Ah Vancouver, the city of many cruise ships and retirees boarding these massive vessels! This post has been a long time coming, but that’s because we’ve been distracted – till now!
Continuing on with cool places we visited while on our North American trip (like the Seattle Pinball Museum, Toy Shack and A Gamer’s Paradise in Vegas), the city of Vancouver delivered its own piece of gaming nostalgia via the Movieland Arcade!
There are some amusement centres that are stuck in a bygone era, a period of time when arcade parlours in the 80s were lined with machines, both of the arcade and pinball kind, checkered linoleum flooring, cheeky signage, an attendants booth for exchanging your notes for coins and of course, the smell. Well, it is safe to say that Movieland Arcade encapsulates this 80s era perfectly.
Situated at the hipster end of Granville Street in central Vancouver, Movieland Arcade cannot be missed – its distinct red tile facade enticing you to go in and experience some real gaming nostalgia. With pinball tables and arcade machines ranging from the 70s to the late 90s, you better exchange your notes for a shed-load of coins as you will want to play them all!
Movieland Arcade reminded us of the arcade joints we used to frequent in the 80s on Swanston Street and Russell Street in the centre of Melbourne. Unlike those arcade joints going the way of the dodo, Vancouver can count itself lucky with a place like the Movieland Arcade.
Whoa, we spot Movieland Arcade across the road!
You definitely can’t miss the distinct facade of this majestic arcade parlour
We better grab some more coins!
Here we go! Hmm, pinball or straight to the arcade machines?
We shall start from the left and work our way to the right..
You have to go slow when you are in here! Too many awesome distractions!
We can’t go past some Neo Geo action
Killer Instinct is next!
Whoa man, haven’t seen a Gauntlet Legends machine in almost 20 years!
Some single racing action on Daytona USA!
Inserting coins now!
Nothing beats some 8P head-to-head racing!
We spy Medieval Madness! Time to destroy some castle!
Needing some gun action, which Area 51 will satisfy
We enjoy gunning down zombies!
Hmm, not sure if these ‘movies’ and that ‘theatre’ are appropriate, but…
OMG, Raiden Fighters! There go all of our coins!
Our shmup senses have gone into overdrive! Get us some more coins!
We spent our last few coins on some Playboy action *wink*
Darn it, the booth attendant must’ve had a toilet break. We’ll be back.
