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Slightly OT: but I went to a mall today. It was like a ghost town. It was like I was back in the Spring before the regulations were lifted. The only places I saw that were reasonably packed was some kids fun place (ugh) and a nail salon. That nail salon had most of the seats filled. All the customers were wearing masks though.
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Slightly OT: but I went to a mall today. It was like a ghost town. It was like I was back in the Spring before the regulations were lifted. The only places I saw that were reasonably packed was some kids fun place (ugh) and a nail salon. That nail salon had most of the seats filled. All the customers were wearing masks though.
Funny you should say this because just the other night on Youtube I was watching someones old video footage recorded in a mall in the early 90's. People were chatting to the camera about why they love going to the mall, they meet friends their, go shopping, get some food etc. Was cool to reminisce but I definitely think the mall format is dying on it's arse. They're really struggling here in the UK and half the shops were empty before Covid was even a thing 
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God I miss mall culture. We'll never have anything like it again.
It's truly the end of an era.... although they've been dying for 20 years.
Going to the mall on a random day, spotting various friends and random kids from school, eating pretzels drenched in mustard, all the girls, pop music blaring, the arcade, record stores....
What a time to be alive.
Having said that....I love watching those old Bill Hicks videos where he rants about his hatred of mall culture.
He makes valid points...and I agree as a middle aged jaded adult....but I was young back then and loved every minute of it.
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God I miss mall culture. We'll never have anything like it again.
It's truly the end of an era.... although they've been dying for 20 years.
Going to the mall on a random day, spotting various friends and random kids from school, eating pretzels drenched in mustard, all the girls, pop music blaring, the arcade, record stores....
What a time to be alive.
Having said that....I love watching those old Bill Hicks videos where he rants about his hatred of mall culture.
He makes valid points...and I agree as a middle aged jaded adult....but I was young back then and loved every minute of it.
I'm glad you brought this up. Mall and arcade (or video game) culture just doesn't exist anymore. I mean half the time the malls are just places to me anyway, to compare online prices. Back in the 80s and 90s, it was more social.
The arcades man. I just remember going over to some mini arcade where they had Street Fighter II and watching them play for a bit. And there was these other games too. And then there was the smell of whatever food or drinks (there was ALWAYS an ICEE machine) were there. Now it's all online gaming or whatever. Kids now days ( I have two nephews who have basically grown up in 2010's and 2020s) have no idea what they were missing out on. Arcades had a really familiar and pleasing smell. It was a connection spot that brought people together. It didn't matter about race, economics, or whatever. It was just a place to hang out and relax.
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I love how mall culture morphed into something else the older you got....
A little kid....toy stores
A bigger kid.... arcades and record stores
A teenager....friends and cruising for girls
Adult.... merely a place to shop in general... especially holidays
Middle aged and older....who gives a fuck about malls....
On a different subject....
Markie Post died today. I had a huge crush on her when my mom and dad watched Night Court when I was a kid.
Hard to believe she was 70.
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I love how mall culture morphed into something else the older you got....
A little kid....toy stores
A bigger kid.... arcades and record stores
A teenager....friends and cruising for girls
Adult.... merely a place to shop in general... especially holidays
Middle aged and older....who gives a fuck about malls....On a different subject....
Markie Post died today. I had a huge crush on her when my mom and dad watched Night Court when I was a kid.
Hard to believe she was 70.
Ah yes…the arcade, the sounds, the smells, the sights…
The only thing that gets me close to that old feeling is the casino in adulthood.
I had a bit of a love-hate relationship with the mall because I was I was so poor I couldn’t afford anything. I would watch my friends spin freely the money that their parents gave them to go and enjoy the mall. That always pissed me off. But there were some times that I got to participate and man did I participate in the arcade! I cannot get enough of the ninja turtles game as well as some old-school wrestling arcade games. I recently went to the science Museum in Minneapolis Minnesota and they have an exhibit there that has every old-school game from the arcade and home systems available for play. It’s truly a sight to behold. The beginning of the exhibit is the birth of video games with all the extremely old games. If you are ever in Minneapolis I highly recommend going and seeing it.
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Man, I spent every summer in the early 90s babysitting my sister during the summer for $30 a week. I'd save all that money and blow it on Street Fighter or Mortal Kombat when we went on vacation. I'm almost 40, so about 10 years younger than most of you, so my memory of arcade life was at the end of its dominance and what little pacman stuff I can recall from the mid 80s. In 95 when the Saturn, N64 and Playstation launched, there wasn't the big dramatic swing you had from arcade versions to home versions. That gap only got smaller in the years to come and by 2000 there was one arcade left in my mall and it had a handful of games that weren't Chuck E. Cheese types. I spent every break at Babbage's (now Gamestop)mastering that Star Wars pod racing game.
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I live 3 doors away from the largest arcade in the world. It has more than 800 machines. People fly in from around the world to get in. It features games of which only a few were made. $20 all-day admission. Every game is set to free play. It's awesome.
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Double Dragon, Contra and Rastan, which was a blatant ripoff of Conan, but it was fantastic. I used to love the Nintendo demo system in SEARS.
It's funny, I was just thinking the other day about when I was a kid and I saw these three hot goth teen girls walk towards the food court, and one of them dropped twenty dollars... And I kept it. I've never felt so bad in my whole life. This happened in 1987 and I still feel bad! My dad was like, "that girl was probably going to buy a new dress, and you probably made her cry."
Worst mall memory: throwing up in the jewelry store. I told them I was going to barf.
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I cannot get enough of the ninja turtles game as well as some old-school wrestling arcade games..
I remember the Ninja Turtles game! The arcade one was always better than what they eventually released on the platform gaming systems. I also remember playing the Simpson arcade game a lot as well.
Double Dragon, Contra and Rastan, which was a blatant ripoff of Conan, but it was fantastic. I used to love the Nintendo demo system in SEARS.
I remember the demo system as well. I barely played it though. Because it seems every time I went to Sears, it was always occupied/crowded or some asshole took forever to play and kept on hogging it.
