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What Was The Name Of Your Arcade Growing Up? Describe it.

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Gatsu:
I played at 2 different full arcades. The main one closest to my house was a Namco arcade in the mall. The other was called Tilt. Run by a really cool old lady that restored and had a huge private collection of arcade machines. Too bad I never got her list of contacts for parts and repairs....

The namco one shut down about 7-8 years ago.....the Tilt arcade shut down about 3 months ago. Sucks..

TheShanMan:
The main one for me was in San Jose - Galactican. Not a huge arcade, but many fond memories of going there with friends. Another was an arcade at Pier 39 in San Francisco. One of my dad's restaurants was there, so on the rare occasion that we'd make the trip up there on a Saturday or Sunday morning, I'd get some food and then spend the rest of the time playing games.

Ummon:

--- Quote from: Xevious on June 07, 2009, 01:55:39 am ---My local pinny joint was called "Freedom", which to us kids was a totally apt name.

Ugly beige shag pile carpet that you could shuffle your feet along and build up enough static electricity that when you touched a coin against the metal coin door of the Space Invaders machine, the zap would generate anywhere between 1 and 10 credits (true story, used to do it myself!)

The bloke who owned it was very nice, well dressed and friendly - so it was a bit of a shock when we found out he'd got busted for being a dealer. :police:

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-ehnh. Probably why he didn't catch you, or care whether you were, getting free credits.



--- Quote from: 1UP on June 08, 2009, 04:47:44 am ---There were lots of little arcades around (it was the 80s) and of course Aladdin's Castle at the local mall, but none were as good as--Golfland in Mesa, AZ.  Great place built like a castle, with a 2-story arcade, mini golf, go-carts, and waterslides.  They shot the "Waterloo" scenes there for Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure.   :D  For a few years it was run by my Uncle's bro-in-law, so we got bags of free tokens all the time.  Awesome.

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Golf Land here in Tucson was kinda boring, golf-wise, but they had a smokin arcade. No Windows in the place, either. The one in Mesa now blows. Castles and Coaters is the place to go in AZ.



--- Quote from: Flake on June 08, 2009, 03:40:59 pm ---Aladdins Castle in the local mall.  I remember having to beg my mom to take us up there and drop us off for awhile while she went elsewhere and shopped.   



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Hell, I just had to get my mom to take us there and pick us up. Just call her when we were done. We'd stay for hours.

Ond:
Mine was a place called "Casino" it wasn't poker machines and such, just pinnies and arcade. Licensed gambling came to the State many years later and by that time the row of buildings Casino was located in was long ago demolished.  The place was small, just tucked in under a night club called Fosters that my mates and I would try getting into when I was a 17 y/o long haired dork.  (now.... I'm a much older dork  ;D).  Casino was run by a one legged dude called Ivan; he had a bad ass brother named Mick who regularly got into fights with 'patrons'. One time he smashed a pool cue over the head of some guy who upset him, that guy ended up in hospital. The place was a long rectangle shape with a large window looking out onto the nearby railway station.  Half way along on the opposite wall was Ivan’s counter where he sat gazing out at peoples coming and going.  He might have only had one leg but he was popular with the chicks, there were usually always a few perched on those plastic stools he had on the other side of the counter chatting to him.  I remember Galaxian, Galaga, Xevious, Space Invaders, he had quite a few of the classics, two pool tables and half a dozen pinnies.  I remember well when one of our mates had Space Invaders pegged, he could rack up  credits on it at will.  Down one end was a jukebox, it seemed to be endlessly playing JJ Cales 'Cocaine'.  I was usually looking over some-one else’s shoulder watching them feed in the coins.  I didn't play the arcades all that much, but I hung out with friends that did.  I remember racing in to Casino one time to show off some hickeys some chick had covered my neck with, Mick gave me a murderous look for bragging, LOL!  My mate Nick was a tough Russian dude, some of his mates were just downright scary with names like 'Bronco' and 'Druggo'.  Who knows where they are now - dead, in jail, or maybe respectable family guys like me?  :angel:   I can't hear 'Cocaine' now without thinking about those days, I tell my wife stories from then and she looks at me funny and says "Oh my god I married a bogan! (akin to ‘white trash’)".

So now I'm building my arcade cabinet, standing in my garage, beer in one hand, squinting out at the neighbour and murmuring to myself "she don't lie she don't lie she don’t lie, cocaiiiiine".

Blanka:
"'t Wapen van Zetten"
Like any french-fries shop in a small town in Holland is called the "weapon of FILLINCITYNAME".
Yes, there was 1 Galaga machine!

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