Current Events > They got rid of the arcade in Downtown Disney?

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The one in Orlando. This seems to be old news but damn. I was at a father's day thing and we were talking about old trips and that happened to come up, and I was bragging about the arcade over there. So I looked it up and it closed like 5 years ago.

So on a related note, what's the biggest arcade left in the U.S.? Are they even a thing anymore? Surely there's gotta be one still kicking somewhere...

Galloping Ghost is the largest in the country.

__aCEr__ posted...

Galloping Ghost is the largest in the country.

What I miss most about Illinois. So bad ass

There was an arcade at Disney?

Well, at any rate, the one at Marvel Superhero Island at Universal is still there, but it's not very good anymore.

There's also Funspot in Laconia, NH

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Funspot_Family_Fun_Center

It's also incredibly large, but mostly caters to late 70s and 80s machines.

I use to go to DownTown Disney all the time. They had a good fry place. They call it Disney Springs now I think.

Awe. That stinks. I once got the high score on Donkey Kong.

i hate the term family fun center. i guess arcades had kind of a stigma for attracting hooligans so they tried to make it sound friendlier. -_-

There are a lot of arcades, still. Most of them arent like in the 80s or 90s. Modern ones are mostly ticket games, or music games.

SauI_Goodman posted...

i hate the term family fun center. i guess arcades had kind of a stigma for attracting hooligans so they tried to make it sound friendlier. -_-

Arcades are still called that, it's just that the name indicates they just have arcade machines.

Fun centers have them, but also stuff like rock climbing walls, bowling, laser tag, etc.