Video games arcades (80's - 90's games) in the UK

Can't remember last time I walked into an arcade and saw a cabinet that even had a joystick, all shooting/dance machines now.

I normally do a trip out along the SE coast every few weeks for a walk and a bite to eat, normally check out the arcade while I'm at it, but like you said, they're all slot machines.

Used to love Hastings Pier as a kid.
 
Where I work is mostly pushers and gamblers now. The oldest machine I can think of that we're still running is a Sega Manx tt. The only decent machine we have left is a stern Simpson's pinball. The golden days of arcade gaming are over. :(
 
I think the days of great video games arcades are pretty much over, which is a real pity.

I remember the Coral Island arcade in Blackpool. Went there many many times as a kid as we pretty much went to Blackpool once a year growing up with family. It used to have pretty much everything you could want to play. I still sometimes have dreams where I'm back there in its glory days. Went to it a few years ago and its a shell of its former self, just a handful of shooting and racing games and the rest slot machines and 2 pence machines.

If I ever won big money on the lottery, I would totally make my own retro arcade. Fill it with all the old 80s/90s machines I could find.
 
It would be an interesting project, I think I would avoid having all the old hardware in there where possible...it would likely be a nightmare to maintain.
 
Seen a few projects with people building a custom cabinet and using emulation like Mame to run 1000's of old and still very playable games I used to frequent in arcades. Over 5k lost arcade games swimming around its a lost franchise to walk up to a box a pop a coin in.
 
many arcades still have em and stow away arcades at places like skeggy yarmouth black pool you just have to look.

cant beat a bit of kung fu mater or wonderboy :D

could always just buy your fav they arnt as expensive as many think.
 
Deith Leisure was a customer of mine many years back. They used to make all the arcade games for Sega and I used to often have lonnnnnng meetings there :)
 
what was the game like salamander but it had a man in a space suit a dog and a eagle annoys the hell out of me but was a class game :p

cant seem to work it out.
 
I guess the fact that you can have something more powerful at home than you can in arcade pretty much killed the video game arcade stone dead. The big deal used to be going to play on something with amazing graphics and gameplay and you would wait months for the 'arcade conversion' to come to your C64/Speccy or Amiga/ST.

Kids now would turn their noses up at Dragon Ninja or Shinobi because they have better in their pockets! In my childhood finding an arcade with Star Wars or Battlezone would have made my day. Going to the arcade was like peering in to the future. Now it's like peering in to a desperate £7 jackpot world.
 
Would love to go somewhere that did these games, always used to pop in the shop on the way to school and upstairs they had a pool table and some arcades at 10p a go. Commando, R-Type, Double Dragon, Street's of rage, Final fight and some aeroplane game down scroller. All gone now though :(
 
spookywillow said:
Would love to go somewhere that did these games, always used to pop in the shop on the way to school and upstairs they had a pool table and some arcades at 10p a go. Commando, R-Type, Double Dragon, Street's of rage, Final fight and some aeroplane game down scroller. All gone now though :(
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Aeroplane game 1942/1943 probably?
 
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