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It's the best arcade I've ever been to.

Galloping Ghost arcade is THE complete arcade experience. Once you've been there, everything else you've ever known pales in comparison. From the moment you walk through the door until the time you leave, it is unlike any other arcade you've ever been to.

Admission is a flat $15 fee, which permits you total access to the arcade floor for the entire day - including re-entry should you decide to take a break and come back a couple of hours later. The arcade is open 365 days of the year (366 on leap years) until 2am, and opens as early as 11am on the weekends (1pm other days). That means $15 buys you up to 15 hours of arcade gameplay - an unreal value for a very manageable cost. If you're so inclined to consider weekly, monthly, or even a yearly pass - GG offers that at astonishing price breaks. Within two weeks of going to Galloping Ghost I purchased a year pass at a price that makes each of my visit a fraction of the daily cost.

The floor includes over 350 titles to choose from, across all genres and eras. While it is not yet the largest US arcade, it's the fastest growing one, and one of the most impressive collections anyone has ever assembled. It's not just a retro '80s arcade that stops at a certain arbitrary year; the floor also includes many games released in the 90s and beyond, including relatively obscure games not found anywhere else in the US.

Moreover, the games are organized by genre, and grouped together in such a way to encourage trying a new game that plays similarly one of your old favorites sitting next to it. While this seems like a minute thing, the arcade experience is completely predicated upon getting lost in a game or set of games for hours. Galloping Ghost does that like no other arcade.

The staff is always on top of repairs, and always encourages the players to track and post scores, which cultivates a strong community vibe similar to what Aurcade does online. I've made so many friends already through the arcade over the brief time I've been there.

Although I have hung out at arcades for a lot of my life, I was always very casual about the experience. Galloping Ghost has made me so much more interested in the world of arcade games and the arcade experience in particular.

I highly recommend taking in the experience for yourself.

Thanks for the kind words about our arcade.
If any Aurcade users stop in the Galloping Ghost Arcade, please let us know!

I have a friend that was there yesterday, he usually makes it down 3 or 4 times a year on his odd days off. I haven't been since last March, so I'm way overdue. I'm really looking forward to making it down on one of the days when the pinball room is open, pins are the hardest to find.

Sounds like a place I'd like to visit. I wish more places were like that to help revive the arcade scene.

jackmehoff Wrote: It shows who really cares about the gaming culture. It would be nice to have real time scores like Galloping Ghost to show who really is in first.

http://aurcade.com/forums/default.aspx?a=top&id=2395

I drove into Chicago last night and checked it out for the last few hours. It was a really nice place with a lot of great games to choose from. I liked the free play idea, I had never seen that before, but it encouraged me to try new games I have never played before without the thought of having to buy more tokens. The machines were packed close together giving it a great arcade vibe. They had some other nice features like the live scoreboard and tagging machines with the world record and the arcade's record creating competition. I would recommend it.

That sounds pretty cool, keep interest in the classics. I just got to Denver today, I'll have to check the 1UP.