Man, what the fuck has happened to these...went to see a movie tonight and was about thirty minutes early so I was hoping to play some games...but the fucking arcade was full of giant claw games, dance dance revolution, and driving games that appeared to be from the nineties...seriously, I wouldn't be suprised if they had Daytona USA or Hard Drivin' in that fucker...

...for shame.

Haven't seen a good arcade in years ...... being a pinball aficionado, I find the lack of arcades is to be a real pisser.

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Ground Kontrol in Portland. arcade with a bar. first floor - games spanning from the 80's to 90's including "Mortal Kombat II", "StreetFighter II: Champion Edition", "Double Dragon", "TMNT", "X-Men", "Pac-Man", etc.

Second floor. All pinball.

Best part is that it's all quarters. And just about every game only costs a quarter.

I love a good pinball game as well. Very hard to find any anywhere. What kind of games do they have at Dave and Busters?
Then if you do find a game you want to play nine times out of ten it is broken.

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When I am stuck and need to figure something out I always remember the Immortal words of Socrates when he said:"I just drank what?"

Donald, given your relative age, were you a fan of Eight Ball Deluxe? Back at the bowling alley in Kankakee, I could play all night on less than a dollar on that machine.

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Maine or Oregon? We all need to do a road trip.

oregon.

speaking of oregon, how great was "The Oregon Trail"?

Oregon Trail was awesome. In grade school on Fridays in computer lab we got to play games. They had Oregon Trail, Gauntlet, Penguin, Paper Boy, a text football game amongst others. Good times.

I used to play the hell out of the football game in computer lab.

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When I am stuck and need to figure something out I always remember the Immortal words of Socrates when he said:"I just drank what?"

I know it well ..... dumb story: here in Mayberry way back in the mid-70s, as a young lad I developed an eye for pinball at around age 4 ... the local pizza joint at the time (George's Pizza ... long, long gone) had one of the poker-related machines (I have tried forever to research and verify but I can't come to a conclusion) and a shooting game called "Jungle Drums". I really don't know why, but if and when we were there and somebody would fire-up the Jungle Drums machine, I would lose my little-kid shit as though a fleet of dragons were flying in to rape us all.

PinMAME used to help satisfy the need, but it apparently doesn't work anymore and nobody seems to want to fix it ... dicks.

If I ever find my life and/or income, I'd love to have some older machines - not that I don't like modern ones (e.g., the king of all pinball, Addams Family), but the older ones have a charm the newer ones can't match. Match, someone say match? Did I get a free game?!?

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Power is always in the hands of the masses of men. What oppresses the masses is their own ignorance, their own short-sighted selfishness.
- Henry George

Haunted Trails and there was an arcade somewhere in Lyons maybe on Ogden...Always great places to pick up guys. I miss arcade days too.

We always had to write turtle progams to do something. I hated computers.

Donald, do you remember the Evie Knievel pinball machine? That was the first one I was a wizard on.

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Enchanted Castle had a great arcade.

It's mostly kids stuff now. The tivoli bowl in downers grove has a couple pinball machines and a hockey table, but really that's the only place I can think of that still has that stuff.

Did you go to R-B Spaulding?

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Nah, I just got around.

I knew a couple people from RB and one of my friends lived in Riverside. I don't think we'd know anybody, I think I'm significantly younger than you are.

Was?

Are you implying that it still isn't?

I posted this link for DS awhile ago, but it seems to be topical in this thread as well .....

http://www.virtualapple.org/oregontraildisk.html

The site is also good for any other apple game you may remember from the 80s .... and, if you had a Commodore (like myself), the games are essentially the same (i.e., Impossible Mission, Spy vs. Spy, Skate or Die, etc.).

As far as Evel, I'm sure I played it on PinMAME, but I don't know that I've seen one live and in person.

Notable "halfway" machines (not all mechanical, but not all digital) are Black Knight & Black Knight 2000 (the latter of which is the best of that ilk), and if you ever get a chance, take a look at the Space Invaders machine .... I just remember seeing it a long time ago as a kid and thinking the kid equivalent of WTF?!?!? .... really huge/wide table, three rows of flippers, lots of synch'ed lights, and (for the time) a hell of a lot of sound w/ thump to go with it.

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Power is always in the hands of the masses of men. What oppresses the masses is their own ignorance, their own short-sighted selfishness.
- Henry George

I beat Keefer at a game of a No Fear once.

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