Did you hit the arcades?

[pomba gira]

There aren't many arcades around where I live unfortunately, I don't know about in the past though, where I live is pretty empty of many things haha.

In late 2000s Arcades used to exist near my home, but now they're returning in 2024 as part of a supermarket and shopping center hybrid that they'll usher in near my home (Supermercados Guanabara), with the arcades being called PlayToy Park.

[lamento_mori]

I frequently visit the one a few towns from home. It's got a lot of old stuff to play, and I love it there!

[Telephone]

I had plenty of arcade experiences as a kid but by the time I was a young teenager it was mostly all gone. I tend to remember the mall arcades as being usually in a sorry state by my time, but they were still there. Lots of memories in hotel game rooms and movie theater lobbies and such though--you used to find games everywhere. I did play a ton of the PS1 Namco Museum games as a kid, and got really into games that I only found out later were never in the US at all, like Toy Pop or Phozon. Huge Namco fan to this day.

Metal Slug too sticks out as a game that whenever I would come across it, it would just blow my mind. It still does, really. The visuals, the variance and depth in animation, the cartoon style, coupled with the violence in that game was just totally crazy to me when I first ran into it.

[Neigdoig]

I have for sure hit a few arcades in the 2010's, but not so much anymore I think. I also did that in the oughts too if I'm not mistaken. (I'm 21, so you'll know where I'm coming from).

[Vogel]

Went a few times, played virtua fighter and tekken

[Kenra]

I have for sure hit a few arcades in the 2010's, but not so much anymore I think. I also did that in the oughts too if I'm not mistaken. (I'm 21, so you'll know where I'm coming from).

Did you spend a lot of coins ?

[pomba gira]

Last time i hit the arcades was at PlayToy Park on Jardim Guadalupe, i have l played Aero Fighters/Sonic Wings 2, Neo Geo Cup '98, Daytona USA, entered the bumper cars, got some tickets to switch into stuff with my sister, etc; They also had Nicktoons Nitro on it.

[pomba gira]

Fun fact: the same Geesen/Game Center/Arcade/Aakeedo on Jardim Guadalupe will also usher in the supermarket+shopping center hybrid near my home (Supermercados Guanabara) except alot bigger (just like the bumper cars'll be) due to the upcoming supermarket+shopping center hybrid's space;

Also fun fact, not only PlayToy Park (Brazilian Geesen/Aakeedo/Arcades)'ll be ushered on Guanabara (the supermarket+shopping center hybrid that will usher near my home on Catiri street or at the Brazil venue), it also includes:

Giraffas:(Brazilian food chain);
Parmé (Brazilian pizza chain);
Bob's (Brazilian fast food chain);
Ragazzo (Brazilian Italian fast food chain);
CASA&VIDEO (Brazilian store with home stuff);
Americanas (former Lojas Americanas; Brazilian konbini or convenience store);
McDonald's;
KFC;
ReiDoMate (Brazilian coffee chain);
Droga Raia (Brazilian drugstore);
Fábrica do Bolo Vó Alzira/Grandma Alzira's Cake Factory (Brazilian cake store);
Sorvete Itália (Brazilian ice cream chain);
Casas Bahia (Brazilian electronic store);
Xiaomi Mi Store;
Cinesystem Cinemas (Brazilian movie theater chain);
Nino's Pizzaria (Same Brazilian Doujin/Indie pizza fast food chain near my home that'll get a unit here).

Fun fact: My sister didn't liked PlayToy Park cuz the games or attractions are well behaved or lack adrenaline to her despite some units having dangerous attractions for her, but life'll change after she goes to Guanabara's upcoming unit.

[++Sparky++]

Well.. I have a lot of memories with arcade machines back in 80s and 90s and at the beginning of the new millennium as well.. I don't know from where I should start..

There's many arcade games I played but I wasn't that good at them anyway I do remember the only game I did well at it was Marvel vs Capcom (I choose Megaman because he's my favorite of course and Jin even though I didn't even know who is Jin at that time but I choose him anyway just to try him out) I defeat every team I face until I reached Onslaught I remember a lot of people gathering around me to see if I will win or not but sadly I lost in the second form I felt like I disappoint them XD..

Other games I remember trying: Waku Waku 7, Gunbird 1 & 2, Metal Slug 2, Red Earth, Fighters Impact, X Men vs Street Fighter, KOF 97,... and many more that I can't remember all of them at the moment..

Now where I live arcade is no longer exist.. it disappeared from every place I know the only thing left is memories only :(

[pomba gira]

Well.. I have a lot of memories with arcade machines back in 80s and 90s and at the beginning of the new millennium as well.. I don't know from where I should start..

There's many arcade games I played but I wasn't that good at them anyway I do remember the only game I did well at it was Marvel vs Capcom (I choose Megaman because he's my favorite of course and Jin even though I didn't even know who is Jin at that time but I choose him anyway just to try him out) I defeat every team I face until I reached Onslaught I remember a lot of people gathering around me to see if I will win or not but sadly I lost in the second form I felt like I disappoint them XD..

Other games I remember trying: Waku Waku 7, Gunbird 1 & 2, Metal Slug 2, Red Earth, Fighters Impact, X Men vs Street Fighter, KOF 97,... and many more that I can't remember all of them at the moment..

Now where I live arcade is no longer exist.. it disappeared from every place I know the only thing left is memories only :(

Although arcades no longer exist in Bangu where i live, but next year 2024 they'll return as the same PlayToy Park from Jardim Guadalupe in the supermarket+shopping center hybrid near my home at both Catiri street and the Brazil venue in Bangu where the works start in 2024 after both Adonai and Assaí Atacadista's usherings (past year for Adonai while this year for Assaí) in Bangu with Dom Atacadista also programmed for the next year; Other than PlayToy Park, other stores in the supermarket+shopping center hybrid inlcude:

Giraffas;
Parmé;
Bob's;
Ragazzo!;
CASA&VIDEO;
Americanas;
McDonald's;
KFC;
ReiDoMate;
Droga Raia;
Fábrica do Bolo Vó Alzira;
Sorvete Itália;
Casas Bahia;
Xiaomi Mi Store (not sure if it's a physical store or a kiosk maybe);
Cinesystem Cinemas;
Nino's Pizzaria.

Total 1+15 stores totalizing 16.

NOTE: PlayToy'll be more than just a generic Arcade where you can also do parties unlike GamePoint, it'll include indoor games like the Bumper Cars (it'll be big, twice as big as Guadalupe's), Bowling, Labamba or Lost in Space.

[pomba gira]

Fun fact: The supermarket+shopping center hybrid near my home is confirmed to have only 16 stores because the space is extremely wide and the fact that PlayToy and Cinesystem will be alot bigger thanks to their space; Plus: the bumper cars will be an improvement in size.

[GaryS]

Only when I was on holiday. I remember playing Final Fight, The Punisher and some other scrolling beat-em-up whose name I can't remember but which ends with one of the playable characters living out his dream to own a hot dog van.

[pomba gira]

Here's my concept for the supermarket+shopping center hybrid near my home:

1st storey'll be the parking lot, coupled with the gas station, PlayToy (arcades) itself and a ramp for the 2nd storey;
2nd storey'll be the stores on a corridor coupled with the supermarket itself;
3rd storey'll be the food court coupled with the movie theater itself.

[Gomamon]

Here's my concept for the supermarket+shopping center hybrid near my home:

1st storey'll be the parking lot, coupled with the gas station, PlayToy (arcades) itself and a ramp for the 2nd storey;
2nd storey'll be the stores on a corridor coupled with the supermarket itself;
3rd storey'll be the food court coupled with the movie theater itself.

Is this what will actually happen? Or just an idea?

[pomba gira]

Is this what will actually happen? Or just an idea?

Will actually happen this year, month unknown.

[Gomamon]

Will actually happen this year, month unknown.

Awesome.

[pomba gira]

Officially confirmed that Bangu Shopping in Bangu where i live will get or have a brand new Geesen/Game Center/Aakeedo/Arcade called Game Station（ゲーム・ステーション）years after Magic Games no longer exists in the same shopping center (and it will be alot better than MG); Plus, the concept will be very similar to HotZone; In fact: I think it might have Bumper Cars, a Russian Mountain and a Carousel.

[diminish]

Arcades were my life when I was growing up and now I'm 42.....still feels like yesterday, anyways, I can't be sure but I think Street Fighter II The World Warrior or maybe Final Fight were my first arcade games. Everything is a blur at this point but I also remember enjoying Killer Instinct 1, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, The Simpsons and X-MEN and Mortal Kombat. It was always a good time when the parents would take me out to Chuck E. Cheese and I'd get pizza and shovel loads of quarters into the arcades they had back then. Been ages since I last saw a Chuck E. Cheese. I'm thankful for home gaming now but being in an arcade was just something else for sure.

[pomba gira]

Fun fact: Realengo where i live has a neighborhood far from it called Jardim Sulacap (or Sulacap for short) and it has a shopping mall called Parque Shopping Sulacap with Neo Geo Family arcades with Bumper Cars.

[Rm4999]

I'm not sure if this counts, but I went to several different casinos in the Black Hawk-Central City, CO area earlier today. I actually won $19 from playing a Tabasco-sauce slot machine (Yes, that is really a thing), but I wasn't so lucky most of the time, either I won a little or nothing. There are sadly no actual arcades in the area, but one of the casinos did have an arcade room when visited back in 2019, but its closed now. Interestingly enough, way back when, I do remember playing Arctic Thunder (That snowmobile racing game from Midway, if anybody remembers), in the basement/lower floor of one of the casinos, which is the earliest memory of me playing an arcade game.