Nickel City in Northbrook IL......

Hi,

Well, since SVC's delay, I decided to go try it out at Nickel City in Northbrook. First of all, I'll comment on the game and then the arcade itself.....

The game was great. I can understand though when people say the hit detection is off at times. I thought the opening comments were hilarious and there is definetely a good selection of characters on both sides. I played as Mai, Shiki, Genjuro, and Ryu and kept getting beat up by some guy who played Geese. Overall, I liked the game quite a bit and am still looking forward to getting the AES cart so I can get better at it!! Then maybe I'll take a trip back to the arcade for competition....

Now....on to the arcade itself. Nickel City sucks fairly badly....They do have some good games, and they have a decent selection of freeplay games (which kept my wife busy along with Dance Dance Revolution...still don't understand why people like that game....). Many of their joysticks at Nickel City are in bad need of repair. A Street Fighter Alpha machine I played was missing the hard kick button....

Also...the guy at the counter was fairly rude. I've never been to Nickel City so I didn't understand how Free Play Friday worked. First of all, apparently it only applies to Fighting Games. You have to Pay $2 a person to get in also (which isn't bad, but I remember being able to walk into an arcade in the early 90's and only have to pay for the games....). You also have to pay an additional $5 to play the Fighting Games all night, which again isn't bad...but there is no sign anywhere in the arcade that explains this system.

Anyway, I paid my admission fee and the guy told me in order to use my Credit Card he would have to charge $10 to my card. I bought two five dollar bags of nickels and the admission on the card. I then said "Fighting Games are free tonight, right?" Instantly he took up an attitude with me and said, "I wish you would have told me earlier you wanted the Fighting Games. You have to pay $5 for the Fighting Games". So, now I was getting mad because I've never been there before and once again, no sign to explain it, so how the hell was I supposed to know? I made him charge five bucks onto my card for the Fighters, but I think I got screwed out of my Entrance fee of $2 because it is supposed to be included in the Fighting Game charge.

Anyway, my final rating of Nickel City is: Damn, I need to find a new arcade around here with SVC! Nickel City sucks!

Star Phoenix

I've never been to Nicle city? Looks like is not worth going


You can go to black hole in chicago by little village, or ford city the controls are perfect and the people that work there are not rude.

I was there while they were still called Super Just Games, a couple years ago... SFA3 was pretty new at the time, so yeah, it was a while back. I had no problem paying for entrance at a nickel arcade that had so many games, especially a lot of old, fun ones on free play... hell, when I was there they had CPS2 AvP on free play, and Cyberbots, which I had never played at that point.

I had a lot of fun there, and at the time, I didn't notice any machines in need of repair... I don't know, I'm still struggling to find an arcade I can walk to or take the T to in Boston, so if I had that Nickel City somewhere within reasonable transportation to me, I'd be happy.

Yeah...I used to go there to when it was still called Super Just Games. It was much better back then. The machines actually worked and the staff was friendly. Alot can happen in a few years with a name change, management change, and a bunch of jerks working at the place.

And if the games were all really a nickel, then why does it cost six nickels to play most games? I don't see the point in using Nickels if they are gonna charge a quarter anyway. I'd rather just carry quarters instead of a big heavy bag of nickels. Plus it's a pain when you only have nine seconds to continue and you're digging out nickels....