Alamogordo NM
5-15-2025 5:39am

Rad Retrocade Coming to Alamogordo MainStreet

The New York Avenue makeover is in full swing with a new business coming. Exciting News for Downtown Alamogordo another of several new businesses are in development. 

At Tuesdays City Commission meeting, the proposal from Alex Macias to bring RAD Retrocade to Alamogordo was officially approved by a 7 to 0 vote.  This project marks a big win for our downtown district and a huge step toward creating more fun, family-friendly spaces in our community.

The  business owners have successful operations in El Paso and Las Cruces. The Alamogoordo space will host more than 50 arcade games, stretching from the late 1970s and the golden age of arcade gaming up through the state-of-the-art machines of today, on more with thousands of  square feet of gaming space, there’s something to appeal to every gamer, young and old.

That means all the classic arcade machines — Galaga, Donkey Kong, Space Invaders, Pac Man and Ms. Pac Man, Frogger, Fix-It Felix Jr. (of “Wreck-It Ralph” fame) and Atari Football — stand alongside fighting must-haves, a handful of light-gun shooters, classic sports machines, and contemporary outings.

Alongside these classic arcade machines stand staples like basketball, Skee-Ball, and a curated selection of pinball machines from 1989 through today — an original Back to the Future machine, perfectly restored; Terminator 2, Jurassic Park and, of course, the best-selling machine of all time, Addams Family, along with new releases like Deadpool and Guardians of the Galaxy.

This gallery of games surrounds a large central bar serving beer, wine, liquor, mixed drinks, and a selection of frozen drinks and unique cocktails. Beat the heat with the Runt2D2, a fruity frozen drink made with Strawberry Smirnoff vodka and topped with Runts candy; the Senor Pete, a frozen mango-chamoy drink, made with Mango Smirnoff and topped with a mango-chile lollipop; and the Surfer Dude, a frozen prickly-pear drink topped with Grapefruit Smirnoff.

Cocktails include the Tennessee Mule, a Moscow Mule made with Jack Daniels and just a hint of raspberry; the refreshing Prickly Hippy, made with Jose Cuervo Tradicional; and the refreshing, bright blue Old Blue, made with Firefly Moonshine.

Rad Retrocade’s full kitchen menu includes a selection of munchies including fried pickles, chicken and waffles, chicken wings, and beer-battered mushrooms, along with unique fare like the Marty McFries — hand-cut fries or sweet potato fries, seasoned and served with a marshmallow dip — and the Garbage Pail Nachos, named for the stomach-churning 1980s Topps trading cards, with your choice of chicken, pulled pork or ground beef, topped with pico de gallo, black beans, shredded cheese, sour cream, and a drizzle of hot sauce.

Main dishes include classics like fish tacos, shrimp po’boys, pulled pork and chicken cordon bleu sandwiches; others, like The Jigowatt Burger, The McFly, The Biff, and The Doc Brown, owe their names to the ultimate in throwback in entertainment, Back to the Future. Feeling spicy? Order up the Hot Cheeto Cheeseburger, an eight-ounce patty topped greens, tomato, onion, queso and, of course, Hot Cheetos, on a butter bun.

There’s also a lighter side, with a classic house, chicken Caesar, and strawberry chicken salad along with plenty of sides.

 Leave room for the churro bites, funnel cake puffs, ice cream sundae, or the deep-fried twinkie bites.

Alamogordo MainStreet's very own Executive Director, Nolan Ojeda, did an outstanding job presenting the benefits this business will bring to our revitalization efforts. Joining him in support were:

Trisha Roberts, owner of Farmers Insurance

Rachel Anderson, owner of Infinity Sweets Cafe

Samantha Romero, a proud local Alamogordian

Cruz Hernandez, a high school student who represented the voice and energy of our youth beautifully

During public comment, we were moved by words from:

Azar Rangel, owner of Monicakes & Alamogordo MainStreet Board Member

Jerrett Perry, Executive Director of the Alamogordo Center of Commerce

And Vivian Boyle, a 9-year-old who reminded us exactly why we do this work—for the future of Alamogordo’s next generation.

We celebrete that commission is committed to downtown snd incredibly grateful to Mayor Susan Payne and our City Commissioners for voting yes and showing their support for what’s best for Alamogordo’s future.

Watch the full meeting here: https://www.youtube.com/live/CH9qMKpDGJ4?si=a21Wbb4DcfVxogpb

Visit https://www.radretrocade.com/

to learn more

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5-15-2025 10:24am

While the Rad Retrocade won't be bad for the city, and may even be
good for the city, I don't agree that it's what's "best" for the city.

I happen to agree with Rev. Hopkins that the city needs to focus more
on getting manufacturing and other light industrial into the city.

Mayor Payne came off as being very short sighted in the meeting by
all but dismissing Rev. Hopkins comments.  Mayor Payne kicked the can
down the road, saying that the city won't even start to look at
manufacturing until a long term multi-year infrastructure project is
complete.  A project that is still really only in the planning stage.

Rad Retrocade is projected to create 20 part time jobs and is projected
to pay back the city's $1 million investment in 4 - 7 years. I would estimate
that it might generate several 10's of thousands of dollars in revenues for
the city each year in combined impacts.

Light industrial and manufacturing on the other hand with even the
smallest plants would create at least that many full time jobs, and
potentially 2 - 3 times the revenue for the city.

Industrialization needs to happen concurrently with infrastructure
upgrades, not after, because they're likely to find that the upgrades
are not compatible with the new industries and need to be redone
again.
There is also the fact that new industry would create more money for
the city to speed up the infrastructure upgrades.

The liberal agenda of making the U.S. an almost exclusively service
economy for the last 50 years is a failed model.  We need to move on.
If the mayor and city council can't get moving on real economic growth
then we need to replace them with people who will.

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