Arcade game known locations..
IFTIKERS Fish & Chip Shop
NAME:
IFTICKERS or IFTIKA`s
TYPE: Fish & Chip
shop
LOCATION:(present day `Wing
Fat`) Carters Green,West Bromwich
COMMENTS: The son of the
family who owned the shop was named `iftika` or `Ifticker`
(sorry if that is spelt incorrectly) so we refered to the
chippy as Iftickers!.The entrance was in fact a row of
orange doors connected together along the front of the
chippy, i think all the connected doors could be pushed to
one side in summer otherwise the far left door was used. To
the left of the front and upon entering the counter ran
left/right against the back wall with the 4 cabinets
against the right wall.
This place does hold strong memories for me from our
coin-op playing days as i went to the near-by George Salter
High School and in our dinner time we would travel up the
high street to buy chips and play the games.(not my cousin
because he went to the rival school of `Hill Top`
).This location holds a few `Firsts` for
me as it was the first time i had seen `Monster Mash`
arcade cabinets these cabs for those of you who have not
seen them they are tall and flat facing-i do recall moments
were you could not see the monitor screen if the sun was
shinning due to the glare,it was also the first time i
witnessed the `Phoenix bug` Phoenix was actually in the
monster mash machine and the bug is were you shoot the
warbirds as they retreat up the screen and suddenly your
score increases by something like 200,000 Pts-it happened
to me a few times.
Games i recall the most in this location were
Scramble,Phoenix,Portman,Amidar and Crazy Gobbler which was
a pacman/hangley man clone with garish colours and high
pitched sound and man! it was rock hard to play!,There was
no name on game demo so we called it by the name on the
marque.
I have yet to see a similar conversion on Mame or anywhere
else.
Known arcade games that have been at this location...
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