A NEXT LEVEL EVENING
- DEW ARIZA
- Jul 8, 2024
- 2 min read
The world of different plans is as deep as it is addictive. Once you enter, you don't leave. It's not new, nor is it the first time I've talked to you about that part of me, passionate about nostalgia, about analogue, about "old-fashioned" plans. Today I bring you the best of both worlds and one of my favorite plans in the city of Madrid: arcades and recreational venues.
Like many in this city, one of my discoveries the first year I came to this city was through a Tiktok that I saw by chance. Back in 2021, Rojuu uploaded a video of a hidden place in the center of Madrid, which you entered through an abandoned elevator and ended up in a place full of arcade machines, dance machines, etc. Which you could use unlimitedly without paying anything, just in exchange for consuming some drinks in the place.
As a good daughter of a video game geek, I thought: WHAT. It became an absolute priority to visit this place and, after trying for a while, I managed to go to the Next Level in Gran Vía. It is a small place, where the center of everything are the machines with which to have a good time. But today I will not tell you about this place.
A while ago I discovered that this place, so emblematic in the life of the most nostalgic gamers, expanded its empire of old video games to other places in Madrid and a few days ago I was lucky enough to be able to go to one of them.
With a much larger place, three times as many machines and much more space, Next Level in Argüelles is a paradise for lovers of arcades and old arcades. The variety of machines is brutal: from the classic arcade with a thousand and one games to choose from, such as Donkey Kong, Tekken or Street Fighter, there were dance machines where you could lose all your dignity, racing games for two, shooting games (with the classic blue and red guns) and even a guitar hero style game, with guitars or even drums. One of my favourites is the taxi. You will understand why.
An experience that I highly recommend to those who are fed up with their plans being simply going out to party, eating or drinking, it is a place to have a good time on a different afternoon, with different stimuli to what we are used to and at the price of a drink at the bar.
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