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Reged: 05/09/05
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Loc: Waltham, MA
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Re: Boston in the Spring?
01/26/11 06:03 AM
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> Is Jillian's still there? The pool hall/arcade? I don't know if that was the Combat
> Zone... I've rarely gone into Boston since I moved up to New England in '96, but I
> did go to Jillian's sometime in the late 90's/early 00's. Jillian's had a cool retro
> arcade section... I played Asteroids there which piqued my interest in old arcade
> games and eventually led me to Mame/Mameworld.
Yeah, Jillian's is still on Lansdowne, next to Fenway. I haven't been in years, not sure what their retro selection looks like these days.
There used to be a pretty cool arcade on Huntington, across from Northeastern. It was a classic, dingy hole-in-the-wall type of place. It closed up around '98-'99, though. I remember seeing the last of the games being hauled out in an open truck, uncovered, in the rain. 
To my knowledge, there aren't any real arcades left anywhere in the city. Some of the bowling alleys might still have a machine or two, but that's about it. Funspot's only about two hours away, though. 
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