Holy Token Prices! - and, there are some great new games out there!

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Holy Token Prices! - and, there are some great new games out there!

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I went up to Niagara last weekend and there is one arcade there that is actually pretty great.

However, the token prices are INSANE!!

A lot of games take 4 tokens and tokens are 2 for a dollar! WTF?? $2.00 to play a gun game?

Is this the new norm??

BTW - They had some new Terminator gun game and this bad ass NAMCO gun game. It looked like Ghost Recon. Great stuff, really! It's nice to see such awesome graphics and technology in these games but the prices are stoopid.
 
You need a passport or one of those new secure ID drivers licenses. your state may/may not offer them.

BTW Blkdog I was there last summer. I played one game of drum mania cause I could, but yeah, the prices were ridiculous.
 
You need a passport or one of those new secure ID drivers licenses. your state may/may not offer them.

BTW Blkdog I was there last summer. I played one game of drum mania cause I could, but yeah, the prices were ridiculous.

That's what I figured. I'm glad I took my kids there a couple years ago. It doesn't seem worth all the trouble to go back.
 
A lot of games take 4 tokens and tokens are 2 for a dollar! WTF?? $2.00 to play a gun game?

CHECK THIS OUT:

I stopped in a place out my way called Arnold's Go-Karts (Oaks, PA)...

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...and was pleasantly shocked to see some neat older games including the pinball BAD CATS that I hadn't played in years.

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Most of the [older] games used tokens (newer ones had card readers). I had to buy a game card and then go to another machine to dispense the tokens.

Spent $5 on the game card (minimum purchase).

Went to use it, it said I had something like 99 points.

I needed 100 points to get 8 tokens (minimum purchase).
I was ONE POINT SHORT. They're obviously doing this crap on purpose.

DUDE. WTF. I was seeing RED.

Had to walk all the way up front and wait in line to complain.
They spotted me the ONE POINT. What a fiasco.

I approach the pin. It required FOUR TOKENS.
That's right! $2.50 and all that hassle to play one @%&# game.

Squandered the last few tokens on Feeding Frenzy.
NEVER GOING BACK.
 
holy poo! I just pulled a few tokens from a machine that said Niagra on them... I wonder if they're from the same spot. I'll post a pic later tonight.
 
(below is an approximation):

1980's game to buy $2,000
cost to play $.25

Price to buy the new Terminator Salvation $8375

At that rate, the cost should be $1.00 to stay in line

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I went to an amusement park yesterday (Indiana Beach in Monticello, IN) and their pinball machines were set at 50 cents per play. They had Simpsons Pinball Party, Addams Family, Star Trek TNG, South Park, Theatre of Magic, and a few others that didn't work like Twilight Zone. Not all arcades are out of whack. I want my money back on Theatre of Magic--that game is dreadful.






1,000th post. woohoo.
 
Arnold's is really that expensive? I knew they had a nice arcade and kinda remember the prices being a little high, but honestly I didn't play anything.

Oh well.

Jeff

CHECK THIS OUT:

I stopped in a place out my way called Arnold's Go-Karts (Oaks, PA)...

trackpan.jpg


...and was pleasantly shocked to see some neat older games including the pinball BAD CATS that I hadn't played in years.

pinball-bad-cats.jpg


Most of the [older] games used tokens (newer ones had card readers). I had to buy a game card and then go to another machine to dispense the tokens.

Spent $5 on the game card (minimum purchase).

Went to use it, it said I had something like 99 points.

I needed 100 points to get 8 tokens (minimum purchase).
I was ONE POINT SHORT. They're obviously doing this crap on purpose.

DUDE. WTF. I was seeing RED.

Had to walk all the way up front and wait in line to complain.
They spotted me the ONE POINT. What a fiasco.

I approach the pin. It required FOUR TOKENS.
That's right! $2.50 and all that hassle to play one @%&# game.

Squandered the last few tokens on Feeding Frenzy.
NEVER GOING BACK.
 
(below is an approximation):

1980's game to buy $2,000
cost to play $.25

Price to buy the new Terminator Salvation $8375

At that rate, the cost should be $1.00 to stay in line

terminator-salvation-arcade-deluxe-playmechanix-betson.jpg

Yeah, that's the Terminator they had. The graphics were amazing. Good stuff.
 
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