Starcade was in electric company mall, where that's amore is now.
I was gaming there during tekken, killer instinct, mortal combat, and street fighter.
what games did you play there?

10/20/2007 1:16:18 PM

haha, i remember that place

10/20/2007 7:51:37 PM

where/what is the electric company mall?

10/20/2007 9:15:52 PM

^Serious? It's the "mall" that is at the western end of the same building as the bowling alley.

The first time I saw Mortal Kombat (1) was at that arcade. Used to buy comics at the adjacent shop.

10/20/2007 10:26:44 PM

yea, i used to go there occasionally.

amore pizza is definitely a better use of that space. that arcade was kind of skank

[Edited on October 21, 2007 at 12:41 AM. Reason : ]

10/21/2007 12:39:52 AM

^^ oh ok, I never knew it was called That's Amore so that threw me off, just knew it as Amore's

10/21/2007 2:07:45 AM

i loved starcade most when that's amore was next door, with games still there...pizza and street fighter was FTMFW

10/21/2007 2:34:01 PM

Yeah, I remember when the two merged together. Go play a few games and then eat a slice of pizza. I guess they finally got rid of the arcade? How sad...

10/21/2007 4:52:29 PM

i cant imagine that video game place was the least bit profitable since, oh maybe the mid-1990s... who even plays standup arcade games anymore, i mean other than $1 or $2 just for old-times-sake?

10/21/2007 7:31:42 PM

that place was PACKED during the school year, during the day/early afternoon

10/21/2007 7:33:53 PM

hmmm...

(*furrows brow*)

perhaps.

10/21/2007 8:12:59 PM

think late 90's early* 2000

10/21/2007 8:54:41 PM

guess i prolly didnt go in there much after mid-90s.

PC games, consoles and handhelds gave me enough time wasters that i didnt have to go spend a bag of quarters.

10/21/2007 9:49:21 PM

that was back when PS One came out

10/21/2007 10:51:24 PM

hell yeah

i still dork it out at the comic book place once a semester or so

10/22/2007 4:24:38 AM

i dont. keep fighting the good fight, tho.

10/22/2007 8:55:08 AM

I used to ride my bike to Starcade at Tarrytown Mall in Rocky Mount. We'd practice up on Mortal Kombat and Street Fighter on N64 or Playstation at home and then go slay all the other kids at the mall. Plus, the employees let us cheat at games like the basketball throw. We'd get sticks and just press the little button in the hoop over and over as fast as we could. The high score went from like 35 baskets to 215 and we'd get giant strings of tickets off of it.

10/22/2007 12:18:49 PM

I played the Simpsons arcade game there in the late 80'searly 90's.

[Edited on October 22, 2007 at 2:05 PM. Reason : ]

10/22/2007 2:04:22 PM

did this joint have Gauntlet and Elevator Action? if not, it doesnt count

10/22/2007 7:35:22 PM

it had gauntlet legends

1/5/2008 12:21:30 AM

Look what I found!

1/5/2008 2:35:58 AM

W
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1/5/2008 3:13:23 AM

Starcade on hillsborough used to have an entire wall of Pinball machines that I regularly lived at between classes. They also had a pretty good selection of retro games as well.

1/5/2008 9:54:53 AM

fuck

[Edited on February 4, 2008 at 9:50 PM. Reason : ff]

2/4/2008 9:49:59 PM

I thought this thread was about the WCW pay-per-view

2/6/2008 2:43:58 PM