This downtown Boise bar and arcade closed 8 months ago. Game over? Or one more quarter?

When Spacebar Arcade closed in early April, it was supposed to be as temporary as “Robotron” on the hardest level.

The downtown bar and classic arcade announced that it would move a coin toss away — from the basement level at 200 N. Capitol Blvd., where it had resided for nine years, to 620 W. Idaho St.

Eight months later, Boise bargoers might be wondering if it’s game over. “Are you ever going to reopen?” asks the most recent Google review.

Yes, Spacebar Arcade says. It’s aiming for another quarter.

“We hope to touch down in the first quarter of earth year 2023,” Spacebar Arcade wrote in an update provided by co-owner Will Hay.

Hope? Maybe it’s safest to treat that as a roll of possible quarters — first, second, third, etc.

In June, Spacebar Arcade posted on social media that “while our original estimate for re-entry was the end of May, due to construction delays, we are now anticipating early July.” Then that date got bumped to September. And now — 2023.

What’s causing things to drag on indefinitely? Hay declined to comment.

Either way, Spacebar Arcade’s arsenal of nostalgic games and pinball machines are missed downtown.

Boiseans now find Voodoo Cellar in the former Spacebar Arcade. A “macabre sports bar,” it recently soft opened in the space.