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genius idea
Half of the games in arcades now are mobile games. It's been this way for the past few years.
>>257577794
well it's not like anybody's actually making games for arcades
How did this game explode so quickly?
>>257577439
I wonder how tough that button and the screen glass are.
>>257577439
I thought that fad burned out already
>>257580479
It's highly challenging but highly accessible. It also has "just one more turn" appeal.
But the fact it viralled so explosively was largely just luck.
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>>257577439
>>257577794
American arcades make me sick.
>>257580309
The Japanese are. Their arcade games kick ass. Our cultures are too different to facilitate that kinda shit though.
>>257582659
That would imply that he was huge you fucking moron
>>257577794
It still baffles me that people will pay money to play slightly bigger versions of games that are on their phone, some of which they already paid for.
>>257582923
no it implies the tablet is a normal 7'' tablet
>>257583207
And most of which are f2p.
You now realize all those shitty impossible prize games would have been total hits today if they removed the prizes and put them on mobile devices.
>>257583207
I saw an Infinity Blade arcade edition one time, I played it and I had some fun. It had some really bad collision detection issues and bugs that aren't present in the mobile versions though.
Probably to make sure you don't progress too far with one credit.
I think it had some exclusive content though, and a 2 player mode.
>>257583539
isn't that hardcoded to fail until a certain amount of money is inserted
>>257583659
Yes.
>>257583659
Yes and no. It uses a random number generator to decide if you can win. Same with claw machines.
>>257583659
I think so, yeah.
>>257583659
cloud easily see that, friend of mine could stack it all the way to the second last one without the blocks passing by more than once, never managed to get the last one
>>257583529
What's worse, paying to play an F2P game, or paying to play a game you already paid for? Christ they're both terrible...
>>257583659
Sort of, I think by default it's set to only allow a winner every 10th play.
>>257581589
pewdiepie
game boomed after he made a video about it>yfw I just checked his channel and he now has 30 million subs
>>257580479
It exploded a year after it came out
>>257582850
The problem is that people don't socialize in public anymore. There's no market for places where you go and do things with others.
Arcades died for the same reason LAN died.
> there are only two places with more than two arcade machines in the entirety of the nearest largest city
> no
> fighting
> games
Aracdes are ded
>>257577439
Forget the fucking arcade game, are those Flappy Bird plushies in that claw machine?
Why?
>>257577439
you want to know what is truly sad?
Google's own documentation for implementing their google play game services' multiplayer and achievements system uses a Flappy Bird clone as an example of good practices.
Provide a 'Quick Match' button that gets players directly into a competitive match.
https://developers.google.com/games/services/checklist?hl=es
>Give players an easy way to start playing against randomly selected opponents via auto-matching. For an example of this in practice, see the Clumsy Bird game.
>>257583798
What kind of claw machine are you playing?
>>257580479
the guy who created it used bots to place it at the top of the download list so people would notice it
>>257582850
Japanese Arcades are great if you're a smoker.
>not living near the largest arcade in the world
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Funspot_Family_Fun_Center
my area has no arcades but some new party place or something called Main Event opened up here recently and it looks alright from the pictures but im not certain.
Anyone ever been to one? Is there quality cabinets or just shit like in the OP?
>>257583937
You pay to play with other people. It's the same concept as owning a pool table but still playing at pool halls occasionally.
Now if you're going to arcades to play by yourself you're a complete social failure.
>>257584624
A standard one. Claw machines have a pay-out factor as well. They'll use less pressure on the claws if you are not a 'winner.'
It's still possible to win items, but it's gamed against you.
>>257585170
>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Funspot_Family_Fun_Center
> mom, you gotta let me use your marquee!
> I need to let the world know
> we need to free them
> the sheeple
> mom just for like five minutes
>>257585323
There's one near my area, been there a couple of times in the past.
There's bowling (their major attraction), arcades, and laser tag. Arcades are alright, all I remember is DDR and I think they had Beatmania, the Jurassic Park game, and House of the Dead. It was fun.
>>257584183
this always boggles my mind
The thing that puts me off arcades is how it's £1 a go for every machine, regardless of how old the games are.
I mean it makes sense. an original Time Crisis machine is going to cost the same in electricity and maintenance as a new game, if not more.
>>257585735
>They'll use less pressure on the claws
So that explains it. Fucking jews
>>257586150
I think it was a combination of:
>the 'creator' saying he was removing it
>people viraling it was going offline
>people posting their smartphones online at crazy prices with it on there
>>257584016
>>257583895
>>257583813
>>257583798
>>257583659
Most of those "chance" games are. If you look long enough, you can find the service manuals to these machines (and claw games) online and it goes into detail about the finer things like odds and how to set the odds higher or lower depending on how much money is put into the machine.
>>257586029
Yeah I saw the other stuff, not too keen on bowling but I like billiards and the laser tag and rock climbing look fun. Any fighting games?
>>257586421
but thats wrong. The game was insanely popular before that. It's actually one of the reasons the dev pulled the game, he was almost fucking scared of what he wrought
>>257586270
I get the feeling this is why arcades never really took off in england. £1 is just too much money for one play
>>257586696
Really? I thought it was for marketing purposes. Why would he be scared of it being too popular?
>>257586696
Frankly, I'd be a little worried too if I created something asinine like a modern day Pong rehash and the general public went totally apeshit over it.
>>257584247
Yeah, at the risk of sounding like a weeb, that's why I like Japan so much. Apartments are so small and hanging out at people's houses isn't as common, there are tons of places just for hanging out.
A lot of the arcades I went to had cool little sitting areas and artbooks where players could chill and shoot the shit about tactics. Coffee shops are huge, comfy as fuck and allow you to hang out as long as you want if you buy something. It's nice and it gets you out of the house. Makes me wonder how hikki's in Japan do it. Being one in America is so much easier.
>>257584816
Pretty much everywhere in Japan is great if you're a smoker. Europe too. I can't tell you how sick I am of seeing all this anti-smoking propaganda here in Burgerland. So fucking annoying.
Seattle has a pretty fucking great arcade in fremont.
Called Add-a-ball.
Has pinball tourny's and everything.
>>257587323
especially a year after you release it. I'd have forgotten about it by then
>>257587429
Kill your lungs where they wont kill others you smoking sub human. You belong in the ash your cigarette produces
>>257586903
They do better in places like Blackpool because of tourists, so I think the games are cheaper.
Again, it's a matter of power and maintenance. If only a handful of people play a day, it's only costing the owners.
>>257585784
>>257585170
muh niggas
i go there once a year
kids not knowing how to start pinball machines is the best
>>257588009
More like, he just wanted as many units out there as possible for advertisement money.
He hyped it up for maximum return.
>>257588106
I don't even smoke man. I'm just annoyed by all the "HURRR DURRR smoking bad" that they keep trying to shove down my throat all the time.
They're a bunch of overzealous faggots who are almost as big of liars as the guys who made that "smoking marijuana sponsors terrorism" commercials.
>>257588009
not if you where making money of it
>>257588106
Not even that guy but the media propaganda against smoking is insane. If you watch TV at all you are almost guaranteed to see at least one anti-smoking or "truth" ad shitting on smokers. I dont even smoke and I think its excessive as hell to sit there and practically demonize people just because they choose to smoke cigs. Its not like everyone and their grandmother knows it can give you cancer at this point.
>>257588705
It makes sense in places with socialised healthcare, but I don't get why it's even an issue in America
>>257577439
When I went to Disney World a year ago, that's what it was all like in the hotel arcades.
>go to modern arcade
>it's entirely composed of smartphone games and impossible to win prize games
"stop living in the past gramps, things aren't getting worse, you're just getting too old!"
ok
>>257589505
>>257589137
Naive people who think they're doing good in the world by championing a cause. They're the ancestors of SJW's.
>>257589680
>>257589876
You don't know what suffering is until you see this in action...
>>257589137
Because secondhand smoking isn't a fucking myth, no matter what "B-BUT I'M NOT HURTING ANYONE!" Idiots would have you believe.
Smokers deserve to be demonized because what they're doing has a proven, harmful effect on anyone in their vicinity. But they don't care, because they need their fix.
>>257590023
HOWEVER, despite everything that was wrong in that arcade, this single thing redeemed all of Disney's casualization in my eyes.
>>257589598
That the few shooting games that are left are poorly calibrated and are unplayable.
I realize that with all the mass shootings that have happened in recent history, that people are afraid to make shooters but fuck me.
What happened to Time Crisis, Virtua Cop, Lethal Enforcers? It's all dead.
>>257588705
>>257589137
>educating people about things that kill you is bad
>>257590195
LCDs can't do lightguns.
>>257589598
Yuropean arcades still have arcade cabs from 20 years ago. I've seen fucking Sega Touring Car Championship recently.
>>257581589
>>257584183
>>257584626
yeah, no.
it was pewdiepie, he uploaded his flappy bird video on januari the 27th, suddenly in februari flappy bird searches skyrocket on google
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>>257588497
>every single cigarette ads in my country now LITERALLY comes with a "SMOKING KILLS YOU" message
I can't even stand the smoke but goddamn that's ridiculous
>>257590747
Oh right, my mom loves watching pewdiepie.
>>257590180
>>257590205
I absolutely agree that people should be discouraged from forming harmful habits, I'm just confused as to where the money comes from in this case
>>257589598
I've seen an arcade port of Need For Speed Carbonthey took out the engine sound
>>257590334
They could use something akin to the Wii Sensor Bar.
>>257590205
There's a fine line between educating people and propaganda tier commercials equating smoking to eating dog shit, drinking cat piss, or secondhand smoke fumes being able to strangle a baby from over 100 feet away.
Besides, anti-smoking campaigns have been so effective that everyone already knows that they're deadly. There are huge warnings on the packages, and pro-tobacco ads are practically extinct in the US. It's like Dennis Leary (in b4 I get shit for referencing him and not Bill Hicks) said, it doesn't really matter how much you warn people at this point. You could make a brand of cigarettes called Tumors and put a big skull and cross bones right on the pack, but people would still buy them.
>>257590334
Oh shit I forgot about that... I wonder how much it would cost to make motion control based shooting games for LCD's... Oh damn I just remembered the Japs are already kind on it with Gunslinger Stratos. That shit is fun.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O062FsvPT-E
>>257585784
i live an hour out from that place. i fucking love it. still haven't gone this year. should do it soon.
I've seen Doodle Jump and Fruit Ninja at my Dave&Busters
>closest thing to an arcade where I live is a bowling alley
>it shut down years ago
>all the lights are still on inside though
I wish I had the cash to buy it and fix the place up. People in not just my county but all the surrounding ones drive a couple hours just to go bowling.
>>257590195
Most places in my area still have TC4, Razing Storm, Ghost Squad, and Terminator.
Older stuff is harder to come by though.
Fighting game cabs pretty much don't exist in my city.
>>257590793
After having lived in Vietnam for a bit, I'm completely fine with what murrica is doing with the smoking message.
Living in poor asian countries is basically like wading through one gigantic cloud of cig smoke and it's shit.
If the goal of the propaganda ads is to eliminate eliminate smoking in x amount of years or push everyone to vapes in x amount of years than I'm all for it.
I personally don't even see these ads very often considering I don't watch TV and have adblock.
Even ads on public transportation, which I've been taking for the last 2-3 month, have mostly been for shitty online universities.
>be young man of 27
>go to large arcade with family, gf family, like 25 people in all
>haven't been to an arcade in years
>walk past the ticket spamming games
>all the kiddies are there screaming
>walk past racing games
>boys are there shouting and cheering
>look at price
>wow thats expensive
>see some cool shooting and fighting games
>college kids talking smack
>...how many dollars to play!?
>see some cool dancing games
>all the teen girls are there giggling and laughing
>...it didnt used to be this expensive...maybe im being too jewish
>walk past a few wicked looking sci-fi shooters and mech games - oh shit that's badass!
>jewing intensifies
>glance around halfheartedly
>maybe I have been out of this too long
>suddenly...alone
>alone in a corner sits an old machine all by itself next to the restrooms
>it is still alive
>I place my hands on its supple controls and feel once more
>I place a quarter into its slot
>I feel at home
>the sign above me
>"Galaga"
>be young man of 27
>gawd I feel old
Ocean Hunter bros WW@?
>>257592698
>or push everyone to vapes in x amount of years than I'm all for it.
I'd be cool with vapes since they seem more efficient than cigarettes, but now Commiefornia,is trying to ban the use of vapes and e-cigs in public, and I bet other states will follow. It's like the shit brings people just a tiny bit of joy, and faggots thing it needs to be taken away.
>>257588705
Yeah it's hard not to see anti-smoking adds on tv. I personally am against smoking, for my health. I think smokers know it's not good for you or those around you. As long as public smoking is segregated to prevent second-hand, then that's all that should matter. I don't want smoke in my face, and smokers want to smoke. Keep it out of certain public areas and it's fine imo.
>>257593219
>Ocean Hunter
I've never seen one of these, but I admit - that looks pretty sweet.
>>257593132
>be young man of 27
>gawd I feel old
You ARE old.
>>257583798
Some claw machines I've seen actually let the owner specify the amount of money he/she/xe wants to make.
>nickle arcades around salt lake city
> there's a really good one with tons of classics
> there's a shit one with two rows of regular games and a huge ticket machine area
> wife and friends hit up the shitty one of course
>getting excuses ready to bail and go home
>they have metal slug 3
>ditch everyone and play metal slug 3 all night
>>257593132
>step brother and sister currently in elementary school have all the old arcade games on a plug-and-play
They schooled me at some of the games too, like Dig Dug. My dad schooled us all at Pac-Man though. Feels good.
>>257594353
No he isn't you retard. 27 is still relatively young. 50+ is "old".
>>257593132
Young man u old as fuckme in 3 years...
>>257595067
Keep telling yourself that gramps. I'll be sure to visit your grave after I get augmented.
>>257594534
Now aren't you glad I am in Smash 4?
>>257595676
>10 years is going to be the difference between not being augmented and being augmented
Protip: You were also born into the awkward pre-post-industrial society like the rest of us, and will die just like we will.
>>257595901
how original, tripfag.
