/vr/ - Retro Games

>>3885509
My favorite arcade is jambo safari.
1st i ever remember playin in road blasters at a chucky cheese in southern CA.
I used to own a cps2 cab with marvel vs stteetfighter and street fighter alpha 3.
Now i just own a mame cab i built in '09.
Dont have a favorite cab art. Maybe the style of the 80s games if i had to choose

Heck yeah. Anyone have a good arcade discord?
My favorite arcade game is probably Frogger, it's really tough though. 1st was either Afterburner or Aero Fighters 2. I own a MAME cab at the moment but would really like to start expanding into a few dedicated cabs, I really want to track down a Mad Planets. This isn't art really but my favorite cabinet design is T-MEK. My arcade rigged two curtains on either side of the two player cockpit so that you really got immersed in the experience.

Virtua Fighter 2
Cocktail Galaga / Mrs. Pacman (maybe 82 or 83)
I've thought about arcade hardware collecting, but I'm not sure I want to jump down that rabbit hole. I'd love to have a Sega Model 3 since emulation is buggy. I'd also like a CPS2, but the suicide battery on the games is a real turnoff.

My favorite arcade game and my favorite video game of all time. Note that despite the cabinet art, this is the original OutRun.

>favorite
I'll go with Fatal Fury Special
>first game
probably pac-mania, although the first game that really captivated me as a toddler was OutRun. I couldn't reach the pedals but I still played it somehow. Blew me away.

The Ocean Hunter. The only one I've ever encountered is at the Cobra in Panama City Beach, Florida. It's got full privacy curtains on the side and a big faded rear projection monitor. I play it when I go on vacation. In '08 I made it all the way to the final boss, but died during the damn elbow phase. Last year my lil' bro and I beat it together, took so many quarters to get past that fucker's elbow, but man it was awesome, best moment of the trip.

I own two gutted cabs that I got for free, an old Lethal Enforcer II and a Carn-Evil. Both were completely gutted save for some wiring, whenever I get rich I'll restore em or turn em into MAME machines.

>favorite
pic related
>first arcade game
its been so long I can't even remember
>do you own any?
no
>which would you choose?
either pic related or some kind of mame cabinet with arcade sticks, light guns, and a trackball for shits and giggles
>favorite cabinet art?
pic fucking related

I saw one of these for the first time recently. Definitely some of the coolest artwork ever. Too bad there's still no sound for it in MAME, as well as for other old Sega games like Borderline or Tranquilizer Gun.

>>3885584
A laser-tag place I went to as a kid in NC called Adventure Landing had an Ocean Hunter cab. Awesome arcade game. There's a rom of the game but the background's a bit messed up unfortunately.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R9rbsrd1sWE

>Galaga
>STUN Runner, 89
>No, but I'd get Tapper, Crazy Taxi, and a 6-slot Neo Geo (Neo Turf Masters, Mutation Nation, Metal Slug 3, Bust a Move, KoF 2k2, Real Bout Fatal Fury Special)

>>3885543
Quick shot of my MAME cab.
>inb4 LCD complaining

how do i simulate SEGA discrete logic games

>>3885690
You can use this to play Monaco GP.
http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?topic=134445.0

>>3885701

oh wow thank you!

as a big fan of SEGA's electromechanical work I've been wanting to play more (really any!) of their discrete logic games, but they're so hard to find! I travel stateside a bunch so if anyone knows of any arcade/laundromat/idgaf with SEGA discrete logic games i'd write it down and check it out!

>>3885509
>What's your favorite arcade game?
Wew. Attraction cabs often get my money because I can't duplicate the experience at home. A good example is Sega AM2's Waterski

>What was the first arcade game you played and in what year?
Pac-Man or Donkey Kong at the grocery store with my mom in 1981

Do you own any, and if not, then which would you choose?
I have Vs. Hogan's Alley, Street Fighter 2: TWW, The NinjaWarriors, The Combatribes and a Bally Sente cab that was converted to Magic Sword then converted again to WWF Wrestlefest and I intend to make into a MAME cab

Favorite cabinet art?
pic related

I have a few cabs.

Astro City (candy)
Blast City (candy, non-stock CRT)
Neo Candy 29 (still need to finish a cap kit that I started like 2 years ago... I'm lazy)
The House of the Dead (pedestal model)
Lost World (upright)
Area 51: Site 4 (has a graphical issue, shared by 2 different boards so I don't know what's up with it)

And a lot of PCBs and MVS/CPS2 carts, a few Naomi carts, a few (not retro) Type X2 harddrives, and a few Namco 246 DVDs.

>>3885716
They have a Jet Rocket at Cedar Point but it was out of order the last time I was there a lot of their EM games are iffy. They do have a nice Sega Turbo though.

>What's your favorite arcade game?
Dungeons & Dragons: Shadow over Mystara, Bloody Roar 2 and Vampire Savior.

>What was the first arcade game you played and in what year?
Cruis'n USA in 1996.

>which would you choose?
Project Justice, D&D:SoM, Vampire Savior or Bloody Roar 2.

>Favorite cabinet art?
Pic related.

>>3885636
Nah, I'd rather give you crap about how dirty the control area is and not having a trackball instead.

>>3885509
>What's your favorite arcade game?
Final Fight
>What was the first arcade game you played and in what year?
Donkey Kong around the late '80's.
>Do you own any, and if not, then which would you choose?
>Favorite cabinet art?
Either Gauntlet or Quartet. Double Dragon II is nice too. I usually prefer Japanese candy cabs though

>>3885543
no but there's a /vr/ discord https://discord.gg/MPd98

>>3885619
Sweet, glad to meet another fan. I don't think I could emulate the game, just wouldn't be the same experience. I watched that playthrough and this one, an HD remaster:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rumJmjJXnr4&t=2194s
I think a lot of the difficult is lost when using a mouse, these guys just fly through the Poseidon fight

>>3885509
Hard to say what my favorite arcade game is but I'm a huge fighting game fan so I have to say Street Fighter III: 3rd Strike, first arcade game ever played was a Galaga upright. I do currently own two machines a Neo Geo 4-slot and a Nintendo Vs. Dualsystem Upright. I would love to own a Blast City Candy Cab and a dedicated Robotron

>>3885731
is your Ninjawarriors cab dedicated with the three monitors? if so mad props because those look heavy as hell.

>>3885509
I could play a galaga arcade cabinet for hours and not get bored, also simpsons arcade was fun as fuck

Has anyone else here played Eyes?

It's an excellent maze shooting game from a western company called Techstar. You move your eye around the maze and shoot the dots to collect them, as well as shooting the enemy eyes.

It's a lot of fun, and it doesn't seemed to be talked about often. There's a place near me that claims to have the cabinet in their collection, but I've never seen it on the floor.

>>3885509
>What's your favorite arcade game?
Outrun
>What was the first arcade game you played and in what year?
That honor would go to Toki and I played it at the county fair summer of '92 I believe
>Do you own any?
A couple. Outrun, Afterburner, Gyruss, and a non working Space Harrier.

>>3886289
Great taste in dedicateds, I hope the Outrun is sit down?

>>3886052
Yeah it is. I rode in the back of my best friend's dad's Subaru Brat to stabilize it back in the day and it damn near toppled out on the first tight turn from being so top heavy I'll never forget that feeling of panic hauling it back upright. Now I've got a full size big enough to haul it plus two more easily and he recently died. Times they do change.

>>3886597
>I hope the Outrun is sit down?
I wish. It's the full size stand up cab which is of course still great :^). My Space Harrier is the stationary sit down version which I was "told" is the rarest one.

>>3885509
>What's your favorite arcade game?
Crazy Taxi
>What was the first arcade game you played and in what year?
T2: The Arcade game, I think in '93 or '94.
>which would you choose
F355 Challenge, triple monitor version.

>>3886609
Yup been there done that lol, my Vs. Dualsystem was so damn heavy and big as hell getting into my uncles truck, sorry for your loss man.

>>3886686
I hadn't seen him for some time. He wasn't doing well soon after my dad died in '09 but then they found some combination of medication that really brought him around until apparently last year. I wish something like that had happened for mine.

>>3885509
best arcade game. prove me wrong

protip:
you cant

>>3885509
My first arcade love was Jungle Hunt on a cocktail table at the local pizza joint.

I didn't live near an arcade, so when new games came to Pizza Junction, then it was arcade time (pizza wasn't shit, either).

>>3887248
Gaplus.

>Favorite
(pic related)
>First arcade
Mrs. Pac-man, 1997
>Which would you choose
(Pic related) and I recently obtained a DX version of the game. Couldn't be happier.

>>3891515
>not preferring the superior arcade star wars

>>3891515
Mention one story about this
>be me.
>played this at a resturant for the first time in 98.
>fuckyeah.jpeg
>played it till I ran out of money.
>left but would sometimes go to the restaurant just to play it.
>restaurant went out of business and the game vanished.
>super bummed because that was the only place in the area that had it.
>said I'm going to buy this when I'm older.
>*laughing "ok anon"
>flash forward 17 years later.
>at a movie theater and they had the game.
>freakingout*
>was late to watching the movie but didn't care, wanted to play.
>would go there in my trips to the area and play it.
>did this for 2 years.
>later learned that the movie theater was going out of business.
>asked if they where going to sell the machine.
>said they didn't own it but gives me the number to the company that did.
>called them, made an offer, got a response and they where willing to sell it.
>just bought my all time favorite arcade.
>got the the company and asked how long they owned it and they said since it came out in 98.
>learned that they also supplied this machine to the restaurant where I first played this machine.
>mfw I just bought my childhood game and it being the same one I first played back then.

>>3891519
I've only seen one of these machines and couldn't even play it because it was like a game museum thing.

>>3885509
Favorite is Aero Fighters even though I'm shit at it.

First one i remember playing is Turtles I Time a a local pizza place back in the 90's.

Don't own any, wouldn't mind a copy of Aero Fighters though.

>>3885636
>LCD
Ya blew it

Whats the best way for a lazy fuck like me to get an arcade pad with authentic sanwa parts? It seems like every brand that offers them like the sega virtua stick high grade have been out of print for a long time

>>3891552
What game was it again?

>>3893909
Star Wars Trilogy Arcade.

>>3887248
Galaxian is awesome. I like the focus on precise shooting, and getting the 800 bonus by killing the escorts and boss is always satisfying.

If you like Galaxian, try King and Balloon, which I think is even better. I saw one on location for the first time recently.

>>3886289
>Gyruss
I'm jealous

Well, i guess this would be the place to ask.

What d to make a very small arcade machine to run emulators? It got to be somewhat small so i can place it on a table.

>>3896509
Make it out of a cheap laptop that has broken hinges

>>3886274
Pac-Man on acid

>>3885636
>LCD
I can deal with it as long as the aspect ratio is correct. My neighborhood comic shop has a MAME cabinet and all the 4:3 games are stretched out and it irks the hell out of me.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ITVKL0QYxa8

>>3902576
>shilling on /vr/
subscribed

>>3893906
Build it. I'm sure if you do an ebay search for "sanwa usb kit" you'll see all kinds of options

Top three are:
720
Toobin
Paperboy

All have shot up in price. Should have bought them years ago when they were cheaper.

>>3885509
>What's your favorite arcade game?
hmmm i'd have to name a few so j.j sqwakers,undercover cops,gradius iv,guwange, sf3 3rd strike,rb fatal fury 2,windjammers, battle gear series and the list goes on.

>>3885509
>What was the first arcade game you played and in what year?
It was either sf 2 in an arcade in walthamstow or captain america in the hamleys arcade way back when.
>>3885509
>Do you own any, and if not, then which would you choose?
Nah, i'd probably opt for a battle gear or outrun 2 cab and who knows what else a shmup and a bmup probably.

I'm currently helping a friend rebuild their arcade in London. The new venue is nice and big but it'll probably end up a bit sparse.

Machine seleciton isn't great, but half of the venue is taken up by console setups anwyay.

I think he's currently got 5 or 6 VS City cabs saved from Trocadero back in the day with various fighting games like 3rd Strike (and Money Puzzle Exchange), Time Crisis 2, House of the Dead 2, Twin-linked Daytona USA, some rebuilt Naomi cabs that have consoles in, and a handful of Net City cabs refitted for generic boards.

He's going for the pay-on-entry and everything-on-freeplay route, hope it works out for him.

>>3885509
>Favorite game
Space Harrier (moving seat cab version), was also first arcade game.
Second would be Lucky & Wild.

Don't own any, I have a pinball machine though.

>>3885959
>https://discord.gg/MPd98
>invalid or expired

Fresh one please?

>>3903320
House of Gaming?

What I really miss is the Casino and all the shoot em ups there..

The Four Quarters bars idea seems to be the way to go, great atmosphere and succesful formula. Speaking of which, have you been to the new one? It's in a hipster area and had a really shaky start (practically empty on a Friday night) but seems to be getting some steam now.

Do crane games count?
I really like crane games.
I wish there were still arcades.


I also liked the grid and the initial d cabinets that I've played, but the initial d thing was recent. My favorite besides crane games is probably the x men arcade game.

I miss having friends to play them with. There still is an arcade two towns over but it's only in business because it's attached to a water park. It's really mediocre.

>>3903332
Got my first taste of Death Smiles there. Yeah its Heart of Gaming, they've found a venue down on Croydon now.

My dad collected a handful in the '80s, mostly atari vector games but we have a space invaders cabaret too.

Love the X-Y graphics, but goddamn are they a bitch to keep running.

Favorite is split between Tempest and Star Wars, both the gameplay and sideart.

>>3891519
My nigga.

>>3903638
Fuck I hate phoneposting

>>3885509
Favorite game is Sega Rally 1&2. Too bad they are nowhere to be found anymore

>>3885509
My first arcsde game was Dig Dig sometime in the early 2000s at a ski resort.

>>3891556
The game museum I went to as a kid let you play the game. How could you have a game museum otherwise? That's like having a museum full of paintings that are covered by black cloth and the only way to experience the art is via the description plaque.

>>3904573
I said the same thing! It was on a showcase of a private collection and the owner "didn't want his merchandise damaged." Terrible.

Finally got my cab hooked up again.

Was good to do a casual playthrough of sunset riders. I forgot most of the little nuances from when I was well on my way to a 1CC. El Greco fucks me off because I get impatient.

I'll have to play more Neo-Geo games. I want a copy of Neo Drift Out so bad but I don't wanna drop that kind of coin.

>>3904959
https://www.focusattack.com/161-in-1-neo-geo-mvs-cartridge/

How did I do?

http://www.ebay.com/itm/152488168033?_trksid=p2057872.m2749.l2649&ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT

>>3885509
Any light gun game in general.

>>3909314
They made plenty of shit ones though.