discgolfer72
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i went out to the lake of the ozarks for the holidays and have many fond memories of the sweet strip on the damn with its awsome arcades
but this was my first trip out there since i learnd the ins and outs of arcade machines and i can say i am apalled with the condition of the games
they have 3 arcades on the strip i went to the frst one they had some good titles but nothing was to special and only half of the games even worked
the second arcade had some really god games , edot,gorf,space invaders pacman,mspacman,galaxan . my eyes lit up when i saw the edot droped in my quarter and stared a game arggggg the damn spinner didnt work , space invaders didnt work at all , and every other game they had either had a bad monitor (looked like waves on the screens) or the joysticks were so tore up it was like playing the game with a limp chain. the only game that was playable was the gorf and even it had the screen adjusted so bad that i could not see my life total or the name of the level at the bottom (i did blow the machines high score out of the water tho lol)
the 3rd arcade was flled with newer games mostly shooters and driving game's allong with a namco reunion but again every game i tried was toast gun games were miscalbrated race games had broken shifters or gas pedals it was such a shame
i even asked one of the arcade attendants if they had a tech he said the owner is the one that servises the games i just kinda laughed and walked off
i just dont understand how the owners even stay iin biz there was still plenty of people playing games there but you could tell that they were frustrated as much as me as most would play (attmpt to play lol)2-3 games and then leave
i mean even if you dont have much money commin in how hard is it to at least replace joysticks in the games so you can at least play ,as that was the majorty of the ishuses with the game's they just had sloppy loose unresponsive joys
anyone els here rember when this place was in its hey day and anyone been out there recently was i just unluck to get out there before the techs we able to repair the stuff or has it been that way for a while
for you out there in other states i dint bring my camera with me but ill be going out again in a few weeks ill be shure to get some pics then
but this was my first trip out there since i learnd the ins and outs of arcade machines and i can say i am apalled with the condition of the games
they have 3 arcades on the strip i went to the frst one they had some good titles but nothing was to special and only half of the games even worked
the second arcade had some really god games , edot,gorf,space invaders pacman,mspacman,galaxan . my eyes lit up when i saw the edot droped in my quarter and stared a game arggggg the damn spinner didnt work , space invaders didnt work at all , and every other game they had either had a bad monitor (looked like waves on the screens) or the joysticks were so tore up it was like playing the game with a limp chain. the only game that was playable was the gorf and even it had the screen adjusted so bad that i could not see my life total or the name of the level at the bottom (i did blow the machines high score out of the water tho lol)
the 3rd arcade was flled with newer games mostly shooters and driving game's allong with a namco reunion but again every game i tried was toast gun games were miscalbrated race games had broken shifters or gas pedals it was such a shame
i even asked one of the arcade attendants if they had a tech he said the owner is the one that servises the games i just kinda laughed and walked off
i just dont understand how the owners even stay iin biz there was still plenty of people playing games there but you could tell that they were frustrated as much as me as most would play (attmpt to play lol)2-3 games and then leave
i mean even if you dont have much money commin in how hard is it to at least replace joysticks in the games so you can at least play ,as that was the majorty of the ishuses with the game's they just had sloppy loose unresponsive joys
anyone els here rember when this place was in its hey day and anyone been out there recently was i just unluck to get out there before the techs we able to repair the stuff or has it been that way for a while
for you out there in other states i dint bring my camera with me but ill be going out again in a few weeks ill be shure to get some pics then
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