Nintendo Spotting: Mario arcade in ice cream parlor edition

Dan On August 29, 2007 29.08.2007 with 12 Comments

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“I found the super mario game at a ice cream place — called “the bob-in again frozen custard” in Petosky, Michigan — while on vaction. The best part about it was that you could play it as much as you wanted for free!!”

[Taken July 17, 2007 by Ted Ledbetter.]

12 Responses to “Nintendo Spotting: Mario arcade in ice cream parlor edition”

  1. Sharp says:

    Not worth it. You should need to use your hard earned quarters.

  2. cmdg says:

    That’s pretty awsome!

    Did they have any other games?

  3. Jerod says:

    I remember playing the old SMB arcade game at a pizza parlor all the time back in the day.

    Sigh…

  4. Mofax says:

    I’ve played one of those. It was quite a shock at the time, because I didn’t even know they existed, but it was pretty amazing.

  5. Guch says:

    I didn’t even know they existed!!!

    Only other NES games like um, Wild Gunman from Back to the Future II. XDD

  6. Kale says:

    I played the Super Mario arcade once in an ice cream parlor, too. The place was called The Purple Cow. That was like a decade ago, though.

  7. Jamie Alston says:

    Aw man, I remember being amazed that Super Mario Bros. was in the arcades back in the day. For some reason, I got thrills just watching people play it, although we already had the game at home.

  8. gojiguy says:

    I saw one in mexico that was just a gutted arcade machine with a TV and a SNES playing Super Mario All-Stars behind it. It wasn’t free.

  9. Danimal says:

    A pizza & ice cream place around here had a Super Mario Bros. arcade machine. Ahhh, memories.

  10. Cap'n Jack says:

    Wow, it’s free? I was just going to comment that it’s awesome that it’s still only a quarter to play. But free is even better!

    My buddies and I just played SMB from virtual console last weekend, and we’d all forgotten how fun and challenging the game actually is. It’s still great after all these years. I guess it’s my generation’s Pac-Man.

  11. raindog469 says:

    I played SMB a couple times in the arcade. (The arcade I went to at the time had both “Vs. Super Mario Bros.” and “Vs. Excitebike” in a weird wedge-shaped arcade machine.) The NES version seemed like it was missing something at the time, though I really couldn’t tell you what I thought it was.

    Being reminded of SMB’s arcade roots makes me wonder if it would even be possible to make a 3D platformer arcade game. Throw in a time limit and restrict the player’s path, maybe? Or just hang a lot of glowing arrows in the air?

  12. I’m glad everybod likes my SMB, but I don’t know this guy played it for free. It costs a quarter last time I checked.

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