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Went to Funspot yesterday

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[Apr 26,2009 7:54pm - demondave ""]


Dragon's Lair - Addams Family Pinball - Mortal Kombat - Primal Rage - Skeeball - and beer.


:duffbeer:
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[Apr 26,2009 8:04pm - the_reverend ""]
I love the simpsons and tmnt games.
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[Apr 26,2009 8:28pm - BobNOMAAMRooney ""]
When I was 12 I spent over two hours pumping quarters into the original Star Wars game they have, VECTOR GRAPHICS ARE THE FUTURE

It's also rad to be able to play fucking Darkstalkers.
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[Apr 26,2009 8:35pm - demondave ""]
At funspot the vectors were all in a row. I pumped a bunch of tokens into Starwars.
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[Apr 26,2009 9:30pm - y_draig_goch  ""]
primal fucking rage hell yeah, red t rex all the way
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[Apr 26,2009 9:39pm - josh_hates_you ""]
LOTR pinball or GTFO
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[Apr 26,2009 10:04pm - Dankill  ""]
I remember when Fun & Games in Framingham used to fucking rule. It was full of video games and pinball except the back part with skeeball (no friggin lazer tag!). It was dark, smoky and had games you'd never even heard of and years later would still try to remember what they were because they were that damn cool.

Now it's well lit, no smoking, a hell of a lot less games, space taken up for lazer tag and kids parties and the FUCKING SPACESHIP THAT USED TO FLY AROUND ABOVE YOUR HEAD DOESN'T WORK ANYMORE! They even got rid of the sliding spaceship doors when you walk in. FAIL.
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[Apr 26,2009 11:51pm - spacecorpse ""]
Funspot rules. Crossbow and Chiller all the way! Anyone see the movie that was partially shot there called King Of Kong? funny stuff.
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[Apr 27,2009 7:03am - xmikex ""]
Great Times in Abington... pre-murders, FTW

Simpsons, X-Men, NBA Jam, $5 worth of tokens lasting you all day, cheating at childrens' games to win ridiculous amounts of tickets, and trading them in for candy that you were too young to realize you could have just bought for way cheaper.... all classics.
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[Apr 27,2009 7:17am - blue ""]
I get all my tattoo done in meredith, so I make sure hit up tha 'spot once a month when I go up to get work done. That place has been a mainstay in my life since I was a wee tyke.
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[Apr 27,2009 7:23am - Yeti ""]
this place rules. i spend most, if not all of my money on Tetris and Dr. Mario. my friend is the only person i know who has beaten Super Mario Bros. in the arcade.
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[Apr 27,2009 8:15am - reimroc ""]
free wifi hotspot!
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[Apr 27,2009 8:22am - RustyPS ""]
HOLY SHIT! Funspot was the bee's knees when I was a kid
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[Apr 27,2009 8:24am - largefreakatzero ""]
Funspot rules.
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[Apr 27,2009 9:54am - ouchdrummer ""]
yup, definitely my favorite spot while on vacation. I did some acid there last summer and told a kid his parents hate him, and that they would die soon leaving him all alone in the world. He beat me a round in Street Fighter 2...
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[Apr 27,2009 10:03am - RustyPS ""]
that was the best story ever told
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[Apr 27,2009 10:34am - Yeti ""]
that's where the supposedly possessed Donkey Kong arcade is, the one from "King of Kong: A Fistful of Dollars".
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[Apr 27,2009 10:38am - blue ""]
I never found anything possessed about it, cept that whole part about DK telling me he was going to swallow my soul.
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[Apr 27,2009 10:49am - ouchdrummer ""]
speaking of possessed pinball, have any of you ever played "Funhouse" with the talking chucky head taunting you constantly? That always freaked me out as a kid.
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[Apr 27,2009 10:57am - blue ""]
Damn right. That one and pinbot scared the shit out of me when I was little. I just stuck to the KISS pinball machine.
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[Apr 27,2009 11:35am - Dr. Sphincto  ""]
rolling thunder and when you lose the green devil dude laughs at you
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[Apr 27,2009 11:59am - SteveSummoned ""]
I make sure to go to Fun Spot every year and spend hours in the classic arcade section...amazing.
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[Apr 27,2009 1:42pm - sacreligion ""]
Playing YO! NOID in standup form was one of the greater experiences of my life. Some of those games are fuckin impossible.
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[Apr 27,2009 11:42pm - demondave ""]


Chiller is a fucked up game. I couldn't believe it when I saw it.

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[Apr 27,2009 11:43pm - demondave ""]
It's like a Mike Diana dream come true
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[Apr 27,2009 11:48pm - demondave ""]








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[May 11,2010 12:02pm - ARKTOUROS ""]
bump for remembering to go soon
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[May 11,2010 12:07pm - timma ""]
Me and Peter Bluesepher beat Time Crisis at Funspot when it first came out with a crowd of people watching us.

Highlight of my life thus far. Sad? Yes.
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[May 11,2010 12:10pm - i_am_not_me ""]

sacreligion said:Playing YO! NOID in standup form was one of the greater experiences of my life. Some of those games are fuckin impossible.


There's a Yo! Noid arcade?! Oh...is it one of the Playchoice games?
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[May 11,2010 12:14pm - slag nli  ""]
I grew up here. The roadrunner game, starwars vector game, the funhouse pinball game tabletop nintendo tennis and every other fucking game imaginable. Must go soon.
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[May 11,2010 12:15pm - slag nli  ""]
Also, King of kong movie is a must see.
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[May 11,2010 12:17pm - RustyPS ""]

slag%20nli said:Also, King of kong movie is a must see.
agreed, big time
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[May 11,2010 12:19pm - AndrewBastard  ""]
love King of Kong. Hail Steve Weibe. I'm leaving for NH in a few mins. I always hit up Fun Spot during bike week for a few Star Wars / Indiana Jones / TMNT sessions...
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[May 11,2010 12:19pm - C.dEaD  ""]
I love this place. I haven't been in years, but I remember my jaw dropping at the sight of so many flashing screens. The same thing would most likely happen now.
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[May 11,2010 12:19pm - BrianDBB ""]
I was RAISED here every summer... Funhouse ruled, top floor is badass, and i'm pretty sure I dominated skeeball
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[May 11,2010 12:21pm - reimroc ""]
is funworld in nashua still in operation?
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[May 11,2010 1:02pm - C.dEaD  ""]

reimroc said:is funworld in nashua still in operation?


That place went down the shithole years ago. Even if it was still around, I would never go in. Last time I went (I think maybe 4 or 5 years ago) they had maybe 5 video games that sucked and took out all the rest to put in a fucking ferris wheel. No one was on it. No one was around at all so me and my brother walked around the abandoned go-kart tracks. Shit looked like Gummo.
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[May 11,2010 1:11pm - the_reverend ""]
skeet skeet
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[May 11,2010 2:04pm - Spaldino  ""]
funworld had some decent games if you were into wangan midnight maxiumum tune and initial d 3. cheap DDR, drummania and guitar freaks... beatmania... they had awesome games. you just want old shitty games, which they didnt really have much of. Funworld was/is a solid arcade going experience.
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[May 11,2010 2:16pm - Sacreligion ""]

i_am_not_me said:
sacreligion said:Playing YO! NOID in standup form was one of the greater experiences of my life. Some of those games are fuckin impossible.


There's a Yo! Noid arcade?! Oh...is it one of the Playchoice games?



Yes.
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[May 11,2010 2:45pm - narkybark ""]
Grand Prix FTW
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[May 11,2010 4:25pm - C.dEaD  ""]

Spaldino said:funworld had some decent games if you were into wangan midnight maxiumum tune and initial d 3. cheap DDR, drummania and guitar freaks... beatmania... they had awesome games. you just want old shitty games, which they didnt really have much of. Funworld was/is a solid arcade going experience.


Yeah, I don't know of any of the games you mentioned.

Also, "old shitty games" did make me laugh.
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[May 11,2010 5:09pm - reimroc ""]
last time i was at fun world was like 10 years ago. i always pass it and had no clue if it was even open anymore.
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[May 11,2010 5:25pm - AndrewBastard  ""]
Jay come up with Jen, Bobby, Mel, Marcus and I near the end of june for the weekend...camping, booze and fun spot.
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[May 11,2010 5:28pm - eyehatehippies ""]
I love Funspot so much, we go for my birthday. It's amazing. I'm all about Double Dragon, I try to beat it without getting hit. I'm fairly close. I can beat Lifeforce without getting hit. After I master Double Dragon, I'm going to move on to Golden Axe, but that one's tougher, no elbow smash.
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[May 11,2010 5:33pm - Spaldino  ""]

C.dEaD said:
Spaldino said:funworld had some decent games if you were into wangan midnight maxiumum tune and initial d 3. cheap DDR, drummania and guitar freaks... beatmania... they had awesome games. you just want old shitty games, which they didnt really have much of. Funworld was/is a solid arcade going experience.


Yeah, I don't know of any of the games you mentioned.

Also, "old shitty games" did make me laugh.




those are all games that draw customers to arcades.

Initial D is a racing game that gave you a card that tracked your progress and as you played more, your car would be faster and better. pretty exciting 1 vs 1 game play on accurate recreations of japanese mountain passes as well.

Wangan Midnight: Maximum Tune is a racing game also used a similar card system and allowed for 4 people to race on pretty accurate recreations of japanese highways and mountain roads simultaneously. when i was assistant manager at the natick mall arcade, those were our biggest money makers, by a long shot.

Dance Dance Revolution saved arcades in america.

Drummania and Guitar Freaks are japanese rhythm games that could sync up so you and a friend could play drums and guitar together... well before Guitar Hero and Rock Band had even been thought of. Drummania does drums better than Rock Band as well. Bands like Dillinger Escape Plan and Mastadon had songs on those games. they draw a decent amount of business and again, are definitely better than Guitar Hero and Rock Band.

Beatmania is the japanese "DJ Hero" that gave you a turn table and 5 or 7 keys from a keyboard that you had to hit in time with scrolling lines. It too was also out like 13 years before DJ Hero was even thought of.


"Old shitty games" are just as i said. old and shitty. the TMNT arcade game and the Simpsons arcade game are mediocre beat em ups. nostalgia makes you think they are better than they really were.
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[May 11,2010 5:43pm - AndrewBastard  ""]
golden axe 2 with two players in the arcade is sooo easy...but still awesome
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[May 11,2010 5:45pm - reimroc ""]
only the jurrasic park game is real
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[May 11,2010 6:00pm - c.dEaD  ""]

Spaldino said:
C.dEaD said:
Spaldino said:funworld had some decent games if you were into wangan midnight maxiumum tune and initial d 3. cheap DDR, drummania and guitar freaks... beatmania... they had awesome games. you just want old shitty games, which they didnt really have much of. Funworld was/is a solid arcade going experience.


Yeah, I don't know of any of the games you mentioned.

Also, "old shitty games" did make me laugh.







"Old shitty games" are just as i said. old and shitty. the TMNT arcade game and the Simpsons arcade game are mediocre beat em ups. nostalgia makes you think they are better than they really were.



Damn dude, you're so harsh! haha, I have to disagree. I have TMNT arcade on my 360 and still play it on my Nintendo. Old maybe, but awesome still.

Ha, I remember that arcade in Natick. I used to play Killer Instinct there every week.
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[May 11,2010 6:01pm - blessed offal  ""]

c.dEaD said:
Spaldino said:
C.dEaD said:
Spaldino said:funworld had some decent games if you were into wangan midnight maxiumum tune and initial d 3. cheap DDR, drummania and guitar freaks... beatmania... they had awesome games. you just want old shitty games, which they didnt really have much of. Funworld was/is a solid arcade going experience.


Yeah, I don't know of any of the games you mentioned.

Also, "old shitty games" did make me laugh.







"Old shitty games" are just as i said. old and shitty. the TMNT arcade game and the Simpsons arcade game are mediocre beat em ups. nostalgia makes you think they are better than they really were.



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