Decline of the arcade

[ChadTower]

I am lucky enough to have this place about 75 minutes from my house.  My sons and I go there all the time.  We compete in a league and an annual tournament there.  Amazing place.  They even have a Wizard of Oz on the floor now.


We also get to hit Funspot a few times a year.  Best arcade on Earth.

[mgb]

Agreed,
 Funspot is the greatest arcade.
This year when I'm up there, I have to go take a trip down to the pinball wizard and check it out.

[ChadTower]

Agreed,
 Funspot is the greatest arcade.
This year when I'm up there, I have to go take a trip down to the pinball wizard and check it out.

You're probably looking at 90-120 minutes of driving.  Worth the trip, IMO, if you're into pinball.  There is also Funworld in Nashua in the area... never been to that one myself but I don't hear good things about its condition.

[mgb]

I drive from CT up to Funspot every year around my birthday in October and we enjoy just driving in New Hampshire.
  Last year I checked the map and it looked like it may work to take a different way home and hit the pinball wizard on the way.
  This years the big 40 so it'll be a little extra fun

[ChadTower]

I drive from CT up to Funspot every year around my birthday in October and we enjoy just driving in New Hampshire.
  Last year I checked the map and it looked like it may work to take a different way home and hit the pinball wizard on the way.
  This years the big 40 so it'll be a little extra fun

I live in the Gillette Stadium area.  Send me a note when you swing by this year.  Maybe we'll be able to grab a couple beers.

[Gray_Area]

@Sandheaver....

[IG-88]

Have you all been to this site?

www.aurcade.com

Just click locations and input your city & state or just state. Has a lot of listings....

[sandheaver]

Have you all been to this site?

www.aurcade.com

Just click locations and input your city & state or just state. Has a lot of listings....

This is excellent.  It's so close to being really useful.  Being able to sort by distance from a zip code or by number of machines would be nice.

[ChadTower]

Aurcade's primary purpose is as a live event engine for tournaments.  It's amazing for that.  The ACAM tourney uses it.  I've competed in several Aurcade run events and they are smooth.  I've seen it go 14 hour days with many thousands of scores entered, in real time, without much issue.

[sandheaver]

It runs on ASP.NET.  Of course it performs.    I am only slightly kidding; no platform runs well unless there's a good developer writing software for it.

I wound up copying the table into Excel and sorting that way, though.  Good enough for me.

[thefox]

Great site. unfortunately a quick search proved just how little there is left over here in the UK  where did all our arcade cabs go ?

[sandheaver]

Great site. unfortunately a quick search proved just how little there is left over here in the UK  where did all our arcade cabs go ?

Yeah.  I hear that a lot and I wonder where they are.  You guy still have cobblers with shops in cities but arcades are gone.  It's weird.

When I lived in Sydney a decade ago, very close to downtown there was an arcade or two that were huge, two-story affairs.  They're probably gone, too. 

[thefox]

You guy still have cobblers with shops in cities but arcades are gone.  It's weird.

Haha  that's funny cos its true. What the hell is that about ?

[sandheaver]

You guy still have cobblers with shops in cities but arcades are gone.  It's weird.

Haha  that's funny cos its true. What the hell is that about ?

It's just England.  That's just how it is.  I've taken a shoe or two to a cobbler, and they always fixed 'em up new.  An arcade has done nothing except micro-transaction me out of all my money.

[Gray_Area]

Well, originally there was this:

http://www.arcadelocations.net/

But, like anything, it depends on those local to submit changes. I've submitted a few over the years. Then, of course, it needs to be crewed so the submissions get entered. Of course, if site traffic is low, the person might not bother. Etc.