What's Your Favorite Boardwalk Amusement?

Steven Wagenheim · 03-19-2010, 09:22 AM

For those who go to the boardwalk during the summer. what's your favorite amusement?

Mine is ski ball (sp?)

Kurt · 03-19-2010, 09:44 AM

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Originally Posted by Steven Wagenheim

For those who go to the boardwalk during the summer. what's your favorite amusement?

Mine is ski ball (sp?)

Hey Steven,

Do you mean the games or are rides included?

If it's the rides, I'm a bumper car guy myself. When I was a teenager, 3-4 of us would team up and target one unsuspecting driver. It was pretty funny, I'm LOL just thinking about it.

Steven Wagenheim · 03-19-2010, 09:45 AM

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Originally Posted by Kurt

Hey Steven,

Do you mean the games or are rides included?

If it's the rides, I'm a bumper car guy myself. When I was a teenager, 3-4 of us would team up and target one unsuspecting driver. It was pretty funny, I'm LOL just thinking about it.

Rides, games, anything. Yes, bumper cars is in my top 5 somewhere. I
used to love those for the same reasons.

I guess it was a chance to act out our road rage legitimately.

Kenster · 03-19-2010, 09:55 AM

When I went to school a bunch of people have never even heard of a boardwalk. I am from Jersey so I was stunned. geographic thing i guess.

Michael Motley · 03-19-2010, 09:58 AM

I actually like a nice ferris wheel. On a good warm night its a nice casual ride, good view.

But I'm also all about a target shooting game too. I used to love the ones with a bb-gun that you had to shoot out a star on a piece of paper

KimW · 03-19-2010, 10:12 AM

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Originally Posted by Kenster

When I went to school a bunch of people have never even heard of a boardwalk. I am from Jersey so I was stunned. geographic thing i guess.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Michael Motley

I actually like a nice ferris wheel. On a good warm night its a nice casual ride, good view.

But I'm also all about a target shooting game too. I used to love the ones with a bb-gun that you had to shoot out a star on a piece of paper

Kenster,
You are correct, to someone that grew up in the midwest like I did, the concept of a boardwalk was just plain weird.

Michael,
Its a fun game, but most of the time rigged so you couldn't win.

Kurt · 03-19-2010, 10:33 AM

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Originally Posted by Steven Wagenheim

Rides, games, anything. Yes, bumper cars is in my top 5 somewhere. I
used to love those for the same reasons.

I guess it was a chance to act out our road rage legitimately.

None of them ever caught on...

What's the best thing you got with your skee ball tickets?

Michael Motley · 03-19-2010, 10:34 AM

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Originally Posted by KimW

Kenster,
You are correct, to someone that grew up in the midwest like I did, the concept of a boardwalk was just plain weird.

Michael,
Its a fun game, but most of the time rigged so you couldn't win.

All of them are rigged so you can't win. I had a childhood friend who's father was a carnie. We used to go out every summer to carnivals with games 99% of them are designed for you to lose.

Steven Wagenheim · 03-19-2010, 10:54 AM

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Originally Posted by Kurt

None of them ever caught on...

What's the best thing you got with your skee ball tickets?

It was like 25 years ago. We got a radio. It lasted until about 2 or 3 years
ago I think. I don't know if all the tickets came from ski ball but a lot of
them did. Some also came from the slot machines and some other stuff.

These days, I'm lucky if I get to the boardwalk once a year.

KimW · 03-19-2010, 11:18 AM

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Originally Posted by Michael Motley

All of them are rigged so you can't win. I had a childhood friend who's father was a carnie. We used to go out every summer to carnivals with games 99% of them are designed for you to lose.

I disagree. You are correct ALL are designed for you to lose, but not all are rigged.

Edit: I found the link I was looking for.
http://www.goodmagic.com/index.html

MikeAmbrosio · 03-19-2010, 12:38 PM

The sausage and pepper grinder/hero/sub stand

Oh wait, does that count?

KimW · 03-19-2010, 01:04 PM

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Originally Posted by MikeAmbrosio

The sausage and pepper grinder/hero/sub stand

Oh wait, does that count?

Ha Mike,
That is the first thing my wife wants to hit every year when we go to the fair!

JohnMcCabe · 03-19-2010, 02:23 PM

By a long shot, my favorite is sitting on a bench watching the strange people wander by and making up back stories for them.

Favorite food: funnel cakes

Favorite ride: Ferris wheel

Favorite game: Knock over the bottles.

It wasn't a true boardwalk, but a bunch of us used to hit the midway at the state fair and several of the county fairs. One of the guys had a 90 mph fastball with good control. In fact, he was working his way up the minor leagues before he blew out his elbow and retired. The look on the carnie's face was priceless when our pal wound up and sent even the weighted bottles flying...

Tina Golden · 03-19-2010, 05:15 PM

I'm lucky enough to live a 5 minute walk from the boardwalk. Having never seen the like before moving here, I was captivated by skee ball and it is still my favorite arcade game. One of the arcades here also has an Ice Ball version which is pretty cool, too. I also play one called Pokereno, where you let the balls go down the ramp and you're trying to get the best poker hand. I'm pretty good at that one now.

Other than the games, my favorite thing is the fried dough. One place down here, you can get a fried dough bigger than a paper plate all smothered in butter, powdered sugar and cinnamon - yum! I can't eat it all, unless I'm super starving so I usually split one with my roommate.

Usually, I exchange tickets for stuff for Christmas presents (they have some nice stuff down here) but this year, I'm going to save all summer to get something big instead.

Tina

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Tina Golden Senior Warrior Member War Room Member Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Massachusetts, USA Posts: 3,050 Blog Entries: 2 Thanks: 4,300 Thanked 3,096 Times in 1,556 Posts Social Networking Contact Info	Re: What's Your Favorite Boardwalk Amusement? I'm lucky enough to live a 5 minute walk from the boardwalk. Having never seen the like before moving here, I was captivated by skee ball and it is still my favorite arcade game. One of the arcades here also has an Ice Ball version which is pretty cool, too. I also play one called Pokereno, where you let the balls go down the ramp and you're trying to get the best poker hand. I'm pretty good at that one now. Other than the games, my favorite thing is the fried dough. One place down here, you can get a fried dough bigger than a paper plate all smothered in butter, powdered sugar and cinnamon - yum! I can't eat it all, unless I'm super starving so I usually split one with my roommate. Usually, I exchange tickets for stuff for Christmas presents (they have some nice stuff down here) but this year, I'm going to save all summer to get something big instead. Tina