/vr/ - Retro Games

[Anonymous No.6109417]

>arcade gamers be like "let me just spend $50 just to beat one game once"

[Anonymous No.6109419]

>>6109417
so what you're saying is they saved ten dollars

[Anonymous No.6109427]

>>6109419
Spending any money on games is never saving

[Anonymous No.6109430]

>>6109417
>zoomers be like "i need 5,000 credits to beat a game"

[Anonymous No.6109441]

>>6109430
sad about all those lost quarters? Loser

[Anonymous No.6109498]

>>6109417
so... you just got raped by cpu in every game or what?

[Anonymous No.6109575]

You mean getting to a point when you can 1cc a game comfortably? That's dozens of hours of playing, pretty good considering cucksole games cost more than that and you could 1cc most in a few hours.

[Anonymous No.6109580]

>>6109417
Or just use mame and spend no money to beat it as many times as I want brosephus.

[Anonymous No.6109602]

>>6109575
I beat up nerds like you back in the day
>>6109580
based

[Anonymous No.6109620]

>>6109441
>zoomers be like "i can't into math"

[Anonymous No.6109625]

maybe $20-$30
In other words, 1/10 of the cost of buying the game
>Neo Geo cart.jpg

[Anonymous No.6109629]

>>6109602
Calm down manlet

[Anonymous No.6109637]

I average $2.50 on metal slug games B^)
Get good enough to single credit clear and you don't gotta pay shit.

[Anonymous No.6109641]

>>6109625
$20-30 to beat it once doesn't seem like a very good deal unless the game is terrible and not worth replaying.

>>6109637
How much did you spend to get enough practice for a 1cc, though? Be honest.

[Anonymous No.6109648]

>>6109641
>How much did you spend to get enough practice for a 1cc, though? Be honest.
I think the experience is transitive. There are a lot of games of that type that I could play through other means with infinite attempts at no recurring cost. We had a multi-arcade cabinet at my job (an after school program). I got paid to beat kids at video games.

[Anonymous No.6109660]

>>6109427
>>6109417
But if you’re good, you only have to spend money for 1 coin. You’re not a shitter, are you?

[Anonymous No.6109663]

>>6109641
>How much did you spend to get enough practice for a 1cc, though? Be honest.
Not him, I kept track when playing Cadillacs & Dinosaurs and it was like 18 bucks for my first 1cc using Mess. Each game is vastly different though, you can 1cc some like Batsugun Special on a single quarter. Metal Slug 1 would probably be like a couple or a few bucks. But once you get to harder stuff like Final Fight, Metal Slug 3, Battle Garegga and others it can cost you a lot especially if you don't have a lot of fundamental skill built up from playing other games in the genre. Not even talking about things like Cave 2-ALL's.

[Anonymous No.6109669]

>>6109648
>>6109663
I can understand that, I've always been good at FPS, and even in wildly differing games, much of that skill always transfers over.

Platformers have never been my jam, I just don't have that skill-set ingrained in me.

[Anonymous No.6109681]

>>6109417
$50?

Yeah only is you suck maybe. Most of the arcade games I beat I did with around $10 to $18 and I am not even good at games I’m just average. The only way an arcade game is gonna zap $50 out of you is if it’s a really hard shoot em up.

The thing to look out for with arcade games is the 3rd level. Level 3 are always the token takers.

[Anonymous No.6109684]

>>6109417
Collectors spend more than that just so they can post about it online and then put it on the shelf

[Anonymous No.6109690]

>>6109669
Yeah. People often say that all shmups, fighting games, beat em ups etc. are "all the same" as a criticism but it works well in practice since that shared base means there's a lot of transferable skills involved. There's a real and very satisfying sense of improvement, especially in the beginning before the diminishing returns start kicking in.

[Anonymous No.6109735]

>>6109417
If you play games more than once that's just sad. Get a life besides retro gaming.

[Father Electronics Couture No.6109758]

>>6109602
>I beat up nerds like you back in the day
I date raped cute jocks like you back in the day.

[Anonymous No.6110057]

>>6109758
um wouldn't that have made you retroactively gay then?

[Anonymous No.6110072]

>uses 20 or so continues
>mom look I beat the game

[Anonymous No.6110073]

>>6110057
Only if the balls retroactively touched

[Anonymous No.6110110]

>>6110073
so babbages, when did your decent into trannydom begin and at what point did you go back to wanting to be a man?

[Anonymous No.6110117]

>>6109417
>Ineptitude - the thread
I've never had to spend more than $10 to beat any arcade game, other than when it came to some expensive deluxe unit. You're just hilariously shit at games.

[Anonymous No.6110118]

>>6109660
>be good without failing

I know why this troll works so well on 4chan and it's because you're all so afraid to try anything new.

[Anonymous No.6110215]

>>6109417

Zoomers be like

[Anonymous No.6110221]

Who complete games more than once?

[Anonymous No.6110524]

>>6109417
>he can't 1cc arcade games blind on his first attempt
lol, n00b

[Anonymous No.6110538]

>>6109417
house gamers be like "I don't need to go outside I'm going to play the same game 100 times"

[Anonymous No.6110548]

>>6109417
zoomers will never understand the social aspect of playing games with friends next to them

[Anonymous No.6110575]

>>6109417
Enable Free Play. Problem solved bruh.

[Anonymous No.6110597]

>>6110118
t. shitter

[Anonymous No.6110602]

>>6109417
>arcade gamers
Arcades aren't a thing anymore, and arcade game enthusiast now have Mame to practice with.Shit thread.

[Anonymous No.6110604]

This is a bad thread.

[Anonymous No.6110836]

>>6110221
>Not replaying good games

[Anonymous No.6111014]

>>6110836
>good games
Name literally one.

[Anonymous No.6111056]

>>6110836
Do you reread good books?...

[Anonymous No.6111072]

>>6110524
Not op but me and my brother actually beat jurrassic park 3 each on our first credit first time playing. Our shooting was on point we were both using ultra instincts he would nail the shit out of the boss while I took out compys and shit like that. It was actually pretty crazy too bad nobody was around to watch us put on that absolute clinic.

[Anonymous No.6111081]

>>6109417
I remember watching a dude play SW Trilogy Arcade and he made it to the end, he was in the Death Star II's core. Right during the final area he got a continue, and he put his quarters into the machine to finish. However the game immediately ended, because in moving down to put the quarters in, he accidentally nudged the control stick from "Continue? Yes" to "No". He wasn't even mad, just dumbfounded that it happened. Anyway he walked away and let me play his credit :)

[Anonymous No.6111109]

>>6111056
Yes, of course. Usually years after I originally read them though because you need a change in perspective to get extra depth out of a story, which happens as you get older. With games the depth comes from you getting more skilled and experienced as a player, it's almost immediate and very rewarding because good games are based around mechanics and skill.

[Anonymous No.6111208]

>>6109417
if you dont 1cc a game you didnt beat it

[Anonymous No.6111249]

zoomers are the niggers of people

[Anonymous No.6111402]

>>6110221
Everyone except ESL weebs

[Anonymous No.6111423]

>>6111056
Yes

[Anonymous No.6111556]

>>6109417
>Be an emulator kid
>Still get obsessed with 1ccs
Consoles have pretty good games too

[Anonymous No.6111639]

>>6111556
Arcades had the better action games and computers had the better RPGs.

Consoles were worthless trash, my dear butthurt consolepleb who is probably also a nintendofag.

[Anonymous No.6111808]

>>6111556
1ccs as an entry point into arcade gaming is even more important on emulators because emulators have no natural incentive to improve since there is no money on the line. It helps the feeble console brain comprehend the fun of arcade games.