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| Chris2:
Looks like an awesome place to visit. I especially love the Sinistarbucks sign. Good stuff. :cheers: |
| Crankshaft:
Yeah, that place is awesome. I live here in Springfield and stop by every so often, but not nearly often enough. I was worried when they first opened that they would go out of business when the novelty wore off, but instead they just seem to be growing. When I'm at home I think, why go downtown when I can play my mame games at home? But when I'm there I realize that there is simply no substitute for a real arcade, especially when your friends are already there playing Gauntlet when you get there. Five bucks?!? It's priceless. From a Springfieldian's standpoint, the place is even cooler than the arcade that it is. It's in a building downtown that was formerly a major slum building. People lived there, but were still considered homeless. It was, along with another building downtown serving the same purpose, holding the re-development of a really nice area back. Now when I look at that building, inside and out, I think "how did the homeless hold on to such a cool building for so long?" I don't remember it having a 3-story atrium with a marble floor back then. Anyway, it's cool to see these folks not just supporting the era of the 1980's, but also the era of the early 1900's as well. Keep it up, and if you need anything let me know. Brian Z Georgia -> Maine by foot '99 Minnesota -> New Orleans by rowboat '01 |
| nexus6:
cool! a xevious cab :) too bad, that im living a little bit far away ... |
| DaveMMR:
I remember there was a place by me that was an arcade party place. The games that had the feature were set on free-play, otherwise a load of credits were registered (though they had to keep opening up the machines to add more as the day progressed). |
| Dreamwriter:
Great review, I wish there was a place like that here in the Northwest. Sorry to nitpick, but are you sure that's Pong? I thought the original Pong looked like this: Looks more like one of the many Pong clones of the era. |
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