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16 reviews for TILT
Anything involving instant positive reinforcement, especially in a variable ratio, is bad news for me. I will gamble for the sake of gambling -simply for the thrill of winning- until I am dragged from the table/slot machine/computer/etc. "I'm almost there," I scream! "Just one more game!"
Arcades are not exempt from my addictive tendencies. It's me and a bunch of little kids, duking it out to see who can be the Toy Shoppe champion. And if you like those claw "games," where you can win stuffed animals and other useless things, you'll feel like you've wandered into heaven here. There are at least 20 of those alone (they must make BANK).
This is, by no means, the best arcade I've been to. But it's convenient if you live in the city and a hell of a date night if your partner also loves to spend 20 bucks trying to win cheap crap. We never care what toys we bring home- it's all about the glory!
My friends and I played a few games to pass the time while we wait for our screening to start.
We won 10,000 tickets in a certain machine but the tickets did not come out because they ran out. Upon tapping furiously at the coin return and ticket button, an employee grabs our tickets and kicks us out claiming that we "hacked" the machines.
We demanded to speak to a manager and their names to make a complaint but they refused and threatened to call security.
We came across this place when we saw Obsessed at the Metreon. I realized there was an arcade entrance on the second floor on our way out. I immediately began to search for the dance machines. I kept walking, and walking, and walking, until I realized - holy shit! - this place is HUGE! The machines were all the way in the back in their own neat little alcove. I approached the ITG2 machine and noticed the pads were rather peculiar. Where there should have been blue and red arrows, there was solid paint. I attempted to play despite the strange pads, but they turned out to be broken so I lost the game. I reported it to the guy and he gave me a free game on Supernova.
When I walked out, I noticed there was a separate arcade room to the side. Upon walking in, I realized there must have been over 50 different claw machines. I was absolutely floored. They were closing at this point, so I couldn't stick around and waste money. However, the next time I'm in town, I'm SO going back with friends. Hopefully by then, they'll have their ITG2 machine fixed and hacked (it desperately needed songs).
I'm reasonably sure this place used to have a bar in it when I visited SF a few years before I ever thought I'd live here. I remember drinking at the bar, looking at people hyperbowling and thinking "Hey, that looks fun!" Needless to say, when I returned here as a resident several years later with some friends after someone's birthday lunch, hoping to get some drunken hyperbowling in, I was mildly disappointed.
Anyway, as far as arcades go it's pretty decent. Large variety of games, including skeeball, air hockey and pinball, as well as an insane array of claw machines just waiting and beckoning you to plunk your hard earned tokens in there. Lots of candy and random useless doodads available as prizes for scoring high on skeeball and other assorted games. Hyperbowling is entertaining too, though it'd be more entertaining with booze. Then again, everything's more entertaining with booze. Just kidding. Sort of.
All in all, I've been to better arcades (and very few of them had booze), but I'd say it's a little better than the average. Yay for not sucking!
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somehow I posted a review that only showed a p. But I got some funny, useful, cool votes. Umm, cool, I guess.
At any rate, this arcade had the LARGEST supply of claw machines I've ever seen. There is a whole room, where -- depending on the size of the prize -- you use between 2 and 8 tokens (worth 0.25 each) for the right to use the claw to win a picachu, a sponge bob, a rubber duck, and any number of other useless stuffed animals / pillows / toys. I never win, but it was still kind of fun.
Pretty cool place. Ignore that it's located inside some neo-cyber-teckno mall, and it's even better. Huge section dedicated to claw machines, but after losing 10 bucks, my boyfriend and I sulked to the arcade room with a lonely rubber duckie. Skee-ball galore and a couple of options for shooting hoops - both will win you an insane amount of tickets - but still only enough to buy you a pack of Reese's Pieces and a tiny rubber snake. All the usual arcade games, DDR (and some interactive bowling game...?), and fun versus games. I probably don't need to go back for another year, but it's nice knowing it's there.
P.S.The workers there don't do anything! They don't even count your tickets - instead, there's a machine that does it for you.
1. claw machines
2. shameful wasting of cash money.
3. went home with many toys
4. done.
Games. Video games. Video games that take tokens. That's the basic floor plan for the place. Not like how it used to be. Really up to date games with the whole card payment like at Dave and Busters. This new place that took the place of The Garage is kinda...nostalgic? Reminds me of the old days of Pier 39 before Namco took over. When it still had the Turbo Ride that "simulated" a roller coaster and had god awful games that were broken most of the time and prizes you trade for with the tickets you win from skee ball. And when a buck got you 7 tokens. Those were the days.
This place does a buck for 4. Fairly reasonable. Games, fairly decent. But wait, there's more! You go to the right and you will remember there used to be a shop there that sold marked up products you could find cheaper at the CompUSA that is not closed. They have tons and tons of UFO machines...Well, Crane game to you Americans. I mean, this side is LOADED! Kinda cool but if memory serves me correctly, they suck you dry of tokens easily and often because you think you can get something but in reality you won't. Yeah, almost as bad as the carnival games. But guys are suckers for girls squealing over something cute so they try to act all macho and try, in vain most of the time, to get their girl a prize...Only to be defeated by a machine that has a hunger for humiliation and your tokens. Better luck next time, buddy!
All in all a good distraction and time killer for when you are early for a show. Just make sure you don't spend everything there. And I hope they update their games soon. I think the newest one they had was Time Crisis 3...Let's pray they can come up with Street Fighter 4...
I remember when they used to put credit on card only. That's one thing that always pissed me off at arcades. When you're a kid you walk around with a few quarters or a few bucks in your pocket. You don't wanna go through the trouble of getting a membership card and swiping creds on it.
Luckily, you can just change your dollars for tokens now! (haha not sure when this change happened) I came here the past weekend and there seemed to be a decent crowd around (so at least when you play you won't feel like the isolated, token (no pun), gamer).
What really made my eyes pop out were the insane number of "claw-machines" they had in the room next door. I couldn't even count how many there were (I'm never too good if there's more than the amount of fingers) but really..I was surrounded by them! I learned to stop playing these games because I think they're RIGGED but it was so hard to walk by them without reaching for a buck...SO HARD!
It's hard to do well at an arcade, especially if there's basically a free one downstairs at the PlayStation Store....but these guys look like they were doing the job pretty well.
I HATE arcades. Hate them. Passionately. I do, however, LOVE air hockey.
So, we ventured over to Tilt. We waited our turn. We played two games. A bunch of teenagers hovered annoyingly. We left.
Though I didn't get my fill of air hockey, I had more than my fill of arcades. Three stars for being one of only two places in the city that I know I can play at--and it's way better than going out to Pier 39!
This arcade is pretty cool. Bring cash, you can play pinball, shoot continuous hoops, skeeball, air hockey, play lets make a deal, fighter games, arctic thunder, racing games. I have spent 20.00 on games that lasted me two hours. Basketball is my favorite. To me this is better than the last arcade...
WARNING do not play the claw games for stuffed animals. I wasted a good 10.00 on winning nothing.
UPDATE!: I believe the claw games are rigged. I noticed the claws have gotten weaker and stronger all in the same trip. First the claw is strong when it grabs the toy(it was dead on with all the extremities in the claws it was also a very small plush) lifts it up, carries it for a bit, loosens, and drops the prize, so I win nothing. Some claws get very dangly weak after I win a prize like a payout system programed it to not pay out until $20 more has been paid. The treasure chest with the watches and jewelry grabs very badly, first it drops directly over the object, its supposed to close right away if there is any chance of grabbing the small and delicate watches, but no, it goes up 3 inches from the prize then slowly closes within 6 additional airborne inches. Days of the old world claw machines where you can clear out due to skill are gone. Nowadays new machines with micro chips and computers seem programed like crazy for profit. It's very deceiving and that's why I'm writing this review. I always wondered why this place was so empty.
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Went to Tilt last night and was informed by the Metreon staff that it's been CLOSED for OVER A YEAR. What gives? They now have some of the surviving arcade machines in the lobby of the movie theater, but many are broken and all are aging.
If you want an arcade, don't come here.
I'm not into games anymore, I'm not 12, but this arcade is kinda cool. I love going here and playing Deal or No Deal and getting a whole bunch of candy with my winnings. Its really easy to amass a good 1,000 tickets with about 5 dollars. And even though the amount of candy you get with that is equal to about 1.50 at Walgreen its a good waste of 30 mins. If you're bored or waiting for a movie or someone to arrive you can spend some time here and get some candy to eat. Also check out the motion sensor ride for a really swell experience that will change your life and leave you spell bound for a good 20 minutes. It's not at this one but if you ever come across it, please ride in it, it' black and green and cool looking. That's all.
Not good for kids, too many hobo's and lurks. DO NOT LEAVE them unattended while you go shopping at bloomingdale's across the street. That's not good parenting and if you do that I hope that the arcade workers call CPS on you!
There is still something good about coming to the Metreon and it is this place. Wanna kill some time before a movie or just want to feel like a kid again for a couple of hours then this is the place to do it! I had a lot of fun playing games and winning useless-but-will-make-you-giggle prizes! My friend and I played the Deal or No Deal game and you could win a crap load of tickets easily (depending on what deal you take). I love this place...just wish it stayed open later.
i love this place, it's one of my guilty pleasures.
give me $10, some southern comfort inconspicuously mixed into a big cup of cherry coke, a toke before i go in, and 2 hours... i'm a happy guy.
-1 star for lacking some games that any big arcade should absolutely have (some of the classics, original street fighter 2...) and that the ski ball machines only work sometimes.
