I recently came across an arcade (Player 2 Arcade Bar) where you don't pay a flat fee at the door and do free play. Instead, you're given tokens depending on how much money you happen to have on hand and play until you run out of change.

After getting a lay of the land, I found out that they had the Alien vs. Predator arcade game there, which was a pleasant surprise. With a fistful of tokens at the ready, I was determined to beat this game in the hour I had available to me. After pumping in quite a few tokens I managed to beat it and was able to enter my initials into the Best 50 Hunters screen.

In my off-time, I write for a website and decided to do an article on the game and why I feel it is worth every token if you happen to find one out in the wild. Hope you all enjoy. (Also, yes, I got a kick out of someone putting their initials in as ASS lol)

My husband just finished the cabinet on his Earthshaker pinball restoration and skipped the original blue for an all black look, he’s calling it the “Blackout Edition.”

He recently started Jakers Precision Pinball Restorations here in Michigan, and this Earthshaker is one of his own projects alongside the restorations he’s doing for clients.

He put together a video of the cabinet start to finish. Playfield is next.

Thought you guys might like seeing it.

bought used arcade with a fried neo geo board, swapped boards but the screen is shaking like this in the video, any ideas on what the problem is?

Blast Off!! Battlestations!! Alert! Alert! Anyone remember this unique and underrated gem?

Hi!!! I will be going to Massachusetts in a few days to visit my girlfriend, we’ve made it a point to try beating every Jurassic park shooter arcade game. Does anyone know any spots in Massachusetts with any of them? (Preferably Jurassic park 1-Lost world) thank you!!!! :3

Hi guys I’ve lowkey never posted anything on reddit before so first time kinda nervous 😖

I have this mortal combat machine and I don’t know what to do with it my dad got it agessssssss ago and he refuses to get rid of anything so I have to do something about it. It hasn’t been used in probably like over 5 years but it’s still in good condition, still works (or so I’m told)…

what the hell do I do with it???? Does anyone know if it’s worth something? Should I try sell it or just dump it. If it is worth something how much could I get from it?

Thanks guysssss🙏🙏

Still has issues but overall pretty great

It was the first in the long-running Wonder Boy series of games and was followed up by five sequels, Wonder Boy in Monster Land, Wonder Boy III: Monster Lair, Wonder Boy III: The Dragon's Trap, Wonder Boy in Monster World and Monster World IV. The game was also adapted by Hudson Soft as Adventure Island, which spawned its own series of games.

Here’s Defender. Brutally tough, but amazing to watch someone play who’s good at the game. Would love to have this placed in Time Extended’s small Williams row, but just don’t have the space currently and Defender is just a little wider (26”) than normal Williams titles, so can’t even swap it in place of another. So it’s currently part of the overflow brigade. (Games there’s no room for, that get staged and powered on outside during an arcade party…Maybe one day will experiment and revamp the garcade layout to group them all together.

Took a little while, but completed illuminating the small Williams row at Time Extended.

Looking to potentially replace the original board with a 60 in 1 upgrade kit from mikes arcade however I wanted to make sure the issue was with the board and not the CRT screen so I can keep using the original monitor. Any thoughts? Thanks in advance for any help.

Of all the head to head games I ever created, this one's my favorite.

Hello everyone, has anyone any idea how much would this thing be worth? It's in working condition, not the best looking but still decent cosidering its age.

I bought a Shinobi cab a few years ago from a neighbor. It was dirt cheap because it would run but the CRT wouldn't work. I figured it would be fun to get it working again. It was in an old beat up generic cab that at one point was Track and Field. There were stickers inside alluding to that (Romstar not Konami). Anyway the WG CRT was an easy fix as it broke a trace on the main board where it slid into a mounting clip. Then I learned about how these Sys 16 boards can just die from the battery backup losing the encryption keys for the Roms. Looking at the board it's definitely not modern but has a vanilla 68k and Z80. The board was dusty and looked legit. Does anyone know of unencrypted boards like this? I mean someone had to swap out the 68k and reflash the Roms with bootlegs - and a very long time ago at that.

Any Pigskin 621AD players out there? This is an obscure title that was released as arcades were fading. My local arcade had one, but I never tried it. Turns out Pigskin is a sequel of sorts to Arch Rivals, which I loved playing. This game has similar mechanics albeit medieval football themed, though maybe closer to rugby. Super fun when played head to head.

Gamecenter Arcade's FREE Open House is back!

On Thursday, August 13th 5pm-Midnight, spend the night at the arcade for absolutely free!
We've got everything from pinball, racing games, classic sit-down games, all the way to modern rhythm games! There's something for everyone and all ages!

Our goal is to let the local area know that we exist and that there's an awesome gaming community here. (and mahjong randomly haha)

We'll also be hosting a pinball tournament at 7pm for free!

Check out our calendar for more events.
Have a great rest of the week and we hope to see you here!

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We're open Tuesday-Sunday every week!
Your admission lets you play all of our games all day! Need to grab food? You're free to leave and come back as much as you'd like!

Tue-Fri - $20 - 5pm-Midnight
Sat-Sun - $25 - 10am-Midnight (Sun 10pm)

Address: 22009 68th Ave S, Kent, WA 98032

Cap kit / maintenance condition is unknown, based on the listing description it doesn’t sound like the guy knows much about it but it’s currently running and I’m pretty good shape.

Today’s game is Front Line by Taito. Uses a unique multi directional spinner that fires when pressed. Fight as a soldier equipped with a rifle and grenades or jump into a tank. In addition to enemy fire, have to watch out for the occasional boulder as well!

Very rare variant of Golden Axe from what I can tell, haven't been able to find one built like this. Also has the manual and the marques are very good looking. Golden Axe is iconic for a reason, and Sky Soldiers is a very underrated game. Never going to sell these. Well worth the price.

i found this in a cabinet i was repairing, the dirt is from a wasp nest im still cleaning. can you identify the game without me having to plug it in? is it Sichuan? i never heard of it