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>>12128032found the terminator
To be fair, that's a roller rink. A bunch of those are still around, often surviving from the 80s, and still have arcade machines scattered around. They're usually newer stuff nowadays, though.
The Arcades in Robocop 2 or Terminator 2 were more like it.
You gotta be like 50 years old now to have been a teenager in the big roller rink era. There are probably not many that old even in /vr/
>>12128029Games were harder back then and people weren't pussies like they are now. Technology was limited so arcades had to find creative ways to drum up business.>t. Hung out at an arcade in the 80s with mafiosi staff who'd shoot at me while I played Gravitar.
>>12128218The TMNT footclan lair in the movie just looked like a pool hall meets a chucky cheese.
>>12128029>mr.do survives and is still runningnice>atari logo in framei wonder how much these game developers paid to have their machines in the shot?
>>12128029>what was it like to be old enough to post here?so tired of these fucking bot threads
>>12128029This happened all the time at my arcade. I still have the scars.
>>12128194we had a very popular roller rink place in my area in the 90s which was THE place to hold birthday parties. only 36
>>12128194I think it depends on where you live. We had Great Skate in the the late 90s/early 00s where all the middle schools liked to hang out. Mainly just because where the fuck else are a bunch of middle schoolers supposed to hang out.
yeah i as well had a roller rink which was one of the main hangout spots in the mid 90s. games like wrestlemania, primal rage, lucky and wild
>>12128458Same. Oaks Park in Portland. We also had Skate World well into the 90s
>>12128029Yes. Every time I went to play some TMNT, there was a new shootout. Many people died but at least I held a high score for 1 month.
>>12128194We have a roller rink that was made recently, it's not hard to stay open if you have themed events, cheap food and a liquor license. Allowing private event bookings help too.That said, I'd love to go to the Oaks Amusement Park as they have a Wurlitzer pipe organ suspended over their roller rink.
>>12128194lol. newfag doesn't know that every zoomer on /vr/ is >9kyo and had done everything, owned every thing, and been everywhere anyone has ever made a youtube about.
>>12128194Hey, I'm only 45.
>>12128605That's fucking sick.
>>12128194Actually the one in our city that's been around for like 50 years recently got renovated, and it was still pretty popular in the late 90s.
>>12128029You should fuck off back to /v/ and take your low quality thread with you, cancer.
>>12129627You have no idea. I don't either, but I want to.
>>12129745help! a whimsical thread where we discuss what arcades were like in yesteryear! this is NOT okay! give me 10 more "save the saturn" threads STAT!
>>12130280I could make a thread by just typing "." and it would generate some discussion, but it's not a good thread opener in any way. What you Mexicans don't understand is that if you want good discussion, you should also make an effort yourself and not leave all the entire work to other anons.
>>12130287sorry but everyone who isnt retarded understood the op webm was a tongue-in-cheek why to get a discussion going about arcades being "seedy"
>>12128029What's the movie?
>>12130351Death Wish... 4? I believe.
>>12130357There's a 4th one?
>>12130358There are five of 'em
>>12130280Where are my sega system threads?
>>12128194Bullshit we had one in my town when I was a kid and early teen and it was THE spot to hang out on the weekends. We would smoke cigarettes behind the place and play the arcade games which they had several including MK2 and the X-Men arcade. They had Ninja Gaiden at one point too. As I became an older teen it sort of became less popular as a hang out spot and then closed. There is still one in a neighboring town though. I am 40.
>>12130360https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pGb_nQZrvFU
>>12128029No, that's what a roller rink looked like in the 80s.In the 80s and 90s it was common to find arcade machines everywhere. From pizza parlors to laundromats. It was truly a better time.
>>12128194Floyd Mayweather (yes the boxer) recently bought the old Crystal Palace roller rink here in Vegas and turned it around.
