/vr/ - Retro Games

RIP spinners, dials and track balls

>>4358278
I wonder what one of those cost when new.

>>4358053
https://youtube.com/watch?v=CxSlDCWNzDI

>nearly every amazin SEGA cab
>things like pic-related
>>4358289
^yep, especially stuff like 720 Skate Or Die

Who wants so play polybius?

>>4358313
>>>/x/

>tfw Arcades still dead outside of Japan

>>4358303
Easily has to be in the top 5 most expensive cabinets ever built.

>>4358053
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dH7SHZWFhBI

fuck shitty ass weird controllers. Makes them impossible to play in mame.

>>4358387
The R-360 unit was the undisputed king of "holyshitican'tevenaffordtoleasethatthingformyarcade". At it's time, it was a behemoth, it was absurdly expensive, the most technically advanced cab, and it was glorious.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=qDr2jNo1dmI

Shock-G and Afterburner Deluxe get honorable mentions, as well.

>>4358515
Oh fuck, that brings back fond memories. My hometown mall had one in the courtyard area.

>>4358515
reminds me of a more advanced version of pic related

Local arcade used to have one of these and it cost the equivalent of $2 for a single game.

>>4358616
that's an example that IMO did not warrant the cost of a game.

My favorite choice is any light gun game, playing them with mouse-emulating modern guns just doesn't work. It's gotta be the real thing on a CRT.

Need a joystick or no fun. All other versions are inferior.

All games with a trackball play soooooo smoothly (when the hardware works properly)

Emulated gorf looks and plays as good as emulation can get and its fun to play but nothing beats the original cabinet.

It has a voice synthesizer that talks to you while you play.

The voice even tells you your rank and said rank on the right monitor panel lights up.

>>4358053
basically anything that uses a trackball

Marble Madness and Golf come to mind immediately

Played a lot of it when there was an arcade in my town

>>4359352
Look, I can understand enjoying Mortal Kombat, but there isn't anything truly unique about the gameplay that can't be accomplished with a regular controller or fight stick. This thread is about unique arcade game experiences that don't translate to other controllers/platforms as well, not just "arcade version is better than home version"

>>4359376
It was something about playing it at a cabinet that just didn't feel the same playing it at home. Maybe it's decades of nostalgia or maybe it's something else.

>>4359380
Well yeah, no shit. The same can be said for literally every other arcade game.

But something like this is on a completely different level from just an arcade fighting game. Impossible to recreate at home.

>>4358346
>the world is my town and japan

Strategic defense Initiative

Ship is controlled with a joystick with a shot button on top and the sight is controlled with a trackball.
Best I could find was a flyer as cabinet photos are really low res

>>4359524
I played this on the SG1000, it's kinda like missile command but better.

>>4359532
My bad, it was actually on Master System. Great game.

>>4359538
Just curious, How were the controls adapted?

>>4358387
Doubt it considering some of the insane shit Initial D alone has been pulling lately.

>>4358273
Does anybody know if there's a Virtual On cabinet somewhere in Europe? I don't feel like travelling to the US or Japan just to play an arcade game.

Even with the more expensive hard pads people made for consoles, this game was never the same as it was in the arcades.

If you wanted to go hard like the Asian kids, you needed to use the bar.

>>4360184
You can buy those machines for like $500 nowadays, they are easy to get because there's a facebook group that can hook you up if you want to buy one.

AY-TATATATAATATATATATATA!

UR alredy DED!

Fuck I loved this thing

>>4360253
I came across one of these while in England. Arcades aren't much of a thing here in mainland Europe, so not just being able to play an arcade game, but play this one was an amazing experience.

>>4359541
You hold a button and use the dpad to aim the target and let go of the button to move

>>4360386
Man Sega always knew how to do it up for the arcades

>>4360386
Sad the Finsters had to go into witness protection

>>4360386
Why play that garbage when you can go play Nickelodeon Racing instead?

>>4358309
I played this game and it was pretty fun.
There was an arcade hall in one of the malls in our city that had it. There was about 20 classic cabinets like Time Crisis, DDR etc.

Too bad only 5 or so were popular, so instead of removing the unpopular ones they just closed down altogether.

>>4360184
Came to post this.
Pump is better

HEY HEY COME ON OVER AND HAVE SOME FUN WITH CRAAAAAAZY TAXI

YA YA YA YA YA YA

>>4358303
More than you can afford, pal

>>4358053
The deluxe model of Space Harrier has a tilting seat. They seemed to make a lot of cabinets with some sort of moving gimmick in the late 80's to early 90's

>>4361767
Good thing demul can emulate it, complete with the 3 seperate screens and all.

>>4358313
Wasn't Polybius just a german expat who ran coinop.org making up an arcade cabinet loosely based on East German Polyplay?

>>4359387
Wish SEGA made a modern one with a hardcore option with realistic clutch and gear changes

>>4362012
Xbox Ahoy made a nice video about it. From what he gathered it was an elaborate hoax from early WWW from a known newsgroups prankster.

>>4360369
Same here, why aren't/weren't arcades more popular in the mainland?

>>4362012
No, not at all. I played it for a few minutes when I was a kid. It did exist. The game had a fatal flaw, it was too addictive.

>>4362414
having your dad work at nintendo sure had its perks, huh ;)

>>4364090
Nope, I was just in the right place at the right time. I can describe it and even the description, at least in person, is almost as mesmerizing as the game itself.

>>4364427
What do you gain from continuing an urban legend? What benefit is there, short of drawing attention to yourself in a misguided attempt to feel more significant? Are you that narcissistic? Ahoy spent over a month debunking your shit so just give it up. You aren't fooling anybody

https://youtu.be/_7X6Yeydgyg

>>4362414
>when I was a kid
So some time between 12 years ago and 6 years from now?

>>4364427
ohai edgar

>>4359352
Better chalk up so that joystick slides smoothly in your hand