Lake Winnipesaukee's 80s video game Mecca

[Retro_NRG]

Wow Blir..

Giving thought to this thread has really jogged my 33 year memory of arcade video games.

My earliest video game experience was 'Tankers' & 'Sea Wolf' dating back to 1976. I remember playing them during summer camp visits to this little beachside arcade in Bayville NY.

My next arcade video game milestone was 'Mole Hunter' which I played while drinking underage at a Centerport area HoJo's lounge back in late '79 early 1980. Fond memories of downing Kamikazi's and dropping countless quarters into the cocktail table version of that game.

BTW, I was another Tempest freak with other favorites being Defender, Galaxian, Gyruss, Millipede, Phoenix, Pleids and Zaxxon.

Then came Time Pilot which I played endlessly @SUNY Farmingdale and at the Adventureland Arcade where my letters RIP occupied the top 5 ranking scores for over 2 years. Another one I played there which I cannot name featured a VOX chip that said "Help Me!" whenever one of your spacemen was snatched by these marauding saucers that relentlessly descended from a mothership.

Great times they were indeed..[8D]

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[wherewereuin82]

Boys will be boys it seems [:)]

**sounds like the perfect place for a NWO get together**

(for the guys at least)

[Frank_Chickens]

Thanks for the pics it's great to see a place that's keeping it Retro.

I would love to go and spend my holiday there, it would be an absolute dream for me but funds for things like that are out of the question right now.

My favourite games from the time were Pac-Man, Scramble, Phoenix, Amidar and New Rally X, a meet up there would be cool!

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[randy]

Finding it funny that this place is new to everyone!!! You gotta head North more often!!

[Spectre General]

According to that wikipedia article, it's the largest arcade in the world. Which I find hard to believe because I know Japan has like 5 story arcades.

Regardless, I'd easily believe that's the most amount of old games concentrated in one place. I am too young to have been playing arcade games back when they were that old, but I had a TON of those games on my 1987 IBM laptop, lol. And I still have Zaxxon on the Colecovision.

The first arcade game I ever played was Rolling Thunder a game from 1985. I was 5 years old. I still to this day have tokens from that particular Aladdin's Castle where I played it in Harrisonburg VA.

I think there should be a get together there and someone should challenge Dan to a game of Gravitar [;)].

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[Slicing Up Eyeballs]

Oh man, I used to love that "Star Wars" game.



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[quote][i]Originally posted by Spectre General[/i]
<br>According to that wikipedia article, it's the largest arcade in the world. Which I find hard to believe because I know Japan has like 5 story arcades.

Regardless, I'd easily believe that's the most amount of old games concentrated in one place. I am too young to have been playing arcade games back when they were that old, but I had a TON of those games on my 1987 IBM laptop, lol. And I still have Zaxxon on the Colecovision.

The first arcade game I ever played was Rolling Thunder a game from 1985. I was 5 years old. I still to this day have tokens from that particular Aladdin's Castle where I played it in Harrisonburg VA.

I think there should be a get together there and someone should challenge Dan to a game of Gravitar [;)].

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[/quote]I'll spot anyone here a million points on Gravitar

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[Magnum-Truth]

This topic seems a little odd for me. Not ever sure how to write reply. As soon as I seen its title "Lake Winnipesaukee", it stuck out like a sore thumb, and said to myself, what could this be about.

It's practically in my back yard during the summer months when I stay at my family's summer home. Even with out the summer place it's only about a 1 hour drive away.

As kids, if and when we had any extra money in our pockets. That's one of the places where we would go and spend it. There is probably a good chance I played some of those games in the pictures you posted.

I Never thought I would see a mention of this place here. And yes it is a cool place to take the kids. Just the mention that you will take them there usually freaks them out with anticipation. It was not that long ago I was taking my son there.

However your description! It's spot on. [:D]
[quote]Lake Winnipesaukee's icon of bad vacation cheesedom called Weir's Beach[/quote]
A nice place to visit but you would not want to live there.

Space invaders was my favorite back in the day, and that cheesy game called sub hunt or sea hunt ..(i forget the name).. where that annoying PT boat scrolls across the screen and sucks you into wasting your ammunition.

[randy]

weird. missed this topic years ago. Being a New Englander--you just take it for granted everyone in NE is aware of it. (and Blirwins a transplant anyways so we give him some slack )