>Go to arcade
>All the games are either smart phone games, rhythm games, or pinball
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>have to babysit at chuck e cheese
>spot me some metal slug
guess I'm buying some tokens
Pinball is awesome. fuck you OP.
>>316555396
>not going to town in DDR
>not keking the high score in beatmania
What's wrong with pinball you pleb
>>316555657
the one in my town doesn't have metal slug anymore
I pity the future generations
>>316555396
I'mma sing the DooM song
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YNQ5wMc7LZ8
>Hanging out with young nieces and nephews.
>Go to Stars and Strikes, a bowling alley/arcade here in GA
>All the games are either giant smart phone games, DDR, or racing games with a wheel and pedals.
>Except one lonely stand-up arcade game in the corner, gathering dust
>It's a 24-in-1 classics arcade game, with stuff like Pac-Man, Galaga, Burger Time, and the like
>Fuck yes, this is gonna be fun.
>Totally is. Only 25 cents a game, and I spend, like, five fucking dollars there. No one else seems to want to play, so I just keep feeding it quarters.
Then
>A month later
>watching the kids again
>suggest Stars and Strikes, they get excited
>Arrive there, game is gone.
It made me really sad for some reason.
>>316555396
>local arcade
>racing games, light gun and facebook-tier bullshit
>one Galaga and one Donkey Kong cabinet
I hate D&B
Pinball is pretty cool though
Don't you dare dis pinball. It's a dying medium, it's annoying as hell to keep playing, and we're all lucky if we can still find a copy of Black Knight 2000 somewhere. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fCKDvjVzpNQ
In short: it's awesome if an arcade has pinball. This is an arcade that's still working in the right direction.
Fuck you OP. I would kill for a good pinball game nowadays.
>>316555396
Arcade Fruit Ninja is the shit tho
>go to arcade
>it doesn't exist
Movie theater changed one of the screening rooms into an arcade but it's always closed whenever I go. Sucks too since they have House of the Dead and Time Crisis
>>316555396
All the arcades near me have, like, ten or so claw games. Often two right next to each other with the same prizes. It makes no sense. Wouldn't there be greatly diminishing returns after the third machine?
>>316555882
I lost my faith when they all dropped Silent Scope.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F3ULdfcSspw
>>316556079
Cirqus Voltaire! That one had flash!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ybwFCp_bGc
>Local bar has Ninja Turtles
>Get smashed and ditch my friends to take down Shredder with 3 strangers
It's just like growing up, but without the alcohol
>Go to Dave and Busters
>TEMPLE RUN
>FRUITS SLASH
>ANGRY BIRDS
>FLAPPY BIRDS
>mfw
>>316555919
It's the best song.
ARCADE UFO AUSTIN TEXAS
scratches my itch pretty good.
>>316556370
>Not just hanging around the Monkey Ball
>rhythm games
You mean broken Extreme/Supernova DDR cabinets right?
>Go play SF4
>beat nerds
>Keep feeding me quarters
AYYY LOL
>>316556348
The side-scrolling beat-em-up, where the first level is a burning apartment building? Holy shit, that's awesome.
I was recently at a sports emporium place for laser tag and go-carting, but was disappointed by the arcade. I told my friend about the old Simpsons arcade game, where Marge attacks with a vacuum and Bart uses his skateboard, but she had no idea what I was talking about.
Now I'm sad because I know I'll never play that game again. I'll never fight Krusty the Klown's hot air balloon.
Fuck, I really want an arcade cabinet.
I wonder how hard they are to build? I guess besides some severe construction prowess, you'd also need to know how to program a simple computer to play a single (or multiple) games without acting like, say, a PC.
Man. If I had the time, space, or money, I'd love to try.
>Go to an arcade on my visit to Japan
>Encounter a Half Life 2 arcade game of all things
Surreal to be honest.
>>316556674
There's an L4D2 arcade, too
>visiting buddy in Texas
>he hypes me up on this bar called Barcade
>its whole shtick is an arcade with alcohol
>Wait half an hour in line to get in
>floorspace is 90% tables
>there's like 5 arcade games, a pinball, and 3 skeeballs
>2 of the arcade games were broken
Pretty disappointing desu senpai
>>316555396
I feel so sorry for you
For the curious, the Arcade Ambience Project was put together to try and replicate and preserve the sound of an arcade that was well-populated. Think Time-Out Arcade back in the 70s and 80s.
Have a listen:
http://arcade.hofle.com/
Also, it's a CHORE to set up just right sometimes, but it's intuitive at least and might do it for some of you nostalgic ladies and gents out there: Source Media Arcade lets you build and operate a 3D arcade on your computer, which you can use as a 3D desktop, play movies and music, play emulated arcade and video games (from proper cabinets in the arcade), and more. All free. http://www.smarcade.net/
Arcades?
And Pinballs?
Washington State :^)
>>316556559
I think the Simpsons game for xbox and ps3 had the arcade game as an unlockable extra
it's also available on the xbox live arcade
or you could just play it on mame like everyone else
>>316556674
How does that even work?
>>316556918
I wish I had a arcade anywhere near meBeing a texasfag in the middle of nowhere hurts
>>316556569
With Windows tablets and frontend software (I use Kodi saddled with the Advanced Launcher addon), an HDMI cable, and a portable harddrive, it's not too hard to set up the software and hardware side of a cabinet these days. Relatively inexpensive too- you don't need a powerhouse of a tablet to play most games from the 1990s, down (you can even play Unreal Tournament 2004 on one).
Really it's just the cabinet itself that's a chore, and making it look good. Instructions exist online, kits as well.
>>316555396
>you will never be a kid in the '10s saving up their allowance or lunch money and going to the arcade to spend a few quarters trying to beat the local high scores on on flappy bird and fruit ninja
>you will sit around at home for hours neglecting the homework your teachers and parents don't even understand but expect you to do, all while rocking out to "spongebob style" on youtube and playing fruit ninja and flappy bird on your mom's phone or perhaps the kindle fire you got for christmas or your birthday and mastering your technique for the next time you go to the arcade
And here I am like a sucker, playing Metal Slug 5 at home on my computer preparing myself to beat the high score of some other loser at the laundromat two blocks from here.
Neither of us are winners; winners have space in their homes for a washer and dryer and don't get butt-fucked having to pay to dry their towels twice because they're not even close to dry the first time. They probably also have Metal Slug X or 3 or something.
If anyone's within driving distance of Hershey Park, the arcade by the Great Bear has Off Road, Joust, a safe-cracking game where you actually turn a physical dial on a safe, and a whole lot of other awesome games.
>>316557070
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vbF0ooRJWkI
>>316555396
You got something against pinball you pleb? Most of the arcades in my city have been using the same machines since the early 2000's so I don't usually see smartphone ones. Although I did see one for Doodle Jump years ago that just made me scratch my head.
>>316557173
Chuck E. Cheese had some decent game cabinets. Back in 2011 and recently this spring I went for a nephew's birthday. Me and his dad played a Terminator game. It was okay.
>>316557070
They weren't sure Half-Life 2 would hit it off well over there- FPS games aren't popular and, therefore, aren't intuitive to many. As a result, they retooled HL2 and turned it into something like a free-roaming Time Crisis. I don't think it did "well" for an arcade game, but it got the word out.
Still surreal as hell though.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vbF0ooRJWkI
>having a shitty D&B in your town
Mine has all the old school games lined up neatly and bright and they're constantly being used
the last time I was able to play a arcade game was at disneyworldIt was after burner ultimate climax
fun for what it worth
>>316557549
so is it just the entire game? HL2 seems pretty long for an arcade game
>>316555396
just started watching zim today
it has surprisingly decent animation
>>316557278
There was going to be a Quake arcade game. Perhaps it was never meant to be, but it would have been a neat novelty. Certainly wouldn't be the worst thing you could run into at an arcade. They must pay arcade owners to actually keep SvC Chaos cabinets turned on.
>tfw when you get a free game cuz some fag walked away before his time/lives were up.
Magical.
>>316556825
Been in that situation, also live in Texas. I hear there's a good place up in Austin. For San Antonio, we have Diversions and it is a great place, the last bastion of this sort of thing in the town to my knowledge (Malibu Grand Prix and Lars' Land have closed shop).
>>316556062
Everybody has one of those Galaga combo cabinets these days seems like. It's something, at least.
>go to local arcade
>its actuallyA ROOM WITH A MOOSE
>>316557835
>Getting free rounds off drunk niggas that just pour in the quarters
>>316557747
Haven't watched the videos, but it looks as though it takes about an hour to play through. It's City 17, the boat escape, I *think* Ravenholm, and some of the "liberation" levels in the tower at the end.
>>316557938
That show. Man.
>Local theater near me has the X-Men arcade game.
>Friend who works there tells me they got more arcade cabinets.
>They got rid of X-Men to add some dumb ass deer hunter shit.
It hurts, /v/
>>316558242
>theater used to have Metal Fucking Slug
>years later only has a Golden Tee and some prize grabbers
>>316558242
Jeez. Honestly I don't get it. I've seen this happen too many times. No way in hell that Deer Hunter game costs less either, so it's not like you're helping yourself out much...
>>316557883
>pac-man/galaga combo
>pac-man and the ghosts are significantly sped up, but pac-man himself is much faster than the ghosts
>both games allow you to keep your score after continuing so the highest score is whoever fed the most coins the longest
>the cheapest and most obscure pinball table they could find because it doesn't matter i guess
>shitty lightgun game #43278
>blatantly unfair claw game with a claw that has such weak grip that it would make the average 120 year old man feel like adonis
>some racing game, nothing anybody has ever cared about and nothing with moving seats or linked multiplayer or anything else going for it
>some game of chance where the cheapest prize is a 1st party 3DS game, so you really know you're wasting your time and money with this one to the point that it makes the plush toy game seem fair
Thank you Harkins. I'm not sure why you bothered, but okay.
I wish I lived near somewhere with a new Initial D/Wangan Midnight machine. I've only gotten to play them a few times when I've been out on vacations but they were god damn fun. Also I want a Silent Scope cab.
>>316558351
>went to my sister's dumb indoor soccer match once
>one of the rooms on the top floor was a dusty old arcade
>most of the cabinets barely worked
>one of them was a Neo-Geo with Metal Slug 2
>spent the afternoon ignoring my sister's match having the time of my life
I should have asked management if I could have bought that cabinet off of them. It was obvious they didn't give a shit about those machines.
You can tell an "arcade" is shit when it doesn't have early late80s/90s games.
>>316557278
>not a lightgun
What a piece of shit, they are the only tolerable FPS arcades.
Does anyone live in the central Austin area?
How's Arcade UFO? Is it really like the few youtube videos of the place say it is?
>Go to local arcade
>I'm the only customer there
>All the games are from the 90's and early 2000's
anyone else go to arcade expos?
>>316559617
>>All the games are from the 90's and early 2000's
That's a good thing you retard, pretty much best arcade era.
House of the dead 2 will forever be the best rail shooter of all time.
>>316556062
>Go to some hipster pizza point
>Donkey Kong
>Pac Man
>Ms. Pac Man
>Galaga
>Asteroid
>Donkey Kong Jr.
>Middle Command
>Q Bert
Gotta hand it to hipsters, they may be pretentious but they at least occasionally have good taste
>Expecting arcades to exist when most games are easily emulated or also released on consoles/pc/etc
The market is dead, it's as simple as that
>>316559750
Early 80s shit is bloated everywhere in USA though.
>>316559617
The cinema near my university has the fucking Jurass Park The Lost World arcade game.
It blew my mind when I saw it there.
Who beat 'em ups here
>>316556062
>Initial D is bad
>Razing Storm is bad
Dunno senpai...
>>316555396
>rhythm games
Fuck, I wish, last arcade I went to was all stupid RNG rigged games
>>316555956
Damn sorry bro. It's just the way things change over time. Maybe one day we'll go full circle and smartphone games will die, then a resurrection of arcades due to publishers creating great cabinet-exclusive games.
>>316558961
>filename
Galloping Ghost Arcade
>>316560081
>RNG
You don't even know what that word means, retard.
>>316555657
The Chuck e cheese I want to as a kid had a 4 player co-op beat 'em up
I cant remember anything about it
>>316560145
>my dick
I want to try it just once
The only good arcade I go to is the one at MAGfest, 2 gigantic rooms with all kinds of cabinets that are free, along with a bunch of japanese rhythm games you really only see in Japan, its top
>>316555396
>pinball is bad
Full plebian detected. Pinball is usually my favorite part of arcades.
In fact, the state of the pinball machines is what I used to gauge overall arcades on when my area still had them. If they were in good working condition and didnt have anything wrong with them, chances are the rest of the machines were just fine. If they were shit, the rest was shit.
Death of an era.
>>316560479
pinball maintenance blows my fucking mind, man.
>go to arcade in amusement park
>Pac-Man game named Pac-Man Arcade
>gave tickets
>master at Pac-man
>prepares to fucking cash in
>its 1.00 to play but worth the risk
>the joystick is fucked up so it doesn't register when moving right about 90% of the time
>cry internally
fuck modern machines, never trust em
>>316560631
If upkeep on em werent such a pain in the ass, I'd absolutely love to own one someday.
>>316555396
>doesn't like rhythm games
baka desu senpai
Favorite Arcade game. Go.
>>316560560
They are just shitty pachinkos.
>>316560757
Project Diva
>>316560757
[anything by Capcom]
>>316560757
DDR MAX 3
>>316560309
It was probably Gauntlet Legends
>>316559915
I thought I was the only one who liked Tower of Doom better than SoM. Also, the DnD games and Alien vs Predator kick so much ass.
>Childhood
>Every year or two, my family would go to the Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk and I would have tons of fun at the arcade and going on rides. It was so great.
>Adulthood
>Walk into the arcade and see nothing but old arcades that were literally there when I was young and ones that I just completely have zero interest in.
>Rides, too, are a bore and I endured them because my young cousin really wanted to go on all of them and she didn't want to ride alone.
>Literally got bruises on my side from being thrown around on this big wooden roller coaster that I had to go on like 6 times because my cousin really enjoyed it and I didn't want to disappoint her by saying "no."
>>316560757
house of the dead 2
>>316560309
Well it wasn't the Simpsons so it probably doesn't matter
>>316555396
If you dont like pinball you're honestly a faggot
>>316560757
Super Battletoads.
Anyone know of any arcades in Vancouver?
There has to be at least 1 right?right?
>Local barcade has TMNT, Killer Instinct, HotD, Mahvel (including MSH vs. SF), Simpsons, NBA Jam, X-Men and Gauntlet
>along with dat old school shit like Galaga, Donkey Kong, Punch Out and Pac-Man
fucking love it there
>>316561278
nice blog post faggot
>go to arcades when younger
>all games only take $2 coins
>run out of money in 5 minutes
>can't practice enough to git gud because it's too expensive for a youngster
Arcades in Australia sucked fat cock. I'm glad they're dead.
>>316556471
love that place, pinballz too
>>316561136
SoM is just too broken and the music is weak. Tower of Doom is a more solid and challenging game.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DL3jrP7cdqc
>>316556825
go to Pinballz Kingdom if you're near Austin again, just south of town off 35. About 2/3 of the space is pinball machines and cabinets, the rest is a bar and small kitchen. I used to stop there after work to get some drinks and play Target Terror.
>>316556674
As a kid I once saw a Quake cabinet. You used a trackball instead of a mouse.
>Closest good arcade with actual arcade games is like a 2 hour drive
I don't and never will regret taking the time every other week or so to head down there with a fuckton of quarters and schooling hipster kids in some tetris and shit. Plus it's only a couple cities from the beach, so I'll rent a hotel room once every other month or so there. Sorry you anons can't find a real arcade.
>>316560631
I never knew they ran on 3 AA batteries
>>316562692
With that amount of lights I doubt it. Might be related to something else like the highscores not disappearing when it gets unplugged or whatever.
>>316560396
All the machines are set to free play.
$15 gets you an all day pass.
>Go to an arcade out of state
>Actual Cabinets like Donkey Kong, Asteroids, all those cool Games
>Ignored for the most part by regulars because they also have HDTVs set up with Consoles right next to them.
It was cool to experience an actual Arcade again, the only one in my Area closed in 2003ish.
>>316563685
Early 80s arcades are kinda boring tho, and they are pretty much everywhere in USA.
>>316555657
>You can't go into Chuck E. Cheese alone due to pedo hunts
I just want to play some actual arcade games, damn it
You better hope you live by a Round One arcade.
It has all the good arcades and stuff like bowling, billiards, food, and a bar (i.e. stuff for normies) to keep business going.
>>316560757
Nothing beats a good ol pacman playd in an arcade
>>316557272
Is that arcade going to be open during Christmas?
This thread makes me want to play some pinball. I can't remember the last time I saw a machine.
>>316556272
My local movie theater turned their arcade into a bar. If that's not a metaphor for growing up, I don't know what is.
>>316555396
Pinball is great though.
