/vr/ - Retro Games

No. Part of me doesn't really miss them either, though I did love the atmosphere, the things ate money like nobody's business.

No. The closest place is like 20 miles away and it's a mall arcade that isn't maintained.

I miss my arcade very much.

I live where theres 2 barcades, alcohol and gaming winning

>>482562

A local game shop has a few machines.

There used to be a huge one in the mall of a nearby city but in the past couple of years it turned into a Forever 21.

I think I lucked out on living in Columbus, OH.

There's a barcade that's supposed to be built this summer that has a bunch of retro games, but 2 hours south in Cincinatti from me is Arcade Legacy, which is known to cater to both retro-gaming and fighting game services. The owner's a pretty cool dude. They also own a Space Jam Pinball Machine, and Drummania machine. 2 Hours north of me is Findlay, where GamerVG is, which has one of the very few DJ MAX Technika 3 arcade machines.

Do the one's in movie theaters count. Just blew 13 bucks on Simpsons and DDR before watching Jurassic park.

>>482562

I believe they where mismanaged price wise in my area.
Unless the owner wanted them empty 90% of the time.

>>482562
Judging by the Asteroids machine, I'd say the picture is from about 1980.

There are places around me that have arcade games, but the last dedicated arcade closed down a few months ago. It wasn't that great so I don't mind much. Only game I liked playing there was that one Konami motion boxing game.

The few places I know of are Dave and Busters, some other amusement type place with mini golf and shit. A barcade that has mostly 80's cabinets, of which I am only interested in Joust and the 5 pinball tables.

>>482620
>I think I lucked out on living in Columbus, OH.
Hahaha, no. You didn't. Everything around Franklin County is a deadzone, no matter what your interest. Unless it's antique furniture.

>>482562
Can anyone ID the arcade machine the cowboy dude is playing?

>>482640
Why 1980? Couldn't they have had Asteroids later?

>>482668
At that time, game technology was moving fast and arcade machines only stayed popular for like six months to a year. By the time Pac-Man and Donkey Kong were hot, Space Invaders and Asteroids were passe.

>>482652
Our economy is based on OSU Football, and the Columbus Blue Jackets.

For gaming, it's not too bad I feel like. Everything else, fucking sucks. Including the cons out here, hence why I have to travel to Chicago to do anything fun. But gaming-wise, it's not too bad. Parts are cheap, and driving out to Arcade Legacy / GamerVG isn't too bad.

>Antiques Fair
Indiana's way worst than us here in OH.

>>482668
>>482562
The Rolling Stones pin in the front is a Bally model from 1979 (which fits with the 79-80 time period) and they made about 6000 of them.

We can say quite safely that Jimmy Carter was president when OP picture was taken.

>>482562
The kid's bag reads "Record B" (Barn?). He looks like he was doing some music shopping before hitting the arcade and as he's at a Stones pin, maybe an avid music lover.

>>482652
>Everything around Franklin County is a deadzone

>hating on the basket

Denver's 1up is about an hour from me. It is entirely devoted to the idea of a drinking arcade. So many games. I loved being able to play House of the Dead and Punch Out. Too bad I was hammered and blew at the game.

I live in Summit County though, so I have to drive through a snowy interstate to get to it.

It's a fun place to drink though. They even have giant Jenga tables. The drinks are reasonably priced as well.

>>482732
>shopping at a record store
>buying physical record albums
How quaint and 20th century. We've come a long way baby.

>>482732
He looks about 18 or so. If this was in 1980, he'd be like 50 now.

http://www.the-1up.com/arcade.html

Getting drunk with some random bro's and playing X-Men is a blast.

>>482767

Sounds about right. And the dude playing Asteroids probably owns a Ranch right now.

(With an asteroids cabinet in the barn)

>>482657
I wanna say missile command but a lot of cabinets are that color (minus the missile).

>>482763

Fuck. I've always dreamed about opening up a place like this. Modern, classy interior design. 18+. Large menu. Bar with good drinks. TVs around the bar with modern consoles hooked up. Private VIP rooms with projector screens and any game you could want that can be reserved. Huge arcade. Store on site that sells retro games and new releases.

>tfw it will never happen

>>482781
The kid at the Stones pin had dreams of becoming the next Mick Jagger, but his band never progressed beyond local clubs and he now works a minimum wage job at Target while having to pay his ex-wife alimony.

>>482791

Nah. It could totally work. I mean, you'll be catering to the modern CoD crowd, of course.

Still, in time you'll see some type of bar arise where guys can leave their wives to play CoD, Fifa, Madden, or whatever multiplayer games they used to engage in.

*Note to self (This is a good idea)

>>482793

Am I imagining things or are both guys to the left and right redheads?

There's a really small one near me but it has Hydro Thunder and Marvel vs Capcom, so I'm happy.

>>482562
Was the architect drunk ?

Ultimately Arcades were just a scam to trick the consumer of thinking they had a chance when they were designed to kill every single person in under 3 minutes if it's your first time playing.

There is a small arcace in the mall here (town is 100K strong)
There is an arcade in the Mr Gattis as well
Pretty much it

>>482814
When you really stop and think about it, video games have been mainstream entertainment for only the last decade. I can bring people over to my house and they'll all gladly play COD or whatever but you can't get them into retro gaming. Now some of these guys were children of the 80s-early 90s so you think they might like or at least have heard of the stuff, but if you mention, say, old DOS games, they just stare blankly and go "Wut?"

>>482843
More likely that whoever took the photo was drunk.

>>482562

I wish... i really want to play Time Crisis II.

>>482856

Of course. Retro gaming is a niche market. On a board devoted to the hobby, you'll find plenty of people to identify with.

Let me list of some games and you see how many you know at least something about.

Panzer Dragoon Saga
Super Mario RPG
Chrono Trigger
Snatcher
Gunstar Heroes
Castlevania 3
Shining Force

The average person will have little to minimal knowledge of these titles. This is to be completely expected.

Yet in the future, current major mainstream titles are going to the the things that people on this board talk about.

>>482854
games I can think they have off the top of my head
>DDR
>Time Criss 2&3
>Virtua Cop
>Hydro Thunder
>Tekken 1&2
>THE Jurrasic Park railgun experience
>Crusin USA 2 seater
>some other racer with 10 seats can't remember
>sick bumper cars (6'4 so too big to go on them ;_;)
skee-ball
Other stuff as well but those were the ones I played the most

>>482791
>>482814

The problem with having an arcade room are not the games, neither the public; are the costs and by that i mean the fucking electricity bill for having the machines on pretty much all day in an era where we're being supposedly eco-firendly.

Arcades with LED technology, why this isn't happened?.

wow
you know guys its like a joke but i think all your arcade machines now in Turkey. I am talking about mall-arcades but actually they have really good games. Every three or four blocks there is a shopping mall and in every shopping mall there are fuck tons of arcades here. Named playland btw

Britfag here, live near generic cinema/bowling place that has a small arcade with the usual fair of games (coin pushers and the roller coaster simulator take up the most space)
Big shopping centre a few miles away with namco arcade, hate shopping centres though so never go.
Pub in town with a pinball machine, pacman and an Indiana Jones cab.
Nightclub with point black and cocktail cab (always broken or about to break)
Another pub with a cocktail but the joysticks are fucked.

Used to have a rock club with a dickload of old machines it's gone now.

I have this place within a five minute walk of my house. I think it was a Capcom thing. In any case, their gimmick is that instead of quarters, you use nickels; however, the cost generally comes out to be about the same, considering some games cost 6 nickels per play, or some that cost eight. There are some machines that are free play, and some that only cost a nickel or two. The thing about it though is that they charge admission there, and the machines aren't very well maintained.

The place kinda sucks in my opinion, but they could very much make it a better arcade if they tried. I think that they are on their last legs though. It's a $2 admission, or if you buy ten admissions at once, it's $1.25 each time. I have fond childhood memories with the place. I wish I could make it a really good place to go to have fun. They could really use some more modern games to attract some more people.

>>482562
>Tucson, Arizona, Burgerland

No freestanding arcades but there's a couple of nice sized ones if you're willing to pay admission to Golf n' Stuff (really, really nice minigolf place) or at the Funtastics Family Fun Park.
Both are full service arcades with everything from pinball and stand-ups to racing games and carnival shit.
I could theoretically go up to the Metrocenter in Phoenix but havent been there in a long time and I hate that city.

>>482972
I love nickel arcades and good luck finding arcade games top play for 30-40 cents.
Thats damn good compared to shit like d&b and movie theaters.
Plus all older arcade games are usually free, and those are teh best to play imo.

>>483008
yo I'm working on putting a few mame based machines at the swapmeet. i already have a building. I am going to use a time based deal where you pay for time and play whatever games you want. Also just at Pheonix at arizona mill mall theres a sega Game Works. great place!

>>483185
Do you remember when Stage 35 by SEGA was in Foothills mall? wasn't great but it was better than nothing, that gemstone exhibit that had been there for a decade and the train room were nice too.

>>483202
yep sure do I still live close to That mall. Tell me what would you pay to play on Mame cabinets? like how much for how long? i may also do a Melty Blood Actress Again cabinet with a big flat screen.

>>483221
I dont know, I barely get out as it is. I haven't been to TVSwapmeet in ages.

More related to the original topic:
My dream arcade would have Moonwalker, Armored Warriors, Simpsons Arcade, XMEN Arcade, SSF2Turbo, UMK3, Killer Instinct, Raiden 1&2 combo, AfterBurner, Revolution X, Time Crisis 2, Gauntlet 1-2-Legends-Dark Legacy, Mr & Ms Pac-Man, Cruisin' USA/World, StarTrek TNG (yes, the Shuttlecraft) and sooo many more.

you have no fucking idea of how much i miss this, and the arcade that's on its left.

Brit here. I've not got many places near me (I live in godmanchester). Closest place that has machines for me is a cineworld in huntingdon, which doesn't have much. anyone know of any decent places within the huntingdon area or at least near?
>>482620
>DJMAX Technika 3
you lucky bastard.

There's a few within driving distance of me but most of them tend to mostly be stuff like crane games with the occasional vidya game dotted around. Was in one recently actually and it wasn't to bad, they had Mario Kart Arcade 2 and House of the Dead 3 among others

>>483349
Yeah, I don't think there's any real shortage of family fun centers like that, I can think of a few "arcades" close by with ticket redemption and crane games exclusively. The closest you'll come to a real game though is a broken DDR machine or Simpsons arcade.

My D&D arcade game... I one day hope o convert my garage into an arcade i can count on never closing.

>>483361
You have to show us you got PDS everytime you post something? What're you, bragging? That's a terrible personality trait.

The only arcades nearby are 20-40 minutes' drive away, and they're all just shit with crane games, whack a croc, boring racing cabinets, DDR, Street Fighter and Timesplitters. It's all the same shit and they're boring to go to.
It sucks because I love both IIDX and shmups and more recent releases of both of those are staying in arcades rather than getting home releases and now I no longer have any way to play them.

>>483363
I also agree with this anon.

>>483374
Make that Time Crisis, not Timesplitters. If only.

>>483374
whack a cock uh huhuhuhuh

Yeah, but now it's all indoor paintball, laser tag, trampoline basketball, etc. There's maybe 10, 15 actual arcade games.

>>482562
>Lets talk about arcade games, do you still have an active arcade where you live?

Yes. But only in shopping and only old machines. With the exception of Street Fighter 4

I'm planing to beat House of the Dead 3 with one credit.

we have a nice arcade center here.
list of games.
http://www.arcadestreet.fr/log/?page_id=25
the price is bit too high 0,50 euros/1C
and the owner is kind of a douche bag.
but hey i can play darius Burst EX so.

when i was working in another town i found a small arcade center with 6 or 8 games. with 0,20 euros/ credit. the guys there know their shit and i had that small ritual after work before going home i always go there to play some games.
http://www.gamespirit.fr/event/gamecenter/

That feel when arcades never were a thing in your country all you had were billiard halls with 1 or 2 machines

No, fuck you, you don't know that feel, you don't understand my suffering

>>483467

Lyon sounds like a really nice town

Here's a longshot:

Does anyone know of any arcades with shoot em ups in the UK? I haven't visited many arcades, but the ones I've been to have just had DDR and more recent gun games. I found an Initial D machine on the pier at Llandudno to my surprise, but I'm not a fan

>>483502
It's probably because I was younger but I've never seen any shmups in the UK save for Space Invaders. I certainly don't know any arcades in Yorkshire.

I know there was one in London, but I think they only have Progear now.

>>483520
The closest thing I have to an arcade is a tiny thing in the corner of the cinema. They have a fruit machine, some racing game and house of the dead 4.

>>483528
Yeah, I can always count on HotD or Time Crisis being at cinemas.

Arcade Odyssey in Miami but I post this in every arcade thread.

Place is amazing.

Dem candy cabs.
Dem shooters
Dem beat em ups
Dem Japanese imports

Goddamn this place is like heaven

I live in Hartford, CT

not sure of any arcades. i remember visiting a pizza place and playing Battletoads and Simpsons. but thats it

>>482863
I know that feel bro, loved that game.

I live about an hour from one that's ok. Only thing really annoying about it is it's pay by the hour with free cabinets, which would be good except it's 8$ for one hour or like 20$ for all day, and you can't hang out back there unless you've purchased a card for swiping which is fucking stupid.

I guess it's not too expensive, but I kinda dislike how you're forced to pay even if you wanted to kinda just go hang out.

Just out of curiosity and to keep the thread alive, what's your bar game of choice?

I've gotten really into Foosball lately and it's become my game of choice. I'd like to begin playing pool but I don't want to put the time and money into it that I've already put into Foos.

>>482678
>Indiana's way worst than us here in OH.

Come and say that to our face, bitch

>>482696
>We can say quite safely that Jimmy Carter was president when OP picture was taken

Look at the guy in the background. He's got one of those fuzzy red hats with the ball on top. Those were popular during the disco era.

Theres two where I live, Pinballz which is Texas' largest arcade with countless pinball tables, and a shitload of arcade cabinets. They even have Battletoads arcade, I've never seen one of those growing up.

Theres also Arcade UFO they have nothing but those big plastic Japanese arcade cabinets with fighting games and other imported titles. Huge fan of the Gundam game they have.

>>482562
We have a Mall arcade (fuck that shit) and a nickle mania nearby, but largely, no. No real arcades.

The TMNT at the Nickle Mania has a broken Michelangelo stick. You can only walk left. Why. Why god.

>>483363
How long have you been here?

Everyone brags about their little gems only the internet cares about.

There was a pretty awesome arcade at my University when I went there, but it was replaced by "That Empty Space", which is an empty space.

Now there's no more Silent Scope, or all the racing games, or the Initial D and Gundam imports, or Joust, or Virtual On, or the top down shooters, or the Star Wars vector games, etc, etc.

>>482891
>Retro gaming is a niche market. On a board devoted to the hobby, you'll find plenty of people to identify with

The point being that when these games were _new_, they were much less mainstream

>>485436
man i feel for you. there was an arcade at the uni i recently transferred to, but of course by the time i got there, it had been replaced by part of a restaurant and some game corner or something where you pay by the hour to play modern consoles. i don't know exactly what they had there, but there were several machines including some old ones and svc chaos

My local arcade has turned into a Dave & Buster's knockoff.

The arcade that was at my mall has turned into another sports memorabilia store. My mall already has 2 other sports memorabilia stores.

>ctrl+f
>No Disney Quest

>>486084
>tfw live in orlando
Too bad disney quest is so expensive. Most of the their cabinets are in pretty good condition though, and the selection of games is top notch.

>>485887
At least my university still has a halfway decent, if not small, arcade.

>>486128
Well, after paying entrance, almost everything is free to play, so might as well go from morning till they kick you out.

Super Arcade in Walnut, California used to have a few cabinets with retro games that were other than just Street Fighter and Tekken. The usual DDR machines, Initial D, Time Crisis, and some other music games like Beatmania were there too. Also a Pool table?

But then they fucking took out Puzzle Bobble. You don't just fucking take out Puzzle Bobble and then take out Puzzle Street Fighter too. Adding Pop n' Music Paradise doesn't fix my broken heart that easily.

I live in Portland.

I got Ground Kontrol.

I win.

>>486293
>Portland
I do feel sorry for you though.

There's one that is 2 hours away from me in Miami. They're called Arcade Odyssey, and they have a bunch of imported cabinets, like Super Street Fighter IV, Capcom vs SNK 2, Melty Blood, etc.

>>483575
Lol didn't realize I was beaten to it

pinball pete's in ann arbor, michigan

it's a deep, dark dungeon you descend into. used to hold sf3 tournaments, not sure if they still do

barcade in williamsburg, brooklyn.

fucking sucks compared to what i'm used to, but at least it's close.

actually this whole neighborhood sucks :<

>>483575
You forgot the best part.

>Dat carpet

>>485436
>>485887
My Uni Arcade (which was actually just a couple modern pinball tables, a couple cabs, and a basketball toss game) was a part of the bowling alley. That space now is filled with chairs. The pinball tables are still there, but everything else is gone.

There's still one arcade game left, but it's some kind of 1001 in 1 machine with a bunch of shovelware 3d games.

Goodwill bump.

I live in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada and some shitheel opened a "vintage arcade" in the back of his convenience store a few months ago.

He went around the city buying machines from laundry mats and garage sales, culminating in the worst selection of arcade games imaginable. He refuses to buy better games, despite the fact that no one comes into his "arcade" anymore.

>tfw you'll never be able to go to a Namco arcade on your payday and play Hang On

Sometimes, I hate my life.

>>486757
>Pinball Pete's
Mah nigga. This place is amazing. Anyone in MI should check it out.

>>491708
For real? I'm from Halifax, was scrolling the front page and saw this by coincidence. Where is this at?

>>491769

2860 Oxford Street, in Daily Sweets convenience store.

They have a "free" play day every week where you pay $5 and play as much as you want. Otherwise, the machines are a quarter each.

The guy who runs it also placed machines on the campuses of Dalhousie and Saint Mary's. Dal has Terminator 2 in it's campus bar (the Grawood) and SMU has Gauntlet Legends in it's Student Union Building.

>>486757
fuck that, Pinball Pete's is asscrack

their 3S machine has been busted for like, i shit you not, 6+ years. I have to try to beat dudes with Q while not being able to use MP or up-left.

that being said they have a lot of other nice games that work but the reason the MI FGC doesn't go there is because some of their fighting games are in dire need of repair and the owners never repair them. The arcade is pretty okay but that 3S machine makes my blood boil over how long its been broken

>>482763
>http://www.the-1up.com/arcade.html
>Chaco Tacos for desserts
Jesus, it's like they exclusively catered to the old retro crowd and know what we want! Holy fuck I freaked out when I saw that.

They must be keeping up with the trends online.

>>491708
>vintage arcade
Who the hell would call "old arcade" or "retro arcade" as "vintage arcade". It sounds so hipsteric and stupid. Just like when some faggots say "grapic novel" instead of "comic"/"manga".
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W1gv9EXqRHA

Only arcade I ever got to go to was a good 2 hour train journey. It's shut down now, which is sad.

>>491720

The arcade that picture hails from is the one I >>492370 was talking about.

Sure it went to shit in the last year or so of It's life, but back in the early 2000s that place was king. I miss that place.

I live in the UK. Fuck all arcades about, excluding the Trocodero (no idea how to spell it).... which is in London. and I'm in the Midlands.

>>492404

Trocodero shutdown like a year and a half ago.

i have one near me called Pinballz Arcade, 2 story building of nothing but arcade games, and pinball machines plus BYOB.

>>492407
well shit. and I never got round to going.

>>486326
I'm so jelly. The most modern arcade cabinet I've seen was King of Fighters 98.

I just moved back to the states from Tokyo. Used to go to arcades with my friends every weekend. Now I'm back and there's nothing. Feels bad.

Though most of the arcades had newer stuff, not retro. Still fun, though.

I go to Galloping Ghost every once in a while. I'd like to go more often but it's like a 45 to 60 minute (depending on traffic) drive from where I live. Fucking awesome place. Anybody in the Chicago area who has never been should check it out.

>>482854
In Gattitown right now. The best /vr type games here are Jambo Safari, Pod Racer, 18 wheeler and The Ocean Hunter by SEGA

Which should I play first?

I live near an English seaside city so there's a fairly large stretch of arcades with generic 10~ year old games.

Annoyingly that now that I have read the manga, that Fist of the North Star game with the punching gloves has vanished from every one so I'll never get to play that with knowledge of the characters.

Last time I went one had put Point Blank back out from some reason so it was amazing to play that again, although it was pretty depressing as I was playing it alone.

I live in Niagara Falls, Ontario. There are like five arcades within walking distance.

I live near an English seaside city so there's a fairly large stretch of arcades with generic 10~ year old games.

Annoyingly that now that I have read the manga, that Fist of the North Star game with the punching gloves has vanished from every one so I'll never get to play that with knowledge of the characters.

Last time I went one had put Point Blank back out from some reason so it was amazing to play that again, although it was pretty depressing as I was playing it alone.

Let's see...Seattle

We have gameworks downtown...which is decent. Nothing too impressive.

There's a mini arcade inside Pink Gorilla up in the u district, which is cool for what it is.

Then there's a pinball museum in the international district which I hear is pretty sick.

Full Tilt, an ice cream shop, has several cabinets and pinball machines.

Then there's Narwall, below Unicorn (bar), which has several cabinets and pinballs. Its full barcade, if anything. Its pretty nifty but the crowd from Unicorn is pretty obnoxious.

Then in Renton, there's this new barcade opening up this summer. I'm super stoked. It looks very very promising.

>>482562
dude that is an amaizing picture! where did you find it? really cool haha

>>484594
Pool.

I'm trying really hard to get better at it. Its fucking fun, but I can only have one or two beers in before I start to suck really bad.

>>493798
Not him but check this out

http://timeouttunnel.com/album_vintage_timeout.htm

It's almost like these people aren't really old or dead

>>483575
oh fuck. Miami, but still. oh fuck

The arcade that was open for the entire length of my life closed a year and a half ago. There was a competitor down the street that opened like five years ago and closed two years ago, and one in the mall further down that just never seemed to get its feet to begin with. There are ostensibly places that still exist like twelve towns over but I don't have a car. Not even the movie theaters have more than one game anymore. I miss DDR and fighting games, man.

>>493706
Wow Ocean Hunter was awesome but the screen was washed out.

About to try F355 challenge.

As a lover of all things arcade, one thing that pisses me off to no end is when people call the 80's the "golden age" of arcade gaming.

Like, really? I know arcades were on the decline even in the early 90's, but there is not a single arcade game from the 80's that was not bested later on. Just because that was when arcade gaming first got popular does not make it its "golden age".

From Space Invaders, we got Raiden II and Battle Garegga. From Karate Champ, we got Street Fighter and Samurai Shodown. The list goes on, and you can, for the most part, argue the same thing about arcade games from the 90's vs 00's!

Anyways OP, to answer your question, I lived in Northern California until recently, which has a lot of minigolf courses and stuff like that, so there's still a good number of arcades there. As far as arcades with a good selection of modern/relevant titles, there was Gamecenter in San Mateo.

Japan Arcade in Downtown, LA. It's a fun place, but slowly dying off.

http://www.yelp.com/biz/japan-arcade-los-angeles

>>493943
>one thing that pisses me off to no end is when people call the 80's the "golden age" of arcade gaming

because nostalgia goggles

>>493943

80s and 90s should be considered golden age together. Mortal Kombat, Street Fighter, Raiden type games, the beginning of dance games, Cruisin USA and so on.

>>493943
The reason that it's called "golden age" is because games like Galaga and Dig-Dug never get old (in comparison with most shit from Atari era), games like Pac-Man made videogames more mainstream, games like Space Invaders and Donkey Kong put the standards for later games that followed...

It was an era that you had to make something original in order to be successful in comparison with most '90s games that focused a lot to the cool graphics.

>>494010
Late 90s gave us House of the Dead, Hydro Thunder, Daytona USA, Time Crisis, all sorts.

Aladdin's Castle. St. Clairsville, OH

The place for all the latest and retro. Good mix.

Now its a Namco whorehouse.

Man, this thread made me feel melancholic, that feeling walking through the arcade corridors T.T looking for that game to insert your last coins...

Everyone was so skinny back in the 70s and 80s.

Such of a great Pinball, I played it to death

>>494239
Because a normal portion then was the size of a kids meal now

Still have the one my dad and I built when I was in highschool

>>494334
Wouldn't you rather just sit down and play?

>>494334

Haha, is that you? Looks rad

>>494334
That's from a Nintendo Power article. Are you that kid?

>>494369
>>494341
Oh sorry, no. That's just a pic I had laying around. Mine looked similar, but I had fewer games than this guy and it had to be loaded from behind.

No real arcades in the Richmons VA area. Me and my friends own some machines though.

>>494396
>and it had to be loaded from behind

dat subtle gay innuendo

>>494430

Also from Richmond, sucks don't it?

>>493694
dat ass

>>493706
>18 Wheeler.

I played a couple of times in a 18 Wheeler machine in Viña... but it was a big one.

>tfw you live in the south and there is no arcade cabinets for 20 miles
>It's Just DK

Haven't had a local arcade in years, used to be beside a regular marrying church. All the kids mobbed the wedding for the scramble lol GOLDMINE

Loved <3 Altered Beast, Golden Axe, Double Dragon, WWF wrestling, Street Fighter 2, Mortal Kombat, Moto GP, Shinobi... so many I can't remember... 2pence Bandits? the old fruit machines lucky to find a machine that isn't 50pence or a £1 a spin now

Jeez I'm old

We've only got a very small roller rink/arcade combo here.
The only real game there is Ms Pac Man / Galaga AE though.

>>483467

Game sprit shop looks like one of the most serious game stores outside of Japan. Only reason I know about it as an American is because they follow my Instagram. I'd love to go check it out.

>>486757
I've been to Pete's and it seemed like everything besides the pinball was broken. Sad because they actually had a Flash Beats but of course that was broken.

Also I've been to arcade infinity in LA when it was still open, pretty cool selection of games and nothing but candy cabs. They even had a Japanese typing of the dead.

But in my area in Minneapolis we have two places, insert coins which is a barcade type place and another called rusty quarters which is run by the two most inept people on earth who always resort to begging for money to stay open because they don't know how to run a business nor are they willing to listen to sound advise. I've volunteered to repair their machines because they keep breaking them and never turn them off and I've even offer to loan them games free of charge (I have about 45 pcbs) and they straight up turned me down. Tards. They don't even have any really great titles.

>>495550
>I've volunteered to repair their machines because they keep breaking them and never turn them off and I've even offer to loan them games free of charge
You are entirely too nice and they are entirely too retarded. It's to be expected, though, of a barcade owner.

Too weak-willed to open an arcade out of love, despite the fact that it's a poor business decision, too stupid to save himself the trouble and open up a proper bar instead.

>>483520
>Progear

I jelly

>>495562

the retards place isn't the barcade, here's the website for it
http://www.rqarcade.com

Literally they had a tempest machine for 3 days before they broke it. And when shit breaks there they just toss it and try to buy new cabs, like the idea of repairs is completely foreign to them. They had a street fighter alpha 3 that had the battery die and I said I could get it revived for them. For free. And they declined. And then I asked to buy it from them and they declined again. They probably just threw it away.

>>496302
How horrible. Seriously, who does that? I mean you've got to have some love for the hobby to want to open an arcade to begin with, but then to treat your games like that? It feels like the "in crowd" that's talked about so much, the kind that buys Earthbound just to have it and take a picture with it.
It's like they're running an arcade for the sake of saying "I run an arcade!"

Even though they're different people, I still think poorly of barcades.

Well I haven't been there in a while, but there is a place on the beach here that has lots of arcade games and other stuff like Skiball etc. I fucking loved going there as a kid.

Thinking about moving to Japan for a month or so just to arcade tour.

Anyone done this before?

Advice?

>>482562

I can't say that it's an arcade, but the retro game shop I visit have an arcade cabinet and few consoles in a small gaming room. Also, the keeper is Bro-tier.

>>493619

KoF is still cool.
Almost all we play down here in southamerica, well that Metal Slug and DDR.

>>483641

Shooters in Southington