/vr/ - Retro Games

[Anonymous No.4959212]

growing up, were there any unconventional or atypical places/establishments you remember seeing video game systems or arcade cabinets show up?

if so, please detail these experiences. thank you.

[Anonymous No.4959216]

Depends on what you mean by "unconventional", if you mean laundromats, grocery stores and the like I saw plenty of arcade cabinets there.

[Anonymous No.4959220]

>>4959212
holy shit, I forgot about the McN64s

[Anonymous No.4959225]

Yeah, had one at my local mc d's. It was a higher end location with a giant indoor playground and there was a 4-pedestal with different N64 games on each side. I remember F-Zero and Smash, don't recall the other two

And it stayed there for a long while, well up into the mid 00's. I haven't been there since so for all I know it could still be there

[Anonymous No.4959262]

>>4959212
who cares just play the fucking games

[Anonymous No.4959272]

>>4959262
okay.

[Anonymous No.4959279]

>>4959212
The local Alfy's had a ton of Xboxes and PS2s with some arcade cabinets in the basement.

[Anonymous No.4959283]

>>4959212
Mcdonalds in Gainesville had doctor Mario 64 in like 2009-2010, i doubt its there anymore

[Anonymous No.4959298]

>rip the control stick out

NigDonalds

[Anonymous No.4959353]

>>4959216
a local laundromat had a Rush'n Attack cab all the way up untl the early 2000s

[Anonymous No.4959368]

>>4959220
I never saw one of these. I remember a McDonald's that had a single NES in Traverse City, Michigan when I was very young. I barely got to touch the controller, older kids would hog it. I also remember a row of CRTs with Sega Genesis systems hooked up to them in the Playland inside the McDonald's in Cheasning, Michigan. I spent lots of time playing the McDonald's game and Sonic Spinball.

[babbage's gramps !RATGzMALLY No.4959372]

>>4959216
Don't forget bowling alleys! And restaurants and pools and car washes and state parks and mall corridors and the courthouse. Arcade machines were basically everywhere during the 80s.

[Anonymous No.4959383]

I remember one Toyota car dealership my dad and I went to had an N64 cabinet with Diddy Kong Racing in it. I also remember stopping at an out of town McDonald's that had a GameCube cabinet with Super Mario Strikers
Also, have another pic

[Anonymous No.4959402]

>>4959372
>bowling alleys!
Where I first played Street Fighter 2
>restaurants
Local pizza place is where I first played Super Mario Bros (in one of those cabinets that played Nintendo games on a timer)
>pools
At a local 'rent pools for company gatherings' place is where I believe I played my first video game ever (Dig-Dug)

[Anonymous No.4959418]

>>4959372
a roller rink had the biggest arcade in town when i was growing up. They had more machines in there than the chuckie cheese's knock off that was near it.

[babbage's gramps !RATGzMALLY No.4959430]

>>4959418
Shit how could I have forgotten roller rinks? Ours had both Venture and Tempest plus at least 6 others. The rink still operates on retro appeal but the cabs are gone for some reason and literally no one ever goes in the area between the rest rooms and the DJ booth where they used to be. Completely wasted space.

[Anonymous No.4959515]

The Pizza Hut near my house had one of these set up for a short time-- I'd be surprised if it was there for more than a year. Still it was my first exposure to Super Mario World

[Anonymous No.4959521]

>>4959383
>One of these had Melee
>Start playing it
>Some kid walks up and wants to play, sure, why not
>He says "Go easy on me"
>Utterly destroy him
>MFW

[Anonymous No.4959529]

I'm spanish and I remember seeing the Haunted Castle arcade machine in an old spanish train station. It was weird because there wasn't any other cabinet or videogames, it was just that game alone in a corner. Futhermore, the game was even a rare one, very difficult to see in most places.

[Anonymous No.4960568]

I've seen a few of these things at McDonalds and movie theaters here before, also at toy stores like intertoys.
Surprisingly enough it was rarer to see them in videogame stores.
I managed to obtain a couple of these for myself.

[Anonymous No.4961092]

>>4959515
those SNES Nintendo cabinets have a weird build to them

[Anonymous No.4961126]

>>4959216
And pizza joints.

[Anonymous No.4961136]

My dentist had both a Pac-Man arcade table and an n64 setup. It was the first and only time I played banjo kazooie as a kid.

[Anonymous No.4961165]

All I really saw them in were electronic stores, super stores or actual vidya stores, never saw them anywhere unusual.

My mum did tell me a story of when there was a space invaders cabinet in a local Fish and Chips shop she lived near, she apparently got to know the guy who worked there from just frequenting it a few times. She never cared for vidya but she used to hear people complain about some dude who had the highest score and people didn't know who he was or ever saw him in here, turned out the guy with the highest score was the guy who worked there who played on it hours after they closed.

[Anonymous No.4962176]

>>4959515
The d-pad is really big on these, but surprisingly comfy and clicky.

[Anonymous No.4962937]

>>4959216
>putting a coin op machine in a coin op laundromat was "unconventional"
lel. OP doesn't "mean" anything. He's just fishing for content for his totally unique and not shit youtube shit. Or summer school shit. If you can't see that would you be interested in being the BENEFICIARY OF ONE MILLION UNITED STATES DOLLARS?

[Anonymous No.4962954]

My Pizza Hut had Bubble Bobble near the entrance and my siblings and I would play it.

[Anonymous No.4964735]

>>4961165
That's sort of a neat story thanks for sharing anon.

[Anonymous No.4968061]

>>4961165
tfw you will never live in this era of intense public competition amongst a small pool of locals again

[Anonymous No.4968415]

>>4959212
There was a PS2 plugged into the McDonald’s near me playing Tak 3 however you couldn’t even move on the first screen since the controller analog stick was broken

[Anonymous No.4968552]

>>4959212

The local MacDonalnds near me had some n64's set up in the big play area just like these, but it was laughable because on of them had Majora's mask on it and every kid that grabbed the controller couldn't figure out the platform jumping at the very beginning right after you gain control of Link. (pre falling down the hole)

[Anonymous No.4968609]

my local McDonalds used to have those terrible Philips CD-I """games"""

[Anonymous No.4971135]

>>4959212
At my local Price Chopper (grocery store chain in NY state) there was a play place my mom would dump me at while shopping. They had a fat PS2 and an N64 there. I played the shit out of Mega Man 8 and Mario 64 there. Unlikely that anyone else went here, but it's the one at Mohawk Commons in Niskayuna. They removed the play place room a few years ago and replaced it with lotto machines or something.

[Anonymous No.4971148]

>>4959212
The Fred Meyer's in Vancouver, WA (Fisher's Landing location)
used to have a Tekken 1 cabinet in the east entrance.