What's up with that arcade on Hotel Street...the one in the vicinity of where the "Hubba Bubba" club was...what a funky old neon sign!
I stepped into it, very briefly, as I worked my way into Chinatown today, and was just curious if this is front for something other than playing ancient arcade games.
The sign on the door to the arcade said 18+ only admitted. What's interesting is that most of the games are what look like 1950's era, non-electronic games. They aren't true pinball games; rather they appear to be some sort of "skill" game where one tries to accumulate high scores by dropping pinballs into specifically marked drop holes. There were 2 people playing the games in there, and it appeared that they had been in the arcade for sometime.
My intial thought, upon entering the arcade, was I was in some sort of time-warp. I felt uncomfortable in there and I did a quick about-face for the exit. I was in there for no more than 15 seconds
It just seemed totally odd that this arcade existed in Honolulu, circa 2005, in this day and age of Xboxes, Game Boys, and PPSs.
Are patrons of the arcade playing towards prizes in there, ala little keiki playing for tickets to be redeemed for small prizes at Chuck E. Cheese, or is there something else going on in there that I'm completely and naively unaware of?
Also: The arcade games in this place are nearly antique...those games, once (and if) they are retired, I bet, would fetch some decent money among collectors of games like that.
I stepped into it, very briefly, as I worked my way into Chinatown today, and was just curious if this is front for something other than playing ancient arcade games.
The sign on the door to the arcade said 18+ only admitted. What's interesting is that most of the games are what look like 1950's era, non-electronic games. They aren't true pinball games; rather they appear to be some sort of "skill" game where one tries to accumulate high scores by dropping pinballs into specifically marked drop holes. There were 2 people playing the games in there, and it appeared that they had been in the arcade for sometime.
My intial thought, upon entering the arcade, was I was in some sort of time-warp. I felt uncomfortable in there and I did a quick about-face for the exit. I was in there for no more than 15 seconds
It just seemed totally odd that this arcade existed in Honolulu, circa 2005, in this day and age of Xboxes, Game Boys, and PPSs.
Are patrons of the arcade playing towards prizes in there, ala little keiki playing for tickets to be redeemed for small prizes at Chuck E. Cheese, or is there something else going on in there that I'm completely and naively unaware of?
Also: The arcade games in this place are nearly antique...those games, once (and if) they are retired, I bet, would fetch some decent money among collectors of games like that.
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