/vr/ - Retro Games

Yes, they were really dangerous. You wouldn't have lasted a minute inside one little zoomer. *sip*

>>5625339
Yup, arcades were actually just fight arenas with pretty lights and expensive electronics around that we could bash each other into or hold people against while we forceably shot drugs into them.

>>5625339
in the late 80s they weren't yet but as the years passed they got sketchier

>>5625339
Yes. The 12yo youtube kid didn't lie

Ask these kids. They were never seen again.

A teenager died from playing Berserk. True story.

It was a danker time.

>>5625339
Yes. There was a lot of drug dealing in inner city arcades in the 80s. But in the 90s it was WAY worse. Urban America was basically completely overrun by gangs in the 90s and for whatever reason they liked to hang out at arcades a lot. The untold story of the death of American arcades was that they became so dangerous (due to being full of gangs all the time) that kids couldn't go to them anymore, so they lost their main source of revenue.

>>5625339
Arcades themselves weren't very popular.

There might be one in a very large mall, and one attached to large popular youth activity like mini golf or laser tag. Then pizza places and theatres would have four or five cabinets. These would all be normal and just reflect whatever youth culture in the area was like.

Bars and bowling allies might have a couple too, and those could be worse, because drunk adults interacting with children

>>5625965
This. The Final Fight and Streets of Rage games are literally documentaries.

>>5625965
>gangs
niggers. ftfy

>>5625992
Nah. Most gangs in the 80s were white. It was exactly like The Warriors.

Assaults I only saw over fighting games. I almost got into one after beating some darkie in Tekken

Drugs, they mainly happened in the back of the arcades, where they kept the games no one played anyways.

>>5625997
>It was exactly like The Warriors.
ah yes, the imaginary interracial gangs of 70's film

>>5626002
The streets of NYC in the 70s and 80s were dangerous in general. “Gangs” were definitely more of a mixture of races than they are now. It wasn’t just poor blacks.

>>5626010
>“Gangs” were definitely more of a mixture of races than they are now
lol no.

>>5625975
Depends on where you lived I guess, in California they were always popular. We had a standalone arcade downtown and one arcade attached to a bowling alley/games area of the university. Then multiple arcades attached to mini-golf/laser tag in the general area. There were also cabinets everywhere, I remember a small local mall had Darkstalkers and Mortal Kombat 3 sitting outside a yogurt shop, and even Burger King had a Street Fighter II CE machine.

>>5626019
How so? Manhattan back then didn’t have the massive wealth disparity that you see now. Everyone was poor. The way Taxi Driver depicts things is pretty accurate.

>>5626030
Check this out. Street gangs really were multicultural like in The Warriors.
https://ranker.com/list/photos-of-street-life-1970s-new-york/nicky-benson

>>5626030
everyone's poor in prison anon. im sure they all flock together based on anime taste

>>5626041
Yeah, that’s what I’m saying. Multicultural NYC street gangs of the 70s really did exist.

>>5626048
have another (you) anon
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kcovGYK_IDM

>>5626056
They did though. Were the majority of gang members still black or latino? Of course, but they ran in packs together a lot of the time.

>>5626056
Is it normal to want to honk her?

>>5626056
This music sucks.

>>5626059
Forgot my pic. That era of gangs was literally what The Warriors was based on.

>>5626019
You shouldn't talk about things when you're clueless about the subject.

>>5626036
>Divided by race and ethnicity, they protected their neighborhoods while tormenting outsiders.

from your page

>>5626076
As opposed to you who watched The Warriors and Death Wish thinking that’s what gangs looked like.

>>5626073
>>5626030
Stop thinking Hollywood movies are reality.

>>5625992
>blacks playing video games in my aryan hobby
never happened

>>5626095
But that’s literally a 70s era picture of a mixed race gang in NYC. I’m not saying they were all like that but they did exist.

>>5625975
That was in the late 90s there were bigger ones always busy before that

>>5626095
I haven't seen the warriors but I'm an old fart and can confirm personally gangs in the 80's not being as ethnically homogenous. What are you basing your claims on?

>>5626106
Probably /pol/ memes

>>5625997
>Most gangs in the 80s were white.
>Invokes a 70s film where third of the cast is black
>A film that's fictional at that

>>5626114
It's funny even if he's as young as he sounds, instead of just spewing out the ass he could actually take 2 seconds to check.

>>5626157
Kek I was trolling him but they were mixed race a lot of the time.

>>5625975
>Bars and bowling allies might have a couple too, and those could be worse, because drunk adults interacting with children

I never played on a arcade machine because my mom don't allow me to go to that kind of place on early 90's. Here, 90% of arcades cabinets was on bars/pubs frequented by the worst kind of people; drunk, drugged, whores and pool players.

>>5625339
Here in Uruguay people used to smoke weed while playing, there was this to cool for school dude who used to smoke weed whenever he went to the arcades he also gave us money for buying him beer at the store he sometimes even lend us anime VHS and her girlfriend let us touch her boobs when drunk.
He was a god at Killer Instinct, KoF96, and Tekken 2.

>>5625339
Only in places that were already dangerous shitholes where people would assault each other and buy/sell drugs

In my experience, only arcades majority frequented by blacks or 'spanics were rumored to be dangerous and even then, not all of them.
I've never seen a fight break out at an arcade. Not. A. Once.

>>5626223
Don’t be such a sheltered baby, anon. I was a city kid and those types of guys were cool to hang out with.

>>5626061
Yes

I loved hanging out at arcades and pool halls back in the 90's. It would be like 100 degrees outside in the TX sun, but inside it was cool and dark. I would smoke weed sometimes, but mostly I just enjoyed playing the glorious games.
Talking smack while playing streetfighter was about hairy as things got.

BTW, there is a really cool arcade in Denver if you wanna know what it was like.

>>5625339
Yes, and that is why Microsoft pushed online gaming so hard, so kids can socialize through videogames from the safety of their home.

>>5625339
Depends on the era, certainly when I was young arcades were full of scumbags.

-20yo college students selling drugs to kids to make beer money
-creepy adults who stand too close behind you when you are playing and breath all over you
-ghetto kids who just go there to start fights with people for no reason

thank god for home consoles

>>5626010
what? the 80s/early 90s was the peak of the crips and bloods and the crip vs blood war was in full swing, that’s why the 80s/early 90s had the highest violent crime rate in the history of the country.

>>5626464
oops, meant for >>5625997

>>5625339
If you went to an arcade and didn't have a knife at your throat and being robbed of your quarters, well, you haven't really lived.

Man, either this thread is hilarious or I'm experiencing delirium from sleep deprivation.

>>5626159
It seems like gangs were formed based on social classes and not by race. I'm guessing the wealth disparity between whites and minorities grew over the years, which explains the smaller number of whites. Is this related to the "white privilege" people are spouting these days?

>>5626412
Which one? Denver has a fuckton of arcades.

>>5625339
Arcades didn't get sketchy for the most part until 1991-1992. When I was very young (five or six years old) some of the Long Beach Pike was still operating and I remember them having rows and rows of Skee Ball machines that still took dimes.

>>5625975
>Arcades themselves weren't very popular.

>>5626464
I should’ve said 70s through early 80s. You’re definitely right about those gangs in the late 80s through the 90s.

>>5626505
Accurate. Arcades got grimy in the early 90s when Street Fighter II and Mortal Kombat hit big. I remember being in middle school and getting my ass kicked in fighting games by older high school kids that hung out at the arcade and chain smoked.

>>5625339
American arcades from at least the late '70s (the earliest I can remember) until maybe the mid '80s were mostly mixed crowds of adults and kids, but of course you could find them everywhere, whether in settings that were kid-friendly during certain hours or all the time (malls, convenience stores, pizza parlors, cinemas, roller rinks, amusement parks, minigolf courses, gokart tracks, university rec rooms, kid-safe drop-offs in casinos) or others that were not for kids at all (bars, pool halls, standalone arcades in the ghetto that allowed alcohol and were open late). You could always find trouble at those latter locations if you wanted. Things mostly sanitized by the late '80s, at least here in Norcal. The scummy element made a resurgence with the rise of fighting games. Some kid-friendly arcades even instituted a policy of not having any fighting games because of it.

That said, I can say that the only time in my life that I was ever physically pushed around by an adult was as a kid at a shopping mall arcade by some big guy who was sore at losing to either a 1p game or someone else, not me. That's when I realized games could mentally fuck you up if you're dumb enough to let them, and learned to take games less seriously myself. (It's what makes all the aggro talk on this board so amusing to me.)

>>5626056
ME?
I KNOW WHO I AM.
I'M A DUDE,
PLAYING A DUDE,
DISGUISED AS ANOTHER DUDE.

>>5626027
Fellow Commiefornian and yeah, they were pretty popular. Even in the 2000s you still had massive arcades like Golflands getting quite a bit of business. One of the arcades I used to go to a lot as a kid did have a "no drugs or alcohol on the premises, violators will be prosecuted" sign on the front door, so it's not like they were all druggie havens.

>>5626476
There's still a lot of piss poor white people too. But the upper classes have been very successful in stirring the pot of racial tension. In the 70's and 80's, even somewhat the 90's there was a sense that people were putting racial and cultural differences aside and starting to look at what brought them together instead, and what their common adversaries were. If course the elites couldn't have that so they poked and sowed the seeds of hatred and now we have /pol/ to take the torch and run with it.

>>5625965
Good thing Robocop got rid of the nuke

>>5626514
>the 92 2nd peak thanks to SFII

>>5626514
>>5626793

You fucker!...I came here to say that.

>>5626769
Yup. The sheltered middle class racists of /pol/ are the biggest cucks of all.

>>5626505
They were definitely sketchy before that, which is a big reason the "Winners don't do drugs" PSAs were added to games in the late 80s. They were a prime spot for kids to buy drugs, for obvious reasons.

>>5626514
That mountain in the early 00s is DDR.

>>5625919
Did he go into a berserker rage?

>>5626061
>tfw shell never inflate my balloon

>>5625339
Ones in black neighbourhoods would have been, yes.

>>5627008
Nope...his heart went Berzerk(heart attack).

People here saying that arcades didn't become seedy until the 90's. Arcades always had a bad reputation in the US, but it was mainly connected to gambling and there were a few places that got raided by the FBI in the early 80's Oregon I think

>>5627014
>she'll never hide my feather in her tube

>>5625919
The bouncing dude is fucking scary, I get what his body was going through

>>5627437
>>5625353
But this never happened on the Simpsons and all the other american shows I watch

>>5625339
No of course not. The other anons here are having a ton of fun at your expense.

I think the moral of this thread is that America was a mistake and races should never mix.

>>5625339
Back in my days gamers were badass, beating eachother up to settle who's coin was next in line, not like the pussy gamers of today

>>5625339
>Is it true that American arcades used to be dangerous shitholes where people would assault each other and buy/sell drugs?
Depends on if there were non-whites.

>>5628167
Yeah because white trash isn't a thing. Asshole.
>>>/pol/

>>5625339
We had two in our mall, one of them had barely any lighting beyond the arcade machines themselves, so I'm sure that's where shit went down...I got my wallet stolen from there once and that's the only time anything like that has happened to me and I used to hang out in bad neighborhoods with friends.

>>5625975
>Arcades themselves weren't very popular.

This is the falsest thing ever posted on /vr/ and that's saying something.

>>5626159
>>5626476
>>5626769
>>5626949
>being this white
>being from a gated community

you literally cannot join a gang if you are a different race than the gang

>>5625980
>tfw streets of rage is about saving arcades
>tfw sega was the king of arcade games

>>5628218
13% of the population commits over half of violent crime

They still are

>>5628524
Now maybe. Back in the 70s no.

>>5628524
What better way to show how sheltered you are by thinking all gangs are the same and all followed the same rules forever
I wish i could find the name of that Slav who joined a hispanic gang or something

I want to know the Japanese or other foreign reputations of arcades back in the day
In Japan they also seemed to connect it to delinquents

>>5626223
>pool players
Why are they bad?

>>5628524
Go back to pol you underage idiot.

>>5628680
Back in the day it was delinquent kids, not really bad, but basically people with bad manners, no interest in school, club, homework etc... As well as lots of smokers, etc... Now it is either girls playing UFO catcher, old men playing gambling games and otaku.

>>5625965
[citation needed]

By the mid 90s, all that stuff had died down, and arcades were populated by kids getting their SF2/MK fixes.

Once consoles could adequately duplicate these games at home, arcade popularity really dwindled.

>>5628819
Seconding citation needed on those claims. By my memory the arcades that were left were mostly getting gentrified by the 90's. All the seedy shotholes were the first ones to go under, at least around me.

>>5625339
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GmpVDeFq1Aw

>>5628679
You're thinking of Joe ''pegleg'' Morgan and i t/ that is the exception. You're arguing about being sheltered on a board that discusses retro game, just a reminder.

>>5628789
Agreed, I'm a white member of the black guerilla mafia, we're close with Korean MS-13, they're our affiliates.

>>5625339
Literally yes despite the sarcastic responses you received. At least where I grew up you would always see bloody fights and police outside.

>>5628996
>everything is the same

>>5629012
Sorry to shit on your fantasy.

>>5629018
Okay do let's take an example from this veey thread. Eere the Savage Skulls a blacks only gang or a whites only gang? >>5626159

>>5625965
there was an arcade across from my high school back in 95 or 96 and a guy got shot in the face. and the inly thing that saved him was the bullet went thru 3 teeth and stopped at the last molar.

>>5627571
That's like the shittiest magic trick I've ever seen.

>>5629110
That's because clowns aren't magicians, they're even worse and just learn 1 or 2 terrible bits.

>>5629087
He’s right though, general sociological research and studies show the primary ethnic and racial division of organized crime, for a variety of easy reasons such as cohesive tribalism, ethnic enclaves, ethnic succession, and so on. Shifts come about primarily in the change of one group rather than a mixing. You can’t really just post individual examples and claim it as any evidence of general social trends.

>>5629121
T. Salty magician

>>5626056
>>5627014
>>5627571
I don't wanna fuck a clown
I don't wanna fuck a clown
I don't wanna fuck a clown
I DEFINITELY do NOT want to FUCK A CLOWN

>>5629175
We've simply been pointing out that there factually have been exceptions to this. Are multicultural gangs the norm? Absolutely not but they have existed.

>>5629768
What about fucked by a clown?
https://i.4cdn.org/wsg/1542153891809.webm

>>5625909
lol

>>5629809
This.

>>5625909
>Ask
You said they were never seen again...

Since they were in America, people would be attacked with deadly Assault Burgers. Some of the more hardcore arcades has attack eagles swoop down and kill unsuspecting people. Of course there was the benefit of having free cocaine and if you got a high score you were given an Assault Rifle-15.

>>5625339
Yes.

>>5625909
In retrospect, they brought the controversy on themselves advertising like this.

>>5630059
His I hate autists

>>5630252
You don't say?
And who are we to say a few kids' lives weren't worth it?

>>5629809
And more importantly that they were more common then. Tensions in general have only gotten worse.

>>5628167
>non-whites
Those Asian-Americans with high post-secondary education and annual income percentages are vicious criminal scum, bro. Be careful out there.

>>5630114
0/10

>>5626505
I grew up playing at Tilt when the lb mall was still open. My main memories come from playing at a donut shop on pch and junipero. They only had fighting games in the mid 90s and I remember all the high school kids getting off the city bus and coming to play after school lining up their quarters along the screen. Awesome times

>>5625339
American here. What were European arcades from the 90s like?

>>5632838
joe n mac 3 in an italien pizzaria or time crisis thats all

>>5632838
Belgium arcades are basically the same as American ones, except with more Ridge Racer.

>>5625339
every place in shitcago is a shithole

The only arcade in walking distance was inside a bowling alley, that also had a bar. Your eyes would start watering after about 10 minutes from the 200ish cigarettes that were lit at any given time. Bathrooms had entrances on both sides so it was really easy to either not be seen going in together, or to run away from whoever. The bus stop outside was also the drop off for the county prison release. If it existed now, it's sole use would be a honey pot.

>>5625339
i got into a fight over playing afterburner at a chuck e cheese. an older kid tried to bully me out of playing it and steal my tokens. i ended up biting him on the arm and scratching his face like a wolverine.

i got kicked out along with my family because he told the staff that i started it

i swear i didn't

>>5630114
If an American wrote this, it would be scathing meta-satire

>>5633290
>lying about in on the internet a few months later

>>5632838
My Italian bro says they had both normal, safe ones and some pretty seedy ones where people would fight and sell drugs.

>>5634295
What did he put in the machine sesterce?

>>5634313
Probably got American tourist girls to pay for him

>>5631776
I grew up in San Pedro, I remember the area well. There used to be an arcade in the strip mall on PCH and Pacific that closed in 88 or 89. Sometime after that it became a laundromat.

>>5625339
This was never my experience and I had been to several. They were just chill places.

>>5625975
>Arcades themselves weren't very popular.
Spot the zoomer. Holy shit.

>>5631776
We had a Tilt by us too, I loved that place growing up. Played a ton of Skee Ball in addition to the video games, and saved up tickets for a long time to win myself a giant stuffed leopard. Good memories.

There used to be an arcade in the mall where I grew up called "Wally's" and it was pretty sketchy. It was always super dark and dirty looking, filled with cigarette smoke, and lots of shady people.

I don't think anything too bad ever happened. Just your typical teenage pot smoking, cigarettes, and some underage drinking. I don't recall ever seeing any fights or anything like that.

>>5633290
were you retarded as a child, even if he did blame you, you could have said you were on the machine and he tried to bully you off. i hope you at least broke the skin and gave him your GRIDS

>>5636013
He was. That happened last week.

>>5625975
>>5635918
Only Boomers & Xoomers saw arcades at their peaks. Yoomers were like 7 in '95, & Zoomers weren't even sperm cells yet.

quite dangerous for kids
good place for teens tho
full of drugs and people willing to buy booze and smoking while playing
people would sometimes fight each other right outside the arcade over some beef
lots of gangs
not a place youd bring a girl
lots of hoodlums

>>5625997
>Most gangs in the 80s were white.

Don't lie, the jannies might try to delete posts related to it, but this pseudoscience shouldn't be spread.

>>5626769
>>5626949

>But the upper classes have been very successful in stirring the pot of racial tension. In the 70's and 80's, even somewhat the 90's there was a sense that people were putting racial and cultural differences aside and starting to look at what brought them together instead

Yeah how nice. Mixed race gangs are a fucking outlier, every gang in the US was strongly linked by race, and every gang in every multiracial society forms around race, and every gang in every prison forms around race. Instead of accepting that race and genes are the only thing that matter, you actually go out of your way to LIE and then pretend that these boogeyman "the elites and an internet board is the reason why no one gets along together"

Racial equality was always a fucking myth. but we have this white boomer telling us that /pol/ is the reason why blacks rioted during Rodney King. In fact, /pol/ is responsible for why racial tension even exists. Amazing! Boomers are the fucking worse. Let me guess, genetics doesn't influence IQ right? You think assimilation is real or even possible right? (Spoiler warning: Assimilation is a myth, not even the Italians assimilated)

>>5628218
Hold up you anti-racist asshole. What does "white trash" have relevance to this discussion? First, by all objective data, "white trash" aren't equal to the violent blacks of the USA, you know, because genetics, behavior and IQ are different.

Take a good look at this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UOllMblbajo

There is no, NO "white trash" place in the US that looks like this. Moreover, crack cocaine epidemic and violent black gangs which plagued most US inner cities in the 80s is why arcades started getting bad reputations. The same reputation that caused whites to flee from the inner city in the 1960s. Why did they get the idea of arcades being a place of drugs, a place for teens involved in gangs, a place you wouldn't want to send their kids, where do you think these things emerged? In suburbia America? Fuck no. I would literally bet, if there as any evidence to back me up, that NONE of these bad arcades were in white areas.

Believing inequality pseudoscience really makes you say the darndest shit, especially because IQ differences, and aggression differences and behavioral differences? Yeah, they differ between races, and they are caused by genetics, so this is non-negotiable. But not for you, its the magic of environmentalism that drives population differences, or you ignore it. Its BS and derailing.

>>5629087
I'll tell you what this is. An outlier, a gang that died out pretty fast because multiracial gangs don't last long. The problem is that your arguing that multiracial gangs were the norm. The second problem is your using that as proof racial solidarity was a thing in the US, but I can use objective data and opinion polling, spanning back to the beginning of the 1900s, to show you there was NEVER a period where blacks had a positive opinion on the relationship between blacks and white. The L.A riots weren't caused by /pol/

>>5625543
This is pretty much the way I remember it. It was also a safe in the day/ a little more busy at night thing where I grew up.

confirmation bias is a hell of a drug

>>5637252
How so?

>>5625975
One of my earliest arcade game memories was “playing” the Indiana Jones game (ie pushing the buttons and playing with the joystick while the demo played) at a bar one night while my dad was drinking with his buddies. I remember some chick coming up to me and feigning interest while I “explained” the game to her and telling me I was “an awesome little dude”. I couldn’t have been more than 3 or 4. My second memory was more or less the same thing, but this time it was after my first time at the dentist (I was definitely 4) and in the same strip mall was a different bar and the had the Mario Bros cabinet and I “played” that one until some dude came up and put his quarter on the screen, and I didn’t know what it meant so he explained it. Then I watched this guy absolutely crush turtles and crabs for what seemed to be an hour on one quarter.

It amazing I didn’t get kidnapped when I was a kid. It’s also amazing my dad didn’t get arrested for child endangerment.

>>5625975
t. zoomer

Up until about 1992, “pizza places” (like Chuck E Cheese, and Showbiz while it was still in business) usually had at least 50 arcade machines at any given time in addition to the lame redemption games. Same with mini golf places like Putt Putt or Celebration Station. Even after that, you had Dave and Busters (which in addition to arcade games used to have things like the Namco theater games).

>>5625909
>Raiden and Kano realize that they don't have to fight each other and team up to defeat the masters outside their realm so nobody will have to die in Mortal Kombat again.

>>5637557
Hell I’d say those places were pretty popular well into the late 90s even.

>>5628819
>>5628849
Any place where kids/teens could hang-out (especially in the city/inner-city) and not be harassed by the "pigs" in the 80's & 90's (arcades, skate parks, malls, beaches at large cities like LA, playgrounds after school/weekends, certain businesses like shitty McD's & 7-Elevens, etc.) had massive drug & violence issues. Well over 95% of the time criminal activity was being performed by "minorities".
Sauce: Former Police Officer family members.

>>5637593
D&B was still pretty legit through the early 2000s (I remember playing stuff like Police 911 there then). Chuck E Cheese went mostly redemption games in the mid 90s.

There’s still plenty of decent arcades out there but it’s scaled back of course.

As for what the zoomer was saying, it was awesome going to restaurants or bars as a kid and having arcade machines to kill time.

>>5630513
Chink mafiosos in Europe were busted partially due to their extreme sadism.

>>5637709
Huh maybe it's jiat differences between Canadian and American culture. I remember them in the 80's seeming kind of sketchy but by the 90's the ones that were still around were fairly clean and though I'm sure there was stuff going down I've hardly ever seen so much as a yelling match in an arcade let alone any fights breaking out. And this was Hamilton which is known as one of Canada's most shitty cities.

>>5637718
Larger cities usually have a couple big arcade places. I live in the Denver area and there a big D&B plus a huge bowling alley place that has big elaborate arcade cabinets like this.

>>5630513
Good straw man, dickless.

>>5637709
Your sources are worthless

I grew up in a small white town. The closest thing we had to an arcade was a skating rink with about 6 arcade style machines in it. There were drugs. That was mostly teenagers smoking pot in the parking lot. There wasn't much violence. Children get in to fights and this was just that. Maybe someone got a bloody nose before they break it up and make the parents come and get them. There was a bowling alley and that was mostly adults. There was a room with arcade style machines that kids weren't allowed in because there were also video poker style machines. I never saw any violence or drugs other than the beer they served there. My childhood was awesome.

>>5637818
I'm glad you enjoyed it, pink porker.

>>5637745
I've been there it's surprisingly shitty

>>5636013
>1992
>Thinking adults didn't side with the bullies

>>5625339
Most were nice, but some people want to "toughen up" their sheltered childhoods.

>>5639237
"Toughen up kid" just means "I want other people to have shitty childhoods so they grow up to be an asshole like me as well."

Zoomers couldn't have handled the arcade center lifestyle.

>>5625339
Yer a dangerous shithole

Absolutely true. Europeans should believe everything they hear about America.

Personally I got my first tatto at an arcade at age 8, as was normal for all American boys in the 80s/early 90s

>>5640128
"Toughen up kid" is an important lesson. Life will never be perfect and you can't break down crying whenever things don't go your way. That's not to say you should just accept bad things as they are, but you should have toughness to deal with hard times without falling apart.

>>5640214
You’re probably replying to a participation trophy zoomer

In 1982 a dude pulled a knife on me in an arcade, took my empty wallet. The next day the owner gave it to me, said a guy who found it turned it in. There was a note explaining the guys situation, said if he knew I was as poor as he was he wouldn't have robbed me. The point of my story is fuck niggers.

>>5625980
*sip* Back in my day, having a gf meant constantly having to save her from rape gangs.*sip*

Back in maybe 1981 I jumped some dumb loser at an arcade for his wallet but the guy didn't even have any money in it. Little bitch wasted my time.

>>5625339
Sometimes.

>>5625965
You're wildly exaggerating.

>>5625975
The arcade scene you are describing is from the midwest in the late 90s and early 2000s. Long past the golden age.

>>5625339
You have to realize there are a dozen types of arcades in America.

They are, in order of commonality.

1. "On Location" arcade machines. These are what you find in a laundry mat, pizza hut, wal-mart pool hall, rec center, or sports bar. 2-5 machines is the usual count. There is no operator looking after these unless they are privately owned by establishment, but more often they are put in by Arcade OPs who make the rounds every month or so collecting coins and making repairs. No one really sticks around these for any long amounts of time, but they are also many people's biggest exposure to arcade games.

2. "On Location" ARCADES. These are what you find in a bowling alley, roller rink, bigger cinemas, some wal-marts, and university campus restaurants. 5-15 machines. Still no arcade operator nearby. Very, very often when people say they used to go the arcade this is what they are talking about. You do get some unseemly characters in these places from time to time, specifically in the bowling allies where the arcade is in a side/back room with pool tables.

3. Mall Arcades. 15-30 machines usually. An arcade operator is on staff at these. Back in the grand old days this was the hang-out spot for youths and everything young people get up to went on here.

4. Hole in the wall arcades. These are arcades that were opened in cheap spaces in poor, rougher parts of cities before video game consoles became universally owned. 10-30 machines crammed together in one narrow space. Probably a liquor store next door, or a tanning salon. Now THIS is where the bad shit went on. OPs weren't around very much, and didn't really give a shit. Ironically, most of the really good players came from these places.

>>5641775
5. Dedicated Game Centers. 30+ machines. Multiple operators on site at any given time. In the 80s these were popular spots and hosted parties and events. Mostly found in high traffic touristy locations. No funny business is going on here because operators are on the floor and the business is usually proud of its reputation for being clean and safe.

6. Amusement Park Arcades. 10-30 machines, usually of a variety of eras. Massive arcade machines with lots of moving parts can be found here. VERY expensive. Usually an op on site.

7. Barcades/Pizzacades. This is your Chuck E. Cheese's and Dave N' Busters. What arcades have become these days along with the lingering location machines.

>>5641779
>dozen types
>list seven
>in order of commonality
>barcade last
ah well it's late, fuck it

>>5641780
A pretty good list regardless. Used to have all of these around, but now I don't think there's just a few cabinets in the entire city - all in bars or pizza places. The university bowling alley/arcade closed about 4 years back, it was actually really nice for an "on location" arcade. Had at least 30 machines from what I recall. Not it's a lounge with 8 TVs and consoles. And you need to pay to get time playing the consoles.

>>5641789
*now there's just a few cabinets in the entire city
I need sleep too

>>5625339
It was where I learned to shoot the marijuana.

>>5641780
Some of the others include:
>Boardwalk arcades: tiny, shitty, and all over the east coast. They come in two varieties: Hyper modern with a million claw machines and places that look like they haven't been touched in well over a decade. A lot of these have been around since at least the 60s.
>Retrocade: similar in principle to barcades, but without the bar. Usually charges admission at the door and has the machines on freeplay.
>Community arcade: When the local collectors decide to pool their games, you get these. Usually rhythm games, fighting games, or pinball. Expect them to be in weird-ass places and have trouble keeping a location. They're usually only found around bigger cities. (although once in a while you get a hardcore collector in the middle of nowhere who wants to open his own arcade)
>Rent-an-arcade: Not really an arcade, but a service that rents arcade games. These come in two varieties: Ones that rent generic retro games for parties and ones that rent imported games to anime conventions. The later tends to have their hands on a bunch of matches you'll never see anywhere else.
>Entertainment Centers: A bizarre cross between a bowling alley arcade, dedicated game center, and an amusement park arcade, but a distinct enough entity to not really be any of them. Expect an arcade that takes up a quarter to half of the floor space, a bowling alley, and another gimmick or two (such as laser tag, karaoke, or small indoor "rides")
I'd also lump Dave and Busters/Chuck E Cheese in with Entertainment Centers, not Barcades. Barcades are a completely different beast.

>>5625965
Once again, shitskins ruin something for everyone

>>5625339
>Is it true that American arcades used to be dangerous shitholes where people would assault each other and buy/sell drugs?
No worse than a McDonalds or Grocery store.

>>5640128
What a stupid response.

>>5625339
Think about it... dark rooms in strip malls, very little supervision by parents and kids willing to do anything for quarters must have been a pedophiles’ dream destination in the 80s

>>5625339
There was nothing like smoking some crack from the hobo you just stabbed in the back alley before playing Narc

>>5641992
The original ones were definitely more along the lines of a restaurant and bar (with big attached arcades and billiard halls), and were in places near titty bars.

Also, would Putt Putts (or similar) fall under Entertainment Centers?

>>5629087
Wow you posted a picture of a few kids who lived in the same neighborhood who made a pretend gang that would get absolutely fucking destroyed if they went anywhere near the Irish gangs in Hell's Kitchen, the Italian gangs all throughout the city, the black gangs that dominated life in Harlem, even the Chinese gangs that ran Chinatown, who were at the height of their power in the 70s.

>>5625339
Yes. Because the games were shit, people would just do drugs and fight to pass the time. Peace was restored to America's arcades in the mid-late 80s when decent games hit the market.

>>5625339
Not only this, but arcades radicalized impressionable youth into hate groups. The worst documented case was a carefree European art student who started playing Space Invaders in an American arcade. Within 5 years he ran the largest hate group in Central Europe. American arcades. Not even once.

>>5625339
I walked into my first arcade as a good boy with a dollar in my pocket and a bright future ahead of me, and I walked out having murdered 3 people over a crack rock. I was 10 years old.

>>5625339
Mexican arcades were the real shitholes...
Can't believe I never got stabbed; I used to make cholos angry on KOF

>>5634412
That corner is still sketch today with lots of nigs and beans. Would love to see what at arcade looked liked in it's day

>>5635940
If I remember correctly tilt was my first experience at an arcade in the early 90s. I was probably 4 or 5 when my parents used to me and my brother to play. Spent a lot of time playing the Simpsons arcade.Later on I remember House of the Dead and WWF WrestleMania being the games that really caughty attention. I remember the X men arcade being the first thing that created you when you walked in and there was always a crowd of kids playing. I don't remember though if it was the 4 or 6 player cabinet. Sadly, I can't find any pictures online of the arcade or LB mall in general

>nigs and beans
cringe and a half

What's your favorite arcade game?

>>5625339
Are there still any arcades in this era?

>>5637709
Can second this.
NYC was a fucking shitshow in the 80's and mid 90s thanks to the drug epidemic and one of the dealer's favorite stalking grounds were the arcades. Not so much violence in them though, just massive amounts of drug dealing.

The violence normally took place in the subways and bus terminals. Officers would routinely be ambushed and be beaten if not killed for their guns so the smart cops decided to have an unloaded gun on their holster and a loaded smaller pistol hidden elsewhere so that when the addict or gang member stole it and tried to shoot them nothing would happen and the officer could put them down.

>>5647453
In America?
There's a few. Some food places have one or two machines and most movie theaters and bowling alleys have a few cabinets if not a whole arcade section.

Also there's Dave and Busters and a couple of hold-out mom and pop OGs from the golden age of arcades sprinkled about like Funcade in Atlantic City. Thanks to Dave and Busters though they're starting to come back into vogue, there's a few new ones opening up here and there.

>>5625965
>Urban America was basically completely overrun by gangs in the 90s

I didn’t live in the nigger infested urban jew so arcades were perfectly safe

>>5647503
Idk man. I went into a d&b once and it’s nothing like the arcades of the 90s. Now it’s pretty much mobile game ports and thinly veiled casino like machines.

>>5625965
I’ve never seen a single nigger in an arcade.

>>5647453
In Japan, and to a lesser extent in America. Though the latter has very few. Even in Japan they aren't even remotely close to as big of a thing as they used to be.

>>5647563
You've never left a suburb then. In inner cities there's no one but blacks in arcades.

>>5647547
It changes based on the location.
Some of them are glorified casinos but there's others who are trying to emulate Japanese arcades complete with imported machines. The one by me even has Theatrhythm cabinets with the constant wireless updates, both Final Fantasy and DQ. They also have that sick F-Zero cabinet that was in that one episode of Gamecenter CX.

>>5643640
I think they're closer to either "dedicated game center" or "On Location ARCADES" depending on the size of them. Entertainment Centers are something more akin to Round1 or Brunswick Zone (I can also name some local ones like Level 257, Main Event, The MARK, ect that you might be familiar with if you live near them). They tend to be pretty upscale as far as arcades go.

>>5626036
>they’re all black/hispanic
>one coalburner who was probably killed by a guy she fucked

>>5647596
Yes I’m not a nigger either, why would I have been in a nigger arcade lol

>>5625339
>Is it true that American arcades used to be dangerous shitholes where people would assault each other and buy/sell drugs?

Yup! It was our hangout but also where kids like me could find new customers for my weed and coke sales. So users knew where to find drugs: arcades. But also it was a place to meet the opposite sex. Though gangs, thugs and drug dealers took over them.

Narc was actually a historical piece and portrayed the 80s 100% accurately. I personally remember my bus driver having to run through crackheads on the street on my daily bus ride to school. They made us keep the windows up because of it.

>>5640304
Sorry I did not know you were poor as well.

>>5647914
My father used to sell coke and heroin when I was kid. During week days when other kids went to school I went down to local arcade to hustle my own merchandise and lot of kids became heroin dependent. I always enjoyed stabbing rich folks over popular arcade machines.

>>5647898
My gf was actually kidnapped in an arcade and then prostituted by a pimp. Lot of kids were fighting over a high scores and usually the one who had a knife won.

>>5647914
>I personally remember my bus driver having to run through crackheads on the street on my daily bus ride to school. They made us keep the windows up because of it.
80's US, present Brazil.

>>5648071
NRA saved my life in arcades. Always packed a shotgun when playing any game.

>>5648074
I forgot the NRA distributed arms back then, good times.

>>5628749
god damn pool players, or poolers as i like to call them

>>5648086
They dispensed ear plugs in the arcades because shooting was so common. What they forgot to do is to hand out bulletproof vests.

>>5648071
More like 1950s Brazil. Present-day Brazil is 2070s US.

>>5625339
My mother called it the "sin bin", but I was young and never saw anything but the games. Except this one time a chick in a loose tank top was playing Galaga for like a half an hour and showing full side boob. Heaven.

>>5648841
That would be a bitchin name for an arcade

>>5648849
What would you do with all the horny guys who showed up thinking it was a strip club

>>5647453
Round 1 is pretty cool desu senpai. Has all the modern games and usually a section with fighting games. Bar arcades have been popping up in lots of states. Gone are the days of arcades like in RoboCop 2 though. A traditional arcade opened up recently in Azuza CA and the city really didn't want it due to the old stereotypes mentioned in this thread

>>5647532
It really was, which is why it was a common troupe in games and movies. Predator 2 and RoboCop 2 come to mind. Tmnt the movie also had that funny scene with all those kids at the hangout created by shredder. The future looked bleak, but gentrification and gang injunctions changed all that

>>5649425
make it rain quarters

>>5649425
I guess I'd get some strippers and train them to also be arcade attendants. Maybe slap some coin dispenser belts on them so they could give out tokens after guys put money in their g strings? Actually this is an original idea do not steal

>>5632838
same as US ones

>>5630252
The controversy is why Mortal Kombat is the most popular fighting game series. That by playing it you too can be teh hardcorez

>>5626101
REEE NUHHH DIFFERENT RACES NEVER WORK TOGETHER

>>5649790
Round 1 seems awesome. Next time I go to San Jose I'm checking it out.

>>5628524
There have been plenty of mixed raced gangs in the last 60 years. Vagos and Outlaws are some notable global MC examples.

Often multi ethnic gangs are born out of the fact certain local gangs may only allow one ethnic group or another, mixed friend groups form their own gangs in order to stick together.

>>5641775
>>5641779
Thanks for the list anon i dont live in the US but this sounds legit.

Any other UK users will probably be familiar with Blackpool and the arcades there. Holy shit some were fucking rough, nothing sensational, just kids hanging around drinking/smoking occasionally smashing up machines, fighting and robing each other.

When i was a teenager there was an unlicensed bar with cabs inside a gym in the roughest area of my city(i know wut?).

The only reason i knew about this place is you could buy weed in there from the bar. They had street fighter 2, centipede, ghosts and goblins all under a massive mural of black jesus kek.

That one was always pretty friendly ironically, i imagine because any one trying to cause trouble would have several Jamaican body builders to deal with.

>not posted yet.

>>5652058
kek

>>5626290
Need I remind you we are on a website where people have a 1950s attitude towards fucking tattoos? There are so many shut-ins weirdos and third world retards here. If they went to bars and weren't terrified of other humans they wouldn't be virgins

>>5647453
I love in a redneck shithole state and the college town has 2 barricades now.

>>5630236
FUCKING SHARKS

>>5649425
I'd play video games with 'em and maybe sleep with some of the cuter ones, sounds like my kind of arcade.

>>5655215
I has a tattoo. I also has seven piercings.

>>5657084
What If none of the cuter ones were gay?

>>5657370
Then I'd put my makeup and my tucking game on fleek, go stealth and risk the beatings.

>>5657494
But straight dudes sleep with other dudes just because they wear makeup

>ages 4, 5 & 6
>mum works in bowling alley
>takes me to work all the time
>all the women give me attention
>all the security staff give me money from their slot machine winnings
>I spend all day bowling, playing pool, time crisis, soul calibur and house of the dead.
Shit was so good. Mind you arcades in the UK are shit and expensive.

>>5650381
Seaside arcades in the UK were actual old school historical arcades that just added videogames as they came into fashion, no?I've never seen or heard of any Blackpool arcades being rough though, not even 18+ gambling arcades.

It depended solely upon the number of black kids in the area.

Lots of blacks = not a safe place. Especially if you were black.

>>5658723
>Mind you arcades in the UK are shit and expensive.

Blame VAT and energy prices.

>>5637109
hahaha

>>5658831
>black kid with money for arcade machines around other black kids
Just asking to be robbed

>>5625339
>Is it true that American arcades used to be dangerous shitholes where people would assault each other and buy/sell drugs?

Maybe in the early 80's; but in my time (late 80's and early 90's) arcades where family friendly and relatively clean. But I guess that may have to do with where I lived than the arcades as environment itself

>>5625339
When I was a kid I had a lot of female friends. So they would dress me up and we'd hit the arcade. Basically we'd bounce on a few laps for quarters and pizza. They were kinda shady until the 90s. Then they went extinct.

>>5658831
>Lots of blacks = not a safe place. Especially if you were black.
lol'd

>>5659081
/lgbt/ we'll never be your allies

>>5659248
/lgbt/ we'll never be your allies

>>5659248
>Basically we'd bounce on a few laps
Bet you poked your nose into a few belt buckles too.

Arcades were fucking awful in the country I grew up in. Standalone arcades were hard to find but the ones I had in my city were always full because of it. Kids would beat each other over SF2. It continued all the way to the 90's, where they grew into teens beating each other over 3rd strike.
To this day, third world country fgc scenes are dedicated mostly to 3rd strike and retro fighters. Though now it's not as violent, some players will still fight you in real life should you give them a reason to.
The drugs were always there and are still there. That problem won't be solved any time soon, especially for those who want the extra edge from coke or adderall.
Glad I'm out of that shithole, now the worst that can happen is some random autist flipping out and breaking his expensive stick.

>>5660517
Huh I thought third strike was considered a huge flop until it got an online scene on Xbox.
Third world operators didn't like CPS3 boards either because it was expensive and had an extremely frail suicide battery that would erase itself at the minimum tumble. Not very suited for third world bars.

>>5660541
Nope. If you go on fightcade you'll still find many third worlders who still play. Mostly Brazilians.
And you're right on the CPS3 bit. But owners would simply rent the venue or allow the drug dealers to stay in return for a small fee in order to pay and profit. We also had a lot of US leftovers when it came to arcades, 3rd strike being one.

>>5630513
>He doesn't show about the shit that has gone down in NYC Chinatown.

Asians are actually some of the poorest in the U.S next to blacks because a lot of their older generation speaks no English and can't find jobs.

>>5625339
maybe if you lived in a shit hole city. My mom used to drop me off at the arcade while she went to the mall and ran errands and I was 7. I know that retarded tripfag is gonna come in here and act like it was a teenage gangbang with drug dealers but he's a fucking moron.