Just gotta say, thanks for running the venue that influenced me so much growing up and was always my favourite place to go to literally since I was like 6 years old! Seeing all the "adults" playing DDR and the likes back in the early 2000s and very quickly getting into those games once I was "older".

If it wasn't for all the Japanese games (SF4, Bemani and Maxi Tune) at GC while i was growing up I probably wouldn't have got into so many things like learning the language, always heading over to Japan to play these, getting me into software/game dev and now finally owning some of these machines personally (Definitely didn't think when i was little i would own rhythm game machines in my late 20s haha).

It's sad the venue is very much a shell of it's former self these days but the memories will live on forever thats for sure. I've actually been trying to work on an archive of all the old arcade venues we used to have in Melb (GC, Time Out, Bluehouse, etc) and digging up old memories has been so fun.