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mgb:
I love the Fun Spot, I haven't been there in a few months so thats in the past.

But when I was a kid in the 80's and early 90's, we use to hang out at a mall in Milford Ct. The arcade there was called Fun Factory.
It was a pretty decent but somewhat small arcade. It was decently dark with some lighting effects. it only had video games and pinballs. No space was wasted on kids redemption games.

I remember going in there with my sister once after Dragon's Lair had just come out. Man I was amazed at the crowd of kids around that game, they had a tv on top of the machine so everyone could see the game play.

Located right outside of the arcade was this kinda long dark outdoor corridor that lead up to the Caldor. As teens, we would all kinda hang out there and smoke and what not. I'm not surprised that a lot of shoppers didn't enter the mall through that entrance.

We also had an arcade called Savin Rock which was kinda cool with lots of video games and pinballs but it kinda sucked because the building had all these windows so it was pretty bright in there.

Of course we also had plenty of corner stores and they all were rocking some kind of games. I still remember quite well when the store around the corner from my house got Crazy Kong.

juanchocnva:
jejeje i loved Snow bros i was 4 back  in 1991
best game ever

Toki,Condillacs & dinosaurs and golden axe
were cool

i was too young to play street fighter
i only was able to kill blanca (first character jejeje)

CheeseSndwch:
ShowBiz Pizza Place - I had quite a few birthday parties at Showbiz Pizza. I was pretty young and I remember avoiding a lot of the arcade games because of the steep learning curve and a quick loss of tokens. I stuck to pinball and a lot of the ticket redemption games like skee ball. After Showbiz Pizza went through "Concept Unification" with Chuck E. Cheese things just weren't the same. Maybe it's because I had gotten older but I just didn't enjoy Chuck E. Cheese as much as I loved Showbiz Pizza. 

Aladdin's Castle - Continuing with my video game birthday theme my Mom discovered that my local Aladdin's Castle would do birthday lock-ins. They'd shut the doors and set all the games to free play. It was awesome. By this point I was older and really enjoying the more "complex" video games. Around this time period I would say Rampage was one of my favorite games. I always played as the Werewolf. I had three birthday parties at Aladdin's Castle before they closed up shop. I've been meaning to dig through my family photos and post some pics of the Pac-Man cakes my Mom would make each year.

Oddly enough I had actually come to post this and I figure that this thread would be as good as any:



Sadly Aladdin's Castle shutdown. It probably had a lot to do with a video game store that opened up a few feet away that had 10 Nintendo Kiosks set up on unlimited free play.

Tilt - A year or so after Aladdin's Castle shutdown it was replaced with a Tilt on the opposite end of the mall. It was "the answer" to home consoles. I remember it being very bright, with neon lights, and the cheapest game was fifty-cents. Lots of high-end games that could not be reproduced at home. I still remember the thrill I got when I saw Time Traveler for the first time. Sadly they didn't do birthday parties.

These days I like to get my gaming/pinball fix at the local bowling alley.

Hockeyboy:
Where I grew up we didn't have any true "arcades" nearby, unless you count a pizza joint that had about 3-4 machines plus a couple pinballs. When I was a teenager, a couple places opened up and instantly became hang-outs. I can remember even while going to college and having a part-time job I would drop far too much money in one afternoon/evening in those places.

Good times, good times...

alfonzotan:
Probably the arcade at Miracle Strip Amusement Park (RIP, 2004), followed by Fun Land (still around, but mostly modern games now) down the beach from it.  Miracle Strip had damn near everything back in its day.

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