/vr/ - Retro Games

imagine playing your playstation but every 2 minutes you have to pay 50 cents and the graphics are shittier and there's a fat guy standing next to you and the sheer size and smell of him fucks up your inputs

>>7386309
Imagine being bad at video games.

>>7386303
Marlboro smell, beep sounds coming from everywhere, some swearing from time to time, eurodance background music...

>>7386303
>Please tell us a story!
Sit down you little shit and I'll tell you a tale from the long ago time of the early 90s. I was about the age of 6 wandering around the county fair by myself(parents weren't pussies back then and let us explore) when I came across a tent full of arcade games. Needless to say that shit was magical. Didn't have any money but that didn't stop me from watching other people play. Saw a man working on a game and I started asking him questions about what he was doing. After about 10 minutes he gave me a dollar to go away which I promptly blew on Toki. Now go in the kitchen and tell your aunt I'm ready for another cold one.

I remember sitting on cabs for an hour or two hoping someone would challenge me that didn't suck and wasn't too good either. Also black kids trying to sell me drugs and black whores offering me sex even though I was clearly underage lol

>>7386313
oh hey get a load of this video game natural who knew how to beat every game with 1 credit the first time he ever played it

youre not fooling anyone. we all know youre a faggot

Damp, musty and occupied by incoherent Asians speaking their gobbledygook (no pun intended) and antisocial Gen Xers.

I love the arcades, I miss the arcades - but a lot of their charm had gone by the mid 90s.

>>7386335
the prostitute didnt ask you for proof of age identification???

you should have reported her to her manager

>>7386367
didn't know they did that, I thought they had SOME boundaries

>you will never be a black 80s dyke squeezing your nerd ginger friend's enormous dumper as she plays arcade games
why am I alive

>>7386513
Why blow your wad on an arcade cab when you could blow it on her ebony tits?

It's all money and amusement at the end of the day

>>7386367
You should have colonized that.

>>7386303
Boomers were already adults boycotting the arcades in the 90s

>>7386335
>black whores offering me sex even though I was clearly underage lol
This poor woman was just a /ss/ enthusiast trying to turn her passion into a career. You can't fault anyone for that.

>>7386303
Bitches everywhere

>>7386685
Me on the Pac-man machine

>>7386332
>>7386685
Fun fact, kids; this picture wasn't taken in the fairytale, goofy carpet, funhouse arcade that people always claim they went to. Those we few and far between. MOST arcade cabinets were in bars, bowling alleys, laundromats, video rental stores, supermarkets, and movie theatres.

This redneck chad is most definately at a bar and just needed somewhere to pose with his bitches.

>>7386303
>doo doo do doo doo doo doo doo do doooooooo
>DayTonaaaaaaaaaaaaAAAAAAAAAAAHHHH
>DAYTONA LETS GO AWAY (Lets go away)
>DayTONaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
>AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH
huh? Oh sorry kiddos, I was just thinking ha ha
What did you say?

>>7386768
daayyyyytona

>>7386313
Found the fat guy

Some control panels had built-in ashtrays, actual female gamers had null presence, maybe every few weeks one could be spotted playing Puzzle Bobble, though maybe it was just another bored hooker. The managers were a breed apart, I remember once a kid next to me losing it and smashing the controls in an Art of Fighting cabinet. The manager slipped by unnoticed, grab the kid by the back of the neck and threatened to crush his head into the monitor. The kid left crying and the old guy returned to his cubicle and continued reading the newspaper. All the time I was there I was afraid my parents would catch me in such a hole, and once they did.

Arcades always smelled bad in the 80s

>>7386736
You forgot pizzerias. Most arcades in NYC were at pizza spots.

>>7386303

It was like a mall food court because it was a mall food court and you could play games there if you wanted. Nothing special happened there. You could play games, that's all. Some of them were fun.

>>7386303
Only arcade anywhere near me was built into a billiards hall. The owner of the place kept it going and added to it as his own little hobby project, and young me was exploring and found it when I really should have been thrown out of the building before getting more than a few steps in.
Played games, ran out of change, eventually they noticed me and were cool enough to let me hang around despite it also being a bar. Few months in there was power outage and nothing to do but play pool, so I learned that and then would try to win extra arcade money betting against the guys being a cheeky kid thinking he could play in the big leagues.
Looking back, I'm pretty sure they threw games on purpose to let me get a few bucks and keep hanging around, treated me more like the local mascot than anything else.

>>7386685

>>7386303
you went there for like birthday parties and shit. i was mostly busy playing with Super Power

>>7387560
I first thought that shine on his cheek was a grin lol

>>7386303
Why is she touching her ass?

>>7387815
Interracial lesbian love, of course.

>>7386584
Why does the 1st girl have 3 arms?

>>7387970
She's N64, think long and hard about it

>go to arcade in 199x
>Hit up the change machine
>$1 bill rejected, try to straighten it out
>Bill rejected again, use the corner of the machine to try to straighten out the bill.
>Rejected again, line forming behind me.
>Fuck it, use my $5 bill
>Accepted. Receive more quarters than I can carry. Use my shirt.

Fucking arcade!

>>7387970
The n64 controller has three grips you fucking goofus

>>7387970

Because she's the N64 tan and "le N64 controller for aliums :DD"

>>7386910
They smelled bad in the 90s too, and Im sure the employees never deep cleaned anything so it just kept building up.

>>7386303
Used to go to the arcade with my dad once a week. We would play Time Crisis, Galaga, and some racing game I forgot the name of.
I was bad at Galaga (I was young, lol) so we'd play "co-op" where he would steer the joystick and I would hit the fire button, kek.
Eventually I got so good at Time Crisis that when I played a single-screen shooter with a rando and I pissed him off because I wasn't leaving any enemies for him.

Depended on era and area.

More drugs/hookers in early era. More teens/kids in middle era. More kids in late era.

Shitty ghetto arcade had maybe 5-10 old shitty cabinets, a light gun game, and a pinball machine or three. Nasty, broken machines, dust on prizes, and probably shady stuff at night. Otherwise, shit kids ruins things.

In the middle class and up arcades there were 20+ cabinets with mostly new with minimal old games (Galaga, MsPacman, OpWolf, PlayChoice), several pinball games, skeeball a few claw games. It reversed after (((9/11))) becoming more prize games and less about vidya.

My mom worked for a optometrist in a good mall and it was literally across from the arcade. She would occasionally fill-in for sister office in state capital's mall which had awesome arcade. We would get a suite right next to the mall paid by office, so I would get $20 for the night while she watched chick flicks before mall closed late for Fri/Sat. Then it was all teens, some preteens/kids, and a few early GAMER prototypes. Weed was the only drug but super low key in my area.

thanks 4 reading my blog reddit

>>7388357
Ya see, in my youth, they would be carried off on Friday night and never be seen again if that happened.

>>7386303
>1998
>Playing House of The Dead in local arcade
>cute girl comes along and puts in money for the other gun, starts playing with me
>chit chat happens and we get pretty far but soon run out of lives
>asks me if I wanna play something. We go round the arcade together playing random games. I gave her some tokens so she could use them in the arcade shop
>get some food after then go back to mine, parents were on holiday
>we watched WWF Raw today and started to cuddle
>ended up kissing and having sex. She stayed over and I came inside her multiple times.
>I hear another voice calling my name.
>I wake up. It was my mom telling me to get out of bed. It was all a dream.

>>7386521
>>7386303
>>7387815
>>7387840
friendly reminder the rest of the set is very disappointing and this is the only good image

>>7386303
black kids would always ask me for quarters

>>7388079
Ah, so, reddit drawing.

>>7388515
In my 3rd World location those would be gypsy kids

>>7386303
most were drug dens were a lot of teenage drug dealing and money laundering went on.

The sanitized ones were shit, more expensive and never carried the edgy machines. If you went on a weekend it was impossible to play all that you wanted because the lines for each good game were too long. If you were a dedicated arcade kid you had to go to the drug den ones to be able to compete with other autists and junkies properly. Half of the machines in these places were damaged constantly.

In the posh arcades money laundering still went on and they were still a lot of burnout junkies high on drugs but the dealing of it happened somewhere else.

I don't regret arcades going away, it was a shit way to play games and i was happy about consoles allowing us to get away from those places, i never thought those things had any soul, they were designed to scam kids and suck quarters from them.

>>7386303
>90s
>arcade
Imagine annoying kids running around everywhere, broken buttons on the machines, nonfunctional coin slots, and waiting until things died down and the owners turned on free play mode for an hour.

>>7386303

I remember tuning some 20 something dude in title fight (possibly the best boxing game ever) when I was like 10 years old. It was dope. I was in the middle of a game about to fight the 4th (and last, I assume) boxer and this dweeb came up and challenged me - I even asked him not to because I never got that far before, I wanted to cry (because the arcade was at the mall the next town over and my family didn't have a car so mall trips were rare). So he put his quarters in, and I beat him - twice. I'm pretty sure I lost to the last dude, but I felt great for the whole day after that. Beating some rando online doesn't compare.

Same shit happened to me when I tried it on some 12 year old in Tekken 3 when I was like 16. He asked me not to join but I had to leave, soon so I "aw fuck it" 'd the situation and plunked my quarters in and he beat me - twice.

What goes around comes around, etc.

Shit started to get shitty when they began bringing in ticket games for toys, they were a cool novelty at first but then they pretty much took the whole thing over.

>>7386918
fuck yeah. a bunch of local pizza shops around my house still have the same cabinets from back when I was a kid, I love going back to those same feelings

>>7386303
On vacation in Myrtle beach, I walked into an arcade when I was 10 and tried playing DDR for the first time. All the smelly ponytailed 20-somethings who spent every day next to the machine laughed at me.

>>7386303
Conceptualize the aroma

>>7389405
>stale cigarette smoke and sweat

>>7386303
First steering wheel cabinet that I saw in my hue country in 1990

>>7386768
You spelled GaYYYbONA wrong sir.

>>7386303
they were awesome.

The social aspect of arcades combined with competitive high testosterone matches can't be replicated today by single player cope games or online multiplayer shit.

>>7388389
kek

>>7386303
You don't have any idea of life, shitty zoomer
Get outta here, fucking kid!!

>>7386326
Mine was a sit-down restaurant in the food court that got split: The serving area became an arcade, while the kitchen became a cheesesteak place. They shared a ventilation system, so the arcade would smell like meat and onions. That sounds bad but it was really nice compared to the stale cigarette stank you usually get.

>>7389938
Hey you're from Philadelphia, right? Why do you have so many trannies?

>>7389952
Who
Fucking
Cares

>>7389952
philly was the capital of aids and gay swingers back then, not surprising lots of mental illness followed

>>7386303
My favorite arcade was right beside a theater and Laser Tag arena. We'd play fighting games and racing games while waiting for our turn to play laser tag or before a movie started, the place was clean and the atmosphere was really positive and friendly

arcades were a good place to pick up chicks

Did you guys have one of these in your arcade center?

>>7390328
yes but they were replaced by air hockey tables, which were much more fun imo

>>7390290

>>7390359
>why yes I do stuff my bra how could you tell?

>>7390290
if by girls you mean streetwalkers, then yes

>>7386303
Uncle ESL will tell you a story:
i was very young, playing Street fighter VS xmen on chink owned arcade, very common in my country at the time, when a little faggot came by my side, deposited a quarter in the machine and started a fight.
Since you are young let me tell you that it was common knowledge and courtesy to ask the guy already playing if he wants to duel, never saw anyone do what that cunt did and just put the coin and start a fight out of the blue.
To make things short, the faggot choose Akuma (no less, a total turd of a person) and started spamming air fireballs and shit and for some miracle (i am bad at fighting games, still are) i started destroying this kid, a lot of people gathered behind us and he even tried to play a second match, angry as fuck.
I won again, that was one of the most satisfying days of my childhood, i can't tolerate non polite people and i hope he learned a lesson that day.
The lesson of the story is that if you play as Akuma you are a living joke.
The end.

>>7390290
I bet she smells good

>>7386303
Lots of grown ass men playing game while the women got bored and wasted
The games themselves were neat

You remember how Terminator 2 has the kids at a big fucking arcade with cool shit everywhere and space around everything? Yeah it's nothing like that, you played in a dank hole. If it was a dedicated arcade place, there wasn't food offered but everything was goddamn sticky anyway. Staff were constantly either absent or fucking around, since their establishment ran itself until a machine broke or they needed to empty money from it, and they barely did those jobs. Absolutely no cleaning happened at any point in your arcade's entire lifespan.

Other kids would complain if you played a game too long, and then purposely join to be disruptive and make your time with it take even longer, because everyone there was consistently dumb as a rock - the large majority of kids at an arcade had awful parents with no sense of responsibility and no desire to teach them, talk to them or even look at them, which was exactly why these kids were there.

There would be an air hockey table for some of the older kids who weren't into vidya, and they would periodically kill a child with errant pucks that lifted off from their gorilla-like finesse at playing a game where the designers had made sure only an absolute gorilla could make that happen. You just had to be lucky here.

>>7387527
that's surprisingly wholesome buddy

>>7386309
For those who couldn't afford a expensive console there was a better option to pay by the hour. There was this rental store near school that had a big screen TV plugged to a Saturn. You could play Virtua Fighter and pay much less. But the place was a small room with other people around as well

>>7386303
i don't miss arcades as much as i do the random pinball machine or video cabinet in like your average pizza place

>>7392149
Fairly accurate

>>7392149
I wish to know more about the air hockey gorillas

I've got loads of arcade stories, like the time i ended up fisting a gril, but the other best times were going to Sega World in London (pic related). Literally the pinnacle of arcades on the planet at the time. No 3rd world mutt shithole for me. This is also largely before London was completely invaded by diversity, so it was still (mostly) a decent and safe place where people actually spoke English. Sega World was a massive building that had multiple floors with literally every arcade machine you could want, and not just Sega games, they had everything from their competitors too. Then there was shops, restaurants, rides and a IMAX cinema. They didn't cheap out on arcade machines either, they would have the best decked out versions with massive screens lined up, full size car/bike models and all kinds of other shit. It wasn't basic cabinets. Some other anon mentioned the arcade scene in T2, well this was actually like that, but 10x better, way cooler and on a far grander scale.

One time i went there with mates who were all massive snoytranny PSX fanboys that would go on about how shit Sega were when they hadn't even played Sega games in years... And fucking 'ell, the amount of cope inside Sega World was off the fucking scale. They tried so hard to hide the fact that were having the time of their lives playing Sega arcade games. Then on the way home i'd mention to them how i'll just further play many of these games on my chad Saturn later. Honestly, just going there with a nintendyke or snoytranny and watching them seethe and cope like nothing you'd seen before was almost half the fun. It was like they were about to cry but were simultaneously very exited and happy.

>>7392995
Pinball is such great game. Its also one of the best normie filters, they mostly think pinball is just hitting a ball randomly without any rhyme or reason.

>>7393350
Fascinating how it has to go back to talking about which people it hates multiple times and obsess over them, just from trying to discuss a location that was enjoyable.

>>7393350
>Then on the way home i'd mention to them how i'll just further play many of these games on my chad Saturn later.
And then everybody clapped, they threw a parade for you and Saturn wasn't a massive failure

>>7386768
>dat Nike knapsack

>>7392878
>be 2007 me and newly married waifu
>we both had gamecube and ps2 when we dated
>sony pulling back PS2 emulation pissed us off
>went downtown on Saturday after and visited hobby/game shop
>hey Anons, we got a 360 and Dead Rising if you want to play for $20 for 5 hours, this kid is finishing soon and i'll reserve it
>Go grab lunch, walk to liquor store, and pour some airplane bottles of Jim Beam into our Cokes
>Play Dead Rising tandem for fours hours before WH40K and Pokemon card Saturday night ruined vibe
>End up buying 360 instead because rented it and was enjoyable.

>>7393375
>the mutt doesn't understand banter

What a surprise.

>>7388391
What set?

>>7393531
brown sugar

>>7393350
>snoy snoy snoy tranny tranny tranny
>me mates
>i was right! they were wrong! i was right! me mates were wrong!!! me me me right right right!
unreadable mental illness

>>7386303
Go to arcades in Japan. They even still reek like smoke lol. Authentic vintage arcade feels

>>7386303
>Arcades
>90's
who the fuck was unironically playing at an arcade instead of playing PS or Nintendo, only arcades I ever touched were at pizza places and as far as I know those "arcades" are still there

>>7393573
arcades were way ahead of consoles in the 90s, specially early/mid 90s

>>7386303
in 1992 I downloaded 200 emulators to my samsung galaxy s9 and used a bluetooth controller from amazon

those were the days

>>7393375
Agreed. when did all of 4chan become /pol/ trailer park skinheads

>>7393573
Sorry if you couldn't see the difference between SNES graphics and arcade graphics

>>7393579
>early/mid 90s
I was climbing trees and riding my bicycle then

>>7393612
>riding your bicycle...
>...to play arcade games

>>7393593
when normal people were banned/kicked out of everywhere else

>>7392149
>errant pucks that lifted off from their gorilla-like finesse
lmao I've hit people with that shit fucking good times man

>>7386303
>tfw your bro will never rest his hand on your butt while you play arcade games

>>7393350
this shit looks dope, we'll never go back

>>7393614
based retard

>>7393612
and now you seethe & cope on video game forums
funny innit

>japanese arcades
>well lit, stools, clean, organized, good visibility, quiet salarymen

>western arcades
>dark, seedy, standing, disorganized, poor visibility, niggers shouting

Can someone explain this?

>>7393702
citation needed: the game: the movie: the game: the post

>>7393083
Well >>7393621
What was life as an air hockey gorilla like? What's your bodycount? Did you get any girls out of it?

>>7393702
Some Jap arcades were also infamous for the same reasons as western ones. And those in Eastern Europe after the fall of communism weren't much better. A buddy of mine was stalked by a pedo when he was a kid attending these joints.

>>7386309
>every 2 minutes you have to pay 50 cents
If you do nothing but lose, sure.

>>7393702
a ton of Japanese arcades were run by organized crime

>>7393713
>Did you get any girls out of it?

>demonstrate in public using far too much force and no precision at a simple manual dexterity task
>getting girls
Gonna guess no on that one preemptively, I'm sorry gorillachad

>>7393718
Were you really playing games where your victory was a foregone conclusion? You just beat a nonstop lineup of 6 year olds instead of looking for who could be your real competition and take games off you to become better? What was the point of playing a game you couldn't lose, anon?

>>7393702
Yeah, nah. I went to plenty of arcades in Tokyo and Chiba, and most were dark (though I never felt it was seedy or any dirtier than any public place in Tokyo, which is not very), and only a few were lit up like in your pic.

>>7393582
And played exactly 4 games.

>>7393702
>all those shmup cabs
wow
what a boring piece of shit ''arcade''

>>7393350
>No 3rd world mutt shithole for me
Don't know what you mean We third worlders got our fancy arcades too. They're usually located inside malls. This place have been available in many cities (including mine). It went by a different name in the mid nineties.

I remember when MK3 came up and wasn't available for SNES. While my mum went to the supermarket I went there just to look because that place was too expensive. They were using rechargeable cards because most people already knew how to cheat the coin system to play for free. They had security guards all over the place. That place was totally different from the cheap ones I visited in the early 90's close to bars full of drunk people.

The best games they had there was Daytona, Time Crisis and Alpine Racer. They had amusement games for 5 year old children as well. The place had annoying kids instead of drunk degenerates. You could collect tickets from playing arcades and change for some useless stuff

>>7393702
*american arcades
fix'd it for you

>>7393702
>japanese thing is better than western thing
huh, you don't say
Japanese invented good gaming (basically)

>>7393612
>riding your bicycle at the top of a tree

>>7393556
>unreadable mental illness
ignore the brit incel

>>7386309
The thing was zoomie, everything was relative, and arcade graphics were magic at the time. It was like playing something at least one gen higher than what you had at home.

>>7386303
It wholly depended on the owner.
We had two arcades near where I grew up. One was an old office building turned into a party/laser tag/arcade that was like 3 stories worth of everything a 90s child would go nuts over.
The other was built in a dilapidated former bar and tended to be dark and have lots of blacklights but all the 'classic' 80s cabinets.

I remember I loved the feeling of going to an arcade, but getting my first console, and realizing within minutes arcades were not going to survive them.

>>7393612
I was
>Riding bicycle
>Riding skate
>Swimming
>Playing street soccer
>Playing nintendo games
>Watching japanese metal heros
>Watching american cartoons
My friends did climb trees to get some mangos but I was too afraid to do that

>>7393812
You have to be white to post here

>>7394021
cope

>>7394030
A white player (Tom Brady) is the greatest of all time in a sport dominated by violent nigger criminals, and nothing you can say will change that.

>>7393702
The arcade in Shenmue gives us a glimpse of their reputation back in the 80's. When Iwatani created Pacman one of the design objectives was to make the game also attractive to normal women and small children, he was sad at what those places were fast becoming
He failed in that regard.

>>7394038
that might be true, but you're still seething and coping and need to get a life

>>7386303
>what were Arcades like in the 90's?
exactly like in that photo, only booty girls touching each other to electronic beebs, in very disgusting ways, it was lewd

...and when those places started to smell of sweaty, aroused women, they simply had no other choice but to close them

>>7388391
I finally found the set and boy you weren't kidding

>>7386309
>there's a fat guy standing next to you
Extremely rare in arcades. Fat people under 20 were rare overall in the 80s. Our school had a single fat kid, known as "the fat kid", and he was a popular class clown.

The roundface kid on the left in this picture was the token fat kid by 80s standards. It is nothing at all compared to today's kids.

>>7394619
>and he was a popular class clown.
such was the fate of rare fat kids everywhere in the 80s, these days the whole school is fat

>>7394654
Thanks GMO !

>>7386736
the fuck are you on about? Most of the arcades around DC were either stand alone arcades or in the malls, other places that had serious amount of cabs were places like Shakey's or Putt Putt, but no fucking bars had cabinets except for shit like Pac Man

>>7394713
more like HFCS

>>7394727
>no fucking bars had cabinets except for shit like Pac Man
The Pac man in bars was usually the sit down kind, as well. In the 80s our laws allowed kids in bars if accompanied by parents, and my dad was a drummer for a house band (country) so I was babysat by the Pacman Machine with free play. It was actually a roll of quarters painted red so they wouldn't count them in the tally.

>>7394763
they also had centipede cabinets too, but my favorite spots were the standalone arcades that were in stripmalls or "downtown" areas where all the degenerate teens hung out playing games, smoking cigarettes, shit those places were where you went to get a dimebag and chill, man those were the days

They really made an entire episode of Black Mirror based on those lesbians.

True story
>be white Brit, early 20s, working as ESL teacher in Wuhan fifteen years ago
>yes, that Wuhan
>went arcade with Canadian mate also working in the city
>2 white lads in the arcade stand out and we create a buzz in the place
>realise that a token for the arcades is about 1/20th of the price of an equivalent in the UK
>proceed to complete every House of the Dead machine in the place (3 or 4 of them) , rinsing credits at 5p a go like I'm some trashy celebrity throwing the wealth about, with a crowd of about 30 Chinese kids watching us
Was pretty based.
Then I suppose we went out to get shitfaced and go clubbing or something like that.
Fucking hell those were the days, lads.
You zoomers better get on with your civil disobedience bullshit or you will literally never be allowed to do this.

>>7394038
And this is a board dominated by fat neckbeards living in their basements. And this makes me the greatest shitposter of all time

A video literally just brought up this hidden away memory. I was born in the late 80s so I was a little kid when arcades where at their height.

I remember the House of the Dead 2 machines being so realistic that I'd avoid looking at them because they scared me. There were a few other games they'd be so scary I'd avoid them lol

>>7386309
>and the graphics are shittier

How fucking dumb are you exactly? Arcade machines, contrasted with the era they launched in, were always superior to the hardware they were ported to. It's practically a trope that the Arcade version is always stripped down in some way, feature or graphics wise, or both.

>>7394619
>token fat kid in the 80's

Hah, bull fucking shit. This is more "token fat kid".

>>7397061
It was only when N64 came up that arcade ports turned inferior

>>7394713
>>7394754
Why not both? Chinese corporate sellouts should off themselves.

>>7397498
arcade ports were shit on nes and snes lol, often gutted and much easier, not just when N64 came out

>>7397498
OK Sony fanboy.

>>7397686
What I means is that arcade ports were inferior to N64 ports

>>7393569
Gotta hurry though, they'll soon all have closed down

>>7386303

While you stayed at your grandmother's seaside resort hotel where your parents would dump you during the summer so they could fuck loudly at home, you'd set out on a sunny day after a superb breakfast with a pocket full of change and decide which of the many arcades you were going to first. You'd be welcomed by a cacophony of bleeps and bloops when you entered, and be overwhelmed by dingy labyrinths of striking visuals and attract modes. The smell of machinery, dirty coins and stale perfume was also a wonderful, familiar greeting. The surprise element was the real draw. See, while arcade games were covered in magazines to a point, it was unusual for them to be previewed, so you would very rarely get advance word of new games. Basically, you'd wander round these dark mazes of cabinets and be totally surprised by a brand new, exciting-looking game, right there in front of you. And you'd dump a coin in and be playing it within seconds. This happened frequently. The social aspect was also unique to this era. You'd hover over someone's shoulder (or they'd hover over yours) to see their skills and get tips. Again, walkthroughs and guides weren't common, so you'd more or less have to rely on shared information for an advantage. Beating a game in the arcade with an audience was a real thrill, it's an indescribable feeling.

It was a fantastic era, now sadly all but gone.

>>7398014
The thrill is gone away.

>>7386309
Ask me how I know you're a zoomer.

>>7397659
>Blaming the chinks
Whatever you say, Shlomo.

>>7386303
>be high schooler
>buy cheapest lunch at school so I can stop at the arcade on the way home
>usually play galaga
>one day there's a blonde bombshell playing
>standing a bit behind her, waiting for my turn, can still make out her perfumed scent in the pizza-log bouquet wafting throughout
>makes it pretty far but loses and starts again so I step forward and point out some general tips while she's on the first level
>makes it a bit further than she had the first time
>"Wow anon, thanks. You wanna hang out?"
>we get pizza logs and then make out
>talk about how we wish there was a place we could be alone while lightly dry humping
>never see her again
This was a common occurrence. Things were different back then.

>>7393736
Yeah, but were the Jap arcades like everything else the other guy said?

>>7388389
Ah yes, those were the good old delusional days.

>>7386303
Brazilfag checking in

I started asking mom to let me go into the arcades at a very early age, say 9-10yo. She would never let me.
Sometimes, my dad walked into an arcade with me and watched me play. He would take me to this place on a rich neighbourhood and the place was very well kept and well lit.
As I got older, though, and started going alone to many different arcades in my 15-18yo's, shit was way different.
Those poor niggers would always roam about the arcades and they would keep asking everyone there for coins. If you wouldn't give them any, they would sneak behind people playing and steal them from the cabinet tops.
There were fights, people smoking cigarettes and sometimes weed etc.
This one time, I was 18, I parked my car outside and went into the arcade. When I got back, someone had tried to force the door open without success, leaving a lot of broken pieces.
Also, people played mostly only KoF games, 1 in 1000 people ever touched anything else.

>>7386303
My dad almost had a seizure when he took me to my first arcade. Man I miss them

>>7398403
Arcades or your father's seizures?

>>7398370
>Brazil
I don't know what you expected

Were arcades ever really alive in Europe? Asking as a euro, theres only 2 or 3 times I ever remember seeing a cabinet and one of those times was an actual arcade (was on a ferry from France to England sometime in late 2000's)

>>7398370
In Europe it was less hardcore, but Gypsies would cause similar problems.

>>7398435
East euro?

>>7398426
french petrol stations often had arcades or a cabinet or two at least, played HOTD4 in a french petrol station in 2006
my hometown in the uk used to be full of arcades but they're all replaced with fruit machine places for junkies now, used to ditch school and go smoke cigarettes and play wangan midnight maximum tune 2 at one of them, there was another arcade on the beach that had a point blank machine that used a back projection tv and literally every element of the game was burned into it
anyway that's my uk/euro arcade anecdotes, i live in the netherlands now and i haven't seen a single arcade machine outside of a lemans 24 (scud race sequel) machine in a theme park where my friend worked, i saw an arcade in den haag but didn't go in since i was in a rush and it looked like it was all mobile games in cabinets which seems too depressing to imagine

>>7398562
>all replaced with fruit machine places for junkies now

Can you explain this to a burger???

>>7398562

>fruit machines

You mean trees?

>>7398583
>>7398586
a fruit machine is the uk nickname for one of those low stakes gambling machines, i think burgers call them one armed bandits? named because the symbols on the wheels are often fruit, junkies beg for money then throw it into those things to try and get a bit extra, they slowly took over the entire floor of the old arcade where i used to play wangan and silent scope
i do like the idea that you pictured it as some sort of fruit dispenser for drug addicts though

>>7398590
You mean slots. I

>>7398086
>getting upset when China is called out for anything
Ok wumao.

>>7388550
nigger

>>7398562
> i saw an arcade in den haag but didn't go in since i was in a rush and it looked like it was all mobile games in cabinets which seems too depressing to imagine
yes, i remember hearing it on the news then and it's was obvious to me it was just shitty phone games and mechanical things, pathetic.

>>7393350
>muh 30 year old console wars
and that's how I know anon went once with his parents and made everything else up

>>7393350
i went to sega world in the trocadero a few times, fucking amazing

>>7386736
Pizza parlors! You left out the most common place to find them in the early 80's.

>>7394619
Children started becoming judgmental retards who take everything too seriously.

>>7389432
>My local bowling alley
>It was always filled and you can hear the pins flying all over the place
>In the backroom laid Lethal Enforcers, OutRun, Tekken 1, etc.
>The armory I used to have my birthday parties at all the time that had a basketball redemption game, ping pong, and a lone Ms. Pac-Man arcade cabinet that had the speedup board
I miss those fucking rooms so much. No other arcade gave me that much excitement besides when I randomly found Time Crisis 1 at an amusement park, both arcade variants.

>>7397061
>still no arcade perfect port of Time Crisis or a port of TC5
>in a era of VR and the Wiimote and that PS3 variant
I guess I need to buy a TC1 machine finally

Roller rinks always had amazing arcades, and since the entire building was accessible by rollers Kate's the arcades were too. It was all carpeted and when you. Skate up to play digdug you got the most painful static shock of your life. Rollerskate static shocks were huge bright blue arcs, far more powerful than you could ever experience on your own.

There are a few grounded metal contact points on the otherwise wood and plastic arcade cabinet, and you can play for 15 minutes before you accidently get close to one and get the shock (you don't even need to touch it, just get within an inch or two and it would arc).

The shocks were so bad it would make little kids cry, it was great.

>>7400050
>no arcade perfect port of Time Crisis
Why is this? There'd be huge demand for it.

>>7390290
>ghetto custom cabs of the 90s

better then the s.0.ysters of today

>>7400107
Also these were the old skates, with the. Fuckhuge wheels and the big rubber stopper. When you rolled over carpet literally sizzled with electricity, like when you are seperatting cloths from a dryer.

Some arcade cabinets have an exposed piano hinge where your wrists are, so the joystick panel can flip back for service. The wrist shocks were the most painful.

>>7400147

>>7400110
lightguns don't exist anymore and VR can't replicate it despite what people claim
the sensor bar shit for the wii also kinda sucked but its the only home way to play shit like ghost squad

>>7400176
>lightguns
Oh, I thought it meant there were problems emulating it. Now I get it.

Arbroath, near Dundee in Scotland. Between 1991 and 1995 must have been there every summer. For whatever reason arcade games were ridiculously cheap to play comparatively: 20p for 5 lives in the Simpsons for example.
It had fucking Lazer Ghost with the three way cab. Good times brothers.

>>7398654
Puggies