Phetishboy
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Went to an indoor Fun center this weekend for my Daughter's birthday. Place is huge, but seemed undermaintained. only 3 of 8 skeeball machines were even on, much less working. The bumper cars (the reason we went there) were still out of order, and have been for over a year since my last visit, and probably long before that. Jurassic Park, Star Trek Voyager and House of the Dead sit-down all out of order. I played a Nascar sitdown, some linked SEGA racer with my wife, Deal or No Deal and some redemption games. My daughter then wanted to ride the cool, dragon-themed indoor rollercoaster so we mounted up. That's when I saw it.
As we went up the highest hill, I noticed that a whole corner of the building was walled off with orange snow fencing in a giant L. This was around the back 2 sides of the base of the coaster. In that long, makeshift hidden corridor sat at least 40 - 50 dead machines of all kinds. Arcade, redemption, mechanical, etc. The only things I didn't see were pinballs. I kept trying to get a mental title list as we past them, but it was all a blur. I did catch a Rock N Bowl, a Robocop, a Rush the Rock, Cruisin World, Street Fighter of some sort, and many others. There were no early 80's classics that I could see, but a lot of cool stuff none the less.
I asked the female operator about them and she told me, that's "not her area of expertise, I'd need to find one of the techs." One of the techs? This place obviously hasn't seen an able-bodied tech in 10 years. "Find one of the techs" she says. Oh yeah, and "area of expertise" she says. As if she has ever traveled to ANY area of expertise, evar, in her whole 16 years.
As we went up the highest hill, I noticed that a whole corner of the building was walled off with orange snow fencing in a giant L. This was around the back 2 sides of the base of the coaster. In that long, makeshift hidden corridor sat at least 40 - 50 dead machines of all kinds. Arcade, redemption, mechanical, etc. The only things I didn't see were pinballs. I kept trying to get a mental title list as we past them, but it was all a blur. I did catch a Rock N Bowl, a Robocop, a Rush the Rock, Cruisin World, Street Fighter of some sort, and many others. There were no early 80's classics that I could see, but a lot of cool stuff none the less.
I asked the female operator about them and she told me, that's "not her area of expertise, I'd need to find one of the techs." One of the techs? This place obviously hasn't seen an able-bodied tech in 10 years. "Find one of the techs" she says. Oh yeah, and "area of expertise" she says. As if she has ever traveled to ANY area of expertise, evar, in her whole 16 years.





