Link? I mean, I know he’s said so in a very roundabout way (despite his last comments being that it was simply dormant and would be opening again, new and improved), but I haven’t seen 100% confirmation.
Are you a backer? Where did you hear about it? Could you ask whoever supplied you with the information for a copy of the post? It’d be much appreciated 🙂
I believe it may very well and truly be over for Barcadia. Google lists their hours as “closed” every day of the week, their event schedule is empty, social media has gone dark, and trying to send them an email inquiring about availability and hours using the address on the (outdated) website returned a delivery failure – suggesting the domain isn’t active anymore. Hilariously you can still purchase gift cards as well as tickets for their “Taskmaster” show which occurred December 19th, 2024! Never fear though, their “About Us” page rather ambitiously reassures us that they are only ‘temporarily’ closed.
None of this is unusual for Peter. He’ll emerge eventually with a new e-begging video, thinly veiled as an apology to his groupies.
Is he still hoarding his worthless crap in Barcadia? Wasn’t he talking about opening up some rape dungeon thing where you could pay to admire him and his “retro” hoard? I’d bet that’s what Barcadia will reopen as.
Whilst I don’t live in Norwich (28 miles away), I feel Peter is tarnishing its reputation.
There’s a young lad called Retrohead that’s a passionate YouTuber, who lives in the Norwich area. Unrelated to gaming, a bloke called Bongo Ben, who promotes local campsites (he’s totally mad).
These 2 are genuine people, not bullshitters like NN. What YouTube should be.
Happy birthday to Peter, 42 probably yesterday. Born at the height of the non existent gaming crash.
He was playing the latest games just minutes after leaving the womb.
Before he left the womb, based on his claims.
I guess his parents could have used a ZX Spectrum as a marital aid during his conception. Maybe even a Commodore 64. Does that count?
Peter and co seem like the sort of people who support the Labour party (although maybe the Greens?). So it’s quite fitting that the cost rises of a Labour government in terms of NI contributions and the minimum wage hike has finished them off.
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dreamkatcha
2 months ago
Remember when Peter half-heartedly flounced off Twitter because Elon is a baddie, leaving the door ajar to return from Bluesky if the wind changes?
Turns out there’s been a slight breeze in Norwich.
lol yes that hasn’t worked out for a lot of people. the horrendous, mentally-deranged echo chamber that is blue sky has zero reach and doesn’t get them any engagement so, yeah, “about that”
Opening hours: now closed 7 days a week, according to Google. Plus it looks like they even had a go at boosting their reviews with some obviously AI-generated content, check out that one from Thomas Hood, totally not a fake review written by an AI…
If you’re talking about 86 St Benedicts St, Norwich NR2 4AB then no. That was the first location of Slice and Dice which Samantha Whitehouse and Peter set-up. Before Samantha and Peter parted ways after BARCADIA’s disastrous flop. Samantha moved to the much larger premises of 10-12 St Benedicts. 86 St Benedicts was Peter’s mancave and backdrop for his “I’m Sorry” YouTube video. But today it is Hocus Pocus Apothecary a magik,Tarot card, black cat, gem-stone themed place. So in short he’s long vacated it along with Ashens.
Apparently they caused floor subsidence with all the junk they had in that place so were asked to leave. Rumours also suggest that PeePee and Ashens aren’t on great terms, but that’s unconfirmed as of now.
He didn’t want to put his own money on the line. PAL productions is a “television production company”? What is this? The 1990s Peter? Anyone with a 1080p 4k webcam, lighting rig, decent smartphone with build in pixel camera can do built in video production editing on YouTube Peter. Use AI or chatgpt if you’re feeling saucy or want to save hours if not weeks doing title cards, effects, fonts, artwork or editing outright. Oh and its all nigh on free for most services too.
His Companies House listings are atrocious, it’s just one failed company after another – and always with accounts overdue, as Barcadia’s now are *again* for the second year in a row. I can only assume “PAL Productions” has been set up so that he can avoid filing his accounts for “PAST Productions” which is still active, but which Companies House are proposing to strike off. You can pretty much guarantee that means he’s not paying the taxes he ought to be, which makes a mockery of his whole progressive poseur politics.
Indeed. His progressive pretensions are just his attempt to paint himself as a real man of the people. He’s a sniveling wretch who can only ever obtain what he desires via subterfuge.
The fines go up to £750 for late filing. I think these are also avoided if a company is struck off. It looks like he is emptying Barcadia and Past Productions off any cash they have left, he’s certainly splashing money about at the moment.
The accounts for his new company Pal Productions, aren’t due until January 2027. He’ll enjoy a tax free life until then, or maybe not if Companies House prohibit him from being a company director. We can only hope.
Well, it does look like he’s borrowed a suit from his dad. That is possibly the worst dressed man I’ve ever seen. Also, what is he even doing there? He has fuck all to do with video games, he farms clickbait. Badly.
Yet it’s the Caulfields who ask him to appear in their Rubber-Keyed Wonder documentary? There’s no escape from this clown!
Incidentally, I couldn’t help noticing the ‘novel’ way they avoided a Top Hat style licensing debacle. By filling their film with low resolution, grainy, watermarked video and images. In a commercial, crowdfunded project that raised over £100,000! I struggled to pay attention after seeing the first example.
I couldn’t be bothered with that documentary, especially with a shithouse like him in it talking about how amazing it felt to get the spectrum when it was first released. That would have meant he was, I think, ONE at the time? I’m sure he was HEAVILY into it at that time in his life. The man is an absolute vagine.
Spectrum released April 1982, Peter appeared April 1983.
He was -1.
Very annoying how he claims to be there at the start of everything. The truth is all the good stuff happened before he was old enough to appreciate it.
I remember Space Invaders first being released. Not that I was big enough to play it. I liked the artwork and the loud booming sound of the cabinet whilst my uncle played it.
dreamkatcha
2 months ago
Some neighbours of mine have just moved to Wales to invest in a pub of all things. It’s as though they’ve been cryogenically frozen since the ’90s, then suddenly revived in 2025 expecting nothing to have changed. All they see is the dream, deluded by a warped belief they can fight reality with happy thoughts and their sparkling personality. It’s all the others who fail because they’re not dynamic enough. Arrogance is a dangerous Achilles’ heel.
The problem with BARCADIA was simple.Marketing? For adults on a Friday and Saturday night it did “well” as a standard bar can be for a pub crawl. Peter should’ve used the k.i.s.s method. Keep It Simple Stupid. Your bar works well as an alcoholic bar so keep it that way. Maybe try rebranding it as The Prince of Wales Road happy hour bar that sells drinks, foam toys and happy hour games. Expand your offer of closing the bar for private functions or parties mid-week. Then there was the listless hipsters subscribed to the LGBT fad that other local Zoomers have rebuked. Plus were kids ever allowed in BARCADIA? In fact I witnessed multiple parents pulling their kids away from BARCADIA’s window art with cool wreck it ralph street fighter. Assuming by saying out loud “no that’s an adult bar, kids aren’t allowed in (I think?)”.
I’m unsure as to what the entry requirements were, mate. I mean, the issue is that it’s a bar, but also a bar that has arcades. If he had a social circle in Norwich then it’d probably have done well. ‘Barcades’ do seem to be popular these days BUT you need a dedicated clientele and you need more than some fat mess singing terrible songs about how shit their life is in order to bring people in if you don’t already have fans. The whole thing was doomed from the off. It’s an extremely competitive market, and it was set up in a street full of other bars. People have their ‘regular haunts’ and for barcadia to have become one they’d have had to have offered what other local bars do. It was a disastrous misadventure from the off and was tone deaf to the surroundings and potential clientele. If they’d wanted the gaming crowd, they were already cared for by a few other establishments in Norwich. Splitting the market, even if it works, is not a good thing. Barcadia offered nothing unique save for extremely overpriced drinks and a shit ambience.
This is the thing, and probably why (I’m guessing) the bank(s) wouldn’t loan him the money: there’s already a decent arcade there that serves drinks/food and is also located in a shopping mall that has a food court, so you can leave the place to get food, drink, shop or whatever, then come back and have a play as you’ve paid for the day.. Plus there’s little risk of having to hear relatable songs.
Textbook no-brainer really.
MrBoing
2 months ago
Reasons for closure:
1) Donald Trump
2)Brexit
3)Community Trolls
4)Road being dug up outside
5)War in Ukraine
6)Unfair competition
7)Keir Starmer
8)Effects of Lockdown
9)Mr King’s tits too big a distraction
10)Betrayed by Slice and Dice owner having some sense.
11)People not being able to appreciate his magnificent genius.
Not sure if I have missed any off but let’s see which excuses are used. Anyone take a guess or point out any I missed?
And presumably saving whoever is behind the bar from being robbed/battered? I reckon that’s probably the reason to avoid having to pay security for at least that. Again, just really ill thought out.
Peter did hire doormen, eventually. I guess his Paddington Bear security policy of “if you’re not kind, then leave or risk a staredown” didn’t last as his joint became a bar crawl for alcoholics. Then the real yellow arm banded muscle appeared. Along with their nightly fees.
The biggest shock is that Barcadia lasted for as long as it did.
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Editor
Code Tapper
2 months ago
Peter was delusional if he thought Barcadia with about half a dozen arcade machines and grossly overpriced vegan food and drinks was ever going to succeed.
As reality set in, Samantha from Slice and Dice finally put 2 and 2 together and realised what an incompetent and nasty piece of work Nostalgia Nerd was and high-tailed it out of there.
Then food was cut, hours slashed, staff all let go (along with the rumours you mentioned of several staff being owed money) and now the old arcade games are gone.
So it’s effectively a small dumping ground for Peter and his junk. Never open, no arcades, no food, he probably owes the drink suppliers thousands and there’s no money coming in to pay the rent. Once his free rent period is gone (if it isn’t already), he’s going to really be in the brown stuff.
At least there’s one silver lining. If you want to play a decent selection of arcade games, you can still go to Retro Replay up the road. And to think this moron said it was going to be the best bar in the world! What a total joke.
The teams at Retro Replay, Slice & Dice (also add NorwichVRoom) remain on good terms with BARCADIA personally. Maybe they see it as a preverbial caged canary in a coal-mine and sympathise. Samantha Whitehouse actually thought I was Funky Spectrum. She was telling a male friend “that’s the guy whose been trolling Peter about BARCADIA” when I passed in the street. No I am megadrive95 luv’.
Yep she just needed to “whisper” a little louder and try holding her sneer. I don’t bother hiding my long doxed/spokeo email for petty matters. Google cancelled my slanderous, libel baiting free email with a verification request that deleted access to my content. Anon internet is a thing of the past.
Hot off the press. Barcadia has officially closed. We knew this 4 months ago. Again, always too late.
Video up now that touches on this and Nerd’s inability to count.
To three.
Link? I mean, I know he’s said so in a very roundabout way (despite his last comments being that it was simply dormant and would be opening again, new and improved), but I haven’t seen 100% confirmation.
Backers only presently.
Are you a backer? Where did you hear about it? Could you ask whoever supplied you with the information for a copy of the post? It’d be much appreciated 🙂
Me a backer? What do you take me for? Yes I am.
It was an email I got.
Looks like the trolls have been stopping the Nerd from filing his accounts! Damn those trolls.
Horrible people.
I believe it may very well and truly be over for Barcadia. Google lists their hours as “closed” every day of the week, their event schedule is empty, social media has gone dark, and trying to send them an email inquiring about availability and hours using the address on the (outdated) website returned a delivery failure – suggesting the domain isn’t active anymore. Hilariously you can still purchase gift cards as well as tickets for their “Taskmaster” show which occurred December 19th, 2024! Never fear though, their “About Us” page rather ambitiously reassures us that they are only ‘temporarily’ closed.
None of this is unusual for Peter. He’ll emerge eventually with a new e-begging video, thinly veiled as an apology to his groupies.
Is he still hoarding his worthless crap in Barcadia? Wasn’t he talking about opening up some rape dungeon thing where you could pay to admire him and his “retro” hoard? I’d bet that’s what Barcadia will reopen as.
Whilst I don’t live in Norwich (28 miles away), I feel Peter is tarnishing its reputation.
There’s a young lad called Retrohead that’s a passionate YouTuber, who lives in the Norwich area. Unrelated to gaming, a bloke called Bongo Ben, who promotes local campsites (he’s totally mad).
These 2 are genuine people, not bullshitters like NN. What YouTube should be.
There seems to be a bit of a golden rule, if they are a retro gaming channel and have been on the Retro hour then they’re probably a grifter.
pretty much a certainty, yes.
Alan Partridge tarnished Norwich’s reputation over three decades ago lol
Happy birthday to Peter, 42 probably yesterday. Born at the height of the non existent gaming crash.
He was playing the latest games just minutes after leaving the womb.
Before he left the womb, based on his claims.
I guess his parents could have used a ZX Spectrum as a marital aid during his conception. Maybe even a Commodore 64. Does that count?
That would explain a few things. The spectrum was however a computer for the people, not sure the same could be said (man of the people?) of Peter.
Peter and co seem like the sort of people who support the Labour party (although maybe the Greens?). So it’s quite fitting that the cost rises of a Labour government in terms of NI contributions and the minimum wage hike has finished them off.
Remember when Peter half-heartedly flounced off Twitter because Elon is a baddie, leaving the door ajar to return from Bluesky if the wind changes?
Turns out there’s been a slight breeze in Norwich.
lol yes that hasn’t worked out for a lot of people. the horrendous, mentally-deranged echo chamber that is blue sky has zero reach and doesn’t get them any engagement so, yeah, “about that”
There’s always a slight breeze as he speaks out his arse.
Opening hours: now closed 7 days a week, according to Google. Plus it looks like they even had a go at boosting their reviews with some obviously AI-generated content, check out that one from Thomas Hood, totally not a fake review written by an AI…
wow lol fucking hell :p
Peter promised me a tenner to write this. Don’t suppose I’m ever going to receive that now. Hmmf.
Couldn’t get more fake than that could you.
Is this storage in addition to that at Ashen’s warehouse thing?
Maybe they chucked him out?
Seems to happen to him a lot.
odd, that, isn’t it?
If you’re talking about 86 St Benedicts St, Norwich NR2 4AB then no. That was the first location of Slice and Dice which Samantha Whitehouse and Peter set-up. Before Samantha and Peter parted ways after BARCADIA’s disastrous flop. Samantha moved to the much larger premises of 10-12 St Benedicts. 86 St Benedicts was Peter’s mancave and backdrop for his “I’m Sorry” YouTube video. But today it is Hocus Pocus Apothecary a magik,Tarot card, black cat, gem-stone themed place. So in short he’s long vacated it along with Ashens.
Oh and there is an office space for rent at the same address as of 4th March 2025.
Ashens place at the back and Peter’s former mancave at the front now said Hocus Pocus Apothecary?
https://propertylink.estatesgazette.com/property-details/7021092-86-st-benedicts-street-norwich-norfolk-nr2
Apparently they caused floor subsidence with all the junk they had in that place so were asked to leave. Rumours also suggest that PeePee and Ashens aren’t on great terms, but that’s unconfirmed as of now.
Times must be really hard for the Nerd
LTD = Limited Liability (against) Debts. He comes from a large rich family from Cromer, Norfolk, UK. He’s ok, so no personal cash flow problems.
Which would be why he’s just set up yet another company, PAL Productions Ltd.
If he’s so well funded, why is he so mad on grifting?
He didn’t want to put his own money on the line. PAL productions is a “television production company”? What is this? The 1990s Peter? Anyone with a 1080p 4k webcam, lighting rig, decent smartphone with build in pixel camera can do built in video production editing on YouTube Peter. Use AI or chatgpt if you’re feeling saucy or want to save hours if not weeks doing title cards, effects, fonts, artwork or editing outright. Oh and its all nigh on free for most services too.
His Companies House listings are atrocious, it’s just one failed company after another – and always with accounts overdue, as Barcadia’s now are *again* for the second year in a row. I can only assume “PAL Productions” has been set up so that he can avoid filing his accounts for “PAST Productions” which is still active, but which Companies House are proposing to strike off. You can pretty much guarantee that means he’s not paying the taxes he ought to be, which makes a mockery of his whole progressive poseur politics.
Indeed. His progressive pretensions are just his attempt to paint himself as a real man of the people. He’s a sniveling wretch who can only ever obtain what he desires via subterfuge.
The fines go up to £750 for late filing. I think these are also avoided if a company is struck off. It looks like he is emptying Barcadia and Past Productions off any cash they have left, he’s certainly splashing money about at the moment.
The accounts for his new company Pal Productions, aren’t due until January 2027. He’ll enjoy a tax free life until then, or maybe not if Companies House prohibit him from being a company director. We can only hope.
I would doubt it, mate. The HMRC never seem to stop people doing anything, especially if it’s delinquent behaviour.
Well, it does look like he’s borrowed a suit from his dad. That is possibly the worst dressed man I’ve ever seen. Also, what is he even doing there? He has fuck all to do with video games, he farms clickbait. Badly.
Yet it’s the Caulfields who ask him to appear in their Rubber-Keyed Wonder documentary? There’s no escape from this clown!
Incidentally, I couldn’t help noticing the ‘novel’ way they avoided a Top Hat style licensing debacle. By filling their film with low resolution, grainy, watermarked video and images. In a commercial, crowdfunded project that raised over £100,000! I struggled to pay attention after seeing the first example.
I couldn’t be bothered with that documentary, especially with a shithouse like him in it talking about how amazing it felt to get the spectrum when it was first released. That would have meant he was, I think, ONE at the time? I’m sure he was HEAVILY into it at that time in his life. The man is an absolute vagine.
Spectrum released April 1982, Peter appeared April 1983.
He was -1.
Very annoying how he claims to be there at the start of everything. The truth is all the good stuff happened before he was old enough to appreciate it.
I remember Space Invaders first being released. Not that I was big enough to play it. I liked the artwork and the loud booming sound of the cabinet whilst my uncle played it.
Some neighbours of mine have just moved to Wales to invest in a pub of all things. It’s as though they’ve been cryogenically frozen since the ’90s, then suddenly revived in 2025 expecting nothing to have changed. All they see is the dream, deluded by a warped belief they can fight reality with happy thoughts and their sparkling personality. It’s all the others who fail because they’re not dynamic enough. Arrogance is a dangerous Achilles’ heel.
The problem with BARCADIA was simple.Marketing? For adults on a Friday and Saturday night it did “well” as a standard bar can be for a pub crawl. Peter should’ve used the k.i.s.s method. Keep It Simple Stupid. Your bar works well as an alcoholic bar so keep it that way. Maybe try rebranding it as The Prince of Wales Road happy hour bar that sells drinks, foam toys and happy hour games. Expand your offer of closing the bar for private functions or parties mid-week. Then there was the listless hipsters subscribed to the LGBT fad that other local Zoomers have rebuked. Plus were kids ever allowed in BARCADIA? In fact I witnessed multiple parents pulling their kids away from BARCADIA’s window art with cool wreck it ralph street fighter. Assuming by saying out loud “no that’s an adult bar, kids aren’t allowed in (I think?)”.
I’m unsure as to what the entry requirements were, mate. I mean, the issue is that it’s a bar, but also a bar that has arcades. If he had a social circle in Norwich then it’d probably have done well. ‘Barcades’ do seem to be popular these days BUT you need a dedicated clientele and you need more than some fat mess singing terrible songs about how shit their life is in order to bring people in if you don’t already have fans. The whole thing was doomed from the off. It’s an extremely competitive market, and it was set up in a street full of other bars. People have their ‘regular haunts’ and for barcadia to have become one they’d have had to have offered what other local bars do. It was a disastrous misadventure from the off and was tone deaf to the surroundings and potential clientele. If they’d wanted the gaming crowd, they were already cared for by a few other establishments in Norwich. Splitting the market, even if it works, is not a good thing. Barcadia offered nothing unique save for extremely overpriced drinks and a shit ambience.
This is the thing, and probably why (I’m guessing) the bank(s) wouldn’t loan him the money: there’s already a decent arcade there that serves drinks/food and is also located in a shopping mall that has a food court, so you can leave the place to get food, drink, shop or whatever, then come back and have a play as you’ve paid for the day.. Plus there’s little risk of having to hear relatable songs.
Textbook no-brainer really.
Reasons for closure:
1) Donald Trump
2)Brexit
3)Community Trolls
4)Road being dug up outside
5)War in Ukraine
6)Unfair competition
7)Keir Starmer
8)Effects of Lockdown
9)Mr King’s tits too big a distraction
10)Betrayed by Slice and Dice owner having some sense.
11)People not being able to appreciate his magnificent genius.
Not sure if I have missed any off but let’s see which excuses are used. Anyone take a guess or point out any I missed?
Not alowing customers to pay using physical cash. Thus not saving the embarrassment of having barcadia on your bank statement.
And presumably saving whoever is behind the bar from being robbed/battered? I reckon that’s probably the reason to avoid having to pay security for at least that. Again, just really ill thought out.
Peter did hire doormen, eventually. I guess his Paddington Bear security policy of “if you’re not kind, then leave or risk a staredown” didn’t last as his joint became a bar crawl for alcoholics. Then the real yellow arm banded muscle appeared. Along with their nightly fees.
12) People not being happy with working for free, thus meaning he has to drag his repellent self in there – which affects customers negatively?
The Whole Barcadia thing sure is the gift that just keeps on giving.
You mean the grift that kept on giving?
Got there before me, mate 🙂
The biggest shock is that Barcadia lasted for as long as it did.
Peter was delusional if he thought Barcadia with about half a dozen arcade machines and grossly overpriced vegan food and drinks was ever going to succeed.
As reality set in, Samantha from Slice and Dice finally put 2 and 2 together and realised what an incompetent and nasty piece of work Nostalgia Nerd was and high-tailed it out of there.
Then food was cut, hours slashed, staff all let go (along with the rumours you mentioned of several staff being owed money) and now the old arcade games are gone.
So it’s effectively a small dumping ground for Peter and his junk. Never open, no arcades, no food, he probably owes the drink suppliers thousands and there’s no money coming in to pay the rent. Once his free rent period is gone (if it isn’t already), he’s going to really be in the brown stuff.
At least there’s one silver lining. If you want to play a decent selection of arcade games, you can still go to Retro Replay up the road. And to think this moron said it was going to be the best bar in the world! What a total joke.
The teams at Retro Replay, Slice & Dice (also add NorwichVRoom) remain on good terms with BARCADIA personally. Maybe they see it as a preverbial caged canary in a coal-mine and sympathise. Samantha Whitehouse actually thought I was Funky Spectrum. She was telling a male friend “that’s the guy whose been trolling Peter about BARCADIA” when I passed in the street. No I am megadrive95 luv’.
Seriously? LOL! Wow, what a load of old nonsense.
Yep she just needed to “whisper” a little louder and try holding her sneer. I don’t bother hiding my long doxed/spokeo email for petty matters. Google cancelled my slanderous, libel baiting free email with a verification request that deleted access to my content. Anon internet is a thing of the past.
Well, unless you’re rolling along in a chair and have a nice suntan from residing in Spain you’re unlikely to be George.
I don’t have a suntan mate I just had a tumor removed from my skin, no sun for me at all :p