what happened to your arcade? installment 2

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continuing my nostalgic hunt for arcades of yesteryear i have discovered what i believe is left of a modest but popular arcade in a mall on sunrise highway and vets highway on long island! wasnt as big as the time out in surise mall, but always had cool titles!! miss that place! you can still see the original gate behind the newer fabricated wall.
 

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TimeOut Tunnel in Hagerstown MD Valley Mall - Closed sometime in the Early 90's and is now an FYE...

That arcade blew anyways, Pocket change was way better when it was in Fredericktown mall back in the 90's. Had vintage games on one side and current games on the other. Remember that place?
 
Mr G's, which became Billy D's arcade in Plainville Massachusetts, closed down mid 90's.

A little stroll down memory lane... the games I played there there:

Pacman, Ms Pacman, Puckman cocktail, Kyros, Vindicators, Dragon's Lair, Carnival, Breakout, Samuri, Samuri Showdown, Art of Fighting 2, Turbo upright, Mach 3, Cobra Command, Phoenix, Space Invaders, Us VS Them, I Robot, Tempest, Gravitar, Super Bug, Fire Truck sitdown, Night Driver cockpit, Spy Hunter, Tron, Discs of Tron, Battleland 5, Tiger Heli, Twin Eagle, Moon Cresta, Time Pilot (bought PCB), Time Pilot 84, Space Pilot, Exerion, Spy Hunter cockpit (bought it), Altered Beasts (bought PCB), Shinobi (bought PCB), Frogger, all Donkey Kongs, Berzerk, Frenzy, all Galaxian sequels, Make Trax, Sprint, Championship Sprint, Super Offroad, 4 player Demolition Derby, Tapper, Battlezone, Qix, Speed Buggy cockpit, Dig Dug, Mr Do, Mr Do's Castle, Atomic Punk, Tank Battalion, Ikari Warriors, Gondomania (bought it), Robotron, Guerilla War, Pole Positions I & II, SCI Criminal Investigations, Hogan's Alley (bought PCB), Super Mario Bros, Gyrus, Son Son, Terra Cresta (bought PCB), Centipede and Millipede, Marble Madness, Subroc, Road Blasters cockpit, Space Harrier, Gorf, 1942, 1943 (bought PCB), 1943 Kai, Arkanoid, Xevious, Bomb Jack, Amidar, Gunsmoke, Zaxxon, Super Zaxxon, Tetris, Pyros, Bank Panic, Showdown, Crossbow, Xybots (wish I bought it), Ninja Gaiden (bought it), TMNT 4 player (bought PCB), The Simpsons 4 player (bought PCB), Alpine Ski, Jungle Hunt, Jungle King, Elevator Action, Rolling Thunder (bought PCB), Double Dragon (bought PCB), Final Fight (bought PCB), Street Fighter II, Time Soldiers (bought it), Bubble Bobble, Popeye, Missile Command, Asteroids, Sea Wolf II, Superbike, Excite Bike, Moon Patrol, Defender, Stargate, 10 Yard Fight, Bottom of the 9th, Mario Bros, VS Baseball, Cyberball, XO Football, Track & Field, Quarterback, JR Pacman, Trog, Chase HQ, Kangaroo, Major Havoc, Superman, Rampart, Zookeeper, Karate Champ (bought PCB), Birdy King II, Ameri-darts, Punch-Out, Trojan, Gladiator, Black Tiger (bought it), Great Swordsman, Thunderblade, Two Tiger, Time Killers, Toobin, Paperboy, Operation Wolf, Smash TV, Mortal Kombat, Traverse USA, Road Fighter, Tumble Pop, Outrun, Lost Tomb, Bad Dudes, Vulgus...

Now it's a daycare center... which I guess it always was anyway.
 
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In my town, there was a place called "The Corner Arcade"

I was pretty young... 7 or 8 (that would be 25+ years ago... oof)

I remember they had all the classics... because it would have been around that time. It was open late, it was always dark inside and only lit by some neon running along the ceiling and he glow of the screens and marquees. So awesome...

Then it closed down and someone re-opened it as "Games People Play". Lot's of games, redemption games and crap-counter to cash in your tickets. It was 5 bucks to get in, and all of the games (except redemption) were set to free play and you could stay for as long as you waned. They had a Spy Hunter cockpit I played often. That place was awesome.

Now it is a gross strip club and a porn shop has set up shop in what used to be the arcades warehouse. Don't get me wrong, strip clubs are awesome... but this one is filled with meth addicts, strippers with cesarian scars and fresh stitches from knife attacks, and a taco truck parked permanently in the parking lot. It's changed ownership and names several times for various code/crime related reasons. *sigh*

The only real arcade left in my town is Electric Castle's Wunderland. OK selection of games. A lot of redemption stuff. No real classics, but lots of fun games. Racers, environmental cabs, weird Japanese games. I still take my kids occasionally... and I sometimes go by myself :)
 
My favorite arcade as a kid was Superfun in Fort Collins, CO. It was in the Foothills mall and was dark with tinted grocery style doors that would slide open entering from the mall. The place was always packed and closed down in 1983. I took some pics of it a few years ago. The side entrance doors have been filled in with different color bricks and you can see where the sign was. The arcade is now a kids play area.

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The OP got me thinking as I live walking distance to the Sunrise mall. That Time Out was pretty awesome. It might have been a matter or perspective (since I was a bit smaller then) but that place seemed huge. BTW the space it once occupied is now a sock store and a pet shop. Even worse...the old Galaxy Arcade across from the Sbarro is now...........the Galaxy Nail Salon.
 
That arcade blew anyways, Pocket change was way better when it was in Fredericktown mall back in the 90's. Had vintage games on one side and current games on the other. Remember that place?

In the 90s yeah but in the 80s no... About 92/93 was when I started driving so anything outside of Hagerstown I would not remember... Hagerstown had Funland and Playland in the early to mid 90s though that had all the jamma games..

There is still a TimeOut though (Namco).. In a Mall in Northern Virginia.. Owned by Namco (Bought my Galaga there) it still has the sign up..
 
lete see here locally there was a "tilt" in the strip part of the north towne mall

in the machesney park mall there was a larger arcade across from the movie theater but i cant for th elife of me remember the name. Parents are in the hunt for pics, i know we have some, somewhere
 
i think the aladdin's castle in fox valley I use to live at turned into a shoe store or something..dont go out that way now that im a grown up because of the traffic hehehe
 
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