Sonic Fighters at Sega World in London. I think seeing it melted my brain.
And Moonwalker in a hut at the long gone Glasgow Zoo. We completed it.
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as a little kid an old virtua fighter cabinet next to a hotel pool was a profound and formative aesthetic experience
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My childhood dentist had a Winnie The Pooh cab in his waiting room that I played furtively every few visits because becoming too old for Winnie The Pooh meant I couldn’t let any other kids see me playing it. I doubt it was even a real cabinet but it is fixed in that office in my mind’s eye.
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Okay not a single location but I find it cool that I had only played Outrun 2 on Xbox and never seen a cab in the wild back in the day in North America but now after moving to Europe it’s almost a guarantee to see an Outrun 2 cabinet. Maybe Outrun is more popular here because the stages are based around European locales?
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The bar in my student union had a single cab and it was a standup outrun 2.
The other union had monkey ball, sniper scope and soul calibur 2 in a 3 button virtua fighter cab. The missing button was block : )
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Went to an arcade bar in Edinburgh last month: Mortal Kocktail. Every game was 50p except for Outrun 2 which was set to free play, strangely.
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There’s Super Barrio in Glasgow (if it’s still open) and another in the Merchant City which is only open for a few hours a week from memory.
Last time I was in Super Barrio they had assumably the same Monkey Ball cabinet that was at Glasgow University 20 years ago.
I’ve been to Super Bario! I went around a year ago and they didn’t have a Monkey Ball cabinet.
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For the best. The banana was broken so you couldn’t go up ramps.
Did they still have Confidential Mission when you were in? Best thing about Super Bario, outside the name, was the location near actual good bars.
There’s a super trendy bar near me that has a pseudo arcade/art installation where some of the games are actually playable, and the most noteworthy is a Robocop vs Bret Hart fighting game
https://www.instagram.com/p/Bn7d-ZqAbxn/?igshid=MjM0N2Q2NDBjYg==
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I played a ton of Outrun Turbo in a tiny game center in a florida hotel. It was very strongly air-conditioned and the floors were tile and walls were tile or glass. It had a strong bathroom reverb effect. The other machines had their attract modes muted so it was just the echoing FM tones of turbo outrun in there.
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Suddenly remembering the time we went to some open-air-ish mall while visiting some relatives (I don’t remember where (Oregon?)) with a Crazy Taxi machine. More than anything else about the situation, I remember it as the one of the only times in my life I saw my dad gleefully enjoying a videogame.
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this thread inspired me to look up some info on my favorite childhood arcade, Spaceplex
the place was massive; it had everything; games from all eras, and always the newest games coming out. this was the first place i ever saw a Street Fighter Alpha cabinet which, at the time, i had no idea was even coming out (my fault for only subscribing to Nintendo Power, i suppose). this place was like heaven for me, but i didn’t get to go to it too often because it was kind of a far drive from where i lived, and my dad could have never tolerated hanging out in there, so it was always a day camp or school trip kind of thing. the anticipation of a trip to Spaceplex was always so intense.
so anyway, i mostly associate Sunset Riders and SFA with this place. i do miss the energy of a crowd of kids waiting their turn to get on a 4-player game
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i associate the original Shinobi arcade cabinet with a local pizza place growing up. the pizza place it still there, but was renovated to be nicer and obviously no longer has videogames
this is fun. i have to go out soon but i will…be back…
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oh wow i have such a vivid easy answer, generally at least (i don’t remember the specific specific location) – my middle school field trips were all nominally to places where we had to Learn Shit (5th grade we went to the Boston aquarium then slept over in the Children’s Science Museum – that ruled – and 6th grade we stayed on Cape Cod and, idk, studied tide pools or some shit. 7th grade we didnt do dick) but my 8th grade graduation-to-high-school field trip was Just For Fun so they took us to a Dude Ranch, my absolute favorite phrase for a destination vacation spot. DUDE RANCH
And there was like an open air arcade where they had a Konami’s The Simpsons
me and a classmate of mine who i’ll call Steve (because thats his name) played this for like 2-3 hours of quarter spamming and had a whale of a time its like one of my fondest arcade memories
Last chatted with Steve a couple months ago he’s married and teaching guitar lessons now. Good for him!!
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No and that would be a good one! I have CM on Dreamcast but no light guns.
They did have HotD 1, 2 and 3.
there were no local arcades when i was growing up, the only times i saw or played arcade games was on holiday.
the weirdest would be zing zing zip and masked rider club battle race in some smoky, windowless pub my dad took me to once. there were a bunch of other kids there too, and we were all amazed by the masked rider game, because he’d only recently debuted in season 3 of power rangers and somehow had his own game already?!
cadillacs and dinosaurs, demon’s world, and growl in the arcade attached to/owned by the above pub. i remember drawing a crowd of teenagers while getting pretty far in cadillacs and dinosaurs as an unsupervised less-than-10 year old. remembering stuff like that really makes the 90s seem like a long time ago lol. being given a couple of pounds and just sent out to explore a place with which you’re not entirely familiar, and with no way of getting help if you need it (it was in a holiday park where my dad owned a caravan, which i went to once a year. this was probably my second time going there?)
x-men versus street fighter in an arcade near the beach in cleethorpes. someone had just abandoned like 5 credits and i had a great time. i’d never even known of this game’s existence before this point, and i immediately dropped my interest in the mortal kombat games and gained an interest in street fighter from that point on.
there was a big flashy arcade on the seafront in blackpool when i was on holiday there in my early teens (final holiday with a parent!) where i remember playing a lot of house of the dead, because it gave you 7 credits for a pound, which was crazy. a much smaller arcade across the road from there still had one of those cool sitdown outrun 1 cabs, and a guitar freaks machine i played with some local girl who must have been playing truant.
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I remember a roller rink I used to go to every so often as a kid that had an arcade in it and I always made sure to play a good bit of Altered Beast when there. Not sure why, think I beat it a few times there.
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This reminded me there used to be a really great arcade in Pennstate PA called playland that had a solid 25% of their cabs imported from japan. Played a lot of original Guilty Gear and Strider there.
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