
Richland Mall debuted in 1969; Bally’s Aladdin’s Castle arrived in the late 1980s beside the food court. Mansfield gamers fondly recall Gauntlet, After Burner, and Simpsons cabinets glowing under the arcade’s signature star logo. A first-hand blog post, published in 2008, looks back on “hours spent at Aladdin’s Castle in the late ’80s and early ’90s” and notes the arcade had closed. circa 2003 as mall traffic declined.