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    Salem Bowling Center

    3.5 (2 reviews)
    Open • 12:00 pm - 10:00 PM
    Updated 3 months ago

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    Dogpatch Arcade - 3/4 didn't work and weren't marked thusly

    Dogpatch Arcade

    3.7(6 reviews)
    72.3 mi

    It's an arcade, but is more like what you'd get from a traveling circus... Older games, most spit…read moreout tickets, and everything runs by using quarters. While the place is clean inside, there is a feeling of grit and grime on alot of the games. Very few games I found were only $0.25, most were $0.50 and up...which was disappointing, but I guess they do require maintenance since they are older. As for value, well, don't expect to be able to get much for the tickets you collect. On $20 we collected about 800 tickets...and the options were dollar store junk. No issue with staff, although the lady at the ticket counter seemed bothered by having to help us. Strange since that's the point of this arcade...get tickets, buy some junk and move along. Again, no issues with her, but not a very welcoming process. We had fun and it served its purposes. Would go again, just know what you are getting yourself into.

    I'm not going to tell you how many years it had been since I had been to Dogpatch or The Strip. I'm…read morejust going to say many and to my dismay skee ball costs more than 10¢ now! Dogpatch has an arcade next door and it's a really great selection of skee ball, old uprights, pinball, and some modern things. I spent some time here on a recent trip and played pinball and skee ball. It was great. If I have one complaint it's that it was an almost 100 degree day and since the building isn't enclosed it was super-hot in there and I was sweating profusely from the game play! I'll be back. I won't wait decades!

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    Coachlite Lanes - Go bowling

    Coachlite Lanes

    3.2(14 reviews)
    25.8 mi

    Gosh. I hate to knock a business's review down this much but this experience wasn't good at all…read more My brother-in-law said this place has changed owners and unfortunately, that may not be a good thing. We arrived around 2ish on a Tuesday and aside from a group of old timers, we were the only ones here. We had a party of 6 bowling ONE GAME and with shoe rentals and the bill was a whopping $46!!! That seems downright insane. $7.67 per person for one game and shoes during a strange time which would have been empty otherwise. So onto the next part... our lanes kept messing up. Like, one time I knocked down 8 on my first shot, then it set down all 10 pins again. I preceded to knock down the 2 which would have given me a spare and instead, the computer claimed I didn't get any down and marked me an 8. Then another time one of the kids hadn't even taken their turn and the computer gave them a 4. I couldn't even tell you how many mistakes happened (this was just 2 examples) and I am sure the guy at the counter was sick of me going up there because we couldn't change the score on our own. Then came the time when one of our two lanes stopped working completely. Our other group continued to play but then were told they had to stop playing until they fixed our lane, which was 10-15 minutes. No "sorry about that" or anything. We figured we should have been offered a free game since we had so many problems during our $46 game. NOPE. On our way out, both workers were near the door and again, did not say "thanks for stopping in" or "sorry about the issues." Nothing. One of our kids commented "they should have zero stars" and my brother in law said that if the old management was in charge we would have gotten 1-2 games free for the problems. Doubt we'll return.

    No just no every time there was a someone's turn had to restart the pins also even broke at the end…read moreterrible equipment.

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    Miner Mike's - Go kart

    Miner Mike's

    3.2(45 reviews)
    69.8 mi

    Food is actually decent, staff is isn't friendly at all and it's clear they don't wanna be here…read more Games are decent, and you need to know that there are 2 game areas. On upstairs and one down stairs. Prize lines are also really long. Expect to wait there for 20+ minutes. Go karts are a cluster and the line is crazy slow and inefficient. Many times they send 4 karts out at once. Expect to wait in line for an hour plus. It's rough. Overall it can be roughy but lines are long and lines are inefficient.

    When we arrived we entered through what seemed to be the front door on a lower level near the prize…read morecounter and the farris wheel. It wasn't clear where we needed to go to get started. I approached the prize counter where a nice young man helped me get the lay of the land and directed us upstairs to get tokens or wristbands. He said everything takes tokens or you could purchase a wristband for the rides to ride multiple times. We headed upstairs where the kids maze was and were told that our youngest wouldn't be able to do the maze because he had a cast on his arm. We did end up spending a few hours playing arcade games but many games were broken or had run out of tickets. We actually had to go get an attendant twice because machines didn't have tickets to give us when we had done well and were earned. When we were finished with our tokens we went down to the prize counter to exchange our tickets. The nice young man who we had first talked to started helping us. While he was in the middle of helping us, another worker come up to him, told him the manager said he needed to bring two boxes of tickets upstairs and that he is not allowed to have an ear bud in while working. Then they both walked away to the storage room without another word to us. There was a third worker who was leaning up against the counter eating a laffy taffy l, once she realized that we were still standing there she apologized and come to help us, then the guy who came down to give the orders from the manager came back and said "oh, I was going to help them". I pointed out that it would have been good to acknowledge that intent instead of not saying anything to us and walking away. Over all, I mean it's an arcade and what was usable was good. It's definitely an okay way to waste the day and some money inside the a/c.

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