This is, quite possibly, the greatest place on the earth. I finally have a reason to go to Springfield, Missouri…
The name of this thread depresses me.
LOL… I know… it is a sad day when realize that your childhood is considered classic and vintage…
That does look like a fun place. I’m older than most of you and remember spending a lot of time in the arcades in the 80s
I’m not sure I dig calling old video games classics. I can remember clear as day waiting for Spy Hunter or Mrs. Pac-Man to come out and standing in the ever present half circle crowd around the cabinet to put a quarter in it. oooooo, this is bad.
Pretty soon I’ll be saying things like whippersnapper or calling anyone not in their twenties kids.
Yep…back in the old days I had to walk a mile to the pizza place just to play a video game…saved up all week to do it, did extra chores around the house…dusted the Betamax, drank my Ovaltine, would force myself to choose between Voyagers and Buck Rogers and watch on my black and white television…
now get off my lawn! Dang kids.
So, for the record, there is never EVER a reason to visit Springfield, MO… do you know how close that is to Branson??? 
On another note, my wife and I had a house built last November. I was sitting in my office playing WoW when my dog starting going bat-$#!%… I look out the back window and some neighborhood teens are cutting through my backyard to get to the park. I wasn’t upset, but my dog was driving me nuts and they were riding their bikes in the soft wet dirt… so I open my window to chastise them for making ruts in my yard and just barely stop myself from telling kids to get off my lawn… it was a sad sad day.
brittonlj,
Your walker and hip-replacement coupon are now officially in the mail.
Hmmm…video arcades didn’t exist when I was a kid. They started appearing after I graduated high school and was working. I remember having a choice of pinball or skeeball…etc. Then again I didn’t have to wait for 21 to drink.
I’ll take that walker and hip-replacement coupon! I’ll need them both next spring.
Wait wait wait, you played videogames outside in groups? why not just play it at home? Boy, the eighties sure were crazy. Thank goodness I’m a nineties child, we only had cool stuff like the backstreet boys, Gex the gecko and New Labour.
Because those machines were too big to nick.
I am seeing the most horrific flashbacks to 1980-84
The arcades in Adelaide were Downtown…Tilt… oh gods, please make it STOP! Space Invaders…Asteroids…oh the horror. The HORROR!
Must_work_to_stop_thinking_!
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Right there with you, man
Hell, I already do this and I think I’m about the same age as you, Sean. I have to watch myself sometimes when I call my college students “kids.”
Time is a cruel, unforgiving mistress.
you think thats bad, I’m 18 and last week I actually said on a trip to a club both “why do they have to play the music so loud?” and “Sure she looks good in that dress but she must be freezing (we were outside at this point)” Yeah, talk about being old before your time.
ummmm i was alive in 1994???
still looks fun to play all of the OLD CLASSISC…even thiugh their RELICS of a OLDER generation
Ever hear Stairway to Heaven in an elevator? Ouch. Big, big ouch.
Apparently spelling and grammar are also old classics and relics of an older generation. 
I have sweaters older than you, DocP.
And, yeah, the thread title is depressing. I remember when arcades were all pinball machines and mechanical games and remember when this suddenly showed up.
((tanstaafl wanders off muttering about kids staying offa his LAN…))