Springfield Folks...1984 Arcade

DMAC · 01-12-2007, 11:31 AM

Have you guys been here or heard of this?

http://www.1984arcade.com/

I wonder if there is beer?

$5.00 all you can play. That is cool.

|Zach| · 01-12-2007, 11:35 AM

No beer...it is pretty cool though. $5 all you can play...all kinds of interesting old games...80's movies playing on a few TV screens. A group of us will usually stop in before going to dinner or going out down there.

NewChief · 01-12-2007, 11:45 AM

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No beer...it is pretty cool though. $5 all you can play...all kinds of interesting old games...80's movies playing on a few TV screens. A group of us will usually stop in before going to dinner or going out down there.

If I'm not mistaken, that looks to be Gauntlet there on the bottom left. How do they handle the all you can play? The games are all set with unlimited credits or what? That would be pretty fun on a game like Gauntlet, which ate up quarters like nobody's business.

|Zach| · 01-12-2007, 11:49 AM

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How do they handle the all you can play? The games are all set with unlimited credits or what? business.

DMAC · 01-12-2007, 11:50 AM

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That's awesome. It is hard to believe that they make $$ like that.

|Zach| · 01-12-2007, 11:54 AM

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That's awesome. It is hard to believe that they make $$ like that.

A friend of mine knows the owner...

I think the cost is fairly minimal...not a lot of staffing needed. They snall drinks and snacks...I want to say they also do small events in some form. Lots of foot traffic in the area.

**Skip Towne** · 01-12-2007, 12:42 PM

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That's awesome. It is hard to believe that they make $$ like that.

They probably won't for long.

**TinyEvel** · 01-12-2007, 12:33 PM

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If I'm not mistaken, that looks to be Gauntlet there on the bottom left. How do they handle the all you can play? The games are all set with unlimited credits or what? That would be pretty fun on a game like Gauntlet, which ate up quarters like nobody's business.

Gauntlet? Is that the stick figore knight/sword battle game? That was awesome. Had the Asteroids/Battle Zone (tak game) graphics.

And that cartoon Dragon game (Dragon Slayer?) That ws IMPOSSIBLE. I remember it wa theforst video game that cost 50 cents. There was one at the local Chuck E. Cheese and there was one geek dude who could clear it. He would hang out by the game and charge people a buck (plus thay had to put the two quarters in) to finish the game so people could watch the cartoon all the way through.

There's a place out here in Fullerton like that called the Regan Years. We used to go there and stop at Taco Bell and get a 44 ounce drink, pour it out and put 3-1/2 beers in there and go in for a couple hours.

Fat Elvis · 01-12-2007, 01:11 PM

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Gauntlet? Is that the stick figore knight/sword battle game? That was awesome. Had the Asteroids/Battle Zone (tak game) graphics.

And that cartoon Dragon game (Dragon Slayer?) That ws IMPOSSIBLE. I remember it wa theforst video game that cost 50 cents. There was one at the local Chuck E. Cheese and there was one geek dude who could clear it. He would hang out by the game and charge people a buck (plus thay had to put the two quarters in) to finish the game so people could watch the cartoon all the way through.

There's a place out here in Fullerton like that called the Regan Years. We used to go there and stop at Taco Bell and get a 44 ounce drink, pour it out and put 3-1/2 beers in there and go in for a couple hours.

Dragon Slayer was a piece of cake.

Fat Elvis · 01-12-2007, 01:10 PM

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Originally Posted by NewChief

If I'm not mistaken, that looks to be Gauntlet there on the bottom left. How do they handle the all you can play? The games are all set with unlimited credits or what? That would be pretty fun on a game like Gauntlet, which ate up quarters like nobody's business.

Maybe it ate up your quarters...I would go onto Fast Eddie's in Manhattan after lunch, stick in a quarter and play until 9pm when I would sell the game to a Ft Riley guy for $40 so he could play it until close at 2am. $40 would buy him 96000 health normally; he'd get the machine with over 500000 health after my playing it and consider himself lucky.

**ShortRoundChief** · 01-12-2007, 12:29 PM

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No beer...it is pretty cool though. $5 all you can play...all kinds of interesting old games...80's movies playing on a few TV screens. A group of us will usually stop in before going to dinner or going out down there.

I didn't see the address, where's that at?

|Zach| · 01-12-2007, 12:30 PM

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I didn't see the address, where's that at?

Downtown...I can't remember the street name offhand...its right by the downtown YMCA.

MOhillbilly · 01-12-2007, 12:34 PM

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Downtown...I can't remember the street name offhand...its right by the downtown YMCA.

mcdaniel,jefferson,walnut?

|Zach| · 01-12-2007, 12:36 PM

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mcdaniel,jefferson,walnut?

If you are heading west on walnut you take a left where that "minuteman press" place is on the corner...the same street where that millie's cantina place is.

ChiefsOne · 01-12-2007, 01:12 PM

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Downtown...I can't remember the street name offhand...its right by the downtown YMCA.

The Y is on Jefferson a block north of Walnut.

01-12-2007, 11:31 AM	Topic Starter
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