/vr/ - Retro Games

>>2458868
we already do this in south america, no one gives a fuck
Hyperspin and IV/Play are frontends designed specifically for this.

>>2458868

There's a little place in downtown Atlanta called Joystick that is a bar with a dozen machines or so, but yes, arcades in the states are dead. I didn't fully realize until I went to Japan and saw how many there were there.

>>2458868
No one actually fucking likes arcades, there's one reason for ya.

>>2458874
i just remembered what these machines are called, they are called PANDORA BOX
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lBrtZPsmbBw
I think the operator ordered one of these things online and they don't even have to know how to mess with roms or configs

>>2458884
>>2458874
Looks like the average brown person rippoff.

>>2458889
Im just pointing this thing out because there's one of these where I live
I'm pretty sure it's a chinese product too, you can't blame us for that. Also, it's running the final burn alpha romset.

>>2458868
Isn't half the appeal of an arcade the fact that you're playing on original vintage machines?

Barcades are about combining alcohol and nostalgia (or false nostalgia in some cases).

>>2458904
How would you know though? The barcade I go to has a lot of younger adults in it that wouldn't know the real cab from a fake one.

Shame. Seems like a missed opportunity if you had extra space and some wood working/tech skills.

>>2458918
Most probably wouldn't, but it seems like a huge pain in the ass to make a fake, instead of just using the machines already at your disposal.

Seems like they'd rather use the profit to buy cheap machines with shit games than go through the hassle of emulation. I doubt the owners of most barcades have even a clue about the machines to begin with.

>>2458879
Agreed, online gaming and LAN gaming in net cafes killed it. Arcades made the most sense to play 2-player games like Street Fighter 2. When you take off the rose-tinted glasses arcades were also a ripoff and predatory, there was a slot machine affect with them. Buy the game and play it forever.

>walking around town
>find arcade
>it's just flappy bird, fruit ninja, temple run, and other phone games on big machines

>>2459032
Sounds like Dave and Busters.

>>2459038
Holy shit. Someone from Totse. I guess it shouldn't surprise me to see that.

>>2459032
They have an arcade like that at the mall near where I used to live. It was like a arcade filled with giant phones.

>>2459054
>Someone from Totse

I find it's less and less of a rare encounter on here the last year or so. Feels good that people still remember it.

>>2459068
If you don't mind me asking, what was your name on there? I was a bit of an old hat. It was still going strong when I left. Das Troll ring a bell?

>>2459074
>Das Troll
I recognize the name, yes. I was Helladamnleet, but unless Spurious was your stomping ground or you remember a few random S&A posts you probably won't remember me :eek:

>>2459080
I went there a few times. I modded DIY for a few years before I got mad and left. Wow memories man. Shame that Zoklet is gone now too. The early days of the internet when you had to dial into the actual BBS.

>>2459080
Well if you want to take a trip down memory lane, heres my throw away email. herpaderpamail@gmail.com

Work time!

>barcade

Please keep your addiction out of my hobby, thanks.

>>2459128
Spot the underage.

>>2459149
It always helps when they out themselves by trying to call other people out.

I'd like to think the rise in solar power will eventually lead to more arcades though I'm sure you could certainly find ways to lower the cost of arcade machines with low voltage boards and and SEDs, well if those worked out.

>>2458868
>Why not put little PC's in an arcade cabinet and emulate the game?
Welcome to Mexico, over a decade ago.

>>2459161
A place near my home here in Mexico has an arcade cabinet with what I swear is a moded Xbox 360 full of ISOs, although I might be wrong. It has a lot of modern games AND classic games. The other day I saw 2 kids, no older than 7, playing co-op The Simpsons Arcade Game

>>2459231
How do they rig up the coin slot, if it's just a modded xbox?

>>2459128
How do you think they're making money? Here's a clue: it's not from games. The only way for an arcade in the US to be profitable is to sell alcohol. Of course that comes with its own set of problems, but it's still highly profitable.

>>2459349
No idea, I'm not too knowledgeable about it, I've just seen kids play a lot of different types of games on it, it also used to have a 360 controller out, but the owner recently changed it to a regular arcade stick. It's a small shop that sells miscellaneous edibles and household stuff, the arcade machine they got is just an extra since there's a lot of kids living in the area. I've never bothered to ask the owner either, it just brings a smile to my face when the kids choose the Simpsons arcade or TMNT Turtles in Time.

The last time I went to some kiddie amusement place with my nephew I saw a cabinet with dozen or so older arcade games on it. I wish I had paid more attention to it, but I remember seeing a bunch of Capcom games. It was either emulation of a CPS I/II with a bunch of games shoehorned on there somehow.

>>2459372
I've always thought it'd be cool to do an arcade/comic shop with a coffee shop combined together. That way hopefully hopefully the coffee would be able to help keep everything else running. Get some hipster coffee kids on there and you're good to go.

>>2459429
Hipsters wouldn't play anything but indie games. You're better off with alcohol + vomit proof arcade cabinets.

>>2459429
wont work- people will just sit down with their coffee and read the comics without buying them

>>2459435
thats fine when you charge for a wifi pass

http://insomnia.ac/commentary/arcade_culture/

Arcades in the US and Europe failed because the audiences treated the games as "cheap quarter munchers" instead of games of skill. The one-credit rule is the reason it stayed alive in japan.

Icycalm basically wrote THE ARTICLE for all things arcade.

>>2459502
This is going to show up in every arcade thread, isn't it?

>>2459349
The x arcade stick hooks up through thr usb. They also sell a coin door that hooks up to the arcade stick. Hook the joystick to thr Xbox then the coin slot to the joystick. I have one. They even come with locks and keys.

>>2459504
because icycalm is an egotistical twat who thinks his half-bit, overblown opinions are worth shit.

>>2459502
This is retarded bullshit. Arcades failed in the US because the technology fell behind console and PC games.

>>2459542
Also for being a breeding ground for gangs and teenage degeneracy.

>>2459549
I don't know where you lived, but the only gangs I saw in mine were from the Asian chess club. The most degenerate thing was someone bumping the Dragon's Lair cabinet to watch it glitch.

>>2459549
You've seen Robocop 2 one too many times my friend. I grew up in the 80 and that shit never happened.

>>2458976
>When you take off the rose-tinted glasses arcades were also a ripoff and predatory,

They aren't frequented anymore because people are on to their shit. These days I go through them looking for people on head-to-head games to play those with them. I haven't caught anyone on them in years and the whole arcades are usually mostly empty. The only reason I think there are still 3 at Ocean City are dumb Eastern European menial workers.

arcades encouraged you to get gud.
difficulty was always set to the hardest, so if you didn't get gud, you went broke. the decline of arcades is directly linked to the rise of casuals

>>2459812
>They aren't frequented anymore because people are on to their shit.

No that's not it. At least that's not the main reason. It was the fact that consoles got to the point when they were good enough to match or exceed the same game in the arcade. I remember playing Soul Caliber on the Dreamcast for the first time thinking "holy shit this is as good as the arcade". Why go to the arcade after that?

>>2459812
People paid money for arcade games back then because you could never afford the hardware. Now days they're using PC hardware that anyone can afford then not releasing arcade games on PC. I don't think the Japanese understand or even care about foreign markets anymore. People in the US are too fat and autismal to go outside anymore anyway.

>>2459549
This is why the hand full of arcades in my area never lasted.

>>2459584
>>2459605
I lived in Red Wing, MN and the drug deals going on in/around the arcades were enough to get them shut down.

>>2460139
I've lived in a mexican border state for the last 30 years and it was never bad enough to shut things down. Out of the 3 arcades I went, the first sign of trouble you got tossed out. Unless the people who owned the arcade were in on drug sales I don't see how they could have been shut down.

>>2459891
It's not that Americans are to lazy, we'll wait hours in line for a cheap amiibo. It's that arcades are obsolete. Anyone that would go to an arcade for fun, has all the stuff they need at home already. Then if it's a place like dave and busters, it's $2 for a play on sonething like the Mario Kart game. Why spend $10 for 5 races when you can have 4 people playing on a couch for the price of Mario Kart 8? I can't speak for Japanese arcades but I know the most popular games are ones that a person can't own.

>>2460303
You missed my point entirely. How many PC games looked like this in the late 80's?

>>2460203
The fact that people were repeatedly getting busted with drugs in and around the arcade caused them to lose their business license or whatever forcing them to close.

>Mexican border state
Exactly. Cops don't give a shit about some kids getting high when there's real crooks to bust.

>>2459349
Xboxes usually have fitted some external timer circuitry that lets them play for something like 5-10 mins per coin/credit. There is also a number of PCs (in arcade cabinets) running a front end made to look like the Xbox dashboard with PC games, console ports, emulators and other shit (saw one that played music videos once...).

And it goes way back really. Back in the 90s there were many ghettorigged NES/SNES/Genesis cabs with timers like that. That was the first time I saw one of those Chinese 999 in 1 carts, haha.

>>2459435

>gone home: arcade

>>2461397
You know, I can really see the money in this.

>>2459869
>why drink at a bar instead of at home?

seriously tho i agree i dont go out much either

>>2461397
>ghettorigged NES/SNES cabs
Nintendo had some official ones in Japan. Pic related is featured in one season of GCCX.

>>2461495

we had the playchoice, nigga

>>2461495
this isn't the same as a ghetto rigged cab necessarily. these were used on regular TVs in hotels, not in arcades.

>>2461507
Yes, but I literally mean it was one of those old TVs with UHF/VHF knobs inside the cab, behind a piece of plexiglass (didn't even bother with a bezel, haha). The pad PCBs were soldered to regular arcade controls, the NES and timer out of sight in the lower part and overall it looked the part, but the TV was just lazily put there so it was all dusty, off center and slightly turned to the side.

Most weren't that halfassed, but it was usually apparent they weren't official.

>>2461495
Yes, but I literally mean it was one of those old TVs with UHF/VHF knobs inside the cab, behind a piece of plexiglass (didn't even bother with a bezel, haha). The pad PCBs were soldered to regular arcade controls, the NES and timer out of sight in the lower part and overall it looked the part, but the TV was just lazily put there so it was all dusty, off center and slightly turned to the side.

Most weren't that halfassed, but it was usually apparent they weren't official.

>>2461636
That sounds awesome. The way to have done it would be putting a VCR loaded with all the commercials so when the NES wasn't on it would still be drawing people in.

>>2459435
I live in a college town so that might explain it, but there's a barcade in my town (not Dave and Busters or anything, it's a mom n pop shop) that is frequented almost exclusively by late 20s hipstery types.

>>2463279
Oh and the games aren't indieshit, they're almost all retro games. The newest one I can think of is Monster Rampage, which was on the n64. Most of the games are older. There are also a few pinball machines, which are of course popular.

>>2460338
What game is the fourth one

>>2463294
And the third one, the space shootan one

>>2459435
I played some pixel art hipster shooter on a cab at an electronics show

Better than fucking doodle jump

>>2463296
>>2463294
Just found out by myself
They are named Cyber Sled and Starblade