Canadian Public Arcade Tracker

Commercial arcade venues available for playing at
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Canadian Public Arcade Tracker

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I have created this document to keep on track the locations throughout Canada where arcade games and pinball machines, old and new, are plentiful. Back in the 80's and 90's there was never a shortage of arcades, and there were great locations to visit such as Funland in Toronto (no longer exists as of 2008). But these days, old arcades are slowly dying out in favour of home consoles and computers, and the number of video arcade locations in Canada are diminishing, yet the only way to survive in the amusement business is to have "redemption games." My point is we need more places in Canada dedicating traditional video arcades.

You are encouraged to update this document. Any contribution to this spreadsheet is well accepted.

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May I add that the above link is a great tool & hopefully will develop into a great resource with our help.

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Thanks for your feedback, but keep in mind that this is just a list I made to keep up to date on arcade locations. Yeah, I know it's just getting started, but it's only a matter of time.

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This document is useful because it plans to track arcade games.
For pinball machines, it might be a better idea to update the existing Canadian Pinball Tracker document.
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I understand that, but it isn't just pinball machines that I'm concerned about. It's actually the number of arcade locations.

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