I kinda like how Shelby looks lost and awkward the second she doesn't have Matt close to her, the mark of a true nerd, you two were made for each other.

The way she just pretends to play a game when she was lost lmao

I don't know what my favorite thing about arcades is... is it the overpriced machines? the out of sync guitar hero game that you can't even hear? the dirty, sticky buttons? the smell? the amount of different noises? the one dude taking the basketball game way too seriously? the kids sprinting around? it's magical

It is sacrilege to call The Simpsons arcade game not good. It is hands down one of the fairest and most replayable beat em ups of all time. I will literally go to war over this

The fact that these places still exist is kinda miraculous

I love how matt is "taking her" to the arcade and yet shelby is the one driving, logic 100

The picture for Larry Bird being Dee from it's always sunny was just... Chef's kiss

"I always win" Dollars comes back out. Dying

"it really makes you feel like Porkins." Undrerrated line.

“I didn’t bring money on this date.” Hahahaha 🤣

"I don't even know what a quarter is" she was so real for that.

Man Cliffs of Dover transported me back into a fever dream of red/yellow/blue/green, and orange pips hurtling towards me at breakneck speeds...

1:18 I heard somewhere that the first pinball machines didn't have paddles (basically pachinko) and were regulated as gambling. With the addition of paddles they were reclassified.

Hell yeah, Shelby. Dancing to Butterfly on endless repeat is how I got into DDR

That backpack makes Shelby look like an 80s cop with suspenders

"I'm taking Shelby somewhere" Shelby Driving:🗿

This was hilarious. Not Shelby throwing it back all the time😂😂. Also, her way of coping with "being all alone "in the arcade was pretending to play arcade games XD

The IASIP Larry Bird joke was 10/10.

I'm all for Shelby's "Noir Detective Sidekick" look. I really thought the backpack straps were suspenders.

If we could get an Animal Well review where Shelby does her Dunkey impression for the entire thing, I would be so happy 😭

Most arcades down here in Buenos Aires, Argentina are just a small collection of old button-broken, incredibly loose red-balled sticks with classic games like Snow Bros, Street Fighters 2, etc and you'd be lucky to find 1 guitar hero station (shopping malls do have a lot of big machines like shooting games, moto GP, Daytona, etc) but THAT place you TOOK Shelby to looks like Arcade paradise 💚

Take Shelby to Chuck-E-Cheese next.

Having a picture of Dee show up when you said Larry Bird is so funny!

Don't worry, Shelby, I used to play Guitar Hero on Expert and also tried it at an arcade recently. I could barely play on Medium and my hand started cramping after 2 songs.

The way Matt said "battle pod!" was so pure and loving

Next episode, Girlfriend Reviews The Jurassic Era.

"He took me to the arcade." 😑 Matt slept on the couch for three weeks

She looks like she wants to go home in the thumbnail. lol

Ayyy Family Arcade LA!! Love that place, u can instantly tell from the vibrant squiggly neon lights on the ceiling.

Larry Bird got me.

Shelby twerking to DDR was not on my 2024 bucket list

I love your Girlfriend Reviews on location episodes. You guys to come up with so many great moments by using what's in front of you. Whether it's in an Ikea or an arcade, I'll always enjoy these types of videos.

I thought Matt was also about to start playing Tekken 8 and participate in Sajam Slam 2 when I read the title

I am upset that the Gauntlet music is constantly playing, yet no Gauntlet is shown

Leaving her alone was so cruel! The second-hand embarrassment nearly killed me.

The thumbnail makes you look like a disappointed detective

Cliffs of Dover was my favorite song to play on Guitar Hero!

Girlfriend reviews all the games goes hard

@Girlfriend Reviews. (1) Who knew she could rock out so well :) (2) I am equally envious and happy to see this and see her immersed in a arcade. (3) His explanations of the games was smile inducing

I wonder how many issues they find or if the machines are well maintained

This brings back a lot of nostalgia. My dad used to repair and restore old pinball games on the side to help my uncle(many fond memories of the 2-3 weeks between a table being fixed and my uncle coming to pick it up. We’d get to “test” the table as much as we wanted to make sure no unexpected issues were going to pop up. 🥰 good times). While my uncles main business was restoring player pianos, organs and nickelodeons, there was a stretch in the 80’s where he had a public business near Guelph called Nickelodeon Gardens where people could see/play all the restored items on display. The point being that he had an upstairs section that was a sort of classic arcade. When the real arcades of the time had Street fighter and double dragon, the only video game here was an original Space Invaders cabinet, but even at 9 years old I thought the stuff there was awesome. While about half the items were pinball tables ranging from recent(at the time) early 80’s to 50’s era, the other items were REALLY special. They ranged from early 1900 to 1950’s machines that I’d give anything to see again. One let you watch a 3 minute boxing match for a nickel that was a flip book of photographs inside that you played/watched by turning a hand crank as you looked in the viewport. Another was almost like a very early pinball that was a baseball game that “pitched” a ball bearing at your single flipper “bat” to score singles, doubles, outs, or home runs depending on where you hit the ball(it had a mechanical scoreboard and could have single or two player vs games where you took turns). There were even target games like arcade versions of the travelling carnival games where you shot bb’s at moving targets for points and a driving game where you steered your model “car” as the conveyor belt lanes with other cars on it had to be steered around. Sorry for the long post, but I had so many good memories of those years. But more then that, seeing arcades like this one that recreates the nostalgic memories of those 80’s and 90’s hangouts filled with arcade cabinets, it made me think about how little most people know(besides ones like pinball machines, foosball, maybe table hockey) about the arcades before the video games replaced all the electric/mechanical games people played for close to a century. How creative so many of those machines were at somehow creating experiences that oddly enough aged better(I think)then many of the 80’s driving, shooting, sports video games that replaced them. And I find myself wanting to search google to see if there are any vintage arcade museums still operating today where you could go and not just look at but still play them? That said, arcades in general are just great fun, and glad the channel’s couple got to have some classic fun.

Love the random Friends theme song chiptune at 5:30.

Literally raised in the arcades as a kid. Thanks for this time capsule into my childhood. Its too bad i dont live anywhere near any of the remaining arcades but im glad you guys get to enjoy one!

I love the look of disdain as we're at the arcade from Shelby lol

I just got home from an arcade.

Shelby singing Pinball Wizard killed me 🤣🤣

"I read the thing" Me (lmfao): Omg, of course she did

I laughed so freaking hard when the money came back out of the vending machine

I love this, me and my girlfriend go to Dave & Busters all of the time. our goal is to get enough tickets so that when the next console gen comes out we can get one from the prize room lol

Goes immediately for "Cliffs of Dover", Nice

Matt forgot to bring dollar bills. Cause he’s got amnesiaaaa

I don't even watch Friends, but that 8 Bit Cover of the Friends Intro song in the background goes so insanely hard.

babe wake up!! NEW GFR VLOG 🤩🫶

I used to spend all my money in the 18 wheeler game, where you drove a truck with a big steering wheel. I loved it so much that I actually became a truck driver!

'Stranger Things', 'Wreck-It Ralph', and Shelby's enthusiasm makes it seem like such a magical place...

That Gauntlet music at 1:19... I'm in love!

This is so wholesome yet so unhinged lmao. I love it and I wish one day I'll find a relationship like this someday.

The arcade, where I lost so many quarters and was the only place you could play the coolest games for so many years

Shelby already mastering a gamers worst enemy, reading a thing. Lmao

Larry Bird image of Deandra Reynolds charcter is the funniest sht ever im fuckin done

Shelby being lost and pretending to do something,anything just melted my heart

Larry BIRD reference cracked me up, omg 😂

Despite having already watched this video, I keep seeing the thumbnail and every time I think Shelby is trying to cosplay the angry video game nerd.

That Larry Bird edit made me almost shit my pants from laughing

My fav moment was realizing Shelby owns a vintage coach backpack and i was like “i have that one too!”🤩

You two are i swear the funniest people ever. Thank you for another amazing video.

Is Matt like a decade older than Shelby or something

Leaving the comment appreciating the Super Mario Galaxy 2 music used during the NordVPN ad

As an OG DDR player, my heart leapt when and sang along with, "AI ai ai, I'm your little butterfly. Green, black, and blue making flutters in the sky." Thank you from the balls of my feet!

It does my heart good to see an actual arcade in this day and age

The high school musical reference was just chefs 💋

Japan had the arcades full of boys and young men. Then some developers wanted to bring women to the arcade. They asked themselves “what do women like?” The list at the top had the word “food”. So the designer drew a pizza without slice. And thus, PacMan was born. Couples started going to the arcades.

"how'd you know how to reload?" "-I read the thing" Said no man ever

Shelby was so hyped for the surprise dentist visit but instead got into the only building certified with ADHD. What a bummer...

Dunno what's better, Shelby singing Pinball Wizard by The Who at 1:45 or Matt turning it into a meme song at 1:50 😂😂

Larry Bird being a picture of Sweet Dee because she's a bird. You get me.

dude, i swear that was Jack Black talking in the intro

Matt: "How'd you know how to reload?" Shelby: "I read the thing..." 😮

anyone else male and single, just watching these cause they're good videos?

Back in the day going to the arcade with a giant bag of nickles was the easy way to have a great time with the homies. RIP to all the arcades.

Always a part of child me that never left the arcade and still feels like I could go back there any time. Sadly they've almost all gone, aside from these places run by arcade enthusiasts. Time never stands still and the world moves on, but our childhood never leaves us.

I said, "Oh nooooo, poor Shelby" out loud when she came out of the battle pod.

The bigger story here is that you guys discovered time travel. I haven't seen an arcade in ages!

The Street Fighter III: Third Strike/Marvel vs. Capcom 2 scene at my local arcade was like a Fast and the Furious road-rival situation, including the hot latina girls in denim miniskirts and hoops sort of officiating matches. The coins on the edge of the screen to get in line, the side-eye you'd get for being the only white kid daring to play amidst all these PoC hiphop kids, and then getting worked brutally by the local champ, thanking them for the lesson, and trying to do better next week. The gradual sense of respect mutually built. There was a whole protocol, a whole subculture. It will never be that way again. What a moment.

This video cured my depression

I’m sorry, but the guitar sound when you stroked Guitar Hero was comedic genius 😂😂😂😂😂

The first song she picked was "Cliff of Dover"? What a cultured girl.

The Midway Presents caught me off guard 😂

Shelby looks like a PTA Mom who is not having fun. The arcade is a magical place and she did not appreciate it. Awesome to see all the retro games. You could have spent more time just going over stuff from the 90s. Like how House Of The Dead was always with Cruisin The World or Time Crisis or Crazy Taxi. And how those songs or themes would never leave your head.

“They’re cheering me on.” -me, in public, probably

Took my girlfriend to this exact arcade in LA for our first date when we met irl! Have to say that playing against her in Mario Kart GP and DDR was a lot of fun, and she kicked my ass in Mortal Kombat.

"I don't even know what a quarter is!" Oof! I felt that.

Wizards and Warriors theme playing on acoustic guitar throughout is fun

"I found my favorite game....."' I swear I thought she was going to an ATM

theres a game at the arcade where you put in a dollar and you can win quarters!! i win every time

"How'd you know how to reload?" "I read the instructions." "...that's not allowed..." The quintessential male vs. female approach to learning things.

6:26 that was actually smooth asf

The fact that kids nowadays never get to experience a proper arcade saddens me.

Wife and I went to an old school arcade today, they had a bunch of these including The Simpsons! I even got to the finals of Street Fighter 2 which impressed the laydeeez for sure.

dude, the start wars battle pod is amazing! They're pretty uncommon, and cost like 30k to have one! Score!