{"id":2497,"date":"2025-09-04T20:33:11","date_gmt":"2025-09-04T11:33:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stevethefish.net\/stuff\/?p=2497"},"modified":"2025-09-04T20:33:11","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T11:33:11","slug":"a-visit-to-tiltstudio-arcade-at-arizona-mills-mall-in-tempe-az","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevethefish.net\/stuff\/index.php\/2025\/09\/04\/a-visit-to-tiltstudio-arcade-at-arizona-mills-mall-in-tempe-az\/","title":{"rendered":"A visit to TiltStudio Arcade at Arizona Mills Mall in Tempe, AZ"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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So while I got to spend time with friends on my recent trip to Arizona, on the day which I visited Andy’s Hobby HQ<\/a> and Book Off<\/a>, we also went to AZ Mills Mall in Tempe. TiltStudio is there, and this is where I found the Pac-Man Capsule Factory<\/a> I posted about earlier. Tilt is what used to be Gameworks which opened in the ’90s when I was in college, and I took videos of Gameworks back in 2010 in the early years of my YouTube channel. Here is the playlist for those videos<\/a>. At the time, the guy who ran that arcade was focused on bringing in many arcade cabinets from Japan, including an incredibly awesome air hockey table I’ve yet to even come across in Japan even.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Tilt now focuses on a great selection of pinball games, thus the name. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This is cool! It’s a Beatles pinball game. My friend Kevin is a huge Beatles fan, and so is my wife.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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An OT Star Wars pinball game! Righteous.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Ghostbusters pinball!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This is a JIBUNGOUS UFO catcher! Holy crap. I had to have my picture taken with it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tilt also has a nice collection of some great classic arcade games. The rest of these photos are a collection of pictures of those games.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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So while I got to spend time with friends on my recent trip to Arizona, on the day which I visited Andy’s Hobby HQ and Book Off, we also went to AZ Mills Mall in Tempe. TiltStudio is there, and this is where I found the Pac-Man Capsule Factory I posted about earlier. Tilt is … <\/p>\n

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