MU Games Area

Website	http://gamesarea.ucdavis.edu/
Hours (Summer 2009)	Monday - Wednesday, 9 AM - 11 PM Thursday - Saturday, 10 AM - Midnight Sunday, 11 AM - 11 PM

Jerry Nunes. Head manager. He also is the UCD bowling team coach, and teaches PE as pictured

Located in the lower level of the Memorial Union, under the UC Davis Bookstore, the MU Games Area, often abbreviated MUGA, is a fantastic and magical place filled with Arcade games, a bowling alley and many pool tables. Those who present their Reg Card can pay reduced rates for bowling and pool.

The MU Games Area is also home to the UC Davis Bowling Club, who are currently ranked in the top 25 in the nation. (There are actually 100s of teams across the country who compete nationally in college bowling.)

Central Area:

• Able Sailor
  

• Afterburner (CLIMAX) brand new, installed as of 11:am 12/21/06. The cabinet costs $17,000 out the box
  

• Area 51
  

• Feeding Frenzy
  

• Galaga / Ms. Pac-Man
  

• Guitar Hero
  

• House of the Dead 4
  

• Hydro Thunder
  

• Initial D4
  

• Maximum Tune 2 Midnight
  

• Megatouch Maxx
  

• Metal Slug 4 / Bust A Move EX
  

• Moonwalker
  

• Motor Raid
  

• Pump it Up Absolute AND PRO
  

• Razing Storm
  

• Super Puzzle Fighter 2
  

• Super Shot
  

• Time Crisis 4

Pinball:

• Medieval Madness (Williams)
  

• Monster Bash (Williams)
  

• Pirates of the Caribbean (Stern)
  

• Spider-man (Stern)
  

• The Simpsons Pinball Party (Stern)
  

• Theatre of Magic (Bally)

Four tables are on the floor at any given time. The Stern games are considerably newer, while the others are frequently swapped out when in need of repairs.

The Cave An anonymous mechanic fixes Marvel Vs. Capcom 2

StevenDaubert notes that MUGA employes refer to "the cave" as the place behind the office where they cash out after every shift, *not* the room with games.

The Cave [Dark area with mostly fighting games]:

• Capcom vs SNK 2
  

• Cruisin Exotica (one two-player machine, and a solo)
  

• Dark Silhouette: Silent Scope 2
  

• Gauntlet: Dark Legacy
  

• House of the Dead
  

• Initial D 3 (4 screens)
  

• Marvel vs Capcom 2 - Repaired and fully working as of Jan 12 2008. Screen is tinted a slight red, price is reduced to one token
  

• Marvel vs Street Fighter/Street Fighter Alpha 3/Marvel vs Capcom/X-Men vs Street Fighter (same cabinet)
  

• Police 911 2
  

• Raiden Fighters
  

• Sega Super GT
  

• Soul Calibur
  

• Star Wars Trilogy Arcade
  

• Street Fighter III - Third Strike (Seasoned players will be thoroughly amused by the bugged stage backgrounds)
  

• Street Fighter IV
  

• Tekken 5: Dark Resurrection (no card/PS2 dualshock slot)

Non-Video

• Two air hockey tables
  

• Fire Ball (skee-ball)
  

• Dunk-N-Alien (skee-ball esque)
  

• Hammerhead (whack a mole, except where there would be moles, there are sharks)
  

• Pool
  

Pool

The pool room now has roughly four or five pool related artwork pieces that have glowing accents on them. You can turn off the overhead lights on the pool room and have only the actuall pool tables lit up. The usually do this during lightning bowling.

Prize Games:

• Toy House (STUFFED TOY CRANE MACHINE)
  

• Chase ATM (formerly WaMu) - this one spits out $20 bills if you win!
  

• Stacker [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stacker_(game)]

The MUGA is a melting pot (more of a salad bowl, actually) of different gaming groups. They tend to divide themselves as such:

• Initial D fans gather around the four-player Initial D machine to hone their skills and memorize the various twists and turns of all the courses.
  

• The rhythm game fans gather around the Pump It Up machine and try and get the moves down on harder and harder songs.
  

• The fighting game fans gather in The Cave to see who has the m4dd35t 5k1llz.

Warning: Use the bathrooms here at your own risk!! It isn't pretty at all. StevenDaubert thinks this lies, the Games Area has made an effort to clean up the male bathrooms.

• 2008 Feature — 2008 feature all about the MU Games Area written in Davis Life Magazine.

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