I have stayed in several Holidomes when I was a kid in the early to mid-80s. My dad was in the national guard and my family went to several functions with him and stayed in the glorious Holidomes with weird little grass huts and indoor swimming pools. For a small town kid, those things seemed so fun and exotic!
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had this on our families apple iigs
supposedly it was a fairly accurate port
(the real arcade game did not have a cheat code for regenerating health)
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I stayed at the one in Kearney, NE in the late 70s with my grandparents. We were headed to the Buffalo Bill rodeo in North Platte. It was awesome. Me and my brother always wondered what the deal was with the Holiday Inn with the big indoor pool.
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Boy howdy. Fond memories of weekend family “getaways” (hey, it was almost an hour drive) to the Holidome in Goshen, IN. As an adult I can see how bad the implementation of these was, but as a kid/tween all I could see was the dream. Exploring around and dipping in the indoor pool/hot tub, checking out the putt-putt, and visiting the arcade to spend the quarters I had saved up from my meager allowance over the last couple months. Since it was all enclosed, my little sister and I were allowed to run free while our parents pretended to be carefree for a few minutes.
There was a pervasive sense of wonder for a Gen X (of course we weren’t called that yet) kid from a modest middle-class family. Pretty sure I finished my first read of Lord of the Rings with my toes dangling in the hot tub there. Remembering the Holidome triggers exactly the same nostalgia circuits as watching Stranger Things for the first time.
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I loved that book, and basically anything by David McCaulay.
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O the embarrassment.
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I happened to stay in one of these in Eastern Washington this summer on a road trip as we were passing through. My partner chose it as a place to stay because it was weird and cheap. Wouldn’t go there again. A bit stinky and stuffy, and the food wasn’t good. But kiddos liked it since there was an old arcade with some pinball and some car driving games.
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