Cabinets Most Unconventional Places You Found An Arcade Machine

[BrawlMan]

There is a hotel in Mackinac Island that had a Street Fighter II: Champion Edition Arcade Cabinet. That was all the way back in 1993. I remember another hotel back in Alabama that had Raiden Jet Fighters back in 2006.

A few years ago, there was a Lucky's Cheesesteak (sadly, all locations closed down in 2024 or 2025) in my area that had 1up Arcade Cabinets of TMNT, all of the SF II games, and Capcom Arcade Collection with Final Fight and other Capcom Brawlers.

 

[cjl8336 cjl8336]

The corner store in my neighborhood around 1997 had one of the bootleg versions of street fighter II where Ryus dragonpunch had multiple hadokens that would follow the opponent

 

[fishboneKiller]

theres an island on the outer banks of north carolina that my family used to road trip to every summer, and there was a snack store there that had a tekken 2 cab. i think i spent more money on that cab than anything in the store lol, my friend and i would go there to play every day of the trip

 

[Evaccaneer Doom]

Library in a neighbouring township has an arcade located directly underneath it. Had a bunch of fighting games like Melty Blood, Guilty Gear, I don't remember what else, it was a wild selection

 

[Danteh]

During a trip with my family a long time ago i saw a real Street Fighter II Cabinet in the middle of a town that is traditional in almost everything
It was the first time that i saw a real arcade cabinet because the rest are custom made arcade cabinets that had the entire arcade catalogue in one machine in other words pirated arcade machines lol
Too bad that i didn't played it when i had the chance

 

[BrawlMan]

During a trip with my family a long time ago i saw a real Street Fighter II Cabinet in the middle of a town that is traditional in almost everything
It was the first time that i saw a real arcade cabinet because the rest are custom made arcade cabinets that had the entire arcade catalogue in one machine in other words pirated arcade machines lol
Too bad that i didn't played it when i had the chance

Funny enough, there is a pizza place by my job that has about 20+ single-screen 80s arcade games in one cabinet. It only cost two quarters to start and to one quarter to continue.

 

[Netra]

In my country you could find an arcade with Dark Stalkers or mortal kombat practically anywhere in the 90-2000

I saw one in a flower shop near a funeral home. I went to buy flowers, and there were two cabinets with mortal kombat.

 

[Clawsofdrakonian]

There was a machine at an automobile repair shop my dad would frequent around 95 or 96. I spent a lot of my quarters there while waiting for our car to be fixed.