Playland Arcade

Tonight I had an employee swear in front of my two children. When I confronted the employee I was challenged in front of my kids. The manager of the arcade did not apologize. This is unacceptable.

Ugh. I played six pinball machines within 30 minutes. Every one of them had a game-​ending malfunction. The only one I DIDN’T play was occupied by an older gentleman shaking the machine. If I owned this arcade and there were this many machines not working right, I’d be embarrassed!

It is the year 2074. All the courts in the world have been replaced by the Justice Machine, a machine that analyzes every situation and metes out the most perfect justice with 100% success.
The prototype is here today at Playland Arcade. You insert your tickets into the counting machine, which has a warning on the front that if you try to fuck with it, it will delete tickets from your count.
Carelessly flaunting it, I picked half a ticket up from the floor and inserted it into the machine. With a shudder, the wheels of justice within the machine banged into motion, whirring smoothly and with precision. A fan in the back of the machine engaged to cool off the Justice Processor, and finally with a satisfied quiver the machine rendered its verdict: a one ticket reduction in my total.
For my violation, I would be denied a tiny skateboard toy.

Playland Arcade has been around for a long time, I usually stop there over the summer to play some of my favorite 80’s — 90’s video games, skeeball, pinball, and prize machines.
Next, some of the classic games that are still there are Q“bert, Kung-​Fu Master, and Tapper.
There are some new games that just came in such as Bat-​Man and Fast & Furios 2 (motorcycles).
Also, Playland Arcade needs to get some new and updated pinball machines in thier arcade. Most of the pinball games are very old just as Adam’s Family, Twilight
Zone, and Monopoly.
Last, it’s very hard to find arcades now a days, check out this game room if you make a stop in Hampton Beach.

Not the best. But ever since Happy Hampton burned down there’s not much else to choose from. the teens that ‘work’ here could care less if the machine took your $ and won’t let you play the game. Meh

I love Skee Ball, old video games, pinball and photo booths older than god.
Playland has all of these things and all the charm a beach boardwalk arcade should have. I have lots of amazing memories of Hampton Beach most of them are documented by a photo booth session at Playland. There are about 8 of them here of various ages and that do various things to you face. I always enjoy the old fashion black and white. The back wall is full of Skee Ball machines as every good beach arcaded should be.
The only thing is that there are very few pinball machines. But they DO have the Simpsons version as well as the Simpsons video game!
The staff here is always a tad friendlier than most arcades… almost like they don’t hate their job and that it’s sort of fun and entertaining.
Get in your car, take the 45 min drive and grab some fried dough and have some fun!