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Growing up there was an arcade that was located in a plaza that was no more than five minutes away from my house. The name of the place was called “Big Top” and they operated between the years of 1991-2008. My father used to bring me to Big Top as a kid all of the time. I even had a birthday party at Big Top once. I remember having my classmates from school there for my birthday party one year. They had a female clown that would make balloon animals. It was just an awesome place to hang out and play some games or air hockey. They had a whole lot of arcade games and things to do. I’ll showcase what they had in this post. I tried to look up Big Top but there is very scarce information. The list below is off of what I can remember. Another thing that I really liked about Big Top was that it was next door to KB Toys which meant I’d usually go right to KB Toys after I was done having fun at Big Top. Good times!



This is a Big Top Token

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They also had the Star Wars Trilogy Arcade. I remember it had the Death Star attack from Episode IV, The battle of Hoth from Episode V, and the attack on Endor from Episode VI.

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They had After Burner which had a moving cab!

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They had the Simpsons Arcade, which is one of the best arcade game to see in any arcade.

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They had Cruisin’ World and I’d always win free races in this game. As a kid who couldn’t drive yet, this was the next best thing.

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They had Arm Champs II, which was an arm-wrestling arcade game. I never tried it but if I happen to find one I will definitely test my strength against it

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Motocross Go!

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They had skee-ball. A classic!

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They also had Dance Dance Revolution! DDR used to be really popular back then.

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Boom Ball Knockdown: Down the Clown

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Air Hockey ( I’m not sure if it’s this exact one, but it did keep score at the top like the one in the picture ). I used to play this one a lot with my father. Sometimes the game would get so intense that the puck would fly off of the table.

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Hoop Fever

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Spider Stompin’ Deluxe

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Wacky Gator too!

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Water Blast

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That's all I can remember. They also had a ballpit area, a dinning room with tables to eat, animatronics in the "birthday room", and a desk with prizes to be redeemed from the ticket games

If I missed anything, let me know!