Video Arcades?

[Thunderlips]

Any peeps hang out in video arcades back in the day? I remember the one I went to was called Screen Play. It used to be packed with kids, and they had stools in front of all the games. Remember putting quarters on the screen to claim the next spot?

I used to play Tempest, Centipede, and Galaga. I would try Dragon's Lair once in a while, but it was 50 cents and that was just too much to blow on one game. I never enjoyed Pac Man.

My arcade is now a pancake house. sigh.

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[The Blowhard]

Great memories of the arcades in Times Square. My friends and I would cut class and hop on the subway and head to 42 Street. We would buy fake ID's,sneak into peeps,play in the arcades(a lot of pinball!) and eventually catch a kung fu double feature.(usually Sonny Chiba) My favorite arcade game? The baseball game where you would his a ball bearing and the cheesy audio of a crowd cheering when you homered.

"It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees"

[JustJon]

Growing up, there were 3
arcades around here:
Mr. Arcade
Super Amusements
Aladdin's Castle

Super Amusements was
the first to close. It's now a
Seaman's.

Aladdin's Castle was in the
local mall and closed back
when I was in high school.
They later expanded that
part of the mall, so it's
probably a wicks 'n' sticks at
this point.

Mr. Arcade lasted up until a
couple years ago. It's now
some sort of furniture store.

Now, there's Dave and
Buster's (mmmm... beer
and games) and an arcade
in the Palisades Center
Mall up here.


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[Se7en]

I guess with the huge proliferation of home video game systems, the arcade is dying out fast. Arcades around here (D.C.) are slim pickings. At least we have a Dave and Buster's that's pretty close.

Galaga kicked ass, and I also loved the old Star Wars arcade game (anyone remember that?) from way back.

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[Sheeplovr]

i knew this kid J.J. Cooney and he would play this game ("Bishop of Battle") and it had 13 levals and all he wanted to do is get past them all and one day he stayed after closing and then in the morning he was gone and the arcade was a mess but the scary part was it the computer face now looks like him

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It was funnie i didnt know the size my brother did it and the guy isnt really in the sheep

[Se7en]

NICE! Sheeplovr, I'm impressed! A Emilio Estevez "Nightmares" reference!

God don't I feel old knowing that. And I'm only 21!!

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[jafter]

In our town we had 3 arcades Flipper McGees, Playtime, and I can't remember the 3rd one very short lived. Everyone from high school was there. Favorite games Tempest, Defender, Mr. Do, Qix, and any pinball machine.

These days everything is a fighting game. When the hell did everything become so f*#&ing violent.

[IkeaBoy]

my favorite video arcade thing was the pinball machine jodie foster was raped on.

other than that my favorite Arcade game growing up was the Star Wars one when you were in the small box, it had the actual 'Star Wars' X-Wing graphics (i.e. shitty) and you drove between walls.

Other than that anyone remember The Simpsons arcade game? That was the best AG ever.

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[Death Metal Moe]

Dude! Fuck that! ARCADES WILL NEVER DIE! I was just at Sports World on RT 17 tonight! Me an a buddy dropped like 5 bucks into the Air Hockey machine. I kicked his ass! Then, I wondered the place looking for TMNT The Arcade game, but it was gone!

One of my 1st arcades is a Frigin pet store now! DAAAARRRHHHGH!!!

And I fear that the one at the Preakness Shopping Center in Wayne is on it's way out! And the one at Willowbrook Mall is too crowded.

Let's start a Save the Arcade Campaign!

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[Gvac]

Anybody remember a game called "Berserk"? When things got tense, a siren would sound and it would say "INTRUDER ALERT" over and over again, to the point of madness.

I think that's what did this to me.

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[sunndoggy8]

Nothing was more fun than going to Seaside and playing some ski ball and pinball.

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[The Blowhard]

Anybody ever master the game of "Ski-bowl"?

"It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees"

[Captain Rooster]

anyone remember Chuck E Cheese

that place was great - shitty pizza - plenty of coke (children's crack) and video games everywhere

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[HordeKing1]

Yep, high school, cutting school to hang out at the arcade playing classics like Q-Bert all day for a quarter. I remember the first laser disc games (Dirk the Daring?) followed by Space Ace ("I'll save you Kimmie!")

For all the new technology and visual splenor of the new games I don't think anything can capture the raw excitement and pulse pounding frantic pace of Missle Command.

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[Thunderlips]

I never got into pinball. Pure video for me, although I will throw down with the skee-ball when my honor is challenged.

LTRooster, my brother's wife worked at Chuck E Cheese to pay off credit card bills after she go out of college. Because she was the only waitress over 21, she was the only one that could pour the beer. And she said she poured a *lot* of beer. 8,000 kids running around hopped up on sugar and grease, I bet the parents needed every bit of liquid courage.

My friends and I thought it would be a fun goof to go to the one near our college, but we stepped in and saw the carnage, we quickly changed our minds.

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[Kingtubby]

There is an Arcade in the Willobrokk Mall in NJ that I go to alot that, up until recently, still had an original robotron machine. Fantastic.

[Death Metal Moe]

WORD UP, King Tubby. I go there for the Air Hockey. I LOVED the old games in there, but everything dies eventually! I remember they had an old game for sale for like 500 bucks once. Wich I grabbed it!

But Willowbrook SUCKS Balls!

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[vleon]

Remember the video game
where you put the quarter in
the machine and then the
curtain went up and there
was a girl standing there in
the nude and...

Uhh..

Right.


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[The Blowhard]

My local bar had "Tron". I would spend so much money playing that damn game, it was never easy after massive amounts of booze and ..well, you know.;)

"It takes good taste to truly appreciate bad taste"-John Waters

[Doogie]

Ohhhh God I used to love video arcades, there used to be one in the mall by me. It was called Aladins castle, but then the mall upgraded and pushed that store out...also a lot of those places got shut down cause they were drug dealing dens. Dealt by kids who liked rejects from bad 80's movies....what replaced it was cool. It was a Nintendo store where they sold Nintendo products and had three game consoles set up to play a multitude of games. I used to sit there all day while my mom shopped and rotted my mind away with all the games...

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[Tazz1376]

We had one called Arnie's Place. We would go there every Friday night. I suck at video games, so we only played air hockey.

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[scooter]

There used to be an arcade called MORE FUN, in the shopping plaza of KORVETTES in BKLYN. I remember that was around the mid 70's. Then KORVETTES became CEASAR BAY BAZAR., or something.

[DarkHippie]

Does anyone remember the game "Great Swordsman?" It was a dueling game, and i only saw it at one arcade. still it was the coolest game ever. EVER.

I swear, it's not contagious!

[The Blowhard]

There used to be an arcade called MORE FUN, in the shopping plaza of KORVETTES in BKLYN. I remember that was around the mid 70's


Always a fight there over who was next to play "Pong". I hated that place.

[NewYorkDragons80]

Anyone remember when Roosevelt Field had "Time Out" arcade? That place was the shiznay. My sister used to work at Eddie Bauer that was right across, so I wasted many hours playing "X-Men" and "Spider-Man". They also had "Michael Jackson's Moonwalker" (How's that for an old school game?) That was before Roosevelt Field was the colossal mall we have today. That was back when I got my hair cut at "The Cave."

Good call Se7en, GALAGA ROCKED!!!

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[bisqit999]

there is an emulator for all the old arcade games, they are exactly the same. I got it with a whole bunch of games. Its the MAME emulator. If you want it or need help with it, just IM me. Its pretty good.

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[jratt]

I used to play at the arcade in the rt 1 flea market my grandma had a store there(thats the place in chasing amy) i used to get free quaters and i loved playing this kung-fu game that had 2 joy sticks and space ace was great

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[NewYorkDragons80]

Is that also the flea maket in Mallrats?

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[cherrynoid]

Circa 1982. Used to ride my bike to the only arcade in town. I
was always the only girl in the place. I was great at Tempest.
Loved Qix, Qbert, all the Pac-Mans, Defender, and Joust. But
one of my favorites most people have never heard of, Crazy
Climber. It had two joysticks that you moved up and down to
make your guy climb up the side of a building while people
opened and shut their windows and some threw potted plants
down on your head.

There's no imagination to the arcade games out there now.
It's all fighting and car racing junk. I weep for my children.
Ahh, no I don't. They've got their own damn Gameboy
Advances.

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[jratt]

Is that also the flea maket in Mallrats?


Yeh that was the one....but now that i think about it what the hell where they thinking letting me play in an arcade in a dirty flea market all bymyself at 8 years old where some scumbag could have taken me an did bad things to me....

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