/vr/ - Retro Games

>>10226998
You already posted the best example anon. I would kill for a Time Crisis 2 cab but thats a ton of room to take up and I think the only reason its so special to me is that I dont get to play it very often.

>>10227010
time crisis 1 got two guns and a single screen. crisis zone too, apparently (never played this one on the arcades).

>>10228763
Or this one

>>10226998
I think I'm gonna finally get one of those. Fuck my landlords if they don't like it.

>>10228771
This game is so cool. I only played it once.

>>10226998
I love these cockpit style arcade cabinets. It really adds to the immersion.

>>10226998
I'd kill to see this one in person.
grew up on the SMS version so the arcade version is even more awesome for me lol

>>10226998
Lesser known but the cabinet with the 3 screens looks amazing. They have a lot of heft and look sturdy.

>>10228958
Same, I was six years old and sucked at it but it always left an impression on me

>>10228771
No one makes games like this anymore. Only Sega was willing to take risks on games like this.

>>10228763
I have one of these cabs now. Nothing was more thrilling as a kid in the 90s than going into an arcade and seeing The House of the Dead.

>>10226998
Love me real arcade cabinets. A shame this board has been overrun by emulation fans.

>>10229037
Living the dream, hopefully will have one too one day

>>10229038
Thanks for reminding me that a mall near me still has a Daytona 2 machine. Now I am going to continue ignoring it and emulating the game.

One of my favorites. I wasn't great at it, but I still loved playing it.

>>10229045
Yeah, I'm glad I got it (years ago). Monitor has some burn-in which is pretty much the norm for dedicated cabs with long periods of relevancy. I have a handful of NOS stickers for it but totally peeling off the old ones feels like sacrilege. I DO plan to put the gun decals on, though, since I already had to add back in original Sega guns as a previous owner had swapped them for Happ guns. I imagine a lot of cabs are missing those gun stickers, should probably scan mine since I don't know of anywhere selling repros (in fact I'd imagine that a lot don't realize the guns are even supposed to have decals in the first place).

>>10229075
Bit of Trivia:

House of the Dead 1 was so popular that Sega's arcade factories couldn't keep up with demand. There was a wait list to get the machine, and customers were limited to purchasing just 1 machine. For the first year (and somewhat into the following year) it came out, it was very hard to get the machine. Demand was huge. It was one of Sega's most popular machines.

In addition, many arcades installed a black privacy curtain around the screen of machine because of the mature content. Blood and Gore like this hadn't been done before. I played on a machine that had a black curtain around it. To ve honest, it just added to the cool factor and improved the horror movie vibe even more.

>>10229110
That's cool, it makes sense that it was so popular. Too bad the Saturn port was so subpar, though to be fair there was no way the Saturn could get it to look as good as the Model 2. Still have the US Saturn version, still a fun thing to mess around with if only to enjoy the jankiness.
I know I came across a few of the standard pedestal models (none with the privacy curtain) as well as one rear projection, but I think I also have a vague recollection of finding one of the upright cabs which had the form factor of a Virtua Cop (pic). I also have a Virtua Cop 2 PCB to swap into the THotD cab.

I loved the look of this cabinet

Would anything be better than a time crisis cab with a toggle switch for every time crisis and the other one with the smg

>>10228921
>too poor to afford own house
>has money laying around to buy full-size arcade cabinets though

priorities bruh

>>10229251
It's either one or the other. Can't have both.

>>10229054
I'm sure playing on keyboard against the CPU has the exact same feel.

>>10229557
>playing on keyboard against the CPU
What is the point in doing this?

>>10229251
>>10229254
No reason to buy a house at the prices they are going plus I got all the room I need right now. Not to mention I'll still have plenty of money in my budget after buying this cab for other things too around here.

>>10229649
I'll never understand people's obsessions over buying houses. You are locked down to that area with a crippling mortgage and anything that breaks is on you.

>>10229251
Housing market is in a bubble
Retro arcade machines are an appreciating asset

>>10229662
Housing used to be quite affordable. A young man working a normal job could buy a medium sized house for cheap in a nice city or suburb. Salaries were equal to the cost of living. Now it's impossible on a normal salary to buy a house in major popular cities. Boomers had it good.

>>10229649
>>10229662
>houses are expensive so it's better to pay someone else's mortgage every month for years so I can own nothing in the end

I remember there being a tri-fold Outrun style arcade game but I can't find it.

The 8 Man X-Men arcade machines are also fucking sick. The pizza place near my home growing up had an oversized Mortal Kombat (2?) machine where you were actually several feet away from the giant screen.

>>10228975
I got to play that version at the Galloping Ghost Arcade but the cab didn't move. Not sure if it was broken or just turned off. Regardless it was very cool.

>>10229958
>6 Player X-Men
Reminded me of this Pic I saw the other day.

-----WARNING----
Open at your risk.

>>10229958
>The pizza place near my home growing up had an oversized Mortal Kombat (2?) machine where you were actually several feet away from the giant screen.
Does anyone have a picture of what something like this looked like?

>>10229946
Have you any idea how expensive they currently are? They were 1/5 the price in the mid 2000s than they are today.

>>10228971
I loved this one

all time favorite cab

>>10228763
Arcade near me (yes, that actually still exists) has this cabinet. Just as fun as I remember when playing as a kid but what I wouldn't do for HotD2 or >>10226998

>>10226998
Brings up good memories.

>>10230012
What a shame. Only around 200 to 300 of those 6 player X-Men cabinets were ever produced. Many have been lost over the years. I'd say less than half of them still remain.

>>10229946
Rent is a few thou a week max, I spent 3 months staying in a hotel just because I liked the room service when I first moved to NYC, so to me renting is an economic choice, I get to stay in the kind of apartment I'd never buy for a year, then move to another when I fancy a change.
Why spend years fixing already broken homes you dont want anyway?
When I eventually buy somewhere, it will be my own design, built from scratch.

An absolute classic that I spent many hours on. An arcade near me had it. Just 25 cents per credit. Very cheap for a shooter game.

Best Lightgun Games: Namco
2nd place - Sega

Best Driving Games: Sega
2nd place - Namco

Best Sports Games: Midway
2nd Place - Sega

Best Fighting Games: Capcom
2nd Place - Midway

Best Beat Em Ups: Konami
2nd Place - Taito

Best Run N Guns: SNK

Best Puzzle Games: SNK

Best Rhythm Games: Konami

Most impressive Deluxe Arcade Manufacturer: Sega
2nd place - Namco

Best Platformers: Nintendo
2nd place - SNK


Agree or Disagree?

Personal fav

>>10230536
those are meant to be pretty rare. I'd like to see one myself, one day.

>>10230536
I used to see these in movie theater lobbies near me. Now I sorta regret not trying them at least once.

>>10231150
I really like how older racing srcade games had a bulky screen area and put game decorations on the side of the cabinet. Now everything is flat screen, but they barely put any frame around screen. So modern arcade racers look weird with a big seat but super flat screen with nothing behind it. Really wonky proportions.

>>10230619
I wonder what happened to this machine

Uses mirrors facing two crts on either side of the screen (can faintly see them below the screen) they also released the ninja warriors on this cabinet

>>10231668
What is your opinion on refurbishing arcade machines. Would you repaint those little scratches and scuffs in the paint to make it look like new? Or would you leave it because it's part of the cabinet's history?

>>10231521
It’s an actual game where the goal is to put your finger into someone’s butthole. Not even kidding.

>>10231773
Probably depends how far gone it is, if it's minor enough I think it's fine to leave it as is. If it's a mess then repaint. Some people do some really nice work touching up pinball backglass

I like how unique this arcade cabinet looks with its controls.

>>10231067
Mosssssssssstly agree.
Personally I think Midway have no business being 2nd place in the fighting category compared to SNK
Best Puzzle Games I'd give to Sega
Platformers I'd say Taito

>>10231834
Gotta give credit where credit is due. Midway did release the Mortal Kombat series of games, Killer Instinct, and Primal Rage. That's a lot of hits.

Although I don't know if Mortal Kombat was as popular in Japan compared to the West.

>>10231150
You can see this one still in some spaniard tourism cities like benidorm and other. Also time crisis from 2 to 4, etc...

>>10231848
For some reason...South America, Mexico, and Spain seem to have a bunch of 90s retro cabinets still preserved and in running order. I wonder if it's culturally thing to keep things that still work? I'm very jealous. So many arcades throw out old machines in the West and Japan.

>>10226998
ENTER
>Sega R360

>>10231914
ENTER x2
>Ridge Racer Full Size, featuring a Mazda Miata as the controller.

>>10231916
>Oops, meant Full Scale.
Such a shame these don’t exist anymore. Apparently one was located by an arcade museum to a dudes garage but it has since deteriorated to an almost unrecoverable condition because he refused to sell.

>>10231919
Good for him.

>>10226998
>im gonna get you!
>ow!
>ouch!

>>10226998
just look at this hot ball eating skank! how can you not play her cab?

>>10231919
>Ridge Racer Full Scale
>Such a shame these don’t exist anymore.
Great choice. One of my favoritrs.A few still do exist, but all are in private hands or storage. Unfortunately, none are still in public arcades.

For sure:
I know 1 to 2 still exist in Japan in storage somewhere (based on my contacts in Japan), 1 still in exists in America, another potentially in Australia. I know for a fact the American one still exists. I know because I saw it go up for auction 10 years ago, and some American arcade collector bought it for their private collection. I know of several other potential locations as well.

Namco never released hard numbers, but the number wasn't high. I compiled a list of every known location that ever had it that I could find. At most...no more than 50 units were made over a 5 year period between 1993 and 1998. Realistically...maybe somewhere between 30 to 40 units.

I spoke to several arcade owners who used to run this Ridge Racer Full Scale machine. The biggest issue is that there are no more spare parts. These machines would be left running almost 24/7 in arcades with screens running. Parts burn out. If a custom chip burns out on the arcade motherboard, you could pay to send it to Namco for repairs. They would replace the chip and ship it back. And Ridge Racer Full Scale used 3 huge Arcade boards that had to synchronize together.

During the 90s, it was easier to get repairs done. Then during the 2000s, Namco became reluctant to repair them for arcade owners. It became a hassle to get it repaired. Often having to contact Namco Japan directly and mail the broken part. It wasn't cheap.

There's a story of one guy saying he tried to get his board repaired and the Japanese Namco guy on the phone sighed when he mentioned Ridge Racer and said "We found one last replacement board in the warehouse and are sending it to you. But after this we officially aren't going to repair them anymore. We want to move on." That was in 2015.

>>10231987
Now we will have to consider replacing the hardware with a PC + emulator.

Will need the rom of this terminal (for the size of the image) and find a way for the steering wheels/pedals to be recognized by the PC and the emulator.

>>10231987
>potentially in Australia
There was one in a Timezone in the Sydney CBD in the mid 1990s. The Timezone and Pizza Hut no longer exist.

>>10232054

>>10232017
It's theoretically possible for someone to buy multiple ridge racer full scale machines and use one of them for spare parts. That's what Modern Arcades have been doing. They buy multiple of an old machine and replace parts as needed.

You can just make out the Ridge Racer signage in the Sydney photo from 1996

>>10232058
Different anon here.

I just wanted to say thanks for sharing the photo.

I also think it's funny how small the building is and how huge the Ridge Racer machine is.

It takes up the entire bottom floor lol

>>10232054
>>10232058
>>10232068
Really nice photo anon. I appreciate you sharing it. What an awesome 90s picture. I haven't seen this picture before. I wish more photos existed of the inside and 90s arcades.

This photos actually confirms what I heard. That Australia had at least 4 to 5 Ridge Racer Full Scale machines. Australia absolutely loved arcades and bought several Rusge Racer Full Scales. And at least 1 of them was sold at auction to a private collector in Australia some years ago. I have some suspicions on who it might be, but no proof.

There was this place called Deegee's arcade I used to go to when I was really small. In the back there was usually a crowd of punks with spiked leather and mohawks chain smoking in the back. The building is a town fair tire these days
>>10231967
>NOW IM ANGRY

>>10230012
Thankfully that cabinet is still in good condition. If someone is determined enough, they could restore it back to being an X-men cabinet. Recently the cabinet artwork was made available online for purchase too.

>>10226998

>>10233247
never heard of this one

>>10233634
There are a lot of 80s and 90s cabinet that flew under the radar and not many people heard about. They either didn't sell well or were overshadowed by mega hits like Pac Man or Street Fighter 2.

I got a question for you all.

Is there anything that could be done to restore arcades to their former glory?


I went into Dave and Buster and was annoyed at the sheer amount of nonsense ticket games. They werent even video games. Just rigged carnival games like dropping balls in cups or stopping a spinning light on a certain spot.

I feel like if this is what arcades were like for me growing up in the 90s and 2000s, then I would have laughed and never gone to arcades.

>>10226998
I used to absolutely adore the T-mek cab at my local laser tag arena, I would play it for hours. Obviously not that great of a game in hindsight but man it had a lot of style

>>10234225
I vaguely remember playing this at a hotel arcade. Did it have a lot of stickers and decals that made it look a robot cockpit? Stickers that showed buttons, gauges, etc?

>>10234068
Not really. Home consoles and computer games have many times greater budgets than any arcade game used to have. To make a lightgun shooter on-par with something like Call of Duty in terms of graphics and fun factor, it'd take an investment of years to recoup the costs just from one game. It used to be that arcade games were the cutting edge of gaming technology, while home consoles were far behind. But that hasn't been the case since like 2000, where the sheer amount of money being made allowed consoles to soar past arcade games. The "wow" factor of arcade games really dissipates when you're looking at graphics worse than what you have at home.

Also the gameplay experience is orders of magnitude more shallow than what's available at home. The interest simply isn't there anymore among the general population.

>>10233247
That Sega Holosseum in the background is cool. Not a good game but interesting engineering

>>10234068
>I got a question for you all.
>Is there anything that could be done to restore arcades to their former glory?


For an arcade to succeed it needs to offer an experience that you can't get on home consoles. Arcade Game makers realized it was a mistake to put their arcade games on console. That's why you haven't seen a Dance Dance Revolution game on a console since Playstation 2. Konami won't allow it. They make far more money selling their DDR arcade machines to businesses.

For arcades to succeed, game makers need to keep their games exclusive to arcades. They can't be greedy like they were in the 90s and release on console and arcade machines.

I sure would like to have these images load at some point 4chan(nel)

>>10226998
For me it was Crisis Zone

>>10231967
i LOVE me some mechanical arcade machines
good luck emulating these

I always enjoyed the Super Deluxe Crypt Killer arcade cabinet. It's the only 3 player arcade lightgun game that I know of. I played it once at a random mall arcade.

It's an odd story. Apparently none of Crypt Killer deluxe cabinets survived afaik. A real true tragedy. Even the internet barely has any pictures of the Deluxe cabinet. It's more rare than Ridge Racer Full Scale that you anons love to talk about.

If anyone knows of any still existing please me know. I would like to play it.

>>10234798
I visited San Francisco last year. They have a retro arcade on the Pier called Musee Mechanique. Half of the arcade is dedicated to antique mechanical arcade machines. Apparently they have some of the rarest and last surviving mechanical games in the entire world. All other machines have been lost or destroyed. Stuff from the 1800s and early 1900s. It was really interesting.

>>10234771
>Crisis Zone
Excellent Taste. The arcade version was the best. PS2 version sucks monkey balls. They changed so much.

>>10234823
yeah, electromechanical machines are sick

>>10234823
Just watched a video, whenever I get round to travel to San I'll have to keep that in mind, it looks incredible.

Do BattleTech pods count?

>>10234852
that kind of looks like this one I saw in a video on youtube today

>>10234815
There was an awesome house of the dead arcade machine that was pretty big and had a pump action shotgun where the pump action actually worked for reloading. I think it was house of the dead, i can't remember, it was like 20 years ago that i played it. It was only 2 players though i'm pretty sure

>>10226998
those fuckers always shocked the shit outta me. the black tape didnt help

>>10235261
That's actually Crypt Killer. It was made by Konami and is another undead lightgun game. They tried to compete against Sega's House of the Dead. It uses a shotgun and you can pump the shotgun for a reload.

House of the Dead you have to shoot offscreen to reload your weapon.

>>10234946
>Do BattleTech pods count?
They were in arcades at one point so sure. I often wonder how much longer those pods will last. Only like 30 pods were ever made right? And all the remaining pods were purchased and are still constantly used. I hope whatever owner who has them has set aside some pods to use for spare parts.

What's the image limit on these threads before the thread starts sliding off the board? I have a bunch of retro arcade pictures I want to share but this thread is already at 42 pictures. If 50 pics is the bump limit, then I won't bother and will just make a new thread.

>>10236987
You're cool, the limit is more than 50

>>10226998
I know I'm in a minority but I always preferred time crisis 3 to 2. All the games in the series are great though, if I'm ever gonna buy a cabinet, it'll be a time crisis machine. Genuinely a shame light gun games have basically died cause arcades don't exist in the same capacity.

>>10237295
>Genuinely a shame light gun games have basically died cause arcades don't exist in the same capacity.
Don't worry anon. BIG BUCK HUNTER carries on the legacy of lightgun games. Americans love it.

>>10236429
I don't know the true number, but it was vanishingly low. I got the chance to play these at Navy Pier in Chicago a few times, and they are a real experience. I always find myself wondering what a similar something like this would look and feel like with today's technology.

>>10237502
Don't remind me

>>10237295
The arcade machines you love and grew up with aren't made anymore because the people that made them left the company a long time ago. Namco was filled with brilliant arcade designers during the 80s and 90s who were willing to take risks. But those people have left or retired. Same with Sega and many other companies. Today, these companies are risk adverse and will only make safe arcade machines that sell. They don't like the idea of risky arcade games anymore. It's why you will never see a sequel to pic related.

>>10238324
I mean it does exist in some capacity I'm Japan (look at some of the Mech arcade games that exist now) but yeah it seems to happen with all media. Corporations don't know what the medium is so they let developers have free reign, eventually enough data exists so they stop letting them experiment. Happened with film in the 80s, music in the 50s, and games in the 2010s.

>>10229069
there's one of these at the reopened gameworks in Seattle