Hogan's Alley Appears in Subdivision

[mrmolecule]

On Saturday, I was visiting an upper-scale neighborhood in town, when I saw one street whose name intrigued me....Hoganalley Drive. Odd. Considering there was a NES game called “Hogan’s Alley”. The other roads in the neighborhood contained real last names and names pertaining to local rivers and the local university. Most street names are named after developers. I scanned the phone book. Some “Hogan”s, but no Hoganalley. Spelled that way too. Then, for comparison, I used another last-name street and looked it up. I found 3 matches. I’m sorry I can’t get a picture (if you request, I could get one up)

Are both the street and the game named after some literature, or something, or was the subdivision developer was a rabid NES fan (secretly, of course)?

Help!

[Fryguy64]

Nah, as we've discovered here, the cardboard cut-out shooting range depicted in Hogan's Alley (the game) actually IS called a "Hogan's Alley".

Just like how detectives were often called "gumshoes" and a battle between two eight-foot tall robots actually is called a "joy mecha fight".

One of those is a lie.

[wanderingshadow]

No, those are both true.

[Fryguy64]

No... eight foot tall robot fights are not called Joy Mecha Fights in real life.

And if you were kidding... use one of those ever so handy emoticons

[mrmolecule]

But what's weird is that one of the two upper-class 'hoods in town. No one would live on a street, unlike all the others, named after a cardboard shoot-out. And, since the streets are in all caps, it literally says HOGANALLEY DR.

No S or space.

[Fryguy64]

What's your point? That just makes it even LESS likely that it has anything to do with Nintendo.