter receptions. The universal appeal crosses generational lines – Adam notes that even children who've never seen pinball machines become instantly enchanted by their sensory richness compared to mobile games. The company handles all delivery and setup, works with every venue in town, and can accommodate special requests for specific games.
Ready to level up your wedding entertainment? Contact Walton's Games through social media, email at sales@waltonsgames.com, or visit their showroom in Blue Ash to see these games in action and discover how they might create those magical, memorable moments your guests will talk about for years to come.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
We are making our own story as we go.
Hi, welcome to your Dream Daypodcast.
I'm your host, Kathy PeachLucas, and today we are going to
have some gaming fun.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
I'm at.
Speaker 1 (00:12):
Walton's Games, and we are with Adam Walton, who is
the owner of Walton's Games.
Welcome.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
Thank you, I'm glad to be here.
We're very excited to be a partof your podcast.
Speaker 1 (00:21):
Yeah, we met at Bridal Rama.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
We did yep.
Speaker 1 (00:32):
And when I saw your booth at first.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
I'm like video games.
Speaker 1 (00:33):
Then I saw all of the men started going to your booth
and it was almost like a groomsitting room where they
basically were just like I needthis.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
Right, we're aware of our demographic is usually
skews a little bit more male,but I think it's a great way.
My counter argument to bridesat the event that said, oh man,
I don't know if I want videogames at my wedding is look,
this is a bargaining chip.
You get to say, honey, I'll letyou have this, but in exchange
I'm going to want this, this,this and this.
And most men are going to belike yeah, that's fine, let's do
(01:00):
that.
You know finding compromise.
Speaker 1 (01:02):
Exactly so.
What types of games havecouples been renting for
weddings?
Speaker 2 (01:08):
We find that there are three stages or three games
I should say not stages threegames that are really big for
weddings.
The first is for grooms.
Get ready rooms is a way to sayhey, we realize, man, it takes
you a lot less time to get readythan it does women.
I think on my wedding day Iplayed golf and then I got
(01:29):
dressed about an hour for theceremony.
Meanwhile my bride spent theentire day doing hair and makeup
and everything that comes alongwith it.
So we rent grooms get readyrooms.
Big Buck Hunter is a big fanfavorite, which is a shooting
game Golden Tee, golf, thepinballs we have behind us
people love those Ski balls,super Chex hockey, depending on
what.
It is Just something where mencan kind of be men together and
you play a little game.
It takes your mind off the factthat you're getting married.
(01:51):
It's a little way to calm, yourelax, you settle down, maybe
have an adult beverage or two, Idon't know, and play some video
games.
Now I will say I did have abride who made me put a note on
there that says the weddingstarts at six.
This game shuts off at 5.50.
You will not be late to marryme because you're playing Golden
Tee Golf.
So you know, put that littlecaveat out there.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
No, it actually is not too far off because,
especially Bengals games, ohioState games, if there is a TV in
the party bus, the guys staythere.
They're like no, no, no, no.
They're pushing it.
They're on the five yard line.
We got 30 minutes.
We'll be there.
We'll be there, yeah, and it'sa.
It is a real problem, and soyou have to like from a schedule
(02:38):
perspective.
Speaker 2 (02:38):
If there is going to be a big game, you got to make
sure you've got the timingaround it.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
Well, you may not know until the schedule comes
out, and your wedding may havealready been booked on that day
months in advance.
Speaker 2 (02:46):
True.
Speaker 1 (02:46):
So it's more like you have to be aware If you are
having your wedding downtown,for example, and there's a Reds
game or there's a Bengals game,you're going to pay more for
parking and it's going to betight, Yep, and you know.
Those are things that you justneed to be aware of.
Right, right, but as far as thearcade goes… you were saying
(03:06):
the ones that hit the best.
Speaker 2 (03:07):
So the get ready room is a great first, but after the
ceremony, a lot of times nowcocktail hour, where we always
say we're the cure for a boringcocktail hour, because a lot of
times you're just kind ofsitting around and you don't
really know people, especiallyif you're at a co-worker's
wedding where it's primarilyfamily and you're kind of the
odd man or woman out.
Same thing if you're, you know,at a college roommate's that
maybe you knew really well backthen but now you don't really
(03:29):
know them, or you're just anintrovert.
I'm an introverted person.
I don't love to go to big groupevents.
We have found that the cocktailtables where we can place three
or four of them in areceptional, gives people
something to do, and not onlyare they fun.
The Arcade Legends game comeswith 80 of the greatest classics
from the 1980s and 90s.
Games like Frogger and DonkeyKong and Pac-Man and Missile
(03:50):
Command and Space Invaders andall those games that a lot of
people Is it scary.
I know all those games I wasgoing to say the people that
really love them are getting upthere a little out of the age
now, but we don't like to admitthat.
Anyway, they're greaticebreakers and we had one that
was so popular.
They ended up finding awhiteboard somewhere and
creating a Pac-Man tournament,and so throughout the wedding,
(04:11):
even as the ceremonies or thereceptions moved on, they're
coming back to play Pac-Manbecause they're trying to beat
the high score, and I think theprize was a dance with the bride
at the end or something likethat.
But it ended up being a storythat you don't forget that's a
wedding 20 years from now.
You remember, because I beatBill at Pac-Man and he's never
going to hear the end of that.
So it's a great way to, youknow, set your wedding apart
from everybody else's thatyou've been to.
(04:32):
Um, finally, what we found hasbeen really great for weddings
is claw machines the, the goodold arcade classic.
Drop in, grab them.
Um, a lot of brides will go onEtsy and sites like that, uh,
and create little t-shirts, um,for the bears and say Jeff and
Savannah's big day, or April andAlex's big day, may 25th,
whatever, and then each guestcan kind of play a game and take
home a bear with a littlememento with their, you know,
(04:54):
save the date on it.
Like that.
They're fun to have.
And I've never seen a clawmachine Not usually those are
like surprises to the brides.
Like my wife would love that ifthat had been a surprise I
brought to.
Our wedding was a claw machine.
Speaker 1 (05:12):
She will, she will play a claw machine all day long
.
Even though I tell her, likethey're rigged, what are you
doing?
She's like, no, no, no, I'mgoing to win this time.
Okay, see, I would have had apinball machine, because when I
was growing up, my aunt had apinball machine in her basement
and I remember when they got itbecause, I was maybe like eight
or nine years old.
Speaker 2 (05:22):
Back then it was crazy good.
Speaker 1 (05:30):
Wow, that was a big deal for a nine-year-old and I
literally played this.
Every single time I would cometo visit I would play that
arcade game and I guess shecleaned out her house a few
years ago and I'm like I askedmy cousin what'd she do with the
pinball machine?
Speaker 2 (05:39):
Cause I probably would have bought it off.
Oh, heck, yeah, I.
It's interesting.
People ask me all the time doesthe younger generation, you
know, are they?
Do they play to this?
It's not on their phone, theydon't like it.
I said I you put any 11 yearold, 12 year old kid in front of
a pinball?
Yep, doesn't matter.
When they were born.
My, I have kids that come here.
They've never seen one.
And then, and five minuteslater, but mom, we got to get
one of these.
This is the coolest thing I'veever played see, we were cool,
(06:01):
we were, we were awesomedefinitely, and it's so
different than the little thingon their, on their screen,
because it's big and it vibratesand it flashes and it's loud
and you combos and it's, it's sooverwhelming crisp, prepared.
Speaker 1 (06:12):
You know this little thing, you're just hunting well,
it's more stimulation, oh waymore yeah yeah, well, and back
in the day you had to like getrolls of quarters to play these
now, do you require gold?
Speaker 2 (06:22):
we don't everything's on free play although funny
story, I did have a bride tellme.
She said I want to put this ona dollar a play.
And I said, well, we can dothat, but it's your wedding.
And she goes yeah, this isgoing to pay for my bar tab.
Oh my gosh.
And I said that is genius,honey.
I never would have thought ofthat.
So, yeah, we put a golden teegolf on dollars.
Speaker 1 (06:41):
I think she made like $100 or something like that.
Speaker 2 (06:44):
So she was happy.
See, I'll admit that I usuallyplay about a round a day when
I'm here at work.
We started over there on the 8am and, as the day goes on,
somebody comes and plays a holeand you go on about your day and
, yeah, we play about a round ofgolf a day here.
Speaker 1 (06:56):
I'm actually thinking that would be the most
beautiful Christmas present.
Oh yeah, Like put a big bow onit and be like now, don't get
excited.
Speaker 2 (07:06):
You only get it for a great way for a lot of our
guests to find out if they wantto take one home, Like it's an
expensive purchase.
But you know, you rent it for aday and you go.
Okay, I could see myselfplaying this, or yeah, this
wasn't for me.
So, yeah, it's a great way todip your toe in a little bit.
Speaker 1 (07:20):
So what is the price range to retain and rent some of
these games?
Speaker 2 (07:24):
So we do everything kind of on a package level.
You know if the more you rent,the more we, the more you save,
kind of thing.
Um, to start with, like agolden tea, big buck hunter, we
charge.
Uh, I think the golden teas arearound 595 a night.
Yeah, no, it's, it's really notdifferent than a photo booth
right.
It's about 10% of what yournormal cost would be for
something like that.
If you're buying a brand newgolden tea, it's'll do like
three games for $1,200 orsomething like that.
(07:44):
We do free to pick up, freedelivery.
We can work with pretty muchany venue in town.
I don't think we've beenblacklisted per se by any site
in town.
We'll do outdoor events too,and a lot of people say, well,
we're doing an outdoor wedding.
That's okay, as long as there'ssomewhere flat and a little bit
(08:05):
yeah, a little bit of overhangand electricity.
And electricity that's the keypart.
But even if there's not, we gotgiant extension cords in the
back Like we can make it work.
If you've got a spot thatyou're really like hey, I really
want a racing game here we'llget you a racing game.
I've got a photo that we use onour social media of a bride
who's sitting in her Cruisin'USA and she's just beat her
husband and she's.
Speaker 1 (08:35):
But she ordered it online.
Speaker 2 (08:36):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (08:38):
And she gave us three boxes and said you need to put
this together.
It took us three hours, threepeople, three hours to put that
together.
Yeah, and if you do the math onthe labor, it would have been
more cost effective to rent it?
Speaker 2 (08:52):
Yeah, absolutely.
We have giant Papa Shots.
We also have smaller Papa Shots.
But yeah, we'll bring anythingyou've got and anything you're
looking for, if you kind of mean.
Speaker 1 (09:01):
You're like, hey, this is what I want, I don't
have it, I'll see if I can finda way to get it for you, you
know that's awesome.
Speaker 2 (09:04):
That's so cool.
It gives you somethingdifferent.
Your wedding is no longercookie cutter, it's not.
Speaker 1 (09:16):
You know everybody's doing this it.
If you're considering a photobooth, this is something that
you should absolutely consider,because the goal of a photo
booth is to let your guests havea good time and be silly and,
you know, have something toremember.
If you have a video game,they're going to have that
memory and they'll probably staylonger at the video game.
(09:38):
You probably need a video gameattendant to like, say, okay,
it's time to move on now.
Speaker 2 (09:43):
It's not fair.
Well, it's great for forchildren too.
If you have a wedding receptionthat's maybe a little more on
the upscale end and your kidsare kind of bored or running
around like crazy, it's great toset up a corner of your space
where you got four or five videogames.
The kids stay neutral overthere.
The adults can have a good timeover there Every now and then.
You said there's a few dadsthat have wandered in to check
on the kids that end up playingthe video games themselves.
(10:05):
So it's really it's just a funway to have an evening go by and
, like I said, set you apartfrom the crowd a little bit.
Yeah absolutely.
We found too that rehearsaldinners too, it's a good
icebreaker for rehearsal dinners, especially rehearsal dinners
too, it's a good icebreaker forrehearsal dinners, especially
when you don't really know.
I never would have thought ofthat, but it makes complete
sense.
Well, if you don't really knowthe other side of the family
that well, like I said, whodoesn't love a good Pac-Man
(10:25):
tournament?
You know who doesn't love agood golden tea tournament or
something like that.
It's a great way to break theice.
Probably the restaurant,because we'll never leave.
That's true, that's true?
Speaker 1 (10:36):
Well, today, as you can see, we had the opportunity
For those of you who are justlistening you don't get to see
this unless you go on ourYouTube channel, but we had the
opportunity to go around to abunch of games, and I just had a
blast.
Speaker 2 (10:48):
It was so much fun.
It's been one of the betterjobs I've had because it's just
so much fun.
Playing games for a living is agreat job.
Speaker 1 (10:55):
I love it.
Oh, my nephew would love thatjob, if it keeps rolling.
Speaker 2 (10:59):
Come on down sometime , it's fun.
Speaker 1 (11:02):
So what are your top three favorite games on the
floor?
Speaker 2 (11:05):
My top three favorite games.
That's a great one, probablywhat you're standing behind here
.
This is a vintage creature fromthe Black Lagoon pinball.
It is from the mid-80s Ibelieve.
I'm not 100% on that one.
It's just a super fun game.
On that one, it's just a superfun game.
I honestly had never seen themovie before we bought it and
I've played that game so manytimes because it's like I said,
it's just, it's very, it'sdifficult.
So you know, there's that map,that challenge to it.
(11:25):
I can't beat it and I've yet tobeat it, which is annoying.
But but it's just a fun game toplay.
I love the Czechs hockey that'vemodernized it.
So there's a screen up top likea Jumbotron that plays
highlights and clips.
It plays the national anthem.
It has air horns when you score.
It's a really fun game that ifmore people played it I think it
(11:47):
would be way more popular.
Like this is super fun.
Lastly, I'm always a fan of agood riding game Like the Arctic
Thunder is like a snowmobileracing game.
We it's like a snowmobileracing game.
We've got racing motorcyclesand then we also have a Hydra
Thunder which is racing jetboats.
We don't have that right nowit's actually on a rental.
But super fun game too.
We rent all those out forweddings.
(12:08):
Any events you got in mind, wecan rent it out for you usually.
Speaker 1 (12:12):
Very cool, very cool.
I think my three favorite gameswould be Ms Pac-Man.
Speaker 2 (12:16):
Always fun.
Speaker 1 (12:18):
And would be, ms Pac-Man, always fun.
Speaker 2 (12:18):
And air hockey Yep, yep.
Speaker 1 (12:19):
And then just a pinball machine.
Yeah, I think the vintage oneslike I saw this one.
Speaker 2 (12:30):
it was a, a Playboy one, and it had the flip numbers
like this one.
Speaker 1 (12:31):
Yeah, you may not be able to see this in the shot.
The valleys, yeah, but thosewere from the sixties and they
flipped versus the digitaldisplay.
Speaker 2 (12:37):
Yep those are just so fun.
Before we leave, I'll take youto the back.
We've got about 10 of those inthe back that we're in the
process of restoring and they'rereally cool to see.
Wow, it's a fun job to have,honestly, yeah.
Speaker 1 (12:46):
That's so fun.
It's really cool.
So if people want to book theseentertainment games, how do
they find you so?
Speaker 2 (12:52):
multiple channels.
We on Facebook, walton Games onInstagram and TikTok.
We also old-fashioned.
You can email sales atwaltonsgamescom.
Our phone number is513-281-4444.
Or stop by and see us.
We're on Ritter Avenue in BlueAsh 4772 Ritter Avenue in Blue
Ash.
We're next door to the firedepartment and behind Sammy's
Burgers.
(13:12):
If you're looking for a goodlunch, I highly recommend them
too.
Fantastic, they're very good,wonderful.
Thank you so much for joiningus.
Thanks for letting me come play.
This was so much fun.
Yeah, we had a great time,absolutely.
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This is Kathy Peach Lucas withyour dream day.
Happy planning, thank you.
We are making our own story as we go.
Hi, welcome to your Dream Daypodcast.
I'm your host, Kathy PeachLucas, and today we are going to
have some gaming fun.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
I'm at.
Speaker 1 (00:12):
Walton's Games, and we are with Adam Walton, who is
the owner of Walton's Games.
Welcome.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
Thank you, I'm glad to be here.
We're very excited to be a partof your podcast.
Speaker 1 (00:21):
Yeah, we met at Bridal Rama.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
We did yep.
Speaker 1 (00:32):
And when I saw your booth at first.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
I'm like video games.
Speaker 1 (00:33):
Then I saw all of the men started going to your booth
and it was almost like a groomsitting room where they
basically were just like I needthis.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
Right, we're aware of our demographic is usually
skews a little bit more male,but I think it's a great way.
My counter argument to bridesat the event that said, oh man,
I don't know if I want videogames at my wedding is look,
this is a bargaining chip.
You get to say, honey, I'll letyou have this, but in exchange
I'm going to want this, this,this and this.
And most men are going to belike yeah, that's fine, let's do
(01:00):
that.
You know finding compromise.
Speaker 1 (01:02):
Exactly so.
What types of games havecouples been renting for
weddings?
Speaker 2 (01:08):
We find that there are three stages or three games
I should say not stages threegames that are really big for
weddings.
The first is for grooms.
Get ready rooms is a way to sayhey, we realize, man, it takes
you a lot less time to get readythan it does women.
I think on my wedding day Iplayed golf and then I got
(01:29):
dressed about an hour for theceremony.
Meanwhile my bride spent theentire day doing hair and makeup
and everything that comes alongwith it.
So we rent grooms get readyrooms.
Big Buck Hunter is a big fanfavorite, which is a shooting
game Golden Tee, golf, thepinballs we have behind us
people love those Ski balls,super Chex hockey, depending on
what.
It is Just something where mencan kind of be men together and
you play a little game.
It takes your mind off the factthat you're getting married.
(01:51):
It's a little way to calm, yourelax, you settle down, maybe
have an adult beverage or two, Idon't know, and play some video
games.
Now I will say I did have abride who made me put a note on
there that says the weddingstarts at six.
This game shuts off at 5.50.
You will not be late to marryme because you're playing Golden
Tee Golf.
So you know, put that littlecaveat out there.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
No, it actually is not too far off because,
especially Bengals games, ohioState games, if there is a TV in
the party bus, the guys staythere.
They're like no, no, no, no.
They're pushing it.
They're on the five yard line.
We got 30 minutes.
We'll be there.
We'll be there, yeah, and it'sa.
It is a real problem, and soyou have to like from a schedule
(02:38):
perspective.
Speaker 2 (02:38):
If there is going to be a big game, you got to make
sure you've got the timingaround it.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
Well, you may not know until the schedule comes
out, and your wedding may havealready been booked on that day
months in advance.
Speaker 2 (02:46):
True.
Speaker 1 (02:46):
So it's more like you have to be aware If you are
having your wedding downtown,for example, and there's a Reds
game or there's a Bengals game,you're going to pay more for
parking and it's going to betight, Yep, and you know.
Those are things that you justneed to be aware of.
Right, right, but as far as thearcade goes… you were saying
(03:06):
the ones that hit the best.
Speaker 2 (03:07):
So the get ready room is a great first, but after the
ceremony, a lot of times nowcocktail hour, where we always
say we're the cure for a boringcocktail hour, because a lot of
times you're just kind ofsitting around and you don't
really know people, especiallyif you're at a co-worker's
wedding where it's primarilyfamily and you're kind of the
odd man or woman out.
Same thing if you're, you know,at a college roommate's that
maybe you knew really well backthen but now you don't really
(03:29):
know them, or you're just anintrovert.
I'm an introverted person.
I don't love to go to big groupevents.
We have found that the cocktailtables where we can place three
or four of them in areceptional, gives people
something to do, and not onlyare they fun.
The Arcade Legends game comeswith 80 of the greatest classics
from the 1980s and 90s.
Games like Frogger and DonkeyKong and Pac-Man and Missile
(03:50):
Command and Space Invaders andall those games that a lot of
people Is it scary.
I know all those games I wasgoing to say the people that
really love them are getting upthere a little out of the age
now, but we don't like to admitthat.
Anyway, they're greaticebreakers and we had one that
was so popular.
They ended up finding awhiteboard somewhere and
creating a Pac-Man tournament,and so throughout the wedding,
(04:11):
even as the ceremonies or thereceptions moved on, they're
coming back to play Pac-Manbecause they're trying to beat
the high score, and I think theprize was a dance with the bride
at the end or something likethat.
But it ended up being a storythat you don't forget that's a
wedding 20 years from now.
You remember, because I beatBill at Pac-Man and he's never
going to hear the end of that.
So it's a great way to, youknow, set your wedding apart
from everybody else's thatyou've been to.
(04:32):
Um, finally, what we found hasbeen really great for weddings
is claw machines the, the goodold arcade classic.
Drop in, grab them.
Um, a lot of brides will go onEtsy and sites like that, uh,
and create little t-shirts, um,for the bears and say Jeff and
Savannah's big day, or April andAlex's big day, may 25th,
whatever, and then each guestcan kind of play a game and take
home a bear with a littlememento with their, you know,
(04:54):
save the date on it.
Like that.
They're fun to have.
And I've never seen a clawmachine Not usually those are
like surprises to the brides.
Like my wife would love that ifthat had been a surprise I
brought to.
Our wedding was a claw machine.
Speaker 1 (05:12):
She will, she will play a claw machine all day long
.
Even though I tell her, likethey're rigged, what are you
doing?
She's like, no, no, no, I'mgoing to win this time.
Okay, see, I would have had apinball machine, because when I
was growing up, my aunt had apinball machine in her basement
and I remember when they got itbecause, I was maybe like eight
or nine years old.
Speaker 2 (05:22):
Back then it was crazy good.
Speaker 1 (05:30):
Wow, that was a big deal for a nine-year-old and I
literally played this.
Every single time I would cometo visit I would play that
arcade game and I guess shecleaned out her house a few
years ago and I'm like I askedmy cousin what'd she do with the
pinball machine?
Speaker 2 (05:39):
Cause I probably would have bought it off.
Oh, heck, yeah, I.
It's interesting.
People ask me all the time doesthe younger generation, you
know, are they?
Do they play to this?
It's not on their phone, theydon't like it.
I said I you put any 11 yearold, 12 year old kid in front of
a pinball?
Yep, doesn't matter.
When they were born.
My, I have kids that come here.
They've never seen one.
And then, and five minuteslater, but mom, we got to get
one of these.
This is the coolest thing I'veever played see, we were cool,
(06:01):
we were, we were awesomedefinitely, and it's so
different than the little thingon their, on their screen,
because it's big and it vibratesand it flashes and it's loud
and you combos and it's, it's sooverwhelming crisp, prepared.
Speaker 1 (06:12):
You know this little thing, you're just hunting well,
it's more stimulation, oh waymore yeah yeah, well, and back
in the day you had to like getrolls of quarters to play these
now, do you require gold?
Speaker 2 (06:22):
we don't everything's on free play although funny
story, I did have a bride tellme.
She said I want to put this ona dollar a play.
And I said, well, we can dothat, but it's your wedding.
And she goes yeah, this isgoing to pay for my bar tab.
Oh my gosh.
And I said that is genius,honey.
I never would have thought ofthat.
So, yeah, we put a golden teegolf on dollars.
Speaker 1 (06:41):
I think she made like $100 or something like that.
Speaker 2 (06:44):
So she was happy.
See, I'll admit that I usuallyplay about a round a day when
I'm here at work.
We started over there on the 8am and, as the day goes on,
somebody comes and plays a holeand you go on about your day and
, yeah, we play about a round ofgolf a day here.
Speaker 1 (06:56):
I'm actually thinking that would be the most
beautiful Christmas present.
Oh yeah, Like put a big bow onit and be like now, don't get
excited.
Speaker 2 (07:06):
You only get it for a great way for a lot of our
guests to find out if they wantto take one home, Like it's an
expensive purchase.
But you know, you rent it for aday and you go.
Okay, I could see myselfplaying this, or yeah, this
wasn't for me.
So, yeah, it's a great way todip your toe in a little bit.
Speaker 1 (07:20):
So what is the price range to retain and rent some of
these games?
Speaker 2 (07:24):
So we do everything kind of on a package level.
You know if the more you rent,the more we, the more you save,
kind of thing.
Um, to start with, like agolden tea, big buck hunter, we
charge.
Uh, I think the golden teas arearound 595 a night.
Yeah, no, it's, it's really notdifferent than a photo booth
right.
It's about 10% of what yournormal cost would be for
something like that.
If you're buying a brand newgolden tea, it's'll do like
three games for $1,200 orsomething like that.
(07:44):
We do free to pick up, freedelivery.
We can work with pretty muchany venue in town.
I don't think we've beenblacklisted per se by any site
in town.
We'll do outdoor events too,and a lot of people say, well,
we're doing an outdoor wedding.
That's okay, as long as there'ssomewhere flat and a little bit
(08:05):
yeah, a little bit of overhangand electricity.
And electricity that's the keypart.
But even if there's not, we gotgiant extension cords in the
back Like we can make it work.
If you've got a spot thatyou're really like hey, I really
want a racing game here we'llget you a racing game.
I've got a photo that we use onour social media of a bride
who's sitting in her Cruisin'USA and she's just beat her
husband and she's.
Speaker 1 (08:35):
But she ordered it online.
Speaker 2 (08:36):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (08:38):
And she gave us three boxes and said you need to put
this together.
It took us three hours, threepeople, three hours to put that
together.
Yeah, and if you do the math onthe labor, it would have been
more cost effective to rent it?
Speaker 2 (08:52):
Yeah, absolutely.
We have giant Papa Shots.
We also have smaller Papa Shots.
But yeah, we'll bring anythingyou've got and anything you're
looking for, if you kind of mean.
Speaker 1 (09:01):
You're like, hey, this is what I want, I don't
have it, I'll see if I can finda way to get it for you, you
know that's awesome.
Speaker 2 (09:04):
That's so cool.
It gives you somethingdifferent.
Your wedding is no longercookie cutter, it's not.
Speaker 1 (09:16):
You know everybody's doing this it.
If you're considering a photobooth, this is something that
you should absolutely consider,because the goal of a photo
booth is to let your guests havea good time and be silly and,
you know, have something toremember.
If you have a video game,they're going to have that
memory and they'll probably staylonger at the video game.
(09:38):
You probably need a video gameattendant to like, say, okay,
it's time to move on now.
Speaker 2 (09:43):
It's not fair.
Well, it's great for forchildren too.
If you have a wedding receptionthat's maybe a little more on
the upscale end and your kidsare kind of bored or running
around like crazy, it's great toset up a corner of your space
where you got four or five videogames.
The kids stay neutral overthere.
The adults can have a good timeover there Every now and then.
You said there's a few dadsthat have wandered in to check
on the kids that end up playingthe video games themselves.
(10:05):
So it's really it's just a funway to have an evening go by and
, like I said, set you apartfrom the crowd a little bit.
Yeah absolutely.
We found too that rehearsaldinners too, it's a good
icebreaker for rehearsal dinners, especially rehearsal dinners
too, it's a good icebreaker forrehearsal dinners, especially
when you don't really know.
I never would have thought ofthat, but it makes complete
sense.
Well, if you don't really knowthe other side of the family
that well, like I said, whodoesn't love a good Pac-Man
(10:25):
tournament?
You know who doesn't love agood golden tea tournament or
something like that.
It's a great way to break theice.
Probably the restaurant,because we'll never leave.
That's true, that's true?
Speaker 1 (10:36):
Well, today, as you can see, we had the opportunity
For those of you who are justlistening you don't get to see
this unless you go on ourYouTube channel, but we had the
opportunity to go around to abunch of games, and I just had a
blast.
Speaker 2 (10:48):
It was so much fun.
It's been one of the betterjobs I've had because it's just
so much fun.
Playing games for a living is agreat job.
Speaker 1 (10:55):
I love it.
Oh, my nephew would love thatjob, if it keeps rolling.
Speaker 2 (10:59):
Come on down sometime , it's fun.
Speaker 1 (11:02):
So what are your top three favorite games on the
floor?
Speaker 2 (11:05):
My top three favorite games.
That's a great one, probablywhat you're standing behind here
.
This is a vintage creature fromthe Black Lagoon pinball.
It is from the mid-80s Ibelieve.
I'm not 100% on that one.
It's just a super fun game.
On that one, it's just a superfun game.
I honestly had never seen themovie before we bought it and
I've played that game so manytimes because it's like I said,
it's just, it's very, it'sdifficult.
So you know, there's that map,that challenge to it.
(11:25):
I can't beat it and I've yet tobeat it, which is annoying.
But but it's just a fun game toplay.
I love the Czechs hockey that'vemodernized it.
So there's a screen up top likea Jumbotron that plays
highlights and clips.
It plays the national anthem.
It has air horns when you score.
It's a really fun game that ifmore people played it I think it
(11:47):
would be way more popular.
Like this is super fun.
Lastly, I'm always a fan of agood riding game Like the Arctic
Thunder is like a snowmobileracing game.
We it's like a snowmobileracing game.
We've got racing motorcyclesand then we also have a Hydra
Thunder which is racing jetboats.
We don't have that right nowit's actually on a rental.
But super fun game too.
We rent all those out forweddings.
(12:08):
Any events you got in mind, wecan rent it out for you usually.
Speaker 1 (12:12):
Very cool, very cool.
I think my three favorite gameswould be Ms Pac-Man.
Speaker 2 (12:16):
Always fun.
Speaker 1 (12:18):
And would be, ms Pac-Man, always fun.
Speaker 2 (12:18):
And air hockey Yep, yep.
Speaker 1 (12:19):
And then just a pinball machine.
Yeah, I think the vintage oneslike I saw this one.
Speaker 2 (12:30):
it was a, a Playboy one, and it had the flip numbers
like this one.
Speaker 1 (12:31):
Yeah, you may not be able to see this in the shot.
The valleys, yeah, but thosewere from the sixties and they
flipped versus the digitaldisplay.
Speaker 2 (12:37):
Yep those are just so fun.
Before we leave, I'll take youto the back.
We've got about 10 of those inthe back that we're in the
process of restoring and they'rereally cool to see.
Wow, it's a fun job to have,honestly, yeah.
Speaker 1 (12:46):
That's so fun.
It's really cool.
So if people want to book theseentertainment games, how do
they find you so?
Speaker 2 (12:52):
multiple channels.
We on Facebook, walton Games onInstagram and TikTok.
We also old-fashioned.
You can email sales atwaltonsgamescom.
Our phone number is513-281-4444.
Or stop by and see us.
We're on Ritter Avenue in BlueAsh 4772 Ritter Avenue in Blue
Ash.
We're next door to the firedepartment and behind Sammy's
Burgers.
(13:12):
If you're looking for a goodlunch, I highly recommend them
too.
Fantastic, they're very good,wonderful.
Thank you so much for joiningus.
Thanks for letting me come play.
This was so much fun.
Yeah, we had a great time,absolutely.
Speaker 1 (13:24):
Thank you for tuning in.
Be sure to hit that subscribebutton so that you get notified
every time we post a new podcast.
This is Kathy Peach Lucas withyour dream day.
Happy planning, thank you.
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