#mrtask 02

Cyber-Cyber: 24 hour Arcade & Cyber Café Moodboard

Cyber-Cyber is located inside a crumbling former gem of a building, done up in the same sun-bleached jade green paint it’s had for decades, a flickering cursive sign on the façade still declaring it Priscilla’s Paradise Motel. most regulars just call it Paradise, or Cyber-- the french cyber, of course, see-bair, out of respect for the original Louisiana Creole family who bought the run-down motel in the late 70′s and transformed it into the den of seedy, neon-lit entertainment it is today. The interior is a mishmash to say the least, compiled of layers of half-done renovations and redecorations every decade or so, bits and bobs of decor thrown in at the owner’s whims, 80′s carpeting in the arcade clashing with the cramped 90′s computer stations of the internet café, which is really a café in name only-- expect anything fancier than mozzarella sticks and a slushie and you’re shit out of luck. Not that the crowd drawn to the place is particularly discerning about that kind of thing, especially not since Cyber got it’s liquor license in the early 2010′s and started selling cheap beer and neon-colored, pre-mixed cocktails out of what was once the motel’s reception desk. Overall, Cyber-Cyber is known for three things: their extensive collection of games (mostly vintage and classics from the 80′s, 90′s, and 00′s, though some cutting-edge tech sneaks in every once in a while too), fast, anonymous Wifi at 5$ an hour, and its owner’s habit of turning a blind eye to whatever sketchy shit its customers might get up to in between games of Dance Dance Revolution and Skee-ball.