/vr/ - Retro Games

>>6517971
>Which games should I play before they close?
All of them. Twice.

>>6517986
Anyone you like, so I can give it priority? Not sure if I can play around 1600 games before the owner goes bankrupt.

>>6517992
Also, forgot to add: twenty or so of them are KoF, half of those being versions of '97. Is any version worth more attention?

>>6517992
Aight, here's a couple "must play" games I can think of
>SF2 Turbo
>Alien vs Predator
>Puzzle Bobble/Bust a Move
>KoF 98 UM
>Windjammers
>Baseball Stars 2
>King of the Monsters
>TMNT: Turtles in Time
>Metal Slug
>Sunset Riders
>Mortal Kombat
>Shock Troopers

Etc. It's absolutely not exhaustive but that's the games I'd be looking for with such limited time.

>>6517971
Cabal-if it works with a stick.
Twin Cobra
Truxton
Mercs

>The machines are all those "2000 games in one"
It's literally MAME. Just play MAME at home.

>>6518241
Maybe anon likes to get out and about and be semi-social while supporting the local economy, ever consider that?

>>6518241
The atmosphere seems nice, going somewhere to play games is generally more novel than just sitting at home in your wrinkled "classically trained" shirt with an nes controller on it.

>>6518268
Well, according to OP:
>>6518274
>I'm gonna go pay to use MAME, this makes me NOT a loser like you!
Neat. Enjoy paying for a free emulator just to have something to do.

>>6518297
You're not paying for the mame you slackjaw you're paying because it's fun to visit.

>>6517971
do they have sinistar?
i remember thinking satan's hollow was cool as well

>>6518241
>>6518297
>why would you go to a theater, just watch your movies on your PC
>why would you go to a gig, just listen to music on your PC
>why would you have sex, just watch porn on your PC

>>6518268
>Maybe anon likes to get out and about and be semi-social while supporting the local economy, ever consider that?

risking its life for vidya is not worth with.

call the cops, they're committing mass piracy.

>>6517971
Literally every machine is a stand up cab with tons of mameshit loaded into them?

No Sega model 2 or model 3 games?
That sucks.

>>6518481
You still believe the hoax? Wew

>>6518621
Go lick a doorknob at your local gas station then retard and let us know how you're feeling in two weeks

>>6517992
Think of it as you're preventing the owner from going bankrupt for another month by trying to play all 1600 games

>>6518464
>playing on an emubox is like playing a real arcade
No. By your logic, paying $20 to have someone sit behind you and talk throughout a movie is the same as going to a theater. MAME is pretty good, but these cabinets are far from well setup.

>>6518305
So it's not actually about the games?

>>6518645
wow what a miserable bitch

>>6518636
Yeah doing that at anytime will make ya sick but barely anyone died and it wasnt cause of this lockdown shit it was because the WHO said whatever their chinese masters told them to say

>>6518481
>risking its life for vidya is not worth with.
lol wow
Little bit of advice: Believe 0% of what the media and government tell you and you'll be OK.

>>6518636
Holy false equivalency, Söyman!

>>6518645
Arcades were about the games, but once the arcades went away because of home consoles, some people realized the community and social aspect was the real commodity.

People don't open up arcades these days for the best gaming experience. They do it so that you can have a reasonable gaming experience while meeting other people interested in the same shit, making friends, having a non-lonely place to go while fucked up etc.

>>6518661
>He says this while watching extremely mainstream news network Fox News

>>6518667
I distrust all media and everyone. :)

>>6518665
lonely people say they dont need to go out and enjoy being around people, yet theyre online posting all day communicating to others and being bitter bitches

>>6518683
Don't lump those bitter fools in with the rest of us.

>>6518464
>why would you go to a theater, just watch your movies on your PC
Yeah. Why would you? Big TVs are really, really cheap.

>>6518665
People open up arcades because they need a backdrop for a hipster bar. Get real.

>>6517971
Is it one of those where you pay 50cents to play a game that cost 25cents?, what a ripoff.

>>6518721
And the controls don't work for half the games. What fun!

>>6517971
>somehow a toddlers entertainment center in a backwater shithole got some mame machines
Amazing. This has literally never happened millions of times.
>Which games should I play
"wanna take a ride in my van i have candy"

>>6517971
OP, it's your duty to report them. 2000 in 1 are illegal to use in a commercial setting.

>>6517971
Zoo Keeper.
SegaSonic Bros
Teeter Torture
Warlord (multiplayer)
>>6518893
I've literally never seen an arcade without them. Well, maybe a few. But most arcades have them.

>>6518039
OP here, thank you for the list. I knew there was a TMNT game I had to check. Will play them all.

>>6518893
In case you're serious, MAME-like arcade cabinets are 100% legal in my country, it's not like the owner personally attached some buttons to a Raspberry Pi.

>>6519090
>3rd world 12yo lawyer here

>Shitty year 2000 level versions of MAME further hacked up so games run at wrong speeds
>LCD Screens
No one should be rewarded for making people play this

>>6518489
I dare you to explain to them what MAME is and why it matters.

>>6517993
I believe the only two KoF games that have updated versions are 98 and 2002 Ultimate Match. The rest are shitty romhacks. I know there's one 2002 romhack that appears on those kinds of things that people actually like, but that's the only exception.

By the way, if there are that many versions of KoF 97, it's certainly a cheap Chinese multicade board. 97 is pretty infamous for only really being played in China (the rest of the world plays 98 or 2002).

>>6517971
>>6517986
>>6517992
shouldn't he be able to buy one of those machinoes for $1,600

For anyone up north here in the UK, I totally recommend a visit to one of the Arcade Club venues in Bury or Leeds once lockdown is over. I seriously hope they can stay afloat in the economic downturn.

>>6519832
I'd recommend avoiding the entire area. Liverpool-Manchester-Leeds is the taint of the North.

>>6519832
>832▶>>6519886
>File: photo_leeds-launch_001_@2x.jpg (203 KB, 12

There's also an arcade place in Croydon. Been there a few times, pretty good.

>>6519832
I'm in liverpool, Google maps reckons the Bury one is about an hour away, is it worth the 2 hour round trip?

are platformers a thing in the arcade
or was that genre exclusively a home console thing

>>6519085
Hey OP where is this arcade?

>>6518683
Nice projecting there, bud.

>>6519898
i've never been to the one in croydon but i remember hearing about how they charge hourly/daily passes instead of you having to pay £1 per go and i thought that was pretty based
have you been to the four quarters in peckham by any chance? wanna check it out once lockdown's over

>>6520101
Pic is just random one from the net. The arcade I'm talking about is in Spain.

Do you guys think a Barcade would be popular in 2020?
Would you nerds go to one?

>>6520176
i would, because i need to leave the house to stop being an incel neet but dunno what i'd do at a club. if i felt too shy to speak to women i could at least just play vidya instead of feeling like i'd wasted my night

>>6520176
but i dont want to go to a popular place with hundreds of drunk people
i want a quiet dimly lit arcade at the back of a comic shop with maybe a handful of other outcasts

>>6519898
>Deepest Darkest Croydon
Hard pass famalam

>>6520176
They literally have never been more popular. The last generation/s that grew up with western arcades are all hitting the age where they have the money and resources to attempt the concept. Many also incorporate LAN gaming setups as well. Well at least they did before the rona anyway

>>6520176
how do you keep it fresh when all modern productions are just ports of android games

>>6520328
This. I want a cozy place where people can hang out and spend some money and have a good time in a safe environment.

>>6520486
There are hundred upon hundreds of older arcade games that fucking nobody's played outside of the most hardcore. There's a barcade in Denver called Akibahara, for example, that's loaded with CAVE shooters. So the games are new for all but the seven autists who've played Mushihimesama, Pink Sweets, or Muchi Muchi Pork. But it's also balanced out with a mix of more standard barcade fare (Simpsons arcade, Mortal Kombat, and such), an entire room of fighting games (which I've heard they took out and replaced with a console area), and other non-CAVE imports (Music GunGun, Taikomaster, Game Tengoku, and a few others). You could stick something like Canonball Spike on a Naomi board and I guarantee you it's be a new game to 99% of the audience.

>>6520748
Hell, I know of an arcade near Michigan were fucking Dinosaur King is the central attraction, just because Mushi King is so damn obscure in the west that people there are experiencing it for the first time. They have a big binder up front where you can buy the cards for it and shit.

>>6520486
did japan give up on making new arcade games?

>>6517971
Those types of arcades used to be everywhere in my town 18 years ago.

reported and saged hopefully final have a nice life jan :-)

>>6520086
can't make lots of money in relatively short time with platformers.

>>6517971

>see arcade machine
>its ms. pac man
>the gates on the joystick feel great
>IT HAS THE SPEED HACK

MFW

>>6517971
Is it all properly licensed?

>>6523041
I dearly hope someone was actually taken out back and clubbed to death by the owner over shit like that.

>>6518464
>why would I throw money away at an overpriced theater when I can just watch the movie in the comfort of my own home and can pause, rewind, etc. the movie at any time?
>why would I pay hundreds of dollars just to be hundreds or thousands of feet away from a performer when I can just pirate the album online and listen to it as much as I want in a far higher quality?
>implying anyone here isn't a boomer virgin

>>6520086
Yes, games like Pac-land, Athena, Caveman Ninja (Joe and Mac), and Blue's Journey exist.

>>6523046
What was the post?

>>6523471
Asking if it was all properly licensed.

>>6520086
Every genre is a thing in the arcade.

>>6518667
>assuming I'm not weeks ahead of Fox News and months ahead of MSNBC/CNN
k

NEO
TURF
MASTERS

>>6518952
>implying their mame shitboxes will have a trackball, let alone with that's good enough for SegaSonic

>>6523475
Ah. Yes, they do deserve a good sound beating. Thank you.

>>6523479
JRPG?

>>6523651
Except RPGs. And that's a good thing!

>>6523686
Based, except Zelda II is a man's game and an RPG.

>>6520176
No. I don't drink, the games overpriced like DnB, and the game selection weak and/or terrible like Pac-Man/Galaga for the billionth time. On top of that, I'm an anti-social faggot anyway, so they serve no purpose for me.

>>6520786
No but their games/tastes don't really jive with ours. It's all semi-gacha or save-card based stuff in genres that probably aren't casual friendly, waifu fightan, or crazy expensive deluxe cab experiences. As cynical as the other anon sounds, Android game ports honestly line up fairly well with what most people think of with an "arcade" experience. There was a pretty good batch of weird and interesting but still "arcadey" games that came out in Japan in the late 00s and maybe early 10s that still might do well if westerners could get their hands on them

based copyright infringement

>>6523686
arcadecucks are paypigs
imagine spending hundreds if not thousand of dollars to "master" a useless "skill"
arcades were the microtransactions before microtransactions
actually even worse because many games that have them can be played for free

>>6523686

>>6519832
Haven't been to the Leeds location but I went to the Bury one and it was amazing. Definitely worth a visit.

>>6520117
I went to the Heart of Gaming when they were in North Acton (actually slept over there twice too). I haven't been to their Croyden location, but if it's anything like Acton, it's definitely worth a visit. And yeah, ten quid entry from when they open to when they shut (at least that was the price when I was living in London).

>>6520176
I don't want a barcade, I want an arcade with a bar in it.

>>6520176
Not a barcode but we had a pretty cool VR/traditional arcade open up in my city before rona fucked everything up. Spent a whole day playing the new Daytona and trying some other stuff, pretty fun desu. It sucks because that place will probably shut down now.

>>6524805
The Freeplay locations around DFW fit this description pretty well. The bar is nice but its not the main focus/attraction and the machines are fairly well maintained, and since they're in Texas they're open again so you can get some gaming in before you die of the rona

>>6524438
>As cynical as the other anon sounds, Android game ports honestly line up fairly well with what most people think of with an "arcade" experience
yeah but im not gonna shell out a dollar to play 30 seconds of flappy bird when the app is free

>>6524754
semi truth