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Arcade Lifestyle / Re: ArcadeLifeStyle in Los Angeles & Las Vegas ?
« on: January 22, 2009, 06:53:31 AM »
Quote from: DarthNuno on January 21, 2009, 10:32:07 AM
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  :oops:

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!

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Arcade Lifestyle / Re: ArcadeLifeStyle in Los Angeles & Las Vegas ?
« on: January 21, 2009, 01:46:28 AM »
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...

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Arcade Lifestyle / Re: ArcadeLifeStyle in Los Angeles & Las Vegas ?
« on: January 21, 2009, 01:33:29 AM »
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...

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Arcade Lifestyle / Re: ArcadeLifeStyle in Los Angeles & Las Vegas ?
« on: January 20, 2009, 02:44:09 AM »
Ah, good thing you got to see Westwood's arcade while it was still alive. Here's what it looked like as of a few weeks ago:


http://www.flickr.com/photos/slonie/3191037542/

It's very sad, considering I used to go there all the time! (they used to have Motor Raid too, which is my favorite Model 2 game besides Daytona...)

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