Rob Storeman, who conducted the auction for Super
Auctions, could not say what the total take was, but there were some
big buys: a "Fast and the Furious" sit-down racing game went for
$10,500; a Mad Wave Motion Theater game went for $12,000; and a
Monopoly video game went for $13,000.

It took almost 13 hours of bidding but everything went: even the trashcans and bar stools were sold.

The
auction was the final, final farewell to an amusement center that
attracted hundreds of thousands of people to Somerville since it opened
in 1991, becoming a place where memories of birthday parties,
celebrations and the occasional rowdy night out were created.

(On
Easter Sunday, less than four months before it closed, hundreds of
people, some with bats and knives, fought inside the children's
birthday party area, running across tables to get at one another,
according to police.)

It closed in June to make way for an Ikea.

Plans
to open a new Good Time Emporium in Brockton three times the size of
the Assembly Square one were thwarted in October when a $24 million
loan fell through after the nation's financial collapse.

On
Saturday, locals who wanted pinball machines for their living rooms
mixed with video game operators from all over the world as the last
Good Time items were sold off.

Megan Kunz and Doug Applewhite,
of Waltham, successfully bid $1,200 for a Popeye-themed Pinball machine
they say will fit perfectly in their home.

Cosmo Salerno, owner
of Pennsylvania Coin – an operating company that puts games in bars and
restaurants and splits the profit – bought a dance game for $2,750.

"It
was an alright deal," he said shrugging. The demise of Good Time
Emporium, he said, "is a shame. I heard about it down in Scranton. My
buddy would always say, 'Cosmo, you got to come up to Boston and check
this place Good Times out.' Now it's gone. Oh well."