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    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?

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    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
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    Well, is this arcade open to the general public?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Rogmeister
    Well, is this arcade open to the general public?
    if someone from here really wanted to stop by and play....then yes
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    an arcade...
    i have to drive about two fuckin' hours just to find one.....


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    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

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    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

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    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.

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    Quote Originally Posted by The_Kodiak65
    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
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    All I ever see is Golden Tee and NFL Blitz's.... with the odd Mortal Kombat variant thrown in there somewhere.

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    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.

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    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.

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    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.

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    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.

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    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!

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

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

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    Quote Originally Posted by RetroYoungen
    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).

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    There are still arcades around?

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    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

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