Did you ever go to arcades? Did you hold high scores? Any stories?

>>386191423
Only arcadey place we had was a skating rink that smelled like bleach and black kids. Of course, all the sticks were fucked out of alignment and buttons stuck. Don't remember much other than they had the original Street Fighter cabinet and the owners son would let us play Mortal Kombat II for free sometimes.

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I used to go to arcades after high school every wednesday and friday. Sometimes on weekends too.
There was a group of people playing fighting arcade games but I was more into autistic rhythm games like Dance Dance Revolution and Pump It Up. The DDR/PIU community was quite comfy, everyone acted like good brothers and sisters. I miss them, they were very supportive with each other.
I used to have high scores on Metal Slug X and Metal Slug 3.

>>386191423
Oldfag here. Played Street Fighter 2 a lot when it first came out. Haven't seen an arcade in years now.

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>>386191423

I've been within 10 points of the world record for House of the Dead 2. I don't know where he gets the points. I should just submit a score and be content with second best.

I got play the beta version of Wangan Midnight Maximum Tune 3 when I worked at a Namco arcade. Was pretty funny seeing half translated text loop across the screen. Also while working there some fat black niggress BROKE OFF the chair on Ridge Racer V. Like it wasn't going back on, new seat, new mechanism, whole thing would need to be replaced. Of course corporate said no.

>>386191423
Our last arcade closed around the time i was born

Played a lot of Tekken 7 in the Arcades. But it's all online so it's not even really an arcade experience desu.

tho

Not many arcades around anymore. I do have a laundromat nearby with House of the Dead inside, and I pop in just to play that from time to time. I used to be a G at Pole Position and Cruis'n USA

>>386191423
I work at an arcade/ sports bar chain. It's one of the bigger ones Americans usually recognize.

It's honestly kind of a hell hole. The average customer is a drunk uneducated idiot less interested in good games and more in flashy phone-esque instant gratification.

Though, I can't deny playing fruit ninja on a wumbo touch screen isn't fun as fuck. I claw at it and pretend to be Wolverine. Someone should make a similar game with blood and guts.

I go to my local round 1 and play WMMT5. Just maxed my car out the other day.

>tfw name is Alan Stephen Sanders
>tfw I can never put my initials on high scores because people will think I'm being immature

No arcades around where I live anymore as far as I know. I only vaguely remember them from when I was a little boy. Mostly just the one we had at a local mall. I remember one time I was at some kid's birthday there and I spent all my fucking coins on beating Alien vs Predator. I really liked that game for some reason. I liked the alien boss designs.

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>>386191423
Had a skating rink close by that had some outrun, xmen, MvC/2, and simpsons cabinets.
Pretty much all arcades are dead in my area now except maybe D&B if that counts, but nowadays it's just filled with scaled up phone game machines.
Other than those, there are some restaurants several hours away that only have machines from the 80s.

my arcade didn't have a whole lot of stuff cause australia lmao

at least it had time crisis, wangan and initial D.

I still do. There are 4 arcades within half a kilometer here.

All dead.
Though I did find a KoF machine in a chuck e cheeses once.

>>386197212
>$50 in credit
>Blow it all on Big Bass Wheel

Normies were a mistake.

Besides the Dave and Busters and the Boomers there are a few Barcades around me. In one you can play all the games for free but its kind of divey and next to a strip joint. The other one is cool but can get cramped on Friday and Saturday nights.

>>386197454
How do you get a Banapass at Round 1?

>>386198525
I asked the people at the counter

Nit exactly an arcade story but when ever we found a pinball machine I'd ask my dad to play and he would smash the high score out if the water. Sometimes crowds would gather.

>>386198638
True, it's because I played Maximum Tune 5 and all the guys who beat me had special car parts and shit and were 1000 m away from me.

>>386191423
Used to go all the time in the 90s when I was a little kid.

>>386199020
Yah its not worth challenging people unless your car is maxed out before then. Thats why I use the refuse vs option.

>>386191423
I work as a manager at an arcade, shit sucks
AMA

>>386191423
Only arcades i sank into were third world smelly back alley bootleg arcade joints. Basically 2-4 machines running emulators you'd be lucky to find a place that at least has a Basketball rig.

If you can't 1CC a game you ain't shit.

i was a regular at the arcade in my hometown, super legit arcade. at the peak of konami/sony shitting itself during the PT scandal, konami sued my hometowns arcade. they found out bc the leaderboards were online and when people started getting noticed konami realized that this little local arcade in texas had not paid for the rights for THE LATEST VERSION of the game, so at the end of the lawsuit the arcade had to downgrade to the games previous version. made me seriously hate konami, and now im in uni and miss my arcade dearly.

>>386199852
i once held a record on the wangan using the oldschool skyline max tuned, it was glorious seeing my car on the 'insert coin' screen

>>386200204
>at the peak of konami/sony shitting itself during the PT scandal

More info on this?

they shut down all the arcades in my hometown. said it encouraged truancy too much.

these days all I can find are dave n busters.

btw, anyone know why they dont carry fighting games?

I still go to Dave and Busters every now and then. Even the fucking rail shooters are dying out, as I saw this Walking Dead machine and was disgusted by how there weren't even boss fights.

>>386191423
A high school buddy and I worked at a laser tag place built out of a warehouse over a decade ago.

We used to run the high score for Star Wars Trilogy almost to perfect score. It was an arcade that once you mastered on one credit it was still worth playing to attempt a perfect score.

>>386191423
I've been banned for farming tickets from a few. They all use the same machines with the same systems.

I remembered seeing fighting games like CVS2, MVC2, and Soul Calibur 2 when visiting arcades in Hawaii back in the day.

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>>386191423
Does anyone remember this game?

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>tfw most arcades are dave and busters shit with a bunch of mobile games converted into ticket spewers.

>>386197212
I worked at a local place in texas called putt putt funhouse that had an arcade.

We got an employee discount on credits that you could load onto a card (like most places use now) but also used legit quarters still for things like skiiball and air hockey. They had a machine where you would slide your card and it would give you quarters based on how much was on the card.

Employees Got 25% extra credit if you put it on the game card, so 15 bucks would get you 20 bucks.

So, i would put 20 dollars worth of "tokens" on my employee card for 15 dollars, then cash out 20 dollars on quarters and make six bucks. Repeated once or twice a day just to pay for lunch and shit, never got caught.

>>386200562
Fighting games attract 3 kinds of people:

1. GANG MEMBERS. This is THE #1 reason why fighting games are not carried in more arcades anymore. If you lived in an inner city in the 90s this was a huge problem. The untold story of the death of arcades is that gangs took over urban arcades in the 90s and kids couldn't go to them anymore because they were dangerous.

2. AUTISTS. For some reason, any kind of video game that encourages heavy time commitment will 100% of the time without fail attract a herd of autistic neckbeards faggots who will stick to the machine like flies to shit and won't do any other business with the establishment and will scare away people via their smell and fattitude and general failure to not dress like fedora faggots. This is the real reason why video game demo stations in department stores and toy stores don't exist anymore.

3. COMPETITIVE FIGHTING GAME PLAYERS. These guys are way too dedicated and take shit way too seriously and will spend way too much time at the machine. This is undesirable for any business unless it's a dedicated arcade meant explicitly for arcade enthusiasts, e.g. Galloping Ghost and similar establishments.

>>386193181
I played many rhythm games in my adolescence. The circle i played ddr and piu with always made drama because of one girl.

The fighting game bros were all cool. I'm from new england, so a lot of the people i played with played tekken5 and cvs2 at the time.

The only high score i ever held was on a fightmania cab. The top record holder was my older brother.

>>386200739
>I've been banned for farming tickets

What in the fuck? How does that even happen?

>>386201047
This is the best post in the thread.

>>386201053
so why are arcade fighting games still popular in japland then

>>386201053
>in more arcades anymore

Should say MOST, not more.

>>386191423
Not anymore and thank god for that, I hated arcades and still do. I did have a lot of fun with House of the Dead when I was younger though.

>>386201149
Shitty slot machines that hand out a lot of tickets, they just let me take a prize and told me to never come back, though sometimes i just get told to leave and not get shit.

>>386191423
I found 1000 tickets in a bin once. I think the staff just lazily disposed of the tickets and didn't expect anyone to get them.

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>>386191423
Got a knife pulled on me after repeatedly using mercy on a dude in umk3, good times lmfao

>>386201149
Not that guy, but the putt putt guy from earlier.

On games like stacker (where you have to line up the blocks and push the button several times in a row at increasing speed), the last attempt is literally rigged by the owner/person who set it up. You can set it up to be that it only works if they push the button 4 blocks too early, for instance. People try to push it when the blocks are lined up, and lose every time.

But if you KNOW what it is set to you can win pretty consistently. Employees werent allowed to play but i got the voucher, then had a friend come up and redeem a couple dvds/old vidya games

>>386199981
I want to work at a R1 that opened, I applied but no response, am I not wanted?

>>386200316
are you a fucking gold fish?
fucking copy that shit again, but instead paste it into google search, holy fuck

>>386201330
1. No issue with gangs whatsoever. There is no association between yakuza and video games of any kind there, let alone fighting games.

2. Autists in Japan literally only play visual novels. This is no exaggeration. something like 70-80% of ALL PC games in Japan are visual novels and like 70-80% of those are pornographic. It literally is the only thing they play. Otakus basically spend their entire lives watching anime and playing visual novels and doing nothing else. They don't crowd arcades because they don't even leave the house.

3. The fighting game community in Japan is several orders of magnitude more civil and actually bathes on top of that. When people go into arcades they go in there by themselves instead of in groups, sit down and play the machine sliently, and then leave. The American fighting game community is a zoo, and the yuropooristanian fighting game community is literally nothing but muslims and all they play is Tekken so that shit is like being in the 3rd world since they're literally all from the 3rd world. Japan doesn't tolerate that kind of boisterous behavior and doesn't have 3rd worlders to worry about either, so neither of those things are an issue over there.

>>386201424
So you got kicked out for being too good?

>>386201980
I see

at least west arcades can't be as bad as chinese ones where some dude got stabbed over kof

>>386201617
Were there any other games that were rigged like stacker was?

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My friend and I have set high scores on every Deadstorm Pirates game we've come across. We've got it practically memorized as far as enemy patterns and where all the treasure chests pop up.

With that said, I have no idea what the actual world record scores are for it, so who knows.

>>386191423
Yes. I also got a high score on the Simpsons game.

>>386201638
They were probably over saturated with applications
People everyone assumes working at an arcade is an easy job (which it is for the most part) so lazy normalfags and autists are constantly trying to find jobs there.

Keep calling them show that you actually want the job.

>>386202230
Kind of. The simpsons coin pusher gsme (where the goal is to get one of the coins to fall) adds extra voice lines to the ambient noises it makes whenever it the payout would be too high (according to what the manager set as too high) so that we can go and empty part of it.

Pinball games tend to do the same (make an extra sound) when the free ball light will come on next game.

That game where you have to fill up the balloon has very little to do with how much air you put in it, it inflates on its own over time, and after a certain period it resets the jackpot amount to the default.

That jumprope game where you have to jump over the lights is rigged in much the same way as stacker, except it senses whether someone is standing on the pressure plate (not just pushing a button) so its harder to cheese

>>386202904
I figured, I went up to them last week with my application in hand, since they ask that to bring it with you, and they much told me they were getting through a lot of applications. Guess I'll just have to call them up again and let them know I'm interested in a position.

>>386202087
Apparently they know about the problem but don't issue a warning to those who exploit it just to kick them out instead

>Go to arcade every Saturday
>Number 1 high score would always be a guy named CCD
>Wouldn't leave until I dethroned him
>Next Saturday he'd be number 1 again
>went on for almost a year of us up staging each other
>meet him one day
>coop
>longest standing friend I've ever had
>present day
>own a cabinet with all metal slug games on it
>we play almost every Saturday

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There's a seaside resort near me with plenty of arcades
can't resist playing this when i'm in the area, just to get the bitches moist

Don't know if it counts but
>playing mortal kombat on arcades where one coin was 10 minutes and of course I just got one
>after playing for a while some way older faggot pressed the button for second player thinking I didn't see him
>since it already removed my from my match and back to versus screen and was so young I didn't say anything
>he sat to play because "it said its for 2 players" or something like that
>he of course picked Shinnok because he was supposed to be so op but so did I without knowing anything at all.
>he is quite good and stomps me to one punch but somehow I manage to get him to one punch too
>try to finish him with a jump kid
>in the mid section of the jump I just fall on the ground
>my time is over
>I was poor fuck and the older faggot didn't want to buy a coin so the game stayed like that for a minute and then got back on the demo screen

>>386203869
Post more pics.

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>>386203124
If you do get the job just know this, you may have to deal with some of the worst people ever ( at least I do but that may be regional).

Australia was a shitty place to grow up with video games, at least in my city. Arcades were dead ages ago

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I went to an arcade in another town to spend a day off
>Place was a ghost town
>Half the machines were either broken or not on
>All I played was one round of Guitar Hero, a broken Fast and Furious game, and two rounds of skeeball
I wanted to kill myself If I won the lottery, I'd want to build my own private arcade

>>386204065
I'm used to shitty customers, plus I've seen firsthand some of the kinds of people the staff have dealt with. It's very hard for them to rattle me, it's always been what my bosses found remarkable about me when I worked retail and shit.

I used to go to GameWorks a lot at a mall near my house, but the Gameworks closed a few years ago. RIP in peice Arizona Mills GameWorks.

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>>386203485
forgot pic

The only real arcades near me anymore are those new barcades. One is located in the yuppy part of town and is host exclusively to college students trying to get wasted and laid. The other one is pretty chill with an older crowd, regular tournaments and about twice as many games. Last I checked, I still have a Top 10 score on the Super Mario Bros. 3 pinball machine. My name is AAS.

>>386203869
Love the Guitar Hero cabs, wish you could buy the guitars they come with instead of the shitty plastic consumer ones. They're also fuckin' cash grabs, last time I played one a single play was like $3.

>>386191423
I completed Hydro Thunder in arcade, i think that's the most I've achieved there. Used to go from time to time. I remember Tekken 3, Killer Instincts, Wonderboy, Sega Rally, Metal Slug. They were fun.

i used to go to the arcade like every day. i'd play in 3rd strike and tekken 5:dr tournaments. i'd play kof for fun, but anyone chinese would always beat me. i had the highest score in the country (to my knowledge) on house of the dead 4. i also played raiden and deathsmiles quite a bit.

when i was in japan, i played a shit load of mushihime sama and ibara black label. when i was in korea last year i played about 1,000 matches of tekken 7 at green arcade.

my friend and i are interested in opening up a bar/arcade type place but i'm worried because of the fuckwits that would attract. and id need security because of alcohol being served and... it's such a headache.

Had the high score on the centipede game in DisneyQuest for a while.
Pretty proud of that.
Press F

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>>386204331
>Trying to beat this shit on arcade
It keeps going...

>>386201980
Fuck I was in Akihabara yesterday and the arcades were full alright.

>>386203485
That's a pleasant story, anon.

>>386204251
Well then you should be fine, try telling the people at round 1 that it may help.

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>tfw no one to play offline street fighter with

Online is not the same bros

>>386204715
Will do, thanks for the advice anon

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>>386204012
this is another favourite

>>386204387
yeah the pricing is kind of a ripoff
the easy songs are cheaper than the ones worth playing

There used to be a Nickel Nickel arcade near me that I went to once but it closed a year later. That was the closest thing to a real arcade in my area that wasn't a movie theater section with redemption "games". I've since moved to LA but haven't made a real effort to find genuine arcades here other than a tiny tiny one in Koreatown with a few imported machines

In Boston with the family for the week and really wanted to make the drive to Funspot in New Hampshire considering it's the most iconic retro arcade in the nation but nobody was willing to make the drive with me and reacted negatively when I told them about it, fucking normies

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I lived in Las Vegas as a kid and my parents always had me on the strip with them in them during summer time and every hotel had an arcade. I never really cared for them and thought they were pretty boring but 1 time at the Luxor casino I was playing this Simpsons game solo and eventually 3 other strangers wandered in 1 by 1, joined up and we cleared the game in around an hour. Pretty much the only memorable arcade experience minus a few of those FPS games where'd you'd use the vibrating plastic machine gun controllers with awful hit recognition. It actually feels surreal looking back for 4 people that don't know each other to have some fun like that

>>386204607
Total longshot, but do you know of a place to play SF5 in Tokyo?

>>386205091
I don't think SF5 ever had an arcade release.

>>386205249
Nah it didn't, but seeing random Japanese players at EVO this year, they gotta be practicing somewhere

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Live relatively near a round 1. They got lots of japanese games and plenty of rhythm games. Gunslinger Stratos is kinda fun. Diva on an arcade is very disorienting after playing using a controller for so long.

>>386205091
Nope. It was my first experience and got so fucking overwhelmed I just walked around and gaped like a big old gaijin.

Probably is a place around there though.

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>>386204387
>fell for the guitar hero arcade meme 1 time at a theme park
>was a few dollars to play and was broadcasted on some 200 inch screen overhead
>pick raining blood on expert because i was okay at the game
>the controller is a full second out of sync from the screen
>lose as soon as it got to *that* part

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>>386205763
>embarrassing yourself in front of tons of people
How unfortunate

>>386197990
My local arcade closed down a few months back. It's a Asian restaurant now. Goddammit Australia.

>>386206264
I felt more cheated than embarrassed t bh

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As in any good spic arcade, the one near my place has KOF02, TT2 and that one DDR-like game that isn't DDR (can't remember the name) among other less popular ones.

Used to go there often after work to play KOF and SF4. People were pretty chill, never seen anyone chimping out or bothering others being too loud. Having G-Friend as bgm thanks to the rhythm game players made it extra comfy too.

Getting good in the span of a year in different games was lots of fun, I just wish there was more variety of games instead of 5 cabinets with different versions of Tekken, but I guess if that's what's keeping the place alive I'm fine with it.

I had the high score on a few DDR songs on the hardest difficulty.

no one played those songs but me I think

>>386206998
>that one DDR-like game that isn't DDR (can't remember the name) among other less popular ones.
Pump it Up?

>>386202230
Claw games are. Every certain number of plays the claw actually grips.

>>386207054
Yep, that's the one. It has lots of korean music, or at least that's what most people play on it.

Haven't even tried to play a rhythm game that uses feet in a decade to be honest, I'd get embarrassed with all the people watching. Learned to love g-friend and orange caramel though.

>>386202240
I play this on PS3 all the time.

The bad dialogue is 10/10. Love the visuals, the sounds, just a great experience. Half the time I blow it at the final boss though.

>>386205501
How do you do the stick flick on here?

>>386205763
>put two tokens into house of the dead
>gun is so miscalibrated I need to pretty much aim behind me
>lol you suck man

This was around two years ago.
>Go to Timezone.
>They have an Afterburner Climax cabinet with the moving seat and everything.
>Play it for around half an hour, have a fucking ball. Legitimately one of the most thrilling video game experiences I've ever had.
>Dude working there tells me that it got ported to the Xbox 360 and PS3.
>Go home, eager to download it and play some more.
>Find out it got removed years ago because loldigitalonlyandexpiredlicenseslol.
>Go back to Timezone the next week.
>They sold the Afterburner Climax cabinet.
LITERALLY GO FUCK YOURSELF TIMEZONE.
Thank fuck PS3 emulation is going well.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xlFLz0w7gYI
>

>Sink several dollars into a light gun machine for one single credit.
>Gun isn't fucking calibrated.
Next time this happens I'm going to yell at the staff until I get kicked out.

>>386208232
Is SEGA ever going to bring back that game?

>>386191423
>Did you ever go to arcades
Still do, They have an arcade built into my movie theater I get a couple of matches in MvC2 before i see a movie

>>386208870
Climax? I doubt it. Relicensing all those planes would probably cost a bit of dosh and Sega probably doesn't think it's worth it.

>>386207780
There's a touch bar in front of the buttons that you slide along. Unless you're talking star notes but those don't exist in future tone/arcade.

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>>386191423
I live in commiefornia so i can go drive to a round 1 and play intial d arcade stage 8
>be at round 1 playing and going through missions
>see some guy get a lincense for arcade stage 8 asked him if he wanted to race and he says sure, because he seemed new to the game and i'm still pretty shit
>go to vs mode, and start chatting him up, ask him when he started playing IDAS
>game decides he gets to pick track
>he picks irohazaka, and says i played arcade stage 3 for about 3 years
>i pick courses that weren't in arcade stage 3 and he still effortlessly beats me several times in a row
>mfw

>>386209049
you know for stuff like outrun and afterburner it would be nice is they made some non licensed cars so they don't have to take down the game

>>386210189
Yeah its fucking retarded. They don't behave like "real" Tom cats and Ferrari's why even do that? Ridge Racer had the right idea just name the vehicles are characters and games you have the rights too.

>>386210189
They actually had to do something similar when M2 did their 3DS port of Outrun. They couldn't get the rights back to the Ferrari so they just altered the sprite.
I wouldn't mind if they did that.
It's like the people bitching because the Crazy Taxi re-releases couldn't include the original music. Yes, the original soundtrack is great but the gameplay is just as good as it ever was.

>>386210345
>>386210369
and honestly if they can't ferrari license again on top of non licensed cars, i wouldn't mind seeing other brands of sports cars like corvettes being used in outrun if they wanted some "authenticity" but thats just me

>>386205763
my issue was just hearing the music over all the other machines in the place
it was impressively loud, but not loud enough considering I play at home with headphones.

>>386210657
I never liked those games because the guitars were too fucking heavy and a lot harder to handle. I could play expert at home but couldn't even do hard with the arcades.

>>386210934
I thought they were pretty sturdy
the strum bar was a bit mushy, but if you can alt-strum it's nothing detrimental

>>386197597
Hey CAP

>>386211112

My main problem was most of the good songs being locked away behind an extra credit.

Also I'd prefer to pick my difficulty after picking what song I'm gonna play, since without memorizing what the cabinet has, I don't know what songs are on there before getting to the song list.

Live close by a Gameworks, Dave & Busters, Big Al's, and a Round 1. The Gameworks is a hollow shell of what it once was unfortunately, out of the remaining three i'd much rather go to Round 1 just cause of the rhythm game selection and a lot of the older cabinets are relatively cheap and in good condition. If i'm not going with friends or i'm just hanging out with one or two other people we go to a small arcade a city over and hang there. They have a Gals Panic game that I ended up getting good at after looking up guides online.

In Denver, there's this sweet arcade that has all these classic games, KoF, MvC, all the Dragon Quest/Space Quest games, Pac-Man games, Galaga, and like 15 pinball machines, all on freeplay. I spend about 4 hours each time I go. I have become a god at the Terminator 2 Pinball machine.

>>386211853
>judgement day
>direct hit!
the last time I saw that machine was in Malta in 1998
that was a glorious year

>>386201053
your words make sense, but where are you getting this? is it just your assumptions or did you hear/read about these causes

>Did you ever go to arcades
I work at one, but ever since i started working at it, i stopped playing the games. also fuck Pac-Smash, that game errors every 3 seconds.

>>386213475
I'm old and grew up in arcades in the 80s and 90s and never actually stopped going. All first hand experience seeing the history of the arcades up close and in person.

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>>386201053

>The untold story of the death of arcades is that gangs took over urban arcades in the 90s and kids couldn't go to them anymore because they were dangerous.

holy shit, were urban arcades in the 90s like the first TMNT movie depicted them? sounds radical

>>386213948
I just looked on youtube for this one famous 90s gang documentary, but I couldn't find it. They even showed them hanging out in an arcade in that playing Time Killers.

>>386204546
i can beat it with out dying. get good faggot.

>>386191423
Who else Big Buck Hunter here? I hold the high score at a couple bars.

>>386197990
My local arcade in western sydney has a full Wangan area with the card machine and everything. Bit disappointed since I was looking for an Initial D game but it surprised me.

>>386215159
wangan midnight 5 pretty much got a western release. whereas initial d, did not.

>>386215159
If you come around Colorado, I know an arcade that had an Initial D machine.

>>386199981

typical day at work and legit arcade or barcade?

>>386204895
I gotchu dude. Do you know how to build a computer? y/n if y apply for mechanic. if no, apply for mechanic.

t. round 1 mechanic

There is a bar I go to sometimes that has free use arcade machines. They have a great selection too.

no high scores, but i got play a few arcade games. MK and HotD 2 which were my favorites, also if I'm not mistaken there was a Terminator arcade machine which I tried. Definitely played Sega Rally or something like that, a rally game.

I was just at an arcade.

>>386191423
there was a place near my house called "Good Time" and every year from middle school up until I was 16, I would have my birthday party thrown there so all my friends loved it. it was a super busy arcade that did birthdays for kids--pizza included--but it also had an adult area with actual gambling and bars, pool tables and bowling alleys.

unfortunately, it closed down because there was a lot of shady shit that went on in there too. a lot of drug deals and drug busts, fights breaking out between people with cops being called to the place, I'm pretty sure there was a stabbing at one point.

it was such a blast, I miss that place.

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I got beat in the Wangan Midnight arcade game the other day by a 15 year old girl in a Trueno who was there with her brother. It was her first time playing the game and she was driving automatic. I want to kill myself.

>tfw went full N-NANI

>>386215089
Fantastic games.

>>386216282
>lost to an automatic

i mean i could see it if her car out leveled yours or if youre really bad. how did it happen?

the only reason I've ever gone to arcades is to play fucking time crisis, which is the best arcade cabinet game ever made

the only downside is you have to use weaver stance or something like it to use the pedal, even though thinking men use isosceles

>>386213739
tell me that the gangs respected atleast one turbo-nerd who was there before them and let him come and go as he pleases like hes some badass but really they know he just wants to play games.

>>386215306
Normal arcade

>>386216478
I was in the GC8 but she kept getting past me in the corners somehow. I don't consider myself that bad at the game but jesus what the fuck. She didn't even have any levels.

Used to spend hours playing Soul Calibur in the arcade. Had the top score for many months, many moons ago. Would alternate between Ivy and Kilik, depending upon what characters others would play.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CALrEWOo1yA

how autistic do you get when playing games in public?

>>386191423
I played SF with my brother sometimes

>>386215450
I will apply for mechanic, gotcha.

>>386191423
id go to arcades with my dad and play smash tv for hours, then wed play gauntlet and street fighter

>>386217971
it's easy to get, mostly because people don't really know what theyre doing and as long as you have a functioning brain, you should be fine. most people wont apply to it, since it seems hard. it's not

I had the home version of Time Crisis 2 and I played that shit religiously. So every time I found a machine in a theatre or some shit I would DESTROY it on like 3 continues maximum. Other kids would watch in awe as I played the first level barely even looking at the screen because it had become muscle memory at that point, popping every dude the instant they appeared on the screen.

That and I used to be able to fuck up a DDR machine something fierce, also because I had the home version, MAX2 was my jam. I wasn't asian good or anything but I was pretty good and pre-youtube that meant a lot more.

>that one time the employee played turtles in time with you because you were all alone

>>386203869
Man, we had a guitar hero machine in our highschool. Or rather, the museum had an exhibit about technology for a few years and a guitar hero machine was part of it, kids would skip class and go play it all the time, which was retarded because it was literally in view of like 5 classroom windows and they'd always get caught.

>>386218236
I mean I haven't really built a computer, but I took a comp repair class in HS, I at least know the functions of the parts and the lingo, don't really remember the actual connecting components and whatnot, but nothing I can't learn if I sit down for an hour or two. I'm not retarded so I handle the parts with care and shit. So if there is nothing to fix or anything what do the mechanics do? Help customers?

I beat like 10 people in a row in MvC2 once

>>386191423
I've got the high score on a Pac-man machine at a local laser tag place and am the best street fighter player in my town

>>386191423
I hold the high score on every Galaga and Ms. Pac Man machine for 30 miles surrounding Greensboro, NC.

I once did a marathon of all the light gun games to see if I could beat them all.

Managed to go through the entirety of Time Crisis as a series but didn't get through this one called "Elevator Madness"

>>386218527
Not comparable, but I recently beat the MSHvSF arcade mode on a single credit. I felt proud because I am mostly a pad player when it comes to fighters, so using the arcade stick was like starting from square one for me.

Every Monday growing up, I'd go with my Mom to the local bowling alley. She'd give me $5 and I'd go to the arcade there. It was actually a legitimately amazing arcade, lots of games of all kinds - the kind of arcade you don't really see anymore.

I played the shit out of the Star Wars Trilogy Arcade game. I always went Hoth > Endor > Yavin. I could clear it all the way up to Yavin perfectly. I only beat it all the way a few times. The other game I played every single time I went to the arcade was House of the Dead 2. I don't remember how far I ever got - I don't think I beat the entire game - but I played enough to know where hidden items were.

I remember both these games because at one point for each of them, a crowd of people formed to watch me play. I thought it was awesome - I was pretty young then (11, 12, 13) and it made me feel cool however stupid that may sound now.

The bowling alley is still there, but they got rid of the arcade a long time ago. Replaced it with a shitty, jungle-themed indoor minigolf course. There was an attached restaurant that had that Sega Top Skater game (the one with the actual skateboard) and the one that was basically the skiing version of it. I got okay at the skateboard game, but by that point we weren't going to the bowling alley nearly enough.

I got way too nostalgic over this. If I could go back in time and hit up that arcade with a five dollar bill on a Monday night, I'd be so happy again.

>>386218483
the most you need to know is how to disassemble and reassemble stuff to clean parts. unless you want a higher paying position, then you can probably just ask your boss to teach you stuff. you wont really be doing anything outside of making sure games function right and bowling lane stuff, which is also pretty easy as the problems those have is just "what problem do i see? is it a jam or did a belt snap and i have to replace it?" also cleaning and reoiling lanes.

outside that you'll CAN help customers, if you like dealing with people. just ask lots of questions, generally all mechanics at entry level are in the same boat. "how does this work? any ideas on how to fix it without blowing it up?" then you learn and move up from there.

Nope, no such a thing in yurob

>>386218780
Sounds like my kinda job, I like learning practical stuff like that and I was always curious about assembling arcade machines and the like.

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>will never go to the arcade after school again
>will never be able to dethrone that asian kid's high score

>>386218981
If you live in Illinois, the one near me is hiring, but i doubt you live there. It's fun, pretty chill till everything decides to explode at the same time. you'll be learning wiring too, which isnt too hard.

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My dad would take me to a shitty little strip mall arcade every weekend and we'd spend hours playing Time Crisis, Tekken, and House of the Dead together. Best memories.

>>386218683
>galaga

my father swears by machines that dont inhibit your fire rate. machines that apparently will shoot everytime you hit the button regardless of how fast you hit it

is this how it always was? was it never this way? custom mods?

i feel like i have a faint memory of this but am just not sure

>>386191423
I got the high score on galiga with my friends when I was about 11, and put my name in as ass, and we thought it was super funny, and told everyone at my school.

I was forced to play KoF because the KoF shitters would drop this goo candy into the arcade sticks for other fighting games. Now I'm a top ranker and can't really get touched when I hit up any arcade. Fuck knowing the terms, I just know how to kick your ass.

>>386216762
no

the fuck

>>386219137
I'm in NY, by one that just opened up. I imagine it's quiet till everything turns off all at once. That sounds good, learning some wiring. I should tell my friend about this, he actually studied this stuff and is interested in it, maybe he'd like to work there too.

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>>386219561
good luck dude. i have hope in you, as i applied as food and bev and got mechanic. so if you outright go for mechanic youre already in a good spot.

get ready to fall in love with the game Pac-Smash as it breaks every 5 minutes.

>>386219793
Thanks man I appreciate the insight. There are so many games that look like they break every time they are played, just based on how customers handle the equipment. Especially little kids, I cringe every time I see one play on one of the fighting game cabinets, its like they are trying to rip the stick out and jam the buttons through the bottom of the damn thing.

>>386220092
If you hit the buttons harder you punch better, don't you know anything?

>>386220092
ugh i feel your pain

im about to graduate with a mechanical engineering degree, working on videogame cabinets sounds great. is the pay even half decent? do you ever outsource more complicated jobs to other people? if so, who?

>>386220753
Ahhh of course, basic knowledge. I forgot that pushing the buttons in hard enough to jam them in place will translate to hard punches that do 40% of your life.

>>386191423
Not too many arcades. Most of the time when I was playing on a cabinet, it would be at the pool halls, event centers and even Mexican restaurants I would hang out at as a kid. All those cabs are gone now, though.
Why did the world stop being fun?

>>386221012
And if you slam the stick back and forth fast enough you do a secret move. If you want to work in this industry you've gotta remember this stuff.

>>386221000
the pay is pretty eh, but it also depends on how much you know about electronics and whatnot. if you can wire and you know your electricity, you can get a high position, where they get you to travel to other stores teaching people. you also help organize what stores need to buy to repair games. Outside that you can probably get a job at manufacturing the arcade cabs or even being one of those 3rd parties who goes around repairing them. idk the pay on those though. generally if we dont know how to fix a game, we call up one of them and they come down and do whatever they do.

>>386221635
Yes yes only a fool wouldnt know of the secret techniques, a fool Haha

>>386221643
yeah the scariest part of those videogame cabinets (to me) is coding the actually game, i can wire and solder like a madmad and turning wrenches is beyond second nature. being flown around sounds cool, especially if i know theres an arcade wherever im going. could i just walk into some corporate arcade like dave and busters and explain my credentials?

>>386191423
I have the high score on Capcom vs SNK 2 at the Santa Cruz beach boardwalk

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>>386221930
i wouldn't say walk in, but you just apply or call if there's a position open for something like that. you wouldn't have to worry about coding when you manufacture stuff, cause that's usually already in some usb stick that everyone has a backup of.

>>386221635
>when some kid pulls back on a steering wheel so hard that it disconnects it from the pcb or breaks the pot. fucking kids and mario kart

some guy threatened to stab me back when alpha 3 came out cause i threw him 3 times in a row with karen then bullied his ass in the corner

god Baltimore is a shithole

>>386215008
I need about 5 credits to beat it.

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i met my one of my best friends playing and actually beating house of the dead, you remember the machines - the cool ones with the guns and "reload, reload!" when you were out of ammo

sadly he died from a ied last year in the sandbox.

>>386222082
Im glad R1 has a parental requirement past a certain time but damn these parents need to tell their kids to punching, kicking, yanking and whatever else they do to these machines.

But sometimes kids aren't even the issue, there was a guy who was playing Pump it up and he was stomping on the panels so hard I felt the fucking vibrations some 7 feet away. Whats wrong with these people? At this rate this R1 is gonna close down cause all the machines will be totaled completely.

>>386222284
F

>>386222403
A lot of the time kids aren't the problem. There are a ton of drunk people "accidentally" spilling beer everywhere. I've said to management that they shouldn't be allowed to bring drinks and food to the game floor, but that don't mean shit.

Reminds me that some kid reeled back so hard when playing a skii ball game, that he completely missed the game and the ball went straight through the glass door. Hell of a time.

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I have a smallish family-run arcade nearby, I know lots of the people who own the machines and we hang around super late past closing once a week and put the IIDX cab on free play. It's a pretty good time

>>386200954
Is this a jojo reference?

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TIME CRISIS 2 AWWWWWW YEAAHHHHH

>>386204331
>mixed button colors
>three of each so they could be in the right spots

When Mortal Kombat was a thing I went to an arcade and changed my ~$10 bill to change and set them on the the the arcade machine and then someone stole them while I was too focused on the game. :(

>>386202230
Basically every prize game (claws, stacker, keyhole, etc) or timing-based redemption game is rigged. There's a legal loophole that lets them do it

>>386222518
Oboy drunk people. I am surprised the allow drinks and food on the game floor. Last time I went there were two kids playing air hockey and one somehow hit the pug and let their hockey handle thing go flying with it. Almost hit some random lady playing groove coaster like 15 feet away

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Who /dotdodgers/ here?

>>386222851
>air hockey match ends
>kid launches handle forward blasting it into the barrier
>give him the "are you serious, you fuck" kinda look
>runs off

also;
>someone playing groove coaster

good one.
just kidding, game isnt that great though.

>>386223052
I mean Im not much a rhythm guy, my friend is a nut for those games, but its visually interesting to watch. There are some savants that roam that isle. They plug their headphones and then their hands are everywhere, or their legs are MOVIN.

>>386191423
I used to go to Sunnyvale Golfland to get my ass whooped in Tekken 6. Now we have Round 1 and it's pretty sweet.

Arcades are for degenerates and pedophiles.

t.my mommy

>>386223224
watching good rhythm game players pretty entertaining, yeah. I feel bad when people group around them and the pressure makes them mess up.

>>386191423
Arcades still exist here
And yes to your original question

>>386191423
My granddad used to take me to the bookies and give me money to play the simpsons arcade game they had in there. I used to love it.

>>386191423
I play at Round 1 all the time. I play DDR, IIDX, and Drummania. Mostly, DDR, it's really fun. I'm working on getting past 17s right now, I've really hit a wall with them. I also think I can pass the Egoism 440 expert single panel chart. It's an 18, but it's mostly just drills and I'm sort of good at those. Do any of you guys play ddr? Can /v/ pass MAX300?

>>386223378
Yeah that is pretty shitty when they get a crowd. Though at the R1 I go to the only crowd they tend to get are other hardcore players. At the same time they have a BIG two panel glass window right next to the machines so people can just look inside and watch them tear up.

>>386223501
I used to play see. I stopped during high school cause loldepression. my feet still remember how to play HEAVY songs, but my lazy slacker ass can't keep up and i get tired.

I wish i could start an arcade in my city.

But it would be the biggest waste of money.

>>386192892
>Did you ever go to arcades?
no
>Did you hold high scores?
no
>Any stories?
nope

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>>386191423
My dad and I held the five top score positions for Jurassic Park. It was kind of our bonding ritual.

Used to go to an arcade near where I live until it closed down. Played 3rd strike and Marvel 2, even competed in some tourneys they held but never won any.

late 90s
only arcade i ever seen was in tourist resort near a lake
eating ice cream and playing metal slug during summer
good memories

Bongland doesn't seem to have arcades, what it does have are these places on the coast called 'amusements' which are basically the same thing, except they only have like 2 or three cabinets (always a light-gun game) and the rest is 10p machines and crane shit.

>>386191423
does chuck e cheese count?

My brother used to work at Chuck E. Cheese. He'd always bring home extra tokens and I'd take them and use them in those dumb coin games at other places.

>>386222527
tmf?

Arcades here in mexico were always frequented by potheads and, oddly enough, greasy auto mechanics. I got street smart depite being autistic as fuck thanks to hanging around with such people all the time as a kid, though it wasn't always easy.

>13 years old
>baked ass stoner playing on my favorite KoF cab
>drop in a coin, stoner rolls his eyes "motherfuck..."
>starts spouting off things like "you shitty ass kid!", "stupid son of a bitch!" at the screen when I start beating him. Lots of thinly veiled threats.
>immediately start regretting it
>Almost win the match, motherfucker abuses a bug with one of the characters to freeze me in place
>Does it again in the last match and gives me the biggest "BEAT IT, KIDDO" look I've ever gotten in my life
I'm still salty. Fuck you, cheating ass stoner, I hope you OD'd on coke.

>>386191423
>ywn play that jurassic park game with your best bro ever again