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eerieindianaI don't know what got me nostalgic, but I looked up a mall that's 30 minutes from my hometown (45-ish from where I am now), just to see if it still has an arcade. The old Tilt arcade is gone, but it has a Namco-run arcade now (can't remember the name), and a Pacman Cafe coming.
— Sandwichhead (@IdentInvalid) October 9, 2018
It was the smallest mall, but had some stuff I couldn't find elsewhere (a Primus "Fly" shirt? Wish I still had one), and it figured into my formative years.
— Sandwichhead (@IdentInvalid) October 9, 2018
It had one of the larger pre-Super Walmarts attached to it. We always seemed to frequent that mall on Sundays, around tornado season. Hit the mall, check out the record store, hit the arcade (Street Fighter II: Champion Edition? Super SSFII?), go home for Sunday TV...
— Sandwichhead (@IdentInvalid) October 9, 2018
It had one of the larger pre-Super Walmarts attached to it. We always seemed to frequent that mall on Sundays, around tornado season. Hit the mall, check out the record store, hit the arcade (Street Fighter II: Champion Edition? Super SSFII?), go home for Sunday TV...
— Sandwichhead (@IdentInvalid) October 9, 2018
Assuming the weather wasn't knocking out the signal (we were either no-cable or didn't have cable split to our bedroom yet) or it wasn't pre-empted by sports or some country music bullshit, I had Eerie, Indiana and Mann and Machine to watch. Neither lasted long.
— Sandwichhead (@IdentInvalid) October 9, 2018
That was the time that I really got into certain bands, decided I wanted a guitar, gaming was in another renaissance, and I was kinda figuring out who I was.
— Sandwichhead (@IdentInvalid) October 9, 2018
Plus, no matter how small the place was, it had an arcade that had things I wanted to play, and not all of it was the same as the other places. At the time, I had 3 malls within 30 minutes, 2 grocery stores within 5-10, and a laundromat when the washer died.
— Sandwichhead (@IdentInvalid) October 9, 2018
Add to that 3 or 4 good gaming mags, Mad, Cracked, and whatever book took my fancy filling my lap...it was a pretty good time.
— Sandwichhead (@IdentInvalid) October 9, 2018
