Video Game Arcade Tours - Claremont Pier Amusements (Lowestoft, UK)
22One of our favourite arcades in Norfolk! They still have an original Dancing Stage Euromix 2 cabinet with working pads! Most arcade operators leave them into a dying death, but you could actually play hard songs without sticking or undersentive arrows and the sensors also work well. The owner also gave us free water bottles after watching us play, which was really cool. Nice guy!
Looking at the arcade, it's a good mix of video games and redemption. You can tell that the owner cares about video games and hasn't completely sold out on a redemption-based business model (Unlike every single arcade in Hemsby for example!). We will be back!
Address: Claremont Rd, Lowestoft NR33 0BS, UK
Phone: +44 1502 573533
The Claremont Pier is a traditional seaside pier in Lowestoft in the English county of Suffolk.
Many of the arcades in the UK (Mainly seaside arcades) are called Amusement Arcades. They are typically packed with redemption-based machines with very few video games (As video games simply do not make money). I have placed the word "Amusements" in the title for these types of places as they are not true Video Game Arcades, but deserve some sort of mention. As gambling is legal in the UK, they tend to include fruit machines (aka slot machines) and various other things money-making games, so video games really take a back seat in places like these. They also really hate filming, I'm not sure why because it's free advertising, unless dodgy things are taking place lol
An amusement arcade (often referred to as "video arcade" or simply "arcade") is a venue where people play arcade games such as video games, pinball machines, electro-mechanical games, redemption games, merchandisers (such as claw cranes), or coin-operated billiards or air hockey tables. In some countries, some types of arcades are also legally permitted to provide gambling machines such as slot machines or pachinko machines. Games are usually housed in cabinets. The term used for ancestors of these venues in the beginning of the 20th century was penny arcades.Video games were introduced in amusement arcades in the late 1970s and were most popular during the golden age of arcade video games, the early 1980s. Arcades became popular with children and particularly adolescents, which led parents to be concerned that video game playing might cause them to skip school.
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