When was the last time you went to an arcade?

[Random Variable]

The last game I remember playing at an arcade was Mortal Kombat 3. So I guess I haven't been to an arcade for about 12 years.

 

[Ns1]

too long ago

MvC2 pwns

 

[funkymatt]

about 2 years ago, i was playing area 51.

 

[Atomic Playboy]

I went last year, but we pretty much just played skee-ball. Games these days are too bizarre; a whole bunch of DDR type games. Boring.

-EDIT- Actually, I was in an arcade for my nephew's birthday party this January. I was kicking ass at Marvel vs. Capcom 2 and air hockey.

 

[Vehemence]

Vegas a few years back. There was this fine girl that went in there so I followed, but couldn't find her. Then I felt like a pedo so I played House of the Dead for a few hours (I love those games) and went back to gambling.

Maybe 3 years ago?

 

[MmmSkyscraper]

They have arcade machines at the bowling alley but I guess a few games on those don't count. It's probably been 15 years at least.

 

[hanoverphist]

real arcades dont exist here anymore i dont think. but i do go to the new arcades, ie peter piper pizza, bowling alleys and such with my kids regularly. fiddlesticks and golfland are pretty cool ones too, lots of games to play. i was just there a couple weeks ago.

 

[PottedMeat]

~6 years I guess. Was an arcade on Guadalupe street in Austin where most of the games were a quarter - decent games too. Everywhere else at the time was looking for 50+ cents to 2 dollars to play a damn game.

 

[nakedfrog]

3-4 years ago?
This place
I spent a lot of time in arcades from 1984-1990, though.

 

[TruePaige]

About 11 months ago, some DDR fun.

 

[Epic Fail]

If you count an arcade as having more than 10 machines, then it would be in a casino 2 years ago.

 

[waggy]

last arcade i went to (2 years ago) sucked. the majority of the games were $1 each. some were $3-5.

just not worth it

 

[Nitemare]

10 years ago or so

 

[Descartes]

Does Dave and Busters count? The wife and I go there sometimes when we're feeling dorky. She's pretty competitive.

As far as the old-school arcades, I haven't been there in years. I used to play Mortal Kombat (all flavors) and Street Fighter allll the time as a kid.

 

[HeroOfPellinor]

8 years ago I went to Dave and Busters with a couple friends.

I mostly played ticket games and came home with some really nice coffee mugs and a couple spill proof cup things.

 

[jtvang125]

Arcades today are such a rip off. Most games are $.50 even the really old ones. The more interactive ones are around $1. And they turn the difficultly up so high that $1 probably gets you about 2 or 3 minutes of play only.

 

[nageov3t]

probably 5-6 years ago.

I had some friends in college who really loved going to arcades, so I'd go with them, but arcades aren't really my thing... I'd just screw around on the pinball machines wasting time waiting for them to get bored.

 

[jonks]

Except for attending a birthday at a bar in Brooklyn with dozens of 80s arcade machines, MK3 is about right.

 

[Slew Foot]

That what my video games consoles area for

 

[Terabyte]

There's a small arcade on campus. I usually go there to get a soda or play the claw machine. Damn that claw machine to hell!!!

 

[Chronoshock]

There's an arcade in the student center, it got cut in half recently to make way for a bank =/ I used to go last year to play DDR.

 

[mugs]

2 years ago in Las Vegas (GameWorks, best arcade I've ever been in )

 

[KeithTalent]

Over a year ago, when I was in Japan. I became sort of addicted to Drum Mania and Half Life 2: Survivor. I never even knew they had released a Half Life game for the arcade until I saw it there.

KT

 

[Injury]

Gameworks in February.

Would be better if there weren't a bunch of kids loitering but somehow even teenagers are so enticed by the flashing lights of games that they will sit there for 5 minutes acting like they are playing the game (while watching the demos) and won't GTFO of the way of people who actually want to play. It happens so often I almost think it's on purpose.

 

[Born2bwire]

I head over to the student union once a in a while to hit up pinball. They took out their arcade and pool hall. The instead cannablized a few lanes out of the bowling alley to put in a few pool tables and a couple of arcade machines. Bastards.