Harbour Amusements, St Ives, Cornwall

I'll make a list of what they've got here...

http://www.gremlinsolutions.co.uk/products/globalarcade.htm

So has the Point Blank 3 gone?

Haven't been there for a while and I don't live that far away! At least it's still there. Just been having a look on Google and it appears the other arcade in St. Ives, "Cuckoo Land" has gone. It's been turned into yet another bloody clothes shop . Had some good machines as well. They had a couple of Deal 'Em machines right at the back that I always said i'd ask them about (one of which had a faulty CRT, so I thought i'd see if they would sell it) but never did. Still, there you are!
The arcade in the coastal village I live in disappeared a few yars ago and that got turned into a clothes shop as well, although it's now a restaurant.

matt wrote: There is a Point Blank machine there, apologies if I didn't pay enough attention and missed the 3 ;)

matt wrote: I'll make a list of what they've got here... :)

chriso wrote: matt wrote: I'll make a list of what they've got here... :) Quite frightening to think of what we've thrown away - was watching Antiques Roadshow recently when they featured a Jennings fruit machine - we threw away dozens of them - a non working one was valued at £700. I can remember loading onto a lorry for scrap... Buggyboy 3 screen TX1 3 screen Dragons Lair Hard Driving Time Crisis Super Sprint Mad Dog Mcree Terrible waste as we bought fighting games which soon became unpopular. I still have fun nowadays playing Mr Do on Mame - we had the real thing & Mr Do Castles & all the other release on Deco Tape - also Burgertime, Burnin Rubber...too many to mention -

Bods wrote: Buggy Boy 3 Sceen     So rare now, got the Junior single screen but would love to find the rear lean on seat

i may have dreamt this, but i'm convinced that when i was a boy and i went to blackpool, i saw a buggy boy that was literally a life size buggy which you climb into. was this the 3 screen version?

Whenever we came to Cornwall (which was a regular thing, we'd go to Cornwall at least 3 times a year as my parents, especially my dad loved it down here) we'd usually go to St. Ives and I always made it a point to go to the Harbour Amusements as it was (still is!) one of my favourite arcades, along with a few others. As I say in my post above, where I now live in Mevagissey, Cornwall the little arcade I use to go in was closed a few years ago (probably a good 6 or 7 years ago at least) and replaced with a clothes shop or two, then a restaurant which it is now.

I'll have to pop down to St. Ives and make another visit at some point! I'm only about 40 miles away!

chriso wrote: matt wrote: I'll make a list of what they've got here... :) Quite frightening to think of what we've thrown away - was watching Antiques Roadshow recently when they featured a Jennings fruit machine - we threw away dozens of them - a non working one was valued at £700. I can remember loading onto a lorry for scrap... Buggyboy 3 screen TX1 3 screen Dragons Lair Hard Driving Time Crisis Super Sprint Mad Dog Mcree Terrible waste as we bought fighting games which soon became unpopular. I still have fun nowadays playing Mr Do on Mame - we had the real thing & Mr Do Castles & all the other release on Deco Tape - also Burgertime, Burnin Rubber...too many to mention -

I used to always, without fail have a go on the Buggy Boy (Or TX-1, can't remember which) whenever I went there! Just inside the front doors wasn't it - where you've got your ATV Track now (I think there was an ATV Track there last time I was there!) I remember being quite miffed and slightly saddened when I went there and the 3 screen cab was gone! They'd be worth a fair bit now if you still had them! I'd have loved to have got my hands on all of them at the time if I'd had the funds and space (no space now either!)

I remember also my mum used to make it a point to have a go on the grabber machines inside the front doors to see if she could get a cuddly toy or something! Succeeded on a few occasions!

The 18 Wheeler still had the (Mitsubishi/Hitachi?) CRT projection monitor when I was last there.

Whatever happened to the Namco Shoot Away you used to have round the back where the dance machines are (or were - have you still got them?). Had that up until quite recently if i'm right?

Have you still got anything unusual in store Chris?

I wonder what happened to all the cabs from Cuckoo Land?

Cheers, Tony


Edited by tb2000 - 29 September 2010 at 11:52am

matt wrote: Hi Chris, Good to see you on here! Best, matt