[PROJECT] Arcadia - put yourself on the map!!

[Draco1962]

I have played my share of penny ante poker with lots of beer and my only fear was passing out only to wake up to find my hand in a warm cup of water and my pants wet or my eyebrow shaved off. For as "advanced" as our nation thinks it is, it isn't.

[DazzleHP]

LOL

[stigzler]

The topic of revival arcades is an interesting one. I put one on the map in London (HOG) - they basically snapped up all of the arcade machines when that massive one in (Leicester) Square closed. I remember going in there - it was like the weatherspoons of arcades. There's some articles against the HOG entry.

My fondest: being 8 on holiday in wales. Small village - parents drinking, me and a mate found a back room arcade room - must have only been 5 games in there. But.. one was Spy Hunter - running into the pub every 30 minutes - "can I have another 50p?"

it's courageous and dare i say i little crazy................

PS: this is open to UK too?

If you dare say it, I dare be it, Dazzle. And yes, open to all! This region thing keeps coming up... maybe I need to rewrite something somewhere. Dazzle - get yer pin on! There's no other UK builders on there yet.... do the side proud

[hansolo77]

Do you want to know the locations of establishments that have pinball machines and arcade cabinets? At first I thought it was just a pinmap for identifying where people live that are members here. I could easily list off about 4 places that have some. A pizza joint around the corner has a Roller Coaster Tycoon pinball machine, there's a Chuck-E-Cheeses further down the road and a Dave and Busters about 2 miles north of where I live. Also, there's always a "mini-arcade" inside movie theaters and bowling alleys. I know of 2 around where I live that have some games. Plus, since you guys started talking about fruit machines, we have 2 casinos locally here that have tons of slot machines; they're kinda arcady. Let me know if you would like me to add them. I haven't been to the Chuck-E-Cheeses or Dave and Busters or the Bowling Alley to see what they have, but I could at least pin the location.

I think it would be awesome if somebody close by where I live would come forward that makes cabinets/pincabs. We could become buddies for life and make/sell them!

[stigzler]

If you think they would be of interest to others, Hans then definitely add them!!

I think it would be awesome if somebody close by where I live would come forward that makes cabinets/pincabs. We could become buddies for life and make/sell them!

..and that is one of the main ideas of this Found out a while ago that there's a fella who lives 15 miles away who makes them too....in...some...forum...post..I..read...once. Can I remember which post/forum!? No. However, a map of builders, you say?....

[Draco1962]

I went ahead and moved this to the User Projects subforum. While not a direct GameEx project per se`, I think that it may eventually provide more useful information for users looking for builders and historical info in their area as more data is added. I hope that everyone will get behind this project and continue to add info to the site and commend Stigzler for his efforts!

[stigzler]

Whatta gent.

[Draco1962]

I added a few more today and will continue as more come to light.

[Draco1962]

I think you need to expand the categories to include Pinball Machines, Arcade Machines (both have a different definition than PinCab and Arcade Cab). Also, can you please change my personal entry to System Builder - Hobbyist? Thanks!

[stigzler]

Done, done and done, cheers Draco! The tags feedback is very helpful as takes knowing what kinda tags people want ....