Arcadia

So the thing I love about the Manitou Arcade is that unlike your standard (if there is such a thing) video game palace, is that they feature machines from the earliest machines, to the latest craze (not pictured here, as I don’t relate to them 🙂

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Like this early game.   I find the name both hilarious and descriptive, but it now costs a quarter to play.

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These are the sort of machines that gave pinball arcades a bad name.  And no, I did not waste my collection of quarters on them.

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This vintage machine involves making a clown dance or at least hop about.   It’s not very exciting, so I don’t think it gets much use, but it takes up space to remind us of what the previous generation wasted their money on.

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This modern game includes clowns and shooting, a popular combination.

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And as an example of a classic pinball machine, what could be more iconic than the Elton John pinball wizard game?   Oh yeah, you have to be an old person to get the reference, but not so old as to have totally forgotten the movie.  😉

 

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