What was the name of your childhood arcade?

[Lerxstnj]

Fun N' Games
Game Town
The Purple Room

[Jim]

Funland Arcade along Yonge Street in Toronto. Many, many hours (and countless quarters) spent there during spares in high school. Always hung out at the back with the old Galaga and Ms Pac Man machines. Unfortunately the place shut down a few years back...

[retroman]

I live in Maryland, and ours was called Flickers. It finally closed down in the early 90s

[BydoEmpire]

My favorite was Fantasy Isle.

It was a role playing game shop on the first floor, and a winding wrought-iron staircase leadi up to the 2nd floor which was a full-blown arcade. The walls were all done up to make it look like a cave. The place was just awesome. I remember playing a bunch of games that have become favorite (probably because of the good memories playing them at Fantasy Isle): Frenzy, Frogger, Venture, Warlords, Gyruss, Space Fury.

There was an Alladin's Castle in the mall which outlasted Fantasy Isle by about a decade, but it didn't have the atmosphere.

[JSoup]

Tilt! in one of the local malls. Was closed in the early 90s due to finding a bunch of teenagers getting high in some kind of geodesic arcade machine that was in the middle of the arcade.

Golf Land, till that closed too.

Wimsey's which opened in the other mall when I was a teenager. It never made much in the way of money, being that it was a family arcade and refused to have violent games of any kind (although they had a SegaSonic the Hedgehog set). Eventually, they shrunk down to half their original size and traded out all the games for Street Fighter and DDR. Gone now.

As an aside, the first page of this topic keeps setting Chromes 'we detect malware' function.

[Griking]

There were two in Bridgeport Connecticut where I grew up and they were both on the same street believe it or not. Spanky's came first and was a larger, brighter, cleaner arcade of the two. Wizard's was smaller, darker and generally attracted more trouble however they also gave you 10 tokens for a dollar at the time which attracted them a pretty nice following.

[Emperor Megas]

I went back home to Metairie, LA for Thanksgiving weekend. On the way back out of town, I noticed the Fun Arcade, my childhood hangout, is up for lease. I don't really know the full details, truthfully. In fact, if you go the website (http://www.funarcadelive.com) you can see via live cameras they're still very much alive and kicking. This place has been around for over at least half a century, if you can believe it. They even had a "Fun Arcade West" during the arcade's heyday. It wouldn't surprise me if they're on the way out, what with a declining arcade industry and Katrina's sucker punch.Man, I loved Fun Arcade! I use to go there all the time back in the day. Especially around the time that Super Gem Fighter Mini-Mix (Pocket Fighter) was out.

In New Orleans my main arcade hangouts were:

Fun Arcade was on Lake Forrest blvd. in New Orleans East, and there was another one on Veterans blvd. in Metairie, that the poster I quoted mentioned some years ago. Unlike all of the other arcades I frequented, Fun Arcades were stand along buildings, not connected to other buildings in a strip setting, or in a mall. They were pretty clean and spacious inside, and had windows all around them so they didn't have that dark, claustrophobic feel that most arcades have, and they were also pretty huge. The games were usually all current ones, with a decent mix of shoot 'em ups, fighters, and light gun games.


Fun 'N Games was one of my all time favorite arcades. It was located next door to the Super Dome in the New Orleans Centre Mall. They NEVER got new games in at that place, but what made it so awesome was that they had a ton of my all-time favorite games (Shinobi, Rolling Thunder, Victory Road, OutRun, etc.) that use to be in corner and convenience stores and other arcades all around town all in one place. The arcade was also at the end of the food court, near Sbarro's Pizza (awesomeness). Man, I loved that place so much I eventually got a job there, and became the manager for a little while. Good times.


Game Land I'm not 100% sure this was the name of the place, regardless, it was one of the last great arcades I'd been to. It was uptown, off of Carrollton Ave., near Xavier Universary. TONS of modern games, all the time. I use to play Toobin' there with a friend and it was always a blast. There were just so many awesome games there, I think it had the highest concentration of quality machines in one place of any arcade in the city. Almost NO filler at all. There was Galaga '88, Guerrilla War, Twin Eagle (sit down version), Narc, Tecmo Knight, Rastan, Shinobi, Altered Beast, Toobin', Street Fighter (original small 6 button), Ninja Gaiden, Heavy Barrel, Bad Dudes vs. Dragon Ninja...almost everything was a pearl.


Gameroom was the only visible title of the closet-sized arcade upstairs in Poydras Plaza. It was on the commercial level of the Poydras Hotel which was connected to the New Orleans Centre Mall and the Super Dome. It only had about 10 games, but it was always vacant in there, and it was a nice place to hangout alone, or with a friend. You always had the whole place to yourself.


Mardi Gras Games on Canal Street blvd.. This was the 'main' arcade we hung out at. I use to play Rygar there from the time it was released until the arcade finally closed around 2000. They also had one of the latest hot fighting game of the day, up until the late 90's, but the place was mainly stocked with aging classics like Galaga 3, Sky Shark, and 10 Yard Fight.


Muffin's Corner while not a true arcade, was a corner convenience store and snack shop that had a pool table, and 3-4 video games, and a pinball machine. It was just down the street from my house, and was run my a friendly older guy who used to like to bust my best friends chops a lot. I mean he did it all the time...they were always going back and forth ribbing each other, for years. The mainstays there were the original Donkey Kong, Mario Brothers, Stargate, and Arkanoid. I remember the high score on Stargate was NEVER beaten in all the years I went to that place. I don't recall what the score actually was anymore, I just remember the name; 'Troy Fuck Duck Williams'. :|


Penny Land on Royal St., on the outskirts of the French Quarters. This was a little farther down the way and was usually the arcade that hung out at later in the day after making the rounds. This was the arcade to play all of the competitive fighting games, From the original Street Fighter, to Marvel vs. CAPCOM 2. It also closed sometimes around 2000.


Space Port This was one of the first arcades that I frequented as a kid. It was located in The Plaza Mall on Lake Forrest blvd., across the street from where a Fun Arcade would be a decade later. It was a really cool (albeit tiny) mall arcade that was designed to look like a space station. It had port holes on the entry wall, and cool psychedelic decor. It sort of looks like a Space Aliens Restaurant, if you've ever seen one of those. I was really young when I went there, like between 4-10. I'd always spend some quarters there when my folks went to the mall. Mainly the typical stuff from the era, like Pac-Man, Joust, and Space Invaders. In fact, I believe that this was the first arcade I saw Pac-Man in. Space Port was near the mall's movie theatre, so it was always packed between showings. It was great for family outings, because adults could also see their 'boring grown up films' and just drop their kids off in the arcade for 2 hours. Win/Win.


TiLT! was another arcade in the Lake Forrest Plaza Mall. I'm pretty sure that this was the name of it. It's almost hard to imagine that video arcades were so popular that some malls had multiple ones. Technically, TiLT! was a better arcade than Space Port as it had more and better games, but it was much darker, more crowded, and didn't have awesome decor like Space Port. It was near the food court though, so it was always packed to the gills. I remember the first time I saw The Ninja Warriors cab here. I'd never seen anything like it. It was a double wide cab with an inset screen that was actually a mirror which reflected the actual monitor, which was mounted horizontally inside the display window. I thought it was pretty weird, but amazing.

SIDESTORY: There used to be a Columns cabinet in the Poydras 'Gameroom' arcade. It was the first Columns game I'd ever played and I use to really enjoy it and loved the music, then when the Genesis version was released I noticed that the music was different. When I told a friend he asked if I was sure, because he didn't notice that it was different. Later, we played a game of columns in another arcade (the Columns cabinet in 'Gameroom' was gone by then) and the music was the same as the Genesis port, and I thought that I was going crazy. Years later, I played the sequel Columns II: The Voyage Through Time for the first time, on MAME, and on the classic Columns tile stages, THE MUSIC I REMEMBERED WAS BACK!

I figured that maybe it was an early release, or the Japanese arcade game that I played in the gameroom all those years ago, but when I play the Japanese version on MAME of the original Columns, and earlier versions, they still don't have the original music I heard. I don't understand it at all. :confused:

[jwmollman]

TiLT! was another arcade in the Lake Forrest Plaza Mall. I'm pretty sure that this was the name of it. It's almost hard to imagine that video arcades were so popular that some malls had multiple ones. Technically, TiLT! was a better arcade than Space Port as it had more and better games, but it was much darker, more crowded, and didn't have awesome decor like Space Port. It was near the food court though, so it was always packed to the gills. I remember the first time I saw The Ninja Warriors cab here. I'd never seen anything like it. It was a double wide cab with an inset screen that was actually a mirror which reflected the actual monitor, which was mounted horizontally inside the display window. I thought it was pretty weird, but amazing.[/list]

You explained Tilt perfectly! It was always near the food court and very dark. That's the arcade we had at Northgate Mall here in Cincinnati, OH. That place closed up sometime in the late '90s if I remember correctly.

[JSoup]

The Tilt! I mentioned was similar. This particular mall didn't have a food court, but it did have a large downstairs area, which was where Tilt was. So, you'd have to go down this small flight of stairs to get there. You could see the flashing lights and piercing darkness from the top of the stairs, and hear the music all the way through the mall.

The old Chucky Cheese in this city used to have a pretty good arcade.

Edit: BTW, shouldn't this thread be in Arcade Alley?

[RPG_Fanatic]

The Tilt at Fashion Place Mall. At christmas they use to put all the games up for sell, I use to dream of getting one for christmas but never got one.

[thegamezmaster]

Wasn't my childhood, back then there was only pinball, just dating myself. But there was an Aladdin's Castle at Northwood's Mall in Peoria,IL. Then there was Bally's Great Escape. But then it seemed like everyplace had at least one arcade game. Great memories, ahh glory days! Now there's nothing to be had anywhere it seems except Chuckie Cheese.;)

[Hawksmoor]

There were three arcades from my childhood/adolescence that I remember distinctly:

1. I can't remember the name of this one, but it was located in the Atlanta suburb of Chamblee right next to a place called Athen's Pizza House. My folks used to take my brother and I there a lot when we were both very young and we'd always stop at the arcade next door after we ate.

2. For many years there was a two-story arcade in Lennox Mall in the Buckhead area of Atlanta. It was called Tilt, and I believe it was a franchise. There was also one at Perimeter Mall in Atlanta. I preferred the Lennox location though.

3. A small arcade in Sandy Springs (another Atlanta burb) called Diversions was where I spent a large preponderance of my teen years. I hung out there so much that the Assistant Manager ended up persuading the Manager to hire me. After working there a year I quit; multiple other businesses in the same shopping center got held up at gunpoint and I had to carry around a huge wad of money to make change for people. No thanks.

Edit: Ok, guess I should have read the thread before responding. Seems like Tilt dominated the arcade industry based on the responses here.

[jcalder8]

Johnny Z's

[Parodius Duh!]

we only had one and it went by the name of "Pip's"

[NE146]

Way too many to list.

Although I guess I consider myself fortunate to have lived close enough to Japan in the early 80's that I would go there at least once or twice a year and visit arcades arcades circa 1980-1994. Heck I remember when most games were still black and white there.

[Queen Of The Felines]

Tokens, Wright's Barnyard, a ton of Aladdin's Castles, the local roller rink, and even Sears.

Those places had a whole ton of weird/rare games between them that I haven't seen since. Timber, The Glob, Mr. F. Lea, Anteater, The Pit, Fantasy, Warp Warp, Munch Mobile, I Robot, Bega's Battle, Mazer Blazer, Radical Radial, Adventures of Robby Roto, Danger Zone, Street Smart, Sly Spy, Kageki, Heavyweight Champ, Hunchback, Lost Tomb, Peter Pack Rat, Shrike Avenger, Star Rider, Shanghai Kid, Wrestle War, Naughty Boy, Jack the Giantkiller, Zwackery, Gondomania, Liberator, Slither, Konami GT, Eyes, Hat Trick, Goal to Go, Arm Wrestling, Firefox, Astron Belt, Viper, and a bunch more.

I can't remember what I had for dinner last night but I remember those games.

[Nz17]

Sorry, no childhood arcade here. However I used to go to an arcade named Quarters in Washington (state) and a Capcom Nickel City in southern California. Those were some good places. I tried to go to all the arcades near Bellevue, WA, especially the ones with DDR.

There was a place east of Seattle which I can't remember the name of. I went there by bus and it had a lot of arcade games and ticket machines. It seems it had a "magic" theme to the place and they'd host private parties. There was also a restaurant area that was never too crowded compared to the rest of the place and it had decent food without too high of prices.

You'd pay to get in, and then you'd use a card with a magnetic strip on the back to play the games. When you first entered you'd pay to put a balance on the card and then you could just keep using it until you balance ran out. I used to go there because it had a lot of music games (I believe two DDRs, one Samba de Amigo, Para Para Paradise, Pop'n Music, and one Step It Up).

[Astrosmash]

Cyberstation in the Hudson Valley Mall, Kingston NY. As far as I know it's still there (I believe under the same name even), though not as good as it used to be.

[AceAerosmith]

It was Circus Circus and it was in a shitty strip mall that's no longer there. It was a arcade/pizza joint where kids had birthday parties and other shit before it went downhill.

My only real memory of the place beyond gaming was when it was in its last days, a friend and I were asked outside if we wanted to buy some cocaine. The guy made no effort to conceal what he was doing either. He didn't ask when we were right by him. He just yelled it right when he saw us (about 30 feet away in the parking lot). He also made no effort to disguise what he was selling. He just yelled, "Hey, you guys wanna buy some cocaine??" I've never really had someone be so obvious about it before. It was kind of odd. We didn't buy any and didn't stay long. By then, most of the good games were gone.

[Emperor Megas]

It was Circus Circus and it was in a shitty strip mall that's no longer there. It was a arcade/pizza joint where kids had birthday parties and other shit before it went downhill.

My only real memory of the place beyond gaming was when it was in its last days, a friend and I were asked outside if we wanted to buy some cocaine. The guy made no effort to conceal what he was doing either. He didn't ask when we were right by him. He just yelled it right when he saw us (about 30 feet away in the parking lot). He also made no effort to disguise what he was selling. He just yelled, "Hey, you guys wanna buy some cocaine??" I've never really had someone be so obvious about it before. It was kind of odd. We didn't buy any and didn't stay long. By then, most of the good games were gone.What the fuck?!

ZIING! :bday:

[Casati]

The Electric Palace

[SteveSpeeze]

Dingies arcade, new britain ct.
i ended up getting a part time job in the morning vacuuming the pool tables for game monies. i freaked when they finally got splatterhouse in.

[BlastProcessing402]

Major Magic's. It was a Chuck E. Cheese like place but with different characters, and way better pizza. Man, I miss that place.

[Nz17]

Ah, I remembered the name of that Washington arcade: it was called Illusionz and it was located in Issaquah, WA. Looks like it closed down in 2007 or so. Sad times. But while it was open I enjoyed it quite thoroughly - it had the highest concentration of Japanese music 'n' rhythm games I've seen anywhere in America. You can read what people thought of it here (http://www.yelp.com/biz/illusionz-magical-entertainment-center-issaquah) here (http://www.judysbook.com/cities/issaquah/Event-Planning/21499/p1/Illusionz_Magical_Entertainment_Center.htm) here (http://www.insiderpages.com/b/3723240405/illusionz-magical-entertainment-center-issaquah) and here (http://seattle.citysearch.com/profile/11360513/issaquah_wa/illusionz_magical_entertainment_center.html) if you'd like to know what it was like.

Also, in my hometown there was a nice little 5 Buck Pizza which had an arcade. The front of the business was the pizzeria but the back contained air hockey, billiards, and a handful of old arcade games including a fun 3-in-one or 4-in-one SNK cabinet. It wasn't the fanciest or most up-to-date arcade I've been to, but for a time it was the largest collection of arcade games in my town. :'(

[NME]

Federal Way, Washington

The Spectrum (Was an old movie house, turned Disco, turned video arcade).

Mickeys

The Gold Mine at Sea-Tac Mall

[danny_galaga]

Bonies is one I remember clearly. I think there may have been an 'electric dreams' at one stage. And then in the 90's some sort of franchise called Einsteins.

[MIZPHIT]

The few years I spent in College Station, Tx in the mid 80's, there was a Time Out at Post Oak Mall, 2 Two Bits arcades (one in the Kroger shopping center next to Subway and the other on University Drive by Texas A&M), a Games Galore next to Bennigan's on Texas Ave., and Chuck E. Cheese.

I always went to Two Bits in the Kroger shopping center because it was close to my house and the selection of cabs was quite stellar to be a mom & pop arcade.

[sayewonn]

Mine was DG's Arcade in Warwick, RI. For so many years that was the spot to go to play the latest arcade games. Sadly they closed down years ago and the Warwick mall arcade picked up the slack. But then the flooding that took place about 2 years ago caused most of the mall to be redesigned and the arcade was gone.

[Nescollector]

Aladdin's Castle, funway freeway, fun factory, Putt Putt Golf and Games, just to name a few.

[javaly78]

@Streetball 21 I know this is an old post, but I remember Robotar vividly too. It was the first arcade I was introduced to the Xmen game, Mortal Kombat I & II, Terminator 2, lots of game memories. I remember double token Tuesdays too, where $5 could take you far.

Any memories of Tilt, Nickle Arcade, and the Crossroads Diamond Jim's (or Aladdin's Castle, I forget the name of that one)?

[BetaWolf47]

We had a TILT at our local mall down here. I remember them having some great games there too, such as Die Hard Arcade and Tekken Tag Tournament. They closed but not a few years after the new millennium.

There's also the movie theater, Hollywood 20, which always has a few. They had Aerofighters and Metal Slug many years back. They've also had Arctic Thunder, Area 51, and Tekken 2 many years back. Right now, all they have is crap like those racing games based on The Fast and the Furious.

The best one we have is King Richard's. They have had awesome games over the year such as Virtual On: Cyber Troopers, The Simpsons Arcade, Caveman Ninja, and X-Men Arcade. They've always been the largest in town with around 15 arcade machines. It was always fun joining some random dude in The Simpsons Arcade.

The most nostalgic was a privately owned pizza parlor called Pizza Factory. The arcade there was literally just a hole in the wall with four machines. In the beginning, it was Street Fighter 2, Vs. Super Mario Bros., some Golf game with a trackball I'll never remember (or care), and a pinball machine. They later changed some of those out for games like The Simpsons Arcade and X-Men Arcade, as well as some 3D space racer which may have been S.T.U.N. Runner.

Yeah, Simpsons and X-Men were common here. Gotta love 'em.

[killimgfloor]

Vegas Amusement
Circuit Circus
Lester's

Those were the ones that I use to frequent. The first two I went to more often than the last one as it was not very close to where I use to live. Also, if I needed a game fix there were at least one game in ever convenience store near by. This was during the 1980s.

[Zing]

There was an Aladdin's Castle at the mall, but I didn't really start going there until I was an older teenager to play Mortal Kombat 2, Killer Instinct, and Tekken.

Before that, the arcade of choice was called Funway Freeway. It was at a strip mall and was amazing. Many hours were spent there playing games like Xenophobe, Xybots, Pac-Land, Discs of Tron, and Rampage. I went there for many of my birthdays. They didn't have parties, but if it was your birthday, you got a special deal on a huge sack of tokens.

That reminds me of how annoyed I was when arcades started switching from quarters to tokens.

[hoger]

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[VideoGameRescue]

Putt putt golf & games. It's called adventure landing now.

[Scotterpop]

Putt putt golf & games. It's called adventure landing now.

Ah yes, I remember that Putt Putt fondly, enjoying many a game of 4-player Ninja Turtles there after school. And if you lived in Jax long enough, you may also remember Hobby Oasis at Neptune Beach. That's where my love affair with video games began. Every Sunday was 8 tokens for a dollar day so me and my buddy & neighbor Jason Lacey would walk down to this arcade and spend our afternoons (and all our pocket change) there. This would have been around '82 or '83. After my family moved away from the beaches I found myself hitting the arcades in Regency Mall: Aladdin's Castle and Game Emporium (mid to late '80s). Man, those were good times! In the nineties Mountasia was the coolest arcade in town, another Putt Putt style mini-golf/arcade spot. I reeeeally miss that one.

[dgdgagdae]

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[Mytho]

I used to go to Fun Factory in the Independence Mall near Kansas City a ton as a kid. Since I was pretty young, I spent most of my time playing stuff like Skee-Ball and basketball for tickets. When I got older, I started moving more into the actual arcade itself. My favorite games were Virtual-On and Virtua Racing. I also loved playing Gunblade N.Y. when I got the chance. That massive machine gun rumbled so fiercely it'd leave your hands numb!

Fun Factory also had the full Virtua Racing sit-down cabinet, which absolutely blew my mind. I could barely play the game since I was so young, but damn if it wasn't amazing sitting in that car. Virtua Racing still remains one of my favorite racing games to this day. :)

I also went to Cool Crest on occasion for birthday parties and such. I played Spinjammers and other assorted Neo-Geo games there when I wasn't playing putt putt.

There is one other place I'm thinking of that I played Outrunners at, but the name isn't coming to me. It might have been Family Golf Park, but I'm not sure. I do remember that there was both a putt putt and traditional golf course, including a driving range. Playing Outrunners there after a round of putt putt was another great Sega arcade experience of mine.

If anyone still lives in the Independence area, I'm curious to know if Fun Factory is still in business. The last time I was there was in 2002 while visiting my grandparents. I wasn't able to find much on the internet, so I'm assuming it was shut down around the mid to late 2000's.

[o.pwuaioc]

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Spam.

[kiselomlqko]

"Giggles" at the washington mall in washington, PA

played alot of my favorite games there and even had my birthday party there once. my reletive owned the pizzia shop right across from it as well so it was always nice to stop by and grab a slice of pizzia after some arcade gaming

[Genesaturn]

Starport at the local mall. My dad would take me once a week. He would park himself in front of Out Run and I'd wander aimlessly back and forth between every game for 2 hours lol. Starport closed when I was probably 8 or so though so from that point on the arcade at Putt Putt became my local choice.

[Badhornet]

Rocky J's in San Antonio. TX

[guitargary75]

I’ve noticed since I’ve posted this thread, arcades are starting to open up all over the place again! It’s like an arcade revival!

[Slate]

I was late to it in about 2000 - 2001, but there was an "Aladdin's Castle" in a mall that wasn't nearby, but it wasn't in another country, either. I didn't look at every game that was there, since I was about 9 years old and I'm sure that my parents weren't keen on me playing shooters then. I saw some sort of a shooter game, but I couldn't tell you what it was, except I think it might have been a war shooter.

The only arcade games I really remember that they had were:

Hard Drivin'
Lucky and Wild (which was my favorite in the arcade)
Prop Cycle (the one with a bike pedal controller where you're flying a cycling machine. I remember it because that copy was set up to be so difficult to run that I could barely play it, and I only played once.)

Come to think of it, there was also a bowling alley that had maybe 4 or 5 arcade games in the back, too. But I couldn't tell you what they had, even though I played maybe a few of them. I only played them a little bit when I was 9 or 10.


I’ve noticed since I’ve posted this thread, arcades are starting to open up all over the place again! It’s like an arcade revival!

I hope so, but here in the middle of nowhere where I live, the mall I mentioned above still has about 75% of the storefronts closed and the parking lot is still held together with holes.

- Austin

[Greg2600]

I’ve noticed since I’ve posted this thread, arcades are starting to open up all over the place again! It’s like an arcade revival!

Yes here in NJ we have a number of Barcades, Yestercades, and my favorite, Game Vault of Morristown.

In any event, so back at the beginning of this thread, I listed the old arcades I used to visit as a kid during the 1980s. One of which was "Kiddie Land (aka Karnival)" up on Route 46 in Pine Brook, NJ. That was a small permanent carnival style amusement park. I have shoddy memories of playing arcade games in what I half-recalled being an old, dirty church, though. Most people haven't the foggiest what I was talking about, including my mother. So this thread had me futzing around today, and on Facebook, I dig around and discovered the arcade DID exist but was a neighbor to the amusement park. It was an old Methodist Church which for some time was known as Rich's Hobbies, and then Game Town. Eventually it closed and the church was demolished, same as Kiddie Land, and the old Pine Brook speedway around there.

https://i.imgur.com/k2VF0C2.jpeg
https://i.postimg.cc/QCvFDDG1/game-town-arcade-token-1970s-pine-2.png

Hmm, the Church building was still there as of 2009. I read it was torn down despite being of historical significance under shady circumstances, but assumed it was long ago. Nope, somewhat recent. Now overgrown with weeds.
https://www.google.com/maps/@40.8593322,-74.3405763,3a,75y,307.46h,105.45t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1s9l1s_VDeg5fnZGg6LS1vpw!2e0!5s2 0090601T000000!7i3328!8i1664?entry=ttu

[Gametrek]

Fairyland Arcade.

It had a burger-king next to it. It also had some amusement park rides. My baby-sitter more or less my sisters because I was not old enough took us there one time, which I am still amazed by. Ball-room, that caterpillar roller-coaster, and a semi-advance but small more wilder coaster ( nothing too dangerous ).
I love the bop-em games, Simpsons-arcade, and of course many other shooters including Aliens, among others. Only bad part was that just like "EarthBound" and the happyhappygang, my arcade in it's later days had a gang problem. It is because of that $#$@@ Sears, and Fairyland shutdown, and stopped having videogames. Burger King stayed for awhile but otherwise looked abandoned and slowly got absorb into the rest of the area. Stupid and sad. Honestly I out grew that place but I still missed the arcade enviorment. It was the last of the bar/night-club scene where a minor could go and mingle with
adults and everybody was okay. I miss seeing a guy with a snake with glasses or had snake eyes himself, I miss that people was smoking. You want a vivid idea of what most if not all arcades looked like during the 1990's then you have to look at one of those Namco DOS games. A dark area with beautiful games.

Party Fun time.

This had laser tag but you had to pay that stupid fee, but we got tokens. Family fun, was innocent and all. Before $#@$@$ Chuckie-Cheese and Power-Rangers the bleh movie ( that my little mind had no idea how much it really was censored and lame ). That place was packed and had Mortal-Kombat-4d ( the 3d Mortal Kombat where you could launch somebody through a room or even walk via the enviorment ), all those dino games, and variations of pac-man.

I miss playing laser-tag with strangers and being shorter then my fridge. I wish we had more of those times. But your a kid and arcades and laser-tag, and 3d was amazing. Your family was there and they tried to get a long and did not get any of it.

Oh my gosh what happen to our beautiful normal world.

[Tron 2.0]

Beside going to timeout as a kid putt,putt golf and games to came to mind for me.In the 80's i went to it allot not a bad mix either a miniature golf course and a arcade.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2II3RQJmrK0

[RARusk]

Rocky J's in San Antonio. TX

Wow, I actually used to go there myself when my father was stationed there (Fort Sam Houston) in the mid-eighties.