Not since I saw Venom in theaters, and I'm afraid to look up how long it has been since the film released. At least I got to play the six player X-Men arcade game.
havent been in a couple years, it's the kind where you pay upfront and all the cabinets are in freeplay. but i did download a shitload of arcade roms for mame a few days ago. fell in love with this little motherfricker clown
>Have you gone to your local arcade recently, anons?
i hung around arcades a lot as a kid. i know all their dirty tricks, like setting machines to insane difficulties to simply milk more coins out of players. if i wanted to be raped of credits, i'll set the games to difficult myself using mame.
Been a while but I don't really find joy in alot of things anymore and my local arcade is about 50% arcade and 50% stacker redemption, claw machines so I could really care less about visiting but I'd hate to visit it and expect to see the Revolution X cabinet gone so I don't want to set myself up for dissapointment.
claw machines were interesting. i know the machines i grew up with during the 1980s and early 90s were not entirely digitally controlled (yet! some were beginning to play music and badly digitized voices), there was usually some pot or adjustment to increase or decrease chances of a powerful grab. if you hung around a machine long enough you could calculate the odds because it wasn't randomized. you knew after a number of failed attempts that a win will happen.
like gambling, but for KIDS kek
whenever i found a loose machine i would rape all the toys out of it and give them all away to the horror of the staff at dennys
I go to Dave and Busters to play DDR sometimes. We have an actual retro arcade with like 150 random machines, but they have In The Groove instead of DDR so I don't bother going there more than once a year.
I wish I had more arcade memories. I'm 30 so I missed out on the arcade craze, and by the time I was able to drive there was basically nothing in my area. Most of my memories come from movie theatres and roller rink type places that still had a few racing and fighting games, and once in awhile i'd get to play something like Metal Slug, but aside from that, i never went to a real arcade. there was a place a few miles away from my house that ended up closing in like 2013, and apparently it had like 200 machines and would let you pay to play as much as you wanted. i tried getting my homosexual friends to go but it never ended up happening and the thought of going by myself just seemed pointless. nowadays the only thing left are a few small places at nearby malls, mostly composed of claw machine type shit, and maybe a few shitty racing games if you're lucky. i wish i had been able to find a gauntlet legends/dark legacy cabinet and play with some autists. that was probably the coolest shit ever.
35 here, was prime kid age during the tail end of the arcade thing in the US/UK. You didn’t miss much. Most of them were dirty, broken, or ensconced in some other business like a theme restaurant or movie theater. Real peak actual boomer stuff. The things ate your money relentlessly and sometimes wouldn’t register the quarters you put in. Very frustrating. Still had some good times but nothing that wasn’t exceeded by console gaming with friends in later years. The most charitable scenario is that arcades simply lost out to competing forms of entertainment. In reality, most weren’t that profitable.
Surprisingly there are so many arcade cabinets being sold all over the place, but they usually require some electronics knowledge to fix. The barcade thing is largely a play on enabling millennials to cling to their childhoods.
no need
i have all of the arcade pcb i want (almost) in my own home already +several supergun setups.
pcb list:
pacman (bally/midway)
dodonpachi dai ou jou (cave)
espgaluda (cave)
ketsui (cave)
strikers 1945 (psikyo)
soul edge (namco system 11)
dead or alive++
tekken 2 (frick you its better than 3)
no need
i have all of the arcade pcb i want (almost) in my own home already +several supergun setups.
pcb list:
pacman (bally/midway)
dodonpachi dai ou jou (cave)
espgaluda (cave)
ketsui (cave)
strikers 1945 (psikyo)
soul edge (namco system 11)
dead or alive++
tekken 2 (frick you its better than 3)
working on getting a darksoft cps2
havent been in a couple years, it's the kind where you pay upfront and all the cabinets are in freeplay. but i did download a shitload of arcade roms for mame a few days ago. fell in love with this little motherfricker clown
https://i.imgur.com/aiRm2AM.png
Have you gone to your local arcade recently, anons?
Yep. Megaplay. Mishawaka, Indiana. Occasionally hit up GG when I'm in the Chicago area as well.
whats your gays opinion on PCB conversions?
good enough? i was thinking of doing this for a few titles that are too expensive to snag the originals of (cadillacs and dinosaurs etc)
I just went there with my sister and cousin a week or so ago. Pretty fun. We played Rampage World Tour together and I played through Atomic Punk 2 (aka: Bomberman World).
It’s pretty convenient that we only live a half hour away from it, so I’ll definitely go again.
I was actually going to see a movie and wanted to check the arcade on the way. But I was a bit late and was gonna miss the start of the movie, so I didn't go to the arcade. Then I had to go to the gym before it closed.
Everything is closed now, so maybe tomorrow.
Not in a long time now.
One of the more depressing things about learning more about arcade games is that the majority of cabinets you'd find in arcade these days are not accurate to the original experience of the game. This is true even in Japan. Whether it's a completely different and newer cabinet with an old board put in it, the wrong controls, an LCD monitor, or a CRT which is of too new of design to really look like an 80s or 90s monitor.
And there's the fact that there's a 99% chance you'll just end up playing single player which you could have just stayed at home to play.
I could see the appeal for people who are into games that require a more exotic cabinet than just joystick+buttons or a lightgun. But for me I mostly stay home. I have looked up barcades in my state and don't see anything compelling to make me drive an hour to get to them.
Maybe I'll hit up a Round1 one of these days.
For now, fightcade is my arcade and /vr/ is the space between machines where I chat with other players.
>Whether it's a completely different and newer cabinet with an old board put in it
That is the intended experience. A LOT of arcade games in the 80s could be purchased board-only or full cab, so it was extremely common to see games in generic cabs.
You are correct, however those were compromises and in the decades between it's become uncommon to even see those original generic cabinets in their stock form. They are on their 3rd or 4th conversion by now.
Additionally, I don't care as much for conversion cabinets that are not quasi-official manufacturer recommended choices. And this is all secondary to my interest in playing the Japanese games in the Japanese cabinets they were intended for.
I don't really care about playing MKII on an original Midway cabinet.
They weren't compromises. Jamma happened specifically so you could throw any board into any empty arcade machine, since the actual cabinet didn't really matter much. The same goes for the generic white Japanese sit-down machines. Japanese arcades will just order like 30 of them in bulk and shove whatever into them. Even in rare cases where a board had a specialized "generic" cabinet, like the Naomi Universal, the board would usually be swapped out for something else sooner or later (like a Taito Type X or something).
A no-name generic western arcade machine is fundamentally the same as the Japanese ones, with the only difference being one is shorter. Neither are really made specifically for the boards that are in them.
why would you play an arcade game you play at home unless you were with someone? >pic rel
i always gravitate towards shit like time crisis, jurassic park, any of the driving titles, etc
>Whether it's a completely different and newer cabinet with an old board put in it
That is the intended experience. A LOT of arcade games in the 80s could be purchased board-only or full cab, so it was extremely common to see games in generic cabs.
nothing wrong with keeping a cab going and changing games - unless the button layout is especially egregious imo
>barcade >"our selection focuses on multiplayer titles because a little competition is always more fun ;)" >only fighting game, if any, is mortal kombat
I went to my local arcade, it's gotten so fricking dogshit.
>2019 >super based selection of vidya and animu merch >machines work fine >same pair of dudes there every time I go
>today >games barely fricking work >no more retro vidya, mostly dogshit DC and Marvel comics bullshit and Pokemon shit >it is now another generic normie nerd store, old owners all but frickin disappeared
>normie nerd store
I still don't know what to make of the word "nerd" changing from an insult for outcasts to a term for fans of the most popular movies in the world
Free Play Pinball in Fraser, Michigan is very nice. Cheap beer, you can bring your own food, only 20 bucks to get in and you get unlimited pinball and a bunch of basic classic arcade machines.
Arcades are pretty much completely dead in my country and it crushes my soul. Not only missing playing arcade games on an authentic cabinet but also the pinball machine. I'm afraid the closest I can get to an arcade is through Mame and Pinball Arcade
The controller was shit and also a poor design for this game compared to the normal stick. It was manageable, but barely. The screen on the table was cut off, plus the angle make the lightcycle battle difficult (because it requires driving along the edge).
memories:
centipede at santa cruz boardwalk (my boomer dad wanted me to check it out, i didnt get it then but love it now)
puzzle bobble & spinmaster (disneyland)
metal slug 2 (pizza place)
cruiseNusa (multiple times)
Cadillacs & dinosaurs (my cousins beat it but i ran out of quarters)
street fighter 2 (literally everywhere)
in hindsight i had probably less than 20-30 actual machine experiences- its funny im into hoarding pcb now/ i guess they left an impression
>in hindsight i had probably less than 20-30 actual machine experiences
Even in the height of the arcade days I'd say most people had less than ten hours total game time all put together. Even a really hardcore player probably wouldn't do more than few hundred hours.
But yeah quite a lasting impression.
>it's 1997 >I'm 12 >it's Friday >parents decide to drop me and my brother off at a local free play arcade for the night whil they do parent shit >first time there and I'm playing some Hyper Fighting >girl comes up, she's slightly older, maybe 14 or 15, and cute >is pretty good >we play Hyper Fighting for like the next 20 minutes >we finally decide to move on and separate >I never see her again
This is why Hyper Fighting is the best Street Fighter game.
Yes, a couple days ago. Every game was some giant gimic gambling, shooting, claw game or some version of racing, ddr ect. I see in the back the 1 Street Fighter Champion, next to a midway classics. I played a couple games of street fighter and it was cool, but of course the game set to insanely hard. No challengers. I started looking into Mame and building a cabinet. Tried to set Mame up on my PC and see how viable it would be to make my own. Every site and video is like we can't say where to download the ROMs. Oh and you need to have the right versions of both, frick that shit. Not worth the effort. Didn't even get into setting up controls and configs. My idea of an arcade is dead.
I hate modern arcades they're so fricking shitty. It's all just shitty ticket machines... essentially just 100 version of whack a mole or flappy bird ticket edition. I don't want barcades. They're for families and date nights now.
I want Galaga and Pacman. I just want DDR ( not step mania ). I want SF2 and MK. I want Guitar Freaks ( not hero ). I want Beat Mania. I want Time Crisis. I want House of the Dead. I want Simpsons, XMen, Gauntlet Legends, and Turtle 4 player cabinets.
> all we get is dead disco, dead funk, dead rock and roll
>I want Galaga and Pacman. >I want SF2 and MK >I want Simpsons, XMen, Gauntlet Legends, and Turtle 4 player cabinets.
Have you tried every single barcade? I don't think I've ever seen one that didn't have most of those games.
Most arcade games around town are not in great shape and it really detracts from the experience. Add on the fact that I'm not very good at them and they cost money and I'd rather just stay home and play MAME or FightCade. Best option is playing the new pinball tables but that's expensive, and require a ton of practice.
Nah, homie, my "local arcade" is a mame cabinet they have at the local drugstore. It has all the king of fighters and SF II' rainbow edition. It's fricking shit.
I actually do have a local arcade, they've got a lot of the stuff you see everywhere like Ms. Pac-Man, Galaga, Donkey Kong, Frogger, etc, but also some surprise finds like Circus Charlie and Rolling Thunder. Last went there a month ago.
There’s an arcade about an hour and a half from my house, I usually go once a year with some friends, my friends explore the arcade while I usually just hang on the neogeo 4 slot. Not that I don’t love the rest of the machines, that one’s just special to me.
I don’t get out too much these days, I’m saving up for a house. But I’d love to have one of those in it some day.
>Around mid 2021. Things are finally opening up around town. >Never considered the old arcade, but now I had a strong desire for it. >Roll up to it. >Its gone, closed and replaced with a Boba Tea Shop for hipsters.
It sucks bro. I didn't appreciate it, and now its gone.
No. There's one about 10 mins walk from my house and it's a bar/arcade place. I don't go there because it's always full of wankers who don't play video games, they're just there because being a "nerd" is popular.
>Implying I need an imaginary culture in order to enjoy video games standing up in public.
Sorry bud, can't hear you over the sound of me playing Sega Rally and AvP with a beer to my right.
Stopped into my local game store today, they have a full arcade in back with a bunch of import cabs set up on free play. You pay $10 up front and get unlimited plays from open to close, and a free admission pass for another day if you came in during the last hour.
It was just me and a friend in there for most of the time I spent. We played D&D Shadow Over Mystara for a while and then split up. I sit down to play Street Fighter III, no clue what I'm doing. I've never played it with arcade controls before and it's a candy cab so none of the buttons are labeled. I got half a match in as Q before this small black guy walks in, spots me at the SFIII cab, immediately sits down at the cab opposite mine, and joins in as Dudley. He beat my button mashing ass in less than a minute and left with a quiet "good game." I stammered out a "thanks, you too," as he just disappeared back out into the store.
I felt like I failed a test I didn't even know I was taking.
I was at one about a week ago, didn't play any games because I've always preferred Nintendo and retro home consoles to the arcade. They didn't have the Simpsons beat 'em up or the TMNT beat 'em up. And they also didn't have Hydro Thunder and Arctic Thunder, so idk man. Skeeball and pinball machines are pretty neat
I went to my local arcade about a week ago. We actually have a good arcade run by dedicated gamers, not some cashgrab barcade hipster stupid shit. The arcade I go to used to be in the dying sketchy mall, but they moved to the mall that gets business and you won't get shot at. It's 10$ an hour and all the games are set to open play. They have retro vidya stuff sale and always have rarities and imports. They have a whole counter set up with CRTs hooked to almost every popular home console with everdrives popped in. They also have a sideroom where you can play tabletop. the place is amazing, it's like being around in the mid 80s again. I just wash it wasn't in a normie mall
I was about to play some SCUD Race for old time's sake, then I realized I'm 35, sitting in a routing old arcade cabinet. I loved the arcades growing up, but they're dead, everywhere
I went to my local barren mall awhile ago and checked out the arcade there. Decently large spacious floor full of machines and midway games, not a single soul except the lady sitting at the coin counter. Closed down a few months later. I remember it used to be popular enough to get ads on local tv. The only other arcade, at the bowling alley, got replaced with vr machines and prize grabber bullshit.
What year is it?
that photo: 1984, maybe '85, going by the arcade cabs, hair and jeans.
Not since I saw Venom in theaters, and I'm afraid to look up how long it has been since the film released. At least I got to play the six player X-Men arcade game.
Yep. Megaplay. Mishawaka, Indiana. Occasionally hit up GG when I'm in the Chicago area as well.
havent been in a couple years, it's the kind where you pay upfront and all the cabinets are in freeplay. but i did download a shitload of arcade roms for mame a few days ago. fell in love with this little motherfricker clown
>Have you gone to your local arcade recently, anons?
i hung around arcades a lot as a kid. i know all their dirty tricks, like setting machines to insane difficulties to simply milk more coins out of players. if i wanted to be raped of credits, i'll set the games to difficult myself using mame.
Been a while but I don't really find joy in alot of things anymore and my local arcade is about 50% arcade and 50% stacker redemption, claw machines so I could really care less about visiting but I'd hate to visit it and expect to see the Revolution X cabinet gone so I don't want to set myself up for dissapointment.
claw machines were interesting. i know the machines i grew up with during the 1980s and early 90s were not entirely digitally controlled (yet! some were beginning to play music and badly digitized voices), there was usually some pot or adjustment to increase or decrease chances of a powerful grab. if you hung around a machine long enough you could calculate the odds because it wasn't randomized. you knew after a number of failed attempts that a win will happen.
like gambling, but for KIDS kek
whenever i found a loose machine i would rape all the toys out of it and give them all away to the horror of the staff at dennys
I go to Dave and Busters to play DDR sometimes. We have an actual retro arcade with like 150 random machines, but they have In The Groove instead of DDR so I don't bother going there more than once a year.
I wish I had more arcade memories. I'm 30 so I missed out on the arcade craze, and by the time I was able to drive there was basically nothing in my area. Most of my memories come from movie theatres and roller rink type places that still had a few racing and fighting games, and once in awhile i'd get to play something like Metal Slug, but aside from that, i never went to a real arcade. there was a place a few miles away from my house that ended up closing in like 2013, and apparently it had like 200 machines and would let you pay to play as much as you wanted. i tried getting my homosexual friends to go but it never ended up happening and the thought of going by myself just seemed pointless. nowadays the only thing left are a few small places at nearby malls, mostly composed of claw machine type shit, and maybe a few shitty racing games if you're lucky. i wish i had been able to find a gauntlet legends/dark legacy cabinet and play with some autists. that was probably the coolest shit ever.
I work at an arcade that has Gauntlet Legends and Gauntlet II. Sadly our legends cab got downgraded to an LCD a while ago.
The one I work at also recently got AvP.
35 here, was prime kid age during the tail end of the arcade thing in the US/UK. You didn’t miss much. Most of them were dirty, broken, or ensconced in some other business like a theme restaurant or movie theater. Real peak actual boomer stuff. The things ate your money relentlessly and sometimes wouldn’t register the quarters you put in. Very frustrating. Still had some good times but nothing that wasn’t exceeded by console gaming with friends in later years. The most charitable scenario is that arcades simply lost out to competing forms of entertainment. In reality, most weren’t that profitable.
Surprisingly there are so many arcade cabinets being sold all over the place, but they usually require some electronics knowledge to fix. The barcade thing is largely a play on enabling millennials to cling to their childhoods.
Were you living in a shithole or something? Also sounds like you suck at arcade games or you chose the hardest ones.
no need
i have all of the arcade pcb i want (almost) in my own home already +several supergun setups.
pcb list:
pacman (bally/midway)
dodonpachi dai ou jou (cave)
espgaluda (cave)
ketsui (cave)
strikers 1945 (psikyo)
soul edge (namco system 11)
dead or alive++
tekken 2 (frick you its better than 3)
working on getting a darksoft cps2
Turbo chad
whats your gays opinion on PCB conversions?
good enough? i was thinking of doing this for a few titles that are too expensive to snag the originals of (cadillacs and dinosaurs etc)
if its the same board and a simple rom swap its the same thing
if you are running a chinkbox pandora game-elf trash pcb then no
I think there are not enough CPS1 Q-sound boards to go around to justify it. Just emulate a game like CnD.
>tekken 2 (frick you its better than 3)
how? I'm not even mad, just genuinely curious if you mean it.
im a moron and thought kuma wasnt playable in 3
The local arcade closed down years ago, a used car dealership now owns the place.
No, because the world I was born into no longer exists. Sometimes I can still hear it though.
yeah I started playing berzerk and really love it
Yeah, went to the barcade for the first time in a year. Blew my dick off to find out they recently picked up an AvP cab.
I went to Galloping Ghost Arcade back in Oct 2019.
I just went there with my sister and cousin a week or so ago. Pretty fun. We played Rampage World Tour together and I played through Atomic Punk 2 (aka: Bomberman World).
It’s pretty convenient that we only live a half hour away from it, so I’ll definitely go again.
Haven't been to an arcade since the kungflu started.
There's an arcade in my local mall, but it's closed.
Gonna go check it out in like half an hour
>Nearly 5 hours later
Get stabbed, or was it actually good?
Some of the best little arcades are to be found buried in airport terminals.
I was actually going to see a movie and wanted to check the arcade on the way. But I was a bit late and was gonna miss the start of the movie, so I didn't go to the arcade. Then I had to go to the gym before it closed.
Everything is closed now, so maybe tomorrow.
Not in a long time now.
One of the more depressing things about learning more about arcade games is that the majority of cabinets you'd find in arcade these days are not accurate to the original experience of the game. This is true even in Japan. Whether it's a completely different and newer cabinet with an old board put in it, the wrong controls, an LCD monitor, or a CRT which is of too new of design to really look like an 80s or 90s monitor.
And there's the fact that there's a 99% chance you'll just end up playing single player which you could have just stayed at home to play.
I could see the appeal for people who are into games that require a more exotic cabinet than just joystick+buttons or a lightgun. But for me I mostly stay home. I have looked up barcades in my state and don't see anything compelling to make me drive an hour to get to them.
Maybe I'll hit up a Round1 one of these days.
For now, fightcade is my arcade and /vr/ is the space between machines where I chat with other players.
>Whether it's a completely different and newer cabinet with an old board put in it
That is the intended experience. A LOT of arcade games in the 80s could be purchased board-only or full cab, so it was extremely common to see games in generic cabs.
You are correct, however those were compromises and in the decades between it's become uncommon to even see those original generic cabinets in their stock form. They are on their 3rd or 4th conversion by now.
Additionally, I don't care as much for conversion cabinets that are not quasi-official manufacturer recommended choices. And this is all secondary to my interest in playing the Japanese games in the Japanese cabinets they were intended for.
I don't really care about playing MKII on an original Midway cabinet.
They weren't compromises. Jamma happened specifically so you could throw any board into any empty arcade machine, since the actual cabinet didn't really matter much. The same goes for the generic white Japanese sit-down machines. Japanese arcades will just order like 30 of them in bulk and shove whatever into them. Even in rare cases where a board had a specialized "generic" cabinet, like the Naomi Universal, the board would usually be swapped out for something else sooner or later (like a Taito Type X or something).
A no-name generic western arcade machine is fundamentally the same as the Japanese ones, with the only difference being one is shorter. Neither are really made specifically for the boards that are in them.
I know all of this already, anon.
You knew I already knew all of this.
Then stop talking shit about machines with switched-out boards while fetishizing Japanese sit down machines.
No.
And if you read my original post I already pointed out that the same thing goes on in Japan.
>those were compromises
>They weren't compromises
>I know all of this already
Is the (You) that knows all of this already in the room with us now?
>No. Weebism is my identity
dumb shitposter
>be dumb shitposter
>be justly mocked for being dumb shit poster
>be bootyblasted and project
pottery
Nah dude. The guy you replied to already outlined all the same stuff you said. You were in too much of a hurry to flex your knowledge to read.
>The guy you replied
That was (You). Cope harder little weeblet.
why would you play an arcade game you play at home unless you were with someone?
>pic rel
i always gravitate towards shit like time crisis, jurassic park, any of the driving titles, etc
nothing wrong with keeping a cab going and changing games - unless the button layout is especially egregious imo
forgot pic because i am very sleep deprived
and also potentially a dumbass
The only one in town was at the bowling alley and it turned into an anklebiter casino
>barcade
>"our selection focuses on multiplayer titles because a little competition is always more fun ;)"
>only fighting game, if any, is mortal kombat
I bet some of these places intentionally go out of their way to not have a good fighting game set up because they don't want to attract FGC types.
I would do the same. The FGC community outside of Japan imploded in quality after esports became a thing. (and they weren't that great to begin with)
yes, I have. picrel: me and your mom.
>no retro arcade gf
why live
Arcade wife is better.
Then you can be a boomer gamer attending classic gaming events with her.
Sounds great. I'm at the point where I fantasize about my wife dying on her way to/from work.
okay gay you clearly want to get it off your chest so go ahead, tell us the sob story about how you were cuckolded by a wedding ring
different anon here rather not read that off-topic crap
I sure did hate omega race on my vic20
>shoulders wider than hips
anon...
THATS A MAN BABY YUEAhh!!!!
>austin.webm
what guys do you see walkin around wearing booty shorts
You stepped outside in 2022 yet?
I went to my local arcade, it's gotten so fricking dogshit.
>2019
>super based selection of vidya and animu merch
>machines work fine
>same pair of dudes there every time I go
>today
>games barely fricking work
>no more retro vidya, mostly dogshit DC and Marvel comics bullshit and Pokemon shit
>it is now another generic normie nerd store, old owners all but frickin disappeared
We warned you arcade is an unfeasible business.
>normie nerd store
I still don't know what to make of the word "nerd" changing from an insult for outcasts to a term for fans of the most popular movies in the world
Dude that shit wild fr fr
No it's for people that were extremely good at math and finished calculus in high school
Outcasts were the goth people that everyone was too scared to be around
Free Play Pinball in Fraser, Michigan is very nice. Cheap beer, you can bring your own food, only 20 bucks to get in and you get unlimited pinball and a bunch of basic classic arcade machines.
Arcades are pretty much completely dead in my country and it crushes my soul. Not only missing playing arcade games on an authentic cabinet but also the pinball machine. I'm afraid the closest I can get to an arcade is through Mame and Pinball Arcade
What country?
I made my own 4 player arcade.
Rare TRON wienertail table I played a couple weeks ago.
The controller was shit and also a poor design for this game compared to the normal stick. It was manageable, but barely. The screen on the table was cut off, plus the angle make the lightcycle battle difficult (because it requires driving along the edge).
What are the best Arcade games?
Your top ten, maybe?
loved final fight back in the day
arcade machines were still around randomly
memories:
centipede at santa cruz boardwalk (my boomer dad wanted me to check it out, i didnt get it then but love it now)
puzzle bobble & spinmaster (disneyland)
metal slug 2 (pizza place)
cruiseNusa (multiple times)
Cadillacs & dinosaurs (my cousins beat it but i ran out of quarters)
street fighter 2 (literally everywhere)
in hindsight i had probably less than 20-30 actual machine experiences- its funny im into hoarding pcb now/ i guess they left an impression
battle arena toshinden as well
this board helped me refind this title based on my crappy description and "duke with sword"
for golden era titles
the nes ports are what kept me worldly
>in hindsight i had probably less than 20-30 actual machine experiences
Even in the height of the arcade days I'd say most people had less than ten hours total game time all put together. Even a really hardcore player probably wouldn't do more than few hundred hours.
But yeah quite a lasting impression.
i didnt have a lot of quarters anon
i was just a kid
Lived in two cities my whole life and absolutely zero arcades nowadays.
>it's 1997
>I'm 12
>it's Friday
>parents decide to drop me and my brother off at a local free play arcade for the night whil they do parent shit
>first time there and I'm playing some Hyper Fighting
>girl comes up, she's slightly older, maybe 14 or 15, and cute
>is pretty good
>we play Hyper Fighting for like the next 20 minutes
>we finally decide to move on and separate
>I never see her again
This is why Hyper Fighting is the best Street Fighter game.
My local arcade replaced their Hpuse of the Dead 3 cabinet for some shotty The Walking Dead game that costs 4 times more
Yeah Raw Thrills have basically overtaken the arcade market outside of Japan
>play Street Fighter at home
>go to arcade
>can't do half the shit I want to do because joystick instead of d-pad
>lose
wow that was fun
Yes, a couple days ago. Every game was some giant gimic gambling, shooting, claw game or some version of racing, ddr ect. I see in the back the 1 Street Fighter Champion, next to a midway classics. I played a couple games of street fighter and it was cool, but of course the game set to insanely hard. No challengers. I started looking into Mame and building a cabinet. Tried to set Mame up on my PC and see how viable it would be to make my own. Every site and video is like we can't say where to download the ROMs. Oh and you need to have the right versions of both, frick that shit. Not worth the effort. Didn't even get into setting up controls and configs. My idea of an arcade is dead.
Mine closed in 2020, its nothing but shitty barcades now.
I hate modern arcades they're so fricking shitty. It's all just shitty ticket machines... essentially just 100 version of whack a mole or flappy bird ticket edition. I don't want barcades. They're for families and date nights now.
I want Galaga and Pacman. I just want DDR ( not step mania ). I want SF2 and MK. I want Guitar Freaks ( not hero ). I want Beat Mania. I want Time Crisis. I want House of the Dead. I want Simpsons, XMen, Gauntlet Legends, and Turtle 4 player cabinets.
> all we get is dead disco, dead funk, dead rock and roll
I agree. This is what I saw a few days ago. It has just been renovated and it was really bad before. This is all nice and new at least.
>I want Galaga and Pacman.
>I want SF2 and MK
>I want Simpsons, XMen, Gauntlet Legends, and Turtle 4 player cabinets.
Have you tried every single barcade? I don't think I've ever seen one that didn't have most of those games.
Most arcade games around town are not in great shape and it really detracts from the experience. Add on the fact that I'm not very good at them and they cost money and I'd rather just stay home and play MAME or FightCade. Best option is playing the new pinball tables but that's expensive, and require a ton of practice.
I did last weekend and apparently white people don't exist anymore
last one i went was close to my old job, office workers went there during lunch break , wondering if still open
mine closed with covid 🙁
so fricking lame
there are businesses here even in California that directly ignored ordinances / gov newsoms direct orders to shut down
they got fined daily & ignored the bill
theyre still open
i wish people werent such tv watching pussies
>killing small businesses
nice move normie
learn to think
>Why yes i am bat shit crazy, how could you tell
Holy frick! Glad I got out of that shithole before you were born.
stop posting
Stop coping
why do zoomies pretend to be older?
its a strange phenomena isnt it
>no u
Just embarrassing
youre still here summerfriend?
Nah, homie, my "local arcade" is a mame cabinet they have at the local drugstore. It has all the king of fighters and SF II' rainbow edition. It's fricking shit.
I actually do have a local arcade, they've got a lot of the stuff you see everywhere like Ms. Pac-Man, Galaga, Donkey Kong, Frogger, etc, but also some surprise finds like Circus Charlie and Rolling Thunder. Last went there a month ago.
There’s an arcade about an hour and a half from my house, I usually go once a year with some friends, my friends explore the arcade while I usually just hang on the neogeo 4 slot. Not that I don’t love the rest of the machines, that one’s just special to me.
I don’t get out too much these days, I’m saving up for a house. But I’d love to have one of those in it some day.
>Around mid 2021. Things are finally opening up around town.
>Never considered the old arcade, but now I had a strong desire for it.
>Roll up to it.
>Its gone, closed and replaced with a Boba Tea Shop for hipsters.
It sucks bro. I didn't appreciate it, and now its gone.
for that alone hipster should die by thier own hand as 80s vidya arcade is kino as frick
its spelled KENO dumbass
and thats a mom&pop vidya arcade, not a gambling sim!
No. There's one about 10 mins walk from my house and it's a bar/arcade place. I don't go there because it's always full of wankers who don't play video games, they're just there because being a "nerd" is popular.
going to the local one today with friends, its been a while and they have Robotron so i'm excited.
Do malls with modern casual arcade games (ports of popular smartphone games, dance games, racing games, light gun shooters etc) count?
Worldwide, arcades are more popular than ever.
In which planet? Even in Japan they shut down old, historical game centers.
This planet, Earth.
>Japan
There is more to the world than USA and Japan.
>Implying I need an imaginary culture in order to enjoy video games standing up in public.
Sorry bud, can't hear you over the sound of me playing Sega Rally and AvP with a beer to my right.
I never implied that, moron.
i wish. i haven't seen a real arcade in person since i was a small child.
Why go to an arcade when mobile games can shake you down for cash every 5 minutes from the comfort of your home?
Cuz unlike mobile games, arcade games don't need internet connect and if you're good you can beat them with only one coin. Fricking zoomer.
They only have these in hipster cities
So no I have not
Yes but the the police pulled me out of the abandoned dilapidated building.
Stopped into my local game store today, they have a full arcade in back with a bunch of import cabs set up on free play. You pay $10 up front and get unlimited plays from open to close, and a free admission pass for another day if you came in during the last hour.
It was just me and a friend in there for most of the time I spent. We played D&D Shadow Over Mystara for a while and then split up. I sit down to play Street Fighter III, no clue what I'm doing. I've never played it with arcade controls before and it's a candy cab so none of the buttons are labeled. I got half a match in as Q before this small black guy walks in, spots me at the SFIII cab, immediately sits down at the cab opposite mine, and joins in as Dudley. He beat my button mashing ass in less than a minute and left with a quiet "good game." I stammered out a "thanks, you too," as he just disappeared back out into the store.
I felt like I failed a test I didn't even know I was taking.
I probably should considering I have no excuse. I live about 45 minutes from Funspot, which has a kino selection of games.
I was at one about a week ago, didn't play any games because I've always preferred Nintendo and retro home consoles to the arcade. They didn't have the Simpsons beat 'em up or the TMNT beat 'em up. And they also didn't have Hydro Thunder and Arctic Thunder, so idk man. Skeeball and pinball machines are pretty neat
I went to my local arcade about a week ago. We actually have a good arcade run by dedicated gamers, not some cashgrab barcade hipster stupid shit. The arcade I go to used to be in the dying sketchy mall, but they moved to the mall that gets business and you won't get shot at. It's 10$ an hour and all the games are set to open play. They have retro vidya stuff sale and always have rarities and imports. They have a whole counter set up with CRTs hooked to almost every popular home console with everdrives popped in. They also have a sideroom where you can play tabletop. the place is amazing, it's like being around in the mid 80s again. I just wash it wasn't in a normie mall
I was about to play some SCUD Race for old time's sake, then I realized I'm 35, sitting in a routing old arcade cabinet. I loved the arcades growing up, but they're dead, everywhere
Went to Funspot last year.
I went to my local barren mall awhile ago and checked out the arcade there. Decently large spacious floor full of machines and midway games, not a single soul except the lady sitting at the coin counter. Closed down a few months later. I remember it used to be popular enough to get ads on local tv. The only other arcade, at the bowling alley, got replaced with vr machines and prize grabber bullshit.
I havn't been to an arcade for like 30 years