Is it me or has there been a quality decline lately from what i seen? I understand that they got a lotta games so repairinf everything becomes a challenge but its beginning to look like biting off more than they can chew
I’m about a half hour away. Been there three times total. Although the past two times, I mainly played Mr. Driller G. My other two favorite games I played there were Atomic Punk 2 (aka Bomberman World) and Ninja Baseball Batman (co-op with cousin on that one).
Think there’s a Round One that’s about a 10 minute drive from Galloping Ghost, but I haven’t been there yet.
>Ghost
now there's a place i'll never go back to
fricking 8 year olds mashing the controls and breaking joysticks thinking it's a fricking Chucky-E-Cheeses
Round One seems to still be expanding in the US which is good. They're by far the best arcade experience in the States right now if you're lucky enough to live near one. Frick D&B, don't ever ever go there.
Nothin wrong with Music Diver but yeah the abundance of purely UFOs is concerning. Also RIP USA Round 1s that have been decomissioning Beatmanias for whatever reason. I really wish IIDX wasent exclusive in location to just a few places
Are you talking about the old models for both SDVX and IIDX being decommissioned? I think that's because they can't upgrade the older IIDX cabs to run Epolis and the old SDVX cabs are extremely restricted in the US compared to the Valkyrie cabs.
Yeah. It is so frickin stupid like what is the point of giving exclusively to a set amount of arcades if you arent gonna give them on par upgradability and capabilities? I dont understand jap businessmen at all other than they are incredibly autistic when it comes to this
3 months ago
Anonymous
At least DDR is getting fricked by Stepmaniax in the US right now. The only one left near me is in a D&B, and I heard they're ending their deal with Konami and rolling out SMX machines. Not a fan of SMX' song list, but anything that might teach old JP businesses a lesson is good imo.
3 months ago
Anonymous
Nothing will teach them a lesson. The US profits are absolutely minuscule compared to the JP profits. And that's not even considering that arcade profits are also a tiny percentage of Konami's overall profits.
Look for private arcades near you, much better experience than R1 imo. Sometimes they list on the zenius-i-vanisher map as "appointment only" but I've been to 3 and they were all very open about times, even visiting same day, and they're totally free play with entry fee or a donation request. The only downside is that they close down to bring machines to events pretty often and they usually have a smaller selection since it's just someone's personal collection.
>Barcades
Never been to one because every one I've encountered has been packed and spilling out the doors by the time I get there. I guess they do good business but I don't wanna be shoulder to shoulder with a bunch of geeks waiting all night to play shitty games
>tfw the only barcade here shut down because the guys running it were super chill about people paying and would just let you play on anything for as long as you liked if you bought a coffee
only other alternative we have is like an arcade CLUB, it's pretty cool but the lines to get onto any of the cabinets is insane. currently trying to track down some of that carpet for my gaymen room
People who shit on barcades i can never understand. I feel like it mostly a coastie problem of shit selections. Midwest has probably the highest quality of venues overall in the barcade department and im glad my local has some really good pinball and music game selections
DUDE i just LOVE the hustle and bustle of the big city, it’s so DYNAMIC and makes me feel like i’m in one of my favourite TV SHOWS. you should totally come on down to my studio apartment, it’s got EXPOSED RED BRICK walls and everything, we can crack open a nice hoppy ipa or three and get crazy watching some cartoons on adult swim! and dude, dude, DUDE, we have GOTTA go down to the barcade- listen here, right, it’s a BAR where us ADULTS who do ADULTING can go DRINK. BUT!!!! it’s also an ARCADE like when we were kids, so we can play awesome VIDEO GAMES, without dumb kids bothering us. speaking of which megan and i have finally decided to tie the knot- literally -we’re both getting snipped tomorrow at the hospital, that way we can save money to spent more on ourselves and our FURBABIES. i’m frickin JACKED man, i’m gonna SLAM this craft beer and pop open another one!!!
this but unironically. but barcades and other gay shit like that are starting to spread to small and mid-sized towns and they're way cheaper than their big city counterparts, suck it city slickers
>oh absolutely. the better option is if/when your favorite regular dive bar gets a few arcade machines or someone donates a gamecube
in my old neighborhood theres a weed speakeasy where you can do dabs and play videogames. they have several PCs, switches, a PS5, and tvs showing sports and UFC. that place is probably my favorite place to game outside the house. aside from actual japanese arcades like HEY
3 months ago
Anonymous
that sounds very based but I could not imagine trusting someone with a gaemen PC. even disc-based media in bars is iffy, it's usually either a N64 or very occasionally a switch
Round 1 is mediocre by me (south Florida) and I basically only go there to play Beatmania, Sound Voltex, and Wacca. They really need more actual games on the floor.
I'll see people go to the cranes (they're less hyper-scammy than the usual setups since you can generally manipulate the target even when the arms aren't holding at full power, but they're still expensive and scammy), but no one fricks with the redemption machines beyond like one or two.
The fighting games and NESiCA arcade cabinets are too fricking expensive per credit by a lot, so I can't just sit with my buddies and pump a bunch of money in because I could be playing Beatmania for ten minutes for the same price instead of getting like a minute and a half per round in a fighting game.
I've seen this shit go down a lot, where places have high costs per credit and then no one fricking plays instead of pumping money into the machine.
Most barcades I've seen kinda suck and don't maintain shit.
There's Arcade Odyssey down in Miami that has a bar but doesn't focus on it, it's fricking amazing there but it's just too far to go regularly.
Nothin wrong with Music Diver but yeah the abundance of purely UFOs is concerning. Also RIP USA Round 1s that have been decomissioning Beatmanias for whatever reason. I really wish IIDX wasent exclusive in location to just a few places
it's literally just the old cabinets that have to connect to Japanese e-Amusement instead of the network Konami (apparently) runs just for R1 and I think D&B
At least DDR is getting fricked by Stepmaniax in the US right now. The only one left near me is in a D&B, and I heard they're ending their deal with Konami and rolling out SMX machines. Not a fan of SMX' song list, but anything that might teach old JP businesses a lesson is good imo.
God, I need to find an SMX cab.
Nothing will teach them a lesson. The US profits are absolutely minuscule compared to the JP profits. And that's not even considering that arcade profits are also a tiny percentage of Konami's overall profits.
Nothing will change
I hope nip arcade operators just fricking buy SMX. If I had an alternative to IIDX, I'd probably never touch a Konami product again.
I do play BMS, I just like playing on cabs.
I could just fricking get arcade rips of just about everything I play, but I want to hang at the arcade instead of staying at home and buying/building increasingly expensive controllers.
barcades maybe but round ones are too rare. I live in San Dieigo and don't have any near me. I have to go to LA for one and its ok but nothing to write home about. Been there a couple of times and they need to step up their booze game.
It's a sign that says there's a different establishment within the building at which floor.
You can also see that black logo at the top also haven't changed (Gyukaku, yakiniku chain restaurant), they are just a tenant of the building they have no reason to change with SEGA
Because maids are the wienerroaches of Akihabara
You can enter a random building climb up to the 7.5th floor, go through a cesspit and after that you'll find something like a gothic fancy vampire cafe
Im gonna be back here in a few weeks, get my dick sucked by three otokonokos at once (and talk about anime with them), eat a big bowl of ramen at ichiran, drink a weed coffee outside akihabara station, then play wangan midnight tune in HEY for hours
Have you seen other people talk about HEY on Ganker? I haven't. What I love about it is the comfy dark interior and heavy emphasis on danmaku shooters and retro games. Only time I've ever seen a Batsugun arcade machine. Also love the kinnikuman gp arcade machine, virtual on, and the hentai stores on the top floor and basement.
It's not filled with gacha game ports and instead has a tonne of retro arcade games and sweet galaga machines with like 5 screens and you sit in the spaceship. I finished Deathsmiles here.
This. This is probably one of the best arcades in Akiba. There's only one other arcade I really liked there, but I could never find it again, on the topmost floor it had this cool mecha online multiplayer game where you sat in the wienerpit and everything, it was so good!
I have a multicade in the cafe at my work campus, so i just leave my team's office and play the arcade machine while cursing loudly and chugging cofffees lol
>top image
soulless corporate garbage that is just shilling fashion, movies and degeneracy >bottom
locally owned establishments run by fans of the products they're selling, or services they're providing. Each store perpetuates the unique culture of that particular town.
>locally owned establishments run by fans of the products they're selling, or services they're providing
Is this satire? >and degeneracy
Kek, as opposed to fricking Akihabara of all places?
I still don't get why they spent so much on Angry Birds. The Angry Birds owner was struggling with money, and probably a few years from closing shop. They must have thought of Sega buying them as a miracle. lol
god, I'm still fricking mad about NGS being shit
I'm still mad about PSO2 taking so long to come out in the west, too.
I played JP for years, left, played NA until NGS, and then dropped NGS.
I only wish for nothing but misfortune for Sega. They have been trying their hardest to be worse than Sony and SE
there was a point where I used to be a massive segagay
I'm at the point where it's just like, frick 'em. Frick 'em till they die.
Yeah. It is so frickin stupid like what is the point of giving exclusively to a set amount of arcades if you arent gonna give them on par upgradability and capabilities? I dont understand jap businessmen at all other than they are incredibly autistic when it comes to this
honestly, I just don't understand the business model at all and I feel like the only reason R1 has any of these games is that they're also a Japanese arcade chain and thus could twist Konami's arm a bit
vs western arcade owners who have zero leverage and nowhere near enough cash to flash
[...]
play it off with humor all you want, nobody reads "I had sex with a prostitute in a foreign country" and gets anything out of it other than >wow, what a fricking loser
play it off with humor all you want, nobody reads "I had sex with a prostitute in a foreign country" and gets anything out of it other than >wow, what a fricking loser
You didn't need to say that out loud, that was already obvious. Rightoids are the slimiest, most hypocritical and yes, most degenerate creatures on Earth.
The arcade scene in the US (and by that I mean the rhythm game community since that makes up pretty much the entirety of the arcade community here) is absolutely brimming with trannies. Go check out the rhythm game section of your local arcade. I guarantee if there's people there, at least one of them is a troony.
I was really excited about a “new gaming place” opening up near where I live. It’s a small but busy college town, and yeah I could drive an hour into the city to go to Dave and Busters, but I wanted to see something smaller and more local to support. Anyways it’s actually a cafe/bar I guess that’s for tabletop gaming. Sucks but maybe they’ll do MTG or fighting game locals or something.
if it's almost any kind of tabletop store, MtG will be their main income source
you need to have a pretty developed tabletop scene in your city to have stores that DON'T rest on that, i live in/next to one and there's a whole two out of a dozen
Barcades and Round Ones unironically saved arcades. Prove me right. We need more 80's style ones with the glow-in-the-dark carpeting though.
I feel lucky to live 90 mins from Galloping Ghost.
30 here.
Is it me or has there been a quality decline lately from what i seen? I understand that they got a lotta games so repairinf everything becomes a challenge but its beginning to look like biting off more than they can chew
I’m about a half hour away. Been there three times total. Although the past two times, I mainly played Mr. Driller G. My other two favorite games I played there were Atomic Punk 2 (aka Bomberman World) and Ninja Baseball Batman (co-op with cousin on that one).
Think there’s a Round One that’s about a 10 minute drive from Galloping Ghost, but I haven’t been there yet.
>Ghost
now there's a place i'll never go back to
fricking 8 year olds mashing the controls and breaking joysticks thinking it's a fricking Chucky-E-Cheeses
Barcades are shit but I cannot refute your point
Round One seems to still be expanding in the US which is good. They're by far the best arcade experience in the States right now if you're lucky enough to live near one. Frick D&B, don't ever ever go there.
>Round One seems to still be expanding in the US which is good.
>It's a Music Diver/UFO Catcher expansion episode
Nothin wrong with Music Diver but yeah the abundance of purely UFOs is concerning. Also RIP USA Round 1s that have been decomissioning Beatmanias for whatever reason. I really wish IIDX wasent exclusive in location to just a few places
Are you talking about the old models for both SDVX and IIDX being decommissioned? I think that's because they can't upgrade the older IIDX cabs to run Epolis and the old SDVX cabs are extremely restricted in the US compared to the Valkyrie cabs.
Yeah. It is so frickin stupid like what is the point of giving exclusively to a set amount of arcades if you arent gonna give them on par upgradability and capabilities? I dont understand jap businessmen at all other than they are incredibly autistic when it comes to this
At least DDR is getting fricked by Stepmaniax in the US right now. The only one left near me is in a D&B, and I heard they're ending their deal with Konami and rolling out SMX machines. Not a fan of SMX' song list, but anything that might teach old JP businesses a lesson is good imo.
Nothing will teach them a lesson. The US profits are absolutely minuscule compared to the JP profits. And that's not even considering that arcade profits are also a tiny percentage of Konami's overall profits.
Nothing will change
Look for private arcades near you, much better experience than R1 imo. Sometimes they list on the zenius-i-vanisher map as "appointment only" but I've been to 3 and they were all very open about times, even visiting same day, and they're totally free play with entry fee or a donation request. The only downside is that they close down to bring machines to events pretty often and they usually have a smaller selection since it's just someone's personal collection.
being surrounded by drunk manchildren sounds like a shitty idea
Why 80s arcades? Why not the 90s golden age instead?
80's aesthetic + 90's games is the best combo
>90's
>golden age
utter
moronic
child
You sound like someone born in the late 90s that still has a bit of the "90s kid" schema implanted in their mind.
Metal Slug > Contra
>Barcades
Never been to one because every one I've encountered has been packed and spilling out the doors by the time I get there. I guess they do good business but I don't wanna be shoulder to shoulder with a bunch of geeks waiting all night to play shitty games
Not the biggest fan of barcades but I can't complain about being able to play Gunblade NY and Dynamite Cop in the city.
>tfw the only barcade here shut down because the guys running it were super chill about people paying and would just let you play on anything for as long as you liked if you bought a coffee
only other alternative we have is like an arcade CLUB, it's pretty cool but the lines to get onto any of the cabinets is insane.
currently trying to track down some of that carpet for my gaymen room
People who shit on barcades i can never understand. I feel like it mostly a coastie problem of shit selections. Midwest has probably the highest quality of venues overall in the barcade department and im glad my local has some really good pinball and music game selections
DUDE i just LOVE the hustle and bustle of the big city, it’s so DYNAMIC and makes me feel like i’m in one of my favourite TV SHOWS. you should totally come on down to my studio apartment, it’s got EXPOSED RED BRICK walls and everything, we can crack open a nice hoppy ipa or three and get crazy watching some cartoons on adult swim! and dude, dude, DUDE, we have GOTTA go down to the barcade- listen here, right, it’s a BAR where us ADULTS who do ADULTING can go DRINK. BUT!!!! it’s also an ARCADE like when we were kids, so we can play awesome VIDEO GAMES, without dumb kids bothering us. speaking of which megan and i have finally decided to tie the knot- literally -we’re both getting snipped tomorrow at the hospital, that way we can save money to spent more on ourselves and our FURBABIES. i’m frickin JACKED man, i’m gonna SLAM this craft beer and pop open another one!!!
this but unironically. but barcades and other gay shit like that are starting to spread to small and mid-sized towns and they're way cheaper than their big city counterparts, suck it city slickers
I dont really like the atmosphere in barcades. I want to game and be able to talk with my friends. Not some loud ass pseudo-nightclub.
oh absolutely. the better option is if/when your favorite regular dive bar gets a few arcade machines or someone donates a gamecube
>oh absolutely. the better option is if/when your favorite regular dive bar gets a few arcade machines or someone donates a gamecube
in my old neighborhood theres a weed speakeasy where you can do dabs and play videogames. they have several PCs, switches, a PS5, and tvs showing sports and UFC. that place is probably my favorite place to game outside the house. aside from actual japanese arcades like HEY
that sounds very based but I could not imagine trusting someone with a gaemen PC. even disc-based media in bars is iffy, it's usually either a N64 or very occasionally a switch
You just explained my left leaning reddit sisters
My local barcade sucks and is only allowed to sell beer/wine but I'm still glad that there exists any place near me to play arcade games now.
Arcades in Japan are for pachinko gambling.
Round 1 is mediocre by me (south Florida) and I basically only go there to play Beatmania, Sound Voltex, and Wacca. They really need more actual games on the floor.
I'll see people go to the cranes (they're less hyper-scammy than the usual setups since you can generally manipulate the target even when the arms aren't holding at full power, but they're still expensive and scammy), but no one fricks with the redemption machines beyond like one or two.
The fighting games and NESiCA arcade cabinets are too fricking expensive per credit by a lot, so I can't just sit with my buddies and pump a bunch of money in because I could be playing Beatmania for ten minutes for the same price instead of getting like a minute and a half per round in a fighting game.
I've seen this shit go down a lot, where places have high costs per credit and then no one fricking plays instead of pumping money into the machine.
Most barcades I've seen kinda suck and don't maintain shit.
There's Arcade Odyssey down in Miami that has a bar but doesn't focus on it, it's fricking amazing there but it's just too far to go regularly.
it's literally just the old cabinets that have to connect to Japanese e-Amusement instead of the network Konami (apparently) runs just for R1 and I think D&B
God, I need to find an SMX cab.
I hope nip arcade operators just fricking buy SMX. If I had an alternative to IIDX, I'd probably never touch a Konami product again.
>If I had an alternative to IIDX
play BMS dumdum it's literally free and there's like a bazillion songs and charts out there
I do play BMS, I just like playing on cabs.
I could just fricking get arcade rips of just about everything I play, but I want to hang at the arcade instead of staying at home and buying/building increasingly expensive controllers.
barcades maybe but round ones are too rare. I live in San Dieigo and don't have any near me. I have to go to LA for one and its ok but nothing to write home about. Been there a couple of times and they need to step up their booze game.
How come everything changed EXCEPT the sign with two maids?
Mr Namco's orders
Maids are justice
pretty sure i see an arrow on it so it's probably directing people to a nearby maid cafe
>feb 19, 2023
because the maid cafe/massage parlor or whatever outlived the arcade, highly likely that the girls on the picture still work there
highly unlikely. They must swap maids often. With that said i only saw one great maid there
isn't that false advertising then?
>isn't that false advertising then?
you have no idea
They aren't cookies in a tin, Anon.
The maids stay.
It's a sign that says there's a different establishment within the building at which floor.
You can also see that black logo at the top also haven't changed (Gyukaku, yakiniku chain restaurant), they are just a tenant of the building they have no reason to change with SEGA
maids are too powerful
I went to a maid cafe once, and a bunch of maids sucked my dick for money.
>heaven's gate
I love Japan for shit like this.
>heaven's gate
finally a cult I can support
>heaven's gate
Kawaiiiii~
See, more cults should use cute maids to boost recruitment like this. It works.
Maids are GODS
sex
Because maids are the wienerroaches of Akihabara
You can enter a random building climb up to the 7.5th floor, go through a cesspit and after that you'll find something like a gothic fancy vampire cafe
they don't deserve to use that classic namco logo
Only room for one Akihabara arcade in my heart.
Im gonna be back here in a few weeks, get my dick sucked by three otokonokos at once (and talk about anime with them), eat a big bowl of ramen at ichiran, drink a weed coffee outside akihabara station, then play wangan midnight tune in HEY for hours
vintage
Why do people like hey so much?
Have you seen other people talk about HEY on Ganker? I haven't. What I love about it is the comfy dark interior and heavy emphasis on danmaku shooters and retro games. Only time I've ever seen a Batsugun arcade machine. Also love the kinnikuman gp arcade machine, virtual on, and the hentai stores on the top floor and basement.
they have Virtual On? booking flights now. A burgerking in NZ had that 20 years ago, wish I played it more. it's not the same without the joysticks.
It's not filled with gacha game ports and instead has a tonne of retro arcade games and sweet galaga machines with like 5 screens and you sit in the spaceship. I finished Deathsmiles here.
This. This is probably one of the best arcades in Akiba. There's only one other arcade I really liked there, but I could never find it again, on the topmost floor it had this cool mecha online multiplayer game where you sat in the wienerpit and everything, it was so good!
Where is this? I've gone to Akiba 4 times and somehow missed it
Are you joking bro? Do you not see the melonbooks sign?
I have a multicade in the cafe at my work campus, so i just leave my team's office and play the arcade machine while cursing loudly and chugging cofffees lol
Blame covid for that one
>OMG DID SOMEONE SAY AKIHABARA? I FRICKING LOVE AKIBA!!!!!
At least Akihabara is all Japenese ads, Times Square is full of chink ads now.
>top image
soulless corporate garbage that is just shilling fashion, movies and degeneracy
>bottom
locally owned establishments run by fans of the products they're selling, or services they're providing. Each store perpetuates the unique culture of that particular town.
>locally owned establishments run by fans of the products they're selling, or services they're providing
Is this satire?
>and degeneracy
Kek, as opposed to fricking Akihabara of all places?
>he doesnt know
Very true. I went for the first time last year and I've never seen so many weaboo brown skins in one place. Yokohama was great though.
Akiba is a legitmate shithole and the only people who like it are moron Americans, sex pests, and people with really bad taste
One has karaoke and second hand stores.
>Walk into Bandai Namco arcade
>3 floors dedicated to Gundam Extreme Vs
Reminder these morons spent $1B on angry birds
I still don't get why they spent so much on Angry Birds. The Angry Birds owner was struggling with money, and probably a few years from closing shop. They must have thought of Sega buying them as a miracle. lol
They probably thought they could make the money back in merchandising
god, I'm still fricking mad about NGS being shit
I'm still mad about PSO2 taking so long to come out in the west, too.
I played JP for years, left, played NA until NGS, and then dropped NGS.
there was a point where I used to be a massive segagay
I'm at the point where it's just like, frick 'em. Frick 'em till they die.
honestly, I just don't understand the business model at all and I feel like the only reason R1 has any of these games is that they're also a Japanese arcade chain and thus could twist Konami's arm a bit
vs western arcade owners who have zero leverage and nowhere near enough cash to flash
Why is Japan always full with places so cool
Cheap rents. Allows them more freedom to just frick about.
I only wish for nothing but misfortune for Sega. They have been trying their hardest to be worse than Sony and SE
>proudly reciting how you engaged in sex tourism as if it's a cool worldly thing
kinda pathetic
>If I keep mocking him maybe people won't think I only dwell in a basement all year round
homie go outside
r/thathappened
correct
good
play it off with humor all you want, nobody reads "I had sex with a prostitute in a foreign country" and gets anything out of it other than
>wow, what a fricking loser
more like
>wow, what a fricking loser"
"he's just like any other poster here"
thing 😐
thing, Japan 😮
thing, South Korea ｡^‿^｡
thing, China >_<
frick off chink
>thing c h i n a 凸ಠ益ಠ)凸
>thing, China >_< AIIIIEEEE THE ESCALATOR IS EATING ME
Fixed
You keep talking about that gay hooker you paid as if it's a good thing
yes
Lotta anons angry that Nips give up their pussy for cash just like any other woman in response to this post, anon
>pussy
>people on the chud board obsessed with trannies brag about having sex with trannies, and not just regular trannies, hooker trannies
Of course.
i post on /misc/ too
You didn't need to say that out loud, that was already obvious. Rightoids are the slimiest, most hypocritical and yes, most degenerate creatures on Earth.
dont care, nutted
See
>thread about arcades
what the frick is wrong with this board
The arcade scene in the US (and by that I mean the rhythm game community since that makes up pretty much the entirety of the arcade community here) is absolutely brimming with trannies. Go check out the rhythm game section of your local arcade. I guarantee if there's people there, at least one of them is a troony.
>2023
Why you’re posting old news?
Unironically jelly, godspeed anon, don't listen to those pseudo proudBlack folk and keep enjoying your time in japan.
throw yourself in front of a shinkansen blogposter
Sega are woke cucks frick them
I'm obsessed. Frick...
Seek help.
Can't unsee it now
gem
gemmy
every time there's a fricking arcade machine it's never the genres i like
I was really excited about a “new gaming place” opening up near where I live. It’s a small but busy college town, and yeah I could drive an hour into the city to go to Dave and Busters, but I wanted to see something smaller and more local to support. Anyways it’s actually a cafe/bar I guess that’s for tabletop gaming. Sucks but maybe they’ll do MTG or fighting game locals or something.
if it's almost any kind of tabletop store, MtG will be their main income source
you need to have a pretty developed tabletop scene in your city to have stores that DON'T rest on that, i live in/next to one and there's a whole two out of a dozen
All the Timezone's near me in melbourne have shit games.
Shouldn't have endorsed the localizers.
they deserve it
>video games
maybe sega should’ve funded their arcade instead of tokyo rainbow pride
Sega of America was a mistake
>gwiz
SOVL vs souless
soon™