#video arcade

[humanoidhistory]

Honest pinball player at Sharkey’s Arcade in Eureka, California, 1980.

[fights4users]

Everyone who worked on Tron is stronger than me

Have you ever played a old arcade cabinet?! The shits addictive! It doesn’t matter what game- forget it- it has you- you’re gone! You belong to the machine now! They’d have to drag my ass onto set kicking and screaming - I would be fired so fast lmao. (I have lost so much of my life to the hypnotic power of dig dug)

Also I think it’s generally just really funny to have video games for the downtimes between filming a movie about video games- also playing it in costume is such an image. (How fucking tall is he? He’s the size of it—)

[machetelanding]

[yourwizardofaus]

Nostalgia is .... Video arcades, like the long disappeared “fun parlour” at Cotton Tree on the Sunshine Coast in Queensland in the mid-70s.

[maxcollectoruniverse]

This awesome collectible 1981 Coleco Nintendo tabletop Donkey Kong video arcade game is for sale at https://collectiblesandmoreinstore.com/shop/81-coleco-tabletop-donkey-kong/

[ignatiaflamen]

[witch-hattery]

Here's how you revive the video arcade industry in the US:

Put the machines on free play, charge admission. Customers can stay and play all day. Have a snack bar for extra revenue. Let it be a hangout.

If you have the money for magnetic cards and readers to replace the coin slots, make your system go by time rather than bullshit e-tokens. (Last I knew, one dollar at Dave and Buster's won't even get you enough for a game of Donkey Kong.)

Pay-per play as a secondary option perhaps. I know a quarter is worth half of what it was in the 80s, but a round of Galaga has NOT held it's value. It should cost a dime, not two quarters.

Moving cockpit games and the like should be an exception to the above, because they require extra maintenance.

[t00thpasteface]

best friends forever

[retrogamingblog2]

Donkey Kong mural in Concord, New Hampshire

[ethancrossmedia]

After a month, I made a new video, this time from my first time going to Dave & Buster's in person! 😀 I know you guys the ones in your local, but I never did, because as of now, it's far away from me, and it will soon open in Schaumburg, IL at Streets of Woodfield shopping center in the former GameWorks space, which closed in 2021. As I never went to Dave & Buster's in person, as I'm familiar with the entertainment chain that is a competitor to Chuck E. Cheese and later Main Event Entertainment (which in 2022, the company acquired and is now the subsidiary), this was recorded from my first time going to Dave & Buster's there in person, here's a walkthrough tour from my first visit there and what they have there in the arcade room. This was shot at the Addison, IL location, and is the first location I went to before a new location will open in Schaumburg, IL at the Streets of Woodfield shopping mall in the former GameWorks space, which closed on December 24, 2021 (Christmas Eve), due to financial struggles during the COVID-19 pandemic. This was officially announced in May this year from a post on the Village of Schaumburg website. Dave & Buster's is currently far away from my local, as at least, there's Chuck E. Cheese and Main Event in my local. Yes, I've passed by this for a longtime, every I went to visit my Filipino relatives in Bloomington, IL (now they reside in Texas in the Rio Grande area), and Royal Buffet in Downers Grove, IL.

Filmed on July 8, 2023.

[onealtr]

Timezone tickets

[scyllalizard]

heh heh, time to build another D&D machine :3

[jhsharman]

Still exist?

Yes. They see him at a video arcade. Do such things still exist? Yes and no, evolutions move one set into more advanced VR play, and another into a stated retro nostalgia trip. But here we may as well ask if malls still exist. Maybe the video arcade no longer has to alert everyone of its presence. One thing, it is an arcade, not a kiosk -- referenced later as the girls realize they had the wrong impression.

Orpanages? From Wikipedia: Government-run orphanages have been phased out in most developed countries during the latter half of the 20th century but continue to operate in many other regions internationally. It is now generally accepted that orphanages are detrimental to the emotional wellbeing of children, and government support goes instead towards supporting the family unit.

[humanoidhistory]

Tabletop Pac-Man in Amsterdam, 1984. Photo by Han Singels.

[the2dstagesfg]

Messatsu.

[starshinehavoc]