/vr/ - Retro Games

[Anonymous No.4326792]

Arcade stories thread?

[Anonymous No.4326805]

>>4326792
Sunk a lot of money into AvP and Tekken 3 back in the day. We had a little hole in the wall arcade in our shopping mall, so we didn't get many new titles. First time I visited as I kid I was blown away by Virtua Fighter and MKII. Virtua Fighter looked like a movie you could play to me and the digitized MK actors looked photo realistic.

[Anonymous No.4326814]

>>4326805
>photo realistic
For you.

[Anonymous No.4326816]

>>4326814
I was 8 at the time and that was my first visit to an arcade, so yeah it was.

[Anonymous No.4326817]

>>4326816

[Anonymous No.4326838]

>>4326817
stop posting

[Anonymous No.4326850]

>>4326838
Stop being such a triggered limp-wristed whiny millennial. Avocado toast eating entitled brat.

[Anonymous No.4326860]

Was at the county fair in the early 90's wandering around by myself(it wasn't seen as poor parenting back then) when I found a tent full of arcade games. Didn't have any money but I kept watching demos and others play. All I had at home was a 2600 so these games seemed amazing. Came across a technician trying to repair a game. Kept asking him questions about what he was doing and why he had to do that what his name was etc etc. He finally gave me a dollar to go away. Blew it in 5 minutes playing Toki.

[Anonymous No.4326878]

>>4326792
I was playing Marvel Superheroes vs. Street Fighter and had gotten to Cyber Akuma when some moving guys showed up to take a broken cabinet out for repairs, and the MSHvSF cabinet was in their way because they can't into curving with a dolly, and they couldn't wait for me to win or die.

The next time I got that close, some shadow assassin dropped in his tokens and hit the P2 Start button just as I was about to deliver the final combo to Cyber Akuma. Then he picked two secret characters and used what he had learned from watching me to beat me, then he got to start at the boss and beat him without having to go through all the trouble of fighting the selectable characters first. Bastard.

[Anonymous No.4326885]

>>4326792

Used to go to some arcade in oregon called wunderland where all the games took nickles.

Most of the games were closer to a quarter but it was still great, was around the time killer instinct dropped.

I loved playing revolution x, die hard arcade, simpsons arcade, punisher arcade, t-mek, mk3, etc

[Anonymous No.4326886]

>>4326814
>>4326817
>>4326850
we get it, you're a stereotypical crotchety old baby boomer mad at MUH MILLENNIALS for not enjoying video games the way you do. you can stop bringing it up in every thread you post in now.

[Anonymous No.4326889]

>>4326850
>Sunk a lot of money into AvP and Tekken 3 back in the day. We had a little hole in the wall arcade in our shopping mall, so we didn't get many new titles. First time I visited as I kid I was blown away by Virtua Fighter and MKII. Virtua Fighter looked like a movie you could play to me and the digitized MK actors looked photo realistic.

[Anonymous No.4326890]

>>4326850
Look mom! I did it! I posted on 4chinz!

[Anonymous No.4326893]

>>4326886
>you're a stereotypical crotchety old baby boomer

Pretty sure that anon is an underage /pol/memer who doesn't actually know what a millennial is.

[Anonymous No.4326906]

>>4326805
I played a lot of VF3 so I kind of felt the same way. Only problem was the only cab in my area was at a movie theater half an hour away. When I first got my license I'd drive up there just to play it lol.

[Anonymous No.4326912]

>enjoy going to galloping ghost arcade
>only 15 dollars for unlimited enjoyment
>go there countless times on the weekdays because i knew nobody would be there
>because nobody goes there they up the price to 20 bucks
>haven't gone since because im a fag.

And thats my story.

[Anonymous No.4326923]

>>4326912
>galloping ghost arcade
Lucky. Wish we had places like that around here.

[Anonymous No.4327874]

>be like 10
>at arcade
>black kid and his black friend start picking a fight with me for some reason
>tell me to go outside and fight them
>ignore them
>black kid punches me
>turn around and smash his face in
>he falls to the ground
>his friend runs away
>they try to tell the arcade owner that I attacked them for no reason
>he's an old asian man, calls them niggers and tells them to get the fuck out of his arcade and to never come back or he'll call the police
>he apologizes to me for the trouble

Feels good, man

[Anonymous No.4327904]

>>4326792
what game's that?

[Anonymous No.4327905]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QWJM6sEyRZI

[Anonymous No.4327906]

>Sierra
>arcade

[Anonymous No.4327907]

I was the town best at MK 2. I used to have to shark people into playing me, if someone started watching I would play very badly so they would jump in...then I would destroy them.
I had a lot of older guys cuss at me at get kind of threatening once I mopped the floor with them.

[Anonymous No.4327912]

>>4327904
obviously tumblr art

[Anonymous No.4327919]

>Be me, thirteen
>Be 1981
>Be living nearby Portland
>Beaverton to be specific
>Be interested in arcade games
>Nearby arcade has a mix of newer games, old pinball machines and some old school peep shows in the adult section
>Play a lot of Galaga and Ms. Pac-Man
>Be one day
>Notice this new game
>Go check it out
>Weird name
>Have a couple tokens left
>Give it a try
>Space shooter
>Strange sound effects and lighting
>Keep playing
>Doing pretty well
>Start to feel a little sick
>Mild headache
>Chalk it up to getting a cold
>Keep playing
>Die, but still have tokens left
>Feeling more sick
>Headache getting worse
>Eyes getting sore
>Play through it, not that bad yet
>Keep playing
>Starting to feel really sick now
>Headache pounding, eyes strained, lights and sounds from games hurt
>Stomach queasy
>Fuck, doing so well in the game
>Keep playing
>Feel like I might die
>Cold sweat
>Shivering
>Headache constant
>Can't continue
>Leave arcade and go home
>Still feeling like shit
>Home sick from school for two days
>Finally feeling better
>Go back to arcade
>Game is gone
>Ask owner about it
>Which game kid?
>That weird named one
>Oh, you mean Tempest? Yeah, the board isn't working so we sent it in for warranty work, should be back in a few weeks
>Turns out I got a mild case of food poisoning from cafeteria meatloaf
>MFW

[Anonymous No.4327924]

>have two arcades
>local one, once owned by Sega
>another one downtown next city over
>local one sucks shit, all they ever update is DDR
>almost everything else was racing games
>downtown arcade is full-blown Japanese transplant
>VS machines linked back to back
>tons of shit that was unreleased in NA
>holy fuck it's that holographic Gundam game
>hot shit is that Tekken 5 that shit just came out like three days ago how do you even get one here this soon
>management change
>lose EVERYTHING trying to squeeze more profits out by getting redemption games and ditch the dual vs setups for same machine vs setups
>bought out by local arcade
>now it's basically a showroom for local arcade's busted old machines they're trying to sell off

RIP Orbitz you were the only good thing in Markham aside from all the chink knockoff shops that sold burned PS1 games down on the bottom floor of pacmall.

[Anonymous No.4327931]

>go to Vegas a few months back
>oh, wow, an arcade, I'll check it out
>only games in there are these weird standalone versions of mobile games
>literally just the mobile game, the cabinet is actually running Android
>costs $2.50 per play

This is even worse than arcades simply dying off

[Anonymous No.4327945]

>>4327931
that is depressing.

[Anonymous No.4327981]

>>4327931
Burn it.

[Anonymous No.4328015]

I used to work at arcade. A combination of poor sales, retarded druggies and black thugs put it out of business.

[Anonymous No.4328018]

>>4328015
>Around blacks, you couldn't relax
That doesn't sound like the dindus I know.

[Anonymous No.4328019]

>>4328015
>an arcade
It's one of those nights

[Anonymous No.4328020]

>>4326792
>Guitar Hero 2 was becoming popular
>Complete set up in a HMV store (music and game shop)
>was in demo mode so only 4 songs but could select difficulty
>Play some nirvana song on Expert
>Get 99%
>When I finish there is a crowd around me and they applaud when it finishes.
>t-t-t-thanks

[Anonymous No.4328024]

>>4328018
They would typically come in groups of three or four, crowd around a fighting game, scream loudly and thump the side of the cabinet whenever something happened in game. Made other people nervous, got on to them multiple times, nothing happened, mall security didn't do shit.
The place had its moments but I don't regret not being employed there anymore

[Anonymous No.4328026]

>be me, a kid
>watching older people play UMK3
>people put their quarters up to indicate their turn
>it's guy turn. he takes his quarter and somebody else's quarter
>i'm thinking wtf
>guy and some other guy argue
>but that's it. guy plays. no fist fight.
>in hindsight, other guy must have been wigga-dressed beta

[Anonymous No.4328031]

>>4328015
I used to live in a poor black neighborhood. They put a lot of places out of business, including the arcade place that was right across the street from a pharmacy I use to go to.

[Anonymous No.4328043]

>>4327907
I remember a kid taking actual notes on paper on other people playing MK3. a couple months later, i see him 'sharking' or playing poorly against the cpu when someone was watching. he actually gotten quite good.

[Anonymous No.4328065]

>>4328015
>>4328018
>>4328024
>>4328031
I wish I was as racially aware when I was a lad as I am now. I would have called the cops on those niggers and before the officers showed up I'd plant drugs on them (probably have it on them already). Funny as hell and doing my civic duty, niggers belong behind bars and not on the streets.

[Anonymous No.4328068]

>>4328065
Obese white recluse detected

[Anonymous No.4328070]

>>4328068
Spoken like someone who's never had to interact with real world minorities

[Anonymous No.4328078]

>>4328068
Libcuck sJEw nigger lover commie detected.

[Anonymous No.4328090]

These threads always devolve into racist shit.

[Anonymous No.4328093]

>>4328068
Sounding triggered

[Anonymous No.4328095]

>>4328090

Use the report function. Mods can't clean up threads unless you put shitposts in the report queue.

[Anonymous No.4328097]

>>4328090
Go back to tumblr and stay there, liberal faggot.

[Anonymous No.4328105]

>>4327905
anymore of these fgc arcade stories?

[Anonymous No.4328115]

>>4328068
don't blacks love obese whites lol

[Anonymous No.4328125]

>>4328097
I'm not a liberal, or the guy you were talking to.

This isn't a political board, though, and your racist bullshit isn't welcome here.

[Anonymous No.4328126]

>>4327931
I really, really hope that wasn't the only arcade you went to in Vegas.

[Anonymous No.4328128]

>>4326792
>one of my friends ask if I wanted to go on a trip with him and his family to Mexico
>He's pretty white so I thought it was going to be at some resort
>End up spending a week in shady town in Puebla
>we go to a carnival
>sports court also has some arcade cabs
>kof 98
>"Oh I'm kind of good at that game"
>end up going on a winning streak
>one of the "top guys" comes up
>almost beat him, but his buddies cut the power
>just walked away after that
At least I didn't get stabbed.

[Anonymous No.4328143]

>>4328065
Planting drugs on them? Not necessary. If they're from the ghetto, chances are all of them do drugs.

Except for my nerdy black friend, he's into video games like I am. He's more of a Nintendo nerd, while I'm a Sega fanboy.

[Anonymous No.4328147]

>>4328125
pls stop with this sjw niggerfaggotry

[Anonymous No.4328156]

>>4328147
go redpill in your containment board.

[Anonymous No.4328168]

>>4326912
Their amount of games is cool but their payment method is just not for me, it's understandable due to the current status of arcades in murrika though

[Anonymous No.4328179]

I remember playing SF2 at the local pizza arcade place. Playing vs CPU until a challenger appeared and inserted his 50 cent. Looked like he came from the city instead of the suburbs. Unfortunately I couldn't finished the match because the stench coming off my opponent was unbearable.

[Anonymous No.4328180]

>this thread

[Anonymous No.4328183]

>>4326792
>visiting Oman
>go to restaurant on top of mountain
>restaurant also has an arcade, so I must enter
>look around, see lots of lonely machines bleeping and blooping with nobody playing them
>realize I am completely alone
>suddenly, a kid
>speak with him briefly
>he goes to the washroom
>also have to go to the washroom a second later
>nobody's there
>nobody's in the arcade
>ooooook
>play pic related, pick Siegfried as usual
>feel much less comfy than when I usually play this game and leave

[Anonymous No.4328191]

>>4328179
Niggers never wash their baboon asses, that's why he smelled like shit.

[Anonymous No.4328238]

>>4328191
Oh, I thought it was their hair dey couldn't wash

[Anonymous No.4328363]

>>4328068
hmm, this is still here but not the other posts

[Anonymous No.4328364]

>>4326912

I stopped going because 1/3 of their monitors/machines need to be fixed or serviced.

[Anonymous No.4328376]

I went to Mission Control in Santa Ana today. Played for 4 hours on 15 dollars. The 15 pinball machines were the main attraction, including this kickass EM game. The selection of video was nice, but there's a place closer to my house that's a little better. Unfortunately, two of the best games were out of order, Assault and Afterburner. They did have a dedicated Total Carnage which was awesome, I've never seen one on location before.

[Anonymous No.4328384]

>>4328363
yep can't be racist against wypipo

[Anonymous No.4328392]

>>4328363
>>4328384
looks like this board's ICE is deporting you back to /pol/.

maybe stop being such a (((globalist))) when you're clearly not wanted here.

[Anonymous No.4328397]

>>4328392
not even one of the deleted racist posts, just an observation

[Anonymous No.4328402]

>>4328397
it's because they were shitting the place up, not because of "institutional racism."

seriously chill with the narrative, it's an eyesore.

[Anonymous No.4328405]

>>4328402
ok anon have a nice night

[Anonymous No.4328418]

>>4328405
likewise, man. not everyone's out to get you, buddy.

[Anonymous No.4328425]

>>4327919
What the fuck even is this story. Never post again.

[Anonymous No.4328475]

>>4328179
Ask him to shower next time, anon.

[Anonymous No.4329026]

>>4328425
>TFW someone doesn't know about the Polybius myth

[Anonymous No.4329051]

>>4328425
Oops you accidentally outed yourself newfriend.

[Anonymous No.4329074]

>>4326906
Virtua Fighter 3 was the buffer space between Tekken 3 and Marvel Vs. Capcom. There would be lots of people playing and spectating around t3 and MVC, shouting and trash talking the whole way. If anyone dared to try the VF3 machine, they'd get sized up, insulted, and intimidated away for fear of getting shot or stabbed, leaving a game still running, but no one would take over a still running game. I wonder why the arcade owners would keep VF3 around instead of an empty space eating up electricity.

[Anonymous No.4329085]

>>4328125
If you're saying that accounts real life events are racist, then it sounds like you're the racist.

[Anonymous No.4329127]

Kay. Its summer, late august, perhaps even early september. I am at my local arcade playing SFIICE and Samurai Shodown. After like 30 minutes i got my fix, and i am about to leave, as on my way out i discover a new game that i didn't notice when walking in. Volume was all the way down. So i get a little closer. The mysterious game has an envelope rotating, and i wonder if its a new irem shooter or something. Envelope stops and terry bogard flashes past the screen. And i am like wow-fatal-fury-3!! New SNK fighting game, my lucky day.

The the title screen reads 'The King of Fighters 94'. And i am totally like WTF.

So i am dropping my last coin in there and since i just bought a neo geo, i am desperate to see as much of the game as i can. Mai's cleavage animation has my jaw drop to the floor. I finish that game on one coin. As i leave the arcade i determine i need this game.

Point is, back then arcade games would just drop out of the blue. Gaming magazines were print and as such 3 months behind whats going on in the world. I kind of miss that magic. In a way internet was the worst that could happen to games...

[Anonymous No.4329136]

>>4327906
I can somehow imagine 80's Sierra adventure games played at an arcade seeing as how easily you can kick the bucket in those games

[Anonymous No.4329186]

We had a little local arcade called Tilt. Had the whole 90s pink neon "A E S T H E T I C" going on. Had 4 ski ball machines, a couple basketball ones, but the rest was video games. Through the years some of my favorites were Hard Drivin, Sinistar, MK (all of them), Street fighter, Simpsons, and several others. Playing fighters in person against others was THE WAY they were meant to be played. I remember beating the simpsons with a rotating group of people.

I once found Metal Slug X there, having never heard of it, I decided to try it. Damn fine game and one of my favorites.

Now, that was our first "real" arcade. There were bowling alleys, laundromats, gas stations and Wal-Mart. The bowling alleys had more classic games like Dig Dug, Pacman, etc. I remember playing Bad Dudes at a little gas station, had fun with that one.

Wal-mart had a rotation, WWF arcade, Joust, Shinobi were the ones I remembered most. I actually found a FUCKING JOUST PINBALL!!! machine in the wild at a local Wal-mart. It was the best (and rare as shit) pinball game I've ever played.

These were all later in around 93-96 or so. I remember growing up, there were two skating rinks which had all kinds of games. The one in a town about 30 miles away had Time Killers, which I fucking loved. 5 buttons for each body part. They got cut off and you could be fighting hopping on one leg with just a head lol.

The local skating rink had a fuckton of games. I enjoyed burger time, but the one I spent most money and time on was Double Dragon 2. I loved it as a kid.

I also remember county fairs having arcades in tents. One fair had a neo geo game, I forget which, but you had 3 players (fighting) and you could tag them in, I really liked that one. Also had Bomberman at that one.

I remember a different fair having Cruisin USA. It was a newer game. I remember playing it on hard difficulty and getting my initials in every top score there.

[Anonymous No.4329190]

>>4329186

Also, Tilt had Dragon's Lair, that game sucked.

[Anonymous No.4330409]

>>4326885
>where all the games took nickles

that must have gone out of business fast

[Anonymous No.4330417]

>>4327904
it's just random animated pixel art

[Anonymous No.4330479]

>>4329136
Thanks for playing Space Quest. As usual, you've been a real human ATM.

[Anonymous No.4330520]

>>4327931
I was literally there the other day, rinsed the Pacman jackpot machine so hard they cranked up the difficulty next time I visited. Also it's not all bad, they have a Ms Pacman and Namco Classics Collection vol 2. And a totally fucked 18 wheeler.

Also loads of barcades and other places in Vegas packed full of good stuff, even before you get to the pinball museum.

[Anonymous No.4330813]

>>4330520

[Anonymous No.4330961]

>>4330409
Nickel arcades used to pretty popular, anon. Even we had them in North Carolina.

[Anonymous No.4331080]

>>4326792
Who is the idiot who made that GIF? Sierra never made an arcade game. Sierra is completely unrelated to arcade culture.

[Anonymous No.4331174]

>>4331080
don't you see there's an ad for floppy disks on the right?

it's the classic case of the yuropoor who grew up playing games on a commodore 64 instead of a console or the arcades, but still feels the necessity to make nostalgia pixelart even though he doesn't relate to arcade games. so he goes and puts Sierra and Epyx in his gif.

[Anonymous No.4331334]

>that feel when you're old arcade pizza place gets replaced by a chain Mexican food restaurant
I remember playing metal slug and shit with my friends at birthday parties.

[Anonymous No.4331363]

>be at Rowan's Ravine as a child
>go to the Mama Bear's Den
>they have 2 cabinets in a little open room
>Simpsons and Super Street Fighter II Turbo
>walk in
>two kids already in there at SSF2
>cabinet somehow ate his coin
>they start kicking the absolute shit out of it
>eventually cracked the bezel glass protecting the screen
>ran out before I get in trouble for simply being there

[Anonymous No.4331368]

>>4331174
>it's the classic case of the yuropoor who grew up playing games on a commodore 64 instead of a console or the arcades

More like the classic case of the 25 year old American fedora wearing Deviantart "artist" who once fired up an NES emulator and considers himself a retro enthusiast so he made that picture after googling "retro game companies"

[Anonymous No.4331658]

>>4330961
Nickel odeons used to be pretty popular as well.

[Anonymous No.4331687]

Couple of stories, arcade and arcade machine stuff.

>be 9 or 10
>kinda nice ice cream shop in northern michigan
>dad, mom, some extended family
>place has a pinball machine and space invaders
>beg for change, burn through it in short order
>one quarter left
>talking to dad, who's normally a pretty reserved, stoic guy
>"y'know, i used to be pretty good at pinball..."
>give him quarter, don't remember ever seeing my dad play a video game ever
>dad proceeds to crush the machine for nearly half an hour on one quarter
>sets a score several decimal places higher then the old high score
>actually told my mom to bug off and threw money at her at once point when she said we needed to leave
>mfw the whole time

and that's when i learned my dad used to hustle pinball for beer money back in the day.

[Anonymous No.4331736]

>>4331687
>around 12 or so
>birthday party
>decide to go to Major Magics
>like Chuck E Cheese, but they serve beer, so my parents will actually go there
>go with best friend
>both our parents come, and bring their own friends as well
>manage to ask for tokens right about the 2nd-3rd drink
>end up with 50+ bucks worth of tokens
>wandering around
>oh shit son, it's the simpsons game
>decide to beat this, no matter the price
>burn an assload of cash and time
>finally stumble away, it's been like an hour
>have only a couple tokens left
>blow them on ticket games, lose
>go to the "party room"
>15+ grown ass adults, the youngest is 36, singing with the animatronic band
>friend's dad gives us each twenty bucks, calls us "buckaroos" and tells us to fuck off and play
>proceed to win multiple jackpots
>got two toy swords
>beat the shit out of eachother on the car ride home

Sadly, the place is gone now, i don't even think the chain operates anymore. They tried to revive it for a bit, but everything was broken and dirty as hell, enough to break your heart. Meanwhile, i think one of my relatives got a DUI after that incident, actually. Also

>pic related, general response when friend's uncle attempts to vault stage to help animation band sing

[Anonymous No.4331845]

>>4326792
My uncle had a small arcade set up in his garage. It is there I played Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3, my first video game. My cousin and I didn't really know what we were doing because we were toddlers, but I thought the graphics were stunning. For whatever reason I "mained" Sindel. I think it set the seeds for my current fighting game obsession.

He eventually sold it for a Golden Tee cabinet.

[Anonymous No.4333093]

>>4331658
>odeons

wat.

[Anonymous No.4333108]

>>4333093
Ask your great grandfather, or google. Whichever is less creepy.

[Anonymous No.4333147]

Any Illinoisfags here? I reccomend Nickel City if you can. Lot's of great cadinets, even some weird import shit in the far back of the place. Sadly you'll have to deal with a lot of little kids so later hours are better.

[Anonymous No.4333413]

who round1 in /longisland/ here

[Anonymous No.4333439]

I have never stepped foot in a real arcade.
The closest I've come is a few machines at the local Odeon

[Anonymous No.4333567]

>>4326792
Uhh, well
I'm a a Floridiot. I used to live off the space coast and there was a pizza place that had a Simpsons Konami arcade game. You know, the 4 player beat-em-up game? I loved that shit. Used to drag my friends out so we'd have a fun 4 people playing.

Eventually moved to Orlando area and then started to go to Disney Quest a ton. I fucking lived there man. I miss it so much ; _ ;

[Anonymous No.4333624]

>>4331687
That's pretty fantastic
Wish I was good enough at Pinball to hustle beer money

[Anonymous No.4333669]

>>4333567
I just recently learned of disneyquest, a year before it's closing. I enjoyed the discount tickets, but full price was a giant rip off, especially since the quality of repair in the arcade was lacking. It's a shame American's didn't embrace the giant VR arcade concept, as Sega's version in Japan makes me want to cream my pants.

[Anonymous No.4333729]

>>4328090
Ah. You got me. I was just about to say something along those lines... (Guess I’m a racist) But I’ve heard it here so many times and It’s certainly was a factor in the closing of my local gaming establishments.

1. Melatonin enriched population increases in a town or neighborhood.
2. Public spaces and entertainment areas suffer.
3. Town basically closes down after dark, no walking or biking around anymore.

[Anonymous No.4333746]

[Anonymous No.4333871]

>>4326885
Eugene? I fucking miss Wunderland so much.

[Anonymous No.4335228]

>>4333871

[Anonymous No.4335594]

>be me
>about 10 years old (maybe 11)
>school camping trip
>have to ride there on bicycle
>halfway we stop at a small park with rides and a small arcade
>walk around amazed at those big machines
>can hardly see the screen (i was a small kid)
>buncha boys from 2 classes up are playing Operation Wolf
>I'm fucking amazed at the sight of this game
>he's shooting the enemies with that enormous uzi gun
>he eventually dies
>looks at me
>you wanna play too?
>I have money for a game but I can't reach the screen
>Kid picks me up and holds me in front of the gun
>I have the time of my life
>thank him afterwards

[Anonymous No.4337373]

>>4327919
this is the worst post in the thread

[Anonymous No.4337706]

>>4330961
We have one in fresno. The OH WOW NICKEL ARCADE. Place is kinda a dive.

[Anonymous No.4337712]

>>4333567
You a godhand fag?

[Anonymous No.4337853]

>>4328128
Well most "niños rata" just played Kof2002 Magic Super Plus special, what do you expect.

[Anonymous No.4337865]

>>4333746
Couldn't you show us the non .modern cabinets!?

[Anonymous No.4338071]

>>4337865

[Anonymous No.4338135]

>>4326792
I lived in the country and despite liking games never enjoyed being in arcades much, but I do have one good story.

A few of us had gone to see Mortal Kombat and after while waiting for my friends to piss I put a quarter in an MK2 machine in the lobby and in the middle of my first round some guy comes and challenges.

He I was Mileena, he takes Liu and first round I beat him perfect, mostly because it was 90% teleport kicks and roll spamming. Second round he finally hits me with a fireball and I actually stopped playing for a second and in the most indignant tone I could I muster said "you ruined my flawless!" and then spammed him to death.

But then he goes to walk away but his younger brother stops him and says "wait look!" and he watched with a big grin as Mileena did her gore fatality and the dude just glared at me the whole time.

[Anonymous No.4338165]

>>4338071
meanwhile we get games like fruit ninja in the "arcades"

[Anonymous No.4338357]

>>4338071
>a fucking ashtray as well
god that seems great

I wonder if they accept card or mobile payments? I imagine that would add a bit of life to arcade machines

[Anonymous No.4338479]

Growing up in Vegas, it was a real treat to go to the arcades because they would usually be chock full of arcades with the latest games and everything is in a deluxe cabinet.

I remember going to Circus Circus when I was young and it would be packed with people playing everything. They had so many arcade games that they had a little group of games on the ramp going up to the midway.

Back then arcades were a sight to behold for everyone. Young and old people came out to try out the latest machines.
Now that the novelty is over with, there's just no demand for them.

[Anonymous No.4338857]

>be 5 or 6
>followed dad, uncle and cousins to possibly the biggest arcade i've ever been in in a new mall
>2 floors
>jam packed with people
>saw dad playing a game where he rides a cycle with propellers on them
>a couple of years later
>a fucking star wars pod racing arcade machine is there
>spent a few hours in the arcades like nobody's business
>6 years ago
>now it's gone
>mall closes it down for a new wing
>only arcade surviving now is the small one on the top floor beside the cinema

also, played Virtual On when I was in my teens and I always wanted to beat the game on one sitting. i rolled this guy in pic related and he's basically unstoppable even when fighting his clone. on the last level i was only a few hits away from winning but the time went up and kicked me into the game over screen without any chance of continues. a couple of years later, that arcade machines is replaced under new management and most of them are just taiwanese chink shit now

[Anonymous No.4339158]

>>4327919
i loved your m knight shamalamadingdong twist

[Anonymous No.4339165]

>>4328020
ever have a crowd around you at guitar center when your playin a real guitar? it feels about the same.

[Anonymous No.4339173]

>>4333093
an Odeon is an old type of cinema. dont you ever do crossword puzzles?

[Anonymous No.4339287]

>Be at Cedar Point with group of friend
>Gauntlet Machine
>"Let's play this shit!"
>Insert Quarter
>Move Down
>Move Right
>Can't move left
>Can't move up
>Realize the machine is fucked up

Shit sucked. But besides that, they have the best arcade in the state. Tons of old machines, and while many of them needed serviced last time I went, it was still amazing.

I wonder if it's still a time capsule today, or if they've replaced everything with fucking Doodle Jump and Fruit Ninja cabs running android.

[Anonymous No.4339297]

My favorite arcade was in Cincinnati at a (basically) abandoned mall. It was 10 bucks for the night. Tons of cabinets and you could rent games with just your ID. I have no idea if its still alive.

[Anonymous No.4339313]

>>4339297
Converting Place?

[Anonymous No.4339487]

>>4337706
... the one on Blackstone? Is that shit really still there? Did that one have Virtual-On or am I thinking of a different nickle arcade?

[Anonymous No.4340517]

>went to galloping ghost a month ago
>already got the world record for the arcade version of Sonic Championship (aka SOnic The Fighters) with Bark back in February
>show my friend how I was able to get it
>end up beating my old world record but didn't record it
One of these days I'm going to just keep beating it on camera for hours, hell I might just buy the machine.

[Anonymous No.4342080]

>>4340517
At least your record is listed on the machine, right?

[Anonymous No.4342104]

>be smol me
>live in smallish town in Colorado
>there were never any arcades near me
>never got to experience the joy
>pic related
>present day
>find out about this place called Hyperspace
>12 burgerbucks for 12 hours of unlimited play
>have one of the best, biggest retro cabinet collections I've ever seen
>even a whole wall of pinball
>I can finally live out my childhood dreams

[Anonymous No.4342569]

>>4338479
I went to Vegas last year, expecting to find all those great casino arcades from my past. All of the actual arcade games were gone. They were replaced by those carnival-type arcade games. I went to most of the big casinos. Not a single one of them had an actual arcade. It was sad.

[Anonymous No.4342591]

>>4338071
oh thank you man.

[Anonymous No.4342597]

>>4342569
>I went to Vegas last year, expecting to find all those great casino arcades from my past. All of the actual arcade games were gone. They were replaced by those carnival-type arcade games. I went to most of the big casinos. Not a single one of them had an actual arcade. It was sad.
>>4338165
>>4327931
FUCK
MY
SHIT

Id rather have a shit copy paste multi arcade machine form the early 2000s, you know, the ones which most games dont run well and SNK games have squashed resolution or crucnhed scanlines, but at least they have real arcade titles.

[Anonymous No.4342773]

>>4342569
Not even exaclibur? They had a decent arcade 7 years ago when I was there in 2010

[Anonymous No.4342996]

I am in the car now on the way back fron going to Fun Spot with a buncha friends.

[Anonymous No.4343002]

>>4327931
Kill me.

[Anonymous No.4343012]

>>4331687
I was just reminded how awful I am at pinball

[Anonymous No.4343018]

>>4328180

[Anonymous No.4343029]

Jackpot!

[Anonymous No.4343039]

Winners Don't Use Drugs

[Anonymous No.4343056]

Hmmmm.. this may a bit too timely.

[Anonymous No.4343062]

Video games are the future.

[Anonymous No.4343075]

Skykings
Skykings
Do not answer

[Anonymous No.4344838]

>>4343002
What am I looking at?

[Anonymous No.4344849]

>>4327919
Why are you so retarded. This is one of the dumbest, most pointless things I've ever read on the entirety of 4chan.

[Anonymous No.4344857]

>>4344838
You try to scream
But terror takes the sound before you make it
You start to freeze
As horror looks you right between your eyes
You're paralyzed
'Cause this is Chiller

[Anonymous No.4344874]

>>4327931
The Arcade in New York New York isn't bad, but it's definitely way too expensive.
Also is there still a Gameworks in Vegas? I remember that being pretty good but the last time I was at the Gameworks was around 15 years ago or something.

[Anonymous No.4344880]

>>4327919
Don’t listen to them anon this was a good shitpost

[Anonymous No.4344892]

>>4335594
That's pretty classic.

[Anonymous No.4344896]

>>4338071
>ashtrays
What a fucking paradise.

[Anonymous No.4344917]

>>4338135
I was playing on an MK2 cabinet in a hotel with my mom when I was a kid, she picked Mileena, beat me by frantically button mashing, and then she did this exact fatality by chance. True story.

[Anonymous No.4344923]

>>4344857
>one screen has you shooting at living prisoners, crushing their heads in vices or ripping their limbs off using a rack
>next screen has witches, sheet ghosts, floating vampire heads, and flying skulls, all while the score is being counted on the "monster meter" and "ectoplasmic tabulator"

[Anonymous No.4345017]

>>4344874
Circus circus is great. Gameworks closed and reopened the new one isnt that bad definitely better than 85% of hotel casino arcades. But circus circus has one of the best

[Anonymous No.4345030]

>>4339487
Idk its been a while since ive gone.wild to meet a 559 here.

[Anonymous No.4345064]

>>4326792
Not necessarily a story, but back when I was a kidy local town had an arcade that some of the weirdest/most obscure titles ever in it. Like a Sega Rally clone published by Namco, Breakers Revenge, A Mario Bros-themed Pinball Machine, Super Ninja Baseball Batman, a 4-Slot Neo-Geo with Shock Troopers, Sengoku 3, Kizuna Encounter and some kind of Bomberman game... But the most unusual I can recall was a Speed Racer game that featured 3D polygonal environments, but sprite-based cars, obstacles and gimmicks. (Saws, Oil Slicks, Spike Traps Etc. Etc.) To this day, I haven't even cone close to seeing that game and I haven't had luck in even finding YouTube video of game play for it.

[Anonymous No.4345078]

>>4327931
Going to the Sega-sponsored Arcade the Luxor used to have when I was a kid was a real highlight of mine. Playing Indy 500 with my dad, my brother and 6 other people at once while sitting in pic related was the hypest shit.

[Anonymous No.4345169]

>>4326792
Maybe not during a /vr/ period, but the games mostly were retro and arcades are pretty much a retro phenomenon in the west, so here goes.

There was a mall arcade which lasted a little ways into the 2000s about 20-30 minutes down the highway from where I lived as a kid, and I'd always love to get to go there at the end of boring shopping trips. Every now and then when mom was out of town, my dad would drive us up just to hang out there. It wasn't very huge, just about the size of an average mall shoe store (which eventually fucking replaced the place, bastards), but had some pretty good stuff from the little that I can remember. My dad always went straight to the Galaga machine, while I at first gravitated toward Bubble Bobble, then almost exclusively played Marvel vs. Capcom once I learned that Mega Man was in it. I was generally content to just spam buster and Hyper Mega Man along with general fucking around as War Machine. They also had a big ol' Soulcalibur machine, though I never got to play it since my folks said no to the GameCube game, being T-rated and all. Still fun to watch the big kids go at it.

One time some teenager came and tried to knock out the little kid to play with his friend, and so I was pretty intimidated, being the sub-10-year-old that I was. I kept at it at any rate, and actually wound up beating him. He left, perceptibly fuming, and from behind me I heard a faint "You lost to HIM??" followed by some angry complaining about my playing. His friend then put in a credit and smacked my shit, but I was still rather proud of myself.

A little while ago I found that there is a local arcade/import shop with a bunch of Japanese cabs and whatnot a little ways from where I'm situated now. As my friend was driving us up through the barren highway to get there, I got the same old feeling that I realized I always got on the trip up to the Mentor arcade of old. Good times.

[Anonymous No.4345180]

>>4345169
Also, less /vr/ but when I was in an SNK phase in my teen years I would go to this roller rink like an hour or so away partially to skate but mostly to play the SVC Chaos cab they had, and to a Chuck E. Cheese just to play KoF NeoWave. I have no regrets.

[Anonymous No.4345312]

>>4339287
Cedar Point's arcade was great last time I visited, though I think Akiba Arcade in Columbus gives it a run for its money in quality if not quantity. Cedar Point is definitely better for retro though.

[Anonymous No.4345328]

>in a local dive bar to see my friend's band
>first time there, there had been a couple of shows I had some interest in but felt kind of burnt out on live music
>see a couple of cabinets in the corner, none of them on, most likely busted
>all right, whatever, got your Centipede, Tron...
>OH SHIT
>A MOTHERFUCKING STRIDER CABINET!
>even if it was busted, walked over to check it out since I love the design of old CPS-1 cabs
>bartender asks if I want them turned on
>OH SHIT YES
>I'm going to get to play one of my favorite games on a real stand-up machine in a real dive bar, fuck yeah, aesthetic as shit
>other worker comes and fiddles with them for a second
>both games that aren't Strider come on
>turns out Strider was in fact non-operational
I don't think it's irreparable though. Once I get a place with a bit more space I might just ask if I can buy it off of them.

[Anonymous No.4345343]

>>4345078
>tfw our Playdium's biggest racer is Indy 500 and not much else

[Anonymous No.4345346]

If any of you are ever in Michigan, be sure to check out Pinball Pete's in Ann Arbor. It's kind of a family tradition to make a road trip out there every so often, and every year there seems to be one less cool thing (really miss the old weebshit store that used to be there), but Pete's is still going strong, and never stopped being true to their game. Right off the top of my head they have SFII, CE, and 3rd Strike, MvC2, CvS2, Marvel Super Heroes, Soulcalibur, Tekken 5 (not DR I believe), GA2 Revenge of Death Adder, Raiden Fighters, Mr. Driller, Buster Bros./Pang!, Point Blank 1 and 2, and plenty of other stuff of course. RIP their DoA and XvSF cabs though.

>>4339297
Arcade Legacy? I think it's still active. They have fighting game tournaments every now and again.

[Anonymous No.4345354]

>>4344917
Highly believable, that Fatality is just hold LK or something for 2 seconds or something. I taught it to my mom on purpose

[Anonymous No.4345987]

>>4344874
I remember years ago going to an arcade in Chinatown in NYC when I visited a friend fro. Jersey. Though I th8nk it may have cposed.

[Anonymous No.4346009]

There is an old arcade near where I grew up. They still have some machines from when my parents were kids. I love playing them.

[Anonymous No.4346013]

>>4345346
I live in Michigan. I think Ann Arbor isn't too far from where I live. I'll definitely check it out.

[Anonymous No.4346135]

>>4326792
Best arcade I ever went to was at a Mini-Golf course. The thing was enormous and had just about every staple of every genre you could think of aside from beat'em ups/"Belt Scrollers".

>Racing Games:
Daytona USA (Up to 4 players)
Daytona USA 2: Power Edition (Up to 8 players)
Manx TT (Up to 2 players)
Initial D: Stage 3 (4 cabs with fully-stocked license cards)
Star Wars: Pod Racer
Lucky & Wild
Hydro Thunder (Up to 2 players)
Sled Storm (Up to 2 players)

>Fighting Games:
MvC1 & 2
CvS2
Tekken 3 & 5
Mortal Kombat 1, 2 & 3
SFII:Turbo
SFIII:Third Strike
Soul Calibur 1 & 2
KOF '98, 2000 & 2002
Garou: MotW
Real Bout Fatal Fury 2
Samurai Shodown 2, 3 & 4
KI 1 & 2
Guilty Gear XX Accent Core

>Other:
Metal Slug X & 3
Bust-a-Move
Twinkle Star Sprites
House of The Dead 1 & 2
Time Crisis 1-4
Some Skateboarding game where you held onto side rails and moved on the board
Some big-ass 2-player rafting game
Point Blank
NFL Blitz

And don't even get me started on how many pinball machines they had... It was too good to last though; Last time I went there with a friend for his birthday party it was like >>4327931 had described, with shitty NASCAR-branded games built off of one of the lame later EA Sports-Era titles and no fighting games.

[Anonymous No.4346149]

>>4346009
I played a game like this at a pinball museum in New Jersey, except it had a pop-up ramp that would launch the ball into the grandstands for a home run.

[Anonymous No.4346334]

If anyone wants a story from 2017:

>go to a barcade in LA
>they have Spy Hunter sit-down cabinet
>screen so blurry you can't even see your score
>highest I get is 94k, far away from high score of 248k
>other friends game is Galaga, he makes 2nd 3rd and 5th on high score list
>last friend is our DD
>DD has a drink or two and dies in every game he plays in like 2 minutes
>keeps saying "I don't know why I'm doing so bad tonight"
>keeps complaining and wants to leave
>say "doesn't matter if you're losing Anon, as long as you're enjoying yourself"
>"no not really, if I'm losing it's not fun"
>forces us to leave early since he's our ride

To top it all off, the place was cash only and he didn't have any, so he was mooching off of my quarters all night. Had to buy his drinks too

[Anonymous No.4346348]

Oh and he also jammed one of their pinball machines with a nickel

[Anonymous No.4346351]

If anyone wants a story from 2017:

>go to a barcade in LA
>they have Spy Hunter sit-down cabinet
>screen so blurry you can't even see your score
>highest I get is 94k (I think), far away from high score of 248k (knew this from previous trips when it was less broken)
>other friends game is Galaga, he makes 2nd 3rd and 5th on high score list
>last friend is our DD
>DD has a drink or two and dies in every game he plays in like 2 minutes
>keeps saying "I don't know why I'm doing so bad tonight"
>keeps complaining and wants to leave
>say "doesn't matter if you're losing Anon, as long as you're enjoying yourself"
>"no not really, if I'm losing it's not fun"
>forces us to leave early since he's our ride
>also had jammed one of their pinball machines coin slots with a nickel

To top it all off, the place was cash only and he didn't have any, so he was mooching off of my quarters all night. Had to buy his drinks too.

[Anonymous No.4346380]

>>4346149
They had one of those too.

[Anonymous No.4346395]

>be young bandwagon fag born in late 90s
>get into retro Freshman year of high school, start collecting and visiting arcades
>only good ones are an hour or more away, still worth it
>almost always go alone, only other friend who likes old games would never go for unspecified reasons
>the closer one had a huge selection on pinball machines, and a whole aisle of nothing but fighting games
>make the rounds, play my favorites, get high scores
>not great at fighters but still practice since I don't own a fight stick
>playing SFII for a while, when suddenly
>Here Comes a New Challenger!
>wtf
>Middle eastern dude with his kid pops a quarter in without saying a word
>He picks Guile, I pick Honda like a scrub
>Totally whoops my ass, we go a few rounds and I win once as Ryu
>We chat, he explains he played in tournaments back in the day and it stuck with him as muscle memory
>I say I only play the CPU on my Super Nintendo so that's why I'm not that good
>He assumes I'm older and I meant in the 90s, but I clarify
>He gets a hoot out of it and he's glad we got to fight, says he misses the old arcade scene and he wishes I could've been there
>Go our separate ways
>Never get a chance to play SF local with anyone since then
>Now a poor college student with no car, can't go to the arcade for a while
>That arcade closed down just last year

Bums me the fuck out. I like reading your stories though, must've been wild. I really want to keep this culture alive, there's nothing like it.

[Anonymous No.4346404]

>>4327919
I laughed a lot, and even more when I saw the butthurt comments desu

[Anonymous No.4347192]

>>4346404

[Anonymous No.4349342]

>>4346404

[Anonymous No.4349454]

I was about 6 at an arcade with a sibling playing Goonies.

Some old guy (probably about 50 at the time) grabbed me and pulled me half the way to the entrance before he let go.

[Anonymous No.4349465]

>Play some capcom beat em up at arcade
>Game over
>Profound sadness
>Some guy speaking english puts in a coin and tells me to keep going
>He does this three more times when I game over before he has to leave
>Later dad picks me up to go home
>We got past the nearby music stage
>See the guy who paid for my games
>He was the drummer for Pixies

[Anonymous No.4350070]

>>4326792
I remember some game that looked like this dont remember the name but it was badass

[Anonymous No.4351462]

>>4350070
Was it the same game in that screenshot or just a game that looked similar to it?

[Anonymous No.4351990]

>>4349465
gigantic if true

[Anonymous No.4352112]

I used to holiday in Portugal as a young lad with my family, and in the area we went to almost every bar was family-oriented; as such, they usually had arcade machines, specifically MVS machines with what I guess was multicarts in 'em to occupy kids. I played the absolute god damned hell out of Puzzle Bobble 2 and Metal Slug 2/X whenever I got the chance, but I'd never see MVS cabs again for a long, long time after we stopped going (I'm a Britfag, arcades aren't so big here and certainly not in my area).

Fastforward to last year, visiting Tokyo with a few friends, and we're wandering around Super Potato Akiba. We eventually get to the top floor, and lo and behold it's only Metal fucking Slug X running on a cab. Man what a rush of nostalgia it was playing it on proper hardware again. We didn't really have a proper look around for arcades with older machines at the time, but certainly will be on the next trip over.