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Old 02-28-2023, 06:01 AM   #1043
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Originally Posted by PsYcNeT View Post
Y'all misremembering your arcade history.

Laser Illusions was the 80s/early 90s arcade in Southcentre before their renovation. It had the big room full of Genesis' you could rent.

Later, they were sold and rebranded as Wizard's Castle and brought a bunch more large ticket Sega machines like Top Skater and Virtual On, and a lot of head to head fighting machines.

After the arcade dump of the late 90s it was a pet store for a few years before they dummied the whole thing for the Reno.
I think 7-11 stores were more popular for gaming than the pure arcades in malls, I remember line-ups at these stores all day/all night to play a game, after that in the middle/late 90's the bars and pubs got the higher tech driving games like "Daytona USA" and shooters like "Buck Hunter" that never stopped getting loonies.

Game operators made a fortune back then.

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