Daytona arcades?

AlkalineJay

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So, just arrived in Daytona Beach for a weeklong vacation last night, and Im supposed to go to check out the boardwalk later today. The friends I'm here with told me it had an arcade I may be interested in. Anyone been to it? Know of any other local arcades? I'd considered Disney Quest, but its gonna be a hard sell as it is forty something dollars, and my friends have read some pretty awful reviews on line about the place...
 
Someone here had some Disney Quest pics up earlier this year (or maybe last year), it they had a lot of classics. I've been to that Daytona boardwalk before, when I used to live near there. I heard that they were closing it down, but maybe they kept some parts open. They had 32oz beers for 3 or 4 bucks, but I don't remember their game selection. I'd be interested to see what they still have, so please report back.
 
Went to the boardwalk, there are currently two arcades, but looks like they are renovating alot of stuff there, so there may be more in the near future. But as for the arcades, they both sell beer fairly cheep, so thats a plus, but unfortunately, as in most arcades today, it was FULL of coin pushers, and redemptions, and slots that dispose tokens that are worth five points. I will say however, there were a couple of forgotten classics in the back. The first arcade, had a T2, Ms Pac, and a couple of pins, but the mspac, T2, and one of the pins were not working. Instead of repairing them, looks like the op just drilled screws into the coin slots so people wouldnt use them. The mspac had sand all over it, so I'm assuming it had been outside many years before being pulled inside the arcade. They did have a couple nice newer games, such as terminator salvation and ghost squad. Another cool thing was they had the game where you shoot the rubber balls at the circus punks Hadnt seen one of those in a while. The other arcade was the same deal, they had a mspac, a tetris, a T2, and a track and field. All in pretty rough shape. mspac was again dead, and t2's monitor BARELY had a pic on it. The track and field was working but in awful shape. They also had one of the mspac/galaga reunion cabs, which seemed to be working just fine. And I must say, I really dont care for those. They look like cheap knockoffs. The marquee looks like it was printed out of a shitty lazer printer and the front and side art just looks like they bought it off ebay from an amature printer. All in all, the arcade was pretty cool, and quite busy. Im going to roam around today and hit some of the go kart tracks and check out their arcades as well..
 
That's cool. It's been 3 years or more since I've been there, and I don't remember it being anything good. I remember the skee-ball and coin pushers, but don't remember anything else catching my eye. Ghist squad is an alright game, but ever since getting it on the wii, and playing it in 480p, I don't see any reason to play it in the arcades. It looks great, and if you have a gun accessory, it's awesome. That goes for all the rail-shooters that have been ported to the Wii.
 
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