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What place was your favorite arcade from your past??
jediz:
there was a pizza place on the way home from school. They had Ms PacMan, Galaga and Track & Field. It was a daily stop.
the 7-11, only had one game, it was commando.
When we went to Springfield, MO, the alladin's castle there was awesome. I loved playing temple of doom at that arcade. I mostly remember playing USA vs Russia superchex hockey (for some reason I loved being the commies). Also played a lot of punch-out.
Last but not least, the "Gold Mine" in Norman, OK. really good arcade for the time and size. Time traveller even made stop there. It's where I spent most of high school playing SF2.
alfonzotan:
My favorite "quickee mart" had an Astro Blaster. Played the hell out of that one. The bowling alley had a Space Wars, and the roller rink had a Moncaco GP cabaret. Wish I had both of those games today.
My hometown only had one real arcade, it was owned by a guy who later became a dog track gambling magnate, and recently beat two federal indictments for bribing legislators.
It was an odd town...
lordnacho:
Can we start an awkward arcade moments thread? Here's a few from me:
On vacation at Virginia Beach, hiked what seemed to be miles to a little arcade. I liked going slow in Paperboy, but some older kids bullied me into going faster. I did out of peer pressure and crashed, got mad at them for wasting my quarter :(
North NJ mall(my favorite spot) - asking an older kid how to do a Hadouken and him telling me to practice and figure it out myself. Jerk!!
Same place as above - hot girl watching Smash TV, me gets caught looking at her, she whispers into her boyfriends ear. Me running away.
stu33:
My uncle owned one in Three Mile Bay, NY in early 80s...didn't have a chance with the population of 200 in that town. He had a BattleZone, BurgerTime, Omega Race (upright), Pac and Ms. Pac, Asteroids Deluxe, some solid-state pin with a motorcycle on the side, I think, a juke and the giant atari football with the trackballs. As long as I brought friends, I got all the quarters I wanted.
The P+C supermarket in Watertown had a Choplifter and a Roadblasters for awhile, and the Salmon Run Mall in Watertown had an arcade that was pretty much skee-ball, 5 street fighter cabs, and redemption stuff. The Ames (Zayre's previously) had a Spy Hunter. And the gas station in Chaumont had a Time Pilot.
Northern NY didn't have much arcade-y goodness after my uncle closed up.
teeuwen:
Was pretty spoiled over my years.
I remember the Mac’s corner store about two blocks from my house had a dragon’s lair for a while and after that they had a Sega time machine.
Though the years between this Mac’s corner store and me being older I don’t specifically remember too many arcades.
There was a couple 1943 shooter games on the ferry we used to take to visit my grandma.
They had a pretty awesome arcade at the paramount theater not far from my house but I more specifically remember the batman pinball game.
I grew up in Vancouver being so close to the border I went to the larger arcade in Seattle when it first opened called gameworkz.
Moved to Edmonton later on and Being older I was quite spoiled living in Edmonton, my local mall had an arcade, had an off-road machine, marvel vs. street fighter, had the six player x-men, As well west Edmonton mall at the time just opened playdium, they didn’t last to long but it was pretty awesome much like gameworkz, I used to play xevious there when I got low on money.
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