Where's The Arcade????

[OldSchoolTicklr]

Haven't been to this place in probably 2 - 3 years, and was wondering what happened to the arcade? That was my fave part of the new TT LOL It's still listed, but nothing there 🙁

Sorry if this may be old news and a "where the hell has he been for the past ___". While I was here I wanted to play some ski ball damn it! :blush

 

[dalekfire]

Clicky for details.

 

[OldSchoolTicklr]

thanks for the info 🙂 so the place had a crash a few years back that screwed everything. a real shame. at least i know the deal now 😉

 

[dalekfire]

Indeed. 🙁

What say we organize a Pogo Monopoly tourney, in the meantime? :super_hap

 

[melanie2]

hey hey old friend...you should honor us with your presence more often...tsk...and i wished you a happy birthday on your profile page and you never noticed....grr

 

[Smoten]

Oh man... I was really excited about going to the arcade too. Damn it! That means I got this roll of quarters for nothing... I guess I'll just go to the laundry mat instead. :cry

 

[Rox_My_Sox1]

Come to think of it, I haven't seen a damn decent arcade ANYWHERE even REMOTELY NEAR where I live. That...makes me sad. I LOVED ARCADES growing up.

 

[FeatherDaemon1]

There's a couple in the malls near where I live, but the atmosphere is just gone. All the home gaming entertainment choices and their wide spread availability just killed the arcades. Sure, you or somebody you may have known had an Atari or an Intellivision maybe a Nintendo, but their frequency was rarer. Back then the arcades really had that magnetic draw which gave them an almost narcotic atmosphere of the place to go with your friends.

I'm sure they're are still real arcades out there with the resources to draw people in. When I was in Tokyo I visited an arcade in Akihabara that just blew me away. It had an atmosphere and energy which was really reminiscent of the 80's.

I think that arcades really are the new drive-in movie theaters. VCRs and cable TV killed them. Sure you may know where was one is, but their 'day' really has passed.

Sad. Truly sad. I think that you really need to be at least in your mid to late 30's to 40's appreciate and understand this transition on arcades. You really need to have been a teen in the 80's.

 

[OldSchoolTicklr]

hey hey old friend...you should honor us with your presence more often...tsk...and i wished you a happy birthday on your profile page and you never noticed....grr

cause i aint been here in like 2 yrs lol i keep forgetting this place exists still and how lovely, friendly and mature everyone is here vs the "other" place :lol

i'll try to come by more often 🙂

 

[OldSchoolTicklr]

I think that you really need to be at least in your mid to late 30's to 40's appreciate and understand this transition on arcades. You really need to have been a teen in the 80's.

Couldn't have said it better myself. The ''real'' arcades were a big part of my childhood and teen years. From the dawn of em in the very late 70s right up through the late 80s/very early 90s was my time in em so to speak.

The last arcade I actually seen was probably 1999/2000 in a mall (which malls are also soon to be a thing of the past), and I can say...the games in there were too high tech/overblown crap in my opinion. Kids and teens of the 90s - now don't know the simple/non high tech fun and cool things they missed out on.

Bout the only throw back to the original arcades I seen was the skee ball (which was my fave of the win tickets/prizes games) and the pinball machines. Everything else I felt like I was in some kinda futuristic sci fi flick 100 years in the future..and was kinda sad really lol

Can only imagine for what little may still be around, how much more futuristic they are 11/12 yrs later now.

I'm originally from the Philadelphia area, and that's where I grew up. So alot of my time in arcades during the era was spent in Summer times between the boardwalks in Wildwood and Cape May NJ (Cape May was my fave for arcades) and then locally all year round starting in the mid 80s at one of our local malls, we had an arcade called Aladin's Castle, which I hung at during the Winter and Fall.


Glad im not the only one who has dear memories from what once was..the arcade 🙂

 

[Smoten]

Come to think of it, I haven't seen a damn decent arcade ANYWHERE even REMOTELY NEAR where I live. That...makes me sad. I LOVED ARCADES growing up.

If you ever find yourself visiting Portland (Oregon), check out a place called Ground Kontrol. It's an arcade AND a bar; two of my favorite things coming together to make awesome fun filled evenings for everyone!

 

[OldSchoolTicklr]

i've been transporting myself back in time the past few nights over here....if you were an original arcade person like me, you'll get lost in your spare time having fun once again lol and these are all the original graphics from the arcade versions and all...dont know how they did this, but gotta love today's technology to make it possible!

http://free80sarcade.com/

 

[melanie2]

I order you to post more over here lol...see? Your thread is a success, although i didn't realize the theater had an arcade...or did i? hmm.

 

[OldSchoolTicklr]

you didn't realize that?? the last time i was here 2 yrs ago that's where i spent all my time lol in the skee ball and there was something else too..cant remember what it was, but was something that i felt the need to try to beat everyone.

just remembered...pinball!!!