In General Gaming

Going out to the arcade these days is like going out to a resturaunt to eat: you dont need to but you love to. I'm admittedly an Arcade-Rat since '93, and continue to be such. Who still goes to these places of wonder, and what cool arcade/gaming spots are in your area?

At least bi-weekly I take the bus to downtown Portland to an arcade called Wunderland. It has the coolest machines ever, and the best part is all the machines run on nickels. (10 cents to play Tekken 5 ^___^, and a quarter to play DDR for 4 songs.) It has like, over a hundred machines.

There are no arcades round where I live.
And when I'm at university in Munich there are some, but only expensive, smoke filled holes (arcades are for adults only in Germany)... so I don't go.

I went to some nice arcades in Japan. There are also some few places where a game only costs 10 or 50 Yen. That's nice.

There aren't any arcades in my locality. Near where I study, in my students union, there's a few, but they aren't too good. There's another bar near there that has a machine where you can choose to play Mario, Donkey Kong etc. There's also another bar that has Metal Slug cabinets, but it's really awful and you have to pay to get in.
Unfortunately, when I return, i'll be living too far away to just "pop in"

There's one arcade near me, and it's at the theater. The best cabinet they have is Metal Slug, and it's not set up properly, it's missing a damn button!

At least bi-weekly I take the bus to downtown Portland to an arcade called Wunderland. It has the coolest machines ever, and the best part is all the machines run on nickels. (10 cents to play Tekken 5 ^___^, and a quarter to play DDR for 4 songs.) It has like, over a hundred machines.
Heh. You're not far from me, being from Hillsboro. I'm from Portland (barely, I'm almost in Milwaukee), and occasionally I'll hit the Wunderland on Belmont street that has the theater. I used to go there all the time, well, until I started buying consoles, and I think this is how the arcades died out for the most part, people started getting more content to play video games at home. I'll still go to that Wunderland, though, when I can scrape up some cash.

The Arcades in the early 90's was an awesome time i can remember seeing lots of people standing around the MK 2 machine watching two people play.

There's a Gameworks relatively close to where I live... it's nice, but there's too much damn focus on racing games, and the House of the Dead lightguns usually shoot sideways... but they do have LA Guns there, which is a prerequisite for an awesome arcade.

Thats the one I go to! ^^ The one in Beaverton sucks majorly.

Luke are you talking about the Arcade at Famous players? They had POWer Stone at the one near me but they removed it. But they still have a NEO-GEO with Bust-A-Move,Metal slug and a Golf game. Also House of the Dead 2!