In between Star Tours and Captain EO at Disneyland's Tomorrowland is "Starcade". I wasn't expecting to see much inside. This is what was in there.
Roughly 30 classic machines, all in immaculate condition. All of them were set for a quarter except the 3 Fix-It Felix Jr machines which were set to free-play.
My kids would have gladly spent the entire day in the arcade but Disneyland is $100/person so we only played a couple of games before moving on.
The times I visited Disneyland when I lived in Los Angeles County back in the late 1980s they never had a video game arcade there.
I probably visited Disneyland about a dozen times. And not only that, I don't even recognize the two amusements you mentioned, Star Tours and Captain EO.
I remember when they had the Carousel exhibit. The audience was spun around a series of stages with various performances, until the last one which was an escallator as the exit, leading up to the model of the entire Disneyland park. The Goodyear Peoplemover rolled above this so you could also see those who got to look at the model.
The carosel was closed after one of the employees was crushed to death when she wasn't clear of the wall as it rolled past. In the entire history of Disneland, which at the time that happened, this was only the third fatality in the entire 25 years the park had been open.
Disneyland was also one of the two transfer points I could use in Orange County to travel by bus from my house over to where I worked in La Mirada. The other transfer point was at Knotts Berry Farm.
"When I die, I want it easy and peaceful in my sleep, like my uncle.
Not screaming and crying like his passengers."
Okay but do you understand that this thread is NOT, nor was it ever intended to be, about Disneyland, or people getting crushed by carousels, or the bus routes you used thirty years ago?
Do you understand that? (No, you do not understand that.)
When you need my help because I'm ruining everything, don't look at me.
Hey Flack, do they still have an Atari Vector graphics Star Wars arcade machine nestled in a corner in the gift shop you exit after the Star Tours ride proper?
I do think I saw the Star Wars cabinet there. I know this is weird but the next day we visited Rancho Obi-Wan and Steve Sansweet has every Star Wars machine in his personal arcade so I know I saw at least one Star Wars machine on this trip, I just can't remember if I saw two or not.
