On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 4:20 PM, Christopher Strong <
strong@cs.utah.edu> wrote:
Kurt Mahan wrote:
> Was there ever a Space Port arcade out this way? Growing up in
> Champaign, IL that was the "big" arcade.
Not that I know of. There were the chain arcades, like "Tilt",
"Aladdin's Castle" and "Gold Mine", all owned by N&D.
Then there were a lot of independent arcades. I was introduced to a
number of games, including Star Castle and Crazy Climber at "Cricket's
Arcade" at 3300 South and 2300 east, now a Dan's parking lot, just south
of what is now a Tesoro station. At this time, that site was an older
Rainbow or Amoco station, and Cricket's was another converted service
station just to the south.
-Chris