Why don't you go to your arcade anymore /v/? Do you hate

The Pump it Up machine at my local arcade hasn't been operational in months.

There hasn't been an arcade in my town for 15 years.

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My friend and I still play Time Crisis 2.
We have all of the highscores as FAG & ASS.

>>260697114
Lots of the games are to old. The sensors are off on the guns, nothing new put in there in years.
They have one or two games that are way louder than the ones you actually want to hear. The grabbing machines NEVER pick up.

>>260697183

;_; why did they have to die?

>>260697114
Because the one at the theater nearby got rid of every game I like.

The closest one has a DDR machine that's busted beyond all repair and everything else is shit

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they're expensive as fuck here

in japan they were fun

>>260697114
Maybe if I was living in Japan.
Anywhere else it's really awkward

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>>260697114
What fucking arcade.

I didn't even know arcades still exist. What is this, 1995?

>>260697114
There is no arcade where I live...

;_;

I don't fancy driving for three hours.

>>260697114

>implying a majority of arcades in america haven't been closed up for close to 10 years

Because they started charging for time instead of just using money.

Friend and I went in and because he was broke they wouldn't even let him watch me solo house of the dead. I offered to pay for him but we both agreed to boycott the dump and left.

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>TFW you work in a shit arcade
>TFW your boss refuses to put in better machines
>TFW he only takes machines out
we went from a ghost squad to a target terror. Target terror is a "anti-terrorist" game where all the "Terrorists" are white, and plays like Area-51 meets Tim and Eric Awesome Show.

It's amazing how bad customers can get in both beligerene and stupidity. I'll post some stories after i take a poop.

>>260697114
We don't have an arcade around here anymore. What use to be full of awesome cabinets became DDR, gun games, racers and ticket machines.
I fucking hate what arcades became. That and the fucking price was 75 cents to a fucking dollar per play. Eat dicks

Seriously thogh /v/, why is it there is no market for arcades here, but there is in japan?

We have a mega billion dollar industry in the states, with huge events for gamers and cons that sport thousands of attendants. Hundreds of thousands of people here watch people play video games for fun on youtube.

Why wouldn't they go to arcades? Is it our cities? Is it that everyone drives everywhere, so the arcade is extra expensive? Is it just that everyone is a filthy casual who can't stand spending money on getting gud? Why are the Japanese capable of this masochism?

>>260698751
That looks fun as fuck. ;_;

>>260698536
Please do.

>>260698495
What? They wouldn't even allow your friend to watch you play?

>tfw I remember playing Darkstalkers and Children of the Atom for the first time in arcades
Same goes for Soul Edge

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>>260698846
the culture over there is too different from ours

>>260698890
if i was with friends i'd totally play it

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>the last time you went to an arcade was when you were 8 with your father
>any arcade within 50 miles of you has been closed since 2005
>your children will never experience the magic of an arcade with you

>>260698751

>baskets for you to place your bags in so they don't get dirty on the floor

japan why you so accommodating?

There were never any arcades near where I lived. But it didn't matter anyway, my family was poor so I knew it would be unwise to waste money on arcade games. When I saved up enough to finally buy a game, I made sure it was worth the money and I would get my time out of it.

because it is fucking far away, all the way in hero city.

that's the only place I know that has an arcade, and tekniska museet but I don't know if they have them there anymore.

>>260699224
Being underage is not allowed.
>>>/9gag/

>>260697114
there aren't any where i live
there is this one place that has a few pool and snooker tables, dart, airhockey and stuff but no arcades
otherwise i'd be there all day and become a pinball wizard

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>>260697114
>do you hate fun?
Kill yourself.

i live in a village that has nothing but a single convenience store and the nearest town is 1hr away.

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I want to play DDR so fucking bad.

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>>260699235
everyone was so nice and helpful
i really miss them

>>260697114
>implying I dont
Been practicing up on muh MvC2 lately.
>mfw I still cant do the ironman infinite

>>260697654
>my sister cant be this Cute tournament fighter
wut?

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>>260699462
i have no idea what that was all about
it was like mugen

Nigga, nobody wants to pay 2 dollars to get one run at House of the Dead 2.

Or 75 cents to play Marvel vs Capcom.

>>260699462
How new are you?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dengeki_Bunko_Fighting_Climax

>>260699693
not if you have your own arcade cabinet that is

>>260699736
what reason would one have to know about this?

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Will arcades ever die in Las Vegas?

>>260699410

>Spada

Good god the last arcade IIDX I played was fucking Distorted kill me pls

>>260699462
They made a crossover game between all the currently famous titles in some manga stuff.
>mfw SAO gets 2 characters
Its like this whole pit and dark pit shit

>>260699410
What the fuck is that ?

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>>260699410
>IIDX
mah nigga

>>260697114
The only arcade nearby is 2 hours by train and it's DDR pads are always fucking broken holy shit can you just do some maintenance on those once a fucking day you useless cunts

>>260699852
http://www.tinyarcademachines.com
i thought about getting one but they're a little expensive for me now

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>>260700068
beatmania?

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>>260697183

That's mostly why I stopped going to mine. It's part of a tourist site, and shit just stays inoperable for months, since most people who go through there don't really care/notice if something is broken. The repair lady got mad at me and my friend when we told her the Technika machine was broken. It used to have a decent scene where every weekend we had a group that would get together and play CvS2 and Tekken 5 but everyone just kinda got fed up with it.

All 25+ people at any given time in my local arcade are goth kids playing DDR.

Why the fuck would I want to in there? What does that have to do with being casual?

>>260700147

>you will never live in glorious nippon where there is bemani in every arcade

why do i even want to live any more

only 1 arcade left in my city, they closed the good one with all the good fightan games. the one thats left had the fist of the north star game wich was fucking great but some retard punched the screen and broke it. Now al thats left is shitty games and half broken stuff.

>>260699852
I'd put quarters in my own arcade cabinet. Seriously.

Mite b a cool piggy bank.

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>>260700181
we built one

>>260700381
>Snake

>buying into p2p shit
You do realize arcades are scams, right?

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>>260698846
There's no market because people in japan are willing to play IIDX for months before passing a song. People over here want to win that card in stacker RIGHT NOW then leave. Only buttshit like stacker and redemption games make money, and to a lesser extend pinball because of the old-timers that come in.
>>260699023
>All dose PD:A
oh jesus take me now. Tried to buy one. Fuckin $17,000. I can get a used Pop'n for 1500! and that's expensive
'
Anyways, just yesterday i had one guy come in.
>HEY DIS PLACE TAKE TOKENS?
>no man we use quarters
>WHERE DO I GET THE TOKENS THO?
>we use Quarters
>TOKENS?
>QUARTERS!
>he puts his bill in the machine
>HEY THESE ARE QUARTERS!
>Dave's not here man.
>WHAT?!?!?!?!
>Nevermind
>he goes over to the fruit ninja, a decent game that absolutly barfs out tickets. Minimum 20 tickets for 50 cents.
>starts swinging his arms
>thinks it's a kinect game
>fuck
>HEY THIS IZZUNT WORKIN
>it's a touch screen
>touches the screen and continues to swing arms
>HEY!
>SWIPE THE SCREEN
>he finally gets it
>gets 25 tickets
>Runs around like a dog that just got a bath.
>Shouts at me OMG I JSUT GOT 25 TICKETS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
>Great! Would you like to cash them in?
>puts them on the counter
>"No bro, put them through the ticket eater"
>Puts them on top
>crumples them up and slams them on top
>no idea how someone can be this dumb.
>Holding in urge to tell him to gtfo, uncrumple them and feed them through
>Ask him what he wants
>Suggest a sucker
>sees punch balloon for 40 tickets
>HUH HUH HUH YOU CAN PUT NITROS OXIDE IN THAT HUH HUH HUH
>kid standing right behind him
>HEY IZZUNT DAT FUNNY? DAS A JOEK RIGHT THERE
>tell him to just take the sucker
>walks off like DON'Y UUU HAEB A SENSE OF HUMOR???
fuck i hate white trash.

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>>260700470
someone broke his gun off

they showed gamecenter cx episodes in here
apparently arino visited it some time

arcade is full of tekken fags

>>260698751

you'd never see something cool like this in America

blacks and mexicans let their kids run wild like monkeys and they fucking destroy everything

>>260697114
There hasn't been a video arcade in my town since 1994. The closet one is almost 90 minutes away and it's mostly ticket redemption games bullshit.

>arcades so good hurr
>where's the magic durr

Niggers in here underaged as fuck. Nobody remembers the days when arcades were filled with degenerates and thugs. Having a cop in every arcade used to be the norm, fights broke out so much.

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>>260697114

I've never seen an arcade here in Germany.

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>>260700639
japanese people are the best

>>260700381
Wow that looks comfy as fuck. Location pls.

>>260700229
To get some goth poon, nerd.

>>260700513
I know its bait, but
>25 cents, one death run Metal Slug X, 30 mins of fun
>$60, broken single player game, $20 multiplayer expanshun, $30 DLC maps

All the arcades I've ever been to are shit.
They all have a bunch of shitty racing games, dance games and a few old ass shooters. Most of which are broken.
I have never once seen a fighting game in an arcade which is what I'd want to play.

All these Japanese arcades look mad comfy.
It's a shame the entire arcade ''culture'' died in the west

>>260700546

>HEY THESE ARE QUARTERS!
>Dave's not here man

Why did I laugh so hard at this

>>260700815
>that cherrypicking
Nice retort.

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>>260700815
top floor of super potato, akihabara

>>260700513
>baddy detected

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>mfw I have arcade machines at my job and I don't have to spend any money to play on them

>>260699023
look at dat leg pouch
wish i could wear one without everyone thinking im a sick fuck

>>260700723
where the fuck do you live? detroit?

But I do go. AO is pretty great and I'm glad the shit lair that was Final Round fucking died, most annoying fucks alive in that place.

>>260700002
Seriously, the whole city has big arcades everywhere. The ones in the casinos kinda suck, but there are great ones all around.

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>>260700840
>tfw remember the tekken tournaments at my old arcade
>all those sweaty, greasy hambeasts rampaging and smashign cabinets whenever they got rekt by skinny asian kids

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>>260700778
>FFX-2 on Vita
>Almost $60

I feel bad for my video game loving comrades over there. At least Vita isn't dead for you guys.

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>>260701260
they don't give a fuck

>>260697114
Because either the arcades switched to casual garbage(Doodle Jump, Angry Bird) or closed up.

The only good one in NJ burned to the ground last year It involves the Funtown Fire picture

>>260700546

>that fucking arcade picture

So pathetic.

I'm just bummed. I like the Japanese method of playing arcades, just playing until you get gud enough to get as much time as you want out of your credits. It keeps the places alive and bustling, and it encourages the creation of good new arcade games because all of the patrons are skilled gamers.

>>260701325

Every arcade in the 80's was like this. Of course this was back when shooters were 90% of the machines and generally fostered violent customers.

>>260697114
You won't find a self sustaining arcade nowadays and even the most popular ones need shit like kickstarter to stay afloat.. The business model is way to out of date. Why go to an arcade when you can just get a console. The only types of arcades that can exist now are "barcades" where you can just be in a drunken stupor while playing beat em up games.

>>260700723

Stop living next to thugs.

>>260700041
>no Genshiken turny fighter

>>260697114
For some reason in my country they are only alive in the touristic cities close to the sea, and they are huge as fuck and usually get a lot of new games every year, I go with my friends and play for some hours in there and have a lot of fun.

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>>260700546
One of the worst parts of this job is unattended fucking kids.
>Little Nino comes in
>El Shit-pants-o finds it fin to climb up skee-ball and into basketball
>Fucking sits there
>Whitetrash McMethhead comes in with a beefmoon GF
>Just plays basketball with kid in machine
>Fucking beams the kid with a basketball
>Look over when i hear crying(i was helping customer with tickets so my back is turned to the basketball)
>Looks like he's one handed throwing basketballs at the kid
>Say not to throw balls so hard
>put two and two together
>walk over
>see mexi-baby in machine
>Tell him he's got 5 seconds to get the fuck out before i call the cops
>Call mall security
>Kids their problem now
If anyone wantys to know where i am, Great lakes mall in mentor ohio. Don't fucking come here. this arcade is garbage.

>>260700002
>>260701404

As someone from Las Vegas I recommend GameWorks. Its right near MGM and right on the strip if you get bored/hungry.

>>260701325
Idk what magical place you lived in but arcades were basically breeding grounds for poverty ass niggas. I remember at my local arcade at least once a week there would be people fuckin in the bathroom.

>>260700147

I love how clean the Jap arcades are-

last arcade that closed down near me was a dump, old scratched floors, water-stained and missing ceiling tiles, filthy as fuck restroom...

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>>260701505
Dat slime stack!! Why hasn't it been claimed??

>>260701325
Nah, you'd be surprised it was gangs or mobs that controlled most arcades. The gamling/money income of it was very popular for shady organizations, and there were counties or states that wanted all arcade zones banned because of the culture.

Back then you'd mostly find one or two machines in a diner or barber shop and that's where you'd get some peaceful vidya.

around the 90s things subdued, and places became more family friendly like Peter Piper Pizza or Chuck E Cheese.

>>260701586

>fostered violent customers

There aren't fights breaking out between the salarymen in Japan playing arcades. That is just because America is a violent shithole in which half of the people living in the cities are spontaneously criminal.

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>>260702090
i wanted to buy so much shit but i wouldn't have place for it in my bag

There are no arcades left where I live.

>>260698536
Now I am interested.

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>>260701881
>beams the kid with a basketball

I died. More stories.

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>>260702129

Well that's just, like, your opinion man. I already told you this was during the 80's. I'm pretty sure Japan didn't even have arcades back then.

Nigga I work at my arcade and it's the least fun.

>>260700068
Think of Guitar Hero type of game.

>>260702217
>blazblue namestickers
why would there be a market for that

>>260700147
this looks fucking awesome, where is it?

>>260701881
>Ohio
why dont you move?

>>260702217
Nigga you shoulda gone to Nippon UPS and mailed yourself a donkey kong barrel full of goodies.

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>>260702481
there's a market for everything

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>tfw your country doesn't have arcades outside of a shit the house of the dead ripoff at bowling halls and ball pit places shit for kids

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There's an arcade not too far from my uni, but managing my time for both doesn't sound easy.

Pop'n Tune Street looks damn fun though.

>>260702403

>I'm pretty sure Japan didn't even have arcades back then

Where the fuck do you think the US got half their arcade cabinets from you dumbshit

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>>260702589
i'd probably get charged for importing stuff
rates are sky high over here

>>260697114
The last good arcade near me blew awaywith HHurricane Sandy. I used to jog there, get a soda, and play old vidya cabinets for two hours or so, and then jog home.

The beach sucks now.

>>260698846
There is a huge difference in cultures. Arcade games where a place where blue collar workers would go to pass the time in America during the boom of arcade games.

Then when SF2 came out, it changed the way arcade games were seeing and a toxic environment started to grow on arcade games because of it.

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I only attend the arcade show that's held around here once a year. Pretty good times, although my wrists ache like a motherfucker afterwards.

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>you will never live in japan and spend all your money on arcades and merchandise

>>260702752
Most cabs were made in US. The board was made in jp.

Shitbong here

Last time we had an arcade in my city (just a few miles out of London) was like 1997 or 1998. The 5th gen was like digging the grave, the 6th gen was hammering the last few nails shut on the coffin of the arcade era.
Used to regularly into 2d-fighting (various iterations of Street Fighter and Marvel) and racing (Daytona and Sega Rally).

Sad that those days had to end. I sometimes dream of moving to somewhere like Japan or Korea where I can rejoin that scene.

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>>260702752

Taiwan was the primary manufacturer of arcade boards during the 70's and 80's, which were exported to Western countries. Kindly stop fighting over something you know nothing of.

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>>260702934
truly the worst

i'm really gonna try to force my friends to go with me

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>>260702934
>he cant visit the sega arcade, dragon palace and play all those games

>>260702979

>hurr we put the wood together

>>260702934
>>260703072
Don't. Yakuza cut one of my fingers off for playing at the wrong pachinko machine.
One of the worst mistakes of my life.

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Cat.

>>260702868
Is the green neon tube replaced with LEDS?!

>>260703273

why

>>260699405
>Not having the pad and game for the PS2

Scrub

Closest arcade is literally over 300 miles from me. I am not wasting 20 bucks worth of gas to pop a quarter into a machine that probably doesn't even work right anymore for snotty little kids with their stumpy little fingers pounding on it.

>>260702868
>Cirqus Voltaire

I must know where this is...

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>>260703248
why the fuck would you go play pachinko

>>260700723

are you from Cali?

I remember when shooters took off sometime in mid-90s, they were always a crowd of Vatos at them pointing the guns sideways and shit.

no place for kids and decent folk.

>>260703463

>playing home versions stripped of most of the licensed music on plastic mats

nope

>>260703509

IT'S JUST LIKE AN ALLEY IN ONE OF MY JAPANESE ANIMES

Last arcade in the entire country (that I know of) went out of business somewhere around 2003-2004.

All that's left is random pinball machines here and there, and some arcades in an amusement park and on the cruise ships.

>>260700775

blame your government for banning violent games

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>>260703508
http://www.nwpinballshow.com/

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>>260703689
it's as cozy too

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>>260701881
sometimes in the mornings, i play anime music to keep the mall walkers from waddling through
>But isn't that bad for business?
>Implying mall walkers ever spend money and don't just occupy parking spaces
>>260701982
I can confirm this. 8-balls fucking love arcades. They will ONLY play basketball if they find out you have it though. That said, they're here to have a good time, not cause trouble 999 times out of 1000. I've had trouble with 1 8-ball, and it's because i yelled at his kid not to shake the coin pusher machine. He wanted to hit me till i pulled out a baseball bat from under the counter. Then he walked off screaming honkey this cracka-ass cracka that. In the 5 years i've been here, that's the only 8-ball problem i've had other than littering. Good lord does tyrone love to litter.
>>260700068
Music game. Good one at that. I don't personally like it, but i can't deny it's an excellent game.
>>260702543
>Implying you can escape ohio
AH HA!
AH AHA HA!
there was even a twilight zone episode called "Last stop willoughby" which is the city next to mentor. Some dude misses his stop and ends up in ohio. The train from the episode is still there. It's walking distance from my house. Ohio is a black hole.

>Have old location near macys
>Retard home next to mall is having talent show
>Entire door blocked by people watching some retarded dude do a fucking moon-a and the june-a- and the spring-a cane twirling and tapdance act on the stage in the middle of the mall isle
>kid you fuckign not, some 60 year old retarded guy tap dancing
>Some lady comes in with some weird recumbant wheelchair for her warped birth defected son
>goes over to the DDR machine
>Uses the coat rack hooks i put up as a hook to give him an IV
>Gives the kid a fucking IV right in the middle of my fucking arcade
>MFW
>>260699405
that's one of the few things we do have. Come up here and ask for your daily dose, and i'll give you some free games.

I go to Dave and Busters often if that counts as an arcade.

Pretty darn fun.

>>260702813
2,000 Yen for an N64 controller?? Dayem.

>>260703248
T-True story? I'm scared now ;_;

>>260703248
Damn son, that sounds like an interesting story. Care to tell more? Also it sounds like a great pick story with girls, don't look so down when talking about and you can also add spice to the story to make it more interesting.

If Arcade you mean Casino. Then yes. I go there all the time

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>>260703619
>plastic mats

>>260703961

No you filthy degenerate

>>260697114
Is that a Rhythm Heaven arcade machine?
Aw shit son.

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>>260703869
for an original first party controller it's pretty cheap

>>260697114
because the only decent one I know of is way down in Miami

on the other hand, they do have some pretty good shit, no redemption shit, lots of imports, generally well maintained machines (not perfect, but better at keeping the machines in good condition than nearly any arcade I'd seen in my life)

>>260704021
If you had those in an apartment building you would be dead pretty quick.

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anon for whiteland here, arcades are kind of popular, the other day i went to my local arcade with some friends, we played some virtua striker 2, virtua tennis, snowbros, House of the Dead, and Daytona USA, they also have a pool table so we played some eight-ball, it was a good day

>>260704021

haha those fucking things are so goddamn shoddy.

Enjoy your control box breaking after 2 months of moderate use.

>>260702858

Could that change now? It seems the culture would have changed by now. Blue collar workers clearly don't care about arcades anymore, they all died off.

But then again, I guess white collar workers don't give a shit about arcades either, and a big chunk of the arcade user base in japan are salarymen.

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>>260697114
Arcade and weebo threads like this are the best threads on /v/.
I remember playing the shit out Cadillacs and Dinosaurs, dungeons and dragons beat em up metal slug and SF2 all the time.

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>>260703612
Mexicans are my best customers. They send the eldest kid in, and he keeps the other kids in line. Sometimes they get excited, but mexicans cause the least trouble.
>>260703961
>MFW i get old timers in here mad that tickets don't equal money
ohio just got casinos last year. shit's infuriating becaust they get mega pissed at you. Throw the tickets at you, even though you can't throw tickets. One guy said he was going to call the cops because i wouldn't give him 5 dollars for 5 tickets.

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>Take my brothers kids to Dave and Busters
>See some new fangled arcade shooter with 4-D graphis
>4-D MOTHER FUCKING GRAPHICS
>have to try it out

Pic related

Consequences will never be the same

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>>260699410
I AM SO FUCKING JELLY FUCK YOU
being yuropooor is suffering

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>>260697114
My only arcade broke down

All i have within a 100 mile radius is a piss stained bust a move 2 machine

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>>260704427
i'm europoor too, i was just there for vacation
i don't like rhythm games

>>260701569
Eyyyyy, fellow Seasidebro!

Flashbacks in Carousel was the absolute best. I miss it. Part of my childhood died.

>>260704346
>Cadillacs and Dinosaurs, dungeons and dragons beat em up metal slug and SF2 all the time.

Fuck I used to blew most of my money playing that when I was at school.

There are no arcades left on my tow now.

>>260704395

Ever get the customers who follow you around while you refill tickets?

>HEH HEH, CAN I HAVE ONE OF THOSE STACKS?

it's like they can't imagine that I hear that shit 10 times an hour.

Detroit fag here, strangely enough our arcades weren't violent murder traps like everything else in our fair city. the 8mile fun center used to have video games & go carts & mini formula one cars. the wonerland arcade was my favorite though

I like to enjoy my vidya at my own pace.
The only arcade game that I still play is Metal Slug X but on PC because I'm better with a keyboard.

I can finish up to mission 3 without dying once but I can't even finish the first mission without getting killed with arcade stick.

It's not quite an arcade only place but I work at Dave and Busters. It's alright I guess, hours that I work are bullshit though.

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>>260701569

>>260704636
D-detroit isn't actually as bad as people make it out. R-right?

>>260704204
Anon from whiteland too, where the fuck do you live? The last time I saw an arcade in Buenos Aires was in Lavalle and the last Sacoa die like 8 years ago.

>>260704579
And I would love to try actual ARCADE IIDX

I would kill to get to play insane techniques on spada.

I can do IIDX 10's and some 11's at HARD lifebar pass, 10's in exhard

But yet I score like nigger.

My local arcade use to have a IIDX, several DDRs, Para Para Paradise, Guitar Freaks and Drummania 11. They sold all that to buy more fucking laser tag type shit. That's why.

>>260697114
>Why don't you go to your arcade anymore /v/?

Because we don't live in 1982 and I don't have to be around other people when I play my games now.

It's like going to a disco, fucking pointless.

>>260704396
I tried this and its actually really fun. The best part is playing with a friend and making fun of them if they get scared, since heart rates are always displayed.

>>260701569
Fun N Games was the best arcade in NJ hands down. The best arcade in NJ now is the break soley because they have dj maxtechnika and tvc

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>>260704835
i can't even last a second, my concentration skills are non existant

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>>260704396
>play that
>Jewiest game ever
>Parts where you can NOT avoid getting hit
>Every enemy a bullet sponge
>Game moves slow as fuck
Namco shooters are shit. Sega>namco. Sega machines all use proprietary shit though, so they suck to own.
>>260704630
all the fucking time. Or when i empty the bill basket in the coin machine
>HURR HURR YUOS GOTSTA GIMME DAT!
Here's 50,000 tickets.

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>Friend goes to some Arcade
>He's a total foot fetish faggot
>Takes his stanky ass shoes off
>Goes onto the DDR Machine and plays barefoot
>Security kicks him the fuck out
>He starts crying

>>260704592
The worst part was flashback died in sandy, and the pinball machines died in the fire. Casino Pier Arcade is just Oz mania now

Seasidebros truly know suffering.

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>tfw your parents never took you to arcades because "muh violence"

>tfw walking past an arcade in the mall, seeing the bright lights, blaring music, explosions and sound effects permeating through your soul

I tried so hard to find that feel once I moved out. Not a single arcade within 200 miles of where I live.

>>260705040

What can I get for 50k tickets

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>tfw I used to go to a GameWorks all the fucking time when I was younger
>tfw was a huge-ass fan of Sanic and was practically in heaven getting all that merch at the prize counter (I kept a Sonic shot glass and I still have it to this day. Took the first drink out of it in years in celebration of the SA2 PC port coming out.)
>tfw it got bought out and is now "GameRoom," which is shit and full of fucking phone ports
Do I have any Sawgrass Mills niggas in here that can feel with me? I miss Cheeburger Cheeburger too, at least Cheesecake Factory is still around.

>>260703849
i only drove through ohio to get to kentuky, it felt as bad as you described, that said, kentuky is a weird place, people treat their lawn like is a garage, but if you go to summerset, try baxters, their coffee is amazing

>>260705040

>Wheel Deal

Getting rid of that fucking game is one of the best things my arcade ever did.

>>260704768
San Justo

>>260704978

>8 On The Break ran by Chris "I Don't Care That This Machine Brings In $700 A Day I'm Not Spending $30 On Fixing This Game" Cotty

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>Go to Arcade
>Little kids everywhere.
>Coin/Credit eating machines every where
>Fucking Iphone game machines are set up
>People keep looking at me funny, for obvious reasons.

I- I'll just stay home

>>260704734
it's pretty much as bad as you hear it is, yeah. but there's some cool stuff still

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>>260704995
>SVX
holy fuck that game
>Can't buy it
>Have to LEASE it from konami
>they take percentage of profits monthly
>Refuse to lease it outside Nippleland
>>260705137
65% of my prizes.

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you guys haven't lived until you've played this game with a bro

>>260705307
At least he still has those disgusting greasy ass cheese steaks for 3$.

>>260705137
Fake mustache comb.

>>260701494
actually thats both games bundled together

we still get games from overseas so its not dead

>>26070473
It's bad but it's getting better, whites are coming back so that's a plus

>>260705430

>tfw I play SDVX at home for free

>>260705198

It's spelled Kentucky you little shit, and the only good part of it is Louisville. Everywhere else is the epitome of Deliverance trailer trash Bible thumping good-ol-boys.

>>260700546
Holy shit I thought he was black and I was laughing my ass off.

>>260705430
>>260705487

>smilesjewishly.jpg

>>260705137
Lazer pen.

>>260697114
I went once, then I realized it's not as fun when you go alone, so I left.

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>>260705430
>tfw six story arcade machine building

>>260704995
i wish i could play sdvx2 already
i'm already burnt out on almost all of the sdvx booth tracks
>>260704835
well there's one arcade in the UK with spada, there's a few in italy too
too bad the one in the UK is a 4 hour train journey from where i live

>>260704995
4 music games this close doesn't sounds like a good idea.

>>260699637
>tfw the states never got any IDAS past v4 and every emulation and port is either buggy or bad or off

Why haven't I just killed myself?

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>>260705225
i don't get to dictate what goes in. All of my machines suck except for my DDR Extreme, which is in good shape except the bottom 1P right arrow sensor.
>>260705547
>TFW finnbro gave me a SOWS invite and i'm too stupid to emulate
g-guess i-i'll just p-p-play some DJ max trillogy

>>260705064
Mars Attacks, the best pinball machine they had there, blew away in Sandy.

The only reason I went to the boardwalk at all this summer was for Steaks.

There's a new arcade at the very end of Casino Pier that has a few cabinets, but it's pay for time. I didn't actually go in, but I might make a day trip on Monday to check it out.

8 on the break in NJ is the only arcade near me its meh

>>260703248
Was it your pinky?

>>260705040
>namco shooters a shit

it wasn't always like this

Seriously, >>260704396 looked like it was some US developed shit.

also, arcade operators like to jew up the difficulty to ensure you have to feed the machine at some point

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>Company is building 2 more 30,000+ square feet arcades in the area
>They're probably going to be terrible

>TFW Rad arcade with F-zero AX, Mario Kart, House of the dead 3, Ghost Squad, and a bunch more
>TFW You will move to the other side of the planet in a few years

Because it's clear across town and I don't have a car?
I'm also currently unemployed,I don't have the time or money to go and play video game. I need to be looking for a job.
But I sure do have enough time to shitpost on 4chan

>>260705552
>Everywhere else is the epitome of Deliverance trailer trash Bible thumping good-ol-boys

The people suck but I've always enjoyed the landscape...

I live in Illinois and it's nothing but fields.

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>tfw you bought your first shitty skateboard with 7 months worth of tickets saved from previous arcade shenanigans
>tfw all you did was play those shitty coin drop games to maximize ticket potential

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>>260705797
i couldn't hear anything

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>arcades are dead in the Netherlands
>went to Tunisia on vacation a long time ago
>the hotel had a metal slug 2 machine for some reason
>play that stuff as much as I can
>little kids come running in and start smashing on the P2 side of the arcade
>since the hotel made it so that 1 coin equals 2 credits they'd activate player 2

No wonder arcade culture is dead here. People see it as something for little kids. I just want to play games like metal slug and I really wanna play Blazblue at an arcade instead of at home. Even thinking about it right now makes me sad.

>>260705375

I tried to play House of the Dead at Cinemark the other day. Ate my credits. I didn't even ask for them back. I just fucking left. I was feeling good when I walked up to that machine, and it just reminded me that most "arcades" here don't even function.

>>260705552
>Only good part is Louisville
probably but i didn't go there, also how come there's not basketball courts there?

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>>260704995
Yeah.
Other is those sound voltex arcades.
To play arcade rip on PC you need endless analog input devices, that is knubs that do not end tracking to any point, they will spin or go endlessly to two different ways. That is hard to come by as windows compatible input device over 1000hz USB.

Well NOW they have 500usd controller out for that. Other is to have pivot monitor optimally.


And yeah the konami games are very ruthless. Starting out IIDX is not easy, not for anyone. Nobody can do it right the very first try not even in very easiest you will need some hours with the game to really get hang of hand coordination for it.

Good thing is that then it translates very well to pop'n music and so on as well.

>>260705430
http://www.gamo2.com/en/index.php?dispatch=products.view&product_id=313

>>260705682
>UK
but I am in finland
>Italy
but I am in finland

Too bad I would need few hour flight to those places and it would not be cheap.

>>260699942
It's an anime fighter with all the flavor of the month anime cuties.
Why wouldn't you know this.

>>260705797
they have headphone slots, guy on the far left is using some

>>260705825
Screw it I'm going to look into starting an Arcade in NJ. One that doesn't appeal to casuals.

>Skill based pinball
>No iPhone games
>the ticket machines require work to earn tickets

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Arcade food

>>260705981
Ours does have good games, Limburg master race faggot

>>260705913
this is true

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I live about 15 minutes from the seaside, so theres a bunch of Arcades in a long line down there.

Not that theres anything worth while to play anymore.

I have a memory of playing The Simpsons Arcade Game down there with some of my older family members when i was about 6 and being really pissed i had to play as Lisa.

Theres still an Outrun 2 machine there which is probably my most played arcade machine up to a point were me and a friend had the majority of the high scores for all the routes on Outrun mode, but now one of the screen has become blurry and one of the seats wont slide back to fit my long ass legs.

I did notice one arcade has a Mario Kart GP machine now, i don't know which one but i haven't been able to give it a try yet.

>>260706019

The only basketball courts are located in Owensboro due to the annual Dustbowl competition and its black population. Everywhere else is devoid of bball courts because guess why.

>Dave and Busters in Philly
>Entire building is on the river next to the Ben Franklin bridge
>Has every Time Crisis but 1 and every House of the Dead

Too bad everyone I went with was going for tickets only.

>>260706132

would eat/10

>>260706121
I'd love to do this, but you'd go out of business really quickly.

>>260697114
>Constantly paying to play a game for a short time instead of buying a game and having unlimited playtime

Even as a kid I saw arcades as huge, retarded scams

>>260703849
I can confirm
>lived in Bethel and Amelia
>Moved out to Louisianna due to living situation
>Move back north with GMA in shit hole KY
>Have to move back to CIncinnati (really Newport KY) to get decent employment/ living situation
>Too comfy to leave, too UN-comfortable to live
>Boiling frog

>>260706064
>anime
thats why, anime has gone the way of the call of dutys and last of us

>>260701494
HOLY SHIT DAT JUMP

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>>260705797
Machines usually have sound dividers in between them which blocks out some sound.

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>>260705848
>arcade operators like to jew up the difficulty to ensure you have to feed the machine at some point
fucking this. When i was in the navy, they did this at the arcade on base. STILL beat max 300 in gov. issue boots. Personally, i make everything as easy as possible so everyone feels like a winner and tells their friends how awesome of a time they had.
>>260706132
i'll kill you if you bring that in here.
>HUGE eared kid brings popcorn in
>NO FOOD!
>stands by the towel i put down for drinks and takes big lip smacking handfulls of popcorn
>Gets crumbs all over the floor
>Eyeballs me the entire time

>>260706121
Don't toy with me, anon. I would spend so much money, it isn't even funny.

For the good of humanity, make it happen.

>>260697114
>too old for arcade
>would probably be mistaken for a pedo

>>260705634
how do these places stay in business?

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>>260697114
>mfw there was a nickel arcade when i was a kid
>mfw its now an asian beauty salon

>>260706584

Dave and Busters is for you

>>260706316
even the most whitest place here known as amherst has a court like every other block

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>>260697114
BECAUSE THE ARCADES HERE ARE FUCKING SHIT

Managed to try 4 player Pac-Man, MGS arcade, Afterburner, F-Zero, and some fun tank game though. It's great. I want to try those weird, new rhythm game but some hardcorefags was hogging it.
Also because I hate how you can't use real coins for the arcades. Need to use some paid card. Shit sucks

>>260706628
Usually a front for drugs or human trafficking.

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>mfw most of the arcades here in SoCal are shit, they're Chuck E. Cheeses, or they're trying to cash in on said franchise's success.

Goddamn it.

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>>260705465
Woah

>>260706121
GL with that. If you are in north jersey I would somehow but i doubt you will stay afloat.

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>>260706628
fucktons of customers?

>>260706453
>pay like $5 for a few hours of fun
>pay $60+ for a shit game that you play for 10 hours

you'd only see it as a scam if you suck at games and can't make the most out of your playtime

>>260706815
I used to live in northern LA and the only arcade we had In town was basically MvC time crisis and racing games

It's pretty sad

>>260706892

is this a video game school

>>260706815

Have you not gone to Round 1

>>260706558
>NO FOOD!

Fucking Jews get mad about everything.

>>260705465
Man, that's some cool shit right there

>>260706928
>Paying for something you won't actually own, just play for a bit

At least MMOs last a while, arcades don't even do that.

>>260700147
>Not running Sunny Park/Lapistoria

Plebs.

>>260706815
nigga go to Super Arcade

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>>260706981
>time crisis

>>260706558

There's a Pizza Hut right next door to my arcade and people are constantly bringing that shit in with them. Found an entire months-old pizza under Let's Go Jungle once.

>>260707051

Clean ice cream off of everything you own every day for a month, fuckface. Shit gets old immediately.

>>260701494
I need a source on that

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>>260706990
no an arcade

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>>260706981
>Only arcade
>in northern LA
LA is the arcade capital of the US bro. it's got the only project diva machine in america.
>>260707051
ok then, you can clean all the grime off the machines when people bring sakio japan in and spill it all over the fucking deal or no deal.

>>260707051

Don't be such a fatass that you have to eat every 5 minutes

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>live near disney
>one of the arcades in one of the hotels has f-zero ax

Everything else in those arcades is shit, though, other than the star wars stuff.

>>260706570
>>260706417
Give me a few years and I'll do it. I am waiting for Hartz Mountain to cave in on prices in NJ(Big old empty area in Edison)

>>260707232
>Found an entire months-old pizza under Let's Go Jungle once.
jesus.

someone put a star-bucks frappachino that was a mono-milkchunk behind one of my kiddie games.

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>>260705820
>Finnbro gave invite
You talking 'bout me?

Because the closest one is a 300km drive, and its a shitty one.

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The only good Arcade I ever went to was in Cape Cod; had Wangan MT3, Tekken 3, and Virtual On

Nothing beats the VO arcade experience

>>260707232
>>260707286
>>260707376


"Wahhhhhh I have to d-d-do worrrrrrk"

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Opening an arcade.

So far my name options are

* Arcadia
* The Arcade De Triumph
* Outer Heaven

Anyone have any other good names for my arcade?

>>260706815
Preachin' to the choir. Closest to my area is All Amusement Fun Center, and their selection is crap. Nothing but FPSs and ticket munchers, with a small passage in the back leading to a hall of broken Neo-Geo and Tekken cabinets. Makes me wish I was back in Santa Cruz; at least they have a better arcade up there.
>>260707286
I heard they were testing the market. Thought they would've pulled the cabinets by now. Tell me more of this lone machine.

>>260707232
thats pretty much why owners dont want food in their arcades - people don't care if they fuck shit up and the owner has to clean up everything.

The only acceptable way is to let only regulars which are registered club member to have food with them. Also those people should watch out for nasty people and report them.

>>260707157
>Lincle
>SDVX Booth
>limelight
>copious

sunny park or lapistoria probably wasn't out at the time

>>260707286
I mean like the northern tip of LA there was 15 minutes of freeway separating us from any other town

>>260707559

Whatever you say fatty.

>>260697114
Nigga i'm in Eastern KY. The only "arcade" around is a goddamn Mr. Gatti's an hour and a half away and all it has are skill cranes.

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>>260704108
I've been there so many times....I might go back tomorrow. Fucking Sega Arcade.

>>260707579
"Out of business in two months"

>>260707579
Coin Munchers?
The Wasteland?
Wayback?

>>260707669
Probably, but still.

>>260705814
just buy extreme stage and and a g27, its virtually the same thing

>>260707579
Outer Heaven sounds alright
Personally I would name mine Quarter Heaven

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Worst part of arcades is when the game you love has a community that just doesn't care anymore...

... fuck the East Coast.

>>260698751

At my local Dave and Busters they have this game. It's pretty damn fun, though it's so different from console Mario Kart that it isn't even funny. You get a random roll at the beginning to determine your kart and the 3 items you can use throughout the match, which will randomly be chosen when you hit a block.

Lots of fun, just a bit strange. They also have a bunch of the house of the deads there as well, even though one 3's shotguns is broken.

>>260707505

We had some kind of plumbing box from the Starbucks upstairs rupture and leak old drinks onto our carpet for about a month straight. I guess the sink or something ran through it and when they poured out milk and shit it would collect in that.

>>260707559

I clean all the screens and panels and shit every day. I just don't want to have to scrub each fucking pane of glass for 5 minutes. People get their fucking ice cream on vertical surfaces somehow, constantly.

>>260707742
:^)

I don't work in a dying industry. I make more in a month on two slot machines than you do in 6 with your kid toys.

>>260697114
I got banned from my arcade for being underage drunk and playing House of the Dead obnoxiously loudly and violently. Fucking faggits went out of business and got turned into a bowling alley soon after.

>>260707878

Quarter heaven sounds great, but I have a feeling there's already a quarter heaven arcade somewhere.

>>260702858
I think the fact that western gaming culture evolved to online also helped kill whatever remnant of arcades there were.

Didn't really help that seedy types started using arcades as a home base, like to sell drugs and such.

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>>260707778
i thought that place was pretty mediocre

>>260699352
There is nothing in his post that implies he's underage, you dummy.

>>260707510
AWW YISS
Playing VO with the sticks is amazing. And those real Sega Model 2 graphics -- even the (extremely good) PS2 Sega Ages port doesn't look as nice as seeing it on a real medium-res monitor.

if there's one thing I desperately wish, it's to find a VOOT5.4 cab somewhere

>>260707579
>arcadia
overused
>arcade de triumph
awful
>outer heaven
go with this one

>>260697114
Because it closed in 1988?

>>260705048
>friend obsessed with ddr
>has been taking add meds since childhood
>have no idea of knowing this at the time
>walk by arcade, his eyes lock on the ddr machine
>3 hours later still there
man i hate those fucking ddr fags

>>260707579
Running in the 90s

>>260697114
The closest arcade I can even think of is in a bowling alley 5 miles away and I don't drive.

>tfw no arcades in kentucky

man this state is shit

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>>260707376
fucking this
>MFW people get butt furious when i say they can't have their ice-cream and coffee syrup concoctions in because i don't want to clean syruprings off every machine hourly
>>260707508
yes.
>>260707581
they stopped testing in june/july 2013, i went in Nov. 2013, and i hear they upgraded it to a future tone. It's at round one in the lakewood center. Pic is my ugly ass face with the machine. I was afraid to take too many pictures as i'd look like a tourist and get mugged. I've cut the hair.
>>260707847
you don't even need a G27 for it. a Driving force pro would work just as well. Extreme stage has no clutch support.
>>260708000
oh christ if i banned every drunk that comes in here i'd go out of business. I just kick you out and if you come in again another day you've got a clean slate

>>260708005
I already looked under registries for arcade machines, no quarter heaven. Since it will take a while for me to start one gladly take it

>>260707601

Have people tried having a subscription based arcade? It sounds unfeasible unless you have a really strong hardcore scene of hobbyists.

>>260700147
If I lived in Japan, I would be even more of a slob than I am. Holy shit, I would live in these arcades.

>>260697114
Arcades died in the '80s. Even if I found one still open it'd be like playing in a corpse. I'm old enough to remember what they used to be like, so seeing one filled with DDR machines and racing games would just make me remember how much was lost.

>>260707929

Also, for all those people that are hurting for an arcade near them but there aren't any, you should really get into pinball. Not exactly the same thing, but if you're looking for a quarter eater then that's the way to go. Got your highschools, flashing lights, and it's pretty skill based.

It's only a replacement for actual video entertainment, but trust me that pinball is fucking sick.

>>260708365
I tried free-play thursdays. You got as much DDR as you wanted for $5 every thursday from noon to 9.

Diddn't work. Lasted 1 month.

>>260708365
Super Arcade in SoCal i think does this

>>260708237
>yes.
Send me something in steam, I can at least tell you basics about bemanitools.

BTW it isn't emulation, the konami games run default on windows. You just need certain windows stuff for the game and the tools to work right.

If you are interested getting tips and help. Sorry I just know way too many people online and what not to keep conversation with everyone daily and I am very sure I neglected to help out bemanibros I added some months ago.

>japanese arcade
>expect amazingness
>1st floor UFO games, card games for babbies
>ah okay, probably upstairs
>2nd floor fightan games, two initial d games
>well, that's cool, probably more variety upstairs
>3rd floor, metal games
>ah weird
>4th floor, metal games
>huh?
>5th floor, slot machines
>must be something awesome at the top
>6th floor
>difficult to see due to the smoke
>16 player horse racing game
>mahjong games
>old guys

I was expecting better.

>>260707890
DJ max traditional > Technika
The downside is traditional seems to be dead, but at least they'll never make another game like DJMP3 again

>>260708472
Probably the way to go. I have a place with a Simpsons Pinball Party within a few minutes drive. Of course, I'd give my left nut for a place with Addams Family or Black Knight 2000

>>260708365

Next Level, though that isn't much of an arcade as it is just a console place. But I go there to play one of their two arcade games and it drains my wallet... but goddamn do I get a deal out of it!

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>tfw no arcades in Norway for some reason

Going to Japan later this year, going to waste so much money on the rhythm games

>>260708712
>Send me something in steam, I can at least tell you basics about bemanitools.

Uh, what

>>260708237

It's okay. We all win when these 600lb fatasses keel over before the age of 30.

>>260708214

I know that feel bro.

>>260707847
But Extreme Stage is a port of prepatch V4 and V4 is fucking trash, god damn. Fucking corner speeds what the fuck, if I can make the fucking turn at Y speed just because it's faster than the devs say X should be doesn't mean you should lock my fucking controls you piece of shit

fucking sega rosso rossi whatever FUCK V3 was the best version

>>260708712

sup sows

>>260708660

>$5 DDR for 9 hours

Gee I could only imagine why this didn't work.

>>260708237
nice shirt, Romero

Go to Dave and Buster's.

Problem solved.

>>260708763

Closest place to me that has Addams Family is like a 45 minute drive. They have an entire wall of pinball though, so it isn't so bad if you go out there with like 20 bucks.

There's a place close to me that has a Medieval Madness and Attack From Mars machine. I can spend all night on those fuckers. Attack From Mars has crazy amounts of Multiballs, so if you ever find a place that has one I'd say check it out.

Just went yesterday and played Maxitune 3 for 5 hours
Maxed out my FC and A70 Supras

>>260703248
Please, tell more.

>>260708756

I wouldn't compare the two. Technika and traditional are two different experiences. I love them both.