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40-610: Cottonwood Mall may refer to: Cottonwood Mall (Albuquerque, New Mexico) Cottonwood Mall (Holladay, Utah) Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Cottonwood Mall . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Cottonwood_Mall&oldid=932775736 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description

80-545: A Regal Cinemas (formerly United Artists) Theater. Cottonwood Mall was managed by Washington Prime Group . As of March 2022, the mall is leased and managed by court-appointed receiver “Spinoso Real Estate Group”. The mall's parking area has several dining establishments, including BJ's Restaurant & Brewery , Buffalo Wild Wings , Red Robin , Texas Roadhouse , and New Mexican cuisine restaurants like Garduños , Los Cuates, and Range Cafe. In May 2014, as part of Simon Property Group 's spinoff of smaller malls, ownership of

120-453: A "non- core" asset and requested the court appoint a receiver. In August 2021, Washington Prime Group indicated it would not seek to retain ownership of Cottonwood Mall, according to financial filings. Former tenants include Sega City amusement arcade , Sears which was prior a Montgomery Ward , and Macy's which was once a Foley's , and a Mervyn's . Hobby Lobby, Conn's, and Mor Furniture have since replaced Macy's and Mervyns. Sega City

160-423: A bar and restaurant with a video arcade. The ROUND1 entertainment chain combines a large arcade with a full-service bowling alley, along with billiards and karaoke . Arcades typically have change machines to dispense tokens or quarters when bills are inserted, although larger chain arcades, such as Dave and Busters and Chuck E. Cheese are deviating towards a refillable card system. Retro Arcades are going towards

200-534: A counter or in a glass showcase, and an arcade employee gives the items to players after counting their tickets. Merchandiser games reward winners with prizes such as stuffed toys, CDs, DVDs, or candy which are dispensed directly from the machine. In some countries, some types of video arcades are legally allowed to provide gambling machines such as slot machines and pachinko machines . Large arcades may also have small coin-operated ride-on toys for small children. Some businesses, such as Dave & Buster's , combine

240-408: A federal lawsuit regarding free speech . The malls had their rights of activity regulation challenged after protesters attempted to hand out leaflets at the malls. The case was dismissed. The 1972 case Lloyd Corp. v. Tanner states that shopping malls may limit speech activities (such as distribution of pamphlets) on premises. On May 31, 2018, it was announced that Sears would be closing as part of

280-723: A flat, clear glass or acrylic glass top; the player sits at the machine playing it, looking down. This style of arcade game is known as a cocktail-style arcade game table or tabletop arcade machine , since they were first popularized in bars and pubs. For two player games on this type of machine, the players sit on opposite sides with the screen flipped upside down for each player. A few cocktail-style games had players sitting next to rather than across from one another. Both Joust and Gun Fight had these type of tables. Some arcade games, such as racing games , are designed to be sat in or on. These types of games are sometimes referred to as sit-down games. Sega and Namco are two of

320-410: A pay by admission system with the games themselves set to free play. Arcades may also have vending machines which sell soft drinks, candy, and chips. Arcades may play recorded music or a radio station over a public address system . Video arcades typically have subdued lighting to inhibit glare on the screen and enhance the viewing of the games' video displays , as well as of any decorative lighting on

360-756: A plan to close 72 stores nationwide. The store closed in September 2018. The former Macy's was partially converted to Hobby Lobby in 2018. HomeLife Furniture and Mor Furniture took the rest of the space in 2019. The mall's food court features a diorama of Albuquerque, the Rio Grande , Sandia Mountains , West Mesa , and the mall itself. The chain restaurants in the food court include a Burger King , Charleys Philly Steaks , Keva Juice, and Potato Corner . Other restaurants include Fuji Japan (formerly Edo Japan ), Paleta Bar , and Sushi Roller. From Thanksgiving Day to New Year's Day every year, Cottonwood Mall

400-453: A rising difficulty curve, making them increasingly inaccessible to casual players and more expensive for the skilled players. The rise of the fighting game genre with games such as Street Fighter II and Mortal Kombat , combined with the release of popular sports titles such as NBA Jam and NFL Blitz , led to a brief resurgence in the popularity of video arcades, with new locations opening in shopping malls and strip malls throughout

440-463: A video arcade and a full bar, with a strict focus on classic machines from the 1970s and 1980s, known as the golden age of arcade video games . The idea proved popular and Barcade received recognition as a good place to play classic video game cabinets, because it is "one of the few places where classic arcade games can still be found in public, and in good working order." Barcade's success influenced other similarly themed businesses which opened across

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480-467: Is 1 vacant anchor store that was once Sears . The mall is the second largest mall in the state of New Mexico, after Coronado Center , with a gross leasable area of 1,041,680 square feet (96,775 m ); the mall's food court features a diorama ceiling depicting the city of Albuquerque. The mall is also a regular filming location on several productions, including Better Call Saul and Daybreak . It features over 100 stores and restaurants, as well as

520-418: Is also home to New Mexico Book Co-Op, a locally owned bookstore which sells only local books and products; such books and products are ordinarily not found in traditional bookstores. 35°11′53″N 106°39′29″W  /  35.198°N 106.658°W  / 35.198; -106.658 Amusement arcade Video games were introduced in amusement arcades in the late 1970s and were most popular during

560-485: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Cottonwood Mall (Albuquerque, New Mexico) Cottonwood Mall is a shopping mall located in Albuquerque , New Mexico, United States. The mall's anchor stores are Hobby Lobby , Mor Furniture , JCPenney , Ulta Beauty , Dillard's , Regal Cinemas , Fallout Trampoline Arena, Conn's , and HomeLife Furniture. There

600-559: Is recognised as the largest collection in Europe. In May 2019 Arcade Club opened a second venue in Leeds with a third announced for Blackpool opening in 2020. The video games are typically in arcade cabinets . The most common kind are uprights , tall boxes with a monitor and controls in front. Customers insert coins or tokens into the machines (or, in newer models, use credit cards or mobile devices ) and stand in front of them to play

640-517: The Initial D series of games allowing the customer to save game data on a card vended from the game; Namco copied the idea with the Maximum Tune series. Arcade games continued to use a variety of games with enhanced features to attract clients, such as motorized seating areas, interconnected games, and surround sound systems. Redemption and merchandiser games are also a staple of arcades in

680-410: The game . These traditionally were the most popular arcade format, although presently American arcades make much more money from deluxe driving games and ticket redemption games. However, Japanese arcades, while also heavily featuring deluxe games, continue to do well with traditional JAMMA arcade video games. Some machines, such as Ms. Pac-Man and Joust , are occasionally in smaller boxes with

720-438: The golden age of arcade video games , the early 1980s. A penny arcade can be any type of venue for coin-operated devices, usually for entertainment. The term came into use about 1905–1910. The name derives from the penny , once a staple coin for the machines. The machines used included: Between the 1940s and 1960s, mechanical arcade games evolved into electro-mechanical games (EM games). Popular examples of EM games in

760-623: The 1960s included shooters such as Sega 's Periscope (1965) and Rifleman (1967), and racing games such as Kasco's Indy 500 (1968) and Chicago Coin 's Speedway (1969). Penny arcades later led to the creation of video arcades in the 1970s. Video game arcades began to gain momentum in the late 1970s with games such as Space Invaders ( 1978 ) and Galaxian ( 1979 ) and became widespread in 1980 with Pac-Man , Centipede and others. The central processing unit in these games allowed for more complexity than earlier discrete-circuitry games such as Atari's Pong ( 1972 ). During

800-513: The 2000s. One of the most popular redemption games, Deal or No Deal by ICE, simulates the popular television game show . Merchandiser games such as Stacker by LAI Games gives the player the chance to win high end prizes like iPods and video game consoles. At the same time as these innovations, a small resurgence in the interest of classic video games and arcades grew with the opening of Barcade in Brooklyn, New York in 2004. Barcade combined

840-649: The Seven Bar Ranch. The Black family built an adobe home and in 1947 a small airport which was known as the Seven Bar Airport , and later the Alameda Airport . Surrounded by growing urban areas, the Black family sold off much of the remaining ranch for the development of new residential subdivisions . The Alameda Airport remained in operation until 1986. Cottonwood Mall opened in 1996 on

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880-673: The UK, classic arcades such as Casino and Trocadero, both located in London, closed, with some of the games from Trocadero finding their way to a new arcade, Heart of Gaming in North Acton. The newer Loading Soho Gaming Cafe features arcade machines manufactured by Bespoke Arcades for its customers to use. The UK is also home to the largest arcade in Europe, Arcade Club, located in Bury, Greater Manchester. Home to over 400 original arcade machines, it

920-582: The Video Game Capital of the World included: High game-turnover in Japanese arcades required quick game-design, leading to the adoption of standardized systems like JAMMA , Neo-Geo and CPS-2 . These systems essentially provided arcade-only consoles where the video game ROM could be swapped easily to replace a game. This allowed easier development and replacement of games, but it also discouraged

960-542: The country in the early 90s. The arcade industry entered a major slump in mid-1994. Arcade attendance and per-visit spending, though not as poor as during the 1983 crash , declined to the point where several of the largest arcade chains either were put up for sale or declared bankruptcy, while many large arcade machine manufacturers likewise moved to get out of the business. In the second quarter of 1996, video game factories reported 90,000 arcade cabinets sold, as compared to 150,000 cabinets sold in 1990. The main reason for

1000-582: The country. Other arcades, like Ground Kontrol in Portland, Oregon, began including full bars in their arcades. Even regular bars added classic arcade games to their venues. As the trend grew, the industry and press looked for ways to classify these arcade bar hybrids, with the DNA Association branding them "social-tainment" and also referring to them as "game bars". Many of these newer game bars proved to be popular and expansion continued. In

1040-597: The hardware innovation necessary to stay ahead of the technology curve. Most US arcades didn't see the intended benefit of this practice since many games weren't exported to the US, and if they were, distributors generally refused to release them as simply a ROM, preferring to sell the entire ROM, console, and sometimes the cabinet as a package. In fact, several arcade systems such as Sega's NAOMI board are arcade versions of home systems. Other problems were that many arcades focused on quantity more than quality, and that games showed

1080-447: The largest manufacturers of these types of arcade games. Other games include pinball machines, redemption games and merchandiser games. Pinball machines have a tilted, glass-covered play area in which the player uses mechanical flippers to direct a heavy metal ball towards lighted targets. Redemption games reward winners with tickets that can be redeemed for prizes such as toys or novelty items. The prizes are usually displayed behind

1120-423: The late 1970s video-arcade game technology had become sophisticated enough to offer good-quality graphics and sounds, but it remained fairly basic (realistic images and full motion video were not yet available, and only a few games used spoken voice) and so the success of a game had to rely on simple and fun gameplay. This emphasis on the gameplay explains why many of these games continue to be enjoyed today, despite

1160-514: The late 1990s, a bar opened in the new Crown Casino complex in Melbourne , Australia named Barcode . Barcode was a 'games bar' with the latest arcade games, the classics, pool tables, air hockey and pinball machines which players could play while consuming alcohol. The bar was very popular with other bars later opening in the early 2000s in King Street alongside the strip clubs and at

1200-555: The mall was transferred to Simon spinoff Washington Prime Group , although Simon was retained as the mall's manager until early 2016. Washington Prime would later become WP Glimcher, and take over management of the mall. However in that same year WP Glimcher was renamed back to Washington Prime Group. In June 2021, Washington Prime Group filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. At the time, the real estate company owned 100 malls — including Cottonwood Mall. According to loan-servicer notes, Washington Prime at that point deemed Cottonwood Mall

1240-650: The mid-1980s, in what has been referred to as " the great coin-op video crash of 1983 ". On November 30, 1982, Jerry Parker, the Mayor of Ottumwa, Iowa , declared his city the "Video Game Capital of the World". This initiative resulted in many firsts in video game history. Playing a central role in arcade history, Ottumwa saw the birth of the Twin Galaxies Intergalactic Scoreboard and the U.S. National Video Game Team , two organizations that still exist today. Other firsts that happened in

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1280-580: The new generation by creating a "hybrid movie theater with...fog, black light, flashing green lasers, high-definition digital projectors, vibrating seats, game pads and dozens of 17-inch screens attached to individual chairs." At the Yelmo Cineplex in Spain, $ 390,000 was spent refitting a theater into a "high-tech video gaming hall seating about 50 people." In Germany, the CinemaxX movie theater company

1320-497: The progress made by modern computing technology. The golden age of arcade video games in the 1980s became a peak era of video arcade game popularity, innovation, and earnings. Color arcade games became more prevalent and video arcades themselves started appearing outside their traditional bowling-alley and bar locales. Designers experimented with a wide variety of game genres , while developers still had to work within strict limits of available processor-power and memory. The era saw

1360-585: The rapid spread of video arcades across North America , Western Europe and Japan . The number of video-game arcades in North America, for example, more than doubled between 1980 and 1982, reaching a peak of 13,000 video game arcades across the region (compared to 4,000 today ). Beginning with Space Invaders , video arcade games also started to appear in supermarkets , restaurants , liquor stores , filling stations and many other retail establishments looking for extra income. This boom came to an end in

1400-630: The shopping centre Melbourne Central . A Barcode opened in Times Square , New York in May 2000 and was very popular, with the launch featuring on an episode of TV series Sex and the City . Barcode Times Square closed in March 2003. Barcode Crown Casino closed in 2006, followed later by King Street and Melbourne Central. In the mid-2000s, Madrid businessman Enrique Martínez updated the video arcade for

1440-687: The site of the airport. When Cottonwood Mall opened in July 1996, it was the first regional mall to open in Albuquerque in thirty years. To this day, and with the exception of a new mall under construction in the South Valley , it is the newest completed enclosed shopping mall in New Mexico. Original anchors included Dillard's , Foley's , JCPenney , Mervyn's , and Montgomery Ward . The Montgomery Ward store closed due to bankruptcy, and it

1480-425: The slump was increasing competition from console ports. During the 1980s it typically took several years for an arcade game to be released on a home console, and the port usually differed greatly from the arcade version; during the mid-1990s it became common for a game publisher to release a highly accurate port of an arcade game that had yet to peak in popularity, thus severely cutting into arcade owners' profits. In

1520-691: Was converted into a second story for Regal Cinemas. Cottonwood Mall was built on part of an 89,000-acre (360 km ) parcel of land given by King Philip IV of Spain in 1710 to Francisco Montes Vigil, who later sold the land, which included only some farmland along the Rio Grande , to Captain Juan Gonzales of the Spanish Army. The land grant is known as the "Alameda Land Grant" ( alameda means " cottonwood grove" in Spanish). In 1929, 20,500 acres were purchased by Albert F. Black who established

1560-450: Was in 2007 also considering this approach. It conducted a four-month trial with video games to test the level of demand for video gaming in a theater setting. Manufacturers started adding innovative features to games in the 2000s. Konami used motion and position sensing of the player in Police 911 in 2000 and Mocap Boxing in 2001. Sega started using "Tuning cards" in games such as

1600-471: Was replaced by Sears , and following the closure of Mervyns in 2008 due to liquidation, its lower level became Conn's in 2013. Foley's became Macy's in 2006 as part of Federated Department Stores (now Macy's inc) consolidating May's Department Stores brands which also includes Foley's, However, Macy's closed in 2017. In 1999, Cottonwood Mall was one of three New Mexico malls (with the two others being Winrock Center and Coronado Center ) involved in

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