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HughBeaumont

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8. Same here . . .

Reply to Blue_Tires (Reply #7)

Fri Feb 10, 2012, 11:10 AM

Feb 2012

. . . it was amazing going in Aladdin's Castle to see what new game would be there this month. I'd be there for hours at a time when I wasn't grounded due to bad grades.

Once video games became nothing but glitzy endless 3-D versions of Pole Position, Karate Champ and Wolfenstien 3-D, I kind of lost interest. Smash TV was the last video game I played regularly in the arcades. Thank whoever for MAME . . . and too bad I don't live near FunSpot in NH, or I'd be there every day.

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Decline and Fall of the Mall? [View all] marmar Feb 2012 OP

Sadly. While I dislike malls it's clear the replacement jobs will not be local. Pholus Feb 2012 #1

Malls have replaced downtown retail areas as the communal gathering place rurallib Feb 2012 #3

I really, really miss going to the mall. Nye Bevan Feb 2012 #2

Agreed Mr Dixon Feb 2012 #6

I'll mostly miss the food courts. limpyhobbler Feb 2012 #4

I live under a mile from the Mall IDemo Feb 2012 #5

Malls died for me when all the arcades closed Blue_Tires Feb 2012 #7

Same here . . . HughBeaumont Feb 2012 #8

We had an Aladdin's, too among other places... Blue_Tires Feb 2012 #9