This mall sits next to the only WalMart and Sams Club in the state of Minas. The first place I came across was called Sweet Play at the Itaú Power Shopping mall.
I have video and more details on each location right after the post breakįirst: Sweet Play, Itaú Power Shopping in Contagem/Eldorado I also saw a Rock Bad 2 machine setup like that as well as a couple of Street Fighter IV machines. These are not the Raw Thrills’/Konami/Activision machine that was released last year but the console versions of the game modified for arcade use.
A soccer game like Virtua Striker was a given but I also was quite surprised by the number of Guitar Hero 3 arcade machines I saw. One interesting thing I noticed about most of the places I went to is that for music gaming all of them had a version of Pump It Up somewhere on location. In Brazilian Portuguese the word for arcade is “fliperama” and a variation on that I have heard people call pinball games just “fliper”. Belo Horizonte is actually the third largest city in Brazil but it’s still quite a bit smaller than the mega-metropolis that is São Paulo and it has no beaches like Rio De Janeiro, which is why you don’t hear about it as often as other cities there. All of the places I visited here were in the greater area of Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais.
The best places to look are malls, although you might find some machines hiding out in other places on occasion, such as a bar or strip mall but that is rare in the larger cities. I was in Brazil recently and while there I didn’t waste the opportunity to check out some arcades while I was visiting.
0 kommentar(er)
