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Classictronica: Arcade Memories (3/2/02) 24.25 (1:46:25 / 97.7 MB)
The Overnightscape Underground – January 2010 – Track 25
“Your Late Night Broadcast” online at onsug.com
Created by Frank Nora (frank@theovernightscape.com) in New Jersey, USA
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Released here for the first time, “Classictronica: Arcade Memories”, recorded March 2, 2002 at the NAVA video game collectors meeting at Video Game Connections in Howell, NJ. Frank interviews the folks at the meeting about the video game arcades that they frequented during the early 80s golden age of video games. Featuring… Video Devil Jr. intro, Fun Arcade (Metairie, Louisiana), Defender, Pancho’s Mexican Cafe, Fiesta Fun Center (Contemporary Resort Hotel, Walt Disney World), Star Rider, DisneyQuest (Downtown Disney, Walt Disney World), Virtuality, bagel shop, Missile Command, The Ground Round, Donkey Kong, Farrell’s Ice Cream Parlour, Star Castle, Pac-Man, Frogger, Xevious, Spy Hunter, Bowcraft, Q*Bert, Asteroids, Space Invaders, Steve, Kyle, Asteroids, arcade off a pizza parlor (Sussex County, NJ), Empire Strikes Back (sit down), bowling alley, Star Wars, Tron, Connecticut, Discs of Tron (envoronment cabinet), Afterburner, Space Harrier, Outrun, Street Fighter II, arcade atmosphere, Crossbow, Choplifter, Punch Out, Gauntlet, Daytona USA, Ridge Racer, Foxwoods Casino (Connecticut), Virtua Racing, Cruisin’ USA, Drug Fair, Venture, Tempest, Galaga, dentist, Space Invaders, Raiden Fighters, World Heroes, Penn Station (NYC), ColecoVision, Macy’s, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, X-Men (2 screens), Ronen, snack place, Phoenix (cocktail), Luxor (Las Vegas), Sega Arcade, US Amusement Auctions, Castle Blast (Atari 5200), Jay Forman, arcade next to Beefsteak Charlie’s, Berzerk, bit by a dog, scar, 7-11, Asteroids, Black Knight 2000 pinball, Twlight Zone pinball, Ocean County Mall, Jenkinson’s South (Point Pleasant, NJ), Mr. Do!, The Game Room, Space Port (Woodbridge Center Mall, NJ), Jerry, The Purple Room and Fun ‘N’ Games, (Willowbrook Mall, Wayne, NJ), Electric Circuit Arcade (Bloomfield, NJ), Rocky’s Pizzeria, Space Invaders, pinball machines, greek restaurant (Princeton, NJ), Popeye, Satan’s Hollow, Mr. Subs and Pat’s Place (Nutley, NJ), Stargate, jukeboxes, Slik Stik, Tempest, Classic Gamic Expo, Las Vegas, Tom, Phoenix, Rutger’s University bowling alley/arcade in the basement of the Student Center, Major Havoc, Galaga, Gauntlet, sounds of the arcade, Rich, Return of the Jedi, Jolt arcade (Flint, Michigan), Fuddruckers, Roger & Me, Broadway City Arcade and Laser Park (TImes Square, NYC), Galaga, The Game Room Store (Woodbridge Center Mall, NJ), Gaplus (cocktail), Chinatown Fair Arcade (NYC), King of Fighters 2001, Metal Slug 4, Donald, Video Village (Echelon Mall, Vorhees, NJ), Pole Position 2 (sit down), Tron, Splatterhouse, Atari Foorball, Video Village II, radio control dune buggies, Exhilarama, put the quarter ont he glass, Xenophobe, Time Pilot, Time Pilot ’84, Dave and Buster’s, House of the Dead 2, Harley Davison, LA Machineguns, Kangaroo, roller coaster, family fun center, video surveillance “game”, Dactyl Nightmare, South Street Seaport (NYC), Malibu Speedway arcade, Dig Dug, Red Baron, Blast From The Past, Silver Palace, singing bears, violent birthday party, two albino bats, ashtrays on video games, A. J. Winston’s, Armor Attack, Stone Harbor arcade, Zaxxon, Food Fight, Paperboy, Harbor Playcade, Galaxian, Steel Talons, Terminator 2, Scott Crawford, Barrow Street Ale House, the oral Tetris memory, Mike Etler, Ocean County Mall, Seaside Heights, Great Adventure, Jackson, Two Guys, Jamesway, Zookeeper, Video Pinball, Galaga, Sega Baseball, cockpits of driving games, Dragon’s Lair, M.A.C.H. 3, Firefox, RIT, Bubbles, Double Dragon, Gulf in Freehold, Mr. Do!, Donkey Kong, VideoGameConnections.com, Pac-Man, John, hotel arcade crimes, Video Devil Jr. outtakes, and bonus audio from March 16, 2002 with Mike about the long-lost “The Purple Room” arcade at the Willowbrook Mall in Wayne, NJ, plus a few others…
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License for this track: Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/us/). Attribution: by Frank Edward Nora – more info at onsug.com
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