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Too bad that they got rid of that Time-Out at the Springfield Mall and
replaced it with a minature scooter/motorcycle store.
I still curse that store everytime I pass it....
bastards...
"Nate Goulet" <askifyouwantaaddress@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> Very cool place, and nice pics.
>
> Looks like about 1980 until I saw the Tempest side art & Tron poster.
>
> Maybe the pics were taken in different years. There are certainly a
> lot of games that looked too old to be in an arcade around 1980, and
> that looks like the type of place that was going for state-of-the-art
> games, so i'd doubt they would have that many older games in there
> still.
>
> I spent a lot of time in arcades between 1974/5 - present, but never
> took many pictures. What I would give for pictures of the Dream
> Machine arcade at Lincoln Mall, which I first started going to around
> 1974 or 75, before there were any video games except maybe Pong.
>
> My Dad did take a video in 1985 of the Grand Prix arcade in Florida.
> World's largest arcade. His videography isn't too great, but i'd
> happy to have it just the same. We have another video from the Grix
> Prix in it's 2nd location around 1988.
>
> The Grand Prix was in a castle, and it was pretty cool. You'd see 10+
> Pacmans in a row, etc. It's still the biggest arcade even now in it's
> present location, but far from the best anymore.
>
> We were able to dig up an 8mm film of me playing Defender at Cedar's
> Point amusement park in 1981, a quick video shot of Star Castle &
> Armor Attack at Rocky Point amusement park in 1984, and stuff like
> that. No pans of the rest of the games. How??
>
> I took several pictures from my Jan 2000 trip.
>
> Over the past 10 years i've taken many arcade pictures.
>
> On 8 Jul 2005 13:20:06 -0700, peter@peterhirschberg.com wrote:
>
>>The Station Break looks like 1980 (there's Battlezone, Galaxian, and
>>Pacman). The Time Out photos look like from various years. Some have
>>only B&W pong type games and EM machines, so those are mid-early '70s
>>I'd guess. I would put some of the other Time Out photos at around '77
>>(Space Wars and Lemans).
>>
>>-Peter
>>
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