ArcadeLifeStyle in Los Angeles & Las Vegas ?

[Slonie]

Unfortunately, yes...The same one. I used to go there daily!

UCLA used to have an amazing arcade (actually two arcades), but it was shut down and turned into a Jamba Juice, even before Westwood Arcade closed its doors. Then, more recently, UCLA re-opened a smaller arcade with less than 20 cabinets. Better than nothing, I suppose...

I can post pictures of the new one later, but to see if I have photos of the old one, will require digging in the archives...

[Slonie]

Okay, here's the photos of the current UCLA arcade...Just a shadow of its former self. However, it has several new games (like Street Fighter IV).

http://www.flickr.com/photos/slonie/sets/72157612759002961/

I think I caught every game in there in this photoset, there's nothing else. I still have memories of the old one, with 60" projector cabinets for the new fighting games, big heavy cabinets like Desert Tank, linked Daytona and Daytona 2, WAR: Final Assault (4-player), Super GT, Time Crisis 2 twin, and rows of standard cabinets with games like Zero Gunner, Shock Troopers,  and The Outfoxies...

[DarthNuno]

Well, regarding the current pictures... even with new games such 'Street Fighter', this place doesn't give me the desire to play overthere ...



... I mean, the environment looks so 'cold' ... without life... it looks like an operating room  No neon, no posters, ... sad 

[Slonie]

Well, regarding the current pictures... even with new games such 'Street Fighter', this place doesn't give me the desire to play overthere ...



... I mean, the environment looks so 'cold' ... without life... it looks like an operating room  No neon, no posters, ... sad 

Can't disagree with you there....The old arcade had plenty of posters. I really wish I was around when they were packing up so I could get the Raiden Fighters 2 poster on foam core...I always had my eye on that one. But don't go too hard on the new arcade, after all, it's new.

As a consolation, I'll make a gallery of all my arcade pictures from Japan...



That can be its own thread though... Off-topic for this thread!

[DarthNuno]

.I always had my eye on that one. But don't go too hard on the new arcade, after all, it's new...

Yes, you're right ( ) . Let's give the operator more time for the decorations. It's still nice to see arcade in 2009 . Congratulation & courage to the operator, because it's not an easy task to keep an arcade room alive ... in 2009   

Let's wish them good luck 

[vib_ribbon]

This is me at the Pinball Hall of Fame over Christmas... it's not far from the strip and well worth the trip. Definitely one of the high lights.

[DarthNuno]

This is me at the Pinball Hall of Fame over Christmas... it's not far from the strip and well worth the trip. Definitely one of the high lights.

Thanks for the pictures Vib 

Arg...How can I miss that place  We were very 'lazy' for this 
I remember ...we were in Vegas... in the morning, and we asked to a policeman where that pinballs Museum is located... he said : it's not on the strip, you've to get a cab' ... but it's only open after noon or evening... and after a long walk into the strip during all the afternoon/evening... we were so tired...  ....
...and we missed the opportunity to visit the Museum.. Shame on me 

Vib, only pinballs over there ? No arcade games ?

[vib_ribbon]

wow, i'm surprised that a policeman would know where it is, cos we caught the bus to get there and even the bus driver didn't know where it is!

anyway, here are some arcade games in there...

me on 4 player track n field cocktail looking like i need the toilet:


you'd like this:


paperboy is still good after all these years!


wanted to see how rubbish i am on out run... only level 3 for me. 


wanted to compare this with fred's tron:


a lot of the games had bad screen burn...i didn't mind.


peasant of kong:

[DarthNuno]

And among all the beautiful things to see in Las Vegas & around, let's try to see what is being done on the 'mainstream arcade level',  16 years after this first topic! 

Not for far from the strip, a place called Area 15 :



Some classics, here and there inside the building...





...but also a 'true' arcade bar on two levels (upstair for adults, downstair for everyone) :









On the strip, there is a 'Stranger Things' exhibition (close to the M&Ms store), with several rooms, and one of them is a mini arcade game room :



At the entrance of the MGM casino, a small game room with 20 games... but no real classic :



Inside the Circus Circus, in the middle of the park you can find a couple of games...





An other game room at the Hard Rock casino/hotel... no classic or so, like most of places here now ...







OK, this is by far the most interresting place to go for people like us ... the Las Vegas Pinball Hall of Fame Pinball Museum 



A couple of old friends (games I owned)  :







What the hell? I cannot be something else than a generic cabinet equipped with the official Ultracade kit released during the 20th DL anniversary era... 



some other interessting ones :





















Impossible to miss it, follow the sign   



OK, better than pictures, here a video walkthrough I filmed the 1st of January 2024, right before going to the airport :


(click on picture)

[Belike]

Thanks for the tons of pics, it is really nice to see, that there are still a lot of classics in Vegas.