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Florida Arcade and Pinball Collectors => Florida Arcade and Pinball Collectors => Topic started by: sirmatt on April 01, 2009, 12:25:17 PM
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Check it out...
http://timeouttunnel.com/album_vintage_timeout.htm (http://timeouttunnel.com/album_vintage_timeout.htm)
I am looking for more large photos like these from like '78-81. Anyone know of any good online galleries of vintage arcade pics?
- Matt
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I have seen these photos before and remember thinking that they were very cool.
You might also look through the archives on www.pingeek.com (http://www.pingeek.com) Although Josh is a bit of a loon, he does have a lot of interesting stuff archived and may have some of what you are seeking.
Ron
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Check it out...
http://timeouttunnel.com/album_vintage_timeout.htm (http://timeouttunnel.com/album_vintage_timeout.htm)
I am looking for more large photos like these from like '78-81. Anyone know of any good online galleries of vintage arcade pics?
- Matt
I love those pictures...Time Out I and II were the arcades of my youth in the Springfield Mall in Northern VA (DC suburbs).
I have a repro of the Time Out rules sign in my gameroom. One birthday I asked for money to spend in the arcade instead of a present. That was a great day.
- Kevin
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Those are some great pictures. A guy on rgvac has a web site with some good videos including one using a lot of these pictures. From this page click on the link for "I wanna go back" www.brentradio.com/videos.htm (http://www.brentradio.com/videos.htm)
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HAHA!! That one guy has a shirt that says "chicken legs".
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Well my friends keep pushing me to do a "vintage" pin party, as all my pins are 1970-1980. I was thinking sort of somehow reproduce the vibe in the pic set I posted...
I have a projector that puts out a huge image, I was going to turn it on it's mount to the side wall (perpendicular over a pin) and let that be "decor" to some degree...maybe play some 1979 proto-music videos to provide an image+sound EXPERIENCE (!) and - I dunno what else. Throw some of those pics up on the wall as a slideshow for more decor action...???
I saw that Susan B. Anthony sign above one game...wish I had something like that lol...cool flavor.
Trying to think of what else....
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kind of wierd seeing the no smoking sign. thought back then eveybody smoked? :o
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Have a dress code and make everyone wear Swatches, Members Only and Jordash jeans.
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You can use my Iron Butterfly albums, esp. In-a-gadda-da-vida! baby! And a few lava lamps here and there. :P:
Looking at those pics reminds me of the mall gamerooms at their peak. I used to frequent the "Boardwalk" in the Columbia, MD mall in my youth. I look at those pics and my mind warps back.....
CuJo
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You can use my Iron Butterfly albums, esp. In-a-gadda-da-vida! baby! And a few lava lamps here and there. :P:
Looking at those pics reminds me of the mall gamerooms at their peak. I used to frequent the "Boardwalk" in the Columbia, MD mall in my youth. I look at those pics and my mind warps back.....
CuJo
im from maryland to,born and raised there...
the anapolice mall had a awsome arcade in it when i grew up
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In my day ALL mall arcades were pretty lame compared to the other options. I've been scouring the net for the primary arcade I used spend time at. Hardly any good pictures, but actually a good Wikipedia description.
"Celebrity's was home to 80 bowling lanes, more than 300 video games spread across three arcades, a 50-meter pool with three water slides, a billiard room, a full-service restaurant, bumper-car rides and a shooting gallery."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celebrity_Sports_Center (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celebrity_Sports_Center)
Add to that a bar (their primary pinball room), an indoor shooting gallery (light guns), and early on they had a huge slot car track that was probably converted to arcade space in the 70's. What I didn't realize is the list of famous investors headed by Walt Disney.
The infamous Fun Spot boasts the worlds largest arcade but I counted the games and they may have 350, and to put in perspective, Celebrities had nearly as many games as Fun Spot yet the arcade was only a portion of their business. Pretty awesome business endeavor when they first envisioned it but I don't think management was creative enough to keep it as relevant as it needed to be after the video game crash because they needed cash for rennovations... (it pre-dated video games by well over a decade). Next door was a 70mm movie theater (wider than Imax and maybe as tall) which is where one would go to see the opening day flicks like Star Wars and Raiders of the Lost Ark. Sadly we lack even a Dave and Busters in the Tampa Bay area. How did you guys get by when you grew up? ;)
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Check it out...
http://timeouttunnel.com/album_vintage_timeout.htm (http://timeouttunnel.com/album_vintage_timeout.htm)
I am looking for more large photos like these from like '78-81. Anyone know of any good online galleries of vintage arcade pics?
- Matt
sweet. never even heard of that place. i'd like to see some shots or the arcade i remember, at the boca mall (entire mall was tore down around 1988)
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This brings up a good question: what were YOUR hard-and-heavy arcade times? For me, never. Too young lol...then I got a nintendo at 7 and rode that while they all slowly died. Pins at places like Fuddruckers and Busch Gardens' arcade (OK I guess I did go there often enough, but sucked and mostly played redemptions lol...)
- Matt
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For me, it was during layovers on log bus trips from NC to Ohio and Alabama when my mom and I went to visit family. All the bus stations seemed to have at least a few video games, and the bigger ones (Columbus) had huge arcades that would make it where I didn't wanna leave.
We also used to walk up to a convenience store and play "Phoenix". My uncle, when I visited my grandmother, would walk me up to the 7-11, where he would play Q-Bert all day, and I would read comics (he wouldn't get off the damn machine and let me have a turn....but he bought me Slurpees, so all was good). And on the rare occasions we went to a mall, I dragged my parents into the arcade, which I think the majority of were "Aladdin's Castle".
When I was 4 and living in Columbus, there was a little place called "Bernie's Bagel and Deli" where we would wait for my dad to get off on his half days at work. They had a small place upstairs with Pinballs, and I used to win quarters off of the guys that would go up to smoke and play. I'm pretty sure they were taking pity on a 4 year old that wanted to play, but it was fun! The local Rock station (Q96-FM) let me do the joke of the day one morning, so I have fond memories of that place.
In the 90's it was the bowling alley in Sanford, NC and the mall in Fayetteville, where my best friend and I went to go play SF2, Mortal Kombat, and all the new fighters. I'd still play Pac-Man when waiting for my turn.
As for home systems, I've had a computer since the Vic-20, and I've had almost every game system to date (minus a 360--went Wii and PS3), and still have them all. I still have a "Scramble" tabletop game that I've had since my 7th birthday. I turn 33 this year....it still works fine. I also just got my parent's "Super Pong", which was found in my grandmother's closet. Fun to play on a 53" TV!!
So I guess, I've had games around since before I was born!
Anyways, sirmatt asked, so I thought I'd share!
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me, the boca mall had an arcade in it, can't remember the name of it though.
dennys had THE GLOB, a kick azz game i still remember to this day, but played it on MAME, and don't even know why i liked it. i guess it was the elevators, cuz elevator action is still #1 on my get list.
drove a LOT to gran prix when i was in my early 20s.