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Originally Posted by Ozy_Flame
I went there regularly for years, both before uni and during uni. I don't know how many quarters I put into the OG Star Wars vector-graphic arcade machine as well as Drum Mania.
I even remember the arcade before the remodeling. It had an expansive sublevel, and X-Men arcade was right at the back.
That was a great one!
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It wasn't an additional sublevel, the entire arcade (name escapes me) was part of the basement floor. You could come in from the back door and turn left. There were foosball tables and the comic book store (Words and Pictures?). Then almost half of the basement wing was the arcade which had a sunken area in the middle with pool tables.
After the Mac Hall remodelling around 2002-04 it unfortunately lost all of its soul. They made a giant hallway in the basement connecting over to the stairs by the Mac Hall bookstore, the arcade shrunk to a small footprint, and the entire place was filled with the stench of the Subway they put in.
After the remodelling, the arcade was in the middle and really tiny - they even turned part of it into an internet/gaming cafe. Star Wars arcade was still there though and I would play that for 25 cents instead of SNK vs Capcom which was like $2.