>Work at an arcade. >Kid gets $50 credits. >Lots of

>>388447181
Do you work at round1 anon?

Those ticket based arcades are just child gambling. It's depressing.

Now, lemme just go open some Overwatch, PUBG, CSGO, Siege crates real quick.

>>388447181
>Silent Hill Arcade
What?

>>388447181
Big Bass Wheel looks like a literal slot machine. How is this allowed?

>>388447503
>he doesnt know about this great 2 player shooter
Im sorry anon

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>>388447503
>he doesn't know

>>388447613
Same way Pachinko is legal in Japan.

If it's dispensing tickets instead of money, it's not gambling.

>>388447613
It's a game of "skill".
Gambling machines are games of "chance".

This makes it "not gambling".

>>388447613
Same reason fucking lootbox shit is allowed, its not REAL GAMBLING*.

i worked at an arcade. i had a pretty good bunch of games. top earners were skiball and basketball games. but tekken tag and mvc2 always made money too

>>388447613
Its not money

>Go to small arcade
>Most of the cabinets are just Mobile Games made into arcade cabinets

At least I got to play Time Crisis for a bit.

>>388448068
but you can use tickets to win items and those items have a cash value tied to their ticket cost.
It's like gambling with store credit, how is this not gambling?

>>388447181
GOOD SPIN

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>>388447181
When that kid grows up he's going to spend every evening pouring his paychecks into these things.

>>388448267
Legal definitions. Same reason piracy isn't stealing.

>>388447181
>not getting really good at the game where you stack the boxes up and cashing in

>>388448267
There's enough indirection involved. You can't cash the tickets so I guess that makes it technically OK.

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>>388447892
God, I'd kill to have an arcade close to me that had MvC2.

>>388448504
There's no getting good at that.
Those machines are rigged, just like crane games.

>go to dave and busters with gf awhile ago
>trying to win her niece a gift through one of the large ticket machines
>dude bro who does work on the machines there is getting the jackpot literally every single spin
>ask him how
>gives me all of his tickets (5k+) then shows me how to get jackpot on every single machine in the building
wonder what he's up to now

>>388448504
I don't understand how stacker games aren't illegal.
They market it as a "game of skill", but it's entirely up to chance if the machine will even let you win.
The machine has settings that lets it go easy on you 1 in every 80 attempts, but this can easily be set to 100, 500, 1000, etc.
You literally cannot get the last line unless you're playing during one of these rare chances where the machine is letting you play fairly.
Otherwise, one guy could empty the machine out in 5 minutes.

I miss my arcade. Spider Stomp was my fucking jam.

>>388448504
Stacker is the same rigged gambling shit as all of the other machines. You can hit the button with pinpoint accuracy for the last block and you stacking it will depend entirely on whether or not it's set to start actually winning.

>>388448737

If he's working on them then he probably just rigged them to have a high success rate. Usually those things don't spit out shit until a certain amount of money's been dropped.

>>388447181
kids want tickets for prizes so they can leave with a toy
i remember as a kid i was the same

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>tfw people have trashed all the SDVX cabs at my local round 1
>none of the staff there actually give a fuck about properly maintaining their rhythm games
>they've just indefinitely closed them down

>>388448724
>>388448793
>>388448903
Not that one where you stop the light, the one where you control the balance board stacking digital boxes.

>>388448905
nah there's a few D&B in my area, went to a couple of them and the same tricks worked 95% of the time

it's pretty simple with the majority of the ticket machines

>>388448737
Well tell me how to get jackpot on something.

>>388448737
So how did he do it?

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>>388447181
>>Work at an arcade.
>I have given up.

Clearly

>>388448737
explain the trick

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>tfw no arcades around me have Time Crisis 2 or 3 any more, just shitty 4 and 5

>>388448974
they're not profitable enough

>>388449045
What's the trick?

>>388447181
Gotta hook 'em while they're young.

>>388447298
underrated, spbp

>>388448737
DIVULGE THE FEAT

is this really any worse than playing a normal arcade game?
You pay money and get nothing.

>>388449104
>WILD FANG

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Posting the superior arcade machine

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I felt like a total pleb for playing this a ton, but it's so much fun with a friend.

>>388447181
The best kind of arcades are those ones where you pay a flat fee to get in and play all day, like Galloping Ghost or whatever. No shitty ticket dispenser machines there because there's no point.

>>388449510
it's also free on your phone
Why would you keep dropping a dollar to play it on a larger screen?

>>388449372
you get fun

>>388447613
Two things:
1. You always get something.
2. It can't be used for money laundering, which is literally the ONLY reason gambling has laws against it.

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>no arcades in my city
>last arcade I actually saw was when I lived in a different place and it still closed down
>even CiCi's pizza is just claw machines now, they don't even have a pac man machine

i just wanna play some fucking racing games, why is that so hard
if you got an initial D/WMN cab close to where you live you're lucky.

>>388449372
Yeah, those fucking idiots are wasting their playing video games. Can you believe that?
Don't they know you only actually had fun at an arcade if you walk out with a stale piece of candy and a couple of army men?

>>388448737
There was someone doing that a few years back at one of the stores and they ended up getting fired for setting the games up for their friends. The real secret is a lot of the games are set to win only sometimes so you can't game the system, but a few of the wheel games actually let you win the jackpot as many times as you want.

Just play Time Crisis, the ticket games suck.

>>388449510
It's not even frogger...

>>388449049
>>388449073
>>388449083
>>388449263
>>388449346
this was like almost two years ago so any of the specific tricks i don't remember sadly. the only real memory i have is there is a big spinning game on there where there's multipliers and you just have to pull the lever when it hits a certain number and it will every single time land on the highest number. That's how majority of the big games are - pull the lever when it hits a certain area and it'll land in the same place every time. Sorry for the awful info but I don't remember anything, your best bet is to wait to see a young guy playing on a ticket machine during his break and just ask him yourself

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if I had an arcade near me with one of these installed, I'd go there every day

>>388449552
Because it's co-op, so you have a buddy playing next to you. Plus you earn tickets

>>388448974
>3mi people city
>only 2 or 3 arcades
>only rhythm game is Taiko
>expensive as fug and the drumsticks are long gone
Breathing is suffering

>>388449045
>arcades HATE him

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>go to round one
>buy the game pass and assume it lets me play every game that isn't a ticket game
>only games you can play are decade old racing and shooting games, and street fighter 4

Was kind of salty since they had so much cool shit.

>tfw arcade 10 minutes from me
>shitloads of good games
>Tekken, MvC2, X-men 6 player, TMNT, House of the Dead, and some other Good shit
>dont go for a year
>decide to head back One day out of boredom
>head into back room with the good shit
>it's all gone
>replaced with shitty shooting games and basketball machines
>only game left is Tekken
Fuck Ive never been more pissed in my life.

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>There will never be a IIDX cab on your country


Feels bad.

>still supporting the original microtransaction machine

You only like arcades because they were all you had when growing up.

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>>388448737
that near same exact same situation happened to me. some guy winning jackpot after jackpot on a football game and then going right to another machine and winning on that. I swiped my card a few times for him and he won me some jackpots and we split the tickets 50/50

what dave and busters were you at anon

>>388450239
Fuck off underaged faggot, arcades are the shit and you'll just never understand them.

>>388447298
thnx reddit

>>388450447
>going outside to play games
Point and laugh at this fag

>>388450231
>visiting buds in Seattle early next year
>local arcade has a ton of rhythm games including beatmania, ddr/piu, groove coaster, and a few more completely in Japanese that I couldn't name

I can't fucking wait.

>>388447181
That looks way more fun than shitty old video games

>>388450106
THIS Ugly son of a bitch
Is getting LOTS OF TICKETS
And basically
YOU ARE FUCKING STUPID

>>388449263
can't tell you, he said not to say.

>The only arcade I know with Time Crisis 2 is the bowling alley of my old town which I barely set foot in

>Capital city doesn't have any fucking arcades at all and anything that's gaming related are faggy gayming bars with consoles stappled to the wall or Dota/LoL Warehouses that look like refuge hideouts

I swear to God half the reason I'm going to Japan next year is to play some fucking arcades.

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>that one arcade game you were exceptionally skilled at and dominated the highscore chart with
what's her name lads

>>388450638
B8 is not so gr8 m8

>>388450447
You have an unnecessary "the" in your sentence.

>>388447503
It's a mediocre HotD ripoff.

>>388450447
I'm 28, suck my dick. Arcades are the worst nickel-and-diming scheme in vidya history. You're just okay with it because of nostalgia, you good little goy.

>>388450617
>Being this much of a scared bitch

lol, can't handle playing games in the open?

>>388450809
time crisis 2 and 3. my dad and I would crush the co-op scores, and I'd drop in for the solo scores now and then

>I spent 1 grand and all I got was this stupid plastic ring

>>388451014

>my dad and I would crush the co-op scores

I hope I never have kids but if I ever do, I'll fight Heaven and Earth to make this happen.

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>>388449415
it lacks a shit ton of chinese electronic garbage bauble and the plastic coins/cards are just white, that's not eyecandy enough for me.

>>388447298
I think all those are cancer.

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>>388448452
You're gonna have to try harder than that.

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Never saw a ticket machine like that until I went to an American arcade for the first time as a pre-teen. In Mexico our arcades were made up of fighters, metal slug, time crisis/ house of the dead, and racing games with a few of these busted up fuckers around the little kids area.

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>>388450809
>mfw I went through 22 opponents in a row on tekken 3

>>388447181
At first I thought arcade gaming was truly dead in London after seeing the trash that was Namco Funscape, but then I went to both Las Vegas Soho and Vega and gained a bit of faith.

Las Vegas Soho has Taiko, Initial D, fighting cabs with multiple games installed, Tekken, Groove Coaster, Out Run 2, light gun shooters, Bishi Bashi, Pump it Up, ITG and Jubeat. Very good arcade, with the only down side being that it's on the gayest street in London.

Meanwhile, VEGA is more of an underground arcade. Literally. It shares the same building as a gambling place that allowed the UK bemani community members to put their cabs down there as well as supporting e amuse. (Not officially of course)

VEGA has DDR 2014, Pop'n Music 23 (I think it's 23 at least, can't remember), Jubeat, Beatmania IIDX, Street Fighter cabs, some retro cabs and I think they had to remove Reflec Beat due to some issue.

Overall though, arcade gaming isn't dead yet in London.

>>388450809
Sega Rally 2

at one point, people started using my initials at a machine i played, since the entire top times list had my scores on it

>>388450809
Sonic The Fighters at Gameworks Las Vegas. Shame Gameworks and that same cab are dead now.

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>>388451554
>that cute as fuck doll on the shelf behind the machine

Anyone ever play that game where a bunch of people would sit in front of a big screen and everyone had a separate monitor in front of them and you get to raise a horse and race it against other people and you could get secret retarded shit like a cow and you could save your horse by printing out a ticket?

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>mfw my arcade took down the Tekken 3 machine today
18 years of highscores and salt
gone

>>388448582
I have 3 MVC2 machines nearby. And yeah its as great as you think it is.

>>388448804
Oh shit, you just brought my memories flooding back.

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>>388450809

>>388452061
I saw them when I went to Japan, but I never saw any in the UK. I did see something similar, but instead of voting you had to throw balls to get them into holes to change the speed of your horse. The higher up you get the ball, the faster your horse gets to winning.

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>>388452159
Why must you do this to me?

>>388450809
HYDRO THUUUUNDERRRRR

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>>388447181
Remember me?

>>388451935
I really hope they didn't destroy that cab. Please tell me they sent it back to SEGA, or at least was sold to a collector who takes good care.

Sure we have emulation, the Sonic Gems Collection and HD rerelease. It's just that it would be sad to see a rare cab go.

>>388452917
Cabs are only rare because people throw them out. If everyone saved them, they wouldn't be worth shit.

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>>388449079

>Children are highly susceptible to gambling psychological manipulation
Not a surprise. I wouldnt object to these luck based gambling machines being treated like real gambling and illegal in places minors play.

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>>388453246
So I guess that's why there are literally no Um Jammer Lammy Now cabs on the face of the earth. Not even a working board, rom dump, gameplay footage, in game screenshot, or anything other than a tiny handful of images.

If in the future time travel becomes a thing, and if I also find out the location of pic related, I will travel back to that date with a camera and tripod and record some high quality footage.
EDIT: As I was writing this, I found out someone uploaded lost footage of it not too long ago. Neat.
https://youtu.be/IJ18vujX2KY

>>388452763
this shit is all over the place here, including the bikes counterpart.

Was it good at least?

>>388449801
>Guys my dad works at gambling and told me the secret but I cant show you because reasons
Ok flame shirt

>>388453707
it's just a kids game anon
you couldn't even play it if you found a working playable version

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>>388448267
The prizes behind the ticket counter are shitty enough that the amount of effort (and money) needed to accrue the required tickets more than offsets the actual cost of the prizes.

Same principle applies to those games that have built-in prize cabinets for things like smartphones and gaming handhelds; they nearly always have a owner-settable setting to only pay out a prize only after a certain amount of money has been inserted into the machine. This allows the owner to configure the machine so that it will always take in more money than the MSRP of the prizes it gives out.

As an example, in "Flamin' Finger" (pic related) the object is to use your finger to trace through a randomly-generated maze before the timer reaches zero. The trick, however, is that the speed at which the timer counts down is not only determined by how much time has passed, but ALSO by how far into the maze the player is: the further the player progresses, the faster the timer counts down, such that for a competent player time will always run out just before the player reaches the end. Once the aforementioned inserted money amount is triggered, the timer will count down normally, allowing skilled-enough players to finish the maze and get a prize.

>>388449914
it's just a generic racing anime with bad music
f-zero is better lol

>>388454412
Um Jammer Lammy is fun, and an arcade version which would have less aliasing everywhere and better fps would be awesome. The fact that it's gone off the face of the earth except for some footage is actually rage worthy.

Don't just say "it's just a kids game" because it's Um Jammer Fucking Lammy.

>>388454625
And how many F Zero AX cabs do you see around? This is the closest thing you'll get to F Zero AX.

>>388454792
no it's not, because it has worse gameplay, music, and cabinets

initial d sucks dude

>>388447181
Don't talk shit about Big Bass Wheel. I hit the 1k ticket on that shit TWICE and was easily able to get my own Smitty-Werben-Jager-Man-Jenson hat.

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>>388454610
>the further the player progresses, the faster the timer counts down, such that for a competent player time will always run out just before the player reaches the end.
Jesus, that's evil as fuck.

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>>388454792
tfw know of existing F Zero machines
no memory cards and abused by kids all week long

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>Disney was one of the few places that had F-Zero AX
>One time there I noticed the cabinet was off, in its old corner of the room
>years later
>it's gone

>>388451475
Internet piracy is not theft though. It's copyright violation.

>>388448582
My local arcade had it all the way until it closed. Other games included Tekken 4/5, and a multicab that had Super Turbo, KOF 99, and Second Impact (But it ran like shit).

Before that they had Tekken 6, Tekken 3, Third Strike, KOF 02, Marvel 1

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>>388454610
So that's how Flamin' Finger works? You just fill it with money until it thinks it's enough? Does this also happen in machines like Stacker or any other Arcades? Holy shit.

>>388451419
Am I being reverse baited or are you genuinely retarded?

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If anyone here is a britfag, they should check out the Las Vegas Arcade in Soho and the Heart of Gaming in Croydon.
The Las Vegas Arcade has some great machines you won't be able to find anywhere else in the UK like Jubeat, Initial D Arcade Stage 8, Outrun 2, Wangan Midnight Maximum Tune 3DX+, and Groove Coaster 3EX: Dream Party. There were even chosen last year for the Europe location test of the latest DDR game.
The Hear of Gaming has a mix of old classic arcade machines (like Daytona and a bunch of those fighting cabs where you face each other) and installations of console games (PS4s and Xbones equipped with Tekken 7, Guilty Gear, SF5 as well as older consoles with Everdrives inserter). They also have a system where you only pay to get in and everything is free.
Last time I was there, they even had a 16 man Saturn Bomberman setup.

>>388455147
stacker, claw/crane games, pretty much everything.

>>388454662
it's just a kids game

>>388450809
There was that one machine they always had that dispensed watches if you got the thing in the hole and I could get one 75% of the time.

I never wanted to play arcade games because spending money on a finite game rankled me and I was an old jew as a child.

>>388455001
After Disneyquest was shut down, the arcade games were auctioned off to cast members.

>>388454610
Operator here, this is 100% accurate.

>>388455147
Crane machines, and Stacker where you stop the lights, yes.

>>388455334
They had a unit in the contemporary resort arcade

Wasn't even aware they had one in Disneyquest. I remember the Mario Kart arcade and Tank x 3 cabinets being fun as shit though

>>388451935
There was a Sonic The Fighters cab at Heart of Gaming, but the trackballs were broken.

>>388455147
>Does this also happen in machines like Stacker
Yep. Unless the machine has accrued a given money amount, even if your timing would place the top block correctly, the game will push it one space more.

I got to check out a Round 1 yesterday, it was pretty great. Wish they had some more classic arcade games too, but got to play Theatrhythm All-Star Carnival so it was entirely worth the trip.

Last arcade I went to was at the Orleans casino and they doubled the price on everything, removed all the actual games and move to this card based token/ticket system.
I'm hoping that law gets pushed so these rip off prize machines get gutted since just the sight of a stacker machine pisses me off

>>388447181
I'm not sure why it's a surprise to you that kids aren't drawn to archaic japanese games
Kids don't play those in Japan either

>>388448504
You can't get good at a dice roll anon

>>388455708
Does round1 offer aime cards so I can save my project diva stats?

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>go to chuck e cheese as a kid
>looking for a game to play with my cousin
>see pic related
>once my first try is over and I for the tickets I realize the door isn't closed all the way
>we end up taking the whole role of tickets and try cashing them in at the machine
>things go pretty smoothly until the machine count reaches into the hundreds
>it starts skipping through some of the tickets by not counting them
>we had to separate the roll into multiple smaller parts

We still got a shit load of tickets that day but I thought that was pretty weird

>>388455968
not him but yes
you should play better rhythm games tho

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>tfw leaf
>tfw retarded bylaws made it illegal for arcades to operate in my city because you're only allowed 2 (FUCKING TWO) machines per venue

>>388455708
I wish we had Round Ones in the UK. Or even Dave & Busters for that matter.
Closest thing in the UK is Hollywood Bowl but that doesn't have e-Amusement.
The one closest to me does have Crus'n blast, Star Wars Battle Pod and TC5: Mastermind Edition tho.

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>mfw I got 4 cabinets downstairs, a CPS2/3 multikit and a Naomi NetDimm with NetBoot.

Feels good man

>>388447181
raiden fighters aces isn't an arcade game, you gay.

>>388455968
The one I was at had nesica cards, I don't know if that's the same thing honestly.
>>388456082
Dave and Busters is honestly pretty bad, mostly just gonna have the same shitty ticket games as most other modern arcades.

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Hi.

>>388447815
Games of skill are usually rigged worse than slot machines precisely because they lack the regulations that gambling has.

>>388451584
I like going to Vega during the week, but god do I hate Las Vegas Soho.

>playing some ITG, testing out some songs on my USB
>group of normal assholes come in. I'm not talking normalfags, I literally mean normal assholes.
>three guys with gelled hair, overpriced jackets and those stupid hats with the two Ns on it but one is flipped
>other two were girls, ones with the drawn on eye brows, high heels, over priced clothes and make up, and the classic shitty London hair
>start taking videos of me without my permission, start talking about how I have no life and should get a girlfriend instead of playing "dancing game"
>they start talking about how bad the music is, despite one of them having a liking for shitty rap music that's been auto tuned
>two songs left pretend those assholes don't exist
>they're now talking about how "that guy isn't hogging up the machine"
>song ends, ready for last song
>one of those normal assholes grabs me by the shoulders
>"OI MATE ITS OUR TURN"
>tell him to fuck off because I'm on my last song
>"Well... Uhhh... Uh.. Get a girlfriend"
>tell him to fuck off politely
>he shoves me, but I hold onto the bar to avoid falling
>the manager, who's a good guy comes up and asks him and his asshole crew to leave
>they all start shouting at him and acting like entitled liberal douchebags who act like I'm in the wrong
>they leave, but of course leaving some shitty response like "This place is for fucking fags" or some other degenerate language
>manager apologises to me for what happened, says he will make sure to look out for awful people before shit like that happens to me

Normalfags come in out of Las Vegas Soho all the time, because central London and pool tables. Oh well, that's a couple scum who I won't see again.

>>388456054
like which ones?
I'm not autistic enough to enjoy stuff like beatmania or pop'n

>>388455647
That's SegaSonic The Hedgehog, not Sonic The Fighters. Someone broke the machine not too long ago by spilling coffee on it.

>>388456230
Too late, man:
>>388454610
>>388455147
>>388455260
>>388455389
>>388455687

>Go to play Time Crisis 2 co-op.
>P2 gun doesn't work.
FUCK YOU

>>388456306
That reminds me of the time I was in Las Vegas Soho and 3 guys were on the Pump it up Infinity Machine.
They even did a 3 man difficulty song.

>>388452061
Sega's Derby Owner's Club.I'm a goddamn addict.Too bad/Luckily, there's never any of those machines around except at D&B.

>>388447815
>It's a game of "skill".
How fucked is the wording of the law that considers a game with a 0% chance to win a "game of skill?"

>>388453707
You could probably find a fixable one in a Japanese junkyard

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>>388451584
You gotta checkout Heart of Gaming in Croydon.
They just installed a Point Blank 2 machine.

Used to have Afterburner, Ghost Recon, FF Tokyo Drift, and some big game hunter machine at work until people fucked them up and the owner decided not to get them repaired.
He just wouldn't listen when everyone told him to put in a change machine instead of a token machine - people just kept jamming change in the machines and blocking them up.

I still want to drop in a DDR cabinet in the bar just to watch drunks flailing around.

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>have mall
>barely any stores left
>has sucky arcade with an unworking timesplitters game
>nearby mall is getting a round 1

>>388456682
How faraway is the nearby mall?

>>388456306
Oh shit, I clearly meant "that guy is hogging up the machine"

Sorry, have to be a phone poster for the week because holiday.

>>388456526
US laws on arcade games are EXTREMELY lax, and nobody in power ever cares enough to reform them.

>>388456731
44 minutes.

>>388454610
>spend $40 on tokens
>win tons of tickets
>have enough for a $2 prize

>>388456914
Not exactly nearby then, is it?
If you could get to it in like half an hour by bike, I woulc have suggested biking to the Round 1 when you wanted to.
That way you can work up your legs in preparation for DDR or whatever.

>tfw seeing girls play ddr and the like with their bare feet

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>>388457069
feet is a shit tier fetish

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Does /v/ own arcade machines?

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>>388457069
>Taking your shoes off to play DDR

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>>388457069
>playing house of the dead in the distance while occasionally glancing

>>388456626
Eh, I don't like Heart of Gaming. Here are reasons.

>£10 entry. Of course you're supporting the place, but it's quite off putting if you're not staying for too long.
>in a pretty crappy area, and the shopping mall it's in will be turned into a Westfield in the NOT too far future.
>owner is an asshole behind the scene. Starts in indiegogo to open the place but then takes money from both indiegogo and some esports company to open the new place up.
>will willingly use bootleg cabs, like when they had a bootleg Pop'n cab at their old location.
>owner of the place is a dick to other members of the arcade business in London, despite the other people getting along nicely with each other.
>smells like Cex on bad days.
>Told people that their stuff was robbed and started an indiegogo to make the money back. Made money back, but hold up it turns out he was lying and just got free money for nothing.

I've only been to their new location twice. Don't have plans to go back any time soon.

>>388457213
I don't own a "real" arcade cabinet, but I made a cabinet box that houses a computer with a fuckton of emulators and arcade games. Real joystick and buttons so it pretty much has the same feel

>>388457213
I've always wanted to build a MAME arcade machine, but I would want it to be able to play shooting games and I have no idea if that would be possible.
>>388457328
Well, the indiegogo only made 3% of its £90,000 goal, so of course they needed to get other money.
I didn't know they were lying about the robbery tho. Got a source for that?

>>388451935
Gameworks is definitely still around, just moved off the strip. No clue about the game, though.

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>>388457328
They offer discounts at special times.

>>388450638
>slot machine for kids is better than an actual game

It might be prettier but I guarantee you that shit does not play better.

>>388451554
That game was at an arcade I used to go to, pulled a lot of tickets by using my hands instead of the mallet.

>>388457645
Ah, I see. Guess I should go during cheaper times.

>>388457536
The source was in a group chat for Bemani UK members, but it's also one I was kicked out of. I don't think I will be able to source you up senpai. Sorry.

>>388448582
There's one at the Excalibur in Las Vegas that doesn't work and that broke my heart.

>>388456306
>Liberal
Hello fellow Cheeto-in-Chief voter

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>There are people who don't have an F-Zero arcade machine in their arcade

>>388457536
>but I would want it to be able to play shooting games and I have no idea if that would be possible.
Do you mean light gun games?

>>388457857
I think Hillary and Donald are shit. I think the left and right are shit. Those guys were clearly lefties though, but the ignorant ones who don't think before saying the word "fag" without realising its hypocrisy, though they might only be left just to get a gf.

>>388457287
Just wear sunglasses. It's how I stare at girls all the time in public.

>>388457832
>The source was in a group chat for Bemani UK members
Doesn't sound very legit.
I mean, I can see why he would have made up the story (publicity, free money), but it's a seriously accusation and needs more solid proof than just some forum members.
>>388457942
Yeah.

>>388458039
They can tell you're staring at them, people aren't as oblivious as you think.

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>>388450809
>was a fatass teenager
>destroyed everyone on DDR Extreme
>became a local legend
>mfw I actually pulled some emo bitches because of it

I also dominated the highscores on a Point Blank 2 machine at a pizza place until they reset the scores because people stopped trying to beat my scores.

>>388457328
>will willingly use bootleg cabs, like when they had a bootleg Pop'n cab at their old location.
Define bootleg here, because basically every bemani cab you play outside of japan is using "bootleg" software and computers

>>388458164
Well, as long as you're not legit staring, they don't. Keep your head moving. Also, they can't see you from behind.

>>388457605
It would still be in the database if it was at the new location. Doubt that though, since SEGA no longer owns the place since I think some other company bought it out and also included esports and Smash Bros tournaments. I miss the Sonic stuff they had for sale at the entrance, and plastered around the place. Gave the place personality.

Nearest "Arcade" is just a slotmachine place
Next nearest is Arcade Club, the largest arcade in Europe, no slots

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Dual weilding these is top arcade experience

Skee-ball is fun as fuck, I don't care what anyone says. I'd pick it over 80% of video games in an arcade setting.

>>388455212
Here's a recent video of it.
https://youtu.be/MLdDqCldnPs?t=352

>>388458258
The cab was not like anything you would have ever seen anywhere else with Pop'n. It was literally those bigger orange ass Naomi cabs, butnthe traditional arcade controls were removed and replaced with Pop'n buttons though done horribly, SEGA logo removed from foot area and was also run off data taken from Soze without permission. It was ugly as hell, people hated it and they spammed HOG with bad reviews.

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>>388451554
The US version of this is one of the few (normally) ticket-based games at the local free play arcade. Second gator from the right barely comes out though, thankfully they seem to prioritize repairing the good shit and not the cash-in franchise games and handful of other ticket munchers because it's free play once you're in.
The other 4 (normally) ticket games are 3 skee-ball machines and a kids' basketball game. Like, actually for kids, because if you're an adult you can just stick your hand straight out and drop the ball in.

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who /dancing machine/ here? how do you all like ddr a? it feels so nice to play on good pads for once

>>388458791
Was this at the old location in North Acton?

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>>388447181
What sort of food do you serve there? Me? I would serve crab legs.

>>388458791
Okay that's a different story
Are there pictures? I want to see this abomination

>>388458508
The free-play arcade I just mentioned has this, it's fucking awesome. Swore I recognized the fonts and style in it from Virtual On, and turns out it's co-developed by the same division of Sega, AM3. Also AM4, which does a bunch of giant machines like this one.

>>388458884
I'm so glad that DDR A has everything in terms of songs, options, good pads, e amuse, etc. Shame I only got to play for a short time during the location test in London, but I'm going to Japan in April so all is good.

>>388458437
Last I heard it was at town square
Not that I've been there lately

>>388458820
How do redemption games work at a free play arcade?

>>388458884
Where can I purchase a DDR cabinet? Ebay doesn't seem to have them and I really want to own one that isn't a shitty home version with literal mats.

>>388450809
X-Men vs Street Fighter

>>388447181
America has turned the idea of arcades into ticket dispensers. It's pretty sad

>>388458964
Yup
>>388458980
I will try looking for some images, but I haven't found any on google. You will however find HOG reviews from 2014 trashing the place for having the cab.

>>388459156
Just get metal dance pads for the console versions, anon. It'll be a lot cheaper.

>>388447503
it's not the best, it's a Silent Hill rail shooter, but the weighty feel of the handgun peripheral is very satisfying.

>>388450239
>>388450929
What, should people just get to play it for free? Why?
Video arcades came into being simply because the hardware needed to run the games was too big/pricey for consumers. They have a purpose.
Pac-Man on Atari at the time was nothing like the real thing. Most retro arcade ports onto consoles of the time are definitively inferior.
There's also the social aspect, and the atmosphere.
Plus, certain games have novelty value and special perhipherals that nobody would fuckin' use otherwise. I played Luigi's Mansion Arcade with a vaccum IR gun that had haptic feedback for sucking in ghosts and it was the fucking shit.

>>388459096
They just don't give tickets. Their selection of those is limited to the ones I mentioned, i.e. some skill involved. No glorified slot machines like Big Bass or Deal or No Deal or anything like that. They have a couple of prize games near the very front of the arcade that actually take quarters (for obvious reasons) but no Stacker, thank fuck. It's just that one where you have to rock the ball back and forth up the plastic mountain and a crane game. Nobody touches that shit though because there's a million actual games you can play for free instead.
The place actually does have some little stuff you can get up front like pins with video game and comic book characters on them, but it's all purchased with cash. No tickets despite being in a similar display.

>>388459272
home consoles killed arcade gaming in the US
why dump money into a machine over and over when you can buy the game once and own it?

>>388457879
God the closest monster ride machine was three states away. I was mad!

>>388457213
My uncle gave us his Turtles In Time cabinet after his wife divorced him and kicked him out of the house

>>388455334
They were cheap too, i was working there when Disney quest closed and checked out the auctions out of curiosity

>>388456062
Where in Canada? GTA and Ottawa both have a good number of big arcades

>>388458476
Arcade Club is great, wish it had Initial D or guilty gear though

>>388459276
>You will however find HOG reviews from 2014 trashing the place for having the cab
Yep
There are like 50 1 star reviews left on their facebook between 11-12 November 2014

>>388459437
>play it for free

That's literally what I'm discussing with my posts. It's not completely free but you pay $15 and you can play everything that doesn't give prizes endlessly. They also have special events and shit, some indie dev came in with his cool arcade machines his team made to show them off, Cosmotrons or something. You can definitely have a profitable business where the machines themselves don't suck your quarters. It's a huge relief to just be able to jump off of shit games and endlessly play good ones, you'd probably spend way more than $15 in any standard arcade that way.

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>>388459156
if you just want good pads look up impulse platforms on facebook. they come out in about march and come with a bar and are 9 panel pads if you wanna play pump it up or something they are gonna run you abour $500-600 though. as for a cab you just gotta get lucky and possibly have money for shipping. if you live in so cal Captains Auctions has some now and then. check the facebook rhythm games buy and sell trade group they always have the drop on cabs.

>>388459751
oof. that does look very bootleg.
doesn't even have decorations.
Didn't see anything this blatent when i went to HoG this year tho.

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>>388459751

>>388459751
That looks pretty fucking ghetto. The buttons aren't as bad as I was expecting but that screen and the general lack of anything but barebones frame is like 7/10 janky.

>>388448394
I think I recognize that?
Is that Mohegan Sun Pocono?

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>>388459751
Looks like shit. But does it play well?

>>388459475
No, greed and pumping up the prices to play killed arcades

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Yo, does this trick still work?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wtcdVh0-Bl8

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>>388449914
You can actually play that specific version on a PC with TeknoParrot.

>>388460121
It worked, from what I remember at least.

When I pay £10 to go to an arcade, I at least expect to see a real Pop'n cab when they say "we have Pop'n"

>>388459683
Today, now that arcades are a novelty, I think cover-charge businesses are more viable. Arcade machines aren't supposed to be exclusively used in arcades, either - some restaurants these days still have a couple, and there's no way they're gonna spend the time and money on regulating access to them. Thus, quarters. I don't know much about the economics, but there are some concerns that go along with it. What's to stop a kid from hogging one machine all day?

>>388450809
CAP CUM
VERSUS
ESS EN KAY 2

>>388449630
trust me man, you don't want either of these machines unless you legit have money to burn.

Ever since the r1 opened up in NY, most of us regulars have spent between $200-500 Dollars on just Maximum tune 5 alone

>>388450809
Went to Harrodsburg and for some reason they had a Sonic Dash arcade game. I was more confused about it being free play, despite Harrodsburg being run by Jews. I filled the leaderboard up with EAP, but I bet that they've all been beaten by now.

>>388460329
Well, if it worked, it worked.
At least HoG aren't using any bootleg cabs now, although they do have everdrives.

>>388450809
metal slug 2 with 1 credit

always attracted a little crowd

>>388447181
>work at an arcade
>life is going nowhere

>>388458973
I would pay good money to eat at an asian buffet with arcade machines everywhere

>>388460564
>Harrodsburg
What the fuck phone

>>388460591
They use everdrives? The fuck? I know it costs them to buy everdrives, but that's scummy as hell.

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>>388456082
Closest you'll find is a Namco Funscape

>>388460689
This is typical in third world countries, who's gonna sue you?

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>>388460324

careful not to fall for this fucking meme

>>388459475
make better games and gimmicks to attract people to said machines
but its expensive as hell

>>388460689
Easier to use an everdrive than having to switch out the cart whenever somebody wants to play something else.
It also saves money and allows them to play region locked/rare games.

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>>388460785
NANI?!
TRUJANU GENERIKU?!

In one hand, the death of arcades where you played with new people, had fun an socialized with other people who liked games is a terrible thing.
On the other, the overabundance of literal Gambling for kids, overpriced tokens, lack of manutention and other jewish shit makes me glad they are gone.

I dont know how to feel. The death of LAN meetings is worse, though

>>388448737
Was that employee named Dougie Jones by any chance?

What is round1? People keep talking about it and I've never heard of such a place in my life

>>388460763
Fuck Namco Funscape, not same anon though.

Place is your generic ass ticket games and broken ass DDR, with them focusing more on people going to their bar to watch football rather than play games. They have only one good functioning game which is Mario Kart Arcade GP DX, and even that is in multiple arcades around the country but with internet connection.

>>388450809
Virtual On
Black Knight 2000 (pinball)

>>388447181
That thing is HUGE, colorful and promises a to multiply your saves by a shitton. Of course kids will fall for it, it's designed for that.
Even myself as a kid I would stare at it often but luckily after 5 seconds of thinking if it would be worth it I'd rather skip it and play actualy games since the shitty prizes aren't worth anyway

>>388461047
I have shit knowledge of arcades here in the UK so NCFS has only been the closest one I know of. Do you know any more around Manchester?

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>tfw there are no good racing arcade games other than Fzero, Initial D, and Outrun
>tfw nobody in town has any of them

>>388461046
it's a japanese arcade chain, they have bowling alleys and a karaoke thing, there's a bunch in california, i don't know if they exist elsewhere.
People care because they have lots of contemporary japanese games and not fucking RAW THRILLS licensed garbage.

>>388461046
http://round1usa.com/

>>388461047
Yeah, if you want a arcade in London, go to Las Vegas Soho or VEGA.
Maybe heart of gaming if you're willing to take a train to Croydon.

>>388461046
It's basically a Japanese owned Dave and Busters that also has japanese import games in addition to normie redemption garbage.
They have online Bemani, candy cab fighters and shmups, UFO catchers, etc. All right next to big bass wheel and flappy tickets

>>388461156
Arcade Club is in Manchester.

>>388461156
Don't really know much about Manchester since I haven't been myself. Googling unfortunately shows Namco Funscape which is shittier in Manchester than in London from what I heard, and some others which might be ok. Go see how they are, and report back about it when another arcade thread pops up.

>>388461364
I've been tempted to go to that after seeing they have a Taiko machine, but how is it actually?

>>388461046
Japanese arcade chain that's spreading out west to California and some neighboring states.

Kind of wish theyd open one up in Hawaii somewhere. Fun Factory is kind of going down the same redemption-heavy path that national chains like Dave and Busters did, and that every other arcade is aping

I lost like $180 in an arcade when I was a kid. I use to carry all my birthday money in a wallet and was at the arcade playing games and either someone stole it from me or I just lost it

>>388460785
A lot of antivirus software deliberately flags anything that can potentially be used for piracy/emulation. Independent stuff like MalwareBytes and Avast usually only target keygens/memory editors (Cheat Engine) and label them as such. Shit like Norton and McAffee will false positive over anything and stick it in the most generic categories.

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>>388461218
>No locations in Florida
Man, right after you guys got my hopes up too

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God, I miss the Golden Age of arcades.

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>>388457605
>gameworks at my local mall shut down
>it's being turned into an underarmor

At least it still has D&B

see me in air hockey motherfucker

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>>388456914
>mfw 30-45 minutes is a daily commute for me
>The only Round 1s remotely near me are 2-3 hours away
I fucking envy you anon

>>388460671
All those fat and sticky hands touching the equipment.

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http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x5w95s2

Crane games can be regularly beaten with pure skill.

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>>388461915
Please, you can only be worthy of challengining me in air hockey...

If we played it on those Sonic ones!
https://youtu.be/TMeafEWN2jo

>>388462078
Japan's UFO catchers are not the same thing as the west's claw games.

btw if you live in southern Wisconsin or northern Illinois, the $15 free play arcade I was talking about earlier is Geeks Mania, Wisconsin in particular is super arcade-deprived, especially shit that isn't complete trash like the arcade in the Kalamari resort
not a chain, just an independent place like Galloping Ghost
http://www.geeksmania.com/

>>388458973
say dont you post that exact comment every of these threads?

>>388462150
does it actually play Sonic Rush music, if so holy fucking shit
now that I think about it that game didn't have an ice level, gotta give it credit for that

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What is the best racing arcade game?

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>Go to my nephew's birthday party
>At some dilapidated arcade place in New Hampshire
>Dirty and rundown as fuck, games are all 10+ years old
>Wander around the different floors and levels because the place is huge
>They have fucking Galaxian just chilling in the corner of the top level

Money was spent that day.

>>388462078
I don't think you understand.
western claw games have 0% GRIP, you literally cant lift anything 99% of the time

>>388462158
This. Western ones have pay out rate, meanwhile Japan ones have grip.

>source: won several plushies on Japan trip, only ever won a Sonic plush at local arcade.

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>>388449083
Not him but I'll explain Big Bass Wheel.
>Lift the lever all the way to the top
>Push it down
>Lift it back up
>Push it to the middle
>then push it up
>Swipe card/insert coins/whatever
>Play it normally
The machine thinks you're doing maintenance or repairs and it'll always go straight to 1000 tickets. Don't get caught doing it, or the staff might kick you out. Have fun, /v/.

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>>388461710
I'm continually mad we don't have a Round 1 in FL.
at least I go down to Miami on occasion to Arcade Odyssey
they had Mushihimesama Futari Black Label on the floor at one point
I wish they'd fucking take care of their driving machines better (their Outrun 2 and Crazy Taxi cabs were the sorriest looking pieces of shit), but all their other shit is relatively well maintained and they had a bunch of pinball machines too.
and they had Virtual On, although people keep beating the machine up and jamming the coin slot and the lot, the operators probably hate me for bothering them constantly about it

they mostly suck ass for fighting game cabs though, although they did have Chaos Code, CVS2, and SF4 at one point

I usually end up spending most of my time and money playing Mad Planets, fucking love that game.

>>388462263
HYDROOOOOO THUNDER

>>388454610
how is this even legal

>>388451475
What >>388455026 said.

There was a case not long ago where the judge ruled in fact that the plaintiff couldn't even refer to the plaintiff as a pirate or a thief as this was a pejorative term - copyright infringement or violation are not the same thing as taking to the high seas and performing acts of banditry by interrupting trade goods and monies, nor are they even depriving the copyright holder access to their copyrights.

>>388462427
FOR AMUSEMENT PURPOSES ONLY

>>388462353
neato
where did you get this info from anyway?

>>388462503
Correcting that defendants should replace the second use of the word plaintiff.

>>388447298
You know, if we really tried we could probably get a movement going to ban pseudo-gambling shit.
Nothing draws positive attention like "Think of the children!" As a bonus we actually would be helping the children.

>>388462257
Yup, or at least the old ones did. They made some newer ones which are just rebranded version of the old ones, which just replaces Sonic Rush art with a 3D render of Sonic and changes logo, etc. Apparently it plays the lame ass music from Sonic Dash.

>>388459576
>GTA

The only arcade I know of in the GTA that's still open is the Dave and Busters in Woodbridge. Tell me your secrets, anon.

When the FUCK are amerifats getting Chunithm and Nostalgia
Why did arcade shooting games die everywhere

>>388462353
>shitty ticket dispenser game has a dev mode that doesn't require you to open up a key-locked panel to access
Why am I not surprised?

>>388462392
>Virtual On
>beat up
I swear people always yank on the fucking sticks like they're playing Street Fighter 1 with the hydraulic slam buttons when they're not even fucking analog. The game's hard enough to find as is, and when you do find it it's busted to the point of being almost unplayable.

>Tfw gambling places are replacing tables with machines simply because the payout is that much better.

If you gamble on a machine you're a fucking retard, the profit is like 90%.

>>388454960
>>388454610
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HRWRILlgOZc
Watch the timer in the middle lol

>>388462719
I've literally heard people describe themselves as being good at slot machines. Do not underestimate the power of the gambler's fallacy.

>>388447613

Lobbyists. :^)

>>388461010
HEEEELLLOOOOOOOOO

>>388448974
Kids and niggers man.

>>388462078
Crane games in most of the world are allowed to have variable claw grip strength until a payment threshold is reached. That means that if you hit the machine on the wrong end of the payment, it's physically impossible to win your prize because even if your positioning is perfect, the claw is too weak to actually catch it.

This is similar to how pachislo machines have payment levels ranging from downright miserly to more coins in than out (if the coins can only be redeemed for prizes).

>>388462806
Yeah I figured this out on my own when playing the game at an arcade as a teenager, they bank on you rushing and paying attention to your finger more than the timer so they fuck you when you're not looking.
I stopped playing it forever once I figured it out, which after like 10 plays or so.

>>388462150
Why does every arcade I go to have this one in particular? Was it just offered to every arcade for a cheap price, or did every arcade choose it because Sonic is more recognisable than a basic design?

I also saw a big 4 player version of this at Alton Towers Resort, with the holes being on each side of a cube shaped air hockey table. Some kids asked if they could join since I was short on players. Fun as hell.

>>388462876
They're stuck on that 'high' they had, that pittance of a payout in comparison to the money lost.

>Yeah, I did double or nothing like four times and got 70 bucks!
>Of course I did end up spending ~150 on that day too, but hey, it's money spent on having fun so who cares!?

>>388459054
The visuak style and aesthetic is similar, especially in the mechanical design, many of the standard mechanical enemies and bosses use the same sort of armor breaking visuals with more of the of the machine's frame being exposed as it gets more damaged, similar to hiw your character would lose armor parts until they were a mechanical skeleton in VO

>>388456896
To be fair, there's not a very pressing need to reform them since there really aren't many arcades left. The main ticket stuff that are left are places like dave and busters and chuck e cheeses which while the games are unfair, aren't downright rigged.

>>388461538
>Spreading out west
I'd say they've already done it. I just went to one in Georgia a few months ago

>>388462280
Funworld, right? There's a machine on the bottom floor that gives 50 tickets or a jackpot for every quarter. Got myself one of those huge inflatable ayy lmaos, pretty neat desu

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>went to Dave and Busters for a bachelor party recently and wondered what kinds of arcade games there were still
>it's all just shooting and racing games, besides the usual """not gambling""" shit
>only things resembling an arcade cabinet were Pac-Man, Galaga, and Centipede
I even remember going there a long time ago and playing some Capcom fighting games too. Kind of a shame. At least I actually got to win at Flamin' Finger even though I already knew how rigged that shit was. Also kicked the whole group's ass at air hockey.

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I don't know when the heck these came out
but this summer, went to a resort where their arcade had one
and now I'm seeing these in almost every arcade i go to now
its fun

>>388463524
>Funworld, right?
Yup. That place looks like it would have been great 10-15 years ago. It was a shit-hole when I was there, though.

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>moralizing retards on /v/ suddenly against gambling because they're too stupid not to spend money on lootboxes
Gambling is perfectly ethical, only an absolute retard would blow money he needs to live on a slot machine.

Throwing the dice for a chance at wealth is fun, just like cracking Pokemon card packs for kids is fun. Just do it in moderation.

>>388458023
Guys like that are rarely left or right. They usually barely understand either sides opinions at all.
They're typically kinda bigoted though and cant understand people different from themselves.

>>388462263
Dirty Drivin was hella fun. Shame it's been phased out.

>go to arcade back in ye olde times of the 90s
>machine that has a series of lights going in a circle
>press button to stop it and get tickets based on what zone its in
>look carefully and you can see it skips over the jackpot zone completely
Why is this allowed? I still see it today with the "stack the tower" machines with iphones as prizes.

>>388447181
why the fuck would I want to play a normal video game at a coin play arcade ? horrible waste of money.

>>388450805
R u Varberg?

>>388463952
An arcade near me has this thing, it defiantly is fun. In fact my arcade seems to have a lot of niche Japanese game than the usual arcade, some aren't even translated into english.

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>arcade replaces their Daytona USA cabs with the new Daytona game
>it's a crappy ticket game with uninspired visuals, rehashed tracks, reused music and terrible controls
>Sega claim it's by the original team
>credits show Chinese names
>made in Unity

mfw

>>388447181
Arcades still exist?

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>Bowling Alley in my hometown had a DDR Extreme cab when I was a kid
>Eventually got rid of it
>only other DDR Machine in the entire city is an X2 cab in a D&B in a mall

>>388458181
>388449630
goth girls yyyeeeeeyyyuuuhhhh

>>388461758

ontario mills my nigga

Why is it so hard for /v/ to understand ? Gambling is not illegal. The states make certain forms of gambling illegal but it varies from state to city for what is legal or what is not legal. The neo-puritan aka progressive era of america thought gambling was bad.

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>>388456306

Big if true.

>>388464970
Literally everything fun is considered a Jewish conspiracy by you retards now. You guys are the new Puritans.

>>388465410
>Feed your money to the machine, goy. It's fun, not an addiction.

>>388465486
Why are you even here?

>>388465572
Why are you?
Opening up loot crates isn't gameplay, anon.

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>>388462674
> he’s never been to playdium

>>388450809
Pinball was my fucking bitch
Didn't matter the machine, I'd always kick ass
I miss it

>>388465410
you know, everyone else just refused to respond to the bait
we are onto you sheckelberg

>>388464515
>terrible controls
is it really that bad?
last I heard of it, it was basically just their Sega Racing Classic port of Daytona with another coat of paint

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>tickets and tokens are no longer the norm

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>Insomnia 61 had some cool arcade games set up in retro area
>had to pay in order to play

Just because you give out free heart attacks (Red Bull), doesn't mean you should charge me to play a game when I already paid for ticket and travel. Buncha dickheads.

>new arcade opened up a few years ago in nicer part of the city
>decent selection of games
>everything going alright till ghetto trash learn about it
>start trashing up the place due to typical chimp outs
>ghetto parents dropping kids off in droves so they can do whatever
>store doesn't allow this
>gets accused of racism
>be forced to allow unattended minors into arcade now
>gets sued for discrimination cause they ain't feeding the black kids like the white kids despite not paying for food like the white kids
>be forced to hire majority ghetto trash workers
>arcade closed not soon after due to nobody wanting to go there anymore

>>388465873
What are those stairs for

>>388465873
>>388462674
also rec room downtown and ezone in etobicoke, and that’s just off the top of my head

>>388449572
>not getting your henchmen to play big bass wheel and exchange the drug money for tickets to buy video games to sell for clean money

>>388466047
The steering wheel was stiffer than normal, and turning felt a bit too responsive.

>>388466171
a 2nd floor that had to be torn down cause idiots keep jumping off them and injuring themselves

>>388466171
19+ bar area

>>388461618
Norton and McAffee just bewilder me. Despite being so touchy about any little file they seem to miss actual viruses.

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>>388447181

>>388466134
since they where sued can you show the any related articles?
im sure someone must have done something