/vr/ - Retro Games

>>6473208
If it wasn't for SFII we would have to endure beltscrollers to the day arcades would die out anyway in favor of more powerful home consoles and PC's.
Thanks God they invented the fighting genre as we know it.

that's not turkey puncher

>>6473208
Daytona USA generated more revenue.

>"Sega had come up with such a "killer app" that no other game from them or any other company since has matched it in terms of profitability, leading to the phrase heard from most site operators, "It's no Daytona"."

When I worked in the help desk call center for a major ISP the tiny kitchen I would take my 30 minute lunch breaks in (actually more like 25 minutes including how long it took to talk to and from my desk since your pay would get docked if you were a second late logging back in even though the clock-in system was unreliable ad slow) had an upright Street Fighter 2 cabinet in it. Which I assume was the reason the suicide rate was so high there.

>>6473208
SF2 revitalized the arcade.

>>6473270
I came here to post this. SF2 was indeed a huge shot in the arm for arcades. I remember there were queues to play the fucking thing. OP is either baiting too hard or a LARPing zoomer.

>>6473208
Believe it or not, Dreamcast doomed the arcade. That’s what happens when 80% of your library is arcade ports.

>>6473229
Are you going to pasta that anecdote in every arcade thread forever?

>>6473350
>Dreamcast doomed the arcade.

>>6473350
yeah the least successful Sega console was the arcade killer

What is the argument for this?
You have no idea how much arcades were drying up then and how much the idea of one-on-one fighters gave them a boost in popularity again.

I always found it weird that they chose some Bill Cosby sweater design for this cabinet

>>6474392
Me on the right.

>>6473208
The writing was on the wall the second the Sega Genesis released.

The performance gap between arcade and home console hardware was shrinking, and with it, the lure of the arcade.

>>6473842
Is it wrong?

>>6473208
*DOOMs the arcade*
nothing personal, bro

>>6475212
A custom made prop for the movie Grosse Pointe Blank before anyone asks.

>>6473842
I'm right you little cocksucker

>>6476153
One of my favorite movies of all time, recommended.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=E9wEmhpQpaA

>>6476205
That shootout ranks definitely high in the list of goofy chipmunk shit

>>6476213
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=WgLr6qlpec4

>>6476213
>>6476205
I only just realized that was Benny the Jet last week.

SF2 kicked off the american arcades' last golden age that didn't really die until the very late 90s/early 00s. My local arcade made enough at the start of the era to expand into a much larger second property that didn't really fully fall off until the early-mid 00s, and didn't outright die for another decade after that, selling the property to a new outdoor entertainment district. What killed the scene here was that after the late 90s/early 00s nearly all of the new games priced out kids and some families' limited budgets. As a young adult in my early 20s I could afford an Initial D Stage 3 card and a quite a few rounds at a dollar a pop but for a kid that could be their entire allotment gone in minutes. When I was a kid 20-ish tokens could last me a few hours

>>6476994
I remember arcades were still limping and barely surviving with the help of rythym games in the late 90s and 00s

>>6473208
SF2 didn't doom arcades. black "people" did. Sorry but it's the truth. Want proof? Look at how much longer Japan's arcades lasted compared to say Detroit's arcade scene. It's irrefutable.

>>6478459

>>6476287
Never seen the movie, but Benny Urquidez is cool.

>>6478459
Meow I'm as based and red pilled as most other anons here but this explanation seems like a stretch.

>>6473208
ITT: zoomers post about shit they never experienced and know nothing about.

>>6478548
Says the zoomer lol

*blocks your path*

>>6478548
So same as the other 3 threads that are actually on topic and not emulation, eceleb, recommendations, or other zoomer cringe

>>6478654
Based DDR, the chaddest arcade game

>>6478459
Japan's arcades started going downhill the same time everyone else's did. The ones that lasted after that were just a niche.

>>6479342
Now this is talking out of your ass. Back to /v/ kiddo.

>>6479345
One of the developers of the very game in the OP, the one credited with giving arcades their last glory era, is on the record as saying that FF7 marked the beginning of the end for arcades. FF7 came out in 1997.

>>6473208
>one of the most popular games of all time
>debatably the best fighting game ever made
>revolutionized the fighting genre
>still has a dedicated community
>made so much money in the arcades they had to order bigger coin trays for the machines
>DUHHH YEAH IT KILLED THE ARCADES DURRRR

>>6479349
Oh wow some fag got paid to promote a shit console game whoop dee fucking doo. Kill yourself /v/edditor.

>>6479349
>One of the shitposters in this very post is retarded

>>6479886
How is saying that a game killed the market you used to work in promoting it?
>>6479891
Not an argument.

>>6479927
Are you fucking dense?
>give guy behind arcades bag of money to say game is gonna kill it
WOOOOOOOOWWWWWWWW CRAAAAZZYYYY IDEA HUUUUUUUUH?! Christ you're stupid. Never EVER trust people in the "industry" they're all paid shills how are you such a retarded little /v/edditor still? FUCK OFF!
>>>/v/
>>>/v/
>>>/v/

>>6479929
You think Square somehow paid Akira Yasuda to make a random Tweet saying that he believed FF7 killed arcades? Seriously?

>>6479927
No one's trying to argue with you ya dumb zoomie. We're just laughing at you.

>>6473848
>>6473884
The Dreamcast (Soul Calibur specifically) marked the moment when home gaming tech surpassed the arcade. But you're zoomers so I understand why you'd be confused.

>>6480801
The arcade version of Soul Calibur was released on a board that was based on PS1 hardware. Of course Namco was going to remaster it on the Dreamcast. The Dreamcast still couldn't faithfully handle Model 3 games from 1996. NAOMI ports faired better of course, but you could never say the Dreamcast versions surpassed the arcade versions.

>>6473350
Nah bro
You see, the idea of the arcade was fated to fail at some point
>My store-only videogame is vastly superior to your home system
>Pay me by the minute to play it

At some point the biggest depths of home system games would take the cake.
You could spend your allowance at the local arcade to try and beat other people's records or you could spend your next 12 free hours deeply engaged in a game that would take months of effort to get beaten
Try to think of the early MegaMan series in comparison to the top contender from arcades the same year, Contra.
Both are great representatives of their genres but MegaMan is way deeper.