What does “arcade” mean to you?

[ErosWired]

I’m Gen-X. To me, an arcade is a place where you go to rid yourself of all your quarters playing Pac-Man, Dig-Dug and Galaxian on stand-up consoles.

Boop Boodle Boop Boop

Boop Boodle Boop Boop

BooooodlyBooooooodlyBoooooodlyBoop*

You couldn’t have heard yourself fucking for the noise, and there weren’t any surfaces remotely horizontal enough to do it on.

But I don’t think that’s what you men who speak of fucking in arcades are talking about. What’s the distinction between an arcade and an adult bookstore/adult theater? Is it something else entirely? Is this a generational thing, or something understood in some parts of the world and not others?

* My apologies to anyone under 40 whom I may have just caused to suffer severe eye-rolling, or anyone under 25 who may have no idea what I’m talking about.

[toolman1966]

They still exist today.  Adult Book Stores with a large show room of toys, lubes, clothes, and etc., most had a section of private video booths to view porn movies/videos.  Started out one would feed quarters in the viewing device for viewing pleasure.  "Somehow" holes were cut into the walls between booths, called Gloryholes (GH). Later one had to purchase a set amount of tokens to visit, but these were call "video Arcades".  Some have adult theaters for viewing straight & gay porn Since the internet with a wide array of "free" porn and videos came available several of these places closed and law enforcement giving "lewd behavior" tickets changed everything.  As I said in the beginning they still exist and I have one about a 25-minute drive from my place.  I visited once every few months if I need poppers or lube( buy it mostly on the net now)     

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[NWUSHorny]

I'm Gen X as well so I generally think of it as a place to spend all my quarters playing video games.

I also acknowledge the adult video store booths.

I have some amateurish interest in architecture so it is also an arched passageway held up by columns or possibly wall on 1 or 2 sides.

Edited July 11, 2022 by NWUSHorny

[hntnhole]

4 hours ago, ErosWired said:

Is this a generational thing

It has to be. 

To me, an "arcade" is where you go to play pinball, (later, once they were invented) video games.  A "bookstore" (what a ridiculous title to bestow on a gh joint) was a place where you had to buy "tokens" (phoney coins) to watch cheesy porn in little booths - often with a gh's cut into the walls.  When the purchased time ran out, an employee would bang on the door hollering that you had to drop tokens.  You could be thiiiiiiis close to shooting your load into a guy's throat/Hole through the gh, but either you stopped, fed the machine tokens, or you could get tossed out.  The guy would have a bag full of tokens with him, so as to waste as little time as possible.  Many of the tokens were custom-made, with the name of that particular business*, or an engraving of a hard Cock/balls on one side, and an ass on the other.  Later, generic "coins" were used that would work in any "library". 

Also later, there were versions of the abs where you'd pay upon entering, and not bothered again.  Guys could spend 15 minutes or 15 hours for the same dough.

*I actually found some stashed away, and threw a handful on the street over by Ramrod, and another into the old abandoned gas station across the street where guys cruised all night long.  Which gas station is now being converted to ..... wait for it ..... a restaurant !!!  People sitting eating actual food, as opposed to men feeding their sexual depravities all night long.

Edited July 11, 2022 by hntnhole
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[DarkroomTaker]

We have an Arcade, its a shopping centre for food, goods etc, no cock shops though.

[BootmanLA]

I'm old enough that "arcade" still conjures images of pre-video game spaces, as in skee ball and air rifles shooting down ducks on a conveyer belt, so keeping that in mind: I suspect today people use "arcade" as a generic term meaning "a line or row of amusement devices" (be they porno booths with/without glory holes, PacMan and Galaga machines, or whatever.

[phukhole]

...with no context, a video game arcade.  If chatting about a potential hook up, a bookstore with booths in the back.

[ErosWired]

Okay, maybe a regional thing as well, then? Because nowhere in the region I’m in would anyone refer to an ABS as an arcade. An adult bookstore or an adult theatre, but you wouldn’t hear arcade. The one five miles from my house has the shop in front, and in the back a hallway lined with video booths, and then a pair of theaters, so it sounds like it has all the ingredients, but just doesn’t have that name applied to it here.

[steve-tmq]

17 hours ago, ErosWired said:

I’m Gen-X. To me, an arcade is a place where you go to rid yourself of all your quarters playing Pac-Man, Dig-Dug and Galaxian on stand-up consoles.

Boop Boodle Boop Boop

Boop Boodle Boop Boop

BooooodlyBooooooodlyBoooooodlyBoop*

You couldn’t have heard yourself fucking for the noise, and there weren’t any surfaces remotely horizontal enough to do it on.

But I don’t think that’s what you men who speak of fucking in arcades are talking about. What’s the distinction between an arcade and an adult bookstore/adult theater? Is it something else entirely? Is this a generational thing, or something understood in some parts of the world and not others?

* My apologies to anyone under 40 whom I may have just caused to suffer severe eye-rolling, or anyone under 25 who may have no idea what I’m talking about.

Very much the same,  Maybe it's also because I am from UK.

 

[ErosWired]

13 hours ago, BootmanLA said:

I'm old enough that "arcade" still conjures images of pre-video game spaces, as in skee ball and air rifles shooting down ducks on a conveyer belt

Thanks for the heads-up. I’ll be sure to stay off of your lawn. 😃

Edited July 12, 2022 by ErosWired

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21 hours ago, ErosWired said:

* My apologies to anyone under 40 whom I may have just caused to suffer severe eye-rolling, or anyone under 25 who may have no idea what I’m talking about.

I'm 39 and have only ever known of "arcade" to mean skeeball, and on a boardwalk at that. Dave & Busters doesn't qualify as an arcade to me.

[ErosWired]

Linguistic variances are regional in origin, and I’m willing to bet that if I had a map with pins in it for every BZ member who says ‘arcade’ for a fucking-place and could pin where those men either live or grew up, we’d see a relatively localized cluster.

Personally, I always enjoy fucking in a cluster, but that’s me.

[BannedWord]

An enclosed or canopied space with shops, stalls, or cubicles on either side. Although I know we all know it as a place where games are normally played and all sorts of computer generated music emerges from each machine.

I also get the reference to ABS but only seen that seldom used. Usually in 'trying to class up the joint'.