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Arcade/Game center thread

>> No.2557958

I'm thinking about recreating an arcade experience in my garage with a dozen monitors from goodwill and some single boards. When I get the sounds perfect I will rent a helium tank from party city for the occasion.

>> No.2557991

>>2557958
this post made me feel

>> No.2557992

>>2557958

That's actually a really good idea. I'd never thought of checking goodwill for a bunch of CRT's on a budget.

>> No.2558007

>>2557958
Are you... are you going to huff the helium and get high by yourself?

>> No.2558153

how can japanese hardware be so clean if everyone is smoking all over the place?

>> No.2558164

>>2558153
Cause they keep their butts in baggies and shit.

>> No.2558167

http://www.arcade-club.com/
For those in the UK

>> No.2558187
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>>2557924
I found a final fight original arcade machine with a bit of wear and tear for 250$ on craigslist..

should I buy it

>> No.2558207

>>2558167

Good shout buddy, will check this place out when I can.

>> No.2558215

>>2558187
Do you like Final Fight?

If you answered 'yes' then you probably should.

>> No.2558412

>>2557924
dat bad posture.

>> No.2558418

>>2558187
Fuck yes you should
why is that even a question
What city?

>> No.2558421

>>2558418
Nassau New York, I'm not picking it up since I ordered a few other things the other day.

>> No.2558493

Sad news. The Heart of Gaming in London got pretty much ransacked. They didn't touch any of the cabinets or the CRTs but they nicked everything else of value, mostly all the gen7/8 setups and the big flatscreens.

>> No.2558537

I'm going to an arcade Saturday. My friend is going to Columbia and we're going to Gunther's Games. Eventually I'm going to go to The Neutral Zone in Chesterfield.

>> No.2558541

>>2558493
Fucking London. What a shit hole.

>> No.2558561

>>2558541
They've got a pledge drive going thats going pretty well, also they were insured and stuff so it should all work out alright.

Nothing they lost was irreplacable.

>> No.2558581

>>2558561
That's good, at least. There are a few low key arcades in London, unsurprisingly in the more dodgy areas, but it's the only reasonable way to get your arcade fix. Hope it turns out well for them.

>> No.2558729

>>2558581
Yup, one in Peckham too. It seems to be a trend to have these in shitty areas

>> No.2558745

>>2558007
If he wanted to get high he could use nitrous AND HAVE THE BEST DAY EVER.

>> No.2559032
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2559032

http://www.arcade-game-sales.com/products/police-24-7-911/7961-1.html

Police 911 with a free time crisis cab. Does this seem like a good deal to anyone?

>> No.2559230

>>2559032
A grand seems a bit much for Police 24/7 but the fact you get both prices them each at £500 seems better

>> No.2559294
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2559294

Went to the new Round 1 in Seattle. They didn't have old games but did have Street Fighter 4. Played with some random dudes and we had a blast just like in the old days.

It seemed most of the games were driving, gun, or carnival style ticket games. Most games were $1 and ticket games were between $1 and $2.

Tons of if ufo catchers and the ticket prize redemption room had some cool stuff.

>> No.2559947

>>2557924
Building my own mame cab soon, need the joystick and a cheap extra pc and I'm ready to rock

>> No.2559969

Why are light gun and racing games the only games I ever find around here anymore?

>> No.2560041

RAW THRILLS

>> No.2560087

>>2559969
Light gun and racing games are awesome and can't be replicated at home.

>> No.2560107

>>2560087
>and racing games can't be replicated at home
just get the cabinet..

>> No.2560131

>>2559294
you're starting to get round 1 in the states? i thought that was a japan only thing

(they don't have any old stuff over there either, focusing on modern things and ufo catchers)

>> No.2560349

>>2560131
Yeah, there are a few in California, one in Texas, and a few other states.

>> No.2560354

>>2559947
Anyone have a mame 0.151-0.162 torrent with all the CHDs and Roms?

>> No.2560363

>>2560354
You can get the latest roms from emulation planet, game tronik or retroroms.net (requires registration)

>> No.2560364

>>2560354
As for mame frontend, I recommend mame32plus, mameui or qmc2 mame

>> No.2560381

>>2560364
>>2560363
Using QMC2 mame, and thanks, I was looking for a pack but this works too, I'll just grab the ones I want

>> No.2561167

>>2560381
I'm so excited it hurts, ordering my stuff either tonight or tomorrow and my cab is 3/4s the way done.

I'm itching so bad to play some donpachi with a joystick, and missile command a track ball

>> No.2561692

Any arcades left in Toronto area that is not Playdium, D&B or Chuck E Cheese?

>> No.2561718

>>2561692
This is relevant to my interests.

>> No.2561778

>>2561718
good for you

>> No.2563121

Am I a shit for building a bartop and using an LCD?

>> No.2563151

>>2558007

I'm guessing so him and his friends would do the helium and sound like kids again.

>> No.2563216

>>2557958
Buy some arcade carpeting.

>> No.2563327

>>2563121
No

>> No.2563345

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o8pDnJBB7Vw
Thread theme

>> No.2563346

>>2563345
it's 3:20 am, and I love you

>> No.2563427

Is there a website or something like that shows you the location of arcade cabinets, kinda like that pinball website?

>> No.2563438
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2563438

Arcade about 30-40 mins away list of games. Want to go this weekend hopefully. They're open till 2am certain days of the week. $9 for an hour of unlimted play, $25 for the entire day

>> No.2563454

>>2557958
Went to a garage-cade last month but it had recroommasters cabinets and PS3s. Games the owner had was USFIV, UMvC3 and Tekken Tag Tournament 2. I would like to do one focusing on Sega consoles, namely Genesis/32x/CD, Saturn and Dreamcast since they are the most arcade centric consoles of their generation. Well no shit considering Sega is/was an arcade manufacturer.

>> No.2563460

>>2563438
that's fucking awesome

>> No.2563461

>>2559032
The Time Crisis games used to be so hype after walking out of an action movie! Now my theater only carries Cabella's or some other lightgun game.

>> No.2563462

>>2563461
My local theater has HOTD, which is pretty baller cause the rest is shit

>> No.2563468
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2563468

Post the coolest motion/deluxe cabinet you've ever played.

>> No.2563474

So did anyone hear about Insert Coins in Las Vegas closing down? I just turned 21 this month and it was gone before I got to go there. Damn it.

>> No.2563478

>>2559294
only $1.00-$2.00? what a fucking ripoff!

>> No.2563486

why wasn't road rash an arcade machine?

Seriously, i would of loved to fucking have one

>> No.2563493

>>2563486
There were two arcade motorcycle games where you could attack the other riders.

Motor Raid from Sega
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FsISZSk54qc

and Road Burners from Atari
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u0sBLO5Hql8

>> No.2563554

>>2563493
huh, close enough, but it's no roadrash

>> No.2563729
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2563729

Should I do it, I plan on getting one but, trackball or no trackball?

>> No.2563732

>>2563729
depends on what games you like, really

>> No.2563737

>>2563732
Most arcade games between 1977-1995. Some younger japanese ones like Dodonpachi dai fukkatsu from like 2008 are nice too.

>> No.2563743

>>2563737
I guess that didn't really help, only reason I'm asking is because it's a 70$ difference.

I love trackball games but the money difference is enough to make me question it

>> No.2563754

>>2558167

I've been there recently, it's a ton of fun.

>> No.2563937
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>>2563468
nothing comes to mind besides the after burner climax Super deluxe cabinet I played a bit ago. And that was with the controls fucked up.

>>2563427
What I do is use google maps or yelp to find an arcade and check their website to see if they bothered to list the games they've got.

There's one website I spotted that does what you're talking about but no one has used it in awhile.

>> No.2563959

>>2563427
I've thought about starting one.

>> No.2564013

>>2563438
wow I envy you. I would spend so much money at a place like that

>> No.2564098
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2564098

Is there a database of arcades and the games they have on the internet? Image relevant.

>> No.2564435

>>2563729
These are amazing sticks. Originally bought mine for Dreamcast and PlayStation 2 but later figured out the USB cable was only for PC so I started playing Mugen and MAME with it. Also, the only emulators that I know that have a button preset for X-Arcade sticks for faster mapping are ZiNC, most MAME UI's and Fightcade which uses FBA.

>>2563737
>>2563743
Personal opinion, but I find the trackball pointless unless you are aiming for a genuine arcade experience.

Take a look at the manuals too so you can know for sure which one you want.
http://www.xgaming.com/service/ServiceFiles/X-Arcade%20Tankstick%20Manual%20USA.pdf

http://www.xgaming.com/service/ServiceFiles/X-Arcade%20Manual%20USA.pdf

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>>2563461
Yeah it's really fucking shitty. The theater I used to go to when I lived in Florida had stuff like fucking Marvel Vs. Capcom 2 and Time Crisis when I was a kid. The older I got they started to tear out the fun stuff and replace it with those fucking prize games like the string cutting thing or the one where you try to get the key through the slot. The ultimate insult to injury was when they pulled out the dinosaur hunting light gun game which was pretty much the last fun one they had and replaced it with a Cabella's cabinet.

Nowadays I live in South Carolina, and the local theater is pretty much just as disappointing. They've got a Terminator game that's not very fun, a few no-name racing games that don't work half the time, and everything else is just prize stuff.

There's a dollar theater here too, but they're incredibly small and only have one game: Motherfucking Crazy Taxi 3. If I hadn't already seen half the movies they tend to show there I'd honestly start going more often.

>> No.2564546

>>2563438
Wew. Headed there now

>> No.2564560

>>2564098
Uh do you mean a database of brick and mortar arcades, their locations, and the games they have? I doubt it. There's arcade-museum if you're just wanting arcade game info.

>> No.2564585

>>2563427
http://aurcade.com/

>> No.2564612

>>2563959
>>2564098
see
>>2564585

As far as I can tell it requires the owners of the arcades to report to them their existence and what games they have. Though they have options for reporting the quality of the machines, which I would think would be more of a customer reported thing. Either way it is an interesting site.

>> No.2564770
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Where my Michibros at?

>> No.2565336

>>2564770
Been there on one of my many trips to detroit

>> No.2565647

>>2563462
I've only played HotD2 so I don't know how good the first one is. Even so, it's pretty dope that your theater carries an awesome series.

>>2564485
I think it's more annoying that the lightgun games one of my local theaters carries apart from Cabellas uses sensors which has very noticeable input delay when moving the tracers.

>> No.2565756

Going to be checking out a newish retro-themed barcade called Coin-Op here in California tomorrow. My old favorite arcade in San Jose is garbage now, hoping this fills the void.

>> No.2565782

>>2563461
Hunting games are such a boring idea, why shoot something without the threat of being shot back?

>> No.2565792

>>2565756
Oh dude I live pretty close by to that joint.

Though I haven't gone to it yet. Mostly because I haven't really hung out at a bar yet.

>> No.2565843

>>2565756
I don't live in San Diego, but their Nachos with chorizo sounds tasty and might be worth a trip sometime.

>> No.2566597

>>2565756
what's your old favorite arcade in San Jose? and where is "coin-op"

>> No.2566603

>>2563478
this is why there are no arcades anymore

100 yen/play (~$1) is pretty much standard in Japan, and is part of why they can still scrape by (that, and train stations+population density)

>> No.2567172

>>2566597
Technically it was Milpitas--Golfland. Golfland used to be the only thing resembling a real arcade in the area but the damn dirty apes blew it up and now it's just laser tag, shitty ticket games, and a handful of broken old, or overpriced new arcade games. They actually have a pile of nice games worth playing just hanging out and disconnected in the space between where the laser tag is now that used to be a second building full of arcade games and the building that is now just a shit arcade. Wonder if I could make on offer on one of the disconnected games. Anyway, Ms. Pac-Man is about the only thing not broken and affordable, although it has an 8-way stick, not a 4-way . I'm stuck out in the suburbs between Sacramento and San Francisco so I basically just have a shitty bowling alley arcade with enough ticket games to look like a mini Vegas for anklebiters, a run-down family fun center , and a mall arcade I forgot about in close proximity. I'm headed to the one in Sacramento, but there's one in San Diego, and there may be another one, but I'm not sure. Haven't checked out the Roseville Golfland in ages but it used to be decent too.

>>2565843
Yeah I haven't been to the one in San Diego but they recently opened one up in Sacramento. Nachos are always a plus. Trying not to get my hopes up but I hope it doesn't disappoint. Apparently they have the games on freeplay the last Sunday of every month so I hope it isn't too crowded. Going to be eating beforehand at an All-You-Can-Eat Korean BBQ joint but I'll check out the food and drink a bit there too if I can.

>>2565792
Yeah I don't really drink for various reasons these days, but I have been fiending for an actual arcade experience and free-fifty is a nice introductory price. Do you live by the one in Sac? And have you heard whether the Save Point Tavern is opening soon? I've been asking for years for a gaming bar to open up in the area and I really hope they don't fuck it up.

http://www.savepointtavern.com/

>> No.2567186

>tfw they don't have barcades in the dry county backwoods of Kentucky
>tfw have to drive all the way to Lexington to a place called Arcadium to patronize such an establishment

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>>2567172
> Do you live by the one in Sac?
Oh whoops. I thought you were referring to the one in san diego.

>> No.2569385

>>2567216
You'll have to let me know how the one in SD is.

>>2567186
There are still dry counties over there?


So, Coin-Op was pretty good. The game selection is decent and the games are mostly well-maintained. I wouldn't recommend going on the free-play night unless you're into navigating around large crowds and don't mind sticking to the more difficult games you can't just quarter-pump through. The seedy dive-bar atmosphere just needed a touch more neon and a fog machine to make me think there's a Johnson hiding in the corner looking to hire me to cull the local ghoul herd. Didn't end up trying any of the food or drink so I can't comment on that. One dude with a backpack was jamming on the 100-in-1 MVS all night and that was a little depressing.

>> No.2570640

Scandia Arcade in Kelowna is all right.
The games are poorly maintained though, a lot are missing marquees or have inkjet printed ones

>> No.2571796

>>2570640
Forgot to mention, they have a 1-token 1942 converted cab with leaf switch buttons and a crappy Happ Super

>> No.2572912

>>2567172
I used to go to the roseville golfland every single week, then they got rid of their Bemani and DJ Max machine and the place is utter shit now.

I'm amazed some machines still aren't even fixed.

>> No.2575557

Just found out that the bar right across the street has two arcade cabinets

Ms pacman and galaga in a single cabinet and big buck hunter

Neither interest me much though.

>> No.2575795

>>2557958
>>2558007
Suicide in a happy place.

>> No.2576083

>>2572912
YO YO YO YA YO MAN.

That place was always a blast. Good selection,decently maintained, fair prices, even some nice ticket rewards. (I can't help it if I like Skee-Ball and the Sega Stopwatch game).

So it's shit now too? Goddamn.

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>>2559294
I'm incredibly jealous anon. All my town has is a Laser Tag building with Galaga and Ms. Pac Man.

>> No.2576171

>>2561692
Closest you're gonna get is auto-ordering from the supplier based in the city.

Beyond that no. There are none left. The one at Union Station was the last I believe

>> No.2577885

How are iL's parts?

>> No.2577904

>>2558153
Unlike many countries these guys actually employ hygiene and not thoroughgoing rubbish everywhere.

>> No.2577920
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2577920

What classic games do you love finding in modern arcades?

For me, it's Robotron. It has such a steep learning curve that the high-scores on the cabinets are so painfully low that I can almost always get the top score after a few tries. Shame it's almost impossible to find these days

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>>2577920
There's a place at Redondo Beach that has pic related
>put in coin
>loud as fuck HOOO HOOOOOOO comes out of the speakers

>> No.2578118

>>2577947
lol

>> No.2578638
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Please tell me I'm not the only one who remembers this game. You drove these buggies which could shoot fireballs and the seat had a force feedback motor that would go off when you got hit. Each track had a mascot which was a stereotype of people where the location was. Anyone?

>> No.2578689

>>2577947
This game was awesome. Way better than the console versions, you could even turn MJ into a robot!

>> No.2578890

>>2576147

Lasertron next to a Tops?

>> No.2580696

God I love you, /vr/

>> No.2580703

>>2578689
Apparently you could do that in the Genesis version too, but I was never able to get it to happen.

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>MFW live in Finland and no arcades at all

>> No.2581228

>>2581223
You can go to St. Petersburg to play arcades.

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2581241

>tfw all I have is a Namco Funscape near me
>only decent games they have are Tekken and Pac-Man Battle Royale
You'd think Namco would have some of their older cabinets hanging around, but no.

>> No.2581262

>>2567172
>Milpitas--Golfland.

Fuck yes! Went there in the early 90's and that place was one of the best arcades I've ever been to.

>> No.2581365
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2581365

Is building a cabinet, mounting a monitor in it, and gutting this thing to make an arcade machine for my game room a good idea?

>> No.2581548

>>2581365
Fit all the components under the controls and make the bottom section below the monitor a drinks cabinet.

>> No.2582965

>>2577885
Their parts are the same as the Happ parts you remember finding throughout Western arcades in the 80s and 90s.

Happ was bought out around the mid 2000s and switched to cheaper Chinese factories so their old Euro suppliers at IL said fuggit and decided to just keep making the old Happ-style parts under the iL name.

If you're thinking about putting iL parts in a personal arcade stick, be aware that, just like Happ, their components are huge and don't fit in most stick cases. Their long-stemmed buttons will fit in most larger cases, but their levers are massive, so you might want to check around first.

>> No.2584631

>>2582965
Thanks a bunch. I'd heard of Happ quality control problems so I went with iL. Looks like I made the right choice.

>> No.2584951

>>2563468

I liked the Virtua Racing cab better, but the Rad Mobile one was, well, fucking Rad.

Rad Rally with the stationary cabinet just wasn't the same.

>> No.2584996

My end goal in life is to have a tilting space harrier cabinet in my house.