Is anyone here into arcades

[sonOFwar]

Im Just kind of testing the water and seeing if there's any interest about arcades, pinballs, and stuff like that cause me and my dad are small time collectors

[Shawn Hopkins]

You might get a better response at our gaming board.

[The Black Guardian]

I might be. If I knew where one was. And if the games still cost a quarter.

Might be cool if you could go someplace and plunk down a quarter for a few minutes of Halo... or sumthin'.

[Kees_L]

Im Just kind of testing the water and seeing if there's any interest about arcades, pinballs, and stuff like that cause me and my dad are small time collectors

Definitely. Although I'm pretty old, like older than 35 but not forty like by a mile!

I played the shit out of an actual police-car unit called Chase HQ once. Until my coin credit had went, which was at level 4 or something.

And one time a rich uncle (he was a skilled butcher) took me someplace where he could shoot. I got like ten coins since my parents were splitting up. Kuh-ching!
I played out all of Afterburner, except for the landing cuz I couldn't figure out how. There were like more than four spectators of which some even adults so I felt pretty fly. Plus I got to put my name into the machine, not all of it but three letters of my choosing!

Good pinball machines with good responsive flipper-action both as decent handling at the bottom (the pin or nail in between the exit-gap needs to be managable plus tilt shouldn't occur immediately for nothing at all) rule all.
Although they only had this at the beach in some large and far-off city (a pier actually), with funky people yet I was only like twelve both as smalltown and sorta small. Which only added to the excitement.
This pinball machine had Elvira artwork, with lots of metal rampy shooty stuff, high up flippers, multiball and other cool jackpot hoopla or amounting stuff to target - I'd need one or two coins for getting myself a bunch of free games, which I'd end up giving away, since my Mom would be insisting on moving on. She didn't think much of either pinball or the arcades. But I'd be feeling like some urban god and pretty spiffy. Like my own gangsta-gang-of-one, for as long as that could last.

[dupont2005]

When I was little my dad owned a couple arcades. His garage had like four rows of games set up in it when I was in first grade or so. It was pretty awesome, but he ended up getting rid of it all to start a patio company within a year if I remember correctly. I always toy with the idea of building a custom cabinet with a big LCD in it and a nice bench. I'm sure I can do it, just lack of tools and space and funds.

[RDMacQ]

I loved going to the Arcade when I was a kid. It was a great communal experience. I loved it when the arcade had those old beat 'em up games, like X-Men, Spider-Man, the Simpsons, Captain America and the Avengers, and- of course- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1 AND 2), and how when people would get near to the end a huge crowd would form around them. People rarely ever saw the ends of these games. It was a marathon experience, with groups of people trading off just at the right time in order to keep the game moving. When things got to the final level, everyone wanted to see what it was like since it was going to be rare if anyone ever got the chance to see it again.

[dupersuper]

There's only 1 arcade left in my town, and it's gotten pretty sparse over the past year or 3. Still, it's in a local movie theatre, so it's a good place to kill a few minutes waiting for your showtime.

[sHayden]

There's only 1 arcade left in my town, and it's gotten pretty sparse over the past year or 3. Still, it's in a local movie theatre, so it's a good place to kill a few minutes waiting for your showtime.

Yes and I shudder to call such places Arcades.
We had two arcades in our mall, Tilt & The Red Baron. They were such grungy holes in the wall..and I loved them. Then Red Baron died off in the very late 80's or 90's but the Tilt struggled on. Not every cabinet worked though but except for one or two new titles you didn't have to wait to play anything. Silent Scope came, not many people wanted to pay $1.00 to play it. That cabinet died mysteriously too. The Tilt used to have a little office with a barred window where an attendant could give you money or come out and help. He had been long gone for years, and the light in the office stayed off. The Tilt closed not long after and all that was left was a depressing collection of cabinets and claw machines in the local cinema.
I miss the days too when pizza places used to have a few machines. There was a place called Uncle Charlies Pizza Pub that always had a few cabinets to play on while you waited (it was more of a sit down place than take out) and there was always good titles like TMNT and X-men.