Good Time Emporium Is Actually Closing This Time

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Originally Posted by Frogacuda

I miss that place.

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Me too. Remember they tried to reopen the place. So, moved it inside to the Boscov's side and that's when it closed for good.

Some buds and I went to Frankies Fun Park to do some go karting the other day, and I usually ignore their arcade offerings. Well, I was pleasantly surprised.

I played quite a bit of Afterburner Climax, Ghost Squad, HOTD4, and others. The only bad part was there were really no fighting games. There was a machine that has all the SF2 and Alpha games on it, but it ran on a really shitty emulator.

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Originally Posted by youandwhosearmy

I thought of this place more as a place to get stabbed multiple times if you were better at Street Fighter 2 and Soul Calibur 2 than other people.

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As if they had SF2 or SC2 these days! The only fighting games left are MSHvSF, MvC2, Tekken 5 DR... and... um, I think that's it! Weak. Like I said, things were building to this.

And the key is to be drunk enough not to care. Or drunk enough that the knife doesn't hurt.

Funworld up in NH apparently still exists:
http://www.funworldnh.com/

Haven't been there in over two years though, and last time I went they had got rid of most of the true arcade games for kiddie stuff and DDR. They had a few fighting games, but I can't remember which. My local movie theater also has a driving game, a shooting game, and I think Tekken 4.

People still go to movies despite having HD TVs. I think arcades could still work the same way if they could only find the right set up.

A few years back the arcade in my hometown, Aladdin's Castle, closed down. It was pretty decent; my fondest childhood memory was the $10 Friday lock-ins. Basically, you get there at 9 (when the mall closes), and all the games are on free play until midnight. Free pizza, too.

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Originally Posted by youandwhosearmy

I thought of this place more as a place to get stabbed multiple times if you were better at Street Fighter 2 and Soul Calibur 2 than other people.

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I thought that was the Chinatown arcade in Boston in which someone actually did get stabbed over SFA3 as legend has it. I certainly wouldn't lift an eyebrow at the news of a GT stabbing, though.