Arcade Thread

[Anonymous No.4951470]

Lets talk about old arcade games, and our nostalgia for them. There used to be an X-Men Vs Street Fighter arcade machine in a nearby pizza place way back and I always loved going there to play it, sadly, it isn't there anymore, but I still have fond memories of getting walk-in pizza and playing on the arcade machine there. What fond memories do you have of the arcade? Are there any arcades still around that you like to go to?

[Anonymous No.4951485]

>>4951470
>Are there any arcades still around that you like to go to?
We have a beercade here and a Round 1. The Round 1 actually has a few older fighting games (X-Men vs. SF, MvC1, Street Fighter Alpha 3) which is nice. The beercade is almost entirely retro stuff.

[Anonymous No.4951492]

>>4951485
I'd love to see an arcade sometime with like an Alpha 3 or Third Strike cabinet, but none of the small arcades around here seem to be populated with many fighting games.

[Anonymous No.4951498]

>>4951492
The Alpha 3 cab convinced me to come home and practice on the off chance I ever run into anyone there that wants to rumble.

The beercade has Hyper Fighting, X-Men Vs. SF (yes, there are two cabinets of this in my town), Soul Edge, and MK1/2

OH, and there's also a Neo Geo multicab that has like everything Neo Geo on it. I was actually playing Karnov's Revenge last year.

[Anonymous No.4951512]

>>4951498
Oh yea, the Neogeo multicabs, I think I've seen one of those before, those must be convenient.

[babbage's gramps !RATGzMALLY No.4951790]

>>4951470
Thicc

I pretty much grew up going to arcades. There was the same arcade in the mall from the 80s to the early 00s although way back in the day it had this awesome Gold Mine decor with fake gas lamps, timber beams, gold ore, pickaxes, miners hats etc.

[Anonymous No.4951836]

Rate my bar

I ignore most of it because I'm not afraid of MAME

[Anonymous No.4951845]

>>4951836
Pinballs at the actual boomer bar nearby (they serve boomer food)

[Anonymous No.4951850]

>>4951845
at mini golf place in sister city

[Anonymous No.4951891]

>pay2win

[Anonymous No.4951906]

>>4951891
pay2play != pay2win

What advantages do you get by inserting more credits into the cab? Ironically some arcade games even punished credit-feeding, such as Armed Police Batrider: the more coins you'd insert, the harder the rank (difficulty) gets.

[Anonymous No.4951943]

>>4951836
Fucc dewd, thats a nice lineup, I wish my local arcade bar had Killer Instinct or Street Fighter 3.

[Anonymous No.4951946]

>>4951943
It may not be entirely accurate. They definitely don't have vector Asteroids, only its raster sequel.

[Anonymous No.4951959]

>>4951906
In the original arcade version of Double Dragon III, you could buy new moves, weapons and life bar extensions by actually inserting more coins into the machine, and they removed this feature from Japanese arcades because it was so unpopular.

[Anonymous No.4951978]

>>4951946
My local arcade bar has like one Street Fighter cabinet but I think they just sometimes replace the board in it with a different street fighter board, which is neato, I guess.

[Anonymous No.4952019]

>>4951470
There used to be a periscope clone at a far away mall, socal wasn't always full of malls, but it was the closest so we always loved jumping in the station wagon and going there. Sadly the mall is still there and it's become "the black mall". They got a pong about a year after it was released. Played it a few times Dad bought a home version at some xmas sale a few years later. Fast forward 10 years, a neighbor who ran a bunch of arcade machines took me under his wing and learned me how to do that. We had free play in our garages for burn in. Not sure who loved it more, the kids or the parents. There are no decent arcades around me right now because my house in HK is literally in the middle of a swamp. But if I was in my house in AC there's a few close by. If I was in my house in shinjuku I could walk to an arcade that would blow your mind. Hear arcade times are tough back in the good old usofa. I guess if you've never seen the good old days it might not suck that hard?

[Anonymous No.4952035]

>>4952019
Alot of the arcades I see now are just like VR arcades with only Virtual Reality games, but theres the occasional arcade bar nearby or an old diner with an arcade machine somewhere.

I hear that arcades are still pretty popular in Japan though, although I haven't been there myself.

[Anonymous No.4952068]

>>4951906
If two players are equally skilled, the one carrying more quarters they're willing to part with will get the higher score.

>>4951959
Arcades really were the prototype for the mobile and home Skinner boxes we have now.

[Anonymous No.4952335]

>>4952068
>playing arcade game
>having fun and doing well
>suddenly stops mid-game
>"please insert 25 more cents to continue"

[Anonymous No.4952394]

>>4952335
GTFO JARPIG

[Anonymous No.4952432]

>>4952068
>If two players are equally skilled, the one carrying more quarters they're willing to part with will get the higher score.

No they won't, credit feeding voids your score to begin with

>Arcades really were the prototype for the mobile and home Skinner boxes we have now.

Except that kind of design got immediately shat on in the arcades and died off while the games went back to normal and are still like that, while it thrived on mobile and home consoles. The ability to save your progress and have it carry over between sessions allowed for this kind of cancer to take hold, which is what home systems brought to the table

[Anonymous No.4952610]

>>4951470
There was a barcade I used to frequent about two years ago that had an awesome selection of pinball games but they gradually started swapping everything out with modern Stern tables. What ultimately made me stop going was when they replaced Elvira Scared Stiff with Walking Dead. Now I gotta go all the fucking way to Seattle to a pinball museum that's only open like five hours a day if I wanna play Elvira it's not fair.

[Anonymous No.4952645]

>>4952068
>If two players are equally skilled, the one carrying more quarters they're willing to part with will get the higher score.
The only scores in arcade games that are worth a shit set your score to zero upon continuing

[Anonymous No.4952815]

>>4951470
In SoCal I used to go to Golfland with Mr Wizard and Alex Valle, also worked at its retarded sister Camelot. I also remember Yogis arcade, darkade, family fun center and so many others, good times.

[Anonymous No.4952824]

>>4952815
Ever go to Dave and Busters before they expanded and changed to mostly rail shooters and redemption games?

[Anonymous No.4952831]

>>4952824
Those were the days. I'm just glad I got to play the Namco "theater" games like Attack of Zolgear thanks to Dave and Busters.

There's a pretty good retro barcade called "Free Play" in the Dallas area - they just opened a third location. Original location's the best though; always great to be able to play Lucky and Wild again.

[Anonymous No.4953045]

>>4952035
I see "VR" shit occasionally as a temporary thing in malls.
Arcades in Japan are great. But make no mistake, they're a shadow of what they were before.

[Anonymous No.4953175]

>>4951845
>Iron Maiden pinball

Pretty damn good machine.

[Anonymous No.4953337]

>>4953175
Hell yea, they got one of those at my local arcade bar, its pretty damn fun. They have quite a healthy amount of pinball games in general there.

[Anonymous No.4953350]

>>4952831
Just searched it up.

"Free Play Arcade has one of the largest collections of retro arcade games and pinball machines in the world. We rotate and curate our collection constantly to bring you the absolute best arcade lineups in the history of the universe!"

Sounds fucking rad.

[Anonymous No.4953353]

>>4952831
Do most barcades usually only ever have beer and wine taps?

Went to one on the Oregon coast a couple years back where that was all they had. Never been a Dave &Busters near me.

[Anonymous No.4953357]

>>4953353
The one here in Minneapolis has a proper bar that can at least do basic cocktails. Avoid Dave and Buster's. The arcade is all ages and almost entirely rail shooters and ticket redemption shit, and maybe a sad diagonals-only DDR knockoff. Actual DDR if you're lucky. Kids run around playing with light guns but not actually playing the games. Don't forget your high fidelity earplugs because pinball is loud and drunk people whoop when playing video games.

[Anonymous No.4953358]

>>4953353
The barcade I go to has some nice burgers and milkshakes, and they also have cocktails named after vidya characters.

[Anonymous No.4953359]

>>4952068
>Arcades really were the prototype for the mobile and home Skinner boxes we have now.

this is the opposite of reality

[Anonymous No.4953360]

>>4953358
>boomer food

[Anonymous No.4953410]

>>4953045
Yea, theres just a bunch of VR places nowadays for just playing almost any VR games and you have to like, book a session for it. But I guess a VR arcade is the next evolutionary step from Arcade, to like a gaming cafe, and then to a VR Arcade.

[Anonymous No.4953525]

>>4951790
That sounds awesome, must have been cool to go in there.

[babs No.4953553]

>>4953525
It was pretty cool. This was still the early 80s when arcades were somewhat shady., even in malls. I literally pissed my pants in there one time when I was like 5.

[Anonymous No.4954051]

>>4952815
>Golfland
Used to go to the one in Milpitas as often as I could and the one in Sac wasn't too bad either. Unfortunately the damn dirty apes blew it up and it's currently a shadow of its former self.

>Mr Wizard and Alex Valle
Nice. Ever go to Wednesday Night Fights?

[Anonymous No.4954063]

Robotron
Wizard of Wor
Joust

the holy trinity of golden age arcade games

[Anonymous No.4954083]

I've been getting really into pop'n lately. My local arcade has fantasia and I'm getting into 31s and 32s on it. Feels really good to improve and it's one of the best value games at the arcade with 2-4 songs per credit (depending on if you pass them). So 8ish minutes of play for a dollar.

I am really tempted to try and get something set up to try the older versions and just kinda work my way through the new songs in each game.

[Anonymous No.4954097]

>>4954083

>>>/vg/223352167

[Anonymous No.4954439]

>>4951470
tfw an arcade gets a new game
everyone lining up putting quarters on the front panel. I got next.

[Anonymous No.4954456]

>>4954439
Are they expected to let you in after their current credit, or just when they want to stop feeding it?

[Anonymous No.4954614]

>>4954097
MAME mostly works until the games are just windows xp games, finding the internals for the cabs for relatively cheap also makes doing like a multi-system cabinet really attractive.

[Anonymous No.4954615]

>>4952610
Damn that sucks. All I can say is that I hope they get an Iron Maiden. That's honestly the only modern Stern I've played that wasn't a stinking pile.

[Anonymous No.4954642]

>>4951470
I walked into a barber shop the other day and they had a mame cabinet that said "old skool games collection" in shitty resized banner on the top and the rest of the cabinet was black. It also had like 4 different controllers all mashed up in the middle. I was tempted to play it, but it was coin op and i wasnt about to spend any money on that thing. It was a nice little laugh though.

[Anonymous No.4954756]

>>4952815
>Takes place in mid-80s
>Monitors are flatscreens
>mfw

[Anonymous No.4954762]

>>4953360
fuck are you on about? burgers and shakes are as generationless as can be

[Anonymous No.4954792]

>>4954762
No, they eat ass and avocado....vegans man! Obssesed with meat, because that cant have none. Tofurken, veggie burgers, vegan bacon, dairlyess milk??, onions hotdogs, i cant believe its not butter, cheeseless cheese. Why are they so obsessed with meat, man? Its crazy, humans as a whole wont stop eating animals until we stop mrdering, raping, cannibalizing, imprisoning and genociding ourselves. How can we treat animals humanely, when we cant even treat humans humanely?

[Anonymous No.4954795]

>>4954642
I've seen one like that before and I wouldn't suggest it. The one stick on the one I played had only four-way directional inputs and I didn't know this until I started 1943 and it's about as awful sounding to play as it sounds.

[Anonymous No.4954797]

>>4951845
Not enough System 11 games.

[Anonymous No.4954801]

>>4951845
>Star Trek
Man I tried playing that once and was nearly blinded by all those god damn LEDs flashing everywhere.

[Anonymous No.4954802]

>>4954801
It was based on JJ Trek?

[Anonymous No.4954803]

>>4954802
Yeah. Was this one.

[Anonymous No.4954816]

Most of my arcade experience as a kid was at ShowBiz Pizza. I loved any game with a light gun but wasn't exactly great at them. Also loved Neo-Geo games but, again, wasn't very good at Samurai Showdown and the likes. I had a habit of checking the coin return slots, and also looking close at the bottoms of cabinets to find loose tokens/quarters whenever my money ran out. I always found at least one.

In my teens arcades were already disappearing, so the only option in my town was the local mall, and they just had 2-3 cabinets setup in some back corner. Played a lot of Tekken 3 there. I haven't been to a proper arcade in probably 15 years...

[Anonymous No.4955420]

>>4953553
What's it like now? Is it not there anymore?

[babbage's gramps !RATGzMALLY No.4955675]

>>4955420
It moved to a much bigger location ~1990 with a more modern arcade decor, loud print carpets, bright color racing stripes on the walls and neon. ~2000 moved to an even smaller location than original and moved what signage they could then closed a couple years later. Another arcade was open from maybe 2007-2015 and now there's a "retro arcade". There's also been an arcade pizza/ice cream parlor that serves beer in a strip mall since ~2003 so we're pretty fortunate to still have arcades. Cedar Point also has a fantastic, approaching historically significant arcade I try to hit up once or twice a year.

[Anonymous No.4956610]

>>4951470
I was around for the entire history of arcades so I have more fond memories than you could shake a stick at. There are still quite a few arcades I like to go to. There's several good ones within walking distance of my house in Shinjuku and a few ok ones close to my house in the Failippines.

[Anonymous No.4956630]

Can anyone identify this machine? It's an awful angle, but the marquee looks distinct enough to be easily identifiable.

[Anonymous No.4956632]

>>4956630
The one in the middle, that is.

[Anonymous No.4956641]

>>4951836
>>4951845
>>4951850
>posts this shit
>doesn't mention the Tilt in Burnsville Mall
I know nearly every arcade in the Twin Cities. I can even tell you about a few machines that I'm fairly confident that nobody else in town knows about, like the Metal Slug Neo-Geo machine.

[Anonymous No.4956647]

>have non-gamer bf
>impressed by a port of a PS3 game
>go in arcade bar since we're already there (that's how things work in cities)
>everything is new to him instead of nostalgic

[Anonymous No.4956653]

>>4956641
Any more I should know about?

[Anonymous No.4956669]

>>4956653
There are a lot of small, comfy arcades tucked away, like pic related. There's also a great retro arcade 20 minutes east of town that's totally worth checking out. And a gas station that has like 30-40 pinball machines.

Seriously gimme an e-mail address or something. I love exploring arcades, but I ain't got nobody in town to talk about them with.

[Anonymous No.4956706]

>>4956669
It's against the rules to post contact info here, so I put it in the relevant thread on /soc/. just search our state's name. kik, because my ex refuses to use it. You can drop an email if you prefer that. Don't expect quick responses. My phone is almost always out of sight.

[Anonymous No.4956817]

>>4956630

[Anonymous No.4956880]

So I'm wanting to hook up a bunch of arcade joysticks to a computer, Smash TV style where each player gets 2. All of the usb encoders I see only support one joystick, what's the best way to approach this problem?

[babbage's gramps !RATGzMALLY No.4956894]

>>4956880
Wire one of the joystcks up to button inputs. Most of those encoders support 12 the joystick plus 12 buttons iirc which is quite a lot (as many as a modern controller including L3 and R3)

[Anonymous No.4956903]

>>4951906
For real, the barcade near me just loves that. come in and spend an average of a quarter an hour beating up their donkey kong machine. I'll kill screen if I give them a dollar.

[Anonymous No.4956919]

>>4956669
do you have any more arcade cabs aside from the interactive ones or the early 80s ones?

[Anonymous No.4956927]

>>4956817
Oh, it was from Midway's dying years. No wonder I've never seen it.

[Anonymous No.4956934]

>>4956927
Yeah I had a bit of a time finding it online but it was kind of fun going through all the old light gun games.

[Anonymous No.4956939]

>>4956894
Just to make sure I'm understanding this right, these types of joysticks each use a button slot for up/down/left/right ?

[babbage's gramps !RATGzMALLY No.4956941]

>>4956939
The encoders have up/down/left/right connectors but there's no reason you can't connect a second stick to buttons 9/10/11/12 and map them appropriately in your emulators

[Anonymous No.4956945]

>>4956941
Sweet, really appreciate the help.

[Anonymous No.4956975]

>>4956817
That one is actually pretty significant. A lot of sources claim it was developed and published by Midway, but it was actually the very first game developed by Play Mechanix. If that name doesn't sound familiar, they're the guys who make most of Raw Thrills' shit these days. Any time you go to an arcade and see Big Buck Hunter, Terminator Salvation, or Aliens Exterminations, know that this game is to blame.

[Anonymous No.4956989]

>>4956975
Huh, interesting tidbit, I always wondered who was behind all those shooters.

[Anonymous No.4957054]

>>4956975
Oh shit you mean that's the granddaddy of motherfucking Target Terror? The most post-9/11 arcade game of all time?

[Anonymous No.4957296]

>>4957054
No, that one was actually done in-house by Raw Thrills themselves. After Midway fell apart, a big chunk of former staff got together and formed Raw Thrills. Although they couldn't get the rights, they produced a handful of legally-distinct "sequels" to games they did at Midway. Target: Terror was a "sequel" to Maximum Force, in the same way that Fast and the Furious is a "sequel" to the Cruisin' series (there are similar links between H20 Overdrive and Hydro Thunder, as well as Terminator and Terminator Salvation, although neither of the later were done in-house). The connection is more obvious in the censored version, where they re-titled it Target: Force.

Raw Thrills has a very, very long and complicated history.

[Anonymous No.4957308]

>>4953357
>sad diagonals-only DDR knockoff.
You fucking take that back, Pump it Up kicks ass.
PIU (Korean DDR) did a couple of more interesting things with their step charts, and they actually released their games in North America unlike Konami who couldn't be bothered to support the diehard DDR community of the early-to-mid 00s (and actively antagonized the American DDR scene).
I still love DDR though, that's where 90% of my local arcade time was spent.

[Anonymous No.4957312]

>>4957308
Actively antagonized? Explain.

[Anonymous No.4957313]

>>4957312
Gamers are very fragile.

[Anonymous No.4957314]

>>4953357
Minneapolis is one of the very few towns I've encountered where Pump It Up is the main rhythm game people play. It's ridiculous how much Pump there is here. At one point we had seven different versions of it in town and something like 16 total machines. Meanwhile our only DDR machines are a bunch of Extreme machines in poor condition, a Supernova that barely works, and another Supernova on the edge of town that's actually in decent-ish shape. Plus we don't even have Pop'n or Beatmania anymore.

We really need a fucking Round1.

[Anonymous No.4957328]

>>4957312
A big reason DDR died in America is because of a company called Betson. Betson is basically arcade cancer. They're the reason that every modern arcade is 90% Raw Thrills and ICE games. Betson has such a chokehold on the industry that Konami was all but forced to distribute the later DDR games through them. They really, REALLY fucked up the distribution of Supernova 2, X, and X2, which is why those versions are so rare in North America. Conversion kits to upgrade X into X2 were so ridiculously undersupplied that nearly every X2 machine in the US is either running a bootleg or was sold with the software pre-installed.

[Anonymous No.4957332]

>>4957296
I had no idea there was such a story there, anon. I guess it makes sense all the people from Midway would go somewhere. I usually write off their games as barely worth playing but I have to admit seeing the way kids freak out over their new Turtles beat 'em up takes me back.

[Anonymous No.4957338]

>>4957312
to supplement what anon responded here >>4957328
There was a four year hiatus between DDR #8 and DDR #9 and it was arguably during this period that DDR reached peak popularity in the U.S. Since Konami showed no intention of releasing another DDR and there was a demand for arrow-stepping games an American developer made a DDR clone (In the Groove) based off an open source DDR emulator (Stepmania). It should be pointed out that these devs were fans of DDR and were actually ramping up the difficulty and step complexity to levels beyond what was available at the time.
Konami sued them for infringing on their copyright. The lawsuit essentially killed ITG and then year or two later Konami finally decided to officially release DDR in America and it was the shitty Betson cabinets, whose quality was pathetically low especially when compared to the Japanese version of the hardware.

[Anonymous No.4957535]

Theres some nice stuff where I live. A nice admission fee free play arcade for fighting games/jubeat, a Round 1, and a barcade if I ever feel inclined to play pinball, galaga or konami beat em ups.

[Anonymous No.4957574]

Anybody here going to Play Expo in London this weekend?

[Anonymous No.4958150]

In 2015 I went to a place down in Tarpon Springs, Florida called the Replay Amusement Museum. It's a pretty good time, however I feel like they're more biased towards pinball machines than actual arcade games. Pinball's cool and all, but it's overall the same game and is only entertaining for so long; arcade games each have different objectives, controls, and aesthetics that make them stand out, whereas pinball machines just have different visuals, sounds, or scoring systems.

Someone made them and donated to them this Minecraft arcade machine that ran like absolute shit. Neat control panel and stuff, but the game was running on a toaster as it was <30FPS. It didn't last long while it was in there, though, as it was removed the next time I had visited there.

I'm going back there tomorrow; they supposedly have a Race Drivin' cabinet there that I'd love to see in person.

[Anonymous No.4958278]

>phone games

[Anonymous No.4958436]

>>4958150
oh god, i cant stand the shit that are nuCADES, phone trash on nucabs, hipster modern pinball machines with screens and video, more ticket games, and now the stage 3 cancer that is gonna be the cheap toy nucabs that has old games but on shit emulation on LCDs!

[Anonymous No.4958440]

>>4958436
>nu

god fuck off

[Anonymous No.4958473]

>>4958436
Pinball with narrative is fine :-)

[Anonymous No.4958540]

>>4958436
Pinball with color screens is a pretty natural evolution of 90s pinball.

[Anonymous No.4958542]

>>4957054
I unironically love this fucking game.

[Anonymous No.4958632]

>>4958150
A...minecraft arcade machine..?

[Anonymous No.4958847]

>>4958436
>modern pinball machines with screens and video
>hipster

[Anonymous No.4958868]

>>4958847
Criticism is often projection.

[Anonymous No.4958875]

>>4958542
Looks pretty good. Never seen it before.

[Anonymous No.4959121]

>>4958847
Pinball is just pinball, man. Just enjoy it for what it is.

[Anonymous No.4959137]

>>4958875
The general rule of thumb with smaller light gun games is that they're easier to find at places that don't have a lot of games. Proper arcades tend to favor bigger machines like Time Crisis. Places like motels and laundromats like smaller machines like Crisis Zone, Target Terror, Police Trainer, and the like. If you want to try it, try those.

[Anonymous No.4959467]

>>4958542
I have a soft spot for it because of how ridiculous it is. All the terrorists are just digitized girls in cheap dominatrix outfits or twenty-something males in sweat shirts and it always cracks me up. The fact it has an official mode for two guns used by one person called Justice Mode is also great. If only it had a secret mode you could enter for shooting friendlies like Area 51.

[Anonymous No.4959483]

I finally 1cc'd Revolution X :-)

And I just learned the dad rock band in the game is real. Are they any good?

[Anonymous No.4959489]

FUCK FIGHTING GAMES!!!!

Shmups are so much better. Fighting games are for fucking faggots who like looking at half naked muscle packed gay heroes. Fuck this genre and its cancerous community full of niggers. Shmups are ten times better.

[Anonymous No.4959493]

>>4959121
Vr once again with the ignorance because they have no experience or skill. Try learning to actually play, flipper skills,post pass, live catch etc and leanring good trajectory for shots, then learn the tables scoring system which yes can be very complex and not obvious even as far back as some 70s machines.

[Anonymous No.4959498]

>>4959489
I wish. The vast majority of fighting game characters are designed by straight guys for straight guys. The queer/female gaze favors something else.

[Anonymous No.4959502]

>>4959493
fuck off chav
back to your containment thread

[Anonymous No.4959506]

>>4959493
You must be fun at parties.

[Anonymous No.4959910]

>>4958436
>phone trash on nucabs
How did you not know you were going to piss off every underage summerfag by insulting their claim to hard core arc8 g8mr cred?

[Anonymous No.4960101]

>went to New York for Christmas holiday last year
>always been curious about arcades, especially fighters as I'm a fan of SF, MK, Tekken, etc.
>research a bit and find out about Barcade
>manage to get down there after a lot of walking
Literally the most fun I've had playing games in a few years. I played SF Alpha 2 with another guy and we were just having fun. I'll play any fighting game online now and it doesn't compare to the social aspect or atmosphere of that place

[Anonymous No.4960290]

>>4959467
>All the terrorists are just digitized girls in cheap dominatrix outfits or twenty-something males in sweat shirts and it always cracks me up.
It was Raw Thrills' first game, so they couldn't really afford actors. The development staff just threw together cheap costumes and played the parts themselves. It was amazing.

[Anonymous No.4960750]

>>4960101
Its a whole other experience when you're right next to the guy you're playing.

[Anonymous No.4960758]

>>4960750
I prefer not to be, unless that's not the only thing
I'm doing with the guy ;)

[Anonymous No.4960767]

>>4960758

[Anonymous No.4960772]

>>4960767
Takes one to know one :^)

[Dillweed No.4960851]

>>4960772
SURE IS SUMMER HERE.

[Anonymous No.4960887]

>>4951470
if you live in the chicago area then Galloping Ghost Arcade has a huge selection of stuff. only problem is, the place is kinda cramped, but they compensate with air conditioning

[Anonymous No.4960893]

>>4960887
Does it smell like Super Smash Bros\.?

[Anonymous No.4960894]

>>4960887
Go there at 5pm on a wednesday in the winter. I went and was the only guy there, was a fucking blast!

[Anonymous No.4960915]

>>4960101
Did you hit Next Level? It sounds like it would have been right up your ally.

[Anonymous No.4960929]

>>4960893
Being stinky is apart of the meta game, its just a strat dude baka.

[Anonymous No.4960936]

>>4960887
Two Round 1s, one of the only two remaining Gameworks that hasn't gone to complete shit, Nickle City Games, and lots of good Barcades. Level 257 is worth seeing once too, although it's modern games. Chicago's arcade scene is killer. I'm fond of Star World too, but its a ways out of town.

[Anonymous No.4961308]

>>4960915
Shit, didn't know about that till now. Thanks for the rec though, if I ever make it back there

[Anonymous No.4963695]

I fix most all of the arcade and pinball machines in alabama. AMA?

[Anonymous No.4963784]

>>4963695
That other guy there fixes more.

[Anonymous No.4963828]

>>4952831
Freeplay is an absolute gem (although I dunno who or how often they repair their shit) but someone has told me Cidercade shits all over them. I find this hard to believe. Anyone been there to confirm?

[Anonymous No.4963857]

Austin also has the three Pinballz locations. I've been to the OG and the Lake Creek ones. True to their name with a good selection of new and old pinball machines, but also a decent selection of new and old arcade games as well. LC location also has a sizable bar and food selection. Reminds me a bit of going to Circus Playhouse as a kid

[Anonymous No.4965574]

>>4963695
Do you sell any? Ever work on a Funhouse pinball machine? 256 here.

[Anonymous No.4965635]

>>4952610
jesus christ dude just download some pics if you want to jerk off to those big beautiful pale tits.

[Anonymous No.4965686]

Sup guise?

Oldfag gamer here. Thread made me nostalgic. Back in the day, I was 5 in 1981. There were a few space invader machines you’d see once in awhile but Pac-Man came out of nowhere and went off like a fucking culture bomb. Suddenly everyone was into the craze. It was on the news, some guys named Buckner and Garcia sampled the game sounds and made a song:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=XY_ESTnBlS0
I bought a 45 record of the single.
By 1982 shit went gonzo. Centipede, middle command, donkey Kong, all the classics. Arcades began sprouting up at every mall. My favorite was one called The Dream Machine at turfland mall in Lexington KY. Pinball got a boost just by.l being a coin fed game NEAR the others. I’d beg my parents to give me five dollars and drop me off when they were at the mall. With a pocket full of quarters then you felt like a king. Being good at a game then made you a superstar. If you were the guy who could pull off a fatality on MK1 people went batshit. There’s a local bar that built an arcade in it. Here’s a link to an article with pics
http://smileypete.com/community/fun-games/
But there’s only about 30 games which is ok but it’s become a pipe dream of mine to build an army of about 30 hyperspin/retropie/MAME cabinets (which would have all the games you could want to play) and put all of it behind a $10 paywall in a coffee shop/kick it spot. Kids these days don’t have enough places to go where they can just not be watched and plunk down on some goodwill couches and just chill. Maybe it’s time to do a kickstarter to build a cool spot with neon and lasers and a fog machine and rock music blasting.

Food for thought.

[Anonymous No.4966185]

>"kick it" guy is still here

[Anonymous No.4966262]

>>4965635
It's just not the same if she's isn't standing there yelling at me to get to the crate.

[Anonymous No.4966294]

New Jersey fag here, grew up going down the shore and having the arcades filled with great games. Bought a house in Point Pleasant Beach and come to find out the boardwalk is now plagued with ticket redemption and other dump crap. Other than one DDR Extreme and a Ms Pac-Man/Galaga cab, this gem replaced a broken Lost World cabinet.

[Anonymous No.4966321]

>>4966294
Find an adults-only place if you can. They tend to be free of ticket games.

[Anonymous No.4966587]

The galaga machine across the street from me got replaced by a pac-man one. And for what reason? They already had one there..

[Anonymous No.4966852]

>finally find a few old arcade cabs in bowling alleys n shit
>American parts are unusable

[Anonymous No.4966946]

>>4963784
Yeah, but the irishman steals boards and puts them on eBay.

>>4965574
I sell tons. Yep, I've worked on and bought multiple Funhouses.

[Anonymous No.4966957]

>>4965686
I'd rather pay a dollar for coffee here and chill as long as I want, even to 4am when the city makes it close for two hours. My phone/tablet/laptop/switch have all those games and this place has fewer pedophiles on average. Kids aren't nostalgic for arcades so a cabinet offers no kind of je ne sais quoi for them

Your pay-for-time model has worked in Russia where they serve shitty coffee and shitty snacks. An American once tried to open a good coffee shop in Russia with a commitment to never bribe anyone. It didn't work.

[Anonymous No.4967264]

>>4966957
Pay for time arcades are actually pretty common in the states now.

[Anonymous No.4968857]

>>4963828
Been to Cidercade, very cool lots of pinball. Not much better than free play but at least a little better

[Anonymous No.4968867]

>>4965686
What makes you think kids don't have places to """chill"""? ಠ_ಠ

[Anonymous No.4969969]

>>4951836
>Street Fighter 3 Champion Edition

[Anonymous No.4969970]

>>4952610
There's an Elvira pinball machine at Quarterworld in downtown PDX. Place sucks, but the game selection is alright.

[Anonymous No.4969971]

>>4969969
Fight gamers are worse than speedrunners.

[Anonymous No.4970050]

Portland probably has the worst arcade scene for any metropolitan city in the U.S.
The only options we have left are two shitty barcades,
a Bullwinkles which purged its good games and replaced them with Raw Thrill games,
and side-arcades at bowling alleys which followed Bullwinkles' example.

The arcade scene here used to be good when we had Tilt, Malibu Raceway arcade, the arcade in the bowling alley next to Jesuit, and the arcade at Hot Shots Billiards which literally closed down just a few months ago.

I want to open up a traditional arcade so badly, but the costs would just be too expensive.
There are several empty stores in a small mall nearby, so the rent could be cheap per month.
But getting the games, maintenance, and hiring part timers would kill my wallet.

[Anonymous No.4970058]

>>4970050
When I search "Portland arcade bar" I see a few pretty good looking places. Is Ground Kontrol your idea of shitty?

[Anonymous No.4970075]

>>4970050
You guys don't have a bunch of barcades with old machines up there? That seems like it would be a very Portland thing.

[Anonymous No.4970081]

>>4970075
They do. see >>4970058

I'm guessing that poster is maybe under 21 or just a bit helpless at finding things?

[Anonymous No.4970092]

>>4970081
Looks like you were twenty seconds ahead of me, Ground Kontrol poster. Yeah that's not a bad games list at all. I would kill to have something like that within thirty miles.

[Anonymous No.4971136]

>>4970081
>>4970058
I have been to Ground Kontrol countless times, and every visit is more disappointing than the last.
The cabinets are poorly maintained, the floor is coated in dried beer, and some games just don't even work.
It's incredibly over-crowded after 8PM.

The 3rd Strike cabinet, for example has a fucked up control panel.
The diagonals on the 2P joystick are broke, the 1P roundhouse button is sticky, and it's housed in some shitty re-purposed cabinet.
Don't even get me started on cabinets that replaced the CRT's with low-quality LCD panels.

The owner of Ground Kontrol is a fucking kike who is running the place for clout.
He doesn't care about maintenance, nor does he care about the arcade scene.
Fuck him.

[Anonymous No.4972472]

>>4968867
I live in a city that has pretty much nothing to do if you're under 21 and don't like just walking. The only place you'll consistently see teenagers is in china town and as cashiers in stores. Occasionally you'll see a small group of rich kids downtown, but that's about it.
Most hardly know the city outside their neighborhood as a result.

[Anonymous No.4972478]

>>4972472
Which city?

[Anonymous No.4974104]

Does this game look familiar to anyone? I found this machine last summer, but it was being repaired and this was the only part of the machine intact.

[Anonymous No.4974134]

>>4974104
That's Johnny Nero Action Hero.

[Anonymous No.4974140]

What will happen if I point a lightgun at a flashlight? Will it just hit wherever the screen is currently scanning?

[Anonymous No.4974157]

I went to Portland about a year ago on a little vacation drove down from Vancouver. Went to Ground Control and I agree with the sentiments above. Sounded cool before going, then went and it was overcrowded early on in the day and they can’t serve booze or some shit until after 5pm so we played one game that felt broken and left

[Anonymous No.4974174]

>>4974157
Sounds pretty greedy. The one here is closed until 3pm on weekdays and 11am on weekends, so they can do upkeep.

[Anonymous No.4974179]

Dallas oldfag here. Currently, we've got barcades, Round One (which I haven't been to, but looks cool), Main Event (which I haven't been to in ages and can't vouch for), and Nickelmania (which is sadly redemption only now).

>>4953350
It's pretty fun. I haven't been to the newer locations, just the original, so I can't comment. If you're ever in the Dallas area I'd recommend the Richardson one at least - it's pretty close to the Alamo Drafthouse as well.

>>4953353
Not sure about wine but Free Play's got a relatively modest selection of beer on tap at the Richardson one and bottled stuff. Food's pretty decent for bar food.

Sadly, D&B has gone downhill. Not sure about other cities, but they closed the original two Dallas locations (including the best one, amidst all the strip joints) about ten years ago and it's never been the same. Pre-2004ish it was fantastic, wall to wall daisychained Daytona machines, lightgun games (including American Laserdisc Games ones), Namco cockpit stuff. For a long time they had VR pods and things like the Namco theater games. And the food was really good too.

>>4963828
>>4968857
I haven't been to Cidercade yet - photos make it look pretty good. Not sure I'd want to go though given where it is (I know they're "cleaning it up" but hipster gentrification attempts aside, that's still the part of Dallas you have homeless crackheads shitting on peoples' doorsteps. That, and it's always a pain in the ass to find parking - see the Alamo Drafthouse there for another example). I'd rather go to Arlington or Denton, there's at least some used bookstores in those areas.

[Anonymous No.4974183]

>>4974179
Aside from D&B (see below) there were good arcades at Malibu Speedway off of 35 (which IIRC is still open, but arcade isn't so great) and the Plano Putt Putt, which is now Adventure Landing (and the arcade is crap now).

Another random Dallas-area memory - they had a Virtual World location (Battletech) open during the 90's, but I only got to go a few times before it closed. I know the Chicago location stayed open longer. Another good defunct one was Gameworks at the Grapevine Mills mall, but that sadly went away.

[Anonymous No.4974984]

>>4972478
The gay one

[Anonymous No.4975004]

>>4951470
I live in a pretty small town in Europe. We have a bowling bar here with a fucking Tetris machine! Love going there, never played bowling tho.

[Anonymous No.4975010]

>>4951906
>such as Armed Police Batrider: the more coins you'd insert, the harder the rank (difficulty) gets.

No it doesn't? what is this drivel? why is vr always full of clueless wank spreading disinfo? The game has 2 starting points for rank, if you start the borad using start via the dip menu it defaults to low if not you have rank based on whatever level previous players have left it at but it drops with every attract screen roll. As rank drops with every death anyway and most players are shit it will likely be pretty low. Adding credits does nothing.

[Anonymous No.4975059]

There was a dude at a sandwich place near my house who used to give SF2 lessons. He was kind of scary though so I didn't want to ask my parents for lesson money.

Also, I used to go to those Virtual World Battletech pod centers. Probably my favorite "arcade" experience--the whole store and atmosphere was really cool. I don't think you could even pull it off with modern VR the same way.

One time I saw Steven Spielberg there with his kids and got really excited at the idea that he might make a Battletech movie. Later I read on a forum that the idea had actually been floated, but it seems a more likely inspiration for Gameworks. Or maybe his kids just liked it.

I also remember there being some other early VR tech where I played Hexen or an FPS like it in a pod (maybe even with goggles?) but I have no idea what it could have been. Maybe it's a false memory or something.

[Anonymous No.4975279]

TMNT 4-player was great.
One of the machines I played a lot was Robocop. Eventually I got the home 16-bit version and completed it.
At college after social activity on a Wednesday afternoon me and friends would usually have a race on Virtua Racing.

[Anonymous No.4975661]

>>4975010
>One other thing is that unlike Garegga, Batrider's rank does NOT carry across new games - every new viewing of the Character Select Screen sets the rank off from the current base value, like Bakraid. The only thing that will affect your new games is the amount of credits currently entered, so for the lowest possible starting rank, only put in one credit at a time.
https://shmups.system11.org/viewtopic.php?p=489830&sid=0c796d05bd6e904506449b42067d2cbf#p489830

who's the clueless wank now, chav

[Anonymous No.4976957]

>>4951906
There were a handful of games that did. Super Off-Road comes to mind immediately.

[Anonymous No.4976971]

>>4951470
tfw local arcade has 2 scud race machines, but the shifters are fucked.

[Anonymous No.4977123]

>>4975661
well you learn something everyday.


now beat my I score.

[Anonymous No.4977125]

>>4977123
Arcade scoring is as bad as speedrunning, and usually more boring to watch.

[Anonymous No.4977126]

retardo where da new thread

[Anonymous No.4977127]

>>4977125
Absolute mental retardation.

[Anonymous No.4977130]

>>4977125
Who's asking you to watch or said anything about spectating?

I asked you to try DOING it, sarcastically of course because we both know your i.q is far to low to figure out such things, like a baby observing algebra.

[Anonymous No.4977132]

>>4977126
yeah make a new thread but stop the boring kraut joke op which is getting is banned, retardo milks jokes to fucking death, even im fed up of it.

[Anonymous No.4977135]

>>4977127
Both groups waste their lives, but one at least raises millions for charity.

>>4977130
I have multiple A-S-Ses at the local arcade bar.

[Anonymous No.4977137]

>>4977135
>Both groups waste their lives
DURRR I FINK THERS AN OBJECTIVE FING EVERYWUN SHUD DO
Tell me how i know you're a stupid yank cunt? Models of success are entirely subjective and spending your time on something you enjoy is never a waste anymore than anything else is. I do agree that some let it take over for the worse but no more than some workaholic dildo aswell.

>>4977135
>at the local arcade bar.
ahhhh now i get it, you're a low skill coping dadshit that needs to feel better about his incompetence by painting those better than you in a negative light, you'll describe players as "autists" or something im sure.

I'm sorry that you lack fortitude and will never experience being good at anything.

[Anonymous No.4977140]

>>4977137
You'll never catch that dragon :(

[Anonymous No.4977143]

>>4977135
>I have multiple A-S-Ses at the local arcade bar.
yeah rent boys

>>4977140
>he doesn't know of sisyphus
You'll never experience fulfillment only uniform mediocrity :(

[Anonymous No.4977146]

>>4977125
Do you clap when they go out of bounds while playing Nintendo trash?

[Anonymous No.4977147]

OP here, I wasn't aware this thread was still going and thought it had died, thank you all for keeping the discussion active and I'm glad alot of you are enjoying yourselves and talking about arcade nostalgia with eachother.

[Anonymous No.4977421]

>>4977140
eternal mediocrity for you :(

[Anonymous No.4977483]

Mod cunt making it blindingly obvious of his bias and problem with me, you delete my posts but not the shit talking cunt who started it? i'm sorry you feel the need to tribally align yourself with the dadshits because you yourself are a podgey dad bodded man infant CUNT on search for gay elf.

[Anonymous No.4977573]

In northwest ohio we have some cool places at least making an attempt at keeping arcades alive. There is a place called nickelworld that is mainly ticket games you pay for with nickels but there is also some freeplay regular cabs. There used to be a lot better selection years ago but they still have a Virtual On 2p setup that i love hitting up. Also some new local place called level 419 that has everything on freeplay and you just pay a 10 buck entry fee. They have tons of cool games, including import japanese machines. Only problem is half of them were shut off and the dudes running it are hyper neckbeards. I went with my friends and one of the workers kept pestering and trying to hit on my buddies gf. Trying to be a witty smartass and following her the whole time. Fuckin losers, man. We had to leave early while I was balls deep in a motorcycle race against our other friend

[Anonymous No.4978872]

>>4975004
Lol, nice.

[Anonymous No.4979125]

Is it possible to get something like a Supergun arcade stick hooked up to a PC? If not, is there a really good stick for PC? Or do you recommend I just get a TV?

[Anonymous No.4979142]

>>4979125
There's plenty of quality arcade sticks, but two-in-one units are rare because it doesn't add any value for most. People like modularity and elbow room.

[babbage's gramps !RATGzMALLY No.4979145]

>>4979125
>tfw this guy buys some $300 Supergun then spends another $70 on a J-Pac to make it USB

[Anonymous No.4979152]

>>4979142
>People like modularity and elbow room.
I'm more interested in authenticity. The two-in-one just looks more appealing to me.

[Anonymous No.4979156]

>>4979152
Make one yourself?

[Anonymous No.4979161]

>>4979156
I'm not a very crafty dude. I just like playing games.

[Anonymous No.4979167]

>>4979161
Are you wanting it just for single player? When's the last time you had another human in your home?

[Anonymous No.4979171]

>>4979167
>Are you wanting it just for single player?
Of course not.

[Anonymous No.4979176]

>>4979171
Not going to answer the second question? ;)

[Anonymous No.4979181]

>>4979176
I just did implicitly.

[Anonymous No.4979201]

>>4979181
You did, and the answer was "Does the superintendent count?"

[Anonymous No.4979205]

>>4979201
lol'd. Thanks for the "input" you harasser.

[Anonymous No.4979223]

>>4965686
You forgot to tells us an the up coming kill screen.

[Anonymous No.4979230]

>>4979223

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dd1M1bx-UvE

[Anonymous No.4979287]

>>4957328
America never got the upgrade kits to X hardware. There was also never an upgrade in America from X to X2 due to complaints about the design of the X cabinet itself. Europe did receive upgrade kits though. X2 was released later as a new cabinet only with a slightly revised but still kinda shitty stage. Betson only distributed those games. The cabinets themselves were built by Raw Thrills and approved by Konami. The issue with the terrible design lies with Konami trying to cut costs.
The Betson Supernova cabinets are also not as bad as people make them out to be. The stage is the same as a Japanese cabinet and they have really nice monitors. It was more due to the fact that most arcade operators don't properly maintain dance games.
It took a long time but Konami brought DDR back to America and has given us what Japan is currently getting, save for a few licensed songs. Both the Konami and Uniana built cabinets are really nice to play on as long as they're maintained.

[Anonymous No.4979623]

>>4979152
>I'm more interested in authenticity.
oh god you're one of those, i bet you aren't interested in actually getting good at the games though are you?

[Anonymous No.4979893]

>>4979623
Why do you think those two interests conflict?

[Anonymous No.4979901]

>>4979623
not me btw

[Anonymous No.4979964]

>>4951836
holy shit, up down minneapolis. I was just playing Vs. Super mario Bros there last night. I love that place, especially when they set up Mario Kart 64 on the big projector outside

[Anonymous No.4979984]

>>4952824

>Dave and Busters
>Spend $1000
>Earn enough tickets to buy a keyring

[Anonymous No.4980179]

>>4979984
Dave and Busters is the only major arcade chain that you can "game" and walk out with prizes cheaper than you simply buying them. It takes more time than it's worth, but it's possible.

[Anonymous No.4980246]

Arcade threads are the best threads on /vr/.

[Anonymous No.4980539]

>>4979893
because i've been in the scene a long time and seen it a million times, all the good players just want to play and go with whatever they feel comfortable with even if in the mean time whilst guys that speak of authenticity and wanting joysticks on fucking arcade style bulky lumps couldn't care less about playing and just want the arcade "experience".

[Anonymous No.4981126]

>>4980539
Well, I'm chiefly interested in playing arcade games, the best way I can. I consider a more authentic experience to be the best way. I know it's impossible to recreate the arcade experience at home, but I want to be playing these games with the right hardware at least. As far as getting good at them goes, I 1CC all the arcade games I play.