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Tired of trekking all the way to Brooklyn for your retro video game fix? Lucky for you, Two-Bits Retro Arcade--which we wrote about back in June--finally opened its doors this past weekend, and it looks just as glorious as we'd hoped.

Two-Bits, located on Essex between Stanton and Rivington, has 22 rotating games and a giant projection screen for showing movies that will still your beating nerd heart. Games include Pacman, Street Fighter, Tetris and Donkey Kong. They also have one of the rarest games in the world--Star Warrior--located in the basement office, and according to Thrillist, if you ask nicely they just might let you play it.

The bar also comes with an upscale wine list, because who doesn't love swigging fine wine while playing a '90s racing game?

Little-Bits seems to have the nostalgia thing down pat: They also sell Fun Dips, Ring Pops and Nerds, so we look forward to the inevitable BuzzFeed slideshow about it.

Goodbye, old friend. (Photo: Topix)

In the heady year of 1977, from that slice of meteorological heaven called San Jose, Nolan Bushnell--the cofounder of Atari--had a charming idea. In a fit of inspiration, he decided to fuse two of the best things on earth and then also tack on one of the creepiest (but who are we to judge?): Pizza, arcade games and animatronic animals so scary they make children hide behind their parents' legs.

He would build it, furnish it with a stinky ballpit, and they would come: it would be called Chuck E. Cheese's Pizza Time Theatre.

Many a child of the '90s spent their birthday eagerly wolfing down greasy pizza, losing at skee ball and then spending the car ride home feeling sick from wolfing down greasy pizza. It was magical! It was everything a kid could dream of, even if that Chuck E. Cheese mouse guy was kind of creepy.

But Mr. Nolan's dream was foiled by a startling lack of interest in pizza and arcade games. Chuck E. Cheese's went bankrupt in 1984, and was then bought by competing business ShowBiz Pizza.

Fast forward to 2012: Now that we can play videogames on our phones, why would we go to a pizza arcade? Chuck E. Cheese's new owners are confronting this question with an abominable concept: reinventing the Chuck E. Cheese mascot and twisting him into a bastardized CGI version.

As Boing Boing put it, "What was once a heart-warming pastiche of 'scary clown' meets 'stoned furry' is now just another soul-less CGI belch."

Kids, stick to Angry Birds. The dream of Chuck E. Cheese is gone and buried.

For us grownups, there's always the Lower East Side Retro Arcade.

If you enjoy some pinball with your pints, you'll be happy to hear that a new retro arcade--dubbed Two-Bits--will soon open at 153 Essex Street on the Lower East Side. Local blog Bowery Boogie spotted the signs announcing the new gaming spot a few days back. "Teaser signage, complete with punk-on-a-coin logo, arrived in the windows of 153 Essex late last week," they wrote. "We’ve since noticed numerous pedestrians stopping themselves at the sight."

Unfortunately, Two-Bit's website is disappointingly sparse, offering only the signage in question and some unnecessary share buttons (one for MySpace, for example). In the meantime, maybe you can catch Tyler DeAngelo and his mobile Frogger game if you're feeling especially nostalgic about '80s arcade games.