/vr/ - Retro Games

Not one damned bit. I can get the same effect at my house with some friends.

There used to be a place in my town called Buddy World. It was a classic arcade-for-tickets kind of place with all manners of classic arcade games here and there (background music also being DAYTONA-A-A-A blaring across the building); even a mall in the next town used to have an arcade, and it rocked.

My most recent arcade experience was visiting Dave&Busters, and even so, some classics and even more modern games are not so frequent, and instead are full of ticket-feeding attractions which are more fun to play after a good drink or two in your system.

But still; if I truly want to enjoy a good game while buzzed, it would have to be diving into the deep blue sea hunting all manners of legendary beasts in Ocean Hunter. Take those things down like a true sailor. While drunk.

There's still a few arcades around where I live, and it's always fun to go back. Sure, most of them are the barcades (Dave and Busters/GameWorks) but there's still one that's more or less the more nostalgic kind of arcade that I grew up with.

I miss the innovation that came with the arcades.

While back in the day we would have been blown away by Space Harrier, the latest brown-and-gray shooters qualify as "innovation" today.

I always liked the pinball machines in the arcades. I remember playing a tabletop pong unit at one place.

The thing I liked most about the arcade here is how little it changed while still bringing in new games. It was like stepping back in time; same old favorites, same smell, same everything.

Sometimes I'd go there with no money just to clear my head and do some thinking. I'd sit down in the enclosed sitdown cockpit that one of the older machines in there had and never be bothered.

>>744173
do little kids beg you quarters at you house?

Why's /vr/ gotten so whiny lately?

>>744295
Whiney about what?

>>744264
Speaking of "Innovation", what the hell Epcot?

What happened to the Innoventions corridor? In one part, you see basically the pocket-version of today's technology (inaccurately represented nowadays; seeing as video phones have less crude uses on display/rides), and not to forget, the mini-E3 that was the other portion of Disney's "Innoventions".

My best memory of that has to be back when I first demoed Sonic & Knuckles, and a dozen other new games (like Vectorman and such as well), and even was part of like a 12-player arcade shooter (albeit, the graphics were mostly vector, and look like crap to today's graphics; but was still pretty fun stealing kills from other players), and on the other side of it was a 12-player Formula-1 race game. I think a good chunk of it was devoted to Sega and Sonic, to the point there was even a photo wall that had the giant special stage ring for kids to pose next to.

Looking at what it is nowadays, or what's left of it now, I feel old. It's less like an East Coast mini-E3, and more like a museum of lost technology. It's as depressing to look at like the old bland ruins of Nickelodeon Studios.

What the hell happened? I mean, besides the obvious, economy becoming shit.

>>744309
>What the hell happened? I mean, besides the obvious, economy becoming shit.
That's not really an excuse. The Japanese economy was in the shitter during 16-bit which was the golden age of gaming. Gaming THRIVED during that era.

>>744315
I wasn't aware of that.

I guess standards changed massively then, since the "iEra" is mostly flat or sans-serifed typographic versions of their former selves these days.

;＿;

I miss the crane games. Only ever won something once.

>>744309
Gaming has become a bloated big business. You can't boast record breaking profits forever.

>>744163
>Do you miss the arcades?
Yes.

Being a fighting game player, I miss the high intensity and the popoffs after winning or the salt from losing. Seeing the look of disgust on their face pleases me greatly.

However, shit I don't miss include:
>Sweaty fucks getting the joystick all greased up
>Happ buttons/joystick
>Fuckers bumping me off to make me lose
>People that make stupid house rules i.e. no throws, no specials, etc

Actually, do I actually miss the arcades?

Im mad I missed out on the 80s I would loved to smoke in the arcades and do a couple lines off the cocktail cabs. I woulda gotta play awesome games on awesome 80s coke.

>>744297
Everything.

>Muh dead franchies
>Muh favorite series isn't like what it used to be
>Everything sucks
>bawwwwww

>>744394

most arcades don't allow you to bring drinks to the cabinets, for obvious reasons

>>744413

He doesn't mean that kind of 80s coke, friend

>>744163

What are you talking about? There are plenty of retro arcades still around.

>>744408
What be thine era of age of enjoyment?

Thineself be it a child of the 90s; birthright from the mid-80s to ensure full enjoyment from youth to teen.

BTW, it's called nostalgia. We're old geezers about this. Let us enjoy our misery.

>tfw retro game arcade in town
>tfw at least 100 people in the arcade at any given time
>tfw it's open until midnight
>tfw it has a "bar" that serves jones soda

There are still a couple of very active arcades around me that still have a decent fighting game scene. There's still no feeling like being halfway through an intense matchup only to hear cheers and groans when you're up against someone else, and that by the time the match ends, a huge crowd has gathered to watch you and your opponent duke it out in a battle of skill and finesse.

And the cheers when you win, or pull off a beautifully timed ultra or super move? Dick into diamonds. Every. Single. Time.

Pic related. My main in my best games.

>>744434
>Let us enjoy our misery.
No. Be happy, faggot.

>>744434
>We're old geezers about this. Let us enjoy our misery.
We're also right.

>>744386

>>744443
(Completely missed the point)

>Let us enjoy our misery.
In context; let us have fun being pains in the asses about this.

Said misery doesn't mean we are depressed, it means in most cases that we like bugging you young whippersnappers about the golden era.

Now get off my lawn.

>>744457
Joke's on you, I'm as old as you. Now come at me bro and be happy.

>>744461
I was, until you started acting half your age.

Go back to >>/b/.

>>744457
>Now get off my lawn.
Don't worry, some people don't remember the time before 3D graphics.

>>744446
My homie.

>>744471
Nope, stop whining and talk about positive things

>>744493
Nostalgia is positive

>>744493
Okay. I'll cash in my 1000 tickets for this anti-troll troll doll please?

Thanks.

Remember collecting silly knick-knacks from arcades after winning enough tickets? That was always fun.

>>744505

I never had enough tickets to get anything but those worthless planes that break easily and can't fly worth a shit. Makes me mad thinking about it

>tfw you will never again school all your best bros in Mortal Kombat because you know all the combos while wearing a backwards baseball cap given to you by your big brother while you drink a coke icee while checking out girls and still thinking their kinda gross at the same time while Van Halen's Jump plays in the background.

>>744442
Where the fuck do you live.

>>744446
Aww yeah.

We had a Namco arcade here, and I was the King and Law master from Tekken 1 all the way up to Tekken 5: Dark Resurrection, which was the last Tekken we got here before the place shut down in 2007.

>>744504
Not like this:
>>744514

Keep feels bullshit on /v/

>>744505
I was killer at the game where the light goes around in a circle and you have to stop it at the right place

I have so many random mugs and shit from that

>>744505
I've still got a old cheap Japanese folding fan I got out of the arcade here 20 years ago.

I was a proto-weeaboo child who was fascinated with Japan, but anime hadn't caught on here yet and I wouldn't get internet until 1999, so any little thing was awesome to me.

>>744526
>Keep feels bullshit on /v/
95% of threads on /v/ are about modern games

>>744528

I remember being good at the generic little games and making serious ticket bank off of it. I'd been conditioned by video games to have quick reflexes at an early age, so this shit was like "You have to use your hands? That's like a baby toy!"

Fucking whack-a-mole wannabe with crabs that scuttle back and forth.

I miss the hell out of them.

I keep having these dreams about the arcade i used to visit all the time as a kid. In them i walk around finding quarters all over the floor and check all the coin return slots to find even more. For some reason i don't play the games with this, i just pocket the money. That's messed up. I'd at least play a few rounds of X-Men VS Street Fighter if this happened in real life.

Yeah, fond memories of those "fun zone" places. Like "Sega's Time-out On The Court" arcade & indoor mini-golf.

>>744514
>thinking their kinda gross
Am I really the only one who never went through the "girls are icky" phase?

I live in a small town. The arcades we had died when I was about 8. The only time I get to go to an arcade is when I go to Edmonton, but that's pretty rare.

I like the lightgun games the most.

I miss arcades.
>Be 10
>live in new york on base
>spend my allowance on two things, going to burger king, then going to the arcade to play Daytona USA, Area 51 and X-Men vs Street Fighter

Even my teenage years had arcade moments
>with a friend in georgia
>at the arcade, playing MVC1 and Carnevil
>leave to go back home, lightning strikes about ten yards from where we are
I know that's off tangent, but god that was awesome/terrifying

I spent most of my actual teenage years going to funsville with my best friend. We would play DDR (that was all the rage those days), MVC2, House of The Dead 2, Initial D, Crazy Taxi, every popular arcade game of the late 90s/early 2000s. We'd then go chill at my place and play Guilty Gear XX and laugh our asses off to Golden Boy.

He then went into the airforce, married some korean bitch and disappeared.
>that was almost ten years ago
I get an e-mail every now and then from him, but god thinking about arcades depresses the hell out of me. So many good memories, and I can't think of a single fucking decent arcade in a 30 mile radius (San Antonio)

I was 8 in a Soul Edge tournament, facing off to guys in their 20s.

Some asshole said to his buddies, "well, looks like we know who's going home first." I beat the shit out of ass; he slammed his fist on the arcade, and left. I was also using Voldo.

I got second place in the end. No regrets.

>>744623
Local tournaments? I always participated in Street Fighter ones, from 2 and all of its variants, 3 and all of its variants, etc. I think I did all but Alpha 3 Turbo.

I was generally within the top 3, but I only won first place once.

>>744394
> coke
> arcades
You remind me of Slick from Hobo with a Shotgun

>>744649

Local tournaments are the best kind.

>>744657
Yeah, because they're generally not populated by cracked out asians who spend 20 hours a day perfecting their techniques, just local people who play in the arcades on their off time.

The asians in my neighborhood stuck with the rhythm games.

>>744623
>he slammed his fist on the arcade, and left.

Sounds like a douche lord to me. Congrats on beating someone with such a large age advantage over you.

I was in the opposite situation once, but i wasn't a rude dick to the kid. I think i was about 14-15 when i walked into the arcade and started a game of X-Men VS Street Fighter. I was 2 rounds into the game when some 10 year old looking boy put a quarter in slot 2. I didn't really want to play against someone else, or be interrupted, but i didn't say anything and just played against him. I won a few times, but this kid had like a roll of quarters with him and just kept dumping more in. It turned into a win lose win lose kind of game and i had to leave when i ran out of quarters and he out spent me.

Another time i beat Apocalypse and wanted to leave because it was getting late but my credit was still valid for starting another game. Another young kid was watching me get Ryu's ending so i told him to go ahead and take over if he wanted.

>>744675

He said it around my parents, too.

>>744691

The fuck.

That's not the image I posted. This one is.

>>744549
> "You have to use your hands? That's like a baby toy!"

>>744691
Modern games never hold their value. I remember having to wait at least a year back in the day for game prices to come down

>>744693
That happens sometimes. I don't really understand the mechanics behind it.

Would you ever go back to playing modern games if they fixed all the shit that's wrong with it?

>>744734

I'm definitely playing Dragon's Crown. It's got that 'D&D: Shadow Over Mystara' feel goodness to it.

>>744315
>16-bit which was the golden age of gaming
The golden age of gaming was the age of Space Invaders, Pacman, and Donkey Kong.

>>744717

When two image posts happen at the exact same time, the system can't tell which was which by timestamp, so (presumably) it has a 50-50 of attaching the wrong image to the posts.

>>744745
You forgot Pitfall and Yar's Revenge
Atari 2600 has more games than modern consoles

>>744746
>few weeks ago
>posting pic on /vr/
>gets mixed up with /d/ pic
>end up going to /d/ to see the thread

I don't remember if the last "Arcade" I was in was the assortment of relatively good/unique lightgun and racing games at a resort or the assortment of mediocre prize-grabbers and a Time Crisis 4 machine at Universal Orlando. The former I killed around $20 of quarters with a couple friends, the latter my brother and I made it through until we decided to hit up the rollercoasters.
The last true Arcade not aimed more at children I was in was a place in my local mall that not only had the old DDR machine back when they started being huge in America but Lucky & Wild and Silent Scope.
That was nearly 12 years ago and it closed down not long after it opened.
>tfw the only things that have been constant since it opened are Spencer's and a bakery

>>744292

Fuck kind of arcade did go to?

The last arcade in my hometown was a pitiful little thing where the only worthwhile machines were Ridge Racer and NFL Blitz. Some teenagers burned the shit out of the Ridge Racer machine with their lighters and the owner got super mad and sold everything.

Thanks you cunts.

>>744549
Cracky Crabs?

>>744505
One time on holiday, I spent a couple of quid playing an arcade version of Hungry, Hungry Hippos, earned a fuckload of tickets, and spent them all on POGs. Mainly shitty, white-back ones, but I still enjoyed a lengthy organising session, integrating them into my collection.

I miss racing games at the arcade

>>744386
I dont get it

>>746229
Even though the sign is still there all the games are gone. ;_;

>>744163
The arcade at Cedar Point in Sandusky, Ohio is pretty damn cool. I went there recently with a couple of buddies and played around in there while they waited in line for the new roller coaster. Got some sweet games, and some old pinball machines. A lot of the games didn't seem to work right though.

Pic realted
I finally got to play Virtual-On on an arcade machine. Fun as hell.

>Implying I ever had an arcade near me
>Implying I'll ever get a chance to blow tens of dollars on games and entertainment
>hold me

>>748428
It's not worth it, man.
I blew at least $10 at >>748415 when I went.
I sort of wish I hadn't, but I don't really regret it too much.

>>748415
I went here for the first time last summer. I spent most of the day in that arcade, much better than getting heat stroke in the ride lines.

I miss some of the novelties of arcade games, in particular racing games.

Fuck steering wheel controllers, being in one of these machines is the shit.

>>748440

This so much

When I was a kid my dad used to take me to the arcade for a while. Mostly I just played the bike racing games. It was great and I loved every second of it

Last game I ever played at an arcade was one of the newer NFS games about 2 years ago I think.

Not /vr/ related, but how many of you had the chance to play F-Zero AX? I've been looking all over for one near Indiana, but I can't find one. I want that fake license.

>>744443

It's like I'm really on /v/!

>>744520

I'd really like to know this as well.

While I miss the old Arcades that are no more, there are still some in my city. I work close to one so at lunch time I frecuently go over there to play CvS2 and SSF4AE.

>>744413
pfffft

>>744745
>The golden age of gaming was the age of Space Invaders, Pacman, and Donkey Kong.

Well then, 8-bit and 16-bit was the Silver Age of gaming.

This discount movie theater (the kind that gets movies 6 months later and charges like 25% what normal theaters do) near me has the most bitchin' arcade. Totally worth paying the $3 or whatever for a movie ticket to go play.

God I miss arcades

I miss the GOAT (greatest of all time) Dance Retro game known as DDR

I miss MvsC2

I miss it all.

So, gentlestypes, if someone was thinking about starting up a new arcade shop in a small college town, what do you think would be a decent start-up capital, and game collection?

>>751851
Dance Dance Revolution Extreme is the best DDR hands down, any DDR enthusiast would tell you that, but it is not the newest machine, and you would have to get it used.

Marvel vs. Capcom 2 is an arcade classic

People love pinball machines

Initial D racing used to be cool like 8 years ago

>>751493
>Claiming to miss arcades
>Claiming to miss the game that killed arcades
Fucking tolls...

>>751851
import a crate of candies and a bunch of bootleg boards from someone like ECL or WeLink

>>752206
>claims DDR ruined arcades

Do you even arcade culture?

And you call me the troll?