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How do you refer to your "arcade-style cabinet which you use to play games"
Fozzy The Bear:
--- Quote from: samshaw946 on January 30, 2008, 05:35:55 am ---Probably cos these days everyone associates arcades as the dingy little shops full of gambling addicts and dole dossers - even the seaside town arcades.
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Ha!! Tell me about it. I have to deal with the gambling addicts, dole dossers, rude and obnoxious tourists, drunks, along with criminally intent and often violent morons, every day, and that is in a seaside arcade....
What happened to the dream?? Greed happened to it. Along with a now violently depraved society that thinks everbody else owes them something and think they can do whatever they like because of it, with no consequences.
Welcome to the generation that grew up on the PlaySatan, Alco Pops, and Thatchers me me me Britain.
Best Regards,
Julian (Fozzy The Bear)
Kabukiman:
mine's referred to as "The Cade"
MaximRecoil:
--- Quote from: ahofle on January 29, 2008, 04:03:58 pm ---
--- Quote from: MinerAl on January 29, 2008, 03:56:12 pm ---Never "the arcade." That's the room they're in. :)
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Exactly, I never ever heard that expression until I started reading these forums. An "arcade" is where you go to play games (before video games they even had penny arcades).
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Same here. An arcade is a place. Calling an arcade machine an "arcade" is like calling a coin-op washing machine a "laundromat".
ahofle:
--- Quote from: MaximRecoil on January 30, 2008, 11:51:33 am ---Calling an arcade machine an "arcade" is like calling a coin-op washing machine a "laundromat".
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:laugh2:
ChadTower:
Hrm... I usually refer to them as Tempest, Space Duel, Star Wars, Tank II... Fathom, Shadow, Black Knight...
You know, the name on the marquee or backglass. :)
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