TIME FOR ANOTHER ARCADE PHOTOS AND STORIES/EXPERIENCES THREAD!

>>3622671
Why? You figure if you keep making them eventually one will be good?

Imagine how many kids/teens got molested in these places by the kind of scum who would own them

>>3624691
That looks comfy af

I want to be there

>>3624707
? All the arcades i've been to are full of sausages. Are you a massive fag?

I hope we see more stories along the lines of that guy who was aroused by Galaga ship abductions.

>>3626869
wat.

>>3624707
Most of the time, it was other kids who would bully you.

Lowlifes would case the joint asking you for money - which they knew you had a pocketfull of change. Other times they would hang around over your shoulder as you played - either asking for one of your lives in the game or offering to get you past a really difficult boss, and then not giving your game back. Childish nonsense.

The older, cooler kids would gravitate towards the fruit machines. Mostly it was just the nerds - like myself - who actually played arcades games. This was at a time when gaming was still perceived as a niche hobby for dorks.

My favourite arcade games available in my local den around this time were Double Dragon, Ghosts N' Goblins, R-Type, Black Tiger and, a little later, Final Fight.

Most of my pocket money was pumped into these fucking machines.

>>3624707
sad panda link pls

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>>3622671
Singapoor here. Used to have a franchise of arcades across the isle. Over 10 of them. But since Wall street crashed, they went out of business one after the other, and some bad management made them halfassed at repairing broken machines. Now there about 6 of them left.

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>>3622671
Very few good story's mostly ones where I took girls to the arcade to play some games or when i I would go with just one bro and spend all are change on the fps machines. I would play a lot of cabinet KoF 97 bomb game.

Even the few outings to the arcade I had where I was with a large group of friends was amazing, we would all dick around and play games while being noisy teens. I remember spending two of my birthdays on a arcade/pizza place near my house and on the local arcades.

I've been to a lot of small shops that only have one maybe two cabinets but its also a laundromat or a mini convenience store. There is still small shops that around my town that hold arcade games still, Ive had some of the best times in them and have never had any problem whatsoever whenever I went and i went to an arcade where everyone got drugs at and it was rampant and the owner wouldn't give a fuck. Still didn't stop me from going there even thought I wasn't a drug consumer.

>>3622671

Best recent "Arcade" experience was 1cc'ing Metal Slug X at a laundromat while visiting relatives in Southern California.

>>3628606
>Still didn't stop me from going there even thought I wasn't a drug consumer.
Latino pls.

>>3624689
luna city was not retro, faggot

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>>3622671

>>3630890
That's supposed to be the H-Dog right?

>>3627018
Black Tiger was the shit

>>3626862

wat

>>3627018
>Most of the time, it was other kids who would bully you.

This, arcades were fucking shit if you were a kid, glad consoled killed them off.

>>3631654

One of my step dad's strange friends brought that cabinet over and let us keep it in our laundry room so I'd play the shit out of that game.

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GET ON MY LEVEL

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>>3624707

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local pop up 'vintage market' had a neat arcade

one of my roastie hore stepsister's bf's used to manage a little rinky dink arcade in the middle of nowhere in the mid 90's, right as SFIII was first coming out. I used to beg him for free tokens like a little moocher turd and he'd give me like TWO after 30 minutes of begging like a deadbeat. the arcade closed after i went there twice so he was useless to me after that i think he laid up like a bum after that and smoked doobys and was the laziest white man that ever lived lmao. :D

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Spent all my years at highschool going to my local arcade Yifans and going hard on DDR, third strike, and time crisis. They even had initial D machines, but they were expensive and we couldn't read japanese.
Sometimes we'd pull small crowds with our DDR, or have mini-tournaments with a few asians who played third strike at our level. Wasn't that great at Time Crisis and the lightguns were always a bit off but it was still the time of my life.
A little while after graduating my mate and I showed up and half the machines were missing. We thought they were remodeling or bringing in new machines, but next week the doors were bolted. We asked around and found a guy trying to buy a few of the cabinets, but the owners were refusing to sell unless they bought all the cabinets at once. Then the owners fucked off overseas.
Searched my city for another arcade but all we could find were places full of mobile game cabinets. Did a google search around my country and found out the Yifans was the last of it's kind.

I'd do anything to go to an arcade like Yifans again for just one afternoon.

I love this story I found on GameFaqs years ago. A guy was really into a game, jostling it and shit, and missed the cup of tobacco spit sitting precariously over his head. You know what happened next-the whole thing dumped on his head.

>>3633879
How the fuck was there a cup of tobacco spit on top of the arcade machine?

>>3636113
A tough location, naturally, with grizzled patrons indulging in the chew.

>>3624691

Imagine you were rich enough to build that in your mansion and just spend all your time there.

>>3637079
You could build that in the storage area of most garages for under $5,000

>>3637098

Well I mean something bigger than just what's in that one shot but yeah I guess it wouldn't be insanely expensive. Having the time to just lose yourself in it is another thing altogether though.

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One local arcade has some pretty old machines. Forget the 80s, when I went there, they got some real old ones from even before that.

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>>3638839
They even got this old musical monkeys display that was a dime for a while and even my parents remember it when they were kids in the 50s.

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>>3638840
Meanwhile, downtown a "barcade" opened up in what used to be part of the old run down jail. Keep meaning to check it out.

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tangentially related to arcades.

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Old pic of about half of my current lineup.

>>3639414
Actually, scratch that. That's about a third. I've got about 30 running games, not including the ones I still need to fix.

i miss when men wore crop tops, girls ruin everything

>>3639414
Is that Guardians of the Hood? That's an unusual choice, do you play it often?

>>3640118
Not that guy, but the title logo is identical to Guardians of the Hood. Maybe he actually likes the game.

>>3638840
I love these old things.

>>3632645
I still remember when the only game at the arcade that gave put tickets was skeeball. Now the entire arcade is full of trash games that aren't even games just ticket machines, fuckin sucks.

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>>3632830
We basically had 3 arcades around where I lived. One was at the mall, one at the bowling alley and the one at the indoor flea market dirt mall.

Mall was the best and always had the newer stuff but the bowling alley had new stuff too that the mall didn't, like Mortal Kombat. I still remember kids talking at school about the Sub Zero fatality and everyone wanted to see it. So we would all stand around watching the older kids play Mortal Kombat and pray that we would see a fatality. Now the flea market had older stuff but it was still cool because they had weird stuff like the Hercules pinball which was a giant oversized pinball machine and those old circus type rides with a little seat you sit in. They finally closed the flea market arcade a few years ago which sucked because they still had Spy hunter and The Simpsons which was great to go and play once and awhile.

Arcade at the mall besides the movies was the play to be and hang out of Friday nights and the weekend. It was one of the only places where you could smoke cigarettes outside and not get hassled and hang out with older kids. My sister was 2 years older than me so I knew alot of people who could hook me up. People would have sex behind the basketball hoops machine in the back corner and would smoke outside in their cars. As for what anon said about the guy giving quarters to sit on his lap, there were a few weirdos like that around like at the bowling alley. There was this dirty old man who would buy kids hotdogs and soft pretzels for a kiss.

>>3627018
fruit machines?

>>3630890
no sauce for this ever..fuck

>>3627018
>fruit machines

You mean trees?

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>>3636113
The South...

>>3638839
There used to be a bunch of those "baseball pseudo-pinball" games. The "emulations" of them in Visual PinMAME still all SUCK.

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Alright, fuck this. This is as close as I'm getting to a pinball thread.

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>>3651173
Speaking of pitch-&-bats, this one's pretty boring.

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>>3651178
Fucking shit cunt posting sideways.

Anyway, Big Hit is awesome. Everyone should play it.

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>>3651183
More pins.

>>3651173
>Fish Tales from the Crypt
TftC is a pretty cool game, and it has some bitchin' synthesized organ rock from Brian Schmidt. That is, if you can hear it over the Cryptkeeper.

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>>3651186
Rush is the Alcatraz version. I may almost like it better than Daytona because you don't have to spend $20 learning how to shift.

Lucky & Wild is obviously GOAT, but it's not as fun by yourself.

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>>3651187
>Fish Tales from the Crypt
Someone get Mark Richie on the phone; this needs to happen.
Seriously though, I agree, though I find it funny people have made custom ROMs to remove that damn cackling. Data East has some pretty underrated tables in general.

More vidya. That Taito "light gun" game was pretty neat. Lots of sprite scaling.

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>>3651202
Glorious EM shooting gallery. Again sideways crap.

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>>3651208
One of those damn hunting games you can find just about anywhere.
Don't get too excited, the Neo Geo only had Puzzle Bobble. A good game, but ehhhh.

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>>3651213
Oh, Police Trainer. I can't decide if I like this game or not, yet I somehow run into it often. How it got into a Mortal Kombat cabinet, I have no idea.

Also, Area 51.

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>>3651223
This MK3 was the dirtiest cabinet I've ever seen. Fell off the back of a truck, maybe?
What arcade is complete without Midway's T2 coin-gobbling monster? EVERY arcade had one of these. The flashbulbs actually worked on this one. Quite the treat.
Yes, that is Silent Scope 2 back there. Gotta love that series.

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>>3651232
This Sega motorcycle racer whose name I can't recall right now is a Superscaler game like Outrun, After Burner, etc. Controlling it with the bike is harder than you'd think.
Another arcade mainstay: a member of the Cruisin' series.

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>>3651240
Last pic.
Duck Hunt was good fun, although not 100% working. Despite the name, I don't believe it's connected to Nintendo in any way.
Last, but not least, DAYYYYYTOOOOONAAAAAAAAAA

>>3651240
That's GP Rider.

Where is this located?

>>3651251
>that marquee-less third seat bolted on to Daytona

why

>>3651257
So three people can play instead of just two!
It's in a beach community in Canada, obviously closed for the year now. It's not amazing, but it's the last real arcade left in the province. Good for day trips, anyways.

>>3632652
Why is it a static image shown across all screens?
I don't think MJ is the Sonic master (not in a composing sense, anyway) this pic wants us to believe he is...

>>3651178
There was a baseball pitch bat pinball by Williams I think that gave you baseball cards as a prize.

My Grandpop used to let me play every weekend when we went out to breakfast.

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This was the last true arcade in my area, it's been gone for nearly a decade. RIP in peace.

>>3630890
what the fuck happened america? when did leaving your house and having fun go out of style. was it the internet?

>>3627018
I grew up in the ghetto arcades of Los Angeles and can confirm.

>kids who were simply taller than you thought they owned your quarters
>a friend would get punched by some really poor kid when nobody was supposedly watching so my friend would give his game up; glad he never did
>sometimes people would fight over the quarters left on the bezels as placekeeper turns
>white people would pretty much only show up during the afterschool hours and were gone before dark
>AAA was the most legendary player ever

>>3653625
consoles got cheaper and better while arcade cabinets have always been expensive. why spend all those quarters at the arcade playing old games when you can enjoy the latest and the greatest from your couch?

>>3653625
yes. and even the people outside are texting on their phones.

>>3653456
That's the one in the picture, Slugfest.
It's ok, but when there's pinball around, it's not very exciting. Maybe if you have a human opponent.

>>3653648
hood arcades were fucking rough

The closest I ever got to going into an arcade was my college game room, would spend hours on a sped up version of Pac-Man on a cocktail table, Star Trek TNG Pinball, and Tekken 3. We later even got a Gauntlet and Crusin' USA cabinet

Fun times, makes me all the more sad that I was forced to drop out

>>3637079
Would lose its novelty fast, imo. I could much more conveniently just boot up whatever arcade emulator and play with my choice of pad or arcade stick, etc. It'd be cool but part of the allure of arcades to me is wandering around discovering new machines you didn't know existed even after you'd given the whole floor a once over, the unknown aspect.

https://www.flickr.com/groups/arcades/pool/page1/

>>3658101
>tfw you find an old site that's incredibly awesome and it hasn't been updated in years

>>3653625
everyone on earth that doesn't live in a third world country has their heads up their asses and have to feel like they're better than everybody else.

>>3655965
my college had an awesome arcade. street fighter, capcom vs snk, initial d, a bunch of classic games, maybe 20 in all. had a lot of fun getting my ass kicked by asians. went back there a couple years ago to look around. all the arcade machines are gone, replaced by a room full of ps3s. i still feel disgust just thinking about it.

>>3660098
A college has room for both but probably the cabs were owned and maintained by a third party company who decided they'd make more money elsewhere. Now that they don't really make decent money anywhere, if there's an electrical program at that college you should encourage them to adopt and maintain some just as a practical exercise.

Convenience store near my house had Captain Commando 2. I remember playing with the Captain and figuring out how to do the flame thrower move, it was a simple dash jump attack but it would still wow bystanders because kids are dumb and didn't know how to do it.

This one time I was with a friend who was kind of a shit bag but also had rich parents, his parents had given him like a $20 bill or something, and we used it all playing coop on that game. We got pretty far, I think up to last stage, but couldn't complete it because we ran out of quarters, my friend (who died first) was gonna change an extra bill into quarters but I died and timed out on the continue before he could make it back, so we gave up.

I think that's the farthest I ever got on an arcade game, unlike most kids, I was pretty shy with my own money, I would spend maybe like 2 quarters tops and just stop wherever that took you in the game (usually stage 2 or 3), looking back, I'm not sure if that was a wise decision or not.

>>3664884
Whoops, just Captain Commando, I forgot there was no "2", must have been thinking of Sonic Blastman.

>>3664884
>looking back, I'm not sure if that was a wise decision or not
I'm going to vouch for it. A lot of times when you resort to feeding, it just becomes more work than play, as typically folks naturally gravitate toward a more brute force method; it becomes less "I've got to survive on my limited funds, better play carefully and well" and more "I just want to beat this game" which makes it much less enjoyable, especially since the gameplay experience becomes the equivalent of beating your head against a wall. icycalm may be a narcissistic whackjob much of the time, but this is one thing that he really nailed.

>>3639191
who is the guy on the left?

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Some ones of Brazil.

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>>3665453

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I was 16 I got a handjob, was playing video games, ate a greasy pizza with soda.

Still the best day of my life and I'm in my 30s.

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>>3665448
>>3665449
>>3665453
>>3665457
Those third world generic cabinets always make me sad. They are so empty and soulless.

>>3660056
>>3653705
I hate to sound like a fucking Luddite, especially since I remember my dad giving me so much shit for "not being social" (my friends would come over to fuck around playing video games almost every day) but having been born in the 80s and remember a time people in the US didn't live in little self-centered electronic bubbles really pisses me off.

I'm going back to finish my masters and most of my classmates are these kids that literally have no existence outside their phones.

It makes me sick.

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>>3665469
you forgot violence and drugs, thoses places have a lot this and tumult constantly, but i have loved

>>3665469
Also, happiness was when they changed the game for another KOF version or Giga Wing.

>>3665498
some of these didn't looked half bad, like the ones at the left on this pic i am replying, but yeah, when mexico went with "ghetto arcades" which were just mame pcs with poor configuration (enjoy MK not running at the right speed or not being able to hit the enemy), arcades did started to die, not to mention, people playing KOF and its dozen hacks.

>>3632652
Are you a moron? There are clearly other people playing. It's a static image because it's a static image.

>>3665953
meant for this dumbass
>>3651279

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Somewhere in Morocco

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>>3666438

The board isn't letting me post images. Is anyone else having this problem?

>>3639414
Okay so like, you know how people always make jokes about guys who collect and own shit like this being virgins? Like, that is so not fucking true.

With nerds culter branching out to women and them not being ashamed to say they like this shit too, chicks are so into guys with good collections. That's how two my mates got their girls and this older dude who runs this retro shop by me is always having ladies hang with him wanting to play old arcade games, it's insane.

How the times have changed.

>>3669136
Yo true, ar least three of my friends have gotten with dudes because of sick video game collections and I am almost considering dating this guy from a used game shop just because he has canon strike lol

>>3669148
Damn auto
>cannon spike

>go into arcade
>start playing game
>some dude stands behind me watching me
>say you want to play? I gotta go
>walk out of arcade

everytime. I hate being watched playing a game I never played and also I felt like they were waiting for their turn or some shit.

>>3669216
Who walked out, him or you?

>>3666442
>those nubutton layouts

Oh god, not even here in mexico the few existen nucabs are that bad!

you know, my dream would be to buy a Capcom Mini Cute Cab

>>3671472
Source?

>>3671438
Those were jukeboxes i think.

>>3671518
What got deleted?

Has this been posted yet?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nWevidSFyjY

>>3674837
pussy grabbing is triggering the janny

>>3674837
a pic of a guy checking Crocodile Dundee style if a girl is a female or a tranny, with Trump smiling in the background.

http://archived.moe/vr/thread/3622671/#3671472

>>3670907
me

>>3648610
Just watch Black Mirror S3E4, pretty much the same thing

>>3622671
I love arcade photos

>>3622671
Great stuff

>>3630890
kek

>>3665492
In my experience wasting two years getting a BFA. College was a mistake and all the spoiled entitled "adult" students and teachers are really no smarter than a sack or rocks. Everyone in my classes posts stupid shit on Facebook to stay "morally" popular. I actually took a "game studies" class just to waste my time further and we had to write an analysis of Pokemon Go. College is a scam but I am an idiot for falling for it. It would be a better use of time to sell weed at an Arcade in the 90s.

>>3639414
I want that Neo Geo on the far left.

>>3632645
theres an arcade near me which i still go to from time to time.
they have machines which give out tickets for prizes.
i went with my bro few monthes back, there was a get the ball thru the hoop kindve game.
we were pretty drunk, my bro just crawled into the machine and put ball after ball thru that hoop.
we mustve got about 3000 tickets.
went up to the prize section, think we cudve bought a fake moustache or some old looking lolly pops. truely a waste of money. they had a wii u there, think u needed a million tickets to win it.

>>3669148
Is this some kind of satire? It's subtle enough to challenge my very mild spot on the autism spectrum.

>>3674837
It's a winterball pic from this season featuring /pol/ and /o/. The artist was Mexibro but he was cursed by /x/ and died after producing only two major works. That one and the "vroom vroom" pic which I'm sure would also get deleted.

>>3648610
It's from an old lesbian porn mag. I had the sauce at one point. I'll just let you know they're both pretty unattractive outside of this one pic.

>>3651223
Police Trainer is awesome

>>3630890
I found Yorkie and Kelly.

>>3630890
sauce?

>be 8? years old
>hanging out in arcade
>group of middle schoolers approach me
>start trying to con me into giving them my quarters
>i say no thank you i will not trade you my quarter for your quarter
>they look upset and leave me in peace
>years later realize how pussy those middle schoolers were

As a kid I once got zapped from a cabinet (i had wet feet coming from the beach). Dont remrmber what game but i only felt this warm vibration from the pad to all my body and couldnt let goof the controls. Then suddenly i could move again and the owner was next to me with fear in his eyes (he pulled the plug).

Didnt realize what happened so i just walked out feeling empty headed.

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>>3682776
>Owner/operator of a boardwalk arcade not having his cabs properly grounded

I played a match of Virtual On with a guy at Cedar Point recently, it was pretty cool.

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Part of my arcade PCB stash. Still want to get a few more mostly non-JAMMA Capcom titles, but I'm more or less done with arcade collecting.

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>>3683517
Back in the day American Amusement Auctions would sell paper shipping bags full of PCBs for like $10-$50 but that happened at the beginning and I was always saving my pennies for the as is cabs at the end.

>>3679310
thought the same, anon. nice

>>3677783
shit that's pretty spooky

>>3665492
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RYbe-35_BaA

>>3683576
http://img.4plebs.org/boards/o/image/1479/18/1479188752510.png

>>3683585
It really was the best decade.

>>3683547

I probably should've attended more arcade auctions. I only went to one in maybe 2012 or 2013 or something just to see what they had before the actual bidding. Probably should've stuck around for bare boards. My arcade collecting days are pretty much over since I have a lot of what I want, save for a few here and there. I think the only popular boards that I still want would be Final Fight, Street Fighter Zero 3, Altered Beast, and possibly Salamander 2.

The others would be older Capcom stuff that I doubt are in high demand (like Trojan, Exed Exes, etc). I'm glad I have most of what I want since it seems that even arcade boards are spiking in price, sadly. Turtles in Time seems to be a $300-500 board now.

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I am currently almost done with a cabinet I've been working on, with this vga amp being the only part that I need. The problem is that the only online stores I've seen that carry them are across the pond, and my credit cards can't be used over seas. Is there an American retailer that carries this product?

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>>3684715
Here's a picture of the cabinet, I'm only missing the amp. ;_; I'm so close.

>playing tekken3 arcade
>player 1's joystick has buggy controls
> i transferred to player2
>joystick works ok
>a challenger appeared on p1
>p1 lost
>people keeps on losing, crowd started gathering and watching behind me " omg look at this anon he so good!
> mfw 36 wins in a row and i lasted more than an hour

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We still have a few "arcades" in Australia, but they're branded so idk if this counts.

>Be me a few years ago
>Watch some dude desteoy Initial D for like 40 mins
>He has a game card and everything
>I approach the cabinet next to him
>Sit down
>He knows I want to race
>Get in a Lancer EVO
>He gives me w minute head start
>Beats me

And that's why you never EVER take on the local arcade DK lol.

>>3684895
*gives me a 2 minute head start ffs I cant type

>>3677763
Fuck, I remember when Timezone used to have Fat PS2s for 20,000 tickets back in like 2004.

>>3684895
An upgraded car will always drastically outperform stock cars in Initial D and Maximum Tune. An expert player driving a stock car would still lose to a first time player who borrowed his friend's card.

>>3666442
>>3666438
Down the road from an internet cafe and illicit liquor store in either Sale or Rabat, can't remember which.

>>3684717
Are you trying to push a VGA monitor with an arcade board?

>>3684983
I'm trying to use the arcade monitor to run mame.

>>3653648
There were still white people in LA in the 70s-80s?

>>3685707
I'd say LA was mostly White until the early 1980s.

If Trump really does throw out taco and dim sum, LA is going to be a fucking ghost town.

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>>3685442

>>3630890
Holy shit Black Mirror was real

>>3687327
Woah woah woah woah woah. What exactly am I looking at here? It looks like it allows you to use actual arcade controls with mame more easily, however, I don't understand the need for all these extra keyboards and monitor outputs if you are already using a computer to run said card.

>>3622942
Yes, it's what every autist on this trash board does.

>>3687896
It takes the joystick/button/coin inputs from the jamma harness (plus kicks) and routes them into the PS/2 keyboard port on your PC and takes the video output from your computer, verifies the frequency and routes it into your arcade monitor via the jamma harness. None of it is "necessary" per se if you just want to splice everything not even that thing you were asking about originally you just need to get the frequency of your VGA output down to what your arcade monitor can display.

>>3688001
Absolutely fascinating. I looked into it after asking about it, and it seems like the way to go for the most part. I looked at a few JAMMA cabs within a couple hundred miles of me and the only off putting thing is that all the cheap ones seem to be good games that I wouldn't want to rip the PCB out of.

Different anon btw. Thanks for the real answer

>>3666438
i live pretty close i should visit one day
i bet in morocco they value old tech more than here in Spain
the last arcade in my area shut down 2 years ago and sport bets "arcades" are taking over everywhere. makes me sick.

>>3630890
I never noticed before but this image is actually horizontally mirrored. You can see the Xevious logo on the cabinet in front of her crotch is backwards.

POLYBIUS

>>3689620
np but if you get a former fighting game (6 buttons) you'll need to get a "kick harness fingerboard" if you don't want to have to cut off the kick harness and attach the wires directly to those posts. Regular Jamma only supports 3 buttons, so games with more than 3 have their own semi-proprietary "kick harnesses" for the additional buttons. You'll probably end up having to splice or jump-wire SOMETHING no matter how carefully you prepare but the less the better right.

>>3690513
Yeah, I saw some mention of using additional hardware (I-Pac specifically) for players 3-4 and 4 button modes.

Controls aside, it seems worth it just for the native arcade monitor support. That sexy semi-dark display. Those thick ass scan lines. Yumm

>>3690516
You'll still have to learn how to output lower frequencies from your PC the jpac just routes them into the jamma harness and checks their frequencies on the way which is nice to protect arcade monitors that may not have their own failsafes.

>>3690604
They also have that video card that is 15hz compatible. I also read on their FAQ that it doesn't necessarily even have to be a JAMMA cab. Coin slot support is nice too. I'm probably going to go check out their forums, because this could be quite useful to me.

>>3690615
Lots of video cards are 15khz compatible the hacked drivers Soft15khz and crt-emudriver are both pretty well documented. Soft15khz has pretty wide compatibility and crt-emudriver can push any old raster (not vector) monitors. A lot of a Jpac will be wasted if you aren't putting it in a jamma cab, though it could be motivation to convert a cab TO jamma.

>>3690503
what about it?

>>3690756
Speaking of vector, how useful is a oscilloscope for emulating vector displays? I have a pretty good idea, but want to keep the conversation flowing.

>>3695174
Not very. It doesn't have the precision or frequency. It's not the display that's the hardest part there are color vector cabs out there to be found, Sega and Gremlin brands. The really rough part is the signal. You need a special controller board the only one of which I know being the Zektor ZVG and they aren't currently making them. Having a VectorMAME cab would really be a thing.

http://www.zektor.com/zvg/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=syW0s_4VHuo

>>3695189
Fascinating. Vector displays are the sexiest.

>>3639191
That guy on the right looks like the guy in the first surveillance camera man video in the computer lab

>>3695375
wat.

>>3696413
the first surveillance camera man video in the computer lab

>>3698019
what in the fuck are you even saying?

>>3683585
people now would get pissed and not react to getting their picture taken.

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>be 10, mid 1990's
>only been to an arcade once with friends for a birthday party
>find out there's an arcade place near me that recently opened
>ask my dad to take me to check it out
>walk around, looks like a pre-dave and buster's douche depot
>arcade games look boring
>notice all the coin slots have a note
>"tokens only"
>tokens are each more than 25 cents
>guy at a counter asks if we need help
>"no, just looking around"
>leave
>find out the place closed down about a year later

Good riddance to that trash. I'm sure plenty of arcades were fun back in that day, but that place sucked ass and decided to close.

Alternatively:

>2000
>huge mall near me opened arcade on 4th floor
>20-30 machines
>everything was fun to play
>spend a bunch of time with friends there
>participate in world of underground dance dance revolution gambling
>had chubby black friend who danced really well, we would hustle chumps who challenged him

One of my favorite games there was a mocap boxing game where you wore weighted gloves and had to punch and duck to avoid hits. That game made me feel like a champ.

>mfw

>>3622942
Wow, this place really is turning into /v/ 2.0

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>1983, 10 years old
>Osh Kosh Air Show, Wisconsin, Summer
>all types of military, commercial, historical,and private aircraft fly overhead for days
>I spend most of my time hanging out in this little arcade they have set up
>Berzerk, Battlezone, Crossbow, Galaga, Dig Dug, Zaxxon...
>Spend 5 bucks dad gave me in an hour
>walk around watching people play and searching the floor and coin returns
>some dude keeps playing "Twilight Zone" over and over on the Jukebox

Also the first place I played pic related. Funny thing is, I was and am still interested in planes, but not as much as some good ol' vidya.

>>3701395
>Any time going to the mall with my parents
I'm going to the arcade for a bit

>Paul Bunyan Land
Going to the arcade for a bit

>Drive in movies
Going to the arcade for a bit

>Duluth, MN
Going to the arcade for a bit

>Movies
HOLY SHIT THEY GOT AN ARCADE


I'm mad about the one in the mall closing. They had a lot of cool shit like Crazy Taxi.

>>3701593
>>Paul Bunyan Land

wat.

>>3679310
Charlie Brooker must have seen this image prior to writing the script

>>3679310
>>3683569
>>3703860
I don't get it.

>>3703826
I'm not going to google it for you. It is as the name suggests. An amusement park with a Paul Bunyan theme.

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>>3622671
The entirety of the 80's looked fun.

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My mom never let me go to arcades because she thought people were selling and consuming drugs inside... was it true?

>>3704795
depends. usually just older teens selling pot or lsd.

Is it worth driving 5 hours to spend a day here?

http://www.pinballzarcade.com/

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>you will likely never play any of these unless you spend a lot of money to go out of your way and find them

>>3705140
It's baffling that arcades lost to consoles when you look at cabs like these.

>>3705294
Not when you consider electric bills, maintenance costs(I can't count the number of times I'd see an After Burner cab with an Out of Order tag), and the staggering amount of money that would be expected for each play on the newer cabinets(I say staggering because most of us would be looking at a quarter to a dollar on most cabs...newer ones would be expecting two or more dollars for several years).

The technology and convenience of consoles really started to kill arcades as time went on, even despite the lack of immersion from cabs like After Burner or Hydro Thunder. Add in that less profitable arcades became, as mentioned, gang/drug centers which spread to stigmatize arcades in general, and...*shrug*

>>3704795
Depends on where you were at. In an inner city? Probably. At least during the 90s (and maybe the 80s if it was a REALLY shitty neighborhood).

>>3704652
In the latest series of Black Mirror (series 4) there's an episode based on two women (a white girl with ginger hair and glasses and a black girl) who find eachother at a nightclub with arcade machines in the 1980's and become lovers.

>>3704795
that's funny. my mom would literally drop me off in the arcade in the mall while she went and shopped for a couple of hours. I was like 7. this was in the early 90s.

>>3622671
why is james hetfield dressed like that

>>3707131
Did you live in a suburban/rural/white area at least?

Favorite arcade game?

>>3707617
No I lived in a nigger infested hellhole.

>>3648610
https://imgur.com/a/tRNJN

>>3639191
is that justin wong -200lbs on the right?

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>>3710261

>>3710261
>all that hair
>54k views

>>3665498
those asses, thank you brazil

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>>3710261
>https://imgur.com/a/tRNJN
I HAD THE ASS PIC FOR YEARS, did not know it was a lesbo porn

ahahahahah

Gentlemen, how do we resurrect arcades?

I was discussing this with a friend not so long back, this was my rough idea:

>Hire location somewhere central but out-of-the-way, like those gyms you find that are built underground and just have a door on ground level
>Fill it with reconditioned arcade machines
>All machines set to free-to-play forever, but the venue is members-only, charge a monthly fee and issue an entry card just like a gym
>Either have a bar and food counter or to keep staffing costs down and ambience up import some Japanese vending machines like the ones that serve warm coffee, ready-made ramen, etc
>Offer a repair service for retro hardware, have an exchange for preowned games

>>3628606
Dude on the right isn't wearing a raincoat, he just has long dark-blue hair. It's not a shovel in his hands either, he's leaning over a rail

>>3710339
yep and ricki ortiz in the middle

>>3710547
>Underground location
Like it. Rent would likely be cheap, and you could put a spin on it.

>Fill it with reconditioned arcade machines
Or custom Mame boxes with easily changed marques

>All machines set to free to play forever, but charge a membership fee
I'd allow day passes, and being able to rent out the whole venue

>Bar and food counter
It's a must, anon. Hire some teenagers. Yeah, they'll be burnouts, you'll lose a little stock to theft, but it'll be fine

>Offer repair service
Good idea

>>3710547
yeah all 5 of those members will be great for business

>>3710547
>>3711158
I played around with the idea, and honestly, it's just not feasible.

Most of the "successful" arcades are barcades which alienates children. You also need to get the "expensive" classic cabinets (like Donkey Kong, Ms. Pacman, etc), and have an emphasis on stuff people can't just emulate or play at home (like Initial D, various other racing games, House of the Dead, DDR)

This largely turns your barcade into less of an arcade, and more of a bar for casuals.

Sure, you can have a few Neo-Geo's, a Street Fighter 2, a few beat em ups and shoot em ups.

The big thing you have to realize though, is that when things are set to free play, people get really bored really fast. It doesn't matter how hard a game is, you just play it until you beat it mashing the credit button.

Unless you can develop an incredibly dedicated userbase, you are going to go under in 6 months.

Just sourcing the cabs is also a massive pain in the ass. I was fiddling around with using real boards, but sourcing free CRT tv's and building super guns but it's still not a feasible business plan. If rent was free? Sure, but rent will cripple your business.

>>3710261
>https://imgur.com/a/tRNJN
best fap of 2017 so far

>>3631654
Still is

>>3712352
>Most of the "successful" arcades are barcades which alienates children
You act like that's bad. You just cut maintenance for the machines AND the facilities down by 70%

>You also need to get the expensive classic cabinets
See: Mame

>And have emphasis on stuff people can't emulate at home
Like what, exactly?

>This largely turns your barcade
Into a low cost high yield investment

>Sure you can
waste money on 'muh authentic' consoles

>The big thing you have to realize is
I want casuals who come in for the gimick. The money isn't in the cabs, it's in the drinks and food

>Unless you can develop an incredibly dedicated userbase you are going to go under in 6 months
Maybe if I waste my time and efforts on 'muh authentic hardware'

>Just sourcing cabs
Is a waste of money when lumber is cheap

>I was fiddling with the idea of getting FREE hardware
And still couldn't figure out how to make money

>and building super guns
They already exist.

>If rent was free?
You'd make a whopping extra $1500 a month

>Rent will cripple your business
No.

>>3712850
If you don't give a fuck about muh authentic, there's no point in in only having arcade games. It might be a good idea to assemble standalone console game booths.

Using mame is probably a bad idea due to copyright violation reasons if you're running a business. A small fry violating copyright is one thing but a company that has aspirations of hitting it big and becoming a franchise is another.

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Anyone have other pictures from Milford Rec Center AKA Milford Amusement AKA Smiles Entertainment?

>>3712850
>And have emphasis on stuff people can't emulate at home
>Like what, exactly?

Lightgun games, driving/racing games, stuff like Time Crisis footpedals, and I guess just games with unique immersion setups and/or unique controls in general are not generally emulated at home by the average person.

I hate to say it, but I'd argue that having original cabs can be a big part of the appeal of a barcade/restaurant arcade in and of itself. Seeing an original DK cab, or at least a convincing imitation, is more appealing than some homemade MAME-cab running DK. It will be what older patrons remember from their youths and what late teen/20something hipsters want to see. If you want to go the gamer route and have a bunch of JP candy cabs, then having the authentic hardware becomes important.

If you think you can make something work, go for it. But I wouldn't count on a lot of high reviews from hipsters, gamers, or nostalgic patrons if your gameroom is stocked with homemade MAME cabs.

>>3712850
>You act like that's bad. You just cut maintenance for the machines AND the facilities down by 70%

That's not true at all. The second alcohol comes into the mix you're going to have adults being retarded. Spilling drinks by the machines is a great way to destroy your cabs.

>See: Mame
You're not legally allowed to use emulators. You have to use official hardware.

>Emphasis on stuff people can't emulate at home
I got into that in my first post, you have sitdown racing games, light gun games, other games that have "visceral" controls like DDR. Learn to read kiddo.

>waste money on muh authentic
You can't base your business on copyright infringement, you'll be shutdown and subject to legal action.

>its not for the cabs its for the drinks and the food
So guess what chico, make a good fucking restaurant/bar. Skip the arcade games because no one gives a shit anymore.

>free hardware
No, you can't use MAME. I don't know why you think you can just base your business around pirated software but you can't unless you're in some third world shithole.

>and building super guns
I know they exist you fucking retard. I was going to build them myself to save costs.

>you'd be making an extra 1500 a month
Someone doesn't live in a city center.

>Rent won't cripple your business
Yes it will.

>>3713983
People want to play the stuff they had as a kid. If you have generic big black mame cabinet no one will give a shit.

Any retard can build a generic cabinet. People want to play the original cabs, which is why I mentioned the -expensive- donkey kong and ms. pacman cabs.

If you want to run a restraurant/bar, you need good location, good quality food and drink, at reasonable prices. You don't need a fucking arcade cabinet setup to do that.

>>3699876
Before the internet didn't exist to spread it around

>>3712850
>Like what, exactly?

Fucking TONS of shit, dude. Much, if not MOST, of the arcade experience is lost on ports or emulation.

>>3713663
>There's no point in having only arcade games
Agreed 100%. There's a barcade about an hour from me that lets you rent consoles too. Ironically that would be harder and more expensive than setting up some arcade cabs.

>It might be a good idea to assemble standalone console game booths

I think I'd just have like a 25" tv at every table already set up to plug a console in easily.

>Using mame is probably a bad idea to to copyright violation
I think there's a grey area because I'm not making money off the GAME, but you are correct, that could become an issue.

>>3713983
>Lightgun games
Can be emulated

>Footpdeals
Can be emulated

>Unique immersion
I can really only think of a few that have a truly unique immersion setup.

>Muh authentic
Good. I don't want boring 'muh authentic' assholes in my establishment anyway. I want complete casuals who are there just to have a few drinks, maybe order some food, and gtfo. The machines are all set to free play either way so it's not like that's the money maker, just a gimmick to set the place out from the crowd slightly

>>3714036
>Idk why you think you can do what other businesses have done

Because other businesses have already done it.

>>3714036
You sound like one of those people who will come up with a thousand reasons not to do something but never actually do anything yourself.

I'll see if I can get some pics of this one that's about an hour and a half drive from me.
It's got a fuckin' Space Jam pinball machine. Shit's tight.

>>3714947
It's not a grey area. You'll get taken to court. You can try to run a Fair Use defense, but you probably wont succeed.

The fair use test:
>purpose of the use
>nature of copyrighted work
>amount of the work that is copied
>market impact
You lose the first one since you are using it as a business strategy. The second one is probably lost if you're copying games that are available as ports or as later entries in series. You are copying the entire work so you lose the third. Your copies compete with the company's original product in the market so you lose the fourth.

You'd lose a fair use defense so hard and get pounded in court.

t. copy editor

>>3710261
3D is PD

>>3665492
>I hate to sound like a fucking Luddite, especially since I remember my dad giving me so much shit for "not being social" (my friends would come over to fuck around playing video games almost every day) but having been born in the 80s and remember a time people in the US didn't live in little self-centered electronic bubbles really pisses me off.
I was born with autism and the issues I have from that plus how I dealt with it and a bunch of other shit life threw my way like physical illness made me a complete and utter massive shutin.

And I fucking hate it. I'm trying to improve myself as much as I can but I'm still a massive shut in.

I don't want to go into a world where everybody else is just texting. I've wasted so much time on the internet, and now the rest of the world wants stay on the internet instead of real life too. I just don't get it.

Plus growing on phones/internet since birth is making people as fucking stupid as somebody with autism when it comes to common sense and ability to communicate.

>>3715686
Shit sperglord neckbeard anon here, I didn't want to get all blog posty.

I was born in 1990 and it sucks knowing that when arcades and no internet was a thing I was a shut in. It's like I wasn't even able to be part of it when it was a thing.

The way society is attached to cell phones and social media kills me too.

>>3713914
was that a chain or something or is it just a local place?

>>3716734
A local place that had a lot of name changes.
I made a short film about it a little while ago, but I always wished I coulda found more archival images.

I miss male croptops, why do females ruin everything

>>3716786
>I made a short film about it a little while ago

Post a link, dude.

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>>3718509
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kfFbPlG2Ir8

>>3630890
That small black hand

>>3718536
Milford Rec/Smiles!

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>>3713914
I don't know why Smiles/Milford Rec pictures are so hard to come by. How many kids had birthday parties there? Scan those damn pictures!

>>3720354
I worked in that place about a year before it got fully torn down. I swear I got brain damage from cleaning a cabinet with ammonia based cleaner, without a mask.

>>3622942
fpbp

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>>3622671
>Go to Arcade
>Soul Calibur (can't remember which one)
>Beat it
>DNV
>smile and walk away
>8 years later
>still there at top
>re-visit 2 years ago
>closed down cause no one goes to arcade any more

>>3720468
Congratulations, anon.

>>3651186

>Judge Dredd

I'm fucking jelly as all fuck. I desperately want to own one of these. Im in a country with 4 tables and 1 is broken.

>>3665458
FAB in Manchester has a couple, and the bar isn't bad.
It's decorated out of the ass with nerd culture though, so if that bugs you I wouldn't recommend.

£1 a credit makes me cry

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Oldfag here,

Born in 76' so I spent my young and influential years in arcades. Back then if you could do something on a cabinet that others couldn't do you were a fucking god. There was always Aladdins Castle at Fayette mall (Kentucky) and Lexington mall and there was a place called the Dream Machine in Turfland mall. The Dream machine was like another world. All the newest biggest games came there. Dragons lair, Space ace, etc. they're all gone now but you. An google those names and malls and find pics. I collect the gold tokens from those places because the memories of those games are so dear. What I miss most are the sounds, tho. Sometimes when I feel nostalgic I go on YouTube and open twenty tabs. I'll find the videos of 20 games with the most distinctive noises pacman, donkey kong, tempest, and set the volumes of each one in a cascading order to give the illusion of proximity. I open each tab and let them all play at the same time. If you close your eyes and listen, you almost feel like you're standing in gaming heaven. Those were simpler times. There's a video on YouTube I visit every few months or so and it almost recreates the aesthetics.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=1YE4S5i6atY
I get more sentimental about it than most movies. On another note, my dad brought home the first Atari 2600 in the neighborhood in 1981 and pacman sucked ass on it. The first cartridge I was ever allowed to pick out for myself was Legend of Zelda. I picked it because it was the only gold cartridge.
Pic related: Oddly enough, someone made a small comic about the same thing I remember feeling the same way about checking repeatedly to make sure it was still there and that it wasn't a dream. It could damn well have been autobiographical.
I'll be home in a bit and if I remember I'll post a picture of the tokens of anyone cares.

>>3622671

This is great. Motherfuckers nowadays are ashamed to label themselves "gamers". But guys like that back then took full pride in his hobby. Bunch of cis motherfuckers in this modern era, I tell you.

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>>3723339
Being a gamer in the early 90's was the mark of death. My ass got openly fucking ostracized from most social events for having a favorite sega genesis game let alone an entire library. It's weird how all things I took shit for back then; Comics, Star Wars, books, are now pop culture essentials

Who here /St. Louis/? 'Member the Tilt at Northwest Plaza?

Los Angeles here, anyone know any arcades that have Spy Hunter? The one in old town Pasadena doesn't, neither does that one barcade in downtown

>>3723371
Where the fuck are you from? If you're American and got shit for playing video games then it was because of you and not the video games.

>>3724013
Arcade 2084 in Anaheim has the upright version. I was just there last night. They're open select weekends on Friday and Saturday from 7:00 pm to 2:00 am, 10 dollars for free play all night, with a wristband so you can go in and out. About 80 games total, check online to see when they're open.

>>3724118
Not the guy you are talking to but I caught a lot of shit for being into Anime, Comics and Video games in the 90's. Lots of normal kids did in the area (Connecticut) back then.

>>3724127
Holy crap, thank you.

>>3723283
Thanks for sharing, oldfag. I'll look at your pictures.

>>3622671
me on the left

>>3710418
you must be over 18 to be on this site

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>>3658101
wonderful, thanks

any good arcades in the SD area? i've been to the barcade in little tokyo in LA, but was curious if there was anything good local.

>>3710547
I'd say the advent of the barcade, along with Gen X'er nostalgia is doing that already.

>>3724136
Your life must have sucked, boyo. I grew up in the 80s and 90s, and where I am, just owning a copy of Ninja Scroll or GitS, or the SF2 movie made you a god on the bleeding edge of cool.

Don't get me wrong, I fucking hate anime now. Games weren't really stigmatized as a bad hobby choice either, and I knew plenty of people, girls included, that played them.

Matter of fact, going to the arcade to meet girls or taking them to one was equivalent to like, going rollerskating, as in, it was a viable first or second date option.

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http://www.pinballpa.com/game-list/video-games

Theres a list of arcade/pinball machines he has as well as pics for some of them on the website.

I went to this place last night with a few friends.
It's $20 for 2 hours with everything free to play but It wasn't nearly enough time for the amount of pinball tables/arcade games he has, I'm going to have to do the $40 all day pass soon.

I can't seem to find the one game I was playing there on his website, I was wondering if this sounded familiar to anyone?
It was like a topdown game where wireframe sprites of Knights were projected onto a physical picture of a dungeon. It was 2 player and you had a joystick to move, then a knob to turn which controlled where you sword pointed and you had to fight each other like that.
It was one of the coolest things I've ever seen

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>>3723371
Jesus, I remember that magazine. Solely for the snes cd rom article. Fuck, I'm old.

>>3725656
This. Superman died in 1993. After that, anything was possible for us.

>>3633812
Shit dude. I used to play third strike and mvc2 with my friends at the mall until they shutdown. They had cheap as fucking deals for their cabinets. But alas, we were poor highschoolers.

>>3622671
>got to mexico recently to visit grandparents
>visit arcade since I love playing third strike and arcade games in general
>top floor of some building that sells electronics
>FULL OF ARCADE CABINETS AND GEMS
>gigantic ass kof posters
Okay.
>look around
>no other fighting games just fucking kof and more kof
I guess you guys weren't kidding when you said KOF was the fighting game for brown people.

>>3684720
I would always play fighting games and one stick would always be shittier. We called it "the bitch stick" and often flipped a coin to decide who'd get it when get in there.

>>3633812
Come to Denver, we have an arcade called Boss Stage that is free play with a cover charge and they have loads of rhythm games, sf2, 3, MVC, and a few lightgun games (house of the dead, area 51, no time crisis tho :()

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>>3630890

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kinda thread related:
>bought a USB stick
>great for arcade titles but most games only use only 1-3 buttons
wondering: is there any games that actually use more than 3 buttons, other than fighting games?

extra points for games that use 8 buttons

sorry for my english is not my native language

>>3729194
Defender was like... what? 6 buttons or something crazy like that?

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>>3729194
Look at what they had as a concept for Virtual Fighter lol

>>3729842
What is the right side even supposed to be saying?

>>3729667
Well yes, because no joystick lol.

>>3729194
Neo Geo games use 4 buttons. 3 buttons was the ceiling for a long time because of jamma

>>3732073
That if VF continued it's trajectory it would become too complicated for new players. It's the exact problem Itagaki now has with the newer DoA games.

>>3729194
Beatmania uses 5 buttons and a turntable that can be mapped as a button, making it a 6 button game

>>3732093
But the newer DoA games still only use 3 buttons

>>3729194

I guess it is kinda fighting, but Dungeons and Dragons uses 4 buttons.

>>3732104
Yes but they're apparently not as easy to just pick up and play as the earlier ones were. This is all just second hand from Itagaki though as his opinion on them. I don't play DoA at all so I can't compare them.

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ok first was Donald being crt masterrace but now Ivanka is the best

>>3732120
I never noticed how much her smile is the same as his. Gross.

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>>3732129
you're gross

>>3732134
Not as gross as her freak mouth lol

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feminazis ruined america

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>>3732139
t. Landwhale

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>>3732145

>>3732148
Not fat at all but even if I was it wouldn't make her less ugly.

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>>3732160
do (you) find all beautiful women ugly, cuck?

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>>3732179
Ohhh cuck!! The new favorite buzzword of retarded kids these days.

No, I like beautiful women. I just never found her attractive and now realize more why. Doesn't mean you don't have to.

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>>3732195
whose that a poor excuse for Liv Tyler?

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>>3732226
>Liv Tyler is more attractive than Laetita Casta

Are you only attracted to women who look like weird female versions of their fathers? To each their own I guess, but your standards are questionable at best.

>>3732120
Ivanka's the world's 10est 10

>>3732247
>Literally who?
>jew nose

Sorry, I forgot most of the people who post on 4chan are underage. Enjoy your low standards Kiddo.

>>3676048
You lost.

>>3707131
That is because she was shopping for dick.

>>3715054
It is.

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>never got to experience japan arcades during the golden age

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>>3732287
This is one of the most incredible images I have ever seen.

>>3729194
>This stick is any good?
I want the cheapest decent one

>>3732073
they planned that you would make fluid movements across 100 buttons to do moves.

This was before touch screens and gestures I guess.

>>3732120
>Donald being crt masterrace

wat.

>>3682776
Could be a cool origin of your super powers

>>3630890
BLACKED

>>3723283
This was a good story, thanks for sharing, oldfag anon.

>>3682776
dude that is fucked

first time I ever heard of someone being electrocuted by an arcade machine

>>3735317
He was just shocked, not electrocuted. Still though if you've never heard of someone being shocked by an arcade machine then you haven't been on the scene very long. Back in the day when AAMA auctions were just an hour drive away and started at 8am I used to just count on getting shocked by the as-is cabs instead of having coffee.

>>3736393
It's a little short for him ok? it's not his fault

>>3632653
>Soul Edge
>Primal Rage
daaamn

>>3685707
I lived in East LA my entire life until 2010 and we were one of two white families on our block. I now live in VA where I think I'm surrounded by more Mexicans than ever...

>>3695375
Omfg you're right. I haven't even seen that video in 2 years either but wow.

>>3632653
>Total Carnage
>?
>?
>Primal Rage
>Arch Rivals

What are the second and third?

>>3739308
Soul Edge is to the left of Primal Rage.

>>3639191
>rc cola

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This is the last arcade in my area

Back in the day there was one close to pembroke mall called coney island

That was my dojo

>>3701593
>Duluth, MN
I'm from there originally, are you?

The shitty little mall movie theater had a MKII cabinet, and it was easier to get on than the one at the arcade in the food court. I always remember the time that some sweaty, trench coat wearing neck beard starting getting way into the game and had to dramatically toss his trench coat off. The smell was so bad that everyone had to step back like 15 feet.

>>3705140
>you will likely never play any of these
I've played all of those, but I'm old.

>>3715686
Get yourself a retro cellphone. Not to sound like a hipster douchebag, or (no offense) autist. but I prefer cutting the cord if I'm going outside to socialize or just get some fresh air.
No emails, no internet, just texting and talking.

>>3648606
>>3648612

Slot machine

>>3736393
>>3736405
Grown men trying to play kids games looked just as goofy back then as they do today.

>>3732153

i hope she's the one saying that

>>3739308
That second game is Hydra.

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I played with one of these in Barcelona back in 99. Had never seen one before. Fucking awesome.

>>3627857
Timezone was an Aussie thing too, up until as late as 98, maybe? Arcade culture wasn't really a thing tho, all the games were at least a dollar a go, which was sooooo fucking expensive

>>3710512
Classification: HERO

>>3653648
That sounds a lot like russian LAN clubs back at 1990s/2000s. Replace cabinets with PCs running Quake/Counter-Strike/UT and we are done.

>>3727789
>in Denver
>didn't know
thank you

>>3651202
Fug yeah Space Gun.