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mgb:


--- Quote from: Bootay on January 27, 2011, 06:24:20 pm ---Yep. First time I seen Dragon's Lair was Space Shuttle and they also had a 2nd screen attached to the top so everyone could see what the player was doing because it was so crowded around the machine that no one could ever see the screen.

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That's exactly how I remember seeing it at the Fun Factory in Milford Ct.
They had the extra monitor up top so everyone could watch. I was a bit younger than the many teens there and I couldn't near the machine. I would say there more people around that machine than even SF2 in its heyday.

kagaden:

Camelot Castle (Now Camelot Golfland)

Which is... awesomely, still there:
http://www.golfland.com/anaheim/

EVEGames:

"Just Games" in the Harlem Foster plaza in Chicago, IL.  Not far from the Harlem Irving Plaza mall, a.k.a. "The HIP", in Norridge, IL.
Early 80's.  Loooong gone. 
I wish I could find even one reference to it on the internet with pictures from back in the day... I was there so often that there's a good chance I'd be in any random picture of it  :)
Simple layout, it was just a long, rectangular room with arcade games lining every inch of wall.  Kinda dimly lit, with pop music playing in the background.  Tuesdays they would set the token machine to give out 5 tokens for a dollar, so I would always stock up for the week.  These were the days of Michael Jackson and "the Glove", so I would occasionally wear one glove to the arcade, thinking that was pretty cool.  I dream about riding my bike to Just Games all the time.
The strip mall has changed many times since then, but if I picture where it approximately was, I think now it's where a chinese buffet stands.

They also had a Chuck E Cheese two doors down, which had some good games.

The HIP had a great arcade too, Aladdin's Castle.

Then in the 90's my arcade was "Just For Fun" in the Town & Country Mall in Arlington Heights, IL.  These were the days when Street Fighter and Mortal Kombat reigned.

And now, I just took my 8-year old son to the new Galloping Ghost arcade in Brookfield, IL for the first time, and we both fell in love with it.  Highly reccomended for anyone in the area.

telengard:

My old arcade hangouts then and now...

Dream Machine, Methuen Mall, MA  -> The Loop, strip mall and movie theatre after tearing mall down
Alladin's Castle, Liberty Tree Mall, MA -> Mall is still there, no idea what it is now if anything

~telengard

HaRuMaN:

When I was a teenager, I like to hang out at Putt-Putt Golf & Games, I think it was Va Bch, VA.  It's not there anymore...  they had a lot of the current fighters, I used to drop a ton of money in there on Samurai Showdown 4...

There was also a placed called Funspot in Chesapeake, VA that had 18 holes of indoor miniature golf, movie theaters, food court, and 2 floors of arcade games.  It was in an old converted warehouse, or something.  It got shut down later due to gang activity, lol.

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