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Weirdst Place to Find a Game
« on: October 14, 2008, 01:00:44 am »
So I stopped by Wendy's today and I found the weirdst setup.  They had a jukebox, a nicktoons sitdown racing cab, and a crane game.  The jukebox had songs I liked on it and they had it running instead of muzac.  It would have been better if the racer was house of the dead though.

This might be a local change or it could be nation wide.  Just thought I'd share.
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Re: Weirdst Place to Find a Game
« Reply #1 on: October 14, 2008, 10:18:19 am »

There are a couple games at a Papa Gino's by my house.

Strangest place for a game I've seen by far is in the loading dock stairwell of an ocean liner.  Appropriately, it was Satan's Hollow.
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Re: Weirdst Place to Find a Game
« Reply #2 on: October 14, 2008, 02:13:57 pm »
That was the one with the low ambient lighting making the game look menacing right?

This is like the time I found air hockey and N64 games in a Mcdonald's.  I hope they switch out the nicktoons for a better game.
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Re: Weirdst Place to Find a Game
« Reply #3 on: October 14, 2008, 05:53:30 pm »
Quote from: SithMaster on October 14, 2008, 02:13:57 pm
That was the one with the low ambient lighting making the game look menacing right?

This is like the time I found air hockey and N64 games in a Mcdonald's.  I hope they switch out the nicktoons for a better game.

A few games in a McDonald's isn't so uncommon when the McDonald's is on a major highway.
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Re: Weirdst Place to Find a Game
« Reply #4 on: October 14, 2008, 09:11:47 pm »
At my house. At least according to wifes friends and my co-workers that come over for the first time and see arcade games in 2 rooms and the garage.

The reaction cracks me up every time because it's either "You're A God" or "You're A Weirdo".  ;D
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Re: Weirdst Place to Find a Game
« Reply #5 on: October 15, 2008, 06:23:31 pm »
The employee break room in a Home Depot. (Truxel #6649 IIRC)

In the laundry room for a private apartment complex (no longer there).

At a local Thousand Trails camp site. They had six or so in the main lodge and two more in a "relaxing lodge" so far from the main camp site that you needed either a 4x4, hiking boots or a mountain bike to get there. The same place also had a playground near a bluff. Both were removed when the property was sold.
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Re: Weirdst Place to Find a Game
« Reply #6 on: October 15, 2008, 07:40:43 pm »
Gas station
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Chinese take-out place
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Re: Weirdst Place to Find a Game
« Reply #7 on: October 17, 2008, 06:47:25 pm »
Quote from: FrizzleFried on October 15, 2008, 07:40:43 pm

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I think that's got dibs so far.
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Re: Weirdst Place to Find a Game
« Reply #8 on: October 17, 2008, 08:19:51 pm »
On a school bus.   ;)
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Re: Weirdst Place to Find a Game
« Reply #9 on: October 18, 2008, 10:28:13 am »
Quote from: Kevin Mullins on October 17, 2008, 08:19:51 pm
On a school bus.   ;)

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