It ended up being a smart reaction to the home console market, people could play single player games at home, they might not find competitors for something like SF.
Changed the customer base from chill normies just having some fun to try-hard edgelords of the sort you can see in the replies here. Once the atmosphere changed, the only people who wanted to go to arcades were angsty bros with something to prove and druggies. Think of Bubble Bobble: a game literally designed around the premise of bringing your girlfriend to the arcade. It was released only a few years before SF2. There would never such a beautiful tribute to humanity in the arcades ever again.
Changed the customer base from chill normies just having some fun to try-hard edgelords of the sort you can see in the replies here. Once the atmosphere changed, the only people who wanted to go to arcades were angsty bros with something to prove and druggies. Think of Bubble Bobble: a game literally designed around the premise of bringing your girlfriend to the arcade. It was released only a few years before SF2. There would never such a beautiful tribute to humanity in the arcades ever again.
has no idea wtf he's talking about.
All 3 era's (70's-90's) were awesome arcade wise, what killed them was consoles catching up to arcade quality, graphics wise.
Name me one Arcade game that came out after SF2 that your girlfriend would actually WANT to play with you. I'll wait. and No Gauntlet Legends don't count becuase the Arcade was practically a rotting corpse by that time.
by the time DDR came out Arcades were dead to normies becuase of PS1. Puzzle bobble doesn't really count because it is essential a new Bubble Bobble. I am talking about new games
2 years ago
Anonymous
>Puzzle bobble doesn't really count because it is essential a new Bubble Bobble
moron confirmed.
2 years ago
Anonymous
It literally features the same charaters. Thats like saying Super Puzzle Fighter is a new game and not just Street fighter with cards
2 years ago
Anonymous
*with tetris
2 years ago
Anonymous
Puzzle Fighter has Devilotte, Morgan, Tessa.
2 years ago
Anonymous
wow adding 3 characters from another franchise and making it about tetris. REVOLUTIONARY!
2 years ago
Anonymous
Super Puzzle Fighter is nothing like Tetris. At best it is a Columns-like puzzle game.
2 years ago
Anonymous
It's even closer to Puyo-Puyo.
2 years ago
Anonymous
>thats like saying Super Puzzle Fighter is a new game and not just Street fighter with cards
Because it IS a new game and isn't just street fighter with gems.
2 years ago
Anonymous
Super Puzzle Fighter is just a poor-man's clone of Baku Baku Animal, the first stack 'em up to have separate normal pieces and 'detonation' pieces which initiate a chain when they come into contact with pieces they complement.
Some people here are actually over 50 years old. I'm not 50 yet, but I vaguely remember being young enough to think "ewww imagine being that old I'll kill myself before then lol".
Enjoy your youth, anon. It gets better.
LMAO you're a homosexual who couldn't even do a hadouken I bet. I was 7 when I first played SF2 (CE when it was the new game) and as a kid/teenager I never had problems getting along with people I played Street Fighter or Tekken or whatever with at the bowling alley arcade since we were all just there to play some fightan and have a fun time. Nobody gave a shit, you'd have kids playing Street Fighter with high schoolers and shit. Fighting game era is THE purest time in arcade history. Healthy spirit of competition combined with chilling out with others which made it easy to connect with people you might not normally otherwise because you were all there for the same thing.
man, i was born after arcades died, but i'm pretty sure that normies played street fighter
i used to play a fighter with some frens and sucked ass at it but it was still fun
This. Normies did play SF2 but the whole trying to find a game to play with your girlfriend thing is true. Devs game up the cute games like bubble bobble and easy games girls could play like guantlet in exchange for games ONLY designed for bros
The "Golden Age of Arcades" was the late 70s and early 80s anyway. In terms of sheer popularity, profit.
Street Fighter era was more like a silver age, or even bronze age.
What killed arcades was online multiplayer, stuff like Counter-Strike or MMORPGs.
Dance games like DDR sort of injected some new life to arcades for a while in the early 2000s, a sort of plastic era, I'd call it.
Black person, arcades were in moderate decadence for several years until the release of SF2.
SF2 kickstarted the second golden age of arcade gaming, in fact.
>Affordable high speed Internet >More powerful home consoles released
These two things combined killed the arcades. I watched it happen. It was a very quick death. 1996 they had terminal illness caused by the PS1. 1998 is when I knew it was definitely over for the arcades. Not a lot of new games were being released in the arcades. Then I noticed some arcades containing a mix of arcade cabinets and a what passed for gaming PCs in the late 90s. Internet gaming was the final nail in the coffin.
probably because of the region (SEA here), but I never find SF2 cabinets to be particularly attractive to the crowd. most of the kids would rather play one of the available KoF cabs. usually it's 98, but 96 were also quite common. even then those were way less popular than shooting or racing machines. one which always had a waiting line would be Lethal Enforcers, or Time Crisis afterwards. probably because of the gimmicky guns instead of sticks. Time Crisis especially survived even after we changed most of the software cabinets into mechanical games. then you have people crowding the Outrunners or Daytona machines, the latter mainly because they could play with their group of friends.
so yeah that's my blog about arcades here and probably the reason it "died" was the change of machines. it actually never did, game centers are still popular except it's now mostly physical activities like the dance/drum machines and sports. and shooting and racing.
Just a casual reminder that high-score chasers and speedrunners might be skilled, but they're also b***hes, all because they look for ways to compete in videogames without directly competing against someone that might call out their bad habits and wreck them, the idea of being ridiculed is terrifying to them and adapting isn't an option for people whose skill lies in advanced pattern recognition.
Arcades lasted until 2020 where I lived. Even in the 90s, real 3d racing/flight/shooting kept arcades alive, along with the fighting and rhythm fads. But burgers were happy with 4 minute load times and jerky 3d as long as they didn't have to get off of their couch
It ended up being a smart reaction to the home console market, people could play single player games at home, they might not find competitors for something like SF.
The PVP Chad and The PVE Virgin is a webcomic I would have followed in the early 00s.
How did it do that?
Changed the customer base from chill normies just having some fun to try-hard edgelords of the sort you can see in the replies here. Once the atmosphere changed, the only people who wanted to go to arcades were angsty bros with something to prove and druggies. Think of Bubble Bobble: a game literally designed around the premise of bringing your girlfriend to the arcade. It was released only a few years before SF2. There would never such a beautiful tribute to humanity in the arcades ever again.
i'm willing to hear you out because i hate fighting games but how would you even know all of this unless you're like 50 years old?
I'm on the wrong side of 45 and this guy
has no idea wtf he's talking about.
All 3 era's (70's-90's) were awesome arcade wise, what killed them was consoles catching up to arcade quality, graphics wise.
Name me one Arcade game that came out after SF2 that your girlfriend would actually WANT to play with you. I'll wait. and No Gauntlet Legends don't count becuase the Arcade was practically a rotting corpse by that time.
Puzzle Bobble, DDR and a bunch of more shit
by the time DDR came out Arcades were dead to normies becuase of PS1. Puzzle bobble doesn't really count because it is essential a new Bubble Bobble. I am talking about new games
>Puzzle bobble doesn't really count because it is essential a new Bubble Bobble
moron confirmed.
It literally features the same charaters. Thats like saying Super Puzzle Fighter is a new game and not just Street fighter with cards
*with tetris
Puzzle Fighter has Devilotte, Morgan, Tessa.
wow adding 3 characters from another franchise and making it about tetris. REVOLUTIONARY!
Super Puzzle Fighter is nothing like Tetris. At best it is a Columns-like puzzle game.
It's even closer to Puyo-Puyo.
>thats like saying Super Puzzle Fighter is a new game and not just Street fighter with cards
Because it IS a new game and isn't just street fighter with gems.
Super Puzzle Fighter is just a poor-man's clone of Baku Baku Animal, the first stack 'em up to have separate normal pieces and 'detonation' pieces which initiate a chain when they come into contact with pieces they complement.
Some people here are actually over 50 years old. I'm not 50 yet, but I vaguely remember being young enough to think "ewww imagine being that old I'll kill myself before then lol".
Enjoy your youth, anon. It gets better.
>trying hard is a bad thing
>being new is a good thing
>try-hard edgelords
I think you're mistaking SF2 for MK
MK is for the casual market, SF is for the turbo-weebs and showerless nerds of the FGC
literally mad cuz bad
lmao what a fricking moron
oh no I'm sorry for being rude, let me start again:
6th gen Gankerefugees welcome!
The recent rule change were a mistake
LMAO you're a homosexual who couldn't even do a hadouken I bet. I was 7 when I first played SF2 (CE when it was the new game) and as a kid/teenager I never had problems getting along with people I played Street Fighter or Tekken or whatever with at the bowling alley arcade since we were all just there to play some fightan and have a fun time. Nobody gave a shit, you'd have kids playing Street Fighter with high schoolers and shit. Fighting game era is THE purest time in arcade history. Healthy spirit of competition combined with chilling out with others which made it easy to connect with people you might not normally otherwise because you were all there for the same thing.
man, i was born after arcades died, but i'm pretty sure that normies played street fighter
i used to play a fighter with some frens and sucked ass at it but it was still fun
This. Normies did play SF2 but the whole trying to find a game to play with your girlfriend thing is true. Devs game up the cute games like bubble bobble and easy games girls could play like guantlet in exchange for games ONLY designed for bros
>brought more money and people into arcades
>killed
IM SO MAD AT &$@# THINGS
>the cancer that killed arcades
That would be better hardware.
Only if by killed you mean revived, you stupid homosexual.
Single player games < pvp
>This is the savior that revived arcades
Translated.
are you a shmup shitter sad that your games were killed by a superior genre actually rewarding skill and not just monkey-tier memorization?
obsessed
>doesn't deny it
back to base
Can you imagine being the salty piece of shit that would actually make a thread like this?
The "Golden Age of Arcades" was the late 70s and early 80s anyway. In terms of sheer popularity, profit.
Street Fighter era was more like a silver age, or even bronze age.
What killed arcades was online multiplayer, stuff like Counter-Strike or MMORPGs.
Dance games like DDR sort of injected some new life to arcades for a while in the early 2000s, a sort of plastic era, I'd call it.
Arcade were already on a downward spiral for a while now, if anything SF2 prolonged the inevitable by a couple of years
Arcade games are meant to be enjoyed with friends
Black person, arcades were in moderate decadence for several years until the release of SF2.
SF2 kickstarted the second golden age of arcade gaming, in fact.
Fightan was way better than dinky-ass shit like Assteroids, grampa.
>Affordable high speed Internet
>More powerful home consoles released
These two things combined killed the arcades. I watched it happen. It was a very quick death. 1996 they had terminal illness caused by the PS1. 1998 is when I knew it was definitely over for the arcades. Not a lot of new games were being released in the arcades. Then I noticed some arcades containing a mix of arcade cabinets and a what passed for gaming PCs in the late 90s. Internet gaming was the final nail in the coffin.
probably because of the region (SEA here), but I never find SF2 cabinets to be particularly attractive to the crowd. most of the kids would rather play one of the available KoF cabs. usually it's 98, but 96 were also quite common. even then those were way less popular than shooting or racing machines. one which always had a waiting line would be Lethal Enforcers, or Time Crisis afterwards. probably because of the gimmicky guns instead of sticks. Time Crisis especially survived even after we changed most of the software cabinets into mechanical games. then you have people crowding the Outrunners or Daytona machines, the latter mainly because they could play with their group of friends.
so yeah that's my blog about arcades here and probably the reason it "died" was the change of machines. it actually never did, game centers are still popular except it's now mostly physical activities like the dance/drum machines and sports. and shooting and racing.
Just a casual reminder that high-score chasers and speedrunners might be skilled, but they're also b***hes, all because they look for ways to compete in videogames without directly competing against someone that might call out their bad habits and wreck them, the idea of being ridiculed is terrifying to them and adapting isn't an option for people whose skill lies in advanced pattern recognition.
And deep down they know it.
that’s certainly an opinion
more like a last gasp
Arcades lasted until 2020 where I lived. Even in the 90s, real 3d racing/flight/shooting kept arcades alive, along with the fighting and rhythm fads. But burgers were happy with 4 minute load times and jerky 3d as long as they didn't have to get off of their couch