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Did anyone ever remember seeing or playing the Firefox (Based on the Clint Eastwood Movie not the browser) In arcades? I think i only ever saw it once in a service station on the way up to Scotland on holiday when i was pretty young. It was laserdisk based if i remember. Sortof played like a crappier version of Afterburner or G-Loc.
 
I do remember going several times during the mid 1990s to the ones in Margate, and that was when Daytona USA and Sega Rally were in vogue. I loved Daytona USA - with the force feedback steering.

Sega Rally was also good - because of trying to control the car with a manual gearbox and clutch - and I had only recently passed my driving test!

I do also remember Virtual Fighter.

I suppose the mid 1990s were the arcades' last stand, so to speak - as those specific games(along with things like Ridge Racer and Virtual Cop), were probably the last memorable arcade experiences before the technology of the games consoles, like the Playstation and later on the Dreamcast(although sadly that didn't last long) and the PC made going to arcade superfluous.
 
As a kid I would drag my parents into the arcades. As a teenager and early twenties I remember the fantastic arcade at the Trocadero in Piccadily circus. Such a shame that kids won't get that same experience nowadays.
 
Hades said:
As a kid I would drag my parents into the arcades. As a teenager and early twenties I remember the fantastic arcade at the Trocadero in Piccadily circus. Such a shame that kids won't get that same experience nowadays.
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Trocadero was epic. I am glad I got to experience it growing up. It is a shame the Namco arcade has shut down a while back as well.
 
JoeBoi said:
Trocadero was epic. I am glad I got to experience it growing up. It is a shame the Namco arcade has shut down a while back as well.
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There were 2 Namcos. The one by the millennium wheel but before that was the lesser known Namco wonderpark on Windmill St where a lot of the hardcore gamers went. If a button ever broke someone would replace it almost immediately. It was great.

For arcade cabs I'm tempted by this. It'll be expensive at around £1200 but a consideration. 26" 4:3 ratio and sit down. Chuck a Mister in there and yey.

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Zatoichi.uK said:
There were 2 Namcos. The one by the millennium wheel but before that was the lesser known Namco wonderpark on Windmill St where a lot of the hardcore gamers went. If a button ever broke someone would replace it almost immediately. It was great.

For arcade cabs I'm tempted by this. It'll be expensive at around £1200 but a consideration. 26" 4:3 ratio and sit down. Chuck a Mister in there and yey.

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New Home Arcade Product - The Unico Nova Blast Candy Cab!

In this video we’re going to take a look at a new product by Unico! This is a new home arcade product that aims to bring Japanese style candy cabs into your...
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I'd never been or heard of that one. Sounds like it shutdown in the late 90s. I wasn't going up London with friends until around 14/15, which was well after that place shut. We used to go Trocodero, but it sounds like that Windmill St arcade was amazing. I cannot find much on it though, it looks like others on an arcade forum were looking for images and was having difficult outside of a TV series called Ultra Violet.

The candy arcade cabinet that company are building looks pretty good, sounds expensive though :D. Might be quite difficult to import as well! Great to see more companies trying to keep the hobby alive.
 
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JoeBoi said:
I'd never been or heard of that one. Sounds like it shutdown in the late 90s. I wasn't going up London with friends until around 14/15, which was well after that place shut. We used to go Trocodero, but it sounds like that Windmill St arcade was amazing. I cannot find much on it though, it looks like others on an arcade forum were looking for images and was having difficult outside of a TV series called Ultra Violet.

The candy arcade cabinet that company are building looks pretty good, sounds expensive though :D. Might be quite difficult to import as well! Great to see more companies trying to keep the hobby alive.
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Yeah it's like it never existed. Think it was used in some random music video once and disappeared before camera phones became a thing. It really was amazing.

I stopped going sometime after Street Fighter 3 became a thing. Its funny how everyone seems to speak fondly of it as almost no one played it back then.
 
I went to a fairground for the first time in about 20 years recently and I was stunned to find that there was no arcade section.
That used to be my main reason for going, but it's now regarded as entirely obsolete.
 
I've finally noticed NQ64 in the northern quarter, manchester. God knows how many times I've just walked passed it or even stood outside it without knowing it was a retro arcade. I think the next time I have friends pop up, I'll try to get them to go.

The games does seem to be limited, do I have to pay per play or is it free play once I buy a ticket?
 
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