HOY cover-feature art, courtesy of Eric J. GarcÃa.
“C2E2: The After Partyâ€
By Benjamin Ortiz, Hoy Contributor
“Fin de Semana” (Weekend Edition) cover feature
April 21-22, 2012
Arcade games in standing cabinets and classic Atari and Nintendo systems plugged into window-length TVs are pitching muddled hues across shadowed walls in a darkened warehouse, flickering bleary day-glow colors across murals, T-shirts, a ping-pong table and the dull, crackling light bulb of a popcorn machine, while hokey 8-bit tunes boom from amplifiers that make the cavernous space feel like the inside of a coin-operated “Space Invaders†game from 1978, punctuated by electronic crackles and hyped-up guffaws from spectators.
