Yeah its a bit odd their timeline of nostalgia things is more apt for an apocalypse that happened in the 90s than 2003. Ellie is even using a 1979 walkman and not the POS plasticky things that were commonplace in the late 90s and already on their way for discmans by 1995+
Yeah it's like they wanted to capitalize on the 80s and 90s nostalgia and figured retro is retro with some of the stuff.
At least with the Walkman it can have a 'the older original models were more robust than the crappy plastic ones built later' excuse. And that CDs and Discmen would be less durable through an apocalypse as well.
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.
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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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My parents used to own an arcade in the beddington mall in the 90s, my mom cant remember the name, does anyone remember this, apparently it was a disaster
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Finally watched episode 7. I thought it was pretty good. and no matter what the Mall scene from last night was definitely better than the Mall scenes from Stranger Things.
Bella is still stealing every scene she is in!
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I remembered Northland having a theater in the 90s but was only like 70% sure for some reason, I think because there's been a few mall theaters that closed
It did from '88-'02. 5 screens.
I believe it's where "Battlefield Live" was, which replaced it
I think the games shop (puzzles, board, pool) was always my favourite place there. I don't recall when that closed
Near the end it became a cheap theatre. Prob the nicest $2 theatre Calgary has ever had. Way better than Esso Plaza and that movie dome thing in Franklin Mall.
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The arcade at U of C still existed in 2003, i think. The one by the basketball/volleyball stadium
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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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!
I prob spent over $500 on the T2 pinball game. and wayyy too many hours at the foosball tables. My first semester GPA was under 1.0... lol
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Yeah it's like they wanted to capitalize on the 80s and 90s nostalgia and figured retro is retro with some of the stuff.
At least with the Walkman it can have a 'the older original models were more robust than the crappy plastic ones built later' excuse. And that CDs and Discmen would be less durable through an apocalypse as well.
I felt like the Walkman thing was purposeful. They were stating that the old bricks lasted longer. Although if 99% of the population died off, you'd assume there would be a surplus of things like Discmen, and they wouldn't be all that hard to find.....although I guess car batteries are in major short supply. With that many people dead, you'd have 100 car batteries for every person. Even after 20 years, you'd be able to put something together pretty easily.
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!
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.
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.
Quoted for truth. Ugh, I couldn't stand that stench.
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I wonder where they brought that merry-go-round in from?
You can see when Ellie and her friend are on it that it is outside the former Shopper's Drug Mart at Northland where the world's saddest Santa Claus would sit during the depressing march towards Christmas.
It looks ait could be the merry-go-round that was at Chinook (no idea what happened to that one after they turned Chinook's food court into a hospital cafeteria)
It's starting to feel downright uncanny how many filming locations in the show I am intimately familiar with. Right before covid I would be at Northland almost every day for two winters just walking laps as I was figuring out how to walk. Too bad the haircutter that went into the foodcourt (former Second Cup) didn't make it into the show, that would have been GOLDEN.
I wonder where they brought that merry-go-round in from?
You can see when Ellie and her friend are on it that it is outside the former Shopper's Drug Mart at Northland where the world's saddest Santa Claus would sit during the depressing march towards Christmas.
It looks ait could be the merry-go-round that was at Chinook (no idea what happened to that one after they turned Chinook's food court into a hospital cafeteria)
It's starting to feel downright uncanny how many filming locations in the show I am intimately familiar with. Right before covid I would be at Northland almost every day for two winters just walking laps as I was figuring out how to walk. Too bad the haircutter that went into the foodcourt (former Second Cup) didn't make it into the show, that would have been GOLDEN.
Yep it's the Chinook one, Hack&Lube covered it a couple pages back:
