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Post by christophertumber on Oct 23, 2014 12:37:13 GMT -5
"Empire" and "Imperial" arcade were used interchangeably at the time. What, same address? Yes, same name for same place - sloppy usage of Empire vs Imperial. Any idea around what year (or at least the decade) Imperial opened? No idea. It was open when I moved to Ottawa in '87 or '88. Due to the Google Earth shot being copyrighted at 2013 with the for lease sign, at least the closing year would be 2012 or 2013. No, it's been a vacant storefront for at least a decade. www.punkottawa.com/board/viewtopic.php?t=71756&sid=95c01b058babe126a75bf9a37ec640f7 |
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Post by VectorX on Oct 23, 2014 13:07:24 GMT -5
Thanks for everything. I'll just put in that the arcades opened in the 80s or something until someone can nail down the years better. It's odd when someone works on a place for years and years without reopening, like with Empire.
Also, you have a Street Fighter II Championship Turbo listed in several of the places, yet unless that's a bootleg or a very limited release that few knows about, it's not listed at the klov. Could it be Street Fighter II Champion Edition Accelerator Pt. II?
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Post by christophertumber on Oct 23, 2014 14:44:16 GMT -5
Also, you have a Street Fighter II Championship Turbo listed in several of the places, yet unless that's a bootleg or a very limited release that few knows about, it's not listed at the klov. Could it be Street Fighter II Champion Edition Accelerator Pt. II? No idea, didn't play them they were just very popular at the time. Probably this based on dates: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Street_Fighter_II%E2%80%B2_Turbo:_Hyper_Fighting |
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Post by VectorX on Oct 23, 2014 15:50:07 GMT -5
Yeah, I was never much on beat 'em ups myself. Ok, same questions as before, although you probably don't know opening and closing dates, but I'd like guesses waged on about the number of games, if they took tokens or quarters on: *The Wizard locations *Mr. Arcade locations (however, with the one on Montreal, it sounds like about 20-35 games would be about it) *OTTAWA UNIVERSITY GAMES ROOM *CARLETON UNIVERSITY GAMES ROOM (Uni-Center) Also, do you know anything about The Wizard and Mr. Arcade chains at all? I couldn't find anything about them online. Then here's what I have so far; either edit them (no one needs to have a Wikia account [yet] in order to do so) or post any corrections or additions on this thread as you see fit. arcadepreservation.wikia.com/wiki/King_Arthur_Courtarcadepreservation.wikia.com/wiki/Rideau_Arcadearcadepreservation.wikia.com/wiki/Games_RoomNow the opening page reads "There have been 38 arcades in two countries preserved"; congrats  |
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Post by christophertumber on Oct 23, 2014 15:55:36 GMT -5
Ottawa is Eastern Ontario, btw.
Southern Ontario is a very different climate.
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Post by VectorX on Oct 23, 2014 16:59:10 GMT -5
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Post by VectorX on Jan 25, 2015 0:43:37 GMT -5
Bit of an update: the first arcades for England and Australia have gone up, making arcades to be found in four countries now I also created my arcade blog, which started with copying comments I made on most of the pages/arcades I went to and expanded on them, then I also wrote up a lot more, including some arcades that will probably never have pages to them. Because one I thought would be a hoot and a holler to do, but I don't know the name of it (unless its name actually was "News stand"), but I figured out I could at least include it in the blog, so I could at least I could honor (sort of) that, with its rather wonky history: This started off as an actual news stand somewhere in the 1950 or so block of Gessner (just a few doors down from Games 'R Us); I'll try to get the exact name of this some day and get a page of it up. Sometimes magazines sat around on the shelves in there for months though. It turned into a game room after a while (sometime in the late 1980s, like '87 or so), having Choplifter and Kangaroo (I think on the latter), having eight or so games that ran on quarters. It then later turned into a porn shop... (!) 33 entries in all! Whew... |
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Post by coleco1981 on Jan 28, 2015 22:06:24 GMT -5
Just like to say I think this is a great start. I've been console collecting for over a decade but recently got into arcade collecting, about 3 years ago? I have a 'small' collection of about 10 machines plus 2 project cabs I'm restoring right now plus 2 project pins. I'm starting to become big into preservation and think arcades are an important part of video game history that shouldn't be forgotten! I'm not sure if you hang out on klov.com that much but the people on that forum I bet could provide a good amount of info about old arcade locations. I personally don't have much to contribute because I only remember the tail end of the arcade boom. As a collector however, I try to find out where old arcade ops are hiding their treasures in old warehouses!
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Post by VectorX on Jan 28, 2015 23:09:01 GMT -5
Just like to say I think this is a great start. Thanks! I've been console collecting for over a decade but recently got into arcade collecting, I hope to follow you with doing that as well some day I'm starting to become big into preservation and think arcades are an important part of video game history that shouldn't be forgotten! Of course. The arcade boom was very immense! Was... I'm not sure if you hang out on klov.com No, but I'm on a lot of forums. Don't really want to join with anything else right now! I actually tried joining years ago but couldn't get it to work. I don't recall what the deal was now. but the people on that forum I bet could provide a good amount of info about old arcade locations. Yeah, I'm sure! I try to find out where old arcade ops are hiding their treasures in old warehouses! Yeah, there's many of them across the lands. I've seen quite a few blogs of warehouse finds. I occasionally even find games at resale shops. One of them was for the tabletop pinball game The Entertainer (I think its called) several years ago. It still had the CITY OF HOUSTON 1978 sticker on it! Wow, wonder where it had been all those years! |
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Post by VectorX on Feb 27, 2015 0:44:35 GMT -5
Well, I've been having some fun with this lately. Due to being pretty much tapped out with real-life arcades I attended myself, I've put up pages of fictional ones, as there were arcades in episodes of The Greatest American Hero, Home Improvement, Gimmie a Break! and Roseanne tv shows. Plus I got to put in galleries for the first time ever of these, since I don't have any pics from any of the arcades I went to 30 years ago (give or take a few years) that are long gone. So that's a nice change too.
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Post by VectorX on Feb 19, 2019 0:34:57 GMT -5
Thought I'd give this a bump for a few reasons. First, Wikia, for some dumb reason, changed their name to "Fandom" a couple of years ago. Now all (or soon to be all) of their wikis' urls have changed to Fandom. Old links will still redirect for a while. I've changed them accordingly in my sig though (but still display them as "wiki" because they're still wikis...and I think the name change is, again, dumb  ). I guess the arcade preservation fandom wiki hit a milestone by hitting triple digits several months ago (although why it doesn't have 1000-2000 pages by now is beyond me). Part of this was due to bigballofyarn 's forum for having a featured topic every month, one of which was for classic video games or something, then after that it was for vintage stuff, so people posted about it each time. And each time seven pages' worth of posts were put up. (It even went off-topic briefly the first time around to discussing the Vectrex! ) Several members put up several pages. Due to getting into Camille and Kennerly (the Harp Twins) several months ago, I saw where they did a cover of Ronnie James Dio's "Rainbow in the Dark". That got me to get into him again, looking up several videos of his I hadn't seen since high school. I was surprised that with "The Last in Line" I totally forgot for a very brief time it had an arcade in it. Quite amusing to do a page on it and to, for the first time ever, create a category for "Arcades in Hell" Also, my mom got a Hulu account recently, so I was able to look up The Goldbergs's episode featuring an arcade, a good intro to that show that I've always meant to watch, which bigballofyarn had put that up. There's also a site where you can watch every Simpsons episode ever made. I had made a page for their main Noise Land Video Arcade a while back, then I was able to create two more in regards to two other arcades from the series. This has been fun, which you can check out various pages below. Simpsons Zip Zap and 'Za Pizza ArcadeSimpsons Captain Blip's ZapateriaThe Goldbergs Challenge ArcadeRonnie James Dio The Last in Line arcadeHere's the Dio video below. Even if you don't like metal you should like the song...well, the first 40 seconds or so, at least  |
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Post by bigballofyarn on Feb 19, 2019 9:15:36 GMT -5
Firewolf still owes you a few pages on your wiki. He found a few abandoned arcades in a game he was playing a few months ago. If he gets any lazier, I'll just have him take the screenshots and tell me about the game. Then, I'll make the pages for him.
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Post by VectorX on Feb 19, 2019 9:18:11 GMT -5
Sounds interesting!
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