Abandoned - Australian Arcades of the 1990s
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- Опубликовано: 21 фев 2019
- A case study into the Australian arcade industry at its peak in the 1990s, featuring a brief overview of the industry and an insight into how it closed down. Arcade companies mentioned in the video includes Timezone, Playtime, Intencity and Galaxy World.
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Absolutely brilliant I grew up as a teen in Australia in the 80s - left at 18 and have lived in America ever since - Ty for this - Sydney in the 80s & 90s was incredible -
you are basically bright sun films but abandoned Australian content and i like it
Oh wow, thank you for the mention in the video! This has only just been brought to our attention. Great video. Thank you!
Great video! I was a manager briefly in '99 at one of the tiny _"mom and pop"_ arcades you mentioned! We weren't "Timezone" or "Playtime", we were "Playzone", haha. So creative! Anywho, have you looked into the more recent "Video Games Arcade + Bar/Pub" hybrid thing? Brisbane's *Netherworld* is _SUPER_ popular, hosting a wonderful array of old school 80s, 90s (and beyond) arcade games, along with (free to play) consoles like Nintendo & Sega Master consoles. The nostalgia sure is real! It's a bit different though, as it is also a fully licensed public bar with booze & music. Interesting concept and still very popular, now some 5 years down the track! 😊🕹👾
I'm an arcade kid of the 80's & 90's. Your videos are exceptional mate - keep them coming!
I loved doing the 2 hour super sessions at Timezone. I spent many Saturday's as a teen with mates at the Sunshine Timezone. Such a nostalgia trip, thanks for the video.
Knox timezone for me. Lockin they called them.
@@twomindz79I did the one in Dandenong, in the 90s and I think again in the early 00s. It was the only way my bro and I could finish one of the Time Crisis games, haha.
I have fond memories of Intencity Tuggerah where they have 5 different ‘worlds’ (Safari, Wide World of Sports are the only ones I can remember) and a Funtime play-land inside the complex for parties but I forget what it was called.
I think the kids playground maze was called “hide and seek”
I went to the the Hurstville one and I wish to relive that nostalgia but I cannot find any photos/videos on the internet. I remember there was a tv ad that featured that section specifically
Yeah I really enjoyed going to the one at Hurstville even though it was a little out of my way. Props on the Agro avatar op
Great video. Parramatta in the late 80s, early 90s was the bomb. You had Oribit (Later Galaxy World), Playland and Timezone. Intencity didn't open until 95.
Orbit was a mix of cabs from the late 80s/early 90s, Playland was for the hardcore competitive gamers SFII, MK, Jam etc.. and Timezone was home of the Racing, Light Gun and 4 Player cabs.
Great video mate. Definately miss those days. Seeing virtua fighter/racing and later Daytona was truly staggering at the time.
Love the intro mate. Brings back lots of memories.
I only discovered your channel today and you’ve already uploaded! You must be a mind reader!
Sir Laptop
You got your history distorted ? I know (In the Sydney Metro area) because I was an operator of machines in shops in the early 1990's. Every suburb was covered but not by arcades but various shops like hamburger shops, corner stores plus video stores, bowling alleys, hotels & ice rinks. It was based on a profit share basis with the store & run with Street Fighter game(s) & others as space & player traffic allowed.
Timezone was operated by LAI (Leisure & Allied Industries) & they were the main distributors of games like The Street Fighter series, Mortal Combat, Daytona & pinball machines & others. A Street Fighter game board (PC board was $4,000) & a game cabinet set up with the game board was $7,500. So a $4,000 game board in a re purposed cabinet or a $7,500 new cabinet& game took around 1 year of operating to break even.
LAI had a big advantage as the games they had in their arcades were wholesale prices to them & NOT retail. A twin Daytona game was somewhere in the $55,000 range so cost prohibitive for most smaller operators. Players didn't care about the business side of things all they wanted was their GAME FIX LOL.
The beginning of the end occurred in December 1994 (just before Christmas) with the release of Sony PlayStation. Parents didn't like their kids hanging around shops or arcades & the "kids" were hanging out for the PS fix. With PS Street Fighter released for $89.99 virtually the operators of arcade type machines were DEAD IN THE WATER. Within months into 1995 cash box takings severely dwindled & by mid year I was out of business. I suffered a substantial loss & it took many years to recover. The taxation office was reasonable but over time they still wanted their cut. A business loss is very hard to endure.
I got a job doing courier work. For me & hundreds of other fellow operators we were sold out by Capcom (makers of Street Fighter) & LAI. In hindsight the game boards were way too expensive. Say if you had 20 street fighter cabinets, the PC boards alone cost $80,000. Virtually over night the value of Street Fighter & Mortal Combat games & cabinets nosed dived. Say a $5,000 cabinet was lucky to sell for $500 including Street Fighter game. The market was flooded with cabinets & PC game boards. It was a buyers market.
Big arcades survived longer but they too withered on the vine. Intensity failed because the industry was already in severe decline. Eventually all companies suffered. Pinball manufactures Bally & Williams went out of business. I think Stern is the only one left ? I'm not involved with this business for a long time so not really sure what's the latest ?
All I see in shopping centres is kiddy rides & chocolate/toy cranes. At least some operators have survived with niche market machines but I do see a $3 kiddy ride cost as a negative fee ? The chocolate cranes are popular with kids & parents. At least some products keep on keeping on.
Thanks for sharing that . Very interesting .
Great reply, thanks.
Amazing research, well done :]
Great video, such a underrated channel. I love you focused on video gaming and abandoned stuff. Lots of stuff I didn’t know💕
My father used to tell me about a 2 storey timezone in Sydney, we went there and we found nothing like it. We did come across a timezone somewhere around chinatown though, my father must’ve got galaxy world and timezone confused.
Unfortunate though. I would’ve loved to experience arcade culture then. Big, expansive crowds, more things to do. The vibe overall
I went to a beach one time and i came across a independent arcade. I went there and i felt a vibe I’ve never felt before. I don’t how to describe it but like a carefree feeling
Usually when i go to a “corporate arcade” theres lots of people there. And some go as far to judge on you how you play. This arcade didn’t have that same clutch. Also the games it had were a mix of old and new. When i mean old i mean street fighter 2, I’ve never played really any “iconic” arcade games. Timezone has your usual daytona and ddr. But that’s really all
But this place had everything
In its original state as well. Most “game” machines i see are the sit down style. This was a classic stand up
The owner was extremely nice. He gave us a bowl of coins. So you paid $2 for 10
And the machines allowed $2 for 5 plays. What a bargain!
They had tv and everything in there. Some of the machines were for sale though. Unfortunately. I hope it isn’t going the way of the dodo.
Or maybe they are bringing new machines in
Apparently my aunt told me it’s been there since the 80s, going strong as well. Saw lots of people in there. Minding their own games. None of the “oh fuck I didn’t win on stacker stuff”
Sorry for my winging
In short
Independent stores are definitely bringing back a long gone vibe
Thanks for clearing up why there were so many name changes to the Galaxy World Chinatown arcade. I went there as a kid during the dark ages of the arcade, and I still have the old payment cards.
It's crazy to think but for the hardcore fans, timezone actually has harsher competition, in Sydney that is. Whilst Koko still has some more family orriented activities, it's main location at 614 George St (next to the Galaxy World George St site) is currently more preferred over Timezone Haymarket (again, another Galaxy World location) for many rhythm and racing games, with those games mainly utilising larger controllers that would otherwise be expensive to play for most users.
also it should have a second floor pretty soon, about 2 weeks from this comment I hope.
but thanks for delving into the history of arcades! i didn't even know how prevalent they were at their heyday.
I remember my dad would take me to Time Zone on a Saturday or Sunday for the $20 2 hours unlimited gaming... Great times..
I went to Intencity at Parramatta Westfields back when it first opened in the mid 90s. I remember a room that was decorated like an African hunting lodge with fake animal heads on the walls, there was also a ride that simulated a flight on an RAF Tornado. The ride would be pretty lame by todays standards. After Intencity went bust the arcade remained open under a different operator for a while, with no rides but only the arcade games. Now its all long gone and the space has been taken up by JB HiFi and the food court.
Also back then I had a good mate who worked in Timezone on George Street, right next to the cinemas. A few times I went in on nights when he was working and it was free games all night. Good times.
That playtime you showed is still going strong in Northland Shopping center in the northern suburbs of Melbourne.
I believe its a Timezone now.
When I saw that photo man you took me back like 15 years
JkandI isn’t it called tanza fun there are two in fountain gate and one in Frankston as well
@@mysteriousgirl4438 nah the one in northland now is Timezone.
Just looked it up on their website to make sure and yup they got a timezone in Northland shopping center :)
The one in Northland was great back then.. I remember it had like 4-5 different Street Fighter games! I miss it
The Playtime Arcade at Northland Shops is now Timezone. That photo of the old Playtime at Northland instantly brought back some good memories of me gaming there growing up 👌
Apparently Intencity still exist as a manufacturer of some arcade games like claw machines as I have seen Intencity branded claw machines at places like Bowling alleys and cinemas! :)
Timezone... I spent so much time their as a teen. Oh and thanks for putting me onto 1up ill be checking it out!
I still hang out and play at Intencity chains. Wish they could have a bigger slice of pie than they do now because they have a lot of the classics I enjoy playing. I do enjoy Timezone but a monopoly in any business is never a good thing. I also like supporting the smaller venues and would like to Visit an iPlay someday.
I wish arcades were still like this, I mean exactly like this. The motion simulators looked way cooler than now🙂
Then the Retro Decade Revival Project is just the ticket.
The first picture of Playtime Arcade that was at Northland Shopping Centre in Preston in Melbourne.
That was my local for arcades growing up 👌
Very informative and accurate information.
great video, a nice keepsake for a bygone era!
I just found this video, I remember going to my local timezone as a kid in the suburb of randwick in Sydney's east. I loved playing all the now classic beat em ups and fighters of that era.
Good video, but there were some slight inaccuracies. There definitely wasn't an arcade (or 4) in every suburb (major suburbs, yes) and I'm fairly certain there wasn't 10+ arcades on George St, although there was at least 4 or 5 big ones. 5th Gen console hardware did not match or exceed arcade hardware, but it was close enough to have a big impact on arcade visitors.
Sorry, I'm being overly negative haha - I really did enjoy the video. Great to see a channel like this based in Australia.
You make some good points. There's not that many of us around is there mate haha
@@retrobution1262 Haha no there isn't. The kids must know the TRUTH damn it 😂
Correct. Suburbs like Manly, Miranda, Parramatta etc had arcades. But the standard suburbs generally didn’t. But we had arcade games (1-3 games) in corner shops, take away shops and some shopping centres. This is where kids like me in the early 90s hung out.
Trying to remember the actual arcades on George St, the Timezone right near the cinema entrance (which came back as a crane/ticket game parlor), the huge Galaxy arcade across the road from the cinema, then there was a smaller arcade with two stories and brick walls a few doors down from timezone, on the main cinema strip there were just 3 but nearby on liverpool st and a around the corner where a few smaller venues, also for a long time there was one in Paddies market upstairs, its now a Timezone I think in the other corner upstairs with a huge dogem car rink in the middle, Lots of adaptation, I remember just before smartphones became a thing, there were internet cafes all over the place, mainly catering to world of warcraft junkies, having lived and worked in the city in the late 90's to the early 2010's I saw major changes, but people don't really go into the city like before, as every major suburb can accomodate with the same sort of entertainment.
@@buda3d2007 I never really thought about less people going into the City for entertainment. It makes sense but sure is a shame. When I was a teen, the City was like a smorgasbord of options!
Thanks Sir Laptop as someone who lived on the Nprthern Beaches in the 1980-2008 period I remember many of these arcades and in the city very well.
How don’t you have more subscribers your videos are great
Thanks, good research about what happened to them. I had no idea that some still existed and there are even new ones!
Pretty sure there was an Intensity in Chadstone Shopping Centre over a decade ago.
Also does anybody remember ‘Timeout’?
There was one in Box Hill and Glen Waverley (right near The Glen)
Box Hill for sure.
Yes , there was a few arcades in Box Hill
Yeah I remember Timeout Arcade on Box Hill. I use to go there just to play Tekken 5 for half price on Tuesdays when the Melbourne Tekken community was at its peak.
Good times!
Love your videos
Isnt it depressing how arcades used to be the place to play new cutting edge games and are now just scam prize games and mobile game ports.
A buddy of mine had a dreamcast, that thing blew my mind at the time, still think its one of the best console designs ever made, miss sega not being in the console market.
Thanks for the flashbacks buddy
I used to live in these places during the 90s and that's no exaggeration
Like 6-12 hours a day...
so many memories from the time zone at chatswood, used to love going there as a kid
I used to work at Galaxy World in george st in the early '90s and also at playtime across the street which used to be called westworld..There was another games arcade opposite the cinemas on george st owned by the owners of playtime which later closed down to make way for planet hollywood..I worked in all 3 centres during the '80s and '90s..it was alot of fun back then and there are alot of stories to tell..
Hear in the Sutherland Shire we had a place called “TILT”. & it was awesome.
It's now Aldi :(
Had a TILT in Adelaide as well. Great memories of 4hrs for $12 on Sunday 9-1, got a lot of DDR practice in there lol
Drewbo Aldi & the Reject shop. I remember Tilt going a lot further back then eather store.
Dean Churchman. I’m afraid we will never see those days again.
True. Not sure if my body can take 4 hour DDR sessions like it used to though! There are a few VR places in the Adelaide CBD, would be awesome if they have racing SIM setups as well
I should update, Timezone in Adelaide came back as Timezone Woodville. I had to do a double take when I saw the sign go up. Intencity is still going at Marion.
Timezone or Downtown is being built again right now on Hindley St,in Adelaide.
In the same place it originally was✌️
Scott Diesel Cameron downtown, but that’s coming back as a nightclub not a gaming arcade.
@@yowiepvt
Oh...
I dont know anything,I only saw a Liquor License on the Paper in the Window.
I have NO idea what the Club's here are like these Day's.
Has been a long time😐😂
And home consoles probably entered the mainstream with Atari, Commodord 64 etc in the late 70s, but definitely by the NES in 1985. I do agree it was about the time of the PS1, Saturn, N64 where consoles caught up to arcade machines in tech.
Timezone has recently opened up in Garden city with zone bowling, love going there even as an adult
Wow I have quite a few arcade based memories, from playing Xan'd Sleena at the local milk bar on my walk home from school, to playing at Timezone Liverpool in 1989 whilst waiting for mum to finish work and drive us home, to spending lots of mpost movies hours in George St Sydney, and every Sunday evening going with friends to Intencity Parramatta, to play in those two interactive games..one being a Martian racing game, and the other a mech game.
There is still an Intencity Arcade in Westfield Marion in South Australia, It's been there for decades
After Intencity closed ages ago in Bankstown Square, Funland has opened in the Saigon Plaza a year or so ago.
There was never an intencity in BS. What drugs are you on?
@@funtimefreddie9637 Yep there was Timeout and Spinout. No Intencity
Funland is great tho so no harm there
Great video man! This subject for the Australian market is quite niche and interesting for us Aussies.
Just out of curiosity though, do you think this series warrants an ‘abandoned’ title? Abandoned tends to hint you would be going through or talking about a place has been left abandoned for a time. Your subjects tend be places where they ‘disappear’ from a decline in viability or popularity. People may think they are getting to see dilapidated arcades places which would be cool and sad at the same time.
I remember when Intensity opened in Hurstville. Literally only there for a couple of years
I have seen a few arcades still open around SA (as of October 2023), i know there is an Intencity in Westfield marion and a Timezone at Elizabeth, woodville and Westfield tea tree plaza, but thats the most ive seen most have sadly shut down i believe.
There was an arcade in Perth WA called Orbit arcade. Not sure when they opened but they had their own tokens and I've still got one somewhere, but they closed must be 2007-2008 I think maybe? Maybe earlier, they had two floors with mostly classic arcade stuff and pool tables up top.
There also used to be a cinema in Perth attached to an office building but closed down and they had a teenage mutant ninja turtles cabinet. From what I know there's a timezone in Northbridge and Pot Black which has a bunch of really old games like metal slug and like fighting games and pool tables.
And like your everyday cinema arcades of course in the suburbs, timezones and leisure islands mostly. I think the one in Morley shopping centre has been there for a while with the cinema.
Manly had Timezone on the Corso and TILT at the wharf. Every Civic and Video Ezy had Street Fighter 2. Woolworths warringah mall even had a Street Fighter 2 CE machine (brand new). The laundromat in the Woolworths arcade at Dee Why (Oaks Ave) had over 20 machines in it. There were Street Fighter 2 competitions held at Video Ezy, my mate won a holiday to the Gold Coast out of it. Every little shop that could fit one had one. Hoyts at Warringah mall had NBA Jam, Space Gun, Street Fighter 2, Terminator 2 and Mortal Kombat. Parents and kids would walk past and see a 'fatality' and be shocked.
I worked at Intencity, Parramatta. My first major job. At the virtual reality ride; Magic Edge.
Then once they closed,I got a job at Sega World, Sydney.
Yes,the market had changed. But what they both had in common,and in their control: Very terrible management. Both made terrible decisions,and staff treated poorly.
I grew up around Brisbane. We had a lot of Playtime arcades in the 90s. Then there was Replay, funhouse and fastplay.
I remember the arcade that was at warringah mall i was only 4 (now 12 ) and my mum and I used to go in there all the time. It eventually got replaced by a pandora and a toy shop I was really sad when it got replaced
Miss this era...belco mall intencity was fantastic..pool tables bar coffee..sega bass fishing was a ball ..indoorgolf..was a total blast...dropped plentycash there...sadly missed...
that place was epic! Civic had the arcade with heaps of competitive fighting games and also there was the pool hall arcade at the bus interchange with lots of imports behind glass cabs. Amazing times!
Intencity is still alive and well at Westfield Marion here in SA.
apparently suburban Adelaide is a country area....
I remember in the late '90's to actually purchase a Time Zone franchise would set you back 1 million Australian dollars, a friend looked into buying a franchise at the time.
I remember when Intencity opened at Hurstville Westfield. It was amazing
The only game keeping me in Arcades is WMMT and they took that out of my local timezone so have to drive 50km to play it.
Wow! My girlfriend worked at Intencity in hurstville and we were at the grand opening. The mech warrior/battletech(?) game you’re enclosed in a pod and had a screen and a million lit up controls then battled all the other players was awesome. There was another game/ride rollercoaster thing that spun around for g forces while you and a friend sat in a pod and controlled a ship.
Found this trying to find a video of it to show my son… who I’m currently watching play Mobile Suite Gundam… against online friends … streaming… on twitch.
He would still have loved intencity.
Man... one of my biggest regrets ever was missing out on the Battletech Pods years ago on the Intencity in Parramatta. Always looked damned awesome just didn't have the time or money back in my broke HS days xD
Intencity was very cool but I don't think people got it. I went to the original at Hurstville It was the first time I played VR and I cracked my thumb in the baseball batting cage.
I’m surprised Timezone hasn’t tried to re-enter the SA Market as part of their revival.
Every suburb in Australia? Haha. I'd say more like one in every 5 suburbs or so. I remember we had a Timezone in Garden City, Booragoon in Perth.
Heavy bias on Sydney here i expect.
there was also a Timezone in the Perth CBD too, either in the Murray or Hay St Malls.
Daytona still holds up today, my fav racer
Heaps of them opened around Newcastle, none of them survived.
They're opening again lately.
I still remember those times where I went to the Charlestown and Greenhills locations! The latter opened last year, I think. It's way better than the Charlestown one, mainly because of the fact that it's got a bowling alley and lazer skirmish.
@@thomasdebercey1709 Because the Greenhills and Kotara ones were designed for all of that. The Charlestown one was a Dick Smith before hand.
Dad used to tell me about when he went to the Timezone on the corner of Hunter and Brown streets, opposite the old KFC, and the Playtime near the now defunct Tower Cinemas. I've been looking to find old photos and whatnot of them but there's really nothing.
@@braydenwallbridge5595 Sad to say that a lot of the visual history from that time wasn't preserved due to the lack of hindsight and the absence of smartphones and digital cameras. Kids wouldn't have thought to take a video or a few pictures along the way, they were too busy playing the machines and having fun. Their parents wouldn't have stuck around and so you don't see any footage taken by them either. There aren't many pictures or videos of the interiors of most large arcades in Sydney or Manly of that time, so by extension, finding footage from Newcastle will be equally hard or worse.
While I could definitely see Timezone acquiring the 7 remaining Intencity outlets in the near future, I wouldn't consider the locations to be country areas (except for Albury, maybe). ;-)
Go to timezone every time i go to queensland, owning coin dozer for days!
Quality nostalgia
We've still got an Intencity in our suburb.
Movie world on the gold coast technically has a intencity btw. Opened in aprox. 2008
You reminded me that there was also an Intencity at Pacific Fair in Broadbeach, and the Southport one that moved from in the cinemas to the food court and then became Top One Chinese restaurant haha
Luckily the resurgence of Arcades has benefited Port Macquarie. They opened a two sector arcade, with skill machines and arcade systems throughout. We even have a Space Invaders shooter machine like the one featured in your video!
Old man story: When I was a little kid I played at a video arcade there in around 1979 when I was on holidays with my family, the song "Computer Games" was on the juke box all the time and I was hooked on playing Asteroids. I doubt that place is still around but I see the old cinema is. Hopefully they've fixed the air conditioning.
I think I still have a grundys token somewhere
I think Timezone will still operate with a small footprint & modest profits. I think parents who were kids in the 80s/90s might “Treat” their kids to to an arcade (while their still young) gaming centre so they can experience what they what their parents did for fun at their age...By the way, perhaps when you mention “ George street” you should let others know that this is in Sydney..
Anyone think the Adelaide had 4 family fun centres or arcades we had downtown tilt on Hindley street and in the Myer centre dazzleland from when it opened in the mid 1980s till the 1990s when it eventually closed and not started again
That solar flare level in Galaxy Force was used in Starfox 64. And it is said that Power Drift was ripped off to create Mario Kart in 1992.
Dude, video arcades were huge ten years before that. Even in the late 70s and were everywhere. I can't remember the names of the arcades on George st before Time Zone but there was one that took up half the ground floor of the Hoyts cinema (where Event is now) complex. The most infamous one in Sydney was probably the one in Kings Cross just down from the train station. It was not a good place to be around it was mostly used for drug dealing.
use to spend hours in timezone in Adelaide hindley street.
who remembers the fun factory on the corner of Toorak Rd and Chapel St in Melbourne?
Of course
timezone is huge in the phillipines thousands of aracdes heaps more than australia has all the old 90s games daytona point blank etc also have time renting for consoles ps4 for online gaming mainly
When You Said (But There All In Country Areas.) There 1 In The Metro In Westfield Casey, 45 Km’s From The Melbourne CBD
Sad, the kids now spend all their time in their bedroom rather than going out and spending time with their friends playing video games
I basically lived the days of the beginning of the end, my father was a self employed operator of jukeboxes, video games, pinballs and pool tables, and he said that going from 20c pieces to 1 and 2 dollar coins signified at least to him, that two things were going to happen: 1: home computers would take over and wipe out the public arcade market, and 2: small as well as large operators would become bankrupt and redundant.
I can only hope that these things which are coming and have come to pass are not signifying the complete end of the public industry, although exactly what my father said would happen is happening. I miss the days of my youth, with him, I only wish things didn't have to change and would only get better.
I actually remember being an arcade obsessed teen and then giving arcades the flick. And I think you're right - one of the reasons was they went from 40c to $1 in a short space of time. But from the time they stopped being 40c to the time they started being 40c (mid 80s), there was a lot of inflation. They probably were due to go up. But going from 40c to $1 in one hit was just too much for me.
yep i remember being outraged when TMNT was 60c, I put 40c in and went to the operator for help haha
There seems to be no images/video of the “hide and seek” section at intencity Hurtsville.
Does anyone recall the gigantic tube maze playground?
I know it was real! (Lucky enough to go once)
Street fighter, mortal kombat, time crisis, point blank, metal slug and Daytona arcade games were THE best.
I think you got the reasoning partially correct. It was never that consoles were unnafordable as everyone had a Sega Master System, NES or later SNES amd Mega Drive it was simply that the arcade games were so much better than the home consoles. All anyone wanted was to play a game with better graphics. Once home consoles like the Play Station in 1995 there was no point in going to the arcades and spending money as the home console was as good or better than the arcade. And that never changed even to this day. PC and console games are better than anything in arcades for 30 years now. The magic completely died in 1995.
Wonder how long Koko Amusement will fare, they've more or less opened up around the same area Galaxy World's George Street location is, and their attempts to one up Timezone by capitalising on the post-2010s Japanese Rhythm Game scene seems to be working, even after lockdown (they're not formally open as of this post but their machines are operating at the nearby City of Heroes), but time will tell, hopefully not, as Galaxy World was a childhood staple of the CBD for me, and I hope this relatively new venue does ok. At the very least, Purikura Photoland seems to be fine, but to be fair it has it's own niche. I'm curious as to where all the candy cabs have ended up, but otherwise, i look forward to the future of aussie arcades from here on out, especially since i predict a boom in that sector given the conclusion of the lockdown.
To be fair Galaxy World at George St wasn't actually doing very badly. It was *always* packed every evening specially fridays and weekends. Pretty much everyone chose Galaxy World over Timezone (which amusingly enough is the last arcade standing before Koko took over and started giving competition again) back then because of the massive floor space. It just shut down one day and never re-opened for months until obviously the bills were never paid and the place was repossessed. There's were a few rumours back then as to why the owner just suddenly stopped opening.
uh everything was so new and exciting back then
Westfield shopping centres are so fucking boring. They could do with a few Arcades coming back.
"every suburb had a Timezone.... there were 50!"
Nonsense stuff.
Surprised you didn't mention barcode the arcade you could drink at
9:14 very much looks like the ne at westfield marion in Adelaide
Intensity is way too recent. Who remembers Tilt? That was at Miranda westfield. Miss the 90’s! 😞😊👍🏻👌🏻
whatta bout leisure island?
Time zone recently opened up in Adelaide at tea tree plaza the best game there are taiko no tatsujin and Mario kart Arcade GP DX
There are gaming arcades in Japan today.
9:56 Suburban Adelaide is a country area???
Adelaide is the biggest country town in Australia
3:35 why does raiden have red
Still intensity is open but different and Lots of games not as much as timeline a giant in australia
Timezone not timeline
There wasn't an arcade in every suburb, certainly not in suburban Brisbane. Where did you get that "fact" from? I lived through the 90's arcade scene & you had to go into the city to experience arcade goodness. Some of the info in this video is highly dubious.
George st timeline - 1980ish to 2003 arcades, 2004 to 2011 internet/gaming cafes, 2011 to 2019, not much becuase of the proposed light rail killing most of the foot traffic
hey! the abc logo music!