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5549238 No.5549238 [Reply] [Original]

>"I got next!"
I've never actually seen this happen at an arcade. Is it really a thing?

>> No.5549253

>>5549238
That is because you were born 20 years later.

>> No.5549257

Last time I played at an arcade was in 2002, but yeah, that used to happen. You had 4 or 5 people lined up to play versus.

>> No.5549262

Arcades are mostly adults at barcades that don't want to interact with anyone outside their group unless it's to flirt, backing the day it was teenagers that didn't care about that

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>>5549238
It was originally and still is a thing for coin operated pool tables since pool games take like twenty minutes but it was necessarily co-opted by arcade machines during the fighting game boom of the 90s and presumably in the early 80s too, though I wasn't really old enough to participate in that arcade culture.

>> No.5549316

In the US in the 90s, it absolutely was a thing. I wouldn't know about earlier because the first time I set foot in an American arcade was in January 1991.
Some arcades even screwed little coin holders onto the cabinet so newcomers would know how many people are ahead of them. Oddly enough, no fights over who's next ever happened.
Now, before the 90s, I lived in three other countries but never noticed the coin reservation thing there. Even when I've gone back to countries 1 and 2 to visit family in the later 90s and early 2000s, I never saw this done there. It may be primarily or perhaps even exclusively a North American thing.

>> No.5549325

>>5549238
Yes, people did that to play Vs. Super Mario Bros. and Super Mario Bros. on the Playchoice 10. It was that popular.

>> No.5549329

It's still occasionally done with rhythm games, except you use your card now.

>> No.5549336

I've had people ask me about playing next but I've never had anyone just come up and say "I've got next". Honestly a very rude thing to do but I suppose that's normal in America.

>> No.5549403

>>5549238
It certainly used to be, yes. But that was in a time when arcaded were a lot more busy. Also it was often with fighting games.

>> No.5549408

>>5549238
It used to happen at every tournament i went to in the early 2000s.

And it is completely retarded.

>> No.5549419

>>5549408
Why do you think it's retarded?

>> No.5549428

>playing KOF 98 arcade mode very badly on purpose
>some chump peaks over and thinkgs I'm a noob
>confidently, he drops a quarter and smirks
>proceed to wipe the floor with his poor ass skills
Classic.

>> No.5549436

>>5549428
This guy gets ALL the pussy.

>> No.5549440

hadn't heard about it until recently. early 90s was a while ago, though, and it was overseas on post/base so arcade culture might have migrated later. i vaguely remember lining up quarters on pinball machines in bowling alleys, but that would have just been to let other folks know how long i intended to play. in arcades, i only remember waiting near the cab i wanted to play, asking about next between stages. only played pool in rec rooms, so never saw its genesis either.

was interesting to hear folks talk about it, though. was also curious to hear about how fighting games evolved from pvc to pvp and how it took longer for pvp to catch on in japan.

>> No.5549446

>>5549419
>10 quarters lined up
>guy who was behind you says that his quarter is the next one

How do you tell who's quarter is who's?

>> No.5549448

>>5549446
Call the year, i.e.
>#6 is mine, it's a 1961

>> No.5549452
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>>5549238
IN the arcade I used to go as a kid, they would half insert a coin in the slot and hold it there with their fingers until the game asked for the next coin.

>> No.5549459

>>5549446
Only 1 quarter was put up at a time.

>> No.5549461

>>5549238
yes, it was really a thing.

>> No.5549523
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>>5549459
The image is a bit dark, but DDR machines used to have long enough lines that some places put these things >>5549273 on the machine.

>> No.5549649

>>5549238
>I've never actually been to an arcade

>>5549446
The 9 people who know the correct order

>>5549459
>I've never actually been to an arcade

>> No.5549654

>>5549273
>>5549523
How do you know which quarter is yours???

>> No.5549657

>>5549649
>9 people
So why not just line up?

>> No.5549672

>>5549657
Yeah, you wanna stand in line for at least 5 games of DDR, 6 to 10 minutes each until it's your turn? Uh no, there's other games to play, nerd. Hit up TBell across the food court for a quesadilla, chat with girls, like cmon man.

>> No.5549698 [DELETED] 

>>5549446
You can't, that's why it's stupid. There are always dirty niggers and spics who claim someone else's quarter is theirs.

>> No.5549969

Oh man, who remembers wading through crowds to put a quarter on the cabinet/screen when mk2, Street fighter alpha, street fight 2 championship edition came out? Good fucking times /vr/ bros

>> No.5549986

When I was maybe 12 some guy put a quarter on the machine and walked away.

I popped it in and played another round because I thought he was just being a nice guy.

>> No.5550025

>>5549986
No. I mean shit happens nbd, just a quarter but lol, no. When fighting games were in their heyday they would have crowds of ten to fifteen people around the cabinets. Some arcades and some new games were so big the arcade would put a separate big TV above the top of the cabinet so people could see the screen and watch bc the crowds we're so big you couldn't get through the crowd to see. Quarters would be lined up across the screen and for the guy who kept winning, he was the man. People would be cheering yelling even. It was intense

>> No.5550067

>>5549986
I think I did this too.

>>5550025
I only went to an arcade two or three times. I button mashed some fat nerd in soul edge. He got pissed a 10 year old or whatever beat him and left

>> No.5550076

>>5549654
You don't. Most of the point of the coin thing is let people know how many people are currently in line. With games like DDR, where there's often a crowd of people sitting around the machine and you don't know if people are going to be playing solo or together, it helps to know how many games you're going to have to wait. So you keep track of how many coins are in front of yours, not which coin is yours (and if you're not going to be waiting by the machine the whole time, you just let someone know the coin is yours so there's no confusion).

But if you go to an arcade where this isn't practiced and there's a big group of players at the machine obviously waiting their turn, you just look like a gigantic douchebag if you try to put your coin on the machine. We had those at the arcade occasionally.

>> No.5550163

I always just waited for my turn and if someone tried to skip me I just told them to fuck off. Never had any issues.

>> No.5550226

>>5549446
>>5549698
and some people would put down a penny or nickel or whatever else you nogs

>> No.5550305

>>5550025
that sounds awesome. don't even play fighting games but i definitely would have gotten in on that.

>> No.5550348

>>5549238
yeah when i played ddr but people used different things from actual quarters/tokens to random ass coins or cards. only 90's kids will remember. zoomers gtfo

>> No.5550361

>>5549238
It's a thing.

>> No.5550372

>>5549238
My arcade-going days date back to about 1981-1982 in California and Nevada, and I can tell you that the very first time I saw coins being used to hold spaces for a line of players was with SFII:WW c.1991 at which point it became very common. You'd line them up just like in the pic, or up on the marquee, or (later) on a holder as pictured in >>5549273. In every case I saw, it was honor system. It was used mostly for who would play next on a vs. game, but since everyone came to know what it meant, after that I would even see it used for 1p games.

People weren't spergs back then either, before you put your coin down you could easily wait for a player change and ask the players if both controllers worked. People would do that, and if someone said a stick or button wasn't working on one side, they'd put a coin/token on the working side and say they'd only want to play on that side. If one guy was cleaning up and owning the machine, you could even put a coin on his side and say you'd go after him, which was lame but nobody I saw ever cared.

My experiences only, other places I'm sure had their own etiquette and ways of dealing with stupid little problems.

>> No.5550406

I had this happen to me once in like 1998 on a Tekken 3 machine in a walmart. I had no idea what was going on.

>> No.5550417

>>5549657
Because you not in the kindergarten lunch line? Seriously dude, you're aware there's a minimum age for this board, right?

>> No.5550420

>>5549238
it is in fighting games

>> No.5551821

>>5549316
Yes, I can attest to this. It's definitely due to the wave of fighting games; They woudn't line up quarters though, whoever had "next" would put there quarter on the bezel glass near the edge and wait next to the cab, while everyone queued up behind to watch, then it was next-come, next serve, the next in the queue would come alongside and put their quarter/token there. It was unwritten etiquette. This is also why many fighting cabs (especially Capcom) had screen burn on the CRT's of the life bars on top; because they were constantly in 2P games, and those elements were constantly on screen, non-stop.

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>>5549698
>There are always dirty niggers and spics
These were simpler times.

>> No.5551981 [DELETED] 

>"Thanks :-)"
>pick up quarter and put in slow
>continue playing

>> No.5551984

It's also a common thing to do for a coin operated pool table.

>> No.5552116

Where/when was this? Never seen this one coin only thing

>> No.5552357

>>5552116
my experience >>5551821 was in Illinois, Chicago area and suburbs. Very seldom did people line up tokens / quarters because it led to abuse and arguments and/or fights. Whoever had a coin or token there had next. Usually if you saw a row of coins there, it was a group of friends playing each other who decided to hog the machine, and you wouldn't be playing that cab on that visit.
Some people would get into altercations over violations of this etiquette, I remember one asian kid getting in a fist fight with another dude on a cab I was playing on when he didn't put his coin on the bezel, just plunked his coin in the slot when there was a queue waiting, and one dude already had a credit on the bezel. it was nuts!

>> No.5552370

>>5549238
For fighting games in my country people just waited in lines and those who lost had to get out.

>> No.5552485

>>5552370
yup. same here, but as I said, whoever was next in the rotation had his credit on the bezel ready to go.
I think, initially, it was mostly to save time, so a person wasn't fishing in their pocket for a coin or token holding up the queue. it was right there, ready to go. eventually it just became the proper thing to do.

>> No.5552530

>>5551821
>This is also why many fighting cabs (especially Capcom) had screen burn on the CRT's of the life bars on top; because they were constantly in 2P games, and those elements were constantly on screen, non-stop.

Are you implying both health bars aren't shown if there's only one guy on the cab? Lol.

>> No.5552532

>>5549262
Have you tried visiting any tourist destination? Where you have all those "ancient" arcades from early 90s still being played extensively and with people lined up to them?

>> No.5552549

>>5549238
There used to be an entire row, especially on games like Street Fighter II. Weirdest thing, it was all on the honor system and I never saw anyone be a shitter in regards to the quarters method of "got next".

>> No.5552590

>>5549238
this happened to me last week when i was playing Tekken 7 lmao

>> No.5552594

>>5549698
Maybe that's why arcade games aren't popular anymore.

Goddamn foreigners, they even took that from us!

>> No.5552661

>>5552357
>niggers
Yeah I wouldn't leave any money laying around there either. I've seen people do that accidentally, or maybe they thought they could play dumb and get away with it. But they always just accepted it when everyone told them to get to the back of the line. Hope the douche got his ass kicked.

>> No.5552758

>>5549446
>How do you tell who's quarter is who's?

You just remembered your own place in line and scooted your quarter ahead when the current match finished.

It wasn't fucking hard. I seriously don't know why zoomers find it so unbelievable.

>"Y-you mean you all self-organized without computers or grown-ups to tell you what to do?"

>> No.5552954

>>5552530
no, but it would never goes into attract mode, since it was always played non-stop in PvP matches. Attract modes also serve as screen savers.

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>>5552758

>> No.5553024
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>>5552758
>when you take your proper place in line but use someone else's quarter

>> No.5553029

>>5549238
>go to an arcade
>stick a quarter on the machine
>kid takes quarter and walks away
the fuck bro

>> No.5553068

>>5552758
>scooting your quarter
wut?
There was no need to scoot. So long as you know you're behind the guy with the penguin bookbag and ahead of the guy with the silver-and-neo-green Nikes, you knew your place. Once penguin bookbag was done, you went next and it didn't matter which quarter you grabbed.

Again, I never saw a single squabble come up over this shit. Not. A. One. In hind sight, people were surprisingly courteous.

>> No.5553089

What would the inflation on a quarter be now? Would you have to pay a dollar for every play these days?

>> No.5553092

>>5553089
Good question. I mean I'm 34, and even when I was a kid, just about every damn machine I ever saw charged 50 cents, with exception of the stupid old machines like Ms. Pac-Man

>> No.5553126

I think zoomers growing up behind the internet has ruined them socially. They fail to realize the one to one human interaction of online communications, and think that real life interactions are comparable.

Even in a hole in the wall pool hall with has the curiosity of honoring who plays next.

>> No.5553138

>>5549238
It's definitely a thing for pool tables to this day. Arcades aren't really a thing now but I figure yes it was (like you clearly are, I am also too young).

>> No.5553219

>>5549238
That was if you were polite. In the arcade where I lived, people would wait for you to get to the final boss, ninja in their tokens and slap that P2 start button before you had time to process that you were in trouble. Of course, by that time they'd studied how you played and knew exactly how to beat you, so they didn't have to fight through the mooks before fighting the final boss themselves.

>> No.5553296

>>5553029
>never went to an arcade
>imagine what would happen if i did
>because beta as fuck
cringe

>>5553068
>There was no need to scoot
There was, at least the way it was done most places I played. I'm sure it was done different is different places but yes, scooting was definitely a thing.

>> No.5553312

>>5549238
I go to FG tournaments with arcade set ups, "I got next" is said pretty much every minute or so.

>> No.5555065

>>5549452
They'd put their hand in front of you while you were trying to play? Bloody rude. Around here if you loitered near a machine you'd just get offered the next go.

>> No.5557457

>>5555065
"They" did all kinds of weird shit in that kids imagination

>> No.5557465

>>5549238
I've never seen that but I (and many others) used to place my remaining coins at the bottom of the screen as a way of say "I still have 4 coins left so gtfo"

>> No.5557475

>>5549238
There was this skinny tall guy with a ponytail who would always interrupt me and my friend playing MVC at FYE and would put the quarter in the bezel, I forgot what the circumstances were, but my friend seriously got in a shouting match with the guy and was ready to kick his ass but nothing happened.

>> No.5557932

>>5557465
All that meant to bystanders was "where tf are the guys waiting to play? Eh whatever."