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Rediscovered Local Arcade. It has F-Zero AX deluxe.

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ryūkotsusei

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I went to Chuck E. Cheese in Fort Myers celebrating a birthday party for a friends child. They have a really decent arcade there, and no I didn't go to this birthday party attempting find a F-Zero cabinet... although the boost power thirst was real around 2004.

So, I was discussing my struggle finding any AX machine 10+ years ago with friends there... I only got to play it once. While vacationing in Canada. Just for the hell of it, I tracked down the remnants of a popular location map and it reported a cabinet close to where I reside. If the map always reported this Murdock location I must've missed it somehow while searching the area.

Yet there it was, randomly in Kidstar Park's arcade in Murdock, FL. 1 deluxe unit in excellent condition. Apparently, the only location in Florida outside of Orlando.

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All those years ago Kidstar Park had arcade machines in two separate buildings. Since then, the F-Zero cabinet was moved as the arcade expanded.

Other arcade units:



Heard music I recognized from Initial D. Turned around with this staring at me:
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Dancing Stage featuring Disney's Rave

Here are some units there:
Beach Head 2000: Special Edition, Crimson Skies, ExZeus, and Mechwarrior 4 Vengeance are together as part of a TsuMo Multi-Game Motion System
F-Zero AX - deluxe
Fighting Mania: Fist of the North Star
Mambo a go go
Police 911 2
Rambo (the music this cabinet was blasting in the lobby)
Silent Scope EX
Wangan Midnight Maximum Tune 2
+ check out the image gallery.

Turns out the owner collects rare and oddball arcade units, some of which he no longer has for public use to avoid wear and tear. Most of those are pinball machines.
Kidstar Park's arcade is currently divided into 3 sections; two of which are in a different building. The cabinet is in the smaller building with a laser tag area. If you're passing through the southwest Florida region between Fort Myers and Sarasota, check it out.
 
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chronic_archaic

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I need to play a real Taiko cab before I die. Only 8 in the US but I must do it.

I've played AX on my Wii/Wii U with Nintendont and it's quite good, though the track unlocks are in GX if you're fucking insane at the game. Nice find. Still have your memory card? :p
 
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Why would you do that?

Member
Wow, that's impressive... With all the arcades in and around the New York area, I've never seen F-Zero AX. It's one of those games I MUST play eventually... And it's deluxe, too!

chronic_archaic said:
I need to play a real Taiko cab before I die. Only 8 in the US but I must do it.

I've played AX on my Wii/Wii U with Nintendont and it's quite good, though the track unlocks are in GX if you're fucking insane. Nice find. Still have your memory card? :p
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I didn't think it was THAT hard, lol. All it took was Mighty Hurricane and a few years. :p
 
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Pieman0920

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There's an AX machine in the south Jersey area near Philly that I know about in what used to be the Echelon Mall. I tested it out a while ago though but I don't believe its memory card slot is working. Also its one of those places where you need to buy a swipe card for 10 bucks minimum.

The only other AX machine I can remember seeing for myself was in the Luxor Casino in Las Vegas, back when it used to have an arcade. Shame that they closed that thing down, since it was a really nice one.
 
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Ragelink26

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My local arcade bar has an AX machine too. I had never seen one before and got super excited. Nobody else I was with understood why
 
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OnPoint

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That's awesome. The only time I got to play one of those was in Seattle in 2010 and the controls were broken. I hope to someday play a fully working machine.
 
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The Bankslammer

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going to a random amusement park and seeing a fucking, mambo a go go cabinet is extremely bizarre. super cool to have a collector like that nearby, they got some real neat stuff

and yeah disney rave has a bunch of disney eurobeat tracks which are avex licenses so they also threw in night of fire because why not. its weird
 
cj_iwakura

cj_iwakura

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The Bankslammer said:
going to a random amusement park and seeing a fucking, mambo a go go cabinet is extremely bizarre. super cool to have a collector like that nearby, they got some real neat stuff

and yeah disney rave has a bunch of disney eurobeat tracks which are avex licenses so they also threw in night of fire because why not. its weird
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That's the reason I still have Disney Mix on PS1. Night of Fire also has damn good steps.
 
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GamerJM

Banned
I've never seen an AX cab in the wild and I've been to several arcades in the NorCal area (and elsewhere on vacation), although I did happen to see this at CAX today:

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It's literally just this. Without the game. It cost 50$ and I was tempted to buy it and hang it up in my room, though I decided against it.
 
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Stabby McSter

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I remember playing AX in Vegas once in decent condition. The seats moved and everything.

I wish I could find another machine like that. :<
 
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Giga Man

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I played F-Zero AX for the first time at a Las Vegas casino called Circus Circus last August. The way the seat was bouncing me around while I was playing got me really excited to the point of yelling. It was exhilarating!
 
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Nerdkiller

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Friggin' loved that Fist of the North Star game. So much so, that I got a bad gash on my hand due to continuous usage of one of those glove things that just so happened to be damaged on the inside of it.
 
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SuperShadow271

Member
Oh man. That FZero machine is the arcade machine I want the most

It's sad for me to see because there was someone on Craigslist who had 2 of them for sale. 500 each. I wanted to get one so bad, but I couldn't find him when I could afford them. I wanted to play
 
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Bubba77

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Pieman0920 said:
There's an AX machine in the south Jersey area near Philly that I know about in what used to be the Echelon Mall. I tested it out a while ago though but I don't believe its memory card slot is working. Also its one of those places where you need to buy a swipe card for 10 bucks minimum.

The only other AX machine I can remember seeing for myself was in the Luxor Casino in Las Vegas, back when it used to have an arcade. Shame that they closed that thing down, since it was a really nice one.
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Thats Tilt in Voorhees, NJ. Take my daughters once a month and I always get my fzero fill in. Once a year they let regular folks buy their old games. I believe fzero was 3k or so. If i had a basement at the time when I saw it itd be in my basement. Maybe this year now that i have one
 
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Syril

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chronic_archaic said:
I need to play a real Taiko cab before I die. Only 8 in the US but I must do it.
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There's a company called Tokyo Attack that rents music games and a couple others to conventions, and they have a couple of Taiko machines, so if you ever end up at one of the cons they're at, that's a good chance for it.
 
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MrNelson

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Oh man, that place is close, but not close enough where I could just pop by and play it on occasion :/

At that point I might as well just try to find the one in Orlando.
 
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yyr

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I've seen F-Zero AX before (once, in Vegas, at the Sahara before it closed down). But while I've seen Punch Mania/Fighting Mania: Fist of the North Star before, I've never seen it in English.

Zenius-I-vanisher has the most complete arcade database that I know of, but it's far from complete. The site mostly focuses on music games but we're all in this together. It wouldn't hurt if you updated it =)
 
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ryūkotsusei

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Oersted said:
First time ever I'm jealous of someone on Gaf

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It ain't that serious
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But my boost power thirst!

Giga Man said:
I played F-Zero AX for the first time at a Las Vegas casino called Circus Circus last August. The way the seat was bouncing me around while I was playing got me really excited to the point of yelling. It was exhilarating!
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YEAHHH


yyr said:
I've seen F-Zero AX before (once, in Vegas, at the Sahara before it closed down). But while I've seen Punch Mania/Fighting Mania: Fist of the North Star before, I've never seen it in English.

Zenius-I-vanisher has the most complete arcade database that I know of, but it's far from complete. The site mostly focuses on music games but we're all in this together. It wouldn't hurt if you updated it =)
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Will take a look.
 
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ShadowFox08

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chronic_archaic said:
I need to play a real Taiko cab before I die. Only 8 in the US but I must do it.

I've played AX on my Wii/Wii U with Nintendont and it's quite good, though the track unlocks are in GX if you're fucking insane at the game. Nice find. Still have your memory card? :p
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unlocking ax tracks isn't hard. You just have to beat grand prix, which isn't too bad. What's hard is beating story mode on very hard a d unlocking all the ax racers.
 
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zeexlash

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Nice find, it's a great feeling when you stumble upon a cool arcade game in an unexpected place.

I remember seeing Hopping Road in a random cinema, no fucking way I was hopping onto it though. I think it had a 'for kids only' sign anyway :p
 
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Pieman0920

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zeexlash said:
Nice find, it's a great feeling when you stumble upon a cool arcade game in an unexpected place.

I remember seeing Hopping Road in a random cinema, no fucking way I was hopping onto it though. I think it had a 'for kids only' sign anyway :p
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Yeah, you never know when you'll find something rare. I was driving from Philly to the Jersey Shore, and checked out a bowling alley in the boonies in between. The place had a Street Fight II pinball machine, and Mortal Kombat 4.
 
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jholmes

Member
We had this great little arcade in Toronto that got an AX cabinet brand new and I played it a ton during the height of my F-Zero GX obsession. I really miss that place, and AX is a big reason why.

Giga Man said:
I played F-Zero AX for the first time at a Las Vegas casino called Circus Circus last August. The way the seat was bouncing me around while I was playing got me really excited to the point of yelling. It was exhilarating!
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Oh man, I heard the Sega arcade on the Strip closed down a while back, I was wondering if there was a decent one around now and I wouldn't have set foot in Circus Circus otherwise. Thanks for the tip!
 
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AtomicShroom

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"TRIFORCE is a trademark of NINTENDO."
"F-ZERO is a trademark of Nintendo."


That is so weird. Are "NINTENDO" and "Nintendo" different entities? Why the different capitalization?
 
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Secret Character

Member
I know people here are going crazy for the F-Zero machine, but I just have to point out that Mambo A Go Go there is ludicrously rare. That, and Disney Rave, might actually be the rarest of the game in that arcade, based on pictures.
 
NOLA_Gaffer

NOLA_Gaffer

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My bucket list arcade cabinet is Samba de Amigo.

I never could get the maracas working properly on my Dreamcast, so playing with proper arcade ones is something I always wanted to do.
 
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poppos2097

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Our sort-of local Gameworks closed which had 2000s-recent Sega cabs...Afterburner Climax, F355 Challenge, House of the Dead 4, a giant at least 8-player networked Daytona USA setup. They were one of the first tenants when the mall opened and had a Virtual-On 1 cab. Also had Monkey Ball with the banana joystick.
 
bumpkin

bumpkin

Member
Fuck... I'm jealous, man. I've never seen an AX cabinet anywhere. Come to think of it, none of the local arcades ever got the good games when they came out. I remember my mind being blown when I went to Disney World in Orlando back in '08 and the arcade adjacent to the resort's food court had Mario Kart Arcade GP, Tekken 5 and Afterburner Climax.
 
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