Revisiting my roots

Games
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This Saturday I’m off on my semi-annual journey to Weirs Beach, NH for a day at FunSpot with some equally loser-ish friends of mine. They’ve got over 150 classic arcade games and at least 40 pinball machines (including my personal favorite, “Fun House”).

My buddy has drawn up our itinerary:

8:00am - meet at Richmond, VT park and ride
10:00am - arrive at Atlas Fireworks in Belmont, NH
11:00am - arrive at Funspot in Weirs, NH
12:00pm - break for lunch
12:30pm - play video games
2:00pm - drink beer
2:20pm - play video games (possibly pinball)
3:30pm - drink beer
3:50pm - play games
4:30pm - drink beer
4:50pm - use rest of tokens playing skeeball to win fabulous prizes
6:00pm - go get dinner
7:00pm - head back to VT
9:30pm - arrive at Richmond, VT park and ride

Any classic games you guys want me to play in your stead?

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Dragon’s Lair

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That’s an awesome day. I’m probably making the pilgrimage to FunSpot sometime this summer when I go up to visit my brother in NH.

Looking at the list, I think you gotta play some Food Fight, After Burner in the moving cockpit, Moon Patrol, and pretty much anything of the cocktail variety.

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Being an East Coast transplant, I’d never heard of this place. Now my girlfriend and I are totally making a day trip to this place.

They have Quartet!!!

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If you do go, don’t forget to print out the Internet Coupon for a dose of extra tokens.

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Double Dragon and Golden Axe, please.

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Wizard of Wor, Track and Field and some Gauntlet for me please. Don’t forget to SHOOT THE FOOD.

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I recall having a blast at the go-kart track across the street, too.

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Samurai Shodown 1 and 2. Not that the others are bad, and not that they’re the most classic of classic arcade games, but my friends and I dumped so many quarters into Neogeo machines thanks to SS 1 & 2 that we should all be majority shareholders in SNK-Playmore.

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Is fun house the one with the ‘riiide the ferris wheel’ voice clip?

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No, I think that’s Cyclone.

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Fun House

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Kageki

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Seconded. My high school lunch periods consisted of nothing but table tennis and Samurai Shodown. Genjuro FTW.

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Golden Axe
TMNT
Smash TV

Every time you put in a credit you have to take a drink.

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Wow! That looks pretty awesome greg. Love the ventriliquist dummy head.

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If they don’t have Bad Dudes, fuck em.

-Amanpour

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Damn ninjas, always flipping out and kidnapping people…

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Dark Adventure
I don’t see it on the list, but Halley’s Comet was a SHMUP I haven’t seen anywhere else. It’s been a few years since I was there, so maybe it broke.
Rastan isn’t there anymore either? Man.
Xybots

Do they still have the candy cranes? That was always where our last couple of tokens went.

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The best part about your day will be being able to play all those games multiplayer, the ones you could never afford to have a good go at when you and your buddies were kids! Sounds great fun