Poll: Does your town have an arcade?

[Paulrus_Keaton]

A year-or-two ago my town's dying arcade finally kicked the bucket. It coughed up blood in its final years trying to make additional money by hosting birthday parties and being the only place in town to play its biggest attraction, Time Crisis 2.

We never really had any real great games. Mostly old rail shooters, racers, and Chuck E. Cheese-esque ticket games. But for a time, notable in the mid-to-late 90's, it was a rocking place to be.

But the mall it lived in has been notorious for having high rent costs so good stores we've had like Spencer's and Little Professor have closed, turning the place bland. The space the used to be the arcade is now a for-lease area for people to host events. It's sad.

So, yeah. Does/Did your hometown have a arcade?

 

[Darth Pope]

Mine has one in the mall, and it still has a modest clientele. Mainly because it's in the Warhammer place.

 

[JRCB]

In movie theaters and other places, yeah.

But I don't know of any stand-alone arcade.

 

[ace_of_something]

several; most of them are a rip-off. Most arcade games are $1 a play now and for 3-10 minutes of game that isn't a good deal.

 

[New Troll]

When I was in high school many, many years ago we had an arcade/ billiard hall across the street that was pretty nice. Only problem was it became a 'hang-out' for all the 'cool kids' so no one could go there to game or shoot pool. Place went under cause no one spent money there anymore. So stupid.

We do have another one now near the middle school, but I've never been there. Heard it's not all that great.

 

[DuncanRR]

We used to have a coin-op arcade tucked away in our local ShopKo, but it's become a FastCare clinic now. We have GameZone (where you pay to play console games), and a LAN-Arcade (where you, obviously, pay to play PC games), but that's the closest thing we have to actual arcades in Marquette.

EDIT: As for arcade games, there's a handful of decent ones at one of our movie theaters.

 

[black lincon]

There used to be two, but one shut down with the rest of the mall it was in, to bad as it was the better of the two. the second however is actually pretty sweet as they charge a nickle per game instead of a quarter, plus they have the Simpson beat-um-up, the one where you had to rescue Maggie from Mr. burns. me and three people spent a day beating that, and it was worth every second.

 

[Lord Beautiful]

No. But we do have antique shops, a homemade candy store, and an old-time-y pharmacy that has the soda jerks of times long since past.

...

*sob*

 

[quiet_samurai]

Yeah there are actually quite a few. But they are so run down and outdated it's kind of sad.

 

[jaeger138]

not strictly my town but a town over there's an entertainment complex with restaurants, a cinema and a bowling alley. there's an arcade in the bowling alley but i haven't been in years. for most games it's a pound a play and if i played the games as much as i wanted it would probably end up cheaper buying the console version, but the experience isn't quite the same

 

[Scrythe]

We have an arcade that has Virtual Tekken. Virtual. Fucking. Tekken.

I'd play it more often if getting to the game didn't involve me driving across town, mowing through wave after wave of fucktarded tourists, finding the only parking spot withing five miles, and then navigating through a giant pyramid.

 

[Zacharine]

No arcade. Never was. And quite frankly, I'm happy we don't have one.

 

[sms_117b]

My old home town had 2, one still stands the other is a bingo hall.

I don't know of any where I am now, but I find it hard to believe that there isn't on in a city.

 

[SimuLord]

Reno doesn't waste its time on video arcades, not when slot machines in supermarkets and 7-Elevens are around. The Circus Circus casino has arcade games, but that's for the tourists who need someplace to park the kids while they're playing the one-armed bandits.

 

[Grayl]

Nope, it doesn't.

It has a brothel. Does that count?

They're sort of similar.

 

[NeutralDrow]

My university has a small one, that at least has Tekken 5R, Capcom vs. SNK 2, Marvel vs. Capcom 2, and Soul Calibur 2. And Police Academy 2.

I know there are a few more around San Diego, but after a fruitless search to track down a supposed Arcana Heart 2 machine, I lost hope.

...I miss Japan.

 

[PrinceMarth]

Mine is technically a game works, but it functions pretty much like an arcade. People put their cards up like quarters for next matches. I love the fighting game area. It uses mostly Japanese machines because they're just so much better than having to fight someone for more space for controls.

 

[MetallicaRulez0]

Our Arcade (with laser tag!) shut down about 2 or 3 years ago. Back in the late 90s, it was pretty much the de-facto hangout spot in my town for guys age 14-30.

The only arcades left around here these days are in movie theaters or the mall.