{"id":26550,"date":"2026-02-25T00:01:47","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T00:01:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/?p=26550"},"modified":"2026-02-21T09:31:27","modified_gmt":"2026-02-21T09:31:27","slug":"push-start-play-arcade-part-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/2026\/02\/25\/push-start-play-arcade-part-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Push Start Play Arcade Part 1"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>A couple of weeks ago, my good friend that I\u2019ve known since college and I went to a big new arcade in Lewisville, TX called Push Start Play.\u00a0 I don\u2019t know if it\u2019s the biggest arcade in Texas, but it\u2019s got to be one of the biggest.\u00a0 And it had some really cool and super rare games, too.\u00a0 So I thought I\u2019d talk about it here.\u00a0 So let\u2019s take a tour of it!<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s a bigger picture of the front of the arcade.\u00a0 It\u2019s in Lewisville, TX, which is in the North Texas DFW suburbs area and pretty near where I live.\u00a0 If you come to visit, you should check it out\u00a0 It\u2019s only been open for about three months now.\u00a0 They also serve pizza and drinks and have a ticket prize exchange room.\u00a0 I didn\u2019t take a picture of the restrooms, but the men\u2019s and women\u2019s signs had neon Mario and Peach over them!<\/p>\n

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Speaking of Mario, here\u2019s a blow up Mario welcoming you in.<\/p>\n

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Two of the rare machines they had were the Final Fantasy Theatrhythm arcade game and the Dissidia arcade game.\u00a0 I\u2019ve only seen the Theatrhythm game at Round 1, and I\u2019ve never seen the arcade Dissidia game.\u00a0 There is a home console version of the Dissidia arcade game on PS4 I think, but it\u2019s not near as good as the PSP originals.<\/p>\n

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I\u2019m certain this Crash Bandicoot trilogy arcade machine was used to promote the game at conventions.<\/p>\n

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Same goes with this Cuphead machine.\u00a0 Kind of like how Disney made a Fix It Felix Jr. machine to promote Wreck-It Ralph (which they also had at this arcade).<\/p>\n

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Another super rare machine they had was Gaplus.\u00a0 I\u2019ve only seen it at the Pizza Inn near my house when I was a kid, and at arcade auctions where it usually had the marquee saying Galaga 3 instead.<\/p>\n

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And speaking of Galaga, they also had a Bosconian machine.\u00a0 The reason why this one is rare is because most arcade operators back then changed it to Galaga, a more successful title, since they both ran on the same hardware.\u00a0 In fact, this arcade was the first time I\u2019ve seen a Bosconian machine.\u00a0 I never even heard of it until I played it on the first Namco Museum on PSOne.\u00a0 It\u2019s actually surprisingly fun!\u00a0 On this machine, the voice chip must\u2019ve been messed up because it would try and do all the voices at once!<\/p>\n

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They also had The Simpsons Bowling, which I\u2019ve only seen one other time out in the wild.\u00a0 While the 3D graphics haven\u2019t aged as well, I\u2019ve actually enjoyed playing it.\u00a0 I don\u2019t think it\u2019s as bad as everyone says it is.\u00a0 The Arcade1up version of The Simpsons Arcade Game also has this as an extra title.\u00a0 And of course, the original Simpsons arcade machine was here, too.<\/p>\n

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Speaking of The Simpsons, they had a version of Tapper here with a ROM hack featuring Simpsons characters.\u00a0 Right beside it was a Timber arcade machine, which I\u2019ve only seen at a travelling coin-op museum a long time ago.\u00a0 Both games feature the same character first found in a title I\u2019ve never seen called Mr. Domino.<\/p>\n

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They also had a Battletoads arcade machine.\u00a0 Only other place I\u2019ve seen that out in the wild was at the Pizza Inn near my house.\u00a0 That Pizza Inn had a lot of rare arcade machines, come to think of it.<\/p>\n

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This arcade was so big, and I took so many pictures, that I had to split this up into two articles.\u00a0 So check back here later at the end of this week for part 2!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A couple of weeks ago, my good friend that I\u2019ve known since college and I went to a big new arcade in Lewisville, TX called Push Start Play.\u00a0 I don\u2019t know if it\u2019s the biggest arcade in Texas, but it\u2019s got to be one of the biggest.\u00a0 And it had some really cool and super […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":26529,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26550","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26550"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26550\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26552,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26550\/revisions\/26552"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}