Arcade game known locations..
DAVILES
NAME:
Daviles (Davilles?) modern day name is "Agora"
TYPE: Arcade (2
floors)
LOCATION: New
St-Birmingham
COMMENTS: In the early
90`s we used to visit this arcade often on a Saturday and it
was quite a high point in our arcade game playing era,the
arcade is located in New St on the corner of the junction
with Bennets Hill just before Sun Valley amusements (which
we would visit after Daviles and is located
opposite.)
Entering through the corner doors you climb up a step or
to in to the ground floor which was then mainly fruit
machines,this has not changed to the present day. To the
left against the wall was the staircase leading down and
twisting back on itself under the main floor to the
basement level this is where all the video games were
located,again there still may be some down there i have not
been in recently but last time i paid a visit it was mainly
the modern games such like some tosh basket ball effort,
`Jambo Safari` and `Lost World` (Jurassic Park) oh! and
yes....some Capcom Street fighters (yawn!!) 
In the 90`s it was a little different, the arcade games
filled almost all available floor space with some of the
games like afterburner on the ground floor near the
stairs,the arcade had two floors even if the areas were
small there were many games to play as you squeezed along
the small paths to reach the desired machine.
Regarding the number of different game titles that
appeared here who knows?!... me and my cousin only heard
about this place in the 90`s and an arcade with this many
visitors could no doubt afford to change its games on a
regular basis but there is more!,not long after i purchased
my computer in 2002 i was searching google for arcade
related information and i stumbled on an a webpage in the US
that mentioned Daviles and stated that competitions were
often held there and mentioned that guys from the US would
travel over here to the UK to Birmingham and play against
the guys over here. If true i can imagine that must of been
pretty exciting but this also means that Daviles could of
had all the classic games at that time on location! and
that is the information i am looking for to complete this
page. Further attempts to relocate this US webpage have
failed so if anybody recalls and can confirm these contests
or even has taken part in them contact me using the email
on the locations page.
Due to the number of games known in this location the clip
viewing windows have been placed in the middle of the
thumbnails ;)
Known arcade games that have been at this location...
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