Intencity

Intencity is a nice little arcade setup at Marion with a range of videogames and classic games. They have skee ball, claw games, basket hoops, overpriced prizes and tickets — pretty much what you would expect from this sort of establishment. It was quite interesting however to see that a lot of the machines were out of order when I was there. Albeit the prizes being worth a gazillion tickets, Intencity is a great way to use a couple of dollars and get some good entertainment.

Childhood memories came flooding back as I heard the electronic sounds $ 2 of games spitting out enough tickets to buy a 5 cent candy… ahhh this is what being a kid feels like!
In an attempt to kill some time before a movie which we were early for (okay, we were actually LATE for the early screening so now had to attend the later one…) Intencity was the number one choice!
Packed full of arcade games of yesteryear (well okay, from the mid 2000s) Intencity was the number one choice for the coolest kids party back in the day. Now, most kids have cooler games plugged into their TVs at home. The boys were occupied with a shooting game for a while — good value for $ 2 and then I took one of them on in a game of Air Hockey — great fun and it lasted for ages as the machine wasn’t picking up every score! Free game time FTW!!!
It was at this point that we decided to try and win ‘tickets’ from the machine. We tried to dupe the machine and get as many tickets as we could but after spending $ 10 between three of us we only had enough to get 2 fun sized mars bars or 10 minties.
Unfortunately many of the games were out of order — I was super keen to have a dance battle, and show off my 90s Brittany style dance moves — but I couldn’t do that, partially because of the machine not working and partially because I have no moves. In fact, I’d say about 50% of the machines had an out of order sign and for that reason, points have been deducted!