To compliment the cool '80s shopping mall arcade video below, here's a nifty looking screengrab image (via the fabulous CinemArcade) from that same animated short, that you can use as a desktop wallpaper if you're so inclined (and nostalgic), to relive a radical day at the mall back in the '80s!
Friday, March 30, 2007
MOA Galleria - Mall Arcade
To compliment the cool '80s shopping mall arcade video below, here's a nifty looking screengrab image (via the fabulous CinemArcade) from that same animated short, that you can use as a desktop wallpaper if you're so inclined (and nostalgic), to relive a radical day at the mall back in the '80s!
just like the old Dream Machine at Eastfield Mall in Springfield Mass. It is long gone now but I still remember the mirrored ceilings
ReplyDeleteI remember that short, I saw that about 4 years ago or such. More or less, it makes me sad knowing I can't find a place like that anymore in town, and thus I have to resort to artificially simulating that on my PC via emulators. :-(
ReplyDeleteStill not a total loss.
I wish there were still arcades that looked like this, too. So very cool.
ReplyDeleteAre there still arcades??? I haven't seen one in a mall in about a decade.
ReplyDeleteThis one reminds me of the arcade at Euclid Square Mall in Ohio where my cousin and I used to go play Pacman. Dark, moody and full of cheesy 80s computer graphics!
There are so few mall arcades left here in New England. I used to hang out at the Dream Machine in Lincoln, RI (One state over from "anonymouses" ...same mirrored ceilings) every friday night.
ReplyDeleteGood times.
I remember the old Dream Machine at Eastfield Mall in Springfield Mass as well. I was 16 and used to work at the Sears in the stockroom and go down to the arcade during my lunch break. This was in the mid to late eighties. I remember it being almost pitch black in there apart from the glowing displays. It had very much the feel of a cave. There was an upper level walkway along the wall, like a catwalk, with stand up games on it. Lots of pinball, it was great, girls in their eighties outfits and hair... good memories... Ahhhh, nostalgia... :-) I remember going back years later and there was a new Dream Machine arcade, it was all bright and open, I hated it. I guess that is gone now too, no place for an arcade when kids have PS3's, Wii's and Xbox 360's at home, but they don't know what they are missing...
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