Galloping Ghost (Largest Arcade In The World)

[brain galacki]

Good morning forum, today I am reproting back from after visiting the largest arcade in the world, Galloping Ghost arcade. Wow... just wow. As far as the main arcade building, never have I experienced SO much of one thing OVERLOAD in my life. The rows upon rows of arcades games, never ended. I thought it was one big massive room full and then found another door and there was like a whole nother building... like five buildings all connected. It felt like I should have been running around playing laser tag inside of the maze of arcades.

There were so many games and all of them were making noises all at once that I was so overwhelmed and I could not really play any of them. Then the ones I did want to play weren't working. I found the stand alone machine for bubbles (and it took me a long time to find it) and it wasn't working. I found the machine for QIX and it wasn't working.

one of the best parts of getting to walk around this giant maze of arcades was getting to see a lot of the artwork. it is a shame I could not see most of the side art for most of these cabinets. Also what a nightmare it must be moving a lot of those big machines around (especially any of the bigger shooting or racing games and getting them into the back of the rooms).

I am glad that the pinball building was there a couple of blocks down because I actually played plenty of games there. This trip made me realize I don't really care about arcade games, just pinball (well I knew that before, but I am even more thankful for pinball). I played some fun and rare pinballs on this trip. and got to update a lot of pinside scores - pinside.com/pinball/community/pinsiders/discobubbles1999/scores

overall I have to say the galloping ghost arcade is a very scary place that will give you panic attack and if I go back I will only pay $10 to be in the pinball building please

[jeffradon2000]

Bro, do you even arcade?

I am sorry it sounds like they didn't have Alien pinball as that was probably the best game they had when I was there last. Did they at least have the 1 of a kind Predator pinball? It's interesting but the game was not completed.

It does seem you got to see Spirit pinball, which is very very rare and cool to look at, but confusing to play. I look forward to hearing all about the pinball you played.

When you found the Bubbles machine, was the best Bubbles player in the world hovering around it to comment about how you were playing it the whole time?

I will say galloping ghost is more of a quantity over quality operation as they keep adding new games faster than they fix the old ones. 

I'm sure the whole experience makes our arcade feel very spacious. 

[brain galacki]

Apr 19, 2021 10:36:27 GMT -6 jeffradon2000 said:

Bro, do you even arcade?

I am sorry it sounds like they didn't have Alien pinball as that was probably the best game they had when I was there last. Did they at least have the 1 of a kind Predator pinball? It's interesting but the game was not completed.

It does seem you got to see Spirit pinball, which is very very rare and cool to look at, but confusing to play. I look forward to hearing all about the pinball you played.

When you found the Bubbles machine, was the best Bubbles player in the world hovering around it to comment about how you were playing it the whole time?

I will say galloping ghost is more of a quantity over quality operation as they keep adding new games faster than they fix the old ones. 

I'm sure the whole experience makes our arcade feel very spacious. 

yes all of those games were there but they were all broken

[somejabroni]

I don't think they should be able to count the broken games for purposes of calling themselves the largest arcade in the world, but that's just me.

[brain galacki]

Am I hearing the Banning California "Museum of Pinball" was the largest arcade in the world, and is just now announcing they are closing? Well good, they are too far away for me to make it. And I thought that the new Pinball Hall-of-Fame was the largest display of pinball machines in the world?

more on the Museum of Pinball closing on the This Week In Pinball Site.

 

[jeffradon2000]

Jul 28, 2021 10:43:40 GMT -6 brain galacki said:

Am I hearing the Banning California "Museum of Pinball" was the largest arcade in the world, and is just now announcing they are closing? Well good, they are too far away for me to make it. And I thought that the new Pinball Hall-of-Fame was the largest display of pinball machines in the world?

more on the Museum of Pinball closing on the This Week In Pinball Site.

People keep forwarding this to me as if they think I'm deeply affected.

I've barely heard about this place, I believe they are only open a few times a year for special occasions so not really a public arcade. Now they're looking to make big bucks turning the place into a weed farm, although I can't tell if the pinball museum was renting the space or are the owners who made that decision. Of course now they're trying to generate all the buzz they can so people will bid at the auction. 

At any rate we still have the largest pinball arcade in the capitol city of Illinois, why isn't the pinball news talking about that

[jeffradon2000]

Brain, I think these guys had a different take on Galloping Ghost than you did





Brain probably doesn't know who these guys are. we'll just call them "fighters"