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Inside The Worst Videogame Arcade In The World?
Anonymous Coward writes "Arcades may be a dying breed, so it's a good thing the crusty hotels around the world haven't put the axe to their old game rooms. An article at X-Entertainment provides a lighthearted review of one of the worst hotel arcades out there, featuring broken video games and enough stains to make every joystick in the place off limits."
This is nothing. At least the game machines had the correct sidepanels and banner titles, and no one was currently having *sex* on them...
Bad memories...
Now I feel very bad for Matt, the site's owner. The site is already popular enough...but now the link for this article has made its way to Fark (as much of his work does) and to Slashdot.
Poor Matt...say goodbye to your house. You'll be living in a cardboard box from now on... :)
Goo goo g'joob.
My parents are both postal workers. One day I was vititing them and noticed that they had some arcade machines in the break room. One was a shooting game. The poor trigger had been worn down to a nub from all the people playing constantly, shooting villans and innocents on the game.
nah. That's not totally true but it would have been hilarious if it was.
I started university over here in the UK In '94, and my hall of residence's bar had various pinball tables over the five years I was there, including the World Cup '94 one, it was possibly the most fun I've ever had with a set of flippers and a little metal ball.
The great thing about it was that it was designed in the States, the one nation on earth that doesn't get football. It showed.
At no point in playing this table did any of the bonuses, options or 'rounds' bear any resemblance to real football terminology. I'm so glad they didn't, it was much more fun taking the piss out of it while playing it for three or four hours a day.
Now, why didn't I get my degree again...?
Listening for the sound of the coming rain...