My Trip To Funspot - Intro

Entry posted by BydoEmpire December 20, 2010

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I posted this as a thread over at the GameGavel forums here, but I figured this would be a good way to kick off my new AA blog as well. I thought people here might enjoy it.

My wife's parents moved to NH a couple years ago, and ever since I've been itching to take a day and drive up to Funspot. Finally got a chance over Thanksgiving - here's my report. I have a lot to talk about so I'm going to break it up into sections. First, here's what you see walking into the place:

The Wall of Champions:

I had to get a shot of Billy Mitchell's perfect Pac Man game. In my opinion, this is by far the greatest achievement in gaming:

Now, here's a few shots of the main hall of the arcade room:

Some memorabilia:

Here's me next to a Computer Space (the first one I've ever seen in person), although it wasn't working:

I'll be updating this thread with a lot more pics, and a lot of thoughts about arcade gaming and what this trip meant to me. I had an absolute blast and would go again in a heartbeat. I spent about four hours there - enough time to do everything I wanted, but I could have certainly gone back and "dug deeper."

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