This game is currently situated inside of our EXA ARC-1 game cabinet. We changed the screen orientation back to horizontal, and have also put Jitsu Squad Feat. The Samurai Pizza Cats into the same machine. We still have DoDonPachi True Death EXA Label, we’ve just moved it over to the 4K EXA cab with the giant screen. This game is 3 tokens to play, as it is a modern game with high-end graphics (likely the best graphics out of all the games we currently have).

For those who are curious about what is different or better about this particular version of the game, here’s a quick list:

• 3 Frame input lag response – The fastest, most responsive version of the game in existence!
• Improved graphics with full AA, 60 FPS, and faster load times
• Real arcade controls
• New voices and artwork, the latter produced by TEKKEN artist Junny
• Another Arcade Galactic exclusive, as no one else in Utah has this game!

Besides all that, playing these types of games is always better in the arcade, with your opponent right at your side, instead of against some anon online where network lag reduces the enjoyment of such games.

Omen of Sorrow: For the hardcore players

If you are a part of the “Fighting Game Community” (FGC), then Omen of Sorrow has been designed to reward you. The game comes with a resource game mechanic that rewards offensive and defensive play, or punishes poor players. There is also the unusual inclusion of a Training mode – our only fighter in the arcade with such a mode – that allows you to really test the characters out and get a feel for their movesets and mechanics.

Per the exA website: “Besides the usual special, EX and super moves, players are rewarded for aggressive play by gaining resources to be able to cancel any move into a special move to create devastating combos or activate Blessed mode to have access to this cancel ability for a limited amount of time. While players can escape from the opponent’s oppressive offense by using guard canceling counters, tech recoveries and escapes, they are punished for overly defensive play causing them to fall into a Doomed state which limits their available move set and prevents them from guarding consecutive attacks. Utilize the in-depth Training mode to find the ultimate combo & practice how to escape situations!“

If we find interest, then we will be happy to host some tournaments for this game in the near future. Come in to give this game a play, and bring a friend or two!

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We are truly grateful to PrimeTime Amusements for setting us up with a great deal on this game. We are also getting a new air hockey table from them, but anticipate receiving the pinball machine first. We’ll post a story about the air hockey table once that is closer to shipping. As a note, if you are looking to add some pinball to your collection, we are currently selling our The Mandalorian [Pro] and Star Trek [Premium] machines.

Dungeons & Dragons: The Tyrant’s Eye is one of the most deep and rewarding pinball machines ever created. You become a chosen member of the Dragonshield Guild, working to defeat the dragon queen Tiamat, who is hatching a plan to rise again. These events trigger the War of Dragons, with Xanathar, Balinor and Sammaster all fighting for power. Players will experience the D&D’s fantasy world under the glass, fusing pinball with the iconic franchise like never before and you can save your character progress by using the free Stern Insider Connected app on your phone.

The Premium version of the game comes with unique art and some extra goodies that the Pro models of the game don’t have. This includes a fully animatronic Rath The Relentless dragon toy that spits out pinballs, a Rising Dungeon drop scoop that takes the player into the dungeon; a Dragon diverter to “feed the dragon,” and eight pinballs instead of six.

As of this posting, we don’t know exactly when the game will arrive, but it will definitely arrive in the month of July. Stay tuned to our social media channels (Facebook / X / YouTube) for news on its arrival. Download Stern’s Insider Connected app if you haven’t already to be ready to save your character so you can jump right in!

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As mentioned in recent days, we have made some adjustments to the layout of the arcade, putting SpaceWarp 66 back near the front and swapping that space with one of our exA-Arcadia cabinets. Speaking of that, we recently added a brand new game in the form of JITSU SQUAD FEATURING THE SAMURAI PIZZA CATS. This is an exclusive redesign of the existing Jistu Squad console game not only plays quite differently (much more action-packed and faster paced), it also has exclusive content as mentioned in the title with The Samurai Pizza Cats. We are the ONLY arcade in Utah with this game (and all of the other exA games )

Also as a quick note – we are working hard to get some games working which have been broken for a while now. In that effort, we’ve pulled Bubble Bobble 3 from the floor but replaced that with Metal Slug 6 – now working like it should! We’ll get BB3 back out once we can repair the CRT monitor (same thing with Toobin’).

We also are hoping to bring air hockey back to the arcade at some point during the summer, although there are no details to pass along on that quite yet as we haven’t decided which machine we will go with at the moment…but stay tuned!

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Nobody else in Salt Lake has as much PAC-MAN as we do as we’ve got:

–Pac-Man 25th Anniversary (featuring the original PAC-MAN game as well as Ms. Pac-Man)
–Ms. Pac-Man (original cab with Turbo software installed)
–Namco Classic Collection Vol. 2 (Also has the original Pac-Man & the unique Pac-Man Arrangement)
–Pac-Man Battle Royale Tournament Edition (special version of the software that was never widely released)

That’s six different ways to enjoy the game and the best part is that all of them except for Battle Royale are only 25¢ to play – just like they were 45 years ago! Good luck at finding anything else that’s the same price as it was almost half a century ago. Battle Royale is only 50¢ per person, so that won’t break your bank either. It’s also worth checking out the Arrangement game found on Namco Classic Collection Vol. 2, as that is a hidden gem that plays really well, but few people know about it.

Also to mark the day, we did a little bit of re-arranging on our Namco game cabs. Now, all three are snuggled up against each other, and one of our banners was moved. It’s hard to miss all of this classic, dot-eating goodness now:

Namco is also celebrating their mascot character all around the world. Check out this music video to celebrate the 45th anniversary. Thanks to Arcade Galactic, you can still literally insert a coin for something amazing!

We are open every day, M-Th 11am-8pm, Fri: 11a-9pm, Sat. 10a-9pm, and Sundays 12p-6pm. No entry fee and we operate on tokens that are 25¢ per coin.

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Of course, if you’ve been to Arcade Galactic before, or visited a modern arcade over the past few years, then chances are that you’ve come across this game. So what’s new?

Minecraft Cards

In case you are new to this game, then you might be wondering what exactly is different from the home version. If so, then the main feature that this game has is that it vends real, collectible Minecraft cards every time you credit up the game and start! Cards do have different rarity values and you use them to craft your game experience. A card will give you a specific object when you scan it in – either a character skin, piece of armor, special melee weapon, ranged weapon, pet or you can get a HERO card which includes several of those in one card!

Note that if you want to purchase a specific card, you can do so at the front desk! Value depends on rarity.

Series 4 & Pumpkin Pastures – Available Now!

As of 5/6/2025, Minecraft Dungeons Arcade has been updated to Series 4. This adds a new level – Pumpkin Pastures – and bumps the available number of cards up to 143. This level adds MORE creepers to deal with, and brings the Evoker boss back for an intense new battle!

It’s important to note that every level in the arcade version of Minecraft is uniquely modded from the console version, meaning that while they share the same name and look, the layouts and the gameplay is very different from what you might have played at home.

One last thing – we have decided to permanently lower the price to play Minecraft to $1/play (4 tokens). Enjoy playing and collecting for less!

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• Arcade Galactic is now on the KLOV Arcade Finder
• Maximum Tune 5DX+ has been repaired and both units are working great
• All four NIRIN units are working after we fixed the two that had been down
• A new prize machine, FANTASTIC PRIZE is up front
• Step ManiaX continues to receive new song updates each month
• We had a Skittles vending machine in here for a little bit, but now it is in the Valley Fair food court
• We are possibly going to have an exA-Arcadia update here soon with a new game
• We are looking at selling a few old games to refresh the arcade with some new items – perhaps there is something of interest for you here?

On the latter point, we haven’t been able to update the game selection much over the past couple of years, but we hope to do so this year. Selling off some games, including those that have been out of commission for a long time, can help us achieve that faster.

Also to keep in mind, we’re still a place with affordable fun – we haven’t raised our prices at all over the past several years, and there are still many games that you can play for only 25¢. Good luck at finding pricing like that anywhere else – even a lot of Nickel arcades are charging more than 5¢ per game for their games, plus entry fees, nowadays.

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We are CLOSED on Thanksgiving, as is the rest of the mall excepting the movie theater.

Here is the calendar of when the mall is open from Black Friday to the weekend after New Years 2025. We will be following the mall’s hours, as we are required.

Thank you for your business!

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Anyways, thank YOU, the customers, for getting us from a location where the management at the time was just trying to get rid of us (outside of the mall, next to nobody), to being known as “the arcade at the mall” where we’ve been bringing the fun at our present spot since 2017.

-Major milestones Over 16 Years-

• Opened June 8th, 2008 on the outside of the Valley Fair Mall near Red Robin. We had around 25 arcade games, 2 pinball machines, an air hockey table, and a PC LAN center with 6 machines. We were one of the only locations in the world to feature the never-released game, The Act: An Interactive Comedy – which we still have today!
• Summer 2009 – We moved into the mall, down the hallway that used to connect to Mervyn’s, across from Ryan’s Jewelry. The PC LAN had already been expanded to 8 systems, but the space was rather cramped so we couldn’t expand our selection much.
• 2011 – We were the only location in the Western multi-state area to bring in Super Street Fighter IV Arcade Edition; We also were one of the only locations in the world to bring in an English version of Dariusburst Another Chronicle by Taito.
• 2012 – Due to major reconstruction at the Valley Fair Mall, our location was again demolished, but we were able to move to a new spot that was in the main corridor of the mall. That spot was originally 3x the size of the game area we had open to the public, but construction a couple of years later put in a building that reduced that significantly, so we never expanded within the space. Major games we grabbed while in that location: Jurassic Park Arcade, Star Wars Battle Pod, Fast & Furious: Super Cars, Star Trek Pinball, Transformers: Human Alliance, Dance Dance Revolution, Batman, and Cruis’n Blast. We did close the PC LAN at this point due to lack of interest.
• 2014 – Furnished part of the arcade space at the then-named Salt Lake Comic Con/FanX. We appeared there for several years, often times being the only arcade entertainment in the space. We did so up until 2019.
• 2017 – Moved to what is our present location; a space that used to be Kay Bee Toy Stores when the owner of Arcade Galactic was a kid. This gave us much more space to work with, allowing us to greatly expand our game selection to over 60 games. We’ve added these titles while there: Maximum Tune 5DX+, The Walking Dead, House of the Dead: Scarlet Dawn, Luigi’s Mansion Arcade, Step ManiaX, Minecraft Dungeons Arcade, 3x exA-Arcadia systems, NBA Hoops basketball, 4x NIRIN racers, and our biggest selection of pinball machines ever, currently with The Addams Family, Ghostbusters, Jurassic Park, Guardians of the Galaxy, The Mandalorian, Terminator 3, and more.
• Summer 2017 – Hosted a special COSMOTRONS event, held by the developer of the game who did a nationwide tour. We did purchase the game but eventually sold it off to another Utah operator.
• 2019 – Began hosting some locally organized pinball tournaments, thanks to SLAP and others. This was our best year ever.
• 2020 – We were forced to change our name from Game Grid Arcade to something else, even though we had registered the name long before a different company who had nothing to do with video games did. To avoid a lawsuit we could have won but couldn’t afford (especially during 2020), we changed our name to ARCADE GALACTIC.
• October 2020 – Opened up our second location at the Newgate Mall in Ogden. We took some games from West Valley up there, while at the time there were some great deals on equipment that allowed us to offer some unique things up there, such as the aforementioned House of the Dead and Luigi games. Unfortunately business never managed to perform better than in West Valley and due to some other life circumstances, we closed this on the last day of 2022.
• Summer 2022 – Got our hands on two prototype/early arcade games, purchased from the original creator of said titles: Toobin’ (1988) and Hydra (1990) by Atari Games. The Toobin has a serial number of 2; Hydra was “Proto #3” and looks different than the production version. That said, Hydra is exceedingly rare, with only 200 of those cabinets ever being produced. Both games were signed by the game designer, Dennis Harper
• Winter 2023 – Furnished the arcade space for Beehive Meals‘ Christmas Party
• Summer 2024 – Began beta testing two locally designed games, Asteroids Recharged and Avian Knights.

Thank you again for your support! We’ll see you at the arcade!

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The Asteroids Recharged arcade game is based upon the home console title of the same name. However, many changes are being made to the arcade version, many of which will be implemented during the test period. YOU can also help shape the game that it will become, by coming in and giving it a play, then sharing your feedback.

If you’ve never heard of Asteroids, then you might be younger. That’s ok! Asteroids is the best selling arcade title ever produced by Atari. Released at the very end of 1979, it became a cultural gaming icon in the 1980s.

The Asteroids Recharged Cabinet

The cabinet we have is the 3-player version, which comes with a 55″ monitor. The game uses the same control layout as the original Asteroids (Left/Right rotate; Hyperspace; Thrust; Fire), but with LED lit buttons. The game also features wind & rumble effects and there’s a pinball knocker that hits the cabinet when certain events take place.

How Long Is It Going To Be At Arcade Galactic?

Asteroids Recharged will be in the testing phase from now until June. We encourage repeat play as well, since the game will see software updates that changes up how the game works. It would be very helpful to hear feedback on whether or not those changes are good or bad.

It is also worth noting that this game was built right here in Utah by a local company, Alan-1. They are made up of retro gaming enthusiasts, who truly enjoy gaming as it existed in the 1980s. They have more on the docket for arcade gaming, so be sure to stay tuned!

Where can I find you guys?

Arcade Galactic is located inside of the Valley Fair Shopping Center on the north end of the mall. We are fairly close to where Ulta and JCPenny are located. You will usually hear us before you see us. To find the mall, it is located in the heart of West Valley City, right across from City Hall on 3500 S. and 2700 W. You can also reach it via I-215 at the 3500 S. West exit.

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We also have some exciting developments going into April. While this is usually a slow month for our business, we will have at least three new games showing up during the month.

DODONPACHI TRUE DEATH EXA LABEL

If you’re a fan of game developer CAVE and their sensational shoot ’em ups, then you will be pleased to know that we will be the first and only location in Utah with the recent remaster of CAVE’s most praised shmup ever. This “directors cut” version includes remastered visuals and sound, TATE support, super low input lag, and new game modes, including the new EXA Mode which actively adapts the difficulty to how you are playing. This will be setup with a vertical screen on our new EXA ARC-1 cabinet.

Asteroids Recharged & Avian Knights Location Test

We are going to be a test location for the upcoming Asteroids: Recharged and Avian Knights games by Alan-1 Inc. Alan-1 is a Utah-based game maker who is building their games right here in Utah – not China.

Avian Knights is a modern take on Williams’ classic Joust. You control a flying knight on a quest to defeat others in an arena. This features new weapons that you can pick up and wield, along with in-game music to elevate it from the classic Joust experience.

Asteroids: Recharged is the official return of Atari and Asteroids to the arcade scene. 1-2 players are thrown into a danger zone where asteroids and UFOs threaten you from every angle. This new version features updated visual, 2-player simultaneous play, new power-ups and more. Both games also feature online leaderboards where you can make a free account, track your best scores, and make new friends.

Happy Easter everyone!

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