Spoopy Yoohoo 8 (7)

Spoopy Yoohoo 80s

Saturday September 15th 2018 - 12 PM EST

Karts Indoor Raceway - Ronkonkoma

Applebees - Ronkonkoma

Ed’s Nazi Castle - Ronkonkoma

Spoopy Yoohoo 80s is arguably the worst event we’ve had, but also the most infamous.

It’s the only event that has taken place outside of Ed’s Nazi Castle. I decided to mix things up. That turned out to be a terrible fucking decision.

I found this place by me that looks 80s as fuck. It had arcade games, go karts, laser tag. Awesome, right? Nope.

The place was a shithole.

These people convinced me to rent a room for nothing. It was a closet full of broken arcade machines and a table. We never stepped foot inside of it.

Bowling was a joke. It was automated arcady bowling, which is fine, but only one of two lanes worked. And the attendant started the system by pulling off a panel and touching two wires together.

Arcade games were crazy expensive and there wasn’t a lot of them.

Not sure if anyone’s gun during laser tag actually worked.

The Go Karts were fun. The guy let us go around a couple extra laps, so that was pretty cool.

The real shitshow started after we were looking to leave. So I prepaid for 10 people. Way less than that showed up, so I asked for a refund. They wouldn’t give it to me. It took like an hour, calling different managers that weren’t there, to finally get me a refund for like $100.

After that, we went to Applebee’s and returned to the Castle to watch Captain EO.

If you don’t remember Captain EO:

It’s the most 80s movie ever that you’ve never heard of. A movie with Michael Jackson’s music, Francis Ford Coppola directing, George Lucas producing, Jim Henson making puppets, and ILM doing special effects. Wow. What could go wrong? It was originally going to come out in theaters, but after production delays and going way over budget, Disney needed to cut losses fast. They cancelled production and took whatever footage was left. It was cut into a 25 min film that was shown at Epcot in Orlando, FL for over a decade. It was never officially released outside of the Disney parks, but we watched a leaked copy recorded from the master after the show was discontinued.