Old Arcade games in Toronto

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Andreas Kohlbach wrote on 11. June 2005:
>
> Yesterday I was in Toronto. I like it though Montreal seems to be
> "warmer" (not so much business and less concrete).
>
> Anyway I saw an Arcade (was also called "Arcade" ), but I forgot the
> street. I think it was between Young Street and Dundas Street, close to
> Dundas. Most of the games were from after 2000. Pinball machines were
> mostly by Stern, as Williams and so Bally and Gottlieb's gave up their
> business. Scary to see that.
>
> But in the dark corner they hid the real games. There were five old
> cabs. Three Pacmans (original, MS and one other), and Galaga as well as
> Galixians in a probably original cab. Yeah. :-)
>
> Now what was the page I can check if it'd already mentioned in the
> "Arcade database"?

Still cannot find it. May be I'm too stupid to google for it. Or it's the
Molson Dry next to me which... ;-)
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Dead_Dad wrote on 13. June 2005:

Are you Canadian?

> Andreas Kohlbach wrote:
>> Yesterday I was in Toronto. I like it though Montreal seems to be
>> "warmer" (not so much business and less concrete).
>> Anyway I saw an Arcade (was also called "Arcade" ), but I forgot the
>> street. I think it was between Young Street and Dundas Street, close to
>> Dundas. Most of the games were from after 2000. Pinball machines were
>> mostly by Stern, as Williams and so Bally and Gottlieb's gave up their
>> business. Scary to see that.
>> But in the dark corner they hid the real games. There were five old
>> cabs. Three Pacmans (original, MS and one other), and Galaga as well as
>> Galixians in a probably original cab. Yeah. :-)
>> Now what was the page I can check if it'd already mentioned in the
>> "Arcade database"?
>
> Do you mean
> A) Timothy's World Coffee Arcade
> (http://tinyurl.com/7skjq / http://tinyurl.com/9bsf5)
>
> or
>
> B) Funland Arcades
> (http://tinyurl.com/dcwjo / http://tinyurl.com/a6758)

B. :-)

In case I ever get back to Toronto (damn, I not even wrote post cards to
other people from there) I will take the time to play Galaxians and Galaga
there, and also check out A.

I remember the one I meant also had pizza restaurant (umm, very small)
there.
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SINNER wrote on 13. June 2005:
>
> * Andreas Kohlbach Wrote in alt.games.mame:
>
>> Yesterday I was in Toronto. I like it though Montreal seems to be
>> "warmer" (not so much business and less concrete).
>>
>> Anyway I saw an Arcade (was also called "Arcade" ), but I forgot
>> the street. I think it was between Young Street and Dundas Street,
>> close to Dundas. Most of the games were from after 2000. Pinball
>> machines were mostly by Stern, as Williams and so Bally and
>> Gottlieb's gave up their business. Scary to see that.
>>
>> But in the dark corner they hid the real games. There were five
>> old cabs. Three Pacmans (original, MS and one other), and Galaga
>> as well as Galixians in a probably original cab. Yeah. :-)
>>
>> Now what was the page I can check if it'd already mentioned in the
>> "Arcade database"?
>
>
> http://www.classicgaming.com/locations/

Yes and no. :-)

It has an overview of Aracde games, and already listed the location in
Yonge Strret/Toronto. But it seems not to be the page I provided a link
in late 2003.

The other page had way more links in Europe (I listed the Arcade in the
"European City" in Bologne Sur Mer/France, but only one link in France
found here.

Thanks anyway, I will go on searching. The former libk was posted in this
groups then, but I don't know what to google for.
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