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why so many arcade threads recently?
do you guys have retro arcades in your areas? I don't.

>> No.6153876

Because arcades are the superior gaming platform. It's as simple as that.

>> No.6153879

>>6153876
i can't fit a fucken arcade in my apartment though

>> No.6153929

I had one for about half a year then it went out of business.

>> No.6154035

Usually play on MAME, but I have a barcade and a Round 1 in my city.

>> No.6154095

>>6153879
You're not trying hard enough.

>> No.6154102

>>6153854
I think that Netflix anime, High Score Girl might have something to do with it.

>> No.6154106

How old are the Americans here that had experience with actual arcades? I'm 35 and I saw plenty of cabs in bowling alleys and movie theaters when I was younger but I've never been to a dedicated arcade.

>> No.6154116

>>6154106
The dedicated arcades were often in malls. That's where all the ones I went to were at. I also went to a Chuck E Cheeze when I was 6. Technically not a dedicated arcade, but it had a shitload of machines.

>> No.6154119

>>6154106
34. There's a guy who owns a smoke shop at a local flea market that also opened an arcade as a passion thing, and he's kept it open since I was like 4 years old. It's still there today.

>> No.6154129

>>6154106
I'm 34, and the first time I saw an arcade was back in 2000, way after their heyday. It was one of those machines that they just swapped the cartridges out of (MVS?).
Like people said above, most of the dedicated arcades were in malls, where they could put a lot of machines in the same space.

>> No.6155580

>>6153879
Of course you can't. Arcades are large venues filled with multiple machines. Literally impossible to fit into a shoe box without timelord technology.

>> No.6155690

>>6154106
I'm 31. Dedicated arcades were everywhere here in California. The last one in our city closed just a few years ago actually.

>> No.6155706

>>6154106
I'm 32, I think, and I had quite a bit of experience with arcades as a kid.
>Pocket Change, a local mall arcade that shut down in like 94
>Puttputt, a minigolf place with a large arcade that was within walking distance (I spent high school playing DDR there)
>parents went to Vegas every summer, so I spent a lot of time in those (Circus Circus still has some shit that I remember being there since I was tiny)
>random laser tag places we'd stop at while traveling
>various other Casino arcades we'd stop at, like in Arizona
I was too young to have ever been in a real "80s-style" arcade, though. I do very vividly remember other kids gathering around the Konami beat-em-ups and Mortal Kombat in the Casino arcades, though.

>> No.6155712

Emulation.

>> No.6155723

>>6153854
there is one only where i live and it probably wont survive every other place that tried has shut down

>> No.6155742

>>6153854
I plan to get an arcade started sometime. I have a few or 10 machines currently. Yes, I have arcades in my area, but I can make a better one.

Actually, I have a funny story about an arcade from my local hometown. There was a pizza shop opening up and an "arcade" linked to it. It was a dingy shit arcade with one pinball machine, non working of course, a bunch of shitty sport games, a multicade (imagine that) and a converted Track & Field, now a Street Fighter II. Machines went down left and right, and I offered to help repair them. He never contacted me. The place went under two whole fucking months after it had opened.

>>6154035
>>6155712
After a few roms, Mame can't emulate shit. Tora Tora doesn't even fucking play.

>> No.6156001

>>6154106
I'm 51. I've been to many "actual arcades" but it was totally unnecessary until the late 80's when there stopped being tons of cabs literally everywhere. Unfortunately by then they were infested with and catered almost exclusively to fightfag cancer. Moved to Japan in 90 and been laughing ever since.

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>>6154106
Not American (thank god) but arcades where popular until the mid 2000s when the internet and modded PS2 became more and more popular, i had three arcades near home and they all where great, i remember having tourney with pool money or simple betting with each other, i remember when KoF98 came out and every body went nuts over it.

>> No.6156149

>>6154102
You think right. I also think thats why the sudden interest in PC Engine games.

>> No.6156171

>>6154106

28. Our city had a pretty great arcade that existed from the 80's until 2009 or so. I spent as much time there as I could, allowance money permitting, between 2004-6 or so. The tail end of arcades was great. Lots of good memories playing DDR, Initial D, OutRun 2, Wangan Midnight, etc. I think once the buzz around DDR/Initial D waned that was kind of it for the place. The last couple years it went through the terminal death spiral so many arcades did of revamping as a "family entertainment center" type place with shittons of ticket games and etc, it's sad to even think about. At it's peak it had a lot of really dope cabs. Scud Race, Rad Mobile, Sega Rally '95 DX, Tokyo Wars DX, a projection cab with an MVS in it that had Windjammers, etc.

Besides that place I remember arcades being around pretty regularly in my early childhood. We have a place that opened up in the last couple years in town after being without one for years, but it's really gay and pretty much caters exclusively to boomers. I can appreciate the historic value of having original Asteroids, Centipede, Marble Madness etc cabinets but I'm not going there on a regular basis for that shit.

>> No.6156174

>>6156132
soul

>> No.6156257

>>6156132
this picture radiates its own aura

>> No.6156358

the few existing arcades here are all skeeball/ticket gambling garbage now

>> No.6156371

Those low the the ground machines look so ridiculously uncomfortable.

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6156375

This place is pretty popular. Pinball, arcade games, live bands every weekend.

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6156442

We do have the greatest arcade experience just south of Spain, Arcadeplanet

Just a glimpse

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A few more...

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>> No.6157310

>>6156375
>arcade games
unless they have new machines, it's sort of sad. SMW, Excitebike, Splatterhouse, Double Dragon, Raiden, Street Fighter, and two others?

>> No.6157649

>>6153854
Do you have that image without the watermark?

>> No.6157809

>>6156442

Holy shit. Looks amazing, never seen an F-Zero AX in real life. I was in Seville this past spring, I would have never thought to check if there was an arcade in that area, damn it.