If you go to Fishermans Wharf in San Francisco they have an awesome vintage arcade. All the games are real vintage like from the 20's up to the 60's its great.
The place brings back memories of what the old Palace Playland arcade up in Old Orchard Beach Me. looked like in the 80's. Really should make the trip up to Weir's Beach sometime to check this place out.
Almost every year from 1989 to 2000 I vacationed to Laconia. We always went to Funspot and the boardwalk arcades, waterslides, and drive-in. Glad to see it is still there in some shape.
So many different eras of the arcade reside in this place. Everything from 1950's to modern cabinets. It's almost overwhelming. I agree, this has to be the greatest arcade I've ever seen and I'm glad to see any place like this open nowadays.
I spent the summer in Laconia with my first boyfriend and his family (he was from there) during the break between senior year of high school and my first year of college. We used to go here EVERY Friday night with his friends and it was ALWAYS a good time. That was in 1993 and he's passed away since. This brought back some amazing memories (and a few tears)...thank you for sharing this!
@@fleabittenadventures I actually meant Monger’s Market in bridgeport, an Indoor flea market. The Archive is a cool record,VHS vintage store also in Bridgeport which you might like.
What a cool arcade. Love all the retro games. My favorite old school arcade game is definitely Galaga. Other favorites are Joust, Donkey Kong, Centipede and Millipede, Elevator Action, and, well, a lot others. Great video.
'@ 2:24, Silent scope', use to play that game all the time in my hometown, it cost $1.50 just to play back then. I didn't know they did a sequel, that's new to me.
Hiiii!!! I never heard of this place, although I heard of Funspot which also is in Laconia, NH. I so want to visit both those arcades someday thanks to this video you made! ^_^
I would have liked to see you play some of the really old vintage games, like the baseball or basketball. Even that newer chameleon game looked interesting.
As soon as you walked into the 2nd part of the arcade, it's a dead giveaway it was a bowling alley. You can see the red foul lines, and the wood caps covering the gutters, literally as you walked in. That also means the approach went to the exit, which is odd, and short. This was the same way when Whalom Park (Lunenburg, MA) was a thing. It was home to the world's first candlepin alley with automatic pinsetters. In my youth, the covered up the gutters similar to here, but kept the annoying bright bowling lighting, and sanded the floors to a bright, natural color. These didn't work well trying to play CRT-based machines which were 70s era. Most of the games were EM-based, including the pinball machines. At that time, I thought it was hokey, maybe dumb. With age, you realize that was actually good stuff in reality.
@fleabittenadventures wow, you never got a chance to go to canobie lake? I haven't been in decades aside from going to spooky world several years ago.
This arcade is awesome. Anything similar in my neck of the woods, it's a retro bar filled with legendary machines like Pac-Man, Outrun, Galaga, Terminator, NEOGEOs, X-Men, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, some pinballs, and so on. Anyway, again a nice video, and thank you and be safe out there.
24:20 Gotta love the reasonably nice thrift store lamps. I would probably get one of them lol, most look 80s. 29:55 Grandma doesn't realize no one writes and sends letters anymore. Honestly, have you received a letter in the last decade? If you translate that to email, though, then maybe.. she will be right.
Yes, they do, and I'll have a Funspot video in the near future. However, this place is way older than Funspot. They are both great arcades, just different.
Too many of those casino-style coin munchers for my taste. I miss the days when you would walk into an arcade and find row after row of video cabinets with another full row of pinball tables in the back.
@@fleabittenadventures well let's just say I sort of grew up in an arcade down the street now what I got with the new ones the ones I used to have had two pool tables in it and I'm too box the first galaga was never worth a damn the one with the tractor bands was always the better of the two I was watching on RUclips or something cartoon characters the end game Time by The Beatles to realize that it was Zelda The legend of Zelda it had been so long since I've seen a character that had access and handles and s*** like that and it just slipped past me tell me a while I guess it took a while to get to Brown box actually going call from the old fighting games I forget what the hell game was over they had three of them they had one that had a backwards hat on and he kept saying come on come on come on come on come on like that and then there was a guy in a white kimono and some other idiot what's up with cartoon characters that's a nice little peel I've seen some over the years and other people and they all have the same skill cranes and all the other bulshit you went through actually had business do you remember take dog at allI lost my right leg to cancer turn on the left leg I got off the bus about 20 years ago and got scattered all over the place and still a little bit it takes me awhile to get to a mailbox that's what it that way it's kind of like being attacked by a teddy bear I'm slow and I actually get to her please
I wish I had time to play everything, but I didn't. I actually filmed everything first without playing, and then came back with my GoPro and played the games. I didn't include all my play footage because the video would have been like 3 hours long.
This place looks awesome. Don't think anything can beat Funspot in Laconia also. The entire floor they have of pure retro games is unmatched
Yes, I'll have a Funspot video too. This place is way older than Funspot though, which is what I really like about it.
Funspot is a fantastic spot! I need to get back up there to play Cloak & Dagger again :)
Feel better tom you sound congested.
If you go to Fishermans Wharf in San Francisco they have an awesome vintage arcade. All the games are real vintage like from the 20's up to the 60's its great.
If I ever get out there, I'll try to check it out! Thanks!
i put these videos on my other monitor while doing excel work and its the perfect pace. keep it up
Cool! Glad you like them!
The place brings back memories of what the old Palace Playland arcade up in Old Orchard Beach Me. looked like in the 80's. Really should make the trip up to Weir's Beach sometime to check this place out.
I highly recommend it! There's another arcade just across the street which is almost as awesome, and then Funspot's right down the road!
Taking trips across the lake to Weirs with a pocketful of change was the peak of high school
I loved going to Weirs Beach back in the 80's! I was definitely the highlight of my summer vacation!
Such a fun place and spot up there in NH! Hoping to get back up there this Summer myself. Thanks for the vid/tour!
You're welcome! It is a great area!
Ok you reached your goal ! I’ll be waiting for the promised video lol. Let’s go
It's coming soon. I was sick last week, so I couldn't do the voiceover part last week. Hopefully it will be up in the coming week sometime.
The good old days. Awesome video.
Glad you liked it! Thanks!
Almost every year from 1989 to 2000 I vacationed to Laconia. We always went to Funspot and the boardwalk arcades, waterslides, and drive-in. Glad to see it is still there in some shape.
Same here. There have been some changes, but it's 90% the way I remember it from when I was a kid.
This arcade brought back memories! Not too far from where I reside is an arcade that you play a flat rare for 1 hr of continuous pay!
I've got some more arcade videos coming up. Stay tuned!
So many different eras of the arcade reside in this place. Everything from 1950's to modern cabinets. It's almost overwhelming. I agree, this has to be the greatest arcade I've ever seen and I'm glad to see any place like this open nowadays.
Yes, I haven't seen any others quite like it! Thanks for watching!
I spent the summer in Laconia with my first boyfriend and his family (he was from there) during the break between senior year of high school and my first year of college. We used to go here EVERY Friday night with his friends and it was ALWAYS a good time. That was in 1993 and he's passed away since. This brought back some amazing memories (and a few tears)...thank you for sharing this!
Sorry for your loss, but I'm glad you liked the video. This place has barely changed in the last 30 years and I hope it stays that way!
Yes more arcade tours please. Also check out The Archive in Bridgeport
He’s done a video on it if I remember right
The "Arcade" Mall in Bridgeport, or The Archive? I've never heard of the Archive. I did do a video on the Bridgeport Arcade though.
Yes, on the Bridgeport Arcade, but that's a different kind of arcade.
@@fleabittenadventures I actually meant Monger’s Market in bridgeport, an Indoor flea market. The Archive is a cool record,VHS vintage store also in Bridgeport which you might like.
@@fleabittenadventuresthe archive is a store in Bridgeport
Very cool!
Thanks!
What a cool arcade. Love all the retro games. My favorite old school arcade game is definitely Galaga. Other favorites are Joust, Donkey Kong, Centipede and Millipede, Elevator Action, and, well, a lot others. Great video.
Thanks!
I so miss those days !
Luckily there are still some places like this where you can relive them.
Omg i had forgotten about wack-a-mole. A lot of memories with my dad in the arcade. I wish there was an actual After Burne/II there.
Yes! A real Afterburner II would have been nice, but that game was pretty close...
'@ 2:24, Silent scope', use to play that game all the time in my hometown, it cost $1.50 just to play back then. I didn't know they did a sequel, that's new to me.
Yes, new to me too. Looked cool though.
As always great video 👍
Thanks!
Hiiii!!! I never heard of this place, although I heard of Funspot which also is in Laconia, NH. I so want to visit both those arcades someday thanks to this video you made! ^_^
Yes, this place is about 5 minutes from the Funspot.
@@fleabittenadventures neat :)
Great video ! I have never been there but we love to some day. The flooring in the 2nd building looks like old bowling lanes wood to me. Thank you !
It's a great place! Thanks for watching!
I would have liked to see you play some of the really old vintage games, like the baseball or basketball. Even that newer chameleon game looked interesting.
I would have, but I think the really old ones were all out of order.
At 8:38... There is a machine I do not see too often anymore and those are the types of machines I like playing often.
Thanks for watching!
@@fleabittenadventures Anytime.
As soon as you walked into the 2nd part of the arcade, it's a dead giveaway it was a bowling alley. You can see the red foul lines, and the wood caps covering the gutters, literally as you walked in.
That also means the approach went to the exit, which is odd, and short.
This was the same way when Whalom Park (Lunenburg, MA) was a thing. It was home to the world's first candlepin alley with automatic pinsetters. In my youth, the covered up the gutters similar to here, but kept the annoying bright bowling lighting, and sanded the floors to a bright, natural color. These didn't work well trying to play CRT-based machines which were 70s era. Most of the games were EM-based, including the pinball machines. At that time, I thought it was hokey, maybe dumb. With age, you realize that was actually good stuff in reality.
Wow. I didn't even notice that! I've got to take a closer look next time! Thanks for the info!
@@fleabittenadventures No problem.
I remember dodge city from my childhood at some point. I think it was canobi lake.
Nice! I've never been to Canobie Lake. Do they still have an arcade or shooting gallery there?
@fleabittenadventures wow, you never got a chance to go to canobie lake? I haven't been in decades aside from going to spooky world several years ago.
If you get a chance, check out the Spring Lake Arcade in RI - one of the oldest in America and full of awesomeness!!
Thanks for the suggestion!
This arcade is awesome. Anything similar in my neck of the woods, it's a retro bar filled with legendary machines like Pac-Man, Outrun, Galaga, Terminator, NEOGEOs, X-Men, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, some pinballs, and so on. Anyway, again a nice video, and thank you and be safe out there.
Thanks!
24:20 Gotta love the reasonably nice thrift store lamps. I would probably get one of them lol, most look 80s.
29:55 Grandma doesn't realize no one writes and sends letters anymore. Honestly, have you received a letter in the last decade?
If you translate that to email, though, then maybe.. she will be right.
Nope. No emails that have changed my life either. I think Grandma may be a fraud.
6:50 3 Pat Lawlor pinball classics! (Addams family, Earthshaker & Funhouse) Also there's Twilight Zone at 11:46
Yes, a lot of nice games at this place!
Time Crisis think on the ps1 brought back memories great game, cool place sadly now few and far between.
Yeah, that was a cool game. I remember playing that a few times a long time ago.
I’ve seen plenty of dual Galaga/Ms. Pac Man cabinets out in the wild where you can play either one. Pretty slick if you ask me.
Definitely.
btwe i just saw a walkthrough of mall of america and that place is huge!
Yes, I'd love to get out there someday. It's just a bit too far for me right now.
Funspot has vintage also
Yes, they do, and I'll have a Funspot video in the near future. However, this place is way older than Funspot. They are both great arcades, just different.
i am a huge arcade fan......favorite games are star wars arcade by atari and tron/discs of tron. can't forget kangaroo either.
Well, stay tuned. I have an upcoming video of another arcade where they have a sit-down Star Wars arcade, the original from 1977/78., and I played it.
@@fleabittenadventures there are only 800 of the cockpit versions made so very expensive nowadays to own one.
Here's one you might remember do you remember dig dug that one was one of my favorites
Yes, for sure. I think I had a port of it on my C64 back in the day. Great game. Didn't see it there though.
Too many of those casino-style coin munchers for my taste. I miss the days when you would walk into an arcade and find row after row of video cabinets with another full row of pinball tables in the back.
Yeah, I'm not a fan of those, but luckily it's not all those type of machines like some modern "arcades".
Let me know if they have the legend of Zelda donkey Kong that's the first one with Mario and LU that was Stargate and I grew up in arcades
Yes, they have Donkey Kong. Didn't see Zelda. Was Zelda in the arcades?
@@fleabittenadventures No. (Chuckling).
No Mall :(
Don't worry, there are plenty of more mall videos coming up.
I got up to the fleet admiral the second one was the better version the first version absolutely sucked
Which game?
@@fleabittenadventures well let's just say I sort of grew up in an arcade down the street now what I got with the new ones the ones I used to have had two pool tables in it and I'm too box the first galaga was never worth a damn the one with the tractor bands was always the better of the two I was watching on RUclips or something cartoon characters the end game Time by The Beatles to realize that it was Zelda The legend of Zelda it had been so long since I've seen a character that had access and handles and s*** like that and it just slipped past me tell me a while I guess it took a while to get to Brown box actually going call from the old fighting games I forget what the hell game was over they had three of them they had one that had a backwards hat on and he kept saying come on come on come on come on come on like that and then there was a guy in a white kimono and some other idiot what's up with cartoon characters that's a nice little peel I've seen some over the years and other people and they all have the same skill cranes and all the other bulshit you went through actually had business do you remember take dog at allI lost my right leg to cancer turn on the left leg I got off the bus about 20 years ago and got scattered all over the place and still a little bit it takes me awhile to get to a mailbox that's what it that way it's kind of like being attacked by a teddy bear I'm slow and I actually get to her please
why not play the basketball one???
I wish I had time to play everything, but I didn't. I actually filmed everything first without playing, and then came back with my GoPro and played the games. I didn't include all my play footage because the video would have been like 3 hours long.
Oh crap, New Hampshire is real? I thought it was just some made up place....like Canada
Define "real".
@@fleabittenadventures define "Define"