Napa Planning Commission Approves Super Lounge, a Retro Console Gaming Hangout on Coombs Street
Nick Lesec's project at 1011 Coombs Street would rent 1990s and 2000s game stations with couch seating for one to four guests by the hour. The city called it downtown Napa's first console-focused retro gaming lounge.
By the Bay Area Brief staff · Edited by Seamus McKenna · · 3 min read
Vineyards in Napa Valley in autumn. Photo: Brocken Inaglory / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 (cropped, resized and color-graded). Archive photo of the area; not a photo of the events in this story.
Napa's Planning Commission has approved Super Lounge, which the city described as downtown's first console-focused retro gaming lounge, the Press Democrat reported.
Proposed by Nick Lesec, the lounge would be at 1011 Coombs St., across from the First Street hotel development now under construction. It would offer game-station rentals — consoles from the 1990s and 2000s — with couch seating for one to four guests at an hourly rate, according to the project description. "It is meant to be a 'third space' outside school/work and the home for the community to gather and play classic games together in a safe and nostalgic environment," the description said. The lounge would also sell pre-packaged snacks. Arcade and pinball businesses opened in downtown Napa in 2025, the newspaper reported. The approval is not a report that the lounge has already opened.
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