GIANT ARCADE in Mall! Tilt Studio Arcade in Altoona, PA!

We stumbled across a MASSIVE arcade in the Logan Valley Mall in Altoona, Pennsylvania. It has a TON of crane machine, driving games, retro games, lazer tag, mini golf and it even has indoor bumper cars! We didn't know this arcade existed until now!
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[@ClownfishTV]

Only complaint: They needed more retro video games. Other than that, this place was awesome. EDIT: It just opened on a Sunday morning. I *HOPE* it does good business.

[@captainspire9094]

Still makes me miss the old Nathans Food court and arcade back in New York. A room full of pinball machines and arcade games from pac man and Centipede to Ghost Busters and X-men and Avengers. Back when you could bring in $20 and have hours of fun. Oh man the vector Graphics Tank and Star Wars games too! Just never play Dragon's Lair. That sucker consumed my coins. Yea, this place needs at least 20 more actual arcade games.

[@liljenborg2517]

To be fair it never advertised itself as a "Video Game" arcade. Though with a name like "Tilt" it ought to have at least ONE pinball machine . . . I worked at a Tilt arcade, like, 20 years ago when the mall opened here.

[@captainspire9094]

@@liljenborg2517 Yea, traditionally "Arcade," can mean anything from a large group of small shops to the more, well known video game arcade locations. Still I want something to put a quarter/token, into and blow monsters up with pixel blasters and swords. About the only interactive thing I participated in an Arcade was some dance dance revolution game. Scott Pilgrim I am not. At least I got to level 4.

[@AmusementLabs]

I think it could use some indoor food options like tacos or pizza and maybe a DJ. There's a DJ at the taco Bell cantina near me and it's slammed those days.

[@GrimReaperNegi]

Being monday and kids are most likely still in school.

[@Mrcookiemonster515]

this is more impressive then Galxy edge in disney parks.

[@shioenix]

OMG yes 😂

[@cosmos_crimsonstone]

Okay stop being cringe

[@warzardtheboredtimelord2865]

Need more retro arcade games and pinball, especially since your name is "Tilt".

[@ClownfishTV]

Yeah I don't think they had one single pinball machine. lol

[@JerseyDevils21]

It looks pretty cool, but you're right, it does need more retro games

[@bradleyj.fortner2203]

I love me some retro games. I just bought a Raspberry Pi 4 and was bummed to learn that Retropie doesn't run on it yet.

[@Krysnha]

Indeed, more rerto arcades, pools, and more like that, those machines dont look fun at all

[@charlescaine6022]

I counted seven people in the place, I hope they can attract more. I agree eith Neon, they more retro arcade machines.

[@dreamcastfan]

Pretty cool, they definitely need a Simpsons, Ninja Turtles, Daytona, Aliens vs Predator, Time Crisis and Sega Rally through. 😉

[@Krysnha]

Yes i miss those

[@ultimabk]

That use to be the book store and a dollar shop. Edit so where the rue21 is. That use to be where during 90's they had the real arcade. House of the dead, lucky and wild car shooter, mortal kombat. Time crises. Like everything great, but it left and the mall was without a arcade for 15 years till tilted came around and it is just a ticket game abomination.

[@KnightFerrocous]

This place looks like the garbage "arcades" they shove in the waterparks near me to ring a few extra bucks out of patrons. And those are just as empty as this place. Meanwhile also near me is a bar with actual retro arcade machines and pinball and it is impossible to go Thurs-Sun because of how packed the place is those days. Maybe these arcades will learn that they need actual good games to draw people in and not just trash claw and chance games.

[@ForDemoPurposesOnly]

Screw that! I wanna go to that Yankee Candle across the way! LOL!

[@LISA75_]

Really cool, nobody inside :(

[@Krysnha]

Thinking the same thin

[@adamfrederick5682]

That is because we have an even bigger and better arcade studio in Hollidaysburg.

[@dubuyajay9964]

I'm concerned over the lack of customers...

[@riotkitty]

No wonder, it opened on a Sunday morning

[@syxepop]

Dubuya Jay, I have to believe this a "moribund mall" (< 70% tenant occupancy) since video arcades of this size are NOT A MALL STAPLE ANYMORE. Also wasn't well thought "who wants those darn crane machines?" There are just TOO MANY OF THEM. Replace like 2/3 of those on the left side of the store with RETRO VIDEO MACHINES making the contrast to the newer stuff on the right side. Kneon, you should learn from one of the local YT RETAIL / DEAD MALL VIDEO explorers, since you're near Pittsburgh, in the middle of "Dead Mall Country" (NY, PA, OH, IN). Maybe Wallie or one of the others can give you pointers...

[@deadlyraver4454]

That was one of the things I noticed too. Still, it was a Sunday when it opened and just like Kneon kept saying he didn't even know it was there. If I were them, I'd stick ads to everything in town including the neighbor's pets. One good thing for them is this vid. I'm sure business will pick up soon thanks to Clownfish TV.

[@DanRamosDR]

Don't worry about that. These arcades get reliably packed at certain hours on certain days.

[@deadlyraver4454]

@@DanRamosDR Cool. Even though it isn't packed with what I generally look for in arcades, that being stand up arcade games, I would love to see one succeed and hopefully go there myself one day.

[@victorbruant389]

I read the word "Tilt" in your title at exactly the same time I heared it in one of Astrum's videos and the video I watched before was about giants.

[@elvinmadson]

Huge arcade! cool! crane games....meh...No wonder its deserted

[@Krysnha]

Indeed, they should put actual arcades games instead of crane games

[@reallife1614]

They should just turn all the malls into indoor theme parks with "stores" inside (with strick security). They are all empty nowadays! I miss the good old days were you can hangout without having to fear any mass shooters or gang riots!

[@AmusementLabs]

I'd love some rides too. Maybe a spinner or a 6DOF simulator maybe even a small roller coaster. Though at that point it's just an amusement park which is perfect.

[@Oblithian]

Arcades are coming back now that most people play games... also since they decided to add bars to them (good idea). It's still surprising since they all died out early 2000's

[@bigballzmcdrawz2921]

Early 2000s was when when consoles (Dreamcast, PS2, XBOX, & Game Cube) caught up & surpassed arcades, and it's stayed that way since.

[@Popesize]

We need more of those. There are a lot of closed down shopping areas in the malls now a days, since the web stores did outrun the physical stores.

[@TheLonelyGoomba]

Those bumper cars / hovercraft things are pretty cool. Theyre quite common in the UK at seaside towns. Pretty good fun with friends, if you smashed into someone else super hard it would sometimes trigger a free round by mistake. Which I guess motivated people to be aggressive.

[@russellfowler8186]

I grew up like 40 minutes from there, in Philipsburg. I’ll definitely be checking this place out when I go visit my family

[@liljenborg2517]

Wow. That's a lot of square footage in a mall (huge rent). They'll need to do a LOT of business to keep their doors open (and I only saw two kids in there on your tour).

[@DanRamosDR]

These are popping up everywhere under various brand names. In Hoyoke, MA, at the Ingleside Mall, they have a Round1 arcade that looked almost like what you saw except a lot more retro available. In Daytona Beach, FL, there's a GameTime arcade that looks to be again very similar to the other two, with a fair amount of retro games.

[@ben31uk]

Looks ok but they need 80s and 90s arcades and pinball

[@setsuki17]

Looks like I'm moving to pen. See you there tilt studios!

[@Warlocke000]

Man, arcades from my youth would have had the lights so low they might as well not be on, and there would have been actual video games, wall to wall. Not only would people have been playing them, there would be people in line waiting for a turn.

[@soulpointcomics]

Outrun 2SP SDX, SCUD RACE, CART Fury. These are all long lost racing games that I can't find in my local arcades anymore. PA is a LOOOOOONG ways away from where I live.

[@colten53]

This arcade is really fun. I’m originally from Altoona and only moved away about a year ago for my first job out of college. It’s legitimately the best mall I’ve been in. The only knock on this arcade is that you need to pay for a pass to use everything rather than being able to just use some spare change to kill about 10 minutes. It really bums me out that malls are kinda dying out. Where are teenagers even hanging out these days if they’re not at the mall?

[@Lensman864]

Right from the start I was thinking "this reminds me of the arcades in Japan" and then Kneon agreed. There was one at the base of the Kobe tower that was a small version of this.

[@LowellLucasJr.]

I was worried there weren't any descent arcade games...but when I saw Tekken 3, Xmen vs Street Fighter plus Bumper Cars....I was sold!

[@ClownfishTV]

Star Wars Arcade and a few others. LOTTA racing games.

[@LowellLucasJr.]

@@ClownfishTV yeah I saw ! INTIAL D 3!!!!!!

[@SmolTerribleTornado]

arcades are back and with recent titles? damn what time to be alive

[@tomspiegel5322]

There was a whole bumper-cars platform in there, and the room was so big you didn't even notice it! Also, I really wanna play that mini golf course.

[@-EchoesIntoEternity-]

its every crappy boardwalk side attraction crammed into empty mall space, malls are dying.

[@akcalo]

Yea. Im finding that malls are trying to bring in more entertainmrnt centers. Which i think is actually a good idea. Maybe they can repurpose malls into entertainment centers! Arcades, VR, escape rooms etc.

[@Krysnha]

Agree

[@thecoda506]

I remember going to the tilt arcade in southland mall alot as a kid. It was a lot more "retro" (not at the time but looking back) It closed in the late 00's

[@KoubuPilot]

We also have a Tilt Studio here at Arizona Mills in Tempe, AZ. Its offerings are a little different since it used to be a Gameworks. No bumper cars, laser tag or putt putt, but it has more screen video games, pinball and a restaurant. Its competition would have to be Golfland down the freeway in Mesa, which has an arcade, 3 putt putt courses, laser tag, bumper boats and a race track. The there's water park during summer.

[@RavenClaw88]

It looks like a fun family fun arcade/entertainment center. I'm glad there are some retro arcades in my area. Wow! look at all those alpacas! How awesome they have sit down Initial D machines!

[@AnimeGeek32]

That place in particular is more than 3.5 hours away from my house. The other place is in Vorhees Township, NJ, which is much closer for me.

[@oddmanout8692]

It used to be I think Waldon Books and Dunhams Sports separately. Walked past it a million times and only browsed it once. Didn't know you guys visited, appreciate the video.

[@madamkoifish]

Might tell my parents about this. It looks like fun.

[@ketami2]

Well we've got to do something to repurpose the dead malls. Why not just rehabilitate the buildings and said having to build new buildings for things like arcades or movie theaters or restaurants.

[@MouseyThings]

Low key skee ball is my favorite game to play at an arcade.

[@scottpickering2382]

Glad to see King Kong is still getting work after his fall from the Empire State Building. Also The place reminds me of the boardwalk in Ocean City.

[@Blazah99]

Alot of active fun looking games but MAN do they need to have some chairs or benches. I could spend all day there if there were a place to sit down for a few mins after some DDR, lol.

[@sylaxsyn]

If memory serves, that's where walden books, a kb toys (or some other toy store) and a forever 21 and some other country style store used to be. It looks like they merged all the stores together. I could be mistaken, it's been over 10 years since i've been in the mall. Before the fire in 94 it had an awesome arcade called Crocodile Alley. Also, been watching for awhile now and never knew you were near the area lol.

[@skydemolisher]

This is exactly how I remember the arcades looking when I was a kid... They didn't but this is how I think they looked as a kid. Hahaha. That is awesome.

[@otaking3582]

4:37 Initial D arcade game?! The nostalgia!

[@majinslayer]

Greetings from Altoona! I live 10 minutes from that mall. Love me some Luigi’s Mansion Arcade.

[@joeott8798]

Wish I knew yall were there. Live like 10 min away lol. Try pinball pa. It's in beaver county. Has alot of vintage games.

[@djnieves4th921]

That was the best Video Arcade I have ever seen!😂

[@Arassar]

Was there DDR? NM I see it. Couldn't see what version it was in the video though (my guess is Extreme, which is my favorite version) The only arcade near me that has a machine anymore doesn't take care of it so it's like impossible to play on

[@tracythomas132]

omg, I remember those dancing machines! My daughter loved these when she was 6/7 years old, and of course, always beat me on them

[@shioenix]

OMG I can't believe that mail has an arcade that's so cool

[@Elayzee]

I'd FAR rather visit here than Galaxy's Edge!!!

[@mariopuzo4509]

When everything is augmented reality & VR is show up. The place that's just local by my house had bumper cars a go kart track multi story mini golf...laser tag ,mini bowling and an arcade. (Which surprisingly....sucked. ) still fun tho.

[@jamesjackson6563]

I live in Harrisburg PA 😂😂 good video

[@joezilla1995]

That’s was a cool walkthrough thank you

[@ZehnWaters]

Most arcades nowadays use ticket machines as people want something back for playing.

[@onebyday6065]

Wow they are actually still open. I thought for sure with the pandemic they would have closed but still going in 2022.

[@gm2564]

They are on the process of building one of these here in Sioux City Iowa.

[@adidas1984x]

Love tilt

[@RokuroCarisu]

Everybody come and play, throw every last care away...

[@NoPonySpecial]

That place looks awesome

[@TheRadioAteMyTV]

Huge arcade replaces several stores that had to close because of too little business. Huge arcade almost completely empty of customers or people, just like mall. Brilliant investment fellas. Can I offer you some stock in Netflix or Disney's Galaxy Edge?

[@ClownfishTV]

It just opened on a Sunday morning. I *hope* it does business. But yeah, malls have a lot of room these days...

[@mos6507]

The Mall might be a good place to pull in 40+ genxers who miss the mall decade of the 80s.

[@TheRadioAteMyTV]

@@ClownfishTV At the mall in Burbank they walled it off in a clever way so that you can't easily tell the mall used to run far further down the way, but they did and now the actual walking space in the mall with shops is so tiny, and they moved the giant food court from the third floor to the first and now the third is a sitting area, probably soon to be hidden and walled too. Without foot traffic the place is doomed. That arcade is already paying at least 2 people (that I saw) to watch over a bleeding electrical bill with one little girl paying customer. Their electric bill alone will require far more customers than school days attendance will offer, let alone payroll. Here's your Netflix stock.

[@TheRadioAteMyTV]

@@mos6507 For how long? Until their wives and kids miss them? Or until they miss their FREE gaming at home? Movie theatres are dying fast due to horrible movies at outrageous prices and cheap home giant TVs. If the arcade were puny with tons of cool games it would have a shot, but this place is too big for a by gone era.

[@chrisstory563]

not everyone realize that location location location is one of ways to attract people. btw. most arcade that are not retro arcade barely survive depends on the location.

[@ryanwike2780]

Great place my kids love it. I live near this mall

[@shioenix]

OMG they have gauntlet legends dark legacy I remember playing gauntlet legends at cici's as a kid

[@AL-ws5yi]

The malls by me are actually crowded but I don't know if anyone buys anything from the stores. I see mostly kids and the elderly. I thought your thumbnail was cool. It looks like an upscale Chucky Cheeses. I agree it needs a retro video game section. My kids would never leave.

[@tallerwarrior1256]

Japan is crazy with these places!!!

[@alecperdeau650]

If I lived closer I'd drive there in a heartbeat. But it needs a lot more games. Just to name a few: The Simpsons Arcade Turtles in Time Rampage Soul Calibur Let's Go Island Let's Go Jungle House of The Dead 1,2,3, and 4 Garou: Mark of The Wolves Street Fighter 3rd Strike The Ocean Hunter Bloody Roar Alien Deadstorm Pirates Dungeons & Dragons: Shadow over Mystara/ Tower of Doom Batman Batmobile Arcade Savage Adventure Clearly I've wasted too much time and money in arcades but I think you get my idea lol.

[@onlinegametime]

I wish their was a arcade in my mall still

[@gamerboy64]

My hometown, been here a couple times when I come visit family. Otherwise I'm in either Louisiana or Arizona.

[@robertroberts5090]

Giant space, maybe four customers, everything else empty.

[@OldNerdPlayingOldPCGames]

Great job. Liked.

[@virginislandsguy1885]

First time I saw bumper cars in a mall was in Thailand and that was back in 1992...

[@exodous02]

'I don't know what was here(before)' probably vacant space, it's a mall.

[@Trakker1985]

I'd love to own an arcade, providing you owned the venue and didn't have to pay rent for the space, you could probably do pretty well.

[@oddmanout8692]

Chuck E Cheese is still operating, so there's hope.

[@satansierra]

my hometown ayyy, toontown gang

[@chrisstory563]

I bet it nothing redemption and arcade version of mobile games. arcade was the secial thing of the 80's until home console buried it. the place looks like a Vegas version of Galloping Ghost arcade. never been there but seen some video of the place on their youtube channel.

[@MarkOakleyComics]

Neat tour. Being a child of the 80's, I submit that an arcade is supposed to be darker and smell like weed and have a LOT of way cooler games. Like Joust, Moon Patrol and DigDug. And hello? PINBALL?? Side note on the production: By increasing your video framerate, you'll lower the risk of losing subscribers to random seizures.

[@cesariojpn]

Its apparently a company that is countrywide: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tilt_(arcade)

[@akcalo]

Cool. Pretty empty though. Was it during a school day? We have a place similar to this here in NY. I think they should get into VR. That's the entertainment of the future!

[@ClownfishTV]

Sunday morning. It had just opened about 10 minutes before I got there.

[@colten53]

It’s usually kinda empty because you generally have to pay for a membership pass. They’d be doing so much better if they just let you use regular money or tokens in my opinion

[@robertonline6543]

Every mall should have bumper cars. Why are there no one in them? Maybe have slotcars or a mini racetrack be cool. Maybe a mini train going thru the mall with a mini zoo petstore. And batpole that goes to the parking garage.

[@AvengerII]

The only arcades I've seen recently are vintage arcades (1980s, early 1990s) paired with bars and Dave & Buster's which has some games exclusive to that chain for all I know. They had a new Star Wars arcade game (I don't know WHO made it; I could barely see anything of it and the gameplay reminded me of the old Sega Star Wars Trilogy game) when I visited a D&B for the first time about a week ago. I know that in the past, they had things like a special 8-cab linked version of Virtua Racing which I had also seen (and played; most fun I ever had with a racing game) at the old Sega Pavilion of EPCOT in the late 1990s. But yeah, pretty much vintage arcade bars and D&B are it. This bsuiness with crane machines look more like gambling to me. Crane machines are nothing special. About every Wal Mart has one of those, too!

[@mattsmocs3281]

You should go to Scranton that is where the office is based

[@blueberrypitbull87]

Yeah...From the looks of it, it probably didn't survive.

[@jamesburns6603]

Is that on the second Floor? Looks like it

[@colten53]

James Burns It is. It’s right by the escalators to get up on one end of the mall

[@jamesburns6603]

@@colten53 yep. I know where that is.

[@delaunfifield3490]

Here we are 10 months later: I wonder what they think of the "covid" shut downs??

[@starsiegeplayer]

Wow this is huge! Did it survive COVID?

[@satansierra]

yep, still open. but overall, logan valley mall has been consistently losing mass amounts of stores and restaurants over the past decade or so. in my opinion i don’t see the mall in its entirety surviving much longer. fun fact: logan valley mall actually nearly burnt down entirely back in 1994.

[@suranae]

Probably a modells or an FYE.

[@bradshank9674]

If you think this is cool you should check out West Edmonton Mall

[@rockyhighwayroad7365]

They should serve pizza there or something it can be like Chuck E cheese

[@tcghunter33]

So jealous.

[@ayap2252]

The Barcade (retro arcade & bar) is better than this mall trap. It’s a chain in New York

[@jamesburns6603]

Oh dear. that mall like all malls has been dying. They are all trying to come up with things to increase tourism. I remember when there was a fire at that mall and everyone had to go it after the rebuild to see it

[@travisjohnson6676]

Most of the "games" are basically gambling for kids. Like a little Las Vegas

[@ClownfishTV]

I'm going to start an arcade called Lil' Las Vegas. ;)

[@mos6507]

Almost all ticket games :(

[@yaboydarrell]

This is really hard to watch. Im getting sick

[@trycon40]

no mario kart arcade.....shame

[@darthsynchronic]

Looks so sterile no rock'n music...smh

[@satansierra]

you should do a video about how this same mall here, logan valley mall, nearly entirely burnt down back in 1994. 🫨🔥

[@zealotmaster1]

wait malls are real?