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Stranger Things Dragons Lair....
Check out what the Dragons Lair looked like when we pulled it from a warehouse last year (pics in comments), converted into a Shinobi, and toward completion, back to it's former glory. It was restored for the show by someone else, using an emulator to make it look like it was running original hardware. It's cabs like this that I save sometimes, in the middle of the big hauls, that I know many think I'm crazy for saving. Glad I did.
In the wide shot, all of the monitors are LCDs.
Hot Rod Arcade posted about this on his facebook account.
I find it annoying to see classic arcade games show up on recent movies and TV shows with LCD screens instead of CRTs. Is there a technical reason (CRT refresh rates?)
Most likely the refresh rate problem, yes. Filming a CRT will give you a rolling black band.
Actually that Arcade set is in my town and I took a visit to it right after they stopped filming. I know that Michael Brian Rich lent out some of his games and that Patrick Wall's Missle command is in there somewhere so not everything is LCDs.
The set is located on Church St in downtown Douglasville GA.
PS: the history of the place is that in the '80s and the '90s it used to be a laundromat...before it was built into this set
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There were a few abandoned remenents from when it used to be a Laundromat but it was otherwise empty. I don't know how much of season 2 they used for it... we'll find out in OctoberThat is so cool. Besides games, movies are another one of my passions. Merge the two like this and I fire on all cylinders, ha!
So they just came, transformed this empty building into an arcade shot a few scenes and left? Almost seems like a lot of work for what I imagine to be a quarter of an episodes air time, but that's Hollywood. If I was passing through that area I would think that was a real arcade and would be disappointed it's not lol.
There were a few abandoned remenents from when it used to be a Laundromat but it was otherwise empty. I don't know how much of season 2 they used for it... we'll find out in October
For the few seconds they appear in the trailer, it would hardly have been worth the effort to change out tubes for LCDs.
I just feel like using LCDs on 80's arcade games is a glaring oversight.
only to arcade game-obsessed folks like us hahahahahah
i could show that to 100 normal folks and not a single person would notice it, and if they did, they wouldn't care