In Chapter 4 of The Last of Us, Part II, we encounter a troubled boss in the ruins of an arcade hall, and the arcade's real-world prototype, Gameworks seattle, is about to close.
Netizen @coastalcoreyyy tweeted
He had been worried that Gameworks Seattle would close one day, and now his worst fears had happened. Other netizens saw that the store's social account was still active a few days ago, thinking that it might just be that the store gave employees a holiday in advance, @coastalcoreyyy said that his friends worked in the store, and had confirmed with him that today was the last day of the gameworks arcade hall in Seattle.
Foreign media Kotaku also contacted a director of Gameworks' Las Vegas branch to confirm that the Seattle branch was preparing to close. And it's not just a branch, Gameworks is on the verge of closure, but the other party is reluctant to disclose the specific time of the company's closure.