/vr/ - Retro Games

>>8207626
MAME

Hipster barcades don't even have authentic cabs

Arcades are an idea from 40 years ago. They should die.

We all know why American arcades died, but what killed them in Japan?

>>8207854
Covid and real estate shortage.

>>8207863
Pretty much, also financial issues with SEGA itself

>>8207854
COVAIDS.

>>8207863
>>8207923
COVID in japan is a fucking shitshow. Nothing can be done anywhere, and in no way can any buiness operate. The people there aren't conservative, they're zenservative, as doing nothing and complaining about action is the solution to everything. It's where the idea for anti-spiral came from in Gurren Lagann.

I have imported from Japan my whole adult life and need a watch serviced, but everything is shut down STILL except for proxies that can get stuff from vendors and ship it fedex WHICH IS NOT EMS.

>>8207940
Things will get better Ken-sama. Dattebayo!

>>8207657
Depends where you go, but the ones in LA are pretty legit.

>>8207940
You are a LARP. This is blatantly untrue aside from shipping issues which are mostly resolved now.

>>8207940
Only America had shipping issues. Shouldn't have been born in a third-world country

>>8207626
There's still plenty of arcades over there, even weird little mom-and-pop hole in the wall ones, thing is it's almost all NESiCAxLive stuff nowadays so if you go into one, you've pretty much seen the lineup in all the others

>>8207657
I'm so fucking sick of playing 80s and 90s arcade games on LCD screens. The Punch Out at my local barcade is LCD and they never bothered to turn the fucking sound on.

>>8207940

I live in Japan and you're fucking retarded. A handful of small businesses closed permanently but most of the ones who "closed" were just temporary. One of the chicken-specialty izakaya in my neighbourhood used covid as an opportunity to do renovations, smart as fuck as they likely lost minimal business with that timing and the place looks fresh as fuck now with a brand new wooden interior instead of the smoke and grease-stained old one.

>>8207626
So weird that they're lumping GiGo with the other arcades that closed due to low sales. There's some weird thing with Japanese building renting that a company can only stay so many years in a building and the GiGo reached that limit and had to shut down, its completely unrelated to Covid.

Shame though, was the best place to chill in 'bukuro.

>>8207657
They do in NY

>>8207854
>We all know why American arcades died

You faggots are ALWAYS getting this 100% wrong.

>>8207626
>are hipster Barcades the only hope of preserving retro cabinets?
not long-term, that's for sure.

>>8207635
Eww

>>8207657
>Hipster barcades don't even have authentic cabs
The one in Philly does. Though they shifted focus to more pinball machines and I kind of hate it. They had some good machines before like Strider and Tron.

>>8207626
There were almost no retro cabinets in those big Sega arcades. I've been to almost all of them in Tokyo and they were mostly retarded card games and betting games. There always was a classic games floor, but there only were a few popular machines that everyone's played a million times before. Nothing of value was lost when these were closed. Those big arcades were a disappointment like you wouldn't believe.

>>8207626
I'm just glad I had enough time to visit everything of importance in Akihabara. First time I traveled to Japan was in 1998. Last time 2018.

>>8207657
They do in SF.

>>8209878
good for you autismo

galloping ghost arcade

>>8210204
They "preserve" them in the sense that they're there, but Galloping Ghost is too ambitious for their own good and can't keep the machines with unique control systems (aka the ones you can't play on MAME) working most of the time.

>>8207626
Read on twitter that that one SEGA Arcade in particular closed because the new landlord wants to do something with it and they might open a new location to replace it in the future since it was still racking money in.

Don't get me wrong, arcades are pretty fucked as we're on month uhhh 22? of no in-person fighting game tournaments which are a great way for them to get cash every week. I just hope GAME Newton doesn't die since I do want to go there one day.

>>8210148
Get on my level, poor kid.

>>8208229
If you owned a barcade would you want to waste the limited supplies of crt's wearing them out each day.

>>8207626
Probably, I play one when I see one. My cinema just rid of the small number arcades over a year ago. I was able to play sega rally 2 with glitched graphics. I went to big cinema and they had ferrari f355 and daytona 2, I was surprised how well f355 held up since I consider gran turismo 4 to have really poor physics these days.

I mainly play them if I see them since it could be the last time I play one.

>>8210564
LCD is disgusting

A barcade in my country serves the best food I've ever had. You literally will see groups of like 10 normie women all there just for the food. And with your meal you get like 10 tokens to play games. So they hop onto Mario kart for 20 minutes then leave.

>>8210636
Give them your banana

>>8207940
Been living in Japan for 5 years now and none of this is true. No one gives a shit about COVID anymore except for scared women and women-like men (which, admittedly, is a lot). The only thing that closed were tiny shops that were on the verge of bankruptcy anyway.
Also, arcades are all over the place. I havent seen a single one close down except for a small one that specialized in retro cabinets, which is sad because they had little signs above every cabinet that talked about he game's history. A couple games have come out in the past 2 years like some Aikatsu (I think) rhythm game and Mobile Suit Survival. You can still see tons of people playing Gundam Xtreme 2, FGO Arcade, and that army musou card game on any weekend.

>>8207940
Been living in Japan for 5 years now and none of this is true. No one gives a shit about COVID anymore except for scared women and women-like men (which, admittedly, is a lot). The only thing that closed were tiny shops that were on the verge of bankruptcy anyway.
>>8207626
This guy is full of shit and I'd bet he doesnt frequent arcades at all. They're still all over the place. I havent seen a single one close down except for a small one that specialized in retro cabinets, which is sad because they had little signs above every cabinet that talked about he game's history. Very soulful. A couple games have come out in the past 2 years like some Aikatsu (I think) rhythm game and Mobile Suit Survival was a big one. You can still see tons of people playing Gundam Xtreme 2, FGO Arcade, and that army musou card game on any weekend.

>>8211349
>No one gives a shit about COVID anymore
uh people are still wearing masks from what I've seen

>>8211354
Japan have been wearing masks long since before COVID made it cool.

>>8211349
I'm just glad that Konami still seem to be chugging out Bemani-branded rhythm games every couple years.

>>8211354
That has nothing to do with how people actually feel about this fake chink virus. Its just a formality.

>>8211354
That has nothing to do with how people actually feel about this fake chink virus. Its just a formality and to avoid Japan's equivalent of Karen sperg outs.

>>8208581

educate us with your wisdom, wise rando with the answers

>>8211349
my contact in japan also told me no one gives a fuck anymore
>>8211354
all Asians wore masks for colds or petty burglary and things like that way before covid

>>8208213
t. actual third-world country spawn

Sega World, AmiPara, and Taito Station are still active in Hiroshima Prefecture. I like to go there sometimes.

>>8211349
Dude same, I lived in Japan since last January. Ever since the pandemic started, people throw masks on the sidewalk after work or school. They still do. They only wear the masks as pressure from society and boss, but no one actually gives a shit about it. In fact, I had an interaction with the police last April, and I told them to give me some space since I had COVID, but they did not believe me and got up to my face.

>>8212378
I should clarify, I moved in January 2020 before the pandemic really started up, and talked with the police in April 2021. Sorry it wasn't clear.

>>8207863
>real estate shortage
There hasnt been a real estate shortage since like 1980, even prime real estate sells for pennies on nipland.
There was this fucking great house in downtown Tokyo that had like 11 rooms and used to be the embassy of lebanon or some middle eastern country the company I worked for wanted to buy to use as an office and it was selling for a little over 1mil USD.

I'd move there in a blink if the immigration laws werent pants on head retarded.

>>8210465
>t. daddy's money spender

>>8211463
>my contact in japan

>>8207635
>have to update your romset to be compatible with this specific new emulator release or old as fuck one
what a faggy as fuck emulator

>>8212378
>people throw masks on the sidewalk after work or school
huh? Japanese people litter?

>>8207626
They’re not killed. I was in Akihabara just yesterday at one of the Sega arcades. I played Prop Cycle, Emergency Call Ambulance, Scud Race and Gunblade NY. Nary a hipster nor a craft beer in sight.

>>8214413
Forgot to attach proof

Arcades have been dead since the early

>>8214419
Based gaijin-sama