{"id":229955,"date":"2026-04-13T16:34:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-13T16:34:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/229955\/"},"modified":"2026-04-13T16:34:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T16:34:11","slug":"coin-op-amusements-news-arcade-bar-in-florida-to-return-to-its-roots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/229955\/","title":{"rendered":"Coin-op amusements news | Arcade bar in Florida to return to its roots"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    Fire Betty\u2019s, an arcade bar in Tallahassee, Florida, US, has announced that it will close for a two-week period as it undergoes renovations to become \u201can actual arcade bar.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>                            <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Pexels_for_Florida_Arcade_Bar_Small_e4da3b.jpeg\" alt=\"Fire Betty's\" class=\"border\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\n\tThe venue originally launched as an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.intergameonline.com\/coin-op\/news\/arcade-bar-returns-after-four-year-gap\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">arcade bar over a decade ago<\/a>, before it changed its focus to live music and events.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tIn a social media post the venue said: \u201cWe\u2019re shutting down for a couple of weeks to renovate and bring Fire Betty\u2019s back to what Tallahassee has wanted all along: an actual arcade bar again.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\n\tFor Fire Betty\u2019s this will mean a mix of modern arcade games that it described as \u201ctop-tier,\u201d alongside a range of classic arcade favourites.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\u201cThe old Fire Betty\u2019s is coming back, and it\u2019s going to be better than ever,\u201d the post added.<\/p>\n<p>\tApril Fool\u2019s Day tease<\/p>\n<p>\n\tThe venue first teased its refurbishment plans on April first, in a light-hearted April Fool\u2019s Day joke.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tIt confirmed the next day that its plans to change the venue to be more focused on arcade games were concrete.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fire Betty\u2019s, an arcade bar in Tallahassee, Florida, US, has announced that it will close for a two-week&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":229956,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[103173,103172,232,234,233],"class_list":["post-229955","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tallahassee","tag-fire-betty","tag-intergame","tag-tallahassee","tag-tallahassee-headlines","tag-tallahassee-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229955","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=229955"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229955\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/229956"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}