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07-27-2005, 03:20 PM
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70's & 80's Retro Arcade Gallery
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07-28-2005, 08:38 AM
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"My names Forest, Forest Gump, and I like to play video games...do you?"
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07-29-2005, 08:24 AM
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Nice! That actually made me really miss arcades... There's still a couple around, but those are mostly gun/sim/dance etc games these days. Something about hanging out in a crowded arcade and playing games that were way beyond anything you could get on your C64 was special.
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07-29-2005, 11:38 AM
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According to the captions these photos were supposedly taken between 04 & 05 but....did you see some of the fashions? They look pretty old to me, I know there are still bastions of classic arcades out there but these photos look suspicious (age wise) to me.
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07-29-2005, 11:44 AM
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According to the captions these photos were supposedly taken between 04 & 05
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I thought that's when they were found and scanned???
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07-29-2005, 12:02 PM
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Yeah. They were found in a box that was going to be thrown in a dumpster. The pictures were taken in the late 70s and early 80s.
- Colton
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07-29-2005, 12:34 PM
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Ah, sorry, I must have misread the captions as that makes much more sense.....still, it would be nice to see a few retro arcades still being run today, I know they are out there & would love to visit.
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08-02-2005, 09:15 AM
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It would be great to find a retro arcade, but I just don't think it'd be profitable to keep going. Lots of space to maintain, plus older games that might get tricky to keep running, all for the odd quarters you'd get from the few nostalgia-seekers who come by? There used to be a few good ones, but even the last vestiges of classic arcades are gone. Cedar Point's midway used to have an awesome arcade with tons of classic games, but it was ripped out a few years back.
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