Our dream job sucks | Arcade Paradise 

Time to watch two guys do their jobs playing a game about doing your job while I get ready to go to my job

I think the fascination with simulator games comes from them fulfilling the fantasy that putting in hard work alone allows you to earn enough money to grow a business in a meaningful way

Are we not going to talk about how fucking cool and artistically unique that intro was?

Arin: “How do I play this f****** Stack game?!” Dan just sitting there not even considering looking it up: “I don’t know man.”

The manga Arin was talking about is called Phoenix: Resurrection for anyone wondering. Took way too long to find that out.

Video games that revolve about playing video games are a whole different level of meta

Please, please continue this game. You guys would definitely be missing out on fully enjoying this incredible game as each arcade cabinet is a fully playable game. I found it to be much better with a controller where you just press 'A' to start each game. From what I heard of other commentors, pressing Spacebar starts the game with keyboard controls.

Keeping cereals in the fridge is key if your place is full of rats and moths and ants but also sometimes cleaning helps

And at this point, Arins internet Cafe empire crumbles and the hobo he has made friends with struggles to survive without Arin giving him 200 baseball bats.

There was a lot more lore in that opening than I expected.

LOL! Arin not being able to figure out how to play any other game but airhocky for the whole episode even though you just hit ENTER is such a game grumps classic!😆

"Arcade is where the money is at" He's not wrong. As an Arcade Tech in a Bowling Alley/ Axe Throwing lanes, the Arcade is actually 47% of the entire facilities profit by itself.

Why does no one realize that Arin saying “eh” started happening around the time of his obsession with Ram Ranch? He’s turning Canadian

My rich dad that gave me a whole laundromat as an investment after I dropped out of college is SUCH a drag

We’ve reached an age where even the people who were THERE have forgotten the Windows screensaver maze 😭

Well they finally did it. Arin not reading instructions has led him to be unable to get past the title screen.

12:13 I'm pretty sure Arin is describing the plot of Saya no Uta. It's a horror visual novel that's inspired by Lovecraft.

I thought at first that they were playing more Coin Game. I would love to see more of that.

The mere mention of anomalies and Huge Man makes me eager for more Observation Duty even more than usual, Ghoul Grumps 2022...?

The people pixelating when you walk past is both an interesting way for the game developers to side-step having to animate NPCs and handle movement and behavior for them and ALSO kind of a fun way to show how people blend into the background when you work a job where you see a ton of strangers that you barely interact with day to day.

I swear Arin is allergic to checking keybindings in pc games lol

Wrigley used to sell soap and baking powder and offered gum for free with orders but they discovered some places where buying products just for the gum and reorganized to be a gum company. Gum is like huge business

Only Arin can make running a laundromat seem like dream job

I never comment on youtube videos but you guys actually respond to enough requests. So I hope others join me in this. I want more episodes of internet cafe simulator. For some reason I loved that series so much and I hope I get to see more someday!

“Our Dream Job Sucks” is a weird title for a Game Grumps video because the entirety of Game Grumps is two grown men sitting together and working their *dream job* 😂

The sheer production value of this game is insane.

arin 15 minutes into the episode where he runs a laundromat: "oh shit im supposed to do laundry"

I really like Arcade Paradise, I bought it a couple months ago when I didn't have classes and throughly enjoyed playing it (sometimes while watching GameGrumps for a background video) - glad to see you all experiencing it!

How long it takes Arin to figure out he can actually play the cabinet arcadegames: He doesn't.

I could watch endless videos of Dan and arin playing simulator games

Guys, look out for the DLC of this coming out this Christmas. It's _Arcade Paradise - _*_Arcade Paradise_*_ Edition._ I heard you can play the game, within the same game. There's a game mode called infinite recursion, but no one's certain exactly what it means or what it does. Sounds spooky.

Why aren't there more episodes of this?

"Way to edge me, Dream" - Arin Hanson (2022)

Please finish this game! I've played to the end and it's very fun! Plus y'all can both play!

"Is this all that games are now?" Nah, there's plenty of games that aren't just job simulators, but you've made some weird quest out of chasing them down, and playing all of them.

**Guy aggressively fades out of existence** Dan: “I don’t think you can talk to them”

I specifically remember their last visit to a laundry mat ending in murder, so really the sky is the limit here ☺️

For some reason I really like clean up management games. I guess the easy tasks in a video game is more appealing than real life chores lol

I really hope you guys keep playing this! It just feels like there’s gonna be more lore and stuff to see. Plus you gotta show your dad that an arcade could really make money out here in the 80s

The intro to this game is so grunge I love it

No one is pressuring you to exceed human capabilities with workloads, you can take breaks, and basic efforts are rewarded? This IS modern escapism!

So you guys planning on finishing Harvest? We all want more random vintage games ‘round these parts.

Man, my brain can't comprehend the concept if paying someone else to do your laundry, which is what this game looks like. I grew up going to laundromats because we didn't have the utilities. I learned how to do it on my own by helping my grandma do up to ten loads of clothes. When I went back to one of the places I had grown up going to when I didn't have a washer and dryer to use, I was extremely shocked that it had become a "washing ladies." Women were washing other people's clothes. And I just... could not figure it out.

My dudes... Thanks for playing. Each game has a how to play section in the "Arcade Management" section of the PDA. To start a game just press space or E and it'll take you into the game. Later on you get a side scrolling beat em up which has a pixel art laundromat in it which you can go into, with a little arcade and playable games... Game in a game in a game

Finding out that Arin has watched "I Think You Should Leave" by quoting "Hope I don't jaack owff" was the highlight of my day.🤣

You didn't close before you left. You had the "open sign" and the name still lit up. Might be why there was so much overnight garbage. Just a thought 😉 I wouldn't expect Arin to do it any other way though lol.

Occupational games seem to provide catharsis to people in that profession or who used to do that job. Restaurant simulators are that residual stress therapy for me. Your playthrough of Plate Up was amazing to watch!

I really wish Game Grumps would give these games more episodes. Even just two. I'm so sad we see great games that they seem to be enjoying only get a little spot

i hope we get another episode of this once they realize how to press start on the arcade games lol. also they are all based on real games in a way

This is such a good abstract way of demonstrating the value of pivoting a business and its existing model

Arin you are supposed to press E to play once you are on the machine.

Some tips: Wait for 3 laundry baskets to appear before doing any, then do them all at once. It’s best to start your last baskets of laundry at 18:00 (3 min wash, 3 mins drying) Empty your hoppers after 23:00 only (unless they’re full) I’m not sure what PC controls are but you can play the cabinets I think by pressing “E”. Each cabinet has Goals, complete as many as you can, the cabinet will earn more $$$ money as a result. (Use to buy more cabinets) You have “To do” tasks on your PDA, complete them for £££, this currency is used for permanent upgrades such as sprinting from the PC in your office ( I recommend saving for the Assistant Assistant manager to auto empty out hoppers, this will save A LOT of time when you have a full Arcade). Trash spawns at the start of the work day, clean first while you wait for 3 laundry baskets to appear.

Who’s wang do I have to felate upon for you fellas to play Harvester again? That game was fucking nutty and hilarious. I NEED to see Stephanie say 13,000 pages of dialogue without even looking at the main character

me at 14:00 when Arin is playing games instead of doing the laundry: Your Dad's gonna yell at you

I have worked in a Arcade. 🤣 It can be fun and boring at times. Giving the gifts to kids and adults a like. Watching some regulars that have the most insane skills at getting tickets or beat games with style or just beat games on a single credit. is entertaining to watch. There was a funny time that a guy and his girlfriend bought chips from the snack machine but they got stuck. The buff boyfriend guy tried hard to movie the machine but couldn't get it to drop. I at the time was not a very strong looking guy. I placed my hand on the top of the machine and pushed it up and let it drop (not to hard) letting the chips drop loose. The guy looked embarrassed and explained he could have done that. His girlfriend was giggling at how embarrassed he was. Cute couple. There are more stories. Good times. 😂

As I was watching this, I remember a childhood dream of mine to open up an arcade/pizzeria called Budzzz. Making my own pizza and full of nothing but retro arcade games and a nice lounge area for you and your friends to enjoy comic books, MTG, and the pizza you ordered. Grumps, PLEASE keep playing this for the lovelies!

6:35 Dan! That was obviously that one Windows screen saver that is a red brick maze!

24:00 - "Who the f**k would ever steal your dirty-a** gym clothes?" Okay, who wants to explain musk fetish to Dan?

This game is so good, I actually cried at the end. I wasn’t expecting it but I got sucked in while my husband was playing it… the laundry part doesn’t even scratch the surface to how this ends up

As a software engineer I love that they picked stack overflow as the first purchase lol

This game is right up my alley. Love when I discover games I wanna play on this channel.

I can't be the only one that wants to see them play more of this. This and the internet cafe one.

If anyone is interested, the Osamu Tezuka manga that Arin was talking about is called "Phoenix: Resurrection".

Imagine your dad walking in on you playing this game and watching you do laundry, pick up trash and see you play a mini-game of you throwing it in the dumpster. And he remembers you pissing and moaning about you doing chores around the house.

omfg please play this more its so chill and the presentation is so nice i love this stuff

The dates in this game say it's set in 1993 but if you were there, you know the 80s bled over into the 90s for a little bit so it's pretty accurate. The first 3 years of any decade is usually still like the previous, it's about the half-way mark where the things that define it to future observers start to crop up.

I would love a full playthrough of Arcade Paradise. It’s one of my all-time favs and in a perfect world exactly the job I’d want: Owning a clean, liminal laundromat hiding an epic arcade.

I kept expecting a jump scare in this game - thanks Blood Wash!

I did not expect arin of all people talk about a 70's Japanese comic book

keeping cereal in the fridge is a strategy for protecting it from pest

I had never considered the ol' "transition song being a radio/ipod track" reveal as an example of Diegesic storytelling

In the wise words of Matt from Supermega: “I *love* this game design.”

I want them to make this into a series

What happened to Internet Café Simulator? That game was *made* for this channel.

Danny: "That dude's a riot." Me: "Yeah, a quiet riot."

Watched Secret Sleepover Society play this a little while ago and knew the grumps would love it!

I swear Arin really needs to start doing like 5 to 10 minutes prep work to figure out the controls and what you're supposed to do in a game before they start the episode because so often it feels like the majority of an episode is spent just working out how to play the game, sometimes he doesn't even figure it out before he stops playing, it's probably also why people always claim arin is bad at video games because his approach seem to be "I'll figure the game out on the air, while I have split focus"

Fun fact: Pizza King is an actual restaurant chain that is exclusive to Indiana and Ohio (sort of). It used to be, and still is one of my favorite restaurants. Their pizza is fantastic.

The cereal in the fridge is a sign he’s tryna keep the roaches/mice out of it. That’s the only explanation I know of since it’s common in poorer areas or in the country side cuz of field mice.

I think these are appealing because we like the feeling of getting paid cash quickly and often, for doing something actually feasible. We get dopamine from that $$$ and It makes our real life mundane chores feel valuable

The opening to this game was amazing, GG added lots as always!

Thoroughly enjoyed watching these guys do a job while also doing their job! 🤣

1:33 if you got a roach problem, everything goes in the fridge

Anyone remember that old school PC game called Hover? It was capture the flag with bumped cars. The screensaver on the computer made me think of it.

I hope they put on another tour in the UK soon

We keep our cereal in the fridge bc we're fighting bugs. 😅

Ah, the existential nightmare of setting aside time to play a video game, in which you're too busy working to be able to play video games.

You've got to use a controller if you want to play the other arcade games. In any case, glad to see this game being played by another cool youtuber!

I’d love to see more episodes of this😂😍😍

Arin "omg I forgot I had to do laundry in the laundry mat" 😂😂 and I think he forgot to clean the toilet

Man I hope they come back to this and that computer cafe game

Wasn't expecting the game to have such photo real graphics.

I really hope they do at least one more episode of this.

*Several people waiting for Arin to do their laundry* Arin: What am I supposed to do? Guess I'll just wait it out until the end of the day.

It’s so rare to see another Lesley who spells the name the way I do! 💚😁👍💚

Just bought the game after watching you guys play. Gotta hit the Space Bar to get the coin operated games to play

AIM and eBay didn’t exist in the 80s. Wtf? 😂

6:33 That was a screen saver, I don't think they had those in the '80s. Granted I wasn't conscious of computers then but I recognize that one from the 90's. the maze, it was... mesmerizing...

i figured out what manga arin is talking about in 12:17 its a manga called "the phoenix" or "phoenix: resurrection" it sounded interesting so i wanted to find it

15:40 Arin realises he might actually have to do laundry at his laundromat and surprised. This is just like that one time in Lawnmower Simulator.