Same machines. Next generation.
Drew grew up around pinball. Boardwalk arcades, pizza shops, bowling alleys, the local fun centers on Long Island. The sound of flippers and the glow of a CRT was wired into his DNA from the start. In 2017, he turned that obsession into M.A.D. Arcades.
Nine years later, his kids are growing up the same way he did. Hanging around the shop, watching machines come apart and go back together, learning the difference between an electromechanical and a solid-state from the time they could read the score reels.
"My kids are in the shop almost every weekend. They know these machines as well as some of my customers do. That's the kind of business I wanted to build."
Drew Slionski, FounderThat's not a marketing line. It's the actual environment you walk into when you call M.A.D. Arcades. A small, family-run pinball operation in Ronkonkoma where the owner answers the phone, the machines get treated like the pieces of history they are, and the next generation is already learning the trade.