Daytona Beach Boardwalk – Mardi Gras

 Daytona Beach Boardwalk – Mardi Gras

 

Continuing our walk along the Daytona Beach Boardwalk we find another great place to take the kids during a bad weather day or a place where you will loose teenagers for hours… or even husbands for hours…

Mardi Gras — The Arcade !!  I saved this fitting post for today — I just could not wait for the official start of  Mardi Gras — which is Feb 24th, 2009 !!

  This place is as fun as Mardi Gras — well without beads…you know trying to keep it clean here for the kids…

We have a wide variety of games to play and some fun variations of old time board games — Monopoly was always one of my favorites…

The Mardi Gras faces are colorful and fun, but kinda creepy like a clown….

You will find the old type pinball machines and one of my favorites from the 70s which includes — bowling  & centipede

The quarter slots are always fun!! Trying to beat the one -armed bandit !!

Gotta have the shoot em up games for the boys….

Clowns weird me out — I know it came from all those John Gacy clown pictures I saw as a child in Chicago — he traumatized me……

And this is where I usually hang out — by Ms Pacman.  I even once seriously considered purchasing a Ms Pacman game for my family’s enjoyment, but came to the conclusion that a game like that in my house would suck up every free minute that I had and would very likely take over my life….  A stupid little known factoid — Pac Black is a Powder Coating color that was made famous by these little games and I got to have dinner with the man who became rich painting all of the Pac man machine bodies Pac Black in his powder coating shop in Villa Park, this was a brush with fame for me…..

Fun — Fun — good thing I limit myself to $5 in these places or I would be in here all day !@!

Oooohhhh… the fortune teller — like in BIG with Tom Hanks — loved that movie !!

I do — I add the clowns to creep myself out —

a few good games the the littler tykes….

One of these days all those quarters will be mine !!!

Perfect for the under 6 age group — great “ticket getter game”

The big screen games — I missed out on these and big wheels as a child !!

As you can see Mardi Gras is a fun place to kill a few hours. It is located next to Joyland and is an old throw back to my childhood — when hanging out near the game rooms was about as much fun as a kid could have.