Galloping Ghost Arcade - Brookfield, IL

Belinda Carlisle sang, "Heaven is a Place on Earth" . . . 

As a kid of the 80's, Galloping Ghost is a Mecca.  Over a 1,000 arcade and pinball machines in a clausterphobic space that Pac-Man-like, has eaten up it's neighbors as it expanded.  The place is so large and confusing that I never even found the pinball area.  It's kinda like being in a submarine.  Long skinny rows of machines packt in, and dark.  And that was during daylight hours  

I'm not going to rewrite their story . . . go check out their ABOUT page

It's All-You-Can-Play for $25 a day.  Machines are set to "free" play.  Come in the morning, play 'til your hungry, save your receipt, go out for a bite to eat, maybe take a nap, go see a movie, come back, play for a while, go out to dinner, come back, etc etc.  Make a day of it.  Get a Lifetime Pass and make a life of it

Now, calculating the value of $25 all you can play?  At say a quarter a play, you'd need to play 100 games to get your moneys worth vs feeding machines each time.  Even at 50¢ you're looking at 50 games.  Eh, your debate.  For me it's worth it to play to my heart and wandering eyes' content.  And it's nice to just to try a game for short bit that I wouldn't try if I had to pop a coin in each time, ya know?

I only had just over an hour to play, and spent a chunk of that wandering around tring to find "Gunsmoke".  A hard to find game that I played the hell out of at Hafner's bowling alley on White Bear Avenue back in the day

And I was able to put up some High Scores on a couple of my favorites, "1942" and "1943" . . . 

Ah, nostalgia.  Next time I'll have to find a way to shoehorn in more gaming time . . . 

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Galloping Ghost Arcade - 9415 Ogden Ave, Brookfield, IL 60513

708-485-4700

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