The only place I know of anymore with arcades is Golf N Stuff...they have a sweet F-Zero GX machine

I still go to play pinball. Can't really get excited about arcade machines anymore, but I'll always love pinball.

I don't. I was a big arcade dweller during my fighting game phase, but I found that I no longer have the time/energy to devote to improving my Tekken skillz.

After they started charging $1 or more for one play of a game, I decided I was no longer interested.

Amen! However I do remember paying a buck to play the Jurassic Park sit-down game at my little cousins birthday party at Chuck-E-Cheese many moons ago. That game was awesome.

Count me in as someone else who will stop at an arcade only if they have pinball. Man i love pins.

I will go to a arcade (or a truckstop) to play Derby Owers Club, which is a horse racing simulator. As well, when Im in Vegas, we take the kids to the arcade at the Excallibur. They love it there.

I stopped a long time ago
games got too expensive

I find the arcades around here get around that psychological boundary with the "credit card" theory: they have cards you "charge" and it's much easier to swipe a buck away than it is to put a buck in quarters into a machine.

Of course, the bigger arcades like Dave and Busters have maily sit down or lightgun machines that are difficult to emulate at home. The rest of the stuff, my PS2 can beat. Although I would love to have an Fzero GX machine, if only to be able to use the memory card feature...

Still go.

DDR pads in my price range suck, so gotta hit the real thing.

I got to Castles and Coasters here in Phx. 2 tokens for DDR, (they had a fan there last time we went) and a whole row of Pinball: including LOTR, Star Wars, Simpsons, Terminator, etc. Upstairs has all the classics. TRON! Joust, Galaga, Asteroids, Defender, Missle Command, etc.

No Tempest tho.

would love to go to arcades...if any still existed. All of the following cynical opinions are just that, cynical opinions of mine....no flames please as none of the comments is intended to be construed as trolling or the like...

The only thing that thrills me about the Dave & Busters/Jillians/ESPNZONE, etc concept is the fact they serve beer/booze & food. Being able to drink and play is a cool concept.

That being said, the games are too expensive, the charge-card gimmick is a price-desensitizing scam, and, hey, I'm sorry, but I'm interested in games that can last longer then 30 seconds and don't necessarily involve me paddling in some canoe, or playing race-horse-jockey. Granted, I do think the 'motion-sensing' boxing and police-officer-shooter are kinda cool...but then there is the cost factor.

IMHO nowadays, mall arcades generally have no variety, and the machines are poorly maintained. If a game is actually functional, it tends to be either a Tekken XXXMCLM or Virtua-Soul-Struggle clone, or some Go-nuts-with-a-broken-plastic-gun shooter clone.

Pinball is the one saving grace in a lot of these places.

I would love it if there was an actual arcade with a bunch of old-school games. I could easily see myself dropping lots o' cash into old machines.

Now that I have a real job and cash (unlike when I was younger), it would be an awesome feeling to just blow a roll or two of quarters if for no other reason than I can now and couldn't back in the day.

Regardless, I could see myself easily dropping rolls of quarters into Tron, Tron Discs (environmental), Star Wars, Battlezone, Omega Race, Tempest, Moon Cresta, Spy Hunter, Mr Do!, Gyruss, Hogan's Alley, Karate Champ, Yi-Ar Kung Fu, ahh man I better stop 'cause I could just keep going on and on.

sigh....

i've still never been to a better arcade than Funspot in New Hampshire. used to go up there every year as a kid. unbelievable. 3 floors. tons of classics, plus mini-golf, bowling, ski-ball, etc.. actually made a point to drive up there for a day a couple years ago. i highly recommend it to anyone if you're ever remotely in the area..

I play a few games at the local Funstation from time to time, but the old arcade magic is long gone. Happily, my wife is on board with my plan to finally build a MAME cabinet.

No. Haven't been in years.

Hell, I RARELY played even when I was little and you could play Street Fighter II for 25-50 cents. Much less now when newer games a $1 or more.

I just never got into it. Would much rather pay a one time fee and game at home. Especially now that console graphics are equal to arcade games in most cases. At least when I was young the arcades blew away the NES/SNES graphics.

Heading out to Funspot tomorrow for the 2009 International Classic Arcade and Pinball Tournament with my brother. Really looking forward to this, not so much for the competition, although we're both going to sign up for it, but just for a nice atmosphere of 4 days of nothing but video games, some brews and a good time.

University Pinball in West Philadelphia is pretty damn cool. And then there's Chinatown Fair in NYC.

Haven't been to an arcade in years, but I do visit the Pinball Museum and Hall of Fame a few times a year. The next time any of you come to Vegas, I consider it a must-visit...

http://www.pinballmuseum.org/

I miss the Mitsukoshi Building and Game World in the Royal Hawaiian Shopping Center in Waikiki where whole floors of Japanese tabletop games used to exist.