Do you miss the Arcade scene?
Dumb nostalgiatards and underage faggots who don't realize how obscenely expensive they were.
Not really.
![arcade-fights[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/kDs11pE.jpg "arcade-fights[1].jpg")
>>336152508
>meanwhile, in Japan...
>>336152508
>obscenely expensive
Are you stupid or something? You can get 20 games/plays/turns/whatever for just 5$. Do you know how much 5$ is? People with minimum wage jobs can make almost twice as much in an hour. And don't give me the "hurr durr it's more expensive now!" No it's not, fuck you. Every arcade I've been to in the last few years is still 25 cents per machine, with a few exceptions to 50 cent games, and those weird 1.00$ racing ones.
>>336152508
When I was going to arcades my parents/grandparents paid for them I don't care.
>>336152884
federal minimum wage in america is 7.25 and people get taxed on top of that
>>336152884
>You can get 20 games/plays/turns/whatever for just 5$.
That is complete bullshit. Any of the decent games cost a buck to play at least.
>>336152987
that said .25 in 1988 money is worth .50 now so it might be far to say that quarter eaters just aren't an economically feasible way to extract cash from kids
>>336152987
So let's just say you're taxed down to 5$ (which you're not, but let's just say that). You then have enough money to equate to my example. Are you trying to tell me 1 hour of work for that much shit at the arcade is "obscenely expensive?" And beyond that, how about just not working a minimum wage job? 5$ for some fun like once a week or so is incredibly cheap. You pay just as much if not more for lunch or dinner literally every day. Is eating food obscenely expensive?
>>336153018
No it's not. I don't know where you live, but literally all the arcades near me charge .25/.50. Literally none of the games I have seen cost a whole dollar
There's a giant arcade / bar / Chuck-E-Cheese's sort of place in downtown Seattle. It's mostly for kids though, and their parents.
A large portion of the area is just a few rows of gaming PCs, consoles with couches, and other stuff.
You can buy time cards which will give unlimited access to all of this for a pretty reasonable rate, you just swipe your card rather than inserting a coin.
To be honest the arcade scene is more of a 'you gotta use your hands, that's a baby's toy' sort of thing now, but even if it weren't, we'd all be way too old for it.
>He doesn't live near a Round 1
>He doesn't get to play japanese rhythm games, fighters, and shmups while all the normies playing redemption games feed them enough money to stay in business on the other side of the building
A bit.
I miss being able to go whenever I want, now I kind of have to plan a time when I can go.
>Go to Dave and Buster's
>Fruit ninja and angry birds cabinets
What the fuck is wrong with this country?
>>336152241
A lot.
>>336152508
I don't care I still loved them.
I spent way too long seting up my qanba arcade stick up for mame today so I could play me some Last Blade 2, ended up playing lostsa' other stuffs.
Recommend me some fun mame games. I played
Last blade 1&2, Samurai Shodown 2,4,5, Pro golf tournament, quiz and dragons. Alien vs predator the beatem up
>>336154140
Garou, Gaiapolis, Osman, Soccer Brawl
>>336154140
fucking WINDJAMMERS
>>336152857
Meanwhile in japan nothing. The place where that photo was taken closed down a few weeks ago.
>>336152241
god yes
>>336154706
Minus the Japanese text, that looks pretty similar to the place in Seattle mentioned in >>336153610including the complete lack of customers and foreboding sense of bankruptcy
>get a cabinet kit for $50
>break out an old Dell 2004 computer
>install Mame
>enable paid continues for each gameMy uncle had one of these set up but turned off the need to pay for lives. mfw
Yes, but they're an impossible business model to maintain anymore.
I play fighting games a lot, they're my favorite kind of game. And the arcade scene was really important in forming the competitive scene for those games. They were important for gathering people from all over, creating friendships and rivalries, and helping the gameplay of said games reach a higher and higher level. But they're now easily replaced by what are more or less LAN centers or game bars, and most of the tech/discoveries about fighting games can now be done much more easily on the internet. Hell, most players prefer to play from home instead of travelling to an event.
Even in Japan, arcades are closing left and right. Arcade machines have become too expensive for the amount of revenue they bring in, even the ones which can be used for multiple games like the Nesica machines. And it sucks.
>>336152241
God no. Arcades were fucking awful, the smell, the people everything.
>>336156125
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rmQFcVR6vEs
>>336152241
It was cool getting a sneak peek at what would be hitting consoles eventually. I miss being able to go play stuff like Tekken and the Mortal Kombats before they were ported. Also some games (like Rush and Crazy Taxi) just aren't the same at home.
I know there are like 2 or 3 modern arcades down in Austin only been to one small arcade though and it was great. Wish this shit was more popular and in more active areas
>>336154295
>>336154340
Solid choices, anons. I am suprised I havnt played Windjammer before, was a alot of fun, albeit a bit hard.
Garou is fun as always, gaiapolis didnt work, Osman was a neat strider copy.
Also
https://youtu.be/YmSXEF4OzNU?t=1m19s
holy shit yes
>>336157980
>Osman was a neat strider copy
It's actually made by the same guy who made Strider after he got fired, supossedly all the bosses in that game are jabs at Capcom
Also add Valkyrie no Densetsu to the list
>>336153610
Gameworks?
I remember playing that game. It had no sound and was slow as all fuck. I got to Mr. Burns, lost and ragequit.
>>336157310
It's a donation for keeping the computer running, nothing wrong here officer
>>336158352
Yep, my team just recently went there as a company event sort of thing. A couple of people went to the DDR stands, some of the others were playing arcade games and such, but most of the older guys were just sitting alone at the bar waiting for it to be over. Definitely not an all-ages sort of thing.
There were a couple of kids there with their parents, and some older kids were at the LAN area, but beyond that, not a lot of people there. Maybe it's busier on weekends?
>only arcade in your town is a bar and a chuck e cheese
>bar has actual good games
>finally get to play lucky and wild
Its like $5 to play all day too
>arcades died long before they had a chance to have VR set-ups
Imagine what could have been.
Walk into your local arcade, pay a buck to use thousands of dollar's worth of VR equipment. An exoskeleton, an omni-treadmill, a headset, a fuck-off powerful PC to run it all, some set-up that you could never afford that offer an amazing and unique experience.
But it will never be.
>>336152508
Somebody sucked at Metal Slug
>TFW there's an arcade like 20 minutes away from me with F-zero, HOTD 3, Ghost Squad, and that tropical rail shooter game in the little van
Feels good man
>>336152241
yes i miss the times when video games were video games
>>336153425
I eat really well for probably $100/mo.
>>336152884
From what I've seen, 50 cents is actually the lowest now.
Hell, I can't remember the last time I saw an arcade that straight up took quarters. Usually you have to buy tokens now.
>>336153425
Nigga if you're getting 5 bucks an hour everything is fucking expensive are you retarded? You think some poorfag like me when I lived in AZ was gonna drive out and waste that kind of money?
>>336152241
Not really, part of the fun of arcades for me was seeing the new machines come in.
Since arcade machines went BIG they are limited now.
There are still hipster barcades for nostalgia fix. This is Eightytwo in DTLA.
>>336154140
>Samurai Shodown 2,4,5
How in the motherfucking fuck did you manage to skip the best one AKA Samurai Shodown 3
>>336160727
Ayyyyyyyyy my nigga I live in LA, boutta drop some shekels in that bitch
>>336154706
I live in central Tokyo. Arcades are all over the place and still thriving. Eat shit fag
>>336152241
no, shit cost like $20 for one afternoon of enjoyment
I miss the 80s and 90s arcade scene yes, it was great.
>>336152241
Arcades were too good for a shitty country like Clapistan.
>>336159195
>arcades died long before they had a chance to have VR set-ups
Somebody doesn't remember this(pic related)
>>336161776
that shit wasn't vr though, the experience was awful and not worth it
arcades will actually come back very quickly for the new vr stuff
>>336154084
Sadly they make more money then any DDR. The guy behind how D&B adds machines did a Reddit AMA Saying:
>Namco Bandai were hesitant to add a pokken location test as Tekken didn't do well
>Only Rhythm game that do well we're really DDR/PIU/ITG, and compared to redemption, they make little
>He thinks that Round 1 isn't really what they can strive for and said he believed they were forcing Konami and other's hand to allow them to import the cabinets due to their power
>They were in talks of a DDR 2015 location test, not sure on how that eneded out
>Beatmania was too complex and didn't make a lot
>Redemption is pretty much the main dough maker
>No actual rhythm plans
>>336162940
this ticks me off
Is there any arcade emulator that has netplay? Play these types of games just doesn't feel right alone.
>>336162940
>all of the money is in the hands of the people with the worst taste
well shit.
>>336162940
>normies will never understand the bliss that is IIDX because it actually has a barrier to entry instead of being mobile-tier casual garbage or just a pure chance games
it hurts
>>336164018
It's mostly fighters, but fightcade is basically mame wrapped into a whole netplay lobby system and it does all the work for you
>get an arcade stick so I can play a bunch of arcade games I missed
>never really been to an arcade so I only know about shit like Metal Slug and Street Fighter
>>336164018
Fightcade &to a lower extent GGPO both have fighting game lobbies & Windjammers. You can also do other games, but you might need to work a little bit, but not A LOT (it consists of making a large credit save state with both players already in the select screen and sending it to the other player.)
>>336162940
>Beatmania was too complex and didn't make a lot
>Expecting people to automatically play on Another
Or they could try out Pop'n because of Enjoy Mode and it looking cute enough for the mobile game cabinet players to flock to.
This one guy at my local arcade used to dominate everyone in VS fighting games, but when I would play against him he would try to teach me my characters' moves. Started playing against him at 10 years old in XMen vs Street Fighter and continued all the way to MvC2. I never won, but he wouldn't go all out against me like everyone else. Based black dude really
>>336164298
I never went to too many arcades myself, but the games were designed to be easy to get into. I got into a bunch of games from a copy of MAME someone uploaded to my school's network with a shitload of RoMs. that and stuff like the Neo-Geo humble bundle.
You could probably check /vr/ for recommendations as well. Just try shit out, at the very least.
>>336152508
Mobile games are the modern day arcade games; right down to the nickel and diming
>>336164297
>is basically mame wrapped into a whole netplay lobby system and it does all the work for you
Actually it's FireBurnAlpha.
>>336164494
Not even Round 1 gets the latest Pop'n.
There's a bar in downtown Raleigh, NC that has a ton of arcade cabinets and they hold tournaments too.
>>336152241
We have barcades in New York. It is fucking awesome
>>336152241
Can you emulate the Simpsons arcade game? I remember wanting to play it back in the day but arcades seemed like such a waste of money
>>336152508
Hey Pal, Did you just blow in from stupid town?
>>336164686
I was lurking /vr/ for a few hours last night. Couldn't even find a mention of an arcade game.
I love obscure shit too, but Arcades are literally the only thing video games I have no fucking clue about.
>>336164297
>>336162940 here, to be honest IIDX isn't as welcoming to newcomers to the American rhythm games. The timing requirements are very strict, so that puts people down, it's Japanese as well, so you have to find your way around. The songs also aren't really relatable compared to Guitar Hero and Rock Band. You shouldn't really say it's the players that are the problem, as there are are to fix that. Also the only game I know that is like it is DJ hero, which is pretty different. There hasn't been anything really like it. Not to mention the Grade System being weird (Clears and Ranks not really matching)
>>336152508
Old fag here (35).
They weren't that bad if you actually could play. I use to hit the local arcade as a kid with my 2 brothers and a few friends. We would literally spend all day there with just $20. We did it like every single Saturday.
>ride bikes to mall
>hit up arcade
>even grab something to eat
>rarely come home with zero cash
Based 90's. You are just an underage fag that missed the goat decade.
>>336165149
Just go through Coolrom and find some shit. Neo-geo, Capcom, etc all made a bunch of great arcade stuff, just try a bunch at random.
