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Trip to the Galloping Ghost Arcade

By riostarwind May 10, 2015 4 Comments

Once I saw this sign I knew we finally made it to the Galloping Ghost Arcade. It was quite the trip since we had to take a fairly long train ride to get to Chicago.

You can see Primal Rage II in this shot. Very few of these boards are still around since they were only made as prototypes. Also Sega Sonic the Hedgehog is the giant blue cabinet. To bad the trackballs weren't really working.

All kinds of fighting games. This was mostly the Mortal Kombat Area even if you can't see MK1-3 in this shot. Even though the moves were simple it took a bit to pull off a few special moves on the spot.

The Outfoxies was a weird but cool game. The lightguns you see on the side wren't actually light guns. You just pull the trigger to shoot the gun that your 2D character picked up. The environments that the characters fight in were unique and all of them blew up in some nice ways.

Unfortunately it wasn't working but this Space Harrier side art is awesome.

Heavy Barrel and other top down shooters.

Super Monkey Ball has a banana controller...

Prepare to Joust!

Star Wars side art, also on the side you can see the Star Wars Trilogy machine. It seemed like it was played a lot going by how loose the stick was.

A better shot of the Mortal Kombat row.

Speed Racer

F 14 Tomcat pinball mahcine, it turns out I'm not very good at playing Pinball.

Donkey Kong side art

Mortal Kombat actor signatures

Discs of Tron and Outrun side art

Funhouse Pinball machine

Ah yes the classic shooter row. I put a lot of time into Galaga at my local arcade.

A row of lightgun games. Now that I think about it I didn't play very many of these while I was there.

The rest of the Mortal Kombat actor signatures

So many arcade machines...

Terminator 2 Judgement day. I don't think I ever got past the protect the truck level.

Satan's Hollow, had to take a picture for the name alone.

Unfortueitly they didn't have Black Knight 2000.

Now that I look at this Ms Pac Man side art that ghost is kinda creepy

This game is so dumb but that is why I like it so much. Time Traveler

Friday The 13 Pinball

Silent Scope

Interstellar Side Art

Wide shot of a few pinball machines

Alien 3 side art?

I didn't know Paper Boy had a handlebar controller

Creature of the black lagoon pinball machine. I thought I would be good at this one since I played The Pinball Arcade but nope.

Q Bert Side Art

Tapper and woodcutter side art

A assortment of arcade machines

Tetris arcade is a thing.

Hydro Thunder and Crusin World

random video game posters

You can't really tell but this is a Mappy machine

Gain Ground a arcade machine run by floppy disc

I'm sure everyone wants to go to Crime City.

TENGAI

Ikaruga and Radiant Silvergun

Goro Statue and other game related stuff

Twilight Zone Pinball

Shang Shung's Fight night V happened a week before we went to the GGA.

Arm Champs II Turns out my friend is slightly stronger than I am. 91 vs 105

Spy Hunter Side Art

In The Hunt with a custom marquee. Although if that somehow sprung a leak I'm pretty sure the machine would be dead.

Although I tried I couldn't even get close to taking photos of every single arcade machine at the GGA. It was a fun time and anyone that wants to revisit the past by going to a arcade again the Galloping Ghost Arcade should be at the top of your list.

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csl316

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GG is super great. I'm 15 minutes away and should really visit more often (especially to grab that Goro statue). Almost went down for Fight Night, but I imagine it was jam-packed to hell and I got lazy.

First thing I do every time is visit the Asteroids machine and beat whatever current record is up there. And I can't help but play a few levels of In The Hunt each time, too.

Sometimes people get intense with Arm Champs II.

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All those lightgun games, I love it!

I once went to an arcade with the sole purpose of playing House of the Dead 4. I got there, inserted the coin and... The gun barely worked... So big was my disappointment that I walked out of the arcade and never entered another one again!

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@csl316 If I had a arcade like the Galloping Ghost near to me I would visit it at least once a month. Since they had every game I used to like to play in my local arcade. (Area 51, GI Joe, Star Wars Trilogy and Spy Hunter) Plus plenty of new games I never before that were still fun. (Trog, Rival Schools and Arm Champs II)

@kewlsnake A game I never played before called Zombie Raid had a faulty shotgun lightgun but otherwise the rest of the lineup worked fine. The Resident Evil Code Veronica light gun game was certainly unique since it transplants tank controls onto the base of the lightgun.

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@csl316: Thats cool, your that good at Asteroids.

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