Posted on 10/21/2025 6:10:01 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
LAS VEGAS (AP) — A massive virtual arcade located on the Las Vegas Strip filed for bankruptcy after just one year of operation, facing a pending eviction and millions in unpaid claims, court documents show.
The Electric Playhouse in Las Vegas, a high-tech gaming and dining center inside a mall at the world renowned Caesars Palace resort, submitted the filings in federal court on Monday. The filing requested that the motions for bankruptcy be heard on an accelerated timeline so that current employees can be paid on Friday.
The sprawling 10,000-square-foot Las Vegas gaming venue is equipped with a network of sensors that track the movements of guests to create a digital avatar, “similar to a player inside a video game,” the website said. Guests use their bodies to play games instead of controllers or consoles, with the walls and furniture of the kaleidoscopic, windowless rooms responding to body movements to create interactive games.
The company has between $1 million and $10 million in assets, and will not be able to pay unsecured creditors after administrative fees associated with the bankruptcy are paid, according to court filings.
The venue opened in Las Vegas, a city known for pricey shows and around-the-clock gambling, just three years after the first location opened in Albuquerque, New Mexico, in 2021.
The court filings didn’t list a reason for the company’s financial turmoil and an attorney for the company couldn’t be reached for comment.
Tourism in Las Vegas was markedly down this summer, with resorts and convention centers reporting fewer visitors compared to last year, especially from abroad. There was an 11% drop in June 2025 compared to the same month the year prior, when the new Electric Playhouse opened. In that time, hotel occupancy has also fallen by about 15%, according to data from...
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They go to Macau now.
The second biggest casino for Caesars outside of Vegas just had dealers go on strike . They can’t get a union vote until gov opens back up. Weird situation.
They are standing in front of cars trying to get into parking lot. Saw one guy say he almost hit one of them. Idiot clearly didn’t stop to think the driver might remember this and not tip him in future.
The number was something like 323million for the year. Not sure if net or gross.
Or Monte Carlo, perhaps.
Been there once, but not to gamble. I was just passing through & most likely it was the first & last time. Nothing there I needed except parts for auto repair that one time.
I couldn’t quite picture what it was describing. This video shows it. It’s 8 minutes, if you are interested.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LikrUYRgOqE
I was in Las Vegas about 5 or 6 years ago. I spent 1 afternoon playing the quarter slots and about 2 weeks of my time just walking the strip and I spent some time in the Old Las Vegas.
There was enough to keep me occupied for two weeks without having to spend a dime in the casinos.
If you want good coffee that won’t make you shoot your wad, you can get it at Einstein Bros. Bagels on Maryland Parkway across from the University of Nevada, or on the campus at Rebel Grounds, a student-run coffee shop. Cugino’s, in a strip mall on Maryland Parkway, is an Italian deli owned by an Italian family (not East Asians or Middle Easterners, as are so many in LA), and serves good food at reasonable prices. Blueberry Hill is a 1960s-style coffee shop, like Denny’s only better, with several locations around Vegas.
Las Vegas may go the way of the Borsht Belt, a resort region in New York’s Catskill Mountains that catered mostly to Jews from New York City. Entertainers such as Buddy Hackett and Allan Sherman got their start here. However, as destinations like Florida, Hawaii and Thailand became more accessible and affordable, the Borsht Belt declined, and virtually every one of these resorts has closed.
Space Invaders was 1978 but what happened in 1983 and 1985?
You got Asteroids?
No, but my dad does, can’t even sit on the toilet some days.
Cibola!
Bumpty-bump!
I walked through Fremont Street on a Monday night.
I swear I had a contact high by the time I got out of there
All the tell-tale signs of private equity, which now controls the Vegas casinos. The same thing has happened to healthcare/hospitals, and so many other aspects of our economy. These vultures will squeeze every nickel they can out of Vegas and then try to sell off the meatless bones when they’re finished.
Playing games by physically moving your body sounds great in theory, until the players are out of breath less than 10 minutes into playing.
My son has a Dance Dance Revolution game in his garage. Look it up. That is a workout!
Sounds good. But we are on the 60th floor and by the time we get to our car it will be lunch. Thanks anyways
I remember the real Las Vegas. Now, it’s just an adult Disneyland for idiots with too much money to blow. That crap out in the desert is no longer Las Vegas. It’s a rip off.
True that.
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