Drakkuss: Randy Senna As A Boardwalk Icon

Randy Senna is a boardwalk icon with over forty years of running vintage arcade games. He is currently running his nostalgic arcade dreams in Wildwood, NJ at the Wildwood Mall. Since 2011, he has operated the “Remember When Retro Arcade” in the basement of the Wildwood Boardwalk Mall. “As a boy he was enchanted by one game — Fascination, a test of skill that pits players against each other in a race to roll rubber balls down an alley and into holes that light up the game board.” (Courier Post). Fascination would be considered in the same family as skee ball and the game dates to the 1920s at Chutes at the Beach in San Francisco. Across town on Pacific Avenue is the future Randyland, which is to be a combined arcade game parlor and arcade heritage museum. This former Woolworth’s building preserves 21,000 square feet of vintage arcade games, boardwalk memorabilia and even hundreds of mannequins. “Discomfortingly, there are also hundreds of mannequins, all lined up in rows, each an eerily perfect reproduction of Randy. They have Randy's grin, Randy's haircut. The only way you can tell them apart is that each wears a different costume.” (Jezebel). This historic preservation of vintage arcade games and boardwalk memorabilia both as a arcade parlor and museum is extraordinary.