My Local Video Arcade Has Closed Shop

[Lady Jaye]

I know that the arcade belonging to the bar where I go for karaoke, almost closed down recently -- until the lease was lowered by the mall. At least that's what the barman told me last weekend.

Phew, that was a close call! Although I still miss the old DDR machine in there -- nothing like a game of DDR after a few drinks!

[Arkaign]

The arcades around here had a kind of renaissance in the early '90s with Street Fighter 2 etc. I remember the special systems with an extra screen way up high for spectators, and *big* crowds gathering. At Collin Creek mall, the challenge line sometimes got to around 2 hours.

[ClassicGameTrader]

There was another arcade besides Tilt in the Huntington Mall in WV?

Damn, I didn't know tilt was a chain! The one at lakeside mall in michigan must have closed 5-7 years ago. The FYE had a gameroom but I swear they never put a new game in after they opened and eventually nobody came.[/quote]

[Pantechnicon]

I know this loss all too well. The arcade of my teen years - The Happy Bear - was located in a mall in my hometown of Santa Fe and has actually been closed for several years now. The mall management had been using the space as a storage area. However, the signs and whatnot were still up, so one could walk by it and at least enjoy a tinge of nostalgia.

However, last week I was just in that mall again for the first time in several months and now the even the shell of The Happy Bear is utterly gone and has been replaced with a frikkin Tuesday Afternoon. Suffice to say this completely killed my evening .

[Cirrus]

I don't know...that's not the mall I'm talking about. I don't think I've ever even been to Hunington. The mall I'm talking about is actually across the Ohio River in Steubenville, Ohio...not actually in West Virginia.

Although I live up in Akron, I've been to that Tilt plenty in the last 5 or 6 years. Too bad to hear that it's gone. My wife went to school down there, so whenever I came down we would go there and I would do the Fight Mania game (some Fist of the North Star bemani goodness). They were actually talking about maybe selling the cab to me, since it was not really functioning properly anyway.

Sorry to hear that it's gone.

[Rogmeister]

I'm wondering if they could have moved instead of just going out of business...though I don't remember seeing any signs. If I go back sometime and find out anything like that, I'll mention it here. I may be going back over there on Sunday to see another movie (though I'm not sure I will) and if I do, I'll see if anything's changed though I'm not hopeful. Guess I could call their phone number and see what kind of a message I get...

"I'm sorry, but the number you are calling has ceased to exist..." :/