Does Your Arcade Have Classic Coin-Ops?

[Rogmeister]

So does the arcade you frequent feature any coin-op games of the old days? Mine doesn't which is one reason I seem to go inside it maybe once every 5 years. I keep hoping it will change but so far it hasn't. If they'd get a handful of games like Pac-Man, Dig Dug, Mappy and Missile Command, I'd be in there all the time. If yours has any, what are some of the games there...and where the heck is it?

[tholly]

well, if Vs. Super Mario Bros. and Vs. Golf are old enough games and if my basement counts as my most frequented arcade, then yes, it does

[Rogmeister]

Well, is this arcade open to the general public? :D

[tholly]

Well, is this arcade open to the general public? :D

if someone from here really wanted to stop by and play....then yes :)

[The_Kodiak65]

an arcade...
i have to drive about two fuckin' hours just to find one.....

[bargora]

The Rascal House Pizza restaurant (at E.22 St. and Euclid Ave. in Cleveland) where I stop in some weekends has the following machines:

Area 51
Asteroids
Black Tiger
Blitz 99
Burger Time
Centipede
Defender
Donkey Kong
Galaga
Golden Tee
Great 1000 Mile Rally 2
Joust
Ms. Pac-Man
Pac-Man
Pac-Mania
Sammy Trophy Hunting

Classic

[googlefest1]

for CT im about to find out about Quassy amusement park - this thursday we have our company picknic there - suposedly have over 100 games in the "family games" area -- thier website claims to have old and new games -- if so that will be my new place

the smiles place on the post Rd in millford - mostly sucks - they do have a few kind of oldies but NO vert/horz shooters

games id consider oldies are (that exist in smiles)
Ms. pacman
Galaga
G-lock
advanced dungeons and dragons
Terminator
Revolution X
Virtua on
Virtua cop (which never works)
Gunblade Ny (which dosent shake)
Simpsons
Sunset riders
World series baseball

after a while its gets tireing especualy when half of them dont work

but Ill let all the CT people know about quassy on friday


Edit: there is also this place in west haven on forest rd called high voltage i think - ive been in there only once when they set up and they had a strikers 1945 and a neo geo machine and some others - i never went back in there - it had a realy weird vibe

[Cryomancer]

Ours has Ms. Pacman and Galaga, but that's about it. They're starting to develop some issues, Ms. Pacman's sound kicks out a lot and Galaga's monitor is pretty bad...otherwise they're in pretty nice shape really.

And the have confidential mission if you wanna call that classic, hehe.

[tholly]

an arcade...
i have to drive about two fuckin' hours just to find one.....

central PA...i go to college out there at Juniata College....if your anywhere near there, then I can see why you need to drive pretty far to find an arcade....that are is the middle of nowhere with nothing around it

[Jumpman Jr.]

All I ever see is Golden Tee and NFL Blitz's.... with the odd Mortal Kombat variant thrown in there somewhere.

[Raccoon Lad]

There's an arcade about a block from my apartment.

They have:

Galaga
Ms. Pac-man
Centipede
Pac-Land

The first 3 are a quarter, and all the other games they have there, including Tetris, Pac-Land, T2 Arcade are 50 cents.

[digtempest]

A Dave and Buster's near my home has 1. Galaga/Ms PAC Man combo machine, 2. Atari Classics machine featuring Centipede, M. Command and Bowling 3. Ultracade machined featuring whole bunch of games from Capcom: 1942, Commando, Ghosts and Goblins, Xeyes, a street fighter game, a megaman game and others that I can't remember.

[Flack]

There are at least five or six arcades around here, all of which have classic games. I'm not sure which have what but I see Neo Geo, Galaga, Pac-Man and Ms. Pac-Man and other machines regularly.

[Dire 51]

I haven't seen an arcade in years. Closest I got was the laundromat where I used to live in Georgia... they had Strikers 1945 II, Tekken 4, a Neo-Geo with Bust-A-Move and Metal Slug 3, Ms. Pac-Man, Marvel Vs. Capcom, Cruisin' USA, a soccer game and Area 51, I think. I used to spend more playing the games then I did doing my laundry. LOL

[RetroYoungen]

My local (kinda local, it does take me about 15 minutes to get there, barring traffic) Scandia has a few older cabs, like Paperboy and Missile Command, and they just got rid of a few of their other ones because they kept breaking down and they didn't want to keep fixing them. They did replace them though, with the same games, just newer cabs (like I think it's a Defender/Robotron 2084 cab), and they just added a 3-in-1 DK cab (Donkey Kong/Donkey Kong Jr./Mario Brothers).

They also have a Tetris, Pac-Man, Galaga, Galaxian, and Centipede... but what gets me is that their Star Wars cab is broken somehow and they haven't fixed it yet. The first time I ever played it was in this arcade, and now it's all broken because SOME little bastard didn't treat it with the proper respect! :angry: :angry: :angry:

Sorry... got a little ranty there at the end...

[Haoie]

I've seen 1 Galaxian, and that's really it.

[felix]

Fortunitly, the arcade in the mall here has a slew of classics. They range from vintage coin-ops to some of the best from the 80's. They are all for sale and I hope to make a purchase sometime before they close down. I have talked to the arcade owner and he is a true classic-gamer. Its fun to just sit around with him and chitchat about the "good ol days" when arcades thrived. We talked a little about money and he says that he doesn't make anything with the cost of his lease but he sees it as his "room of doom" instead of a business.

[Sosage]

Scandia...

I was about to mention this place, but I haven't been there in a year (its about a 30 minute drive for me). Do they still have the sit-down Super Hang On? Every time I've been there that thing is broken (I'm probably too big for it anyways...but damn do I love the novelty of the cabinet being a bike). :(

[Zap!]

There are still arcades around? :)

[felix]

I think "arcades" are fading quick.. but there are special spots that still have a few games. We have 2 around here. The one that I posted on earlier is more of a museum of games in a mall. They have current games and a lot of older ones but you have to pay a pretty quarter or 4 to play just about anything there.

Then there is a family-fun place called "The Boondocks". It is about 30 minutes away from my house but well worth the drive. It is one of those all-in-1 family places that has putt-putt, laser tag, go-carts, climbingwall, bumper boats etc.. BUT the crowning jewel is the MASSIVE arcade... its almost mind blowing! LOTS of current and classics, and most of them are only 1 token :love: :love: :love: :love:

[Neil Koch]

I live by a GameWorks and they have a couple of classic games, like the Galaga/Ms Pac-Man 20th anniversary (in cocktail form, which is pretty sweet) and Centipede.

[Lady Jaye]

The arcade where I go to (at the bar where I go sing karaoke) has an Ultracade machine. That's all they have for pre-1990 videogames, so it might or might not count depending on whether you include emulation-based Ultracade or not.

The bowling alley where Steve often plays bowling with his friends has an arcade section, and they have a lone Ms. Pac-Man. Dunno how "vintage" the cab is, but the joystick is nicely firm.

[Daft Punk]

The closest one has a namco classics machine but that it.

[YoshiM]

Basically there are only 2 arcades left in my area. Aladdin's Castle is no more but the machines were moved into this real small shop area by the west entrance. No classic games and maybe like 5 arcade machines (last I was in there anyway). Another arcade is at Blue Harbor and I don't think they have classics either.

The local theater has a few games. A Galaga/Ms. Pac-Man anniversary cab but I don't count that as "classic" as it's not original (namely the "insert coin to continue", which neither game had). They do have a Heavy Barrel cab, though.

[bazariah]

i got a cinema about twenty mins walf from my house which has time crises two, sega rally and sega touring cars.. and a line of fruit machines which suck

there was the sports bar in the local shopping mall which had one of the newer gauntlet games, point blank and some lame football game, but i havent been in there for a while so im not sure if they still have them in there

pretty much every arcade in the uk has been turned into a gambling arena, there are still some good places in soho which house titles like metal slug, strikers, raiden and such like... the arcade/gambling place in my town had a 10 in one classics machine, but it was totally illegal and i think they had it taken away