About GotNexts

I've been playing in arcades since I was knee-high to a chest-high wall. There's something about the weight of a joystick, the crack of a button, the glow of a CRT at 2am in a dimly lit room full of machines — you either get it or you don't.

The arcade industry has been in slow decline for decades. Operators struggle to find parts. Collectors hoard boards. Restorers can't source monitors. All the while, good machines rot in storage or get parted out because the right buyer and the right seller never found each other.

GotNexts is my attempt to fix a small piece of that. No payments. No middleman. No marketplace fees. Just a board where operators, collectors, and restorers can post what they have and what they need — and connect directly to keep real arcades alive just a little while longer.

The goal is simple: if you've got a Galaga PCB gathering dust and someone three states over has been hunting one for two years, they should be able to find each other. That's it.

Real arcades. Real operators. Keep the quarters rolling.