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1 hour ago, Francisco 2.0 said:

Oh, and for those of you feeling some nostalgia, you need to read up on MAME.  It can be a bit daunting to setup, but it might be worth your time.

You can have every game you could ever want on your PC or Mac

We have an arcade at home in our game room that we designed (a company made) and we assembled that has 3000 arcade games. It’s pretty rad. When the kids have friends over it gets used.

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14 minutes ago, troph said:

We have an arcade at home in our game room that we designed and assembled that has 3000 arcade games. It’s pretty rad. When the kids have friends over it gets used.

How’s the bottle service there? I may be interested in patronizing this establishment. 

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If there was actually a sane god, this thread would be the norm on this site. Instead, we have to worry about nonsense. But every once in a while, a nice gem like this comes along. 

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In the ‘90’s a friend and I would search out pinball machines that wouldn’t tilt. There was one at The Crown & Anchor and another at Ego’s. We would get drunk and abuse the shit out of those machines. Simpler times.

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20 minutes ago, BottleRocket said:

In the ‘90’s a friend and I would search out pinball machines that wouldn’t tilt. There was one at The Crown & Anchor and another at Ego’s. We would get drunk and abuse the shit out of those machines. Simpler times.

We would hit up Waterloo Brewing Co. some afternoons when we were slow at work. Stars Wars Pinball and a few pints of Ed's Best Bitter. God Bless you and RIP, Steve Anderson.

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6 hours ago, Prepuce of Doom said:

I still remember the "eureka moment" when I realized that it was a genie in a turban on the Aladdin's Castle token, and not some kind of strange Slimer- or Jabba-esque blob creature. 

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1 hour ago, Pato del Muerto said:

How’s the bottle service there? I may be interested in patronizing this establishment. 

Self serve mostly 

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7 hours ago, NorthLoop said:

btw if you ever are in the Pikes Peak/Colo Springs area, Manitou Springs has a whole city block that's basically nothing but old arcade games and kids old quarter slot rides. It's pretty fuckin cool. Except I got Covid there. 

They just got a new owner, so I'm not sure it's the same.  The previous family owned it for 92 years.  And yeah, some of the games are that old.  

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With the exception of Donkey Kong and a bit of Pac Man never really got into video games, it was strictly pinball. We’d give sob stories to old ladies about needing bus fare home or stealing people’s soda bottles off their back porch to redeem ourselves to pay for our games. 

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8 hours ago, BottleRocket said:

In the ‘90’s a friend and I would search out pinball machines that wouldn’t tilt. There was one at The Crown & Anchor and another at Ego’s. We would get drunk and abuse the shit out of those machines. Simpler times.

The convenience store in my home town had one of these for almost a year or so.  

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One day, a few of us were there playing and we noticed there was a sizable gap between the siderails and the glass, especially at the top left of the playfield.  Hmm.

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 So, we brought in a wire coat hanger and discovered that if we manipulated it just right,  one of us could play a game and  catch and hold the ball with a flipper, the other could knock down all of the drop targets in the upper left lane that held the captive ball with the coat hanger, bumping up the score and triggering a special, then doing it over and over.  I have no idea how many credits were taken in that manner.  It was a sad day when we found out that table was taken away.

 

 

 

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14 hours ago, Biff Tannen said:

Us 90s kids in Northwest Hills had Tilt at Northcross Mall. Give me some Mortal Kombat and TMNT followed by the Great American Steak and More. Then a visit to Petland and Oshman’s. 

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15 hours ago, gofuckyourself said:

Adult?

What did it have, a couple of buttons?

If you didn't get crippling hand spasms and early onset arthritis from hours of Defender, you may as well have been playing Mappy.

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StarGate for the win. 

Houston area Horns, here's your new hang out.  Right by the Icebox or Daiken Park.

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14 hours ago, troph said:

Was named the Gold Mine before that.  Lock ins at north cross mall were phenomenal peak middle school fun. 

I don’t even remember that Gold Mine location anymore. In my mind when I think Gold Mine it’s always the one at Highland. 

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16 hours ago, gofuckyourself said:

Adult?

What did it have, a couple of buttons?

If you didn't get crippling hand spasms and early onset arthritis from hours of Defender, you may as well have been playing Mappy.

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I ruined my right hand on this plenty of times.

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