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What an "arcade" consists of for kids today...
Well, Thursday my wife took her nephew to one of those big all-in-one places like Dave & Buster's. This place is called Main Event, and consists of a bowling alley, putt-putt, lazer-tag, arcade, and an area with a small cafe, bar, and about 15 pool tables. She enjoyed playing lazer-tag for the first time and drug me back there last night to play again. As I'd never been there, i wanted to take some pics of some of the games they had, but forgot the camera and ended up using her phone (so that's why the pictures suck). I deleted some that were so blurry they were worthless.
The "arcade" consisted of about half video games and half redemption games. Almost all the video games were $0.50 or $1.50 to play (maybe more), and they took neither quarters or tokens, but rather you got a credit card issued from a dispenser (that took only cash or credit - no coins) for a minimum of $10 or a max of $100. Kids today will grow up thinking the only games were either home consoles or giant stuff that cost too much to play.
There will be multiple posts, but here are the games that were in there (inlcuding a few I'd never heard of or known about):
The obligatory DDR (and they had another of a different name):
I'm not sure what this was called, but you sat in the blue ball and held two sticks, and there were three games to choose from:
My wife's phone could not take pics of the marquees very well. I think this was a 4-linked Rally Bike or something:
The much loved Ferrari F355 Challenge:
And it's brother, the Sega Strike Fighter (I've had to move one of these up and down a small elevator 5 different times - fun):
Well, Thursday my wife took her nephew to one of those big all-in-one places like Dave & Buster's. This place is called Main Event, and consists of a bowling alley, putt-putt, lazer-tag, arcade, and an area with a small cafe, bar, and about 15 pool tables. She enjoyed playing lazer-tag for the first time and drug me back there last night to play again. As I'd never been there, i wanted to take some pics of some of the games they had, but forgot the camera and ended up using her phone (so that's why the pictures suck). I deleted some that were so blurry they were worthless.
The "arcade" consisted of about half video games and half redemption games. Almost all the video games were $0.50 or $1.50 to play (maybe more), and they took neither quarters or tokens, but rather you got a credit card issued from a dispenser (that took only cash or credit - no coins) for a minimum of $10 or a max of $100. Kids today will grow up thinking the only games were either home consoles or giant stuff that cost too much to play.
There will be multiple posts, but here are the games that were in there (inlcuding a few I'd never heard of or known about):
The obligatory DDR (and they had another of a different name):
I'm not sure what this was called, but you sat in the blue ball and held two sticks, and there were three games to choose from:
My wife's phone could not take pics of the marquees very well. I think this was a 4-linked Rally Bike or something:
The much loved Ferrari F355 Challenge:
And it's brother, the Sega Strike Fighter (I've had to move one of these up and down a small elevator 5 different times - fun):


