When the folks at Daily Sweets (2850 Oxford Street) were closing down the business, they were looking for something to do with an old arcade game, and that’s how vintage arcade enthusiast Danny Baldwin became involved with them. Fast forward to next week, and up and opens something loosely called Halifax Vintage Arcade (a real name will be chosen by contest).
Baldwin has four games ready to go: The Simplsons, Area 51, Marvel vs Street Fighter and Mortal Kombat II, with two other unnamed games shipping in. He hopes to bring in others as well.
Prices will be the original ’90s quarter and two quarters.
This article appears in Sep 27 – Oct 3, 2012.
Haha! My mom told me ‘some guy’ was opening up an arcade while she was in the hospital recently (hospital small talk!), so my GF looked it up and found out he was my arch nemesis at street fighter 2 turbo on the snes years and years ago. Many bags of party mix, bottles of pepsi and cigarettes later, we still never decided who the winner was.
Good luck with it Danny, I’ve thought about this exact same thing but I can’t bring myself to put my old pinballs out on location.
-Scott N.