/vr/ - Retro Games

[Anonymous No.8618542]

You can go to barcades and LARP for a while, but true arcade culture will never come back.

[Anonymous No.8618552]

>>8618542
It's sad sometimes how much society has changed completely, especially after the internet. Arcade culture was just one of many things destined to be a fleeting moment in history.

[Anonymous No.8618560]

>>8618542
Stay home and be miserable.

[Anonymous No.8618572]

I wish I was around for their heyday, but I grew up in the early 2000s. I mostly got to play on machines at the movie theater and the pizza place but it was a blast every time. There were also some cabinets at a local Christian rec center and eventually a "family fun center" opened up in town that had a decent arcade in the back opened up, both of which sourced their cabinets from the dedicated arcade in town that closed its doors before I lived there. I've gotten to play Soul Calibur 2, Lucky & Wild, Strider, ESWAT, Galaga/Ms. Pac Man, Tekken 5 and Raiden Fighters Jet on cabinets, at least.

[Anonymous No.8618587]

You know idk OP
I could very much see the arcade in the future focusing on VR equipment

Stay tuned

[Anonymous No.8618682]

>>8618587
At least one of these already exists in NYC. Has a bunch of Oculus and PC setups with different games and attendants to help people with the equipment.

[Anonymous No.8618693]

Thank god for that. I dont have to waste all my money just to play 30 seconds over and over again until I finally "get gud" and beat a stage.

[Anonymous No.8618697]

>>8618693
>t. definitely born after the death of arcades

[Anonymous No.8618709]

>>8618693
You must suck at video games

[Anonymous No.8618749]

>>8618697
maybe not, if you really wanted to get the most out of a cabinet, it would cost you to see every stage whereas at home you can do a 5-10-15-Infinite credit run and practice all you like on mame.
that being said, i would still go to a real arcade for the experience and playing on a bespoke beautiful cabinet. the last real arcade around me closed sometime in 2009. they had the tekken machine where you could plug in your PS2 controller.
there are a few hipster barcades that have old machines still.

[Anonymous No.8618875]

>>8618542
Yep. I Lived through the 80s and 90s arcade scenes and got to enjoy every kickass minute of it. Enjoy your twitch and let’s play faggot YouTube shit zoomer dipshits.

[Anonymous No.8618906]

>>8618875
based post

[Anonymous No.8618929]

>>8618682
It makes sense, arcades offered specialized equipment for media

I can see VR equipment involving treadmills and all sorts of peripherals that are definitely never reaching mass market

[Anonymous No.8619003]

it died in the late 90s and now it's dead jim - shitty smartphones ruined gaming.

[Anonymous No.8619005]

meant to say it started dying in the late 90s
we'll always have mame now

[Anonymous No.8619063]

>>8619003
>smartphones ruined
Just about everything. A plague on society and it makes me consider that maybe Uncle Ted was on to something with his philosophy and books.

[Anonymous No.8619196]

>>8618906
Jannys didn’t think so lol. Zoomies got offended

[Anonymous No.8619458]

>>8618552
Look at the ammount of street fighter 2 in there, fuck.
That game was the death knell of true arcade culture. Previously, you could expect many different games, all unique. After street fighter 2 took off, as much as 40% of an arcade was just that one game over and over.
Some will argue that it 'saved' arcades with its popularity, but in truth it fucked them. It replaced actual arcade players with people who only played street fighter, and later other fighting games, who held other arcade games and the players thereof in contempt.

[Anonymous No.8619494]

>>8618542
It's alive and well in China. Similar situations in Vietnam, Malaysia, Thailand, and most of Asia.
On the world scale there are more people playing arcade games than any time before, I bet.

[Anonymous No.8619498]

>>8619458
That photo is from a Street Fighter tournament and several of the cabs were brought in specifically for that day. They also did not all have SF2 in them, some of them had Alpha 2 or Alpha 3 boards.

[Anonymous No.8619503]

>>8619458
1)That's 1 arcade out of tens of thousands. That's hardly representative of arcades as a whole
2) Arcade culture still thrived until the 6th gen, when consoles were as powerful as arcades and you could get an arcade perfect experience at home. Street Fighter had little to do with the death of arcades, it was the advancement in technology and Moore's Law working in tandem that did it.
3) If anything, fighting games and the FGC are the last relic of arcade culture. Yeah, now major tournaments are basically glorified promotional for vidya corporations and their new games (even though you could kinda argue that has always been the case, but it's more blatant now), but there are still local scenes across the US that preserved the arcade mentality of "gittin' gud by constant practice", practiving combos and the banter you'd hear in arcades. If anything, fighting games are a relic from the heyday of the arcades that managed to transition to consoles successfully and still preserve that culture in the communities that formed around them. Shit, this isn't even a US thing. This shit is true in Japan (where it is very much alive. Check out a-cho, 3RD STRIKE and TheShend on youtube), Latin America and anywhere else SNK, Sega (to some extent), Capcom and Namco left their marks

[Anonymous No.8619512]

>>8619503
IIRC that's Sunnyvale Golfland, which would become the ground zero for the B tournament series that eventually become EVO.

[Anonymous No.8619521]

Arcades are still going strong in poor and crowded countries. And they ain't exactly dead in Japan either.

Population density keeps going up in the big cities of the USA. Pretty soon half of the population is expected to reside in only 13 cities. That density will lead to a return of arcade culture.
Did you know London has about the same population density as Tokyo?

[Anonymous No.8619561]

>>8619494

Not really, they're mostly just places you go to wait for movies to play, almost all arcades are attached to movie theatets. Its 99% people playing Dota in PC gaming cafes

[Anonymous No.8619565]

Good. Fags with dickhands playing games, rubbing dickjuice all over the place, niggers with shithands doing the same. Disgusting places.

[Anonymous No.8619568]

>>8619458
I remember arcades that had 90% space invaders.

[Anonymous No.8619569]

>>8619561
China is a big place. Not saying your anecdotes are wrong anon but there are big communities and tournaments that go on all the time in China for classic arcade games.

[Anonymous No.8619573]

>>8619569
https://dreamcancel.com/2014/12/kof-97-douyu-cup-becomes-one-of-the-most-spectated-fighting-game-tournament-in-history-with-500000-peak-viewers/

[Anonymous No.8620363]

>>8619063

1st step after the west loses ww3: forbid all smartphones

2nd step forbid all shitsoles

3rd step mandatory reading for morons

re-open arcades, and then
profit

[Anonymous No.8620371]

I stopped in an arcade bar on a date last Saturday and accidentally revealed my power level by being autistically good at Tekken 3 while everyone else button mashed.
It was fun. Girl was impressed, I think.

[Anonymous No.8620397]

I think arcades can still work, even in less densely populated regions of the US. It just requires being near places with moderate traffic and creative ways to get people to both visit and come back again and again. It certainly isn't going to be an easy thing, but it's also not impossible either. At least, that is my opinion on the matter.

If you want them to return, exploit and focus on the fact that arcades are a social gaming space. Probably the only major impediment, currently, is the shitty state of the economy and many people being less willing to spend money. This even after a strong desire to get out and do things due to lockdowns.

[Anonymous No.8620408]

>>8618542
Sadly true. There simply aren't a lot of machines from that era left. And trying to simulate them is even more of a fool's errand than trying to simulate those TV games young whippersnappers like your parents grew up with.

[Anonymous No.8620410]

There's lot of great arcades if you live near major cities. Akihabara Arcade near Denver is awesome and has an Initial D machine.

[Anonymous No.8620410,1]

>>8619063
You are the type of person uncle ted wanted to kill most

[Anonymous No.8621167]

>>8618542
Thank god. They ate coins and smelled bad. Usually full of smoke. They were not especially social. Usually some autist got upset when you whipped him at Street Fighter, ate his character in Rampage, shot him in Wizard of Wor or whatever.
MAME has spared us from these disgraces. I like arcade cabinets but thinking these were nice places is misplaced nostalgia,

[Anonymous No.8621205]

>>8618542
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hRlrdl_YB6g

[Anonymous No.8621217]

>>8618542
Arcades are supposed to be filled with kids and teenagers anon, not 30 somethings.

[Anonymous No.8621230]

>>8618542
>using "LARP" correctly
well fuck me

[Anonymous No.8621237]

>>8620371
cool blog, how do I unsubscribe?

[Anonymous No.8621257]

>>8621237
You have to beat him in Tekken 3.

[Anonymous No.8621379]

>>8618542
Wouldn't it be possible to revive arcades by making games for hardware that's far more powerful than what's affordable for the majority of consumers right now and putting it in cabinets/machines in public places? I thought we'd see something similar with those streaming services where iirc the game was being run on some powerful computer somewhere while the display would be streamed to your screen and it would take your inputs remotely, but those services only seem to have the same games that you can already get for consoles and PC.

If those won't bring arcades back then maybe VR will if it gets to the point you need a lot of equipment to play a VR game and it takes up an entire room. Like if they need a huge treadmill to handle the character's movement, so you can walk by actually walking instead of having to use an analog stick.

[Anonymous No.8621405]

>>8621379
Making games for hardware that's too expensive is not a good business model. As soon as better hardware comes out then your new arcade is not good anymore. They died out mainly because home hardware got good in the first place. This is not practical

[Anonymous No.8621505]

>>8621257
Will the girl be impressed if I do?

[Anonymous No.8621514]

>>8618542
>nigger culture

[Anonymous No.8621983]

>>8619503
>2) Arcade culture still thrived until the 6th gen
I wouldn't say it "thrived," so much as "lingered." It was there, but not growing and not very relevant past 4th gen. It was the 4th gen, 16-bit consoles that really sealed doom for arcades, but there was a lot of inertia and decay was gradual.

[Anonymous No.8621993]

>>8621379
VR isn't really arcades anyway. That's similar to OP's point.

Otherwise, yeah, arcades are more-or-less only good for games that aren't convenient to play at home for whatever reason. If you go to a modern arcade you'll find a lot of driving games, shooting games, maybe dance/rhythm games-- games with big pieces of hardware that take up a lot of space and nobody normal wants in their home. A glorified carnival, really.

[Anonymous No.8622000]

>>8618682
>attendants
Shows the problem and lack of equivalency. Even with equipment familiarity it is a pain initializing a VR session.

[Anonymous No.8622139]

>>8619503
>heck out a-cho, 3RD STRIKE and TheShend on youtube
I got to visit a-cho in Kyoto when I visited. Sadly it was only for an hour and I didn't play any fighting games while I was there, but they had a nice selection. Played some Initial D and a cool Gundam game.

[Anonymous No.8622180]

It's not coming back because (especially in richer countries) there is no reason for it to.
Consoles nowadays are more powerful than arcade machines are, and are very common.
We have online play for almost all multiplayer games, so I don't need to go to the arcade to find someone to play with.
Not only that, but unlike the 80's, the majority of games have more than 30 minutes of unique content, which gives it more longevity than most arcade games, at lower price (and this is coming from someone who has spent more than $150 at Round1 on Wangan Midnight alone).
Nowadays, the only arcade games that make sense are the racing ones, the shooting ones, and rhythm games, just because most people aren't willing to spend money on the peripherals. Why should I go to the arcade and play Tekken or Virtua fighter 5 for 50¢-1$ per loss when I could just buy the game? Just so I could play against the same couple of people in the arcade instead of with them as well as everybody else online?
The in person interaction and community aspect is worth something, but it sure as hell isn't worth driving down to the arcade and playing a perpetual fee when I could pay just once in my home.
Even the driving games suck nowadays. Only things good left (that I know of) is Wangan and Initial D, and I don't think there have been updated there for a few years. Everything else is the same Raw Thrills garbage where the brakes are optional.
Only thing really worthwhile left in arcades is rhythm games like the bemani stuff, and that's only because buying all the controllers would be obscene to all but the biggest autists.
Don't get me wrong, I like arcades, and the community aspect is nice, but I can tell you right now (especially if you can't find arcade dumps), the biggest reason to go to them is because a few games are held hostage there.

[Anonymous No.8622259]

>>8619498
Incorrect. When the SF2 boom was peaking in the mid 90s, entire arcades converted the majority of their cabinets to SF2. this is a great example of that. Alpha 2 and 3 didn't exist until years after when this photo was taken - notice that there's a crowd around MK1 for fucks sake. In 99 when A2 and A3 were new, MK1 wouldn't be in an Arcade like this, it would be 3 or Ultimate. Nice try though.
>t. geriatric millennial who actually lived through the 90s Arcade boom

[Anonymous No.8622281]

>>8621379
No. You might be able to create mini amusement parks based on video games that rely on large expensive systems that wouldn't be viable for home use. But that would be something different. A memeling might consider much of this "VR". An R360 is basically just a bog standard game in a chassis that simulates some motion aspects of reality.

[Anonymous No.8622406]

>>8622259
The exact scenario that post described happened not more than four years later. You're being overly contrarian. Pulling the condescending "I was there" card on /vr/ is also in poor taste. Lots of us were "there".

[Anonymous No.8622432]

Of course you want American arcade culture so no namco, taito, weird data east shit, snk.
Only Bailey Midway ripoff scams as far as the eye can see

[Anonymous No.8622646]

>>8622000
Most VR arcades are effectively bitcoin mining fronts so unloke arcades, they don't actually need customers to stay afloat

[Anonymous No.8622715]

>>8622406
It's very amusing to see you resort to ad hominem attacks and goal post relocation after you were very clearly shown to be wrong. That photo isn't what you claimed it was. If you were there during that era, you'd know this. Simple as.

[Anonymous No.8622859]

>>8618552
It was consoles and computer games that killed that, not the internet. There's no point going to the mall and dropping coins into a box that plays Tekken when you can just play Tekken at home.

[Anonymous No.8622882]

Apparently people don't want to pay a dollar to play a good game for a little while. They want to play a bad game, and pay a dollar to have to not play it so often.

[Anonymous No.8623087]

>>8622882
They want to play a bad game and spend thousands of dollars on skins and progression systems

[Anonymous No.8623104]

>>8621405
>Making games for hardware that's too expensive is not a good business model. As soon as better hardware comes out then your new arcade is not good anymore
That's literally how arcade in the 80s and 90s operated though. The hardware wasn't cheap and there was always a new piece of hardware around the corner.

[Anonymous No.8623109]

>>8619458
>Some will argue that it 'saved' arcades with its popularity, but in truth it fucked them. It replaced actual arcade players with people who only played street fighter, and later other fighting games, who held other arcade games and the players thereof in contempt.
This is dumb. Games like DDR, house of the dead, and a bunch of non fighting arcade games thrived.

There were a fuckton of updates of SF2 solely to get the arcade op to buy the new game every year.

[Anonymous No.8623117]

Am I wrong to think some cheap Wii Style games could thrive in arcades today, now that consoles ditched the motion controls?

[Anonymous No.8623171]

>tfw you will never spend a free afternoon buying the latest 2006 anime and PS2 games then spend the night with your friends in the arcade, having sex with your high school gf and then taking the midnight train back home

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ZBabJAenIU

[Anonymous No.8623383]

>>8618552
thanks to the net we've gone from arcades with mortal kombat to endless cam girls mortal cumflaps.

[Anonymous No.8623771]

>>8623171
>mfw i read this

[Anonymous No.8623781]

>>8623171
the eternal consoomer

[Anonymous No.8623875]

Is arcade culture still alive in Japan? Even if I never get the opportunity to go there and experience it myself it's nice to know that it hasn't died out completely.

[Anonymous No.8623919]

>>8622715
>If you were there during that era, you'd know this. Simple as.
I ain't trusting a Brit's opinion on Southern California in the 90s.

[Anonymous No.8623930]

>>8623171
Why would you buy new games and anime and then go to the arcade? You've got brand new games to play at home.

[Anonymous No.8623981]

>>8623919
No idea how you came to the conclusion that I'm a bong

[Anonymous No.8624356]

>>8622859
>It was consoles and computer games that killed that, not the internet. There's no point going to the mall and dropping coins into a box that plays Tekken when you can just play Tekken at home.
Yeah, the reference to the internet was mostly about how it's changed our culture more broadly. Like the decline of shopping malls is also linked to the internet. There's a relationship between this and the decline of arcades, but as you point out, there's other factors that contributed to their death.

[Anonymous No.8624389]

>>8623981
Not him but the 'simple as' statement comes from a bong meme.

[Anonymous No.8624397]

i have nothing to relive, i'm just there to have a beer and enjoy some motherfucking addams family pinball

[Anonymous No.8624425]

>>8619494
This.

It's mostly an western problem. Be it USA, Canada or UK. One rather sit at home than go out

[Anonymous No.8624462]

I wonder how it would go over if I bought a shipping container full of Chinese vewlix clones and set them up in commercial space in mid-sized city in the USA.
I'm wondering if I put a sign out on the roadside that advertised ARCADE and people walk in and see rows of sit-down cabs with LCDs if they would balk and walk away. Or if it would attract weebs and competitive gamers.

[Anonymous No.8624465]

>>8624462
All the Weebs looking forward to Undernight InBirth, Dungeon and Fighter Duel and Granblue Versus. OH WAIT none of them had arcade releases.

[Anonymous No.8624473]

>>8624462
You would lose money. Waste of time and effort. Open a barcade or just forget about it. And even then, you really have to market it the right way and make the Arcade a bonus, not the main attraction. Joystick games don't make money. You need racing games, shooters, music games, deluxe cabinets.
Catering to competitive players will always lose you money.

[Anonymous No.8624479]

>>8624389
"Simple as" is used frequently on this site, it doesn't make everyone who uses it a bong

[Anonymous No.8624526]

>>8624473
There is a guy who has a long box truck full of candy cabinets that he takes around to conventions and tournaments. I think he's got the right idea.

[Anonymous No.8624538]

>>8624526
Fucking hell you've so hanged out with weirdos for so long you forgot no zoomie is interested in this autistic competitive crap.

[Anonymous No.8624571]

I went to a barcade and everyone legitimately had autism

[Anonymous No.8624705]

>>8621379
Stadia wasn't viable because it relied on an internet connection for you to make your input to the game (and yes, I'm using past tense because I consider it dead, not that it wasn't stillborn), so it doesn't matter if you have the most thundering, powerful internet connection in the world, with a router which emits Cherenkov radiation, you're not going to be able to sync up and not have perceptible input lag when the machine running the game is across the continent.

Now, having a big and powerful machine on location, and then having some specialized hardware with fancy displays, like more advanced virtual reality, or various racing cabinets with rideable vehicles and shootable lightgun sorta things, I think that has some genuine potential. Those are things which aren't common in homes.

[Anonymous No.8624836]

>>8623771
>>8623781
have sex

[Anonymous No.8624840]

>Local barcade permanently closed down due to covid

I really hope those cabinets go to loving homes. It was the only thing around here that was even an arcade.

Guess It's back to just MAME for me.

[Anonymous No.8625281]

>>8621379
>Wouldn't it be possible to revive arcades by making games for hardware that's far more powerful than what's affordable for the majority of consumers right now and putting it in cabinets/machines in public places?
No, because of diminishing returns on what you get, gameplay-wise, for more powerful hardware, coupled with limitations on the game genres viable in an arcade setting in the first place. Most of the time, you can't make an arcade game sufficiently better than a home console version to be worth the hardware cost (barring gimmicks).

>>8623104
In the 80s, arcades were effectively a generation ahead of home consoles in terms of what you could play. 8-bit (and earlier) home console games were almost always pale imitations of the arcade version. There weren't nearly as many home-only games in home-only genres competing with arcades. Having more powerful hardware was a huge deal then.

Here's Rastan (1987) on C64:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T-LkrJpC4Mc
vs Arcade:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Binxdx_Qzb4

The Arcade version looks and plays like a 4th generation console game.

For reference, here's Mario Kart GP DX:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YeeEulU_pGw
vs Mario Kart 8:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vEwfjxPkAdQ

[Anonymous No.8625327]

>>8624538
Well that guy runs a successful business doing this.
Of course, there's only room for so many people in that sector.

[Anonymous No.8625331]

>>8624538
>no zoomie is interested in this autistic competitive crap
Because the only group that matters are zoomers, right?
What is with this mentality that shows up over and over on 4chan, particularly on this board? That zoomers solely determine popular culture.

[Anonymous No.8625335]

>>8619494
>Similar situations in Vietnam, Malaysia, Thailand, and most of Asia.
Oh my? Arcade is alive and well.

[Anonymous No.8625403]

>>8625331
Goddamn this is painful to say. No one under 35 gives a fuck about arcades. You're completely out of touch now go ahead and report this post.

[Anonymous No.8625423]

>>8618929
I went to a VR arcade in Germany. Instead of treadmills every player had his own large space, I would say 5m x 5m.
It made me realize I don't want VR at home because I don't have that kind of space. If any anon here lives in Frankfurt I recommend trying it.

[Anonymous No.8625561]

>>8625403
>No one under 35 gives a fuck about arcades.
Millennials and Gen-X'ers who loved arcades no less than ten years ago just randomly stopped liking them? Sure buddy.

[Anonymous No.8625636]

>>8625281
Couldn't have said it better.

By the way, Rastan, in spite of looking kind of plain in its gameplay and even some of its visuals, looks somewhat satisfying with it's barbarian swinging his sword around. I get a feeling of urgent action as he leaps down into a pit full of monstrous uglies, then slashing around him frantically as they advance on him.

[Anonymous No.8625670]

Arcades died because the arcade giants stopped caring
You can't just put a piracy machine on a restaurant or a mall or a market
If they were still around people would play them
Maybe indie games for arcade with cheap PC's inside is the way to go

[Anonymous No.8625913]

>>8624526
Those aren't all his cabs and his real business is import/export. Hauling cabs to shows is only viable for him because he's basically a one-man operation, the import/export pays the bills, he owns his own truck, and lives in a LCOL area.
Please don't think that you can replicate this model. You can't. There isn't enough demand and he and his small circle of friends have already cornered the market for this.

[Anonymous No.8625928]

>>8619494
The largest used market for arcade equipment is China. Makes sense because they're closer to Japan and more likely to buy their old machines from closing arcades.

[Anonymous No.8625980]

>>8625928
I guess occasionally, the Chinese do something right.

[Anonymous No.8626052]

>>8619503
>If anything, fighting games and the FGC are the last relic of arcade culture.
I was going to say the same. I get at least some arcade feeling when I go to my locals, just going to a location with lots of games with like-minded nerds.
You don't spend money on each game, but you can go from one setup to another playing Street Fighter, KoF, Virtua Fighter, Tekken, whatever through the day and play different people and chat etc.
The big tournaments have become kind of corporate as you said, but the smaller 'majors' and local monthly tournaments are still super grass-roots.
Sometimes you still get stuff like Windjammers, puzzle games etc so you get a little more of that variation that made arcades special too.

[Anonymous No.8626350]

>>8625928
More like Chinese will buy junk from Japan for pennies on the dollar and Japan is happy to get rid of it, there is a reason you see Chinese sellers on ebay with piles of new old stock motherboards

[Anonymous No.8626849]

>>8625561
>Millennials and Gen-X'ers who loved arcades no less than ten years ago just randomly stopped liking them?
yes, they did, just like even late gen Z openly admits they don't care about video games enough to prioritize them over binging netflix now that they work full-time jobs

[Anonymous No.8626856]

I only pretend to care about arcade culture, all I want is play MAME and use save states tbQh.
>no, you cheat!
Nah, I just use save states to practice on shmups, it's not cheating, right?

[Anonymous No.8626863]

>>8623875
it was until covid.

[Anonymous No.8626926]

>>8625561
millenials and gen xers are over 30 now bro.

[Anonymous No.8626932]

>>8623875
Sega just closed two of their biggest arcades. It's a dying industry.

[Anonymous No.8626987]

the key to making an arcade successful is to build community around it. my metro area has a chain of arcades that follow an unlimited play model that are pretty successful because they put a lot of effort into holding events. pinball tournaments, fighting tournaments, killer queen league, DJ nights, halloween parties, new years parties, etc.

[Anonymous No.8627030]

>>8626926
Genx are 40+

[Anonymous No.8627040]

>>8626052
>KoF, Virtua Fighter
The most dead of communities. Everyone only pretends to care about fighting game tournaments, everyone knows it's for autistic losers that should touch grass.

[Anonymous No.8627067]

>>8618542
Anyone ever been to Galloping Ghost? I grew up in the 80s/90s and it's as close as I've gotten to arcade culture. If you're around Chicago, check it out.

[Anonymous No.8627068]

>>8618542
>but true arcade culture will never come back.
Except that I live in Chicago, where it never died and within a few minutes' driving distance from what is arguably the largest arcade in the world. So no, I don't know this feel.

[Anonymous No.8627071]

>>8627067
>>8627068
The fucking hivemind at work.

[Anonymous No.8627927]

>>8627040
>everyone knows it's for autistic losers that should touch grass.
Where do you think you are?

[Anonymous No.8629347]

>>8626987
Where in Texas can I find any good arcade spots? I've been thinking about going to UT Austin for grad school and I want to know if there are any other places where I can find good arcades.

[Anonymous No.8630962]

>>8629347
Dallas/Ft Worth has Free Play(4 locations), Cidercade, Arcade92, Electric Starship, Quarter Lounge

[Anonymous No.8631935]

>>8630962
Cool. I got family I can hang out with in Dallas, so it seems like something I can do every other weekend or so.

[Anonymous No.8632110]

>>8618542
what happened to her eye

[Anonymous No.8632121]

True arcade culture was drugs, fights, and lurking pedophiles. I was banned from going to the arcade as a kid and I got in serious trouble whenever I got caught breaking that restriction.
I don't know what it was like in the 80's but the dying gasp of arcades post Street Fighter II, I was around for that. They were shitholes.

[Anonymous No.8632126]

>>8619521
>And they ain't exactly dead in Japan either.
They're over the hill. Sega cashing out? It's over. Just a matter of time before they're relegated to a few vestigial machines in shopping centers or their malls.

[Anonymous No.8632145]

>>8618542
arcades are for kids anyways, you'd just be a creepy old man loitering around one

[Anonymous No.8633207]

>>8632145
Except kids these days haven't even been to arcades and it's mostly people who are at least in their early 20s inhabiting them. Get it touch with reality mate. It's not the fucking 90's anymore and retarded takes like that can be easily countered with common sense.

[Anonymous No.8633315]

>>8618542
Went to an actual arcade recently without the barcade shit and had a pretty good time. Only problem was that a majority of the cabinets were from the 80s to early 90s so it was kind of this nostalgia thing. Would've liked some Japanese cabinets and Y2K stuff but any arcade that's half way decent is a treasure.
Whenever I go into malls now the arcades are just shitty prize games and a malfunctioning racer or some shit. Sad.

[Anonymous No.8633334]

>>8619494
You need arcade game developers for arcades to truly be alive

[Anonymous No.8633360]

>>8633334
There are still new arcade games coming out every year.

[Anonymous No.8633362]

>>8632145
>arcades are for kids anyways
Just not true.

[Anonymous No.8633395]

>>8633360
Nobody (especially arcade owners/operators) cares about games they care about phenomenons which hasn't happened in almost a decade and is extremely unlikely to happen again

[Anonymous No.8633576]

>>8620371
Women are never impressed by the ability of a man in a video game. Only by their height, bank account, melanin count, and dick lengtg.

[Anonymous No.8633578]

>>8633576
seek help

[Anonymous No.8633579]

>>8618542
The culture exists everywhere you find a cabinet; whether it be in some run-down grease pit eatery, or within the confines of one's home.

[Anonymous No.8633593]

>>8633395
You are under-informed about this subject. Read more about modern arcades around the world.

[Anonymous No.8633602]

>>8633395
>extremely unlikely to happen again

[Anonymous No.8633847]

>>8633576
>Women are never impressed by the ability of a man in a video game.
For the most part, true. Unless you are going on a date with a girl who likes to play video games or a nerdy chick, most women honestly don't care. Which is why I shift my attention to tomboys and nerdy women when looking for a date: I'd rather date someone that at least has a common interest to me (I have many like math, science, art and technology but vidya is the most accessible to most people) so that I can learn a lot about her and have something that we can talk about that will lead up to things that will help me to get to know her.

>Only by their height, bank account, melanin count, and dick lengtg.
Idk, not all women are like that, or even most women. That's just flat out whores that think like that. Sure I find most women boring as fuck but they aren't all scheming and avaricious. They just have different interests and that's fine.

[Anonymous No.8633858]

As long as I can still buy arcade sticks for home use I'll make do

[Anonymous No.8633896]

>>8632121
My parents were clueless Russian immigrants so they didn’t know what an arcade was, aside from “it has those western television games”. But my sister always felt deeply uncomfortable taking me to the arcade in the early 1990s (she was about 14-16 at the time). She later told me that she was constantly being groped and kept having greasy, ponytail-toting losers asking if she wanted a quickie in the bathroom. She would often be the only girl in the whole place. I, of course, was oblivious to all this. After I got old enough, I began to realize what a shithole my local arcades were because I no longer had my sister rushing me out when something bad was about to happen.

A lot of people in this thread keep saying shit like “oh accursed Internet and smartphones killed arcades”. But there is a chart out there that very clearly shows arcade revenue stagnating with the 4th Gen and then collapsing around the release of the 5th generation of consoles. This largely mirrors my own experience; I stopped going regularly after getting a SNES in 1994, and I stopped going altogether after getting a PlayStation in 1997. Why did everyone stop going? Because playing in the comfort of your home is so vastly superior to the dingy, foul-smelling shitholes that most arcades were. You didn’t have to deal with the pedos or the aggressive losers who did nothing with their lives other than practice at the Arcade. And you also only paid a one-time access fee by buying the console and the cartridge, no need for quarters bullshit.

[Anonymous No.8634498]

>>8633896
Based story anon

[Anonymous No.8634556]

>>8633896
But thats the charm of them.

[Anonymous No.8634805]

>>8632121
>True arcade culture was drugs, fights, and lurking pedophiles.
>I don't know what it was like in the 80's
Then you don't know half of true arcade culture.
Or Japanese arcade culture

[Anonymous No.8635147]

>>8634805
Japs videogames were tied with pachinko, yakuza and prostitution. Nintendo actually fought teeth and nail to steer their image away from it as a family entertainment company.

[Anonymous No.8635152]

>>8634805
Japs videogames were tied with pachinko, yakuza and prostitution. Nintendo actually fought teeth and nail to steer their image away from it as a family entertainment company.
Read pic related if you have the time it might help change your opinion.

[Anonymous No.8635191]

>>8635152
Western games are tied with trannies and communism, so it's a draw.

[Anonymous No.8635249]

>>8634805
>80's
It's funny because my mom shit me out at 19. If you do the 'I was around for the mid 90's arcade scene' math you'd see my mom was around for the 80's arcade boom years.
So you're not feeding me any new lectures here. I've been hearing "arcades were different back in my day" speech my entire life, just in the context of 'and that's why, little Anon, you're not allowed to ever go to the arcade'.
But that's acrade's true nature. At least in the states. It's just a matter of time. Arcades were seedy dives much longer than they were some 80's technoutopian vision of the future. It's why they're gone. People focus too much on home consoles trying to explain their demise away via technology. It was really culture that killed them.

[Anonymous No.8635410]

>>8635249
By the 2000s arcades were no longer seedy.
Maybe you just don't know as much about this as you think you do.

[Anonymous No.8635415]

>>8635410
this

[Anonymous No.8635426]

>>8635410
By the 00's arcades no longer existed.

[Anonymous No.8635480]

>>8635426
False.

[Anonymous No.8635516]

>>8618542
Oh no I can enjoy a beer and play pinball without having to deal with ni**ers trying to peddle drugs onto children woe is me.

[Anonymous No.8635529]

Wtf are you talking about
Arcade culture just evolved into LAN/Net cafe/Esport culture
Just like Rome evolved into USA

And I don't fuckin wanna hear about it you twats

[Anonymous No.8635575]

>>8621379
Stuff like Daytona used to cost over $10,000 so why not just get 4 of the best video cards and run them in parallel to get the same generational leap over current systems.
I think they had the chance to make VR arcade systems when no one had them but now they are more affordable there is no point anymore.

>>8618542
Playing a game and just knowing you can easily emulate it takes away from the specialness of the game but I will give them a try if I see one because it does take a certain amount of trouble to maintain one.

I think I remember when arcades were popular people would say I wish that home systems would have these graphics so I could just play these games at home instead.

First time I saw sega rally I had no idea that graphics could even look like that. I had heard of sega rally but assumed it was the same as that 2d isometric racing game called world rally.

>>8633896
I must have been pretty lucky, the older teenagers were pretty decent to me considering I was an annoying kid, got to see them do well in double dragon.

[Anonymous No.8635607]

>>8635426
Dave and Busters is an arcade. You may not like the concept but it is in fact an arcade, this is undeniable.

[Anonymous No.8635728]

>>8635480
False only in a pedantic sense.
>>8635607
D&B is a reaction to the exact stuff I'm talking about. There whole business model is being the Disneyland of arcades.

[Anonymous No.8635921]

>>8621505
No! She's mine alone! I refuse your challenge from hereon.

[Anonymous No.8636342]

>>8634556
>pedos are the charm
delusional

[Anonymous No.8636670]

>>8635249
So fucking tired of having my childhood narrated back to me, erroneously, by people who are decades too young to have even lived through it.

Were there really seedy arcades? Maybe. No, your overprivileged white suburbanite ass never went to any of them. Your overprivileged white suburbanite mom didn't go to any, either. And no, they weren't as "seedy" as you're insinuating. I'll possibly concede that there might have been an arcade or two in some inner-city ape-ridden ghetto that had some of the actual issues that hysterical clueless parents were shrieking about at the time, but the vast majority didn't. The Time-Out at your local shopping mall wasn't some street gang warzone, no Columbian cocaine dealers running cartels out of the back room, and no child rapists handing out free LSD-laced candy next to the pinball tables. Dungeons & Dragons didn't cause suicide cults or "covens" of devil-worshipping edgelords, slap bracelets didn't get banned because kids were using them to kill themselves, there was no poison or razor blades in Halloween candy, no one ever suffocated in the ball pit at Chuck E. Cheese, and Polybius never existed. But everyone seemed to believe all of these things were true, and were all too happy to spread them around to people who hadn't heard them yet.

>People focus too much on home consoles trying to explain their demise away via technology.
Which is correct.
>It was really culture that killed them.
What does this even mean? What "culture" do you think killed them?

[Anonymous No.8636852]

>>8625403
I'm trying to report you, but how should I flag your post? The jannies are telling that if I flag you wrongly, then I'll be banned!

[Anonymous No.8636859]

>>8636852
Not him, but you should probably read those report options again, carefully this time. You're currently breaking one of the ones the mods actually care about.

[Anonymous No.8636882]

>>8629347

Austin has Arcade UFO and Pinballz. Both great in their own way.

Was visiting someone near Austin a few months ago and I came across so many random arcades that I didn't have time to check them all out.

[Anonymous No.8636971]

>>8636670
>The Time-Out at your local shopping mall wasn't some street gang warzone, no Columbian cocaine dealers running cartels out of the back room, and no child rapists handing out free LSD-laced candy next to the pinball tables. Dungeons & Dragons didn't cause suicide cults or "covens" of devil-worshipping edgelords, slap bracelets didn't get banned because kids were using them to kill themselves, there was no poison or razor blades in Halloween candy, no one ever suffocated in the ball pit at Chuck E. Cheese, and Polybius never existed.
lol I remember all of those panics, except for Polybuis.
>>People focus too much on home consoles trying to explain their demise away via technology.
>Which is correct.
Exactly.

>>8635410
None of the arcades I ever went to were any more seedy than Dave & Busters.

>>8635410
>>8635415
>>8635480
>>8635728
>False only in a pedantic sense.
Correct. In the 80s, arcades WAS mainstream videogames. Arcades were still the cutting edge of the industry even though Nintendo and home consoles were making waves. Cabinets were everywhere. You had arcades more aimed at kids (birthday parties, etc) and arcades aimed more at teens and adults. You had cabinets in bars, bowling alleys, even in hotels and motels near the vending machines. The cabinets you might find there wouldn't be Big Buck Hunter, they'd be mainstream popular games like Pac-Man, Centipede, Joust, Space Invaders, Pole Position, Spy Hunter, Mr Do!, Rastan, Operation: Wolf, Altered Beast, and so on. You didn't need to have some kind of special venue or culture or whatever, it was everywhere. Every mall had an arcade and if you were old enough to be in there by yourself it's probably where you went while your parents were shopping.

In the early 90s things began to change rapidly. Arcade games were losing their allure next to 16-bit consoles. They weren't "dead" but they weren't relevant anymore (outside of Fighting Games). Nobody cared.

[Anonymous No.8637102]

>>8636971
>lol I remember all of those panics
I could literally write a book about the bullshit people honestly believed and "made viral" via word-of-mouth in the days before the internet. Frankly, I'm sure someone already has. There should be a chapter devoted to arcade myths. I occasionally talk to people near my age who seem to remember their local arcade being this dark, smoke filled den of murderers and rapists that they never went to out of fear for their life. Mind you, this inevitably turns out to be the "Fun n' Games" at the mall next to the pet store, or the rec center in the "seedy" (i.e. predominantly black and/or hispanic) part of town. They can never explain exactly what was going on in there that was so horrific, nor can they explain why there exists absolutely zero media coverage of this apparent nationwide crime epidemic. The "think of the children" generation must have completely missed all this happening in their own backyards. They certainly can't explain why I never had (or even saw) a single issue amidst the dozens of video arcades I frequented in my misspent youth.

Pic related. You can actually see the child molesters touching kids if you look hard enough.

[Anonymous No.8638116]

>>8635728
>There whole business model is being the Disneyland of arcades.
Maybe so, but it's still an arcade.
Arcades did not "die' in the 2000s.
Also mall arcades and cinema arcades continued throughout the 2000s.

[Anonymous No.8638120]

>>8636971
>In the 80s, arcades WAS mainstream videogames.
From 1980-85. From 86 onward the NES was "video games" to most people.

If you lived in a rural area the consoles were what you played 99% of the time. Arcades were a rare treat.

[Anonymous No.8638124]

>>8636971
>None of the arcades I ever went to were any more seedy than Dave & Busters.
Some of mine were. Drugs, gambling, and perverts around. Some people who used to hangout there are now in jail.
But I also knew a lot of arcades that were completely safe.

[Anonymous No.8638125]

>>8636670
Kys shitskin faggot. You got no argument besides
>muh white privilege.
Literally go fuck yourself you piece or shit

[Anonymous No.8638132]

I was in Kichijoji last night and popped into the Capcom Plaza just to kill a few minutes. Everything was fairly busy except for the UFO catcher machines, which i saw one couple using on my way out.

Last weekend in Nakano Broadway, the arcade corner upstairs had every fucking machine taken with fighting game players.

Anecdotal but this isn't the look of a dead market, though maybe I'm just lucky and always stumble into the packed ones.

[Anonymous No.8638137]

>>8635152
Yes I'm sure a Korean woman's account of a Japanese industry is completely unbiased, fuck off

[Anonymous No.8638138]

>>8636670
>muh white privilege
Kill yourself asshole. if anyone is overprivileged, its a fucking dude in his 40s or 50s sitting around asshurt about arcades and trying to get some moral high ground about white privilege.

you're a fucking manchild upset about arcades
>muh white privilege
go fuck yourself asshole

[Anonymous No.8638161]

>>8638125
t. angry larper

[Anonymous No.8638167]

>>8638120
I lived in a semi-rural area. It wasn't special, it was the most generic America you could get. If you were so rural that all you had was Nintendo, you were the exception. I had some relatives who lived in a place like that. They had like 100 students in their entire school system after combining with neighboring district.

Suburban or small-town US was like I described. Nintendo was huge but arcades did not die overnight. They were still big until the 16 bit consoles arrived. Remember how the second TMNT game for NES was a beatemup inspired by the successful arcade game.

[Anonymous No.8638169]

>>8638125
>>8638138
Imagine being so angry about getting called out for larping that you samefag this hard and obviously. You gonna be okay, kiddo? In any case, I'm sorry your mommy lied to you. She probably didn't know any better.

[Anonymous No.8638173]

>>8638116
Try to read intelligently so this thread doesn't have to devolve into semantic explanations about what people mean when they say Arcades.

[Anonymous No.8638174]

>>8638161
Not even a larp fuck that shit skin
>muh white privilege.

Like the other anon said. Literally some 40s or 50s fuckin manchild. Getting assblasted and bringing race into it

If the other anon had those experiences or thats what he believes than what ever. But that dude is a faggot shitskin
>muh white privilege

If youre reading this anon
Fuck you shitskin

[Anonymous No.8638179]

>>8638169
Yeah not the anon you were arguing with or the other one either but im just here to say fuck you shit skin scumbag

[Anonymous No.8638180]

>>8618587
>paying a Ferengi so you can use his holosuite

[Anonymous No.8638181]

>>8638174
>Like the other anon said.
There is no other anon. It's just you, kiddo.
So is this >>8638179

[Anonymous No.8638183]

>>8638169
Yeah fuck you

[Anonymous No.8638187]

>>8638181
Oh yeah >>8638183
Fuck you shitskin scumbag

[Anonymous No.8638189]

>>8638183
That's a pretty cool inspect element, kiddo.

[Anonymous No.8638191]

>>8638189
Okay shitskin scumbag

[Anonymous No.8638204]

>>8638191
Sorry, I just did the 'you weren't actually around for the mid 90's arcade scene' math and it worked out that you were larping. Watching you have a complete mental breakdown while you samefag is pretty funny, though. Anyway, how's that Polybius high score coming along? Did you manage to defeat Sheng Long yet?

[Anonymous No.8638209]

>>8638204
Yeah you can believe what ever you want thinking that. But you would be wrong and a retarded shitskin. But that comes with the territory of being a shitskin right ? Being a absolute retard?

[Anonymous No.8638215]

>>8638209
>Yeah you can believe what ever you want thinking that.
I will, kiddo.

[Anonymous No.8638219]

>>8638215
Okay retarded nigger shitskin. Have fun.

[Anonymous No.8638246]

Looks like the math was right.

[Anonymous No.8638258]

>>8636670


>Muh White privileges
kys faggot

[Anonymous No.8638295]

>>8638173
I know what people mean and they are being too narrow and dishonest with their definition of arcades.

[Anonymous No.8638325]

But anon don't you know that arcades DIED in the NINETIES!

>but mid-2000s dance and rhythm game fad
Doesn't count! They weren't in pizza restaurants and gas stations! DEAD
>but Japanese arcades
If it didn't happen in the good ol' USA then it doesn't exist. DEAD
>but Dave and Busters was pretty popular, they even had advertisements on television, and there is the rise of the whole barcade culture...
UGH WHAT UGH
HIPSTERS??!!!
I MEAN
UGH
I CAN'T EVEN
HIPSTERSERS???!!!
DEaD
>There's an arcade in my city, it's just a half hour drive away from here
A HALF FUCKING HOUR? IF AN ARCADE ISN'T WITHIN A 30 SECOND WALK FROM MY COMPUTER DESK I'M NOT GOING.
ALSO I BET THERE ARE MINORITIES AND WEIRDOS THERE. AND IT COSTS MONEY. NOTHING BUT DRIVING AND SHOOTING GAMES (THOSE AREN'T *REAL* ARCADE GAMES BY THE WAY) I BET EVEN THOUGH I HAVEN'T ACTUALLY BEEN THERE TO SEE.
DEAD
>There's this program called fightcade where you can play online
LMAO lag!!!! lag lag lag lag lag lag I can't play with 30ms of lag and no one else can DEAD
>but I've seen people pulling off crazy combos and clutch moments on fightcade
uhhhhhhhhh macro much? cheaters! tourneyfags! emulation is bad because... it just is okay? DEAD
>I saw some photos of arcades in china and korea and they were really cool
DEAD
>but the communities of people who still compete for times in modern arcade racers
DEAD
>but
DEAD

[Anonymous No.8638326]

>>8637102
All it takes is one anecdotal incident to get the soccer moms go crazy. Also, lots of them scratched their heads, wondering why their boys would spend their pocket cash there instead of books, so they took the first excuse (kids: that's where TEENAGERS! hang out, Teen: that's where DRUGS! are sold) to try and discourage their kids. At least that's what happened for the one dedicated arcade we had in my hometown.

[Anonymous No.8638418]

>>8619494
Aren't arcades in Japan shutting down left and right. The iconic Sega one was shut down last year.

Even if it's just cus of coof they'll never return.

[Anonymous No.8638424]

>>8638325
yes

[Anonymous No.8638476]

>>8638418
No, a few huge corporate owned arcades have shut down. Arcades in Japan are nowhere near "dead" and likely never will be. They are a cultural institution.

[Anonymous No.8639714]

>>8638246
That kid was fucking weird. Cringy larper, too.

[Anonymous No.8639783]

>>8638476
This. While it is unfortunate that Sega's arcades have shut down, that's probably due to their size and the fact that they needed a large audience to support the building financially, which fucked them over during the heydey of Covid to this day. Smaller arcades like a-cho, Game Newton and Big One 2nd also took a hit (Game Newton shut down for a bit due to covid actually I think ), but due to their smaller size, they were able to recoup faster after the lockdowns, whereas Sega mad massive losses in the arcade department (as did Capcom and Square, but they made those up in online sales).

[Anonymous No.8640097]

>>8633207
>>8633362
creeepy old men confirmed

[Anonymous No.8640112]

>>8630962
I've been wanting to go on an arcade tour down there forever, but the public transportation is fucking awful.

[Anonymous No.8640126]

>>8627067
>>8627068
Take a loot at Nickel City up north if you're ever in the area. It's not very big, but it's been around forever. It's interesting from a historical perspective, since they've got a whole bunch of machines in the back that somehow survived from the late 90s. (and a 25 cent Initial D machine)

[Anonymous No.8640130]

>>8638418
>The iconic Sega one was shut down last year.
Literally the only example anyone has ever brought up on /vr/ when talking about Japan arcades.

[Anonymous No.8640132]

>>8638325
lmao based blithering arcade enjoyer

[Anonymous No.8640135]

>>8618542
Look, I’m millennial, I enjoyed going to an arcade now and then as a kid. But “barcades” are the apex of corporate faggotry.

I’ve been to a few in my city, and they were very patronizing. Remember da 80s, bro!? Remember mortal kombat and that one X-men arcade machine that was everywhere? Want an Optimus prime drink?

It’s like my generation still hasn’t realized the degree to which we remain trapped in a matrix boomers designed for us when we were children.

Retro games are fun, but idk there’s just something sad about these places…

[Anonymous No.8640138]

>>8640135
Your description reminds me of Super Nova in Colorado Springs, but Barcade in Philadelphia is pretty lowkey and is just a regular craft beer bar with an arcade on the side.

[Anonymous No.8640143]

>>8632145
>when you're playing Mortal Kombat and some creepy as 45 y/o man walks up, inserts a coin, fatalities you, then fucks your gf

[Anonymous No.8640149]

>>8638325
Are you implying that arcades are... DEAD?!

[Anonymous No.8640151]

>>8638418
They are on the downtrend. Copers that haven't been to Japan will tell you otherwise but the reality is popularity has been dwindling there over the past 5-10 years, big and local arcades have been closing down and COVID only accelerated that. Not to mention developers would rather develop for mobile than for arcades, so it's obviously not something that will last forever at this rate.

[Anonymous No.8640185]

>>8638325
>fightcade
found the zoomer

[Anonymous No.8640189]

>>8640126
NC just isn't worth the drive anymore, and I live in Mt. Prospect. Hasn't been in years now.

[Anonymous No.8640240]

>>8640126
I'm all the way in LaPorte, Indiana. My folks just live in LaGrange....so when I go visit my brother and I get smashed and take an uber over there to play with the unwashed masses all day long. There's a shitty hipster bar across the street, but they have an awesome beer selection too.

[Anonymous No.8640308]

>>8640185
LOL! Missed by a mile! I am the zoomer, not him. Now, I'm gonna hide again. Try harder and spot me on the next posts.

[Anonymous No.8640363]

>>8640151
There will be an equilibrium point reached in Japan when smaller arcades get the traffic from the previous mega-arcades that shut down.
The population density in Japan is too high for arcades to ever truly die there.

[Anonymous No.8640683]

>>8618542
do you honestly think it would still be the same if it did come back? I'm picturing building full of gdq's best. the kind of people that you could smell way before you seen them..

[Anonymous No.8640701]

>>8624571
This would be nice. My local barcade just has truckers who are there to sit at the bar and drink Bud Lite and watch sports like any other bar, and the games mostly get ignored.

[Anonymous No.8640785]

>>8638132
This might be a microcosm of the kind of effect you see in systems that are in decline.
Like in Japan generally, the population is decreasing and towns are emptying, but the population of Tokyo is increasing as people move there to escape a lack of opportunities in rural areas.
Or American shopping malls generally being a completely dead disaster area, except for the one really high end mall in each metro area that just raised rents and is building a new wing because it captured all the remaining business from the dead ones.
You're in the epicenter of arcades in the country that's the epicenter of arcade culture, so things there might not just linger but actually intensify locally as the wider industry suffers.

I don't have date to support that though, just an alternate explanation.

[Anonymous No.8640965]

>>8640138
craft beer is hipster nonsense that is rapidly becoming insufferable in its own right, deserves its own dissection thread. There are so many craft/artisan brewers in my city, and almost every one is a locus for soi manchildren with oiled beards and slim cut jeans. Now, yes, some of these places are good establishments with good offerings, but most are just trendy soi hives with marginally-better-than-avg beers.

I guess, along with the demise of arcades, comic book shops, and local stores, it's just another sad way our world is being homogenized and stripped of meaning.

[Anonymous No.8640983]

>>8640240
Come over to Mishawaka. We have Megaplay.

[Anonymous No.8641074]

>>8640983
Those cabs aren't set to freeplay are they? I'm not good enough at any arcade games to warrant playing without a bracelet that says I can play until I win.

[Anonymous No.8641241]

>>8641074
No, John isn't the "set to freeplay" type of guy. It's prepaid cards, like a D&B has, unless you're willing to pay $15 an hour.

[Anonymous No.8641835]

>>8640983
Mega Play is absolutely on my list for when the weather heats up a bit and I travel around the great lakes area. So many good looking arcades in that area...
>>8640965
To this day, I'm still not entirely sure what the difference between craft beer and regular beer is. It all tastes pretty similar.

[Anonymous No.8641963]

>>8640683
Would that be so bad?
>smell
lmao you've been in a crowded arcade or FGC tournament

[Anonymous No.8641965]

>>8640965
Maybe you're just a snob

[Anonymous No.8642039]

>>8638325
zip zop zoopity zoom

[Anonymous No.8642053]

>>8642039
I accept your concession.

[Anonymous No.8642084]

>>8641963
Never been to a FGC tournament. Is the smell really an issue?

[Anonymous No.8642119]

>>8618542
>Tfw just old enough to see it before it died but not old enough to truly experience it
It sucks. I was hoping to experience it in Japan as they still have a decent amount but then corona happened and they're starting to close down there too.

[Anonymous No.8642142]

>>8638418
no they are not. 1(one) arcade got sold.

[Anonymous No.8642150]

>>8642142
That's wrong. The one you're thinking about made headlines because it was so iconic, but small arcades in Japan have been closing down and sega recently left the arcade business for good.

[Anonymous No.8642258]

>>8642084
Yes, it's horrific.

[Anonymous No.8642271]

>>8640965
>Now, yes, some of these places are good establishments with good offerings, but most are just trendy soi hives with marginally-better-than-avg beers.
Deep insight anon, its almost like 90% of literally everything is shit. Same goes for video games but you still play the good ones. No need to disparage all craft beer just cause some of its drinkers are fags.

[Anonymous No.8642275]

>>8641835
>To this day, I'm still not entirely sure what the difference between craft beer and regular beer is
Indie vs AAA

[Anonymous No.8642920]

>>8641965
>irony: the post

[Anonymous No.8642982]

>>8638132
Your perspective varies depending on how long you lived there. It's been a figurative bloodbath of smaller arcades closing down for over 10 years, but that means remaining arcades are consolidating attendance, so the arcade scene still looks alive and well, especially if you're coming from a country where arcades died in the 90s

[Anonymous No.8643017]

>>8638418
There was a corner thing on the top floor of Nakano Broadway, it wasn't really an arcade so much as a row of machines, it was comfy though and you could smoke.
I saw a lot of arcade places in more working class areas such as around Koenji

[Anonymous No.8643047]

>>8642271
Triggered

[Anonymous No.8643909]

>>8643047
No this guy is triggered: >>8638325

[Anonymous No.8643928]

>>8638325
zoombabwe

[Anonymous No.8644014]

>>8643909
No THIS little kid is triggered:
>>8638125
>>8638138
>>8638174
>>8638179
>>8638183
>>8638187
>>8638191
>>8638209
>>8638219

[Anonymous No.8644143]

remember to use to feedback link at the bottom of the page to make sure hiroshimoot knows that jannies aren't doing their job

[Anonymous No.8644195]

>>8633602
and you can also make some great connections for crystal meth while playing it! who says community is dead?

[Anonymous No.8644247]

>>8633896
>ywn go back to grope anon's russian sister while playing galaxian again
why even live

[Anonymous No.8644365]

Arcades are still popular in Mexico. I assume similar bootleg cabinets are also seen in other central American and South American countries.

[Anonymous No.8644370]

>>8642920
>craft beer is hipster nonsense that is rapidly becoming insufferable in its own right, deserves its own dissection thread. There are so many craft/artisan brewers in my city, and almost every one is a locus for soi manchildren with oiled beards and slim cut jeans. Now, yes, some of these places are good establishments with good offerings, but most are just trendy soi hives with marginally-better-than-avg beers.

Sounds pretty snobbish to me anon.

[Anonymous No.8644402]

Just buy cabs and PCBs

[Anonymous No.8644416]

>>8644402
What about the tubes? Seems like the monitor is the most valuable part of a cab these days.

[Anonymous No.8644429]

>>8640965
trying to out-hipster the hipsters, eh anon?

[Anonymous No.8644525]

>>8644402
An arcade is about more than the hardware.

[Anonymous No.8644528]

>>8644416
It is and it isn't. Some PCBs are very expensive, and an old television can be tube swapped.

[Anonymous No.8644546]

>>8644365
Those cabs aren't necessarily bootleg (they often are, though). In a lot of countries that aren't the US or Japan, it's cheaper to just import arcade boards in bulk and build machines for them instead of having to import the entire fucking machine. Hell, even the US did that sometimes.

[Anonymous No.8644561]

>>8618542
You want the legit arcade culture, just log into Fightcade.
It's all there, huge rivalries, extremely skilled people, fights and arguments, money matches, watching other people's matches, there's nothing missing but the scent of sweaty fat people

[Anonymous No.8644881]

>>8644143
What aren't they doing exactly?

[Anonymous No.8645164]

>>8644561
I can't ask someone on fightcade if they want to go to taco bell down the street and shoot the shit while eating burritos

[Anonymous No.8645648]

>>8643017
TRF.

[Anonymous No.8646638]

>>8644429
lol that’s a fair criticism. Really, I just want to have fun and not be bombarded by fags all the time. If that makes me a snob, I will accept the label.

On topic: I will say that another thing that surprises about barcades is how few quality arcade machines they have. The last time I visited one a third of the machines were broken, and the 90s Star Trek TNG pinball machine was the most interesting thing there.

[Anonymous No.8646694]

It wasn't exactly home consoles that killed arcades, but the people's choice. If the mere existence of a different option made people abandon arcades, it's because that's what they really wanted. The masses could've kept both arcades and home consoles alive and coexisting, and yet they only chose one.

It's like that autistic argument from the local schizos about how Half-Life "ruined" FPS - when it came out, people flocked to it and started copying that game instead of its predecessors. If they didn't go back to arena FPS after that, it's because they really didn't want it. They were putting up with it.

Like with all things, the current standard is always "the best one"... until something new comes along that just so happens to be closer to people's ideal.

[Anonymous No.8647046]

>>8646638
The one in my city has about 25 cabinets, and all but a handful have had the CRT replaced with a LCD. A 16:9 LCD with the image stretched to full screen.

[Anonymous No.8647052]

>>8646694
Arcade operators were clueless as to why people really went to arcades. Have you ever met an arcade operator or owner?

[Anonymous No.8647202]

>>8646694
>people's ideal.
Let's be fair, though. The people's ideal was not having to leave their house and then having to pay a quarter per game to play. Had owners realized this when it was just getting started, and tried different monetization, they might have had better luck. But no one wants to charge a reasonable flat or hourly rate when they've spent the last decade or so making money hand over fist.