My family loves going to those traveling carnivals that bring the gravitron, zipper, etc- did any of them ever bring arcade games BITD as well?
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Yep, we had the semi trailer arcade way back in the day.
Our fair had an arcade that traveled with them in the early to mid 80s.
It was great getting to check out newer games to me such as Pole Position & Q*bert as our local arcades didn't have them. Still remember spending all my money on arcades and not on typical carnival games.
There were a few that cut the arcade games in half, and had them sitting on an open trailer. That way they just dropped the trailer, you walk up to it and it would be the right height. Good idea 30 years ago, totally devalued the games today.
My family loves going to those traveling carnivals that bring the gravitron, zipper, etc- did any of them ever bring arcade games BITD as well?
The first thing I thought of when I saw the thread title was the movie "Big."Back in the day I remember my county fair had maybe 2 machines set up in one of the exhibit buildings. One I always remember was the 4 player X-Men machine that seemed to have kids playing it quite a bit. Of course there were flies inside the monitor area and as a kid I wondered how they got in there. I guess I thought these things were air tight or something.
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