Who was the king of the arcades in the day (The 90's)?

What games are these ladies playing?

>>3474282
Namco

SEGA

>>3474334
I fucking wish. They were hard to find.

>>3474347
Neo-Geo machines were king in South American and Eastern European countries, alongside counterfeit CPS1 machines.

>>3474284
I'm pretty sure that it's a Xevious cabinet. Also, the photo have been mirrored, the "ous" from xevious is displayed as "sou" on the pic, and the blue target is supposed to be on the left of the red one, not the right.

>>3474473
>I'm pretty sure that it's a Xevious cabinet

Shit man, if that's the game to score pussy like that (datass) then Namco really won.

I don't care what you ugly assholes prefer, they won.

>>3474473

Ah you're right, it is Xevious. Pretty cool, and these girls are pretty fucking hot.

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It's really hard to say. Namco and SEGA traditionally did really well across all genres with a diverse roster and really pushing the medium forward, always on the cutting edge, but the Capcom and SNK fighters alone really ate a lot of quarters and generally were the machines that would form the longest lines. With Street Fighter II alone was probably the most insane arcades ever got.

I wish there was a study where someone made an effort to go across the world and count as much as possible how many quarters each machine ate. With a sizeable enough sample there should be able to find a fairly close to reality estimate. But then again those things would probably get reset all the time and it's too late now to find out.

>>3474282
>midway

>>3474514
kek

When it comes to hardware, Sega's 3D hardware ended up being more powerful than what Namco could sport : in 1995 Sega even made simulators that were so powerful PCs only matched them graphically in 2001 or so, though they were so expensive only 1 or 2 prototypes were made, F20 style -- on the other hand the latter relied on PS1 hardware for some of their most popular games like Tekken, Soul Edge or Soul Calibur (that's why the dreamcast version is vastly superior).
Anyway, I still love Air Combat's soundtrack, especially the first stage music (I could listen to it over and over):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N4w6nca-jws

>>3474282

THICK

Taito I remember having a shit ton of arcade games

>>3474282
Probably Midway followed by Capcom with SNK being the king of the Laundromat.

>>3474590
Taito lost their place as the kings during the 90s though -- they were really big in the 80s, but had difficult times during the 90s, to the point the Square bought them.

>>3474510

>With Street Fighter II alone was probably the most insane arcades ever got.

In the 90s, sure, but what about the 80s or 70s?

I am not old enough to actually remember those days, I only remember the SFII days and it was indeed crazy, but I imagine it must have been as crazy or even more when games like Pac-Man and Space Invaders came out.

>>3474615
Well this thread is about the 90s so

Either way I was born in the 80s so I'm a little too young to remember specifics, but my impression was that those classic namco titles dominated for a long time before sega started encroaching in

This all comes from personal anecdotes either way, and regionally things are very different from one another

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>>3474282
>the 90s
Probably Capcom. Street Fighter + all the Marvel cross over fighters were huge.

>the 80s
I'm going to go with Sega. If they weren't the king then they should of been. Soooo many great games came out from them in the 80s.

>>3474615
Late 70s/early 80s = Namco
Late 80s = Taito or Konami
Early 90s = Capcom
Mid-late 90s = Midway

>>3474653
Back to /pol/ please.

>>3474653
shut up, loser. this ain't /v/.

>>3474678
Not him but the janitors have been worse than usually on /vr since the new hires started.

>>3474675
Kill yourself, degenerate-sympathizer.

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>>3474684
I don't know. Whatever they're doing it isn't as bad as the jannies taking of /v/. Nothing's worst than /v/. Except the obvious worst-board contenders.

Yeah but sega was the only one with their own arcade franchise. Anyone get a gameworks in their city?

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>>3474282
Taito > Sega > Namco > Konami > SNK > Capcom

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>>3474710
Capcom > SNK > Konami > Taito > Sega > Namco

Over here, the smaller arcades had mostly Neogeo and CPS2 games (out of those, mostly the brawlers like Punisher and Cadillacs and Dinosaurs, while Neogeo had some of those soccer games and a couple of VS fighters like that Double Dragon movie game, the first KOF and Fatal Fury, and that one game with the boomerang wielding samurai that I always forget the name of).

T2 Arcade and Mortal Kombat was also popular, and I remember a few places also having Puzzle Bobble and Darius Gaiden. Puzzle Bobble was a neogeo version. Outrun was also very common, in the sit down car-cab version, but never really popular.

Nobody gave a shit about Street Fighter 2. I've seen it at a couple of places but everybody played Mortal Kombat instead.

Every damn place had a dual cab for Cruisn' USA or Cruisn' World.

The biggest places also had a ton of Model 2 titles. Oh, and pinballs everywhere.

>>3474347
What? Every pizza joint and laundromat had at least one.

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>>3474754

>Namco at the bottom
>Namco, the company that made Point Blank and Time Crisis at the bottom.

Your list is shit and your taste is shit.

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>>3474948
My Taste > Your Taste

>>3474981
>Good Taste > Shit Taste

FTFY

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>>3474282
Capcom and SNK where the shit back in the day and i will mention Namco because Tekken.
Men those where the fucking days, play KoF98 till you get to the final boss and realize he was hard as hell then give up and start playing Marvel Vs Capcom when you beat it you would challenge that fag 10 year old kid who only used Freddy in Tekken 3 beat it and start laughing at him because he sucked, then your friend who is very good comes and challenge you to Samurai Showdown just to get your ass kicked, after that we would challenge KoF98 again and thanks to him we would beat it without problem. I miss the arcade culture of the 90s.

>>3475012
>Freddy in Tekken 3

You mean Eddy, the capoeira guy?

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Don't forget pic related. A little before my time but they were huge State-side.

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>>3474754
>muh belt-scrollan and head-to-head fightan

Capcom was a one-trick pony in the arcades, deal with it

CAPCOM were untouchable in the nineties. Shameful how they have fallen.

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>>3474282

>>3474282
I'd say SNK in my region. Here KoF and SamSho were all the rage back then. Not to mention tons of cabinets sporting Metal Slug, Sonic Wings, Bust-A-Move, even some obscure stuff like Sengoku and Galaxy Fight.

>>3475838
Yeah that's sad. In the 90s everything they touched became gold, be it on home consoles or on arcades. Nowadays, they're only known for being massive jews and the kings of broken promises and day one DLCs.

>>3476113
>Nowadays, they're only known for being massive jews

Capcom has always ALWAYS been full jewish. Difference is, modern industry gave them ways to jew people more effectively and their new releases tend to be shit.

>>3474282
Why the 90s?

In the mid-late '90 Namco with Soul Blade and Tekken was the hot shit in my country. And of course Metal Slug. Midway was king in pinball departament.
Personally, I was chillin on 3 Wonders or Detana!! TwinBee.
>tfw no DoDonpachi back in the day

>>3475027
Yes, FrEddy Gordo. fuck me.

>>3474986
That's what I said.

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>>3474282
>interracial lesbians
>dat ass

>>3477273
Yours is the latter.