[FSPA] Arcade fun: Ocean City, MD and Rehoboth Beach, DE

[Dan Reynolds]

haha final furlough.

On Mon, Jun 5, 2017 at 4:27 PM, ethan--- via FSPA <fspa at fspazone.org> wrote:

> The game you're talking about is Final Furlong.  Final Furlough is the
>> game where you get sent home and don't get paid.
>>
>
> Haha, ohh yea!
>
> Final Furlong should definitely be at Magfest.  Not only is it fun to
>> watch others look like they are doing not so nice things with a horse, but
>> a game on there is one hell of a workout!
>>
>
> Indeed! I played it once in a mall. Virginia Beach, Alladin's Castle. It
> made so much noise, I think the entire food court went silent as their
> stares burned into my soul. And I still lost!
>
> There is a related game called Rapid River which is the same idea, but
>> you're in a raft and have to actively paddle.
>>
>
> We (MAGFest) own a rapid river! It was donated by a local op and we have
> gone through quite a bit to refurb it. Down to someone rebuilding the
> rewelding broken areas of the internal paddle holder from it wearing down
> in the prior owner's hands. It's LCD'ed and before MF 2017 we picked up a
> quiet air compressor so that it could service more boaters.
>
> We got a similar game called Rail Chase that is also air compressor driven
> but gave it to the owner of Save Point in Westminister and it hasn't made
> it back to event yet (it's really heavy.)
>
> Personally, I would love a Derby Owners Club with the full 12 slots at
>> Magfest.  I probably would never leave if I got to play that for hours on
>> end.
>>
>
> I've heard this one mentioned as being a recent Dave and Busters system
> but don't know much about it. Hmmm intarnet says it's Naomi (achievable) or
> Lindbergh (older of the newer PC based Sega stuff AFAIK.)
>
> .... Noted!
>
>
> The games at MAGFest are large and wide brought by collectors, the org
> itself doesn't own that many because of storage logistics and resources for
> repairing stuff but random stuff just falls into your hands sometimes. I
> had never heard of Rapid River until one had been donated to make room in
> an operator's warehouse.
>
> People were sad about the lack of some other game and I hunted down the
> last known location of it in the USA... something called Samba De Amigo but
> the cabinet that was known to exist was trashed after it was damaged. After
> asking about it (possibly on Reddit) someone even had a youtube video of a
> fight over a fighting game (meta?) where someone fell into the Samba De
> Amiga cabinet which apparently damaged the rear proejction screen.
>
> Can't find the other arcade where you stick the finger in the butt either
> (Boong-Ga Boong-Ga.) Friend said he asked overseas and the butts normally
> fell apart after being on location after a few years. There is a video on
> youtube I believe of one in the USA but no idea where.
>
> So uh, if anyone runs across any of this stuff out there, I know of a home!
>
> (Sneak Peak MAGFest 2018 - Get your Gamecube F-Zero GX memory cards ready.)
>
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>>
>> Joe K
>>
>>
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>> Sent: Monday, June 5, 2017 6:35:25 PM
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>> Cc: ethan at 757.org
>> Subject: [FSPA] Arcade fun: Ocean City, MD and Rehoboth Beach, DE
>>
>>
>> Via a crazy craigslist deal to pick up a used and slightly broken
>> commercial frozen drink machine I ended up doing a quick trip last weekend
>> to Ocean City MD. My goal was to buy said dual node frozen drink machine,
>> and do the duty of checking out as many arcades as possible in a
>> reasonable amount of time.
>>
>> So I trekked out on Saturday morning to meet the craigslist seller who
>> agreed to hold the equipment that I was hoping to purchase before the
>> upcoming MAGStock camping event. Deal went down easily, and crazy enough
>> the guy used to work for Silicon Graphics and his kids are involved in
>> diving so he spent some time over in Utila, Honduras recently with dive
>> operators that I was familiar with. Small world! Chatted a bit about
>> Silicon Graphics and loaded the 117 pound thing into the truck. It was
>> taller than expected, so it wouldn't fit under the solid bed cover which
>> means I had to leave it open while off doing arcade hunting. Brought tarp
>> and the machine is this awful olive green color so I figure no one would
>> take it.
>>
>> I found that parking at Ocean City, MD was fairly costly given my simple
>> intentions but took advantage of the Park-N-Ride lot. Park right off the
>> strip, pay $3 and the bus will drop you off on the strip. Perfect, but
>> bring exact change for the bus.
>>
>> Once on the strip I found the arcades to be pretty well stocked with the
>> current high end redemption crap just like Dave and Busters. Instead of
>> one fish bowl transparent LCD ball drop ticket dispenser there was 3!
>>
>> Playland in Ocean City MD had the highlight of my MD exploring, and that
>> was a Namco made vid called Final Furlough. You basically straddle this
>> big stupid looking horse thing and have to bob it up and down faster than
>> the other player to make your horse win the race. It's entertaining to
>> watch, and it's been on my "Want it for magfest" list for a long time but
>> they're kind of rare, crazy heavy and not sure how they would hold up
>> getting played nonstop for 4 days. It was fun running into that machine
>> first on my trek, since it is of interest. When it comes to pins, Playland
>> had a solid lineup with Iron Man, PoTC, IJ Stern, and X-Men. No or low
>> classics, but a lot of the modern huge redemption things which to be fair,
>> are what pays the bills in modern arcades. The pins had players on them,
>> which is awesome!
>>
>> On to Sportsland in Ocean City MD. Another large redemption filled cade of
>> decent size. The only two pins there were Elvis (down) and JJ Wizard of
>> Oz.
>>
>> Final stop for Ocean City MD was a location called Fun City. Once again
>> the money maker redemption crap (Though I like the design of some of the
>> machines! I've been thinking I'd love to build a pinball using the large
>> transparent LCD trick but the servicability would suck with that under the
>> playfield glass!) BUT, chilling in the Fun City was a Stern Family Guy and
>> another JJ Wizard of Oz.
>>
>> All three arcades were pretty large, none of them had much in the way of
>> classics which isn't a surprise at this point but all three had solid
>> recent pinball machines.
>>
>> I was able to spin through all the locations pretty rapidly, and wasn't
>> really in a rush to get home so next stop Rehoboth Beach, DE. I had gotten
>> a tip from a coworker that there are pinball machines on the boardwalk. I
>> moved to the DC area from the Norfolk-Virginia Beach area, and Virginia
>> Beach only ever had one arcade on the boardwalk. So it was a surprise to
>> me that these other places have multiple competing 'cades with similar
>> machines.
>>
>> It didn't take too long to get to Rehoboth Beach, and I just parked at
>> some metered spot. I was using google maps, searching for the Arcade
>> keyword to find locations with very little prior research. The first and
>> only place I really found was...
>>
>> Playland! Playland was a let down IIRC, I don't have any pictures of it.
>> Needed to use the bathroom and while trying to find that I found...
>>
>> Ryans Mini-golf! This one didn't register on the map search but was really
>> close to Playland. The lineup there... yea
>>
>> Ghostbusters (BAM), Wizard of Oz, Aerosmith (whaaaat?) and Batman 66!
>> Someone there cares about pinball or they just refreshed their line up!
>> Finally I coudln't resist anymore and instead of just looking at machines
>> I spent my time there playing Aerosmith and actually got my initials on
>> GB, meaning good players haven't been there yet ;-)  An interesting
>> suprise. 75 cents a play as I recall. I played GB the most just because I
>> was getting good runs on it. Aerosmith has a cool feature where it tosses
>> the balls upwards for lock though. Both Aerosmith and Batman66 had the
>> color LCD system from Stern (anyone know how that works under the hood?)
>>
>> Got home, unloaded the heavy sticky machine of frozen goodness. Next day
>> was the moment. Did I outsmart the prior owner who might not have
>> understood how the safety interlocks work on the slushie machine? No.
>> After like 3 hours and hands covered in sticky old slush syrup the culprit
>> was a broken gear in a gearbox that makes the augers stir the slushie on
>> the right. But I managed to buy all the parts that were missing online and
>> the slushie machine should hopefully have it's transmission rebuilt for
>> the right side before league tonight.
>>
>> I didn't have much time to work on the slushie machine this week....
>> because... work trip to Chicago datacenter and personal fun trip to
>> Brooklyn for computer security conference / nerd rap music concert (next
>> post.)
>>
>>  -- Ethan O'Toole
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