Game Grid 4.0: The arcade’s current home where Pratt and company did much of the remodeling work themselves. Still no redemption equipment, but the arcade is profitable nonetheless and fills Adam Pratt with gratitude as he reflects on how his childhood passion turned into a profitable business supporting his family and others.

Game Grid 3.0: These fantasy games were among many we crammed into the small space. Thankfully, mall management was agreeable to letting us move to a larger location.

Game Grid 2.0: The move to another “dead” part of the mall got us an inside entrance and more foot traffic. Though it was a smaller space, we were able to get enough good pieces into it to make it work, and ventured into the “black,” earnings wise, for the first time.

Adam Pratt’s first Game Grid mall arcade location.

Homepin’s Mike Kalinowski and Jersey Jack Guarnieri at IAAPA’s Asian Attractions Expo in June with UNIS’ Pong consumer table (a product distributed by Guarnieri’s PinballSales.com). Kalinowski’s company is building Thunderbirds Are Go! pinball machines in Shenzhen China.