Guest Cool Thinker Posted June 13, 2011 Report Share Posted June 13, 2011 I was just wondering if there is any good arcade games at codonas right now ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
waltz Posted June 13, 2011 Report Share Posted June 13, 2011 Go there and find out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sue Denim.. Posted June 13, 2011 Report Share Posted June 13, 2011 I was just wondering if there is any good arcade games at codonas right now ?I can't think why in this day and age of Xboxes, PS3s etc someone will still want to put 1 or more into an arcade machine for less than 2 minutes of gameplay. Arcades were great in the '80s. Now they're shite. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soda Jerk Posted June 13, 2011 Report Share Posted June 13, 2011 Mario Kart, with the full sit-inside-the-car arcade racing game experience. It also takes a photo of your mug before you start, so when you overtake your mate/arch nemesis, a massive picture of your face hovers over. It's a right laugh.Can't remember if it's in Codonas or Nobles. Never sure which one is which. It's the one where the entrance is on the beach front, and not facing Asda. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GluteusMaximus Posted June 13, 2011 Report Share Posted June 13, 2011 I can't think why in this day and age of Xboxes, PS3s etc someone will still want to put 1 or more into an arcade machine for less than 2 minutes of gameplay. Arcades were great in the '80s. Now they're shite.Exactly what I was thinking, look at the Wii, X-Box's Kinect, PS3's Move and the quality of console games in general.Do you really want to spend an afternoon in a building with about half a dozen over priced games that give you two minutes play per pound with nosy, truanting kids looking over your shoulder telling you what buttons to press when you could do it all in the comfort of your own home without any of that?!?!? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jaaakkkeee Posted June 13, 2011 Report Share Posted June 13, 2011 Saying that. Getting in that over priced car games at the bowling or on the bikes in the actual arcade is fun. But if I was at codonas it's got to be the bumper cars. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Duckula Posted June 13, 2011 Report Share Posted June 13, 2011 Codonas still have that Lost World machine from 1997, it's battered to fuck and barely operational.Why don't they just get rid of all the old broken machines?. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scootray Posted June 13, 2011 Report Share Posted June 13, 2011 Because if they did they'd have no machines. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Duckula Posted June 13, 2011 Report Share Posted June 13, 2011 Surely people aren't still putting money into them though? Is it not costing them money to keep them on all day as opposed to chucking them out and putting more bandits in? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest E.C Posted June 13, 2011 Report Share Posted June 13, 2011 Only thing good at Codonas is the punching game where your shite, pixellated photograph gets more shite and pixellated and distorted as you plough the shit out of it with a rubbish, burst, foamy glove. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FOX Posted June 13, 2011 Report Share Posted June 13, 2011 Those ones where you roll 10p through the spinning holes. Right laugh. Get pieces of paper that are worth fuck all, and only spend 2! Decent. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fatboy Posted June 13, 2011 Report Share Posted June 13, 2011 Only game worth putting in money at an arcade is Time Crisis II, I was a crack shot on the pink gun. I miss the Ambassador Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lemonade Posted June 13, 2011 Report Share Posted June 13, 2011 Daytona. Best arcade game ever. I 'member when they got that in the Broch arcade (it's not there any more, don't bother looking). 1993. I'd pump my entire weeks pocket money into it in about 10 minutes and then have no money left. Fucking awesome game. I did the same with Mortal Kombat.Is the Ambassador gone like? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fatboy Posted June 13, 2011 Report Share Posted June 13, 2011 Daytona. Best arcade game ever. I 'member when they got that in the Broch arcade (it's not there any more, don't bother looking). 1993. I'd pump my entire weeks pocket money into it in about 10 minutes and then have no money left. Fucking awesome game. I did the same with Mortal Kombat.Is the Ambassador gone like?Closed down a good whiley ago, the building was falling apart I believe Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Teabags Posted June 13, 2011 Report Share Posted June 13, 2011 Only thing good at Codonas is the punching game where your shite, pixellated photograph gets more shite and pixellated and distorted as you plough the shit out of it with a rubbish, burst, foamy glove.Sounds like my sex life. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christy Posted June 13, 2011 Report Share Posted June 13, 2011 Sounds like my sex life. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bigsby Posted June 13, 2011 Report Share Posted June 13, 2011 They had some great new games the last time I was in, Operation: Wolf, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and Outrun.Mind you, that was in 1989. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ca_gere Posted June 14, 2011 Report Share Posted June 14, 2011 Genuinely gutted to learn the ambassadors is no more. I think I knew that anyway but must have forgotten. One of my favourite places in Aberdeen. The people who worked there were rough as fuck, it was lovely.Codonas can fuck off. Waste of space. Even as a kid I thought it was shit and it literally hasn't changed since. And that glove! You could smell the thing from five paces away. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cloud Posted June 15, 2011 Report Share Posted June 15, 2011 Cadonas was fantastic back in the early 90's. Loads of arcade games, a slightly seedy atmosphere, it was a cracking place. Rambo Land was bigger as well, I swear. Then Sunset Boulevard came along and ruined part of it by being far too bright and airy, as well as having far too modern games. And then the abdomination that is the Boardwalk came along The death of the stand-up arcade cabinet is something that I hate I even remember the brilliance of Stonehaven arcade (is it still there?) back in the day before it became just another pool 'n' bandits place. Thankfully, the local train station here still has a fair few decent games at a very reasonable price. And more importantly, is that bloke with the long hair still working on the Waltzers and sleazing on all the drunk teenagers? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
waltz Posted June 15, 2011 Report Share Posted June 15, 2011 Thankfully, the local train station here still has a fair few decent games at a very reasonable price. That's useful, cheers for the info Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paranoid Android Posted June 15, 2011 Report Share Posted June 15, 2011 ca_gere, have you been here Barcade | 388 Union Avenue, Brooklyn, New York 11211 | 718-302-6464 ?A friend of mine who's into old arcade games visited and fell in love with the place. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soda Jerk Posted June 16, 2011 Report Share Posted June 16, 2011 That place looks awesome. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scootray Posted June 16, 2011 Report Share Posted June 16, 2011 Let's face it. Arcade games are shit. It's not the nineties and we're not 10 years old. Sorry. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stroopy121 Posted June 16, 2011 Report Share Posted June 16, 2011 Let's face it. Arcade games are shit. It's not the nineties and we're not 10 years old. Sorry.Yeah, you're right. No man past his pre teens should want to play computer games any more. Especially not in a bar.xx Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Teabags Posted June 16, 2011 Report Share Posted June 16, 2011 Let's face it. Arcade games are shit. It's not the nineties and we're not 10 years old. Sorry.Flying Shark, Puzzle Bobble 4, nuff said.And just about any care game is better in a decent arcade machine. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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