The Wilkes County Arcade is open, it’s free, and on this Happy Daily Brian Kilby explains how it got paid for. Every cent he made from the U-Turn Lane to Walmart video on Facebook (he can’t say how much, but you’d be surprised) went straight into BrianKilby.com/arcade. He has made peace with the fact that he’ll be remembered as the U-Turn man and not as the gentle soul who built a goose control and sign cleaning empire from nothing. He’s embracing it. And since the podcast is the one place he doesn’t have to be the guy from the videos, he’ll go ahead and admit it: he is milking this thing for all it’s worth.
Brian is a middle-aged kid of the ’80s, and the arcade was the real vision all along. He walks through his favorite cabinets. Scrape Expectations sends you out plowing the snow off US 421 in Wilkes County, with a second game where you check whose road actually got scraped. Four of the six U-Turn Lane to Walmart games from Yadkin Valley Electronic Entertainment are up, and he’s still hunting for five and six because they’re harder to come by. Then there’s Every Head Bowed, where you have to slip out of a tent revival during the altar call with your casserole dish before the preacher can lay hands on you, so you can get home in time for Matlock.
There are 13 games in the Wilkes County Arcade right now, and you can play them on your computer with the keyboard or a controller, or on your phone with your hand. Brian says the racing games play especially good. He isn’t charging any quarters. The whole point is to bring some joy to Wilkes County, which is the mission of the Wilkes County Bureau of Happy Days, where Brian serves as a nonpartisan, non-elected official.
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