[Renfrew]

I thought it would be fun to make a thread about our hometown arcades so here it goes.

This is the mall wherein the arcade lies. It was raining so I took the picture from inside the car.



Here is the third title for the arcade's third location. Originally it was called Blazing Flippers, and when it moved for the first time it was redubbed Pocket Change.



Here is where I spend most of my time:


Here is my second favorite machine:


The right side of the arcade:


And some of the left:


I would have gotten the rest of the left side and the pool tables in the back, but there was an unnusually large amount of children in the arcade today, and the security guard was giving me the third degree.

[Focus]

I'm surprised to see pictures of an arcade, anymore.
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[Psycho Ant]

I would like to take pictures of the biggest arcade here in Melbourne, Australia called Galactic Circus. They have quite a few machines which are direct Japanese imports. Unfortunately it is located inside a casino complex and I have no desire to die an untimely death at the hands of the casino thug security squad for a few pictures.

[Cryo]

I can't be buggered to take pics of Dave and Busters in the Arundel Mills mall. Mostly because it has a gajillion shooters (with House of the Dead 4), a hojillion driving games, and a token Pump it Up machine. And Tekken 5 Dark Resurrection.
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[GcDiaz]

Not one fighting game. All gimmick cabinets with nothing you can faithfully reproduce in the home. Way of the future, that.

Someone take shots of Chinatown Fair, seriously.
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[Renfrew]

My arcade wasn't always like this. I cut my teeth on Captain Commando and learned the art of fighting on Marvel vs. Capcom. We even used to have several Tekkens, but not any more, as you can see.

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Pictures taken by me and a friend from "Entretenimientos Diana Ahumada" in Santiago, Chile (my country), sadly this center doesnt exist anymore because it was closed on September 2006, but they will back somewhere on 2007 in a new place.

I know that Arcades outside Japan are on danger of extinct so, enjoy the images.



The main field!



Arctic Blast, Road Burners, Gauntlet Legends



Capcom vs SNK 2



8-players Daytona USA, 4-players Rush 2049



Glory to Third Strike!



It was late (10 pm) so they shut down the machines but they doesnt have problem to take some photos: Rush Alcatraz Edition, Some Maddem game for Arcades (really), some pinballs.



Two Para Para Paradise 2nd Mix, EZ2Dance dont ask me what edition.



Time Crisis 3, Silent Scope EX.

Some good games that i dont take pictures: Strikers 1945 Plus, Puzzle Bobble, KOF XI, Ultimate Mortal Kombat III, Tekken 5, Soul Calibur 2, Sunset Riders (4-players board), The Simpsons (4-players board), by the way, Koji takes some photos of those games in the same place with me a long time ago.

[Renfrew]

Oh God, I miss Gauntlet Legends.

I forgot about the machines in the local Walmart. By some strange miracle, we have TWO Star Wars Trilogy Arcade machines.

Do you know if they are going to reopen your arcade with all the same machines, or what?

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[FortNinety]

[Renfrew]

The second link is broken. I'll read through that first one tomorrow. This time of night is far past the long retrospective arcade article reading time of night.

I remember this one time I want to say 7 years ago (but I am not sure), back when we still had Gauntlet Legends, I played for something like two or three hours with a guy who worked at the arcade, so he just kept opening up the machine and hitting the switch to give us more lives whenever we died. My Minotaur became EPIC that day.

[EU03]

I go to Arcade Infinity here in SoCal, Rowland Heights every now and then, mostly to play Senko no Ronde and IIDX while my friend plays the former and Hokuto no Ken. It's a little cramped at times (especially when some 3rd Strike crowd gathers around), though it's my favorite.

There's also a Nickel Nickel, Cypress by my house. I haven't been there in a while, but the best thing about it was the F-Zero GX deluxe machine, though it's a Japanese one. A lot of the specialty machines are a little busted, i.e. GuitarFreaks 9. Still, a pretty good place if money is a little short. I knew an operator that worked there; he was a regular at the bms forums. Bastard set the high scores on the DDR machine and ridiculous times on F-Zero.
And I'm pretty sure I saw my 8th grade history teacher working there.
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[parkbench]

I'll take pics of my local arcade next time I go (suburban NJ). I go intermittently.

But surprisingly, it's not as sparsely 'decorated' as some of the pictures here. It is filled to the brim with cabinets practically, and has a lot of contemporary/classic shit. They do have a tendency towards bemani games (a few ITG/DDR/2DX machines), but at the same time they have huge fighting tournaments there weekly on the MVC/2 and CVSNK/2 cabinets. It has all the standard fare: metal slug, pac man, dig dug, time crisis, inital d, puzzle games, dickloads of fighting games, pinball machines, and pool in the back.

So yah.

[Mikey]

My local arcade is split into two parts in an indoor flea-market. Essentially it's a few shooters, a few racers, and a few DDR/Beatmania machines. Oh, and they have Guilty Gear and Tekken 4. I hate going to that place, it makes me sort of sad.

[Cossix]

The arcade I go to is actually nothing but old pinball machines! That are free once you pay the $10 admission!

Here is one of my favorites!



This is Fireball. The rubber pad in the middle spins around really fast and launches your ball everywhere. When you score enough points to get an extra ball, the machine goes crazy and makes all sorts of noise!



Here are some more tables. Super-Flite is the easiest table there. I can almost always get the extra ball on that one. I'm not very good at pinball, but I beat my friend on the Pinball Wizard (It's based on the song!) by like 20 times his score because I lucked out and hit a lot of things on my turns.



More tables! These ones are solid state instead of electromechanical. The one the farthest away is Black Knight, which was really popular that night. It's the first multilevel pinball field, according to Wikipedia. The person that wins gets to keep playing for an additional amount of time (I think it was 45 seconds?) and just keep launching balls with the plunger as fast as they can and the flippers are still on and it's crazy and the game is screaming BLACK KNIGHT BLACK KNIGHT or something over and over again. Evel Knievel is pretty fun too. We've played that one a lot. Stars kinda sucks, if I remember correctly.



This is my second favorite table! Lady Luck is a lot of fun. The playing field is really open and there's some cool bonus things in there like you hit this metal bar to try to launch a ball into a target to get 50,000 points (which is an awful lot for this table). It's a really cool old electromechanical one.



This is my favorite table on the right! Royal Flush has all these neat bonuses when you die based on which card targets you've collected. Beat Time is I guess a beatles parody table that's okay but not great.

There's a lot of other tables there too, and a shuffleboard bowling game. It's a really neat place.

[parkbench]

mah arckayde



one of the main little areas...they've moved shit around recently, but right now this houses two big racing games in the back (initial d and some other shit), a bigass MvC2 cabinet, and a bunch of fightin/puzzle game thingies. some metal slug, too.



other side of the same section. as you can see, a new big house of the dead thingy, lots of pinball thangs in the back, a taiko-like machine.



opposite side of the first section. as you can see, a panoply of classic choices...not shown is my beloved ms. pac-man (right next to jr, of course)



wide-angle shot of that same section thurr. you can see an ITG machine on the left.



one of the non-broken cabinets in the back section--a streetfighter somethin' somethin'.



the back section; as you can see a 2DX game back there, another ITG, and DDR extreme not shown.

that's all, folks!

[Deets]

Is that 8 on the Break?

[Renfrew]

wow, thats pretty snazzy, you even have stools! We can only dream of stools in my crappy arcade.

[Mr Mustache]

I work a few blocks from the Chinatown arcade, but am sadly terrible at fighting games, and as such, unable to really appreciate it.

It does have Gigawing and Mars Matrix...which is nice.
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[parkbench]

yesh indeed, it is 8 on the break.

[IceTyger]

Wow, good timing. I was wanting to write some stuff about arcades anyways.

The arcades in Denver are all pretty crappy, unfortunately. One has a lot of good fighting games, two others tend to compete for the title of "Worst Place To Play DDR", and I'm guessing Fort Collins and Colorado Springs aren't faring too well, either. But the idea of an actual arcade culture is so awesome that I'll brave all the brokenness andwaste a ton of gas in the hopes that something will pop up while I'm around. I've got a pretty good record when it comes to that!

When Select Button secedes from the union and seals itself inside a mystical border guarded by a lazy red-white, I wanna run the arcade.
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[Deets]

Yeah, the arcade in Fort Collins was pretty good for a year. It was run by a man who loved pinball almost as much as he loved his customers. Then mall management forced him to shut down (twice!) in order to make Tilt their nationwide mall-arcade-chain. Now the arcade is filled with broken fighting games and not much else.

Luckily, there's still Lyons Pinball.

[username]

Hold on a second, 8 on the break as in Dunellen, New Jersey?

If so, that's the arcade my grandparents always used to take me to when I was younger and my parents dropped me off with them for the day or so. My dad would actually give me like an entire roll of quarters before I got dropped off with them, and I'd play the hell out of the games at that place.

I should go back one of these days...
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Oh hey it's the Break. Nostalgia for two years ago when I used to take the train up there follows.
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