This Cidercade is PACKED on Friday and Saturday nights. It’s crazy. I’d say about 90% of machines are being played at once during this time. Not so much with a lot of other local arcades.
@@IndieArcadeWaveI’m guessing the liquor, food and beverages is where they make their profit, they are definitely not making anything on running hundreds of arcade games all day, not at $12 per day/$20 a month.
Wow! I live 20 miles from an arcade and it's $10 to play all day with the games on free-play. It's probably a 10th the size of this place. I wish it had this selection of cabs! DIGDUG is my favorite old-school cab for sure.
Yeah, I live like 25 mins from Strong Museum of Play, but you have to pay for admission and then buy tokens in addition, the game selection is a fraction of the size and several machines were in fairly rough shape. You’d think a museum charging admission in addition to per game fees with a relatively limited selection of games could keep them pristine.
that deluxe Ocean Hunter is so cool looking! lots of really cool finds here, blending old and rare with the new! seems like i need to make my way out to Texas if i want to go to some arcades with genuinely amazing collections...
This is so cool🤩 Unfortunately here in Germany there was no Arcade-Culture back in the days. So I was only able to visit these places very rarely when we were on vacation in another country.
Germany had the best eurodance club scene tho. Your clubs inspired Haddaway to start his own successful eurodance-style music career. He was a soldier in the U.S. Army whe he attended a German club that changed his life! 👊😎👍
@@TexasHollowEarth haha yes, I was a big fan of him back in the 90's, and I still have some tracks on my phone's track list that I regularly listen to for nostalgic reasons. Same goes for many other stars of the 90's, like: "La Bouche", "Ace of Base", "Dr.Alban", "Technotronic", "Snap", "2Unlimited", "Scooter", and many more. Oh yeah, the good old times✌️
We live in a small seaside tourist town in called Clacton-on-Sea in the UK. Their were 5 arcades back in the 70's & 80's all with the latest games of the time. Visiting the arcades was a massive part of my childhood so I built my own mame machine. Once home gaming got to 32bit with the saturn & playstation then they just died a slow death as became pointless. Their are 2 arcades left now but it's mostly fruit machines. I wish they would fill them back up with retro games just like this video so people could visit them for nostalgia. No one wants to play the new machine anymore as you have that at home but I'm sure the retro machines would attract visitors.
RoboTron 2084 is standard but Tournament CyberBall and Tron! I’m there! Plus a Gyruss and Crossbow cab?!? Great! Golden Axe and Gauntlet is really Nice! I’m not the biggest Q-Bert fan but that Cab looked beautiful and Cute! ☺️
Man, this arcade video kicks ass! What I love the most are all the sounds coming from every cabinet. Even though there aren't many ppl in this video it has that old school 'busy button mashing' vibe to it. I'd love to go here and play some Operation Wolf or Blood Brothers if they have it.
What a phenomenal arcade with all the retro greats plus current gen modern day pinball. All this for only $10? Any not a game out of order? I think I need to fly down there from Canada!
13:00 Surprised that the Jubeat is still running Qubell (i could be wrong because some of the side graphics look like festo's)! At that point it should've been upgraded to clan, and then festo. If it was connected to eAmusement, it would likely have been also upgraded to the recently released Jubeat Ave.. Pretty cool to see Bemani's different rhythm games running older versions, but if those arcades had eAmusement servers they would've likely upgraded to the newer games.
are these game on freeplay mode or do you have to buy tokens? p.s. my two favorite arcade game (that are not in this video) are Cadillacs and Dinosaurs and Galaxian 3 Attack of the Zolgear.
I find that street fighter is usually in arcade bars over mortal combat but its pretty rare to not find them both. Kind of like TMNT and Simpsons at this point. They are must haves for aracde bars.
I didn’t see any of them say free play these people need to learn these games are no longer exclusive to arcades anymore as they used to back in the 80’s you play any of these games on consoles or on mame 32 I’ll just keep on going to galloping ghost where you pay $15 to enter and play all day no tokens required over 800 games Doc has the best arcade in the world
All are on freeplay. Only pay $12 to enter. Price was $10. Still not bad for what you get. Games are in great original condition. They will fix any game on the spot if you ask.
I don’t envy the employee(s) who has to remove the “snow” from all those machines. I also wonder about the profit margins on a place like this considering all those old inefficient arcade machines can’t be cheap to run all day (not to mention maintenance/parts), I bet they make most of their money on drinks after 8pm.
It’s packed full on Friday and Saturday nights. Yep. Lots of money made on drinks. It’s also now $12 for entry and free play. Still a good deal. Plus they have lots of birthday parties and even work events there.
@@arcade-toursYeah, they would probably be losing money on $12 day passes/$20 monthly if they didn't also offer drinks/food, and it looks like all the machines are well maintained. By contrast the Strong Museum of Play that is a 25 minute drive away from me requires an admission fee, each machine also requires tokens, they have a fraction of the machines and several of them were not well maintained, and this is a museum. Of course the last time I went there was like 5+ years ago, so it's entirely possible things have changed. I would be hanging out there regularly if I lived in Houston for sure.
@@yellowblanka6058 at Cidercade if something does go wrong with the game, you just tell a staff member and a tech will have it fixed before you leave. You are correct, they are well-maintained.
Retro arcade games galore! Greetings from Portugal 🇵🇹 Remember playing many of those games @ META arcade in Costa de Caparica, summer beach location, very near the capital, Lisbon. Opened in the 60s, but unfortunately closed amid the Covid crisis. Keep retro gaming! Cheers, 🕹️
Good selection of classic titles there and all look operational too. A nice Robotron as you walk in to greet you. And that was a minty looking dedicated Shinobi nearby, I've not seen that side artwork before.
This is the 2nd retro Arcade walk around video I've ever watched (the other one being in the UK) & on both videos theres an Asian kid slapping the absolute fook out of one of those rhythm machines, is this standard for all arcades? 😅
I think overall my favorite spot in Houston due to the sheer volume of classics and how most are well maintained. I try to go during opening hours during the week when nobody is there to sneak in a couple hours and beat the busy weekend periods.
Going during the week to any of these arcades is the play if you want to get on a lot of games. The weekends can be packed but it makes for better Killer Queen games with more people.
As soon as I spotted the cashless sign on the door that would be me done, don’t support these places that are going cashless people, it’s the end of your freedom if we go digital and loose cash, you’ve been warned.
