Has /v/ ever been to an arcade?
I go to the Round1 by me every so often.
>>337643914
yeah, my city has a huge arcade above the markets
I attend and run fighting game tournaments at a game store that is also stuffed with arcade machines. They have a Super Turbo and 3rd Strike cabinet, bunch of rhythm games, a couple combination cabinets (one is all NEO-GEO games, pretty neat), and TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA FUCKING TURTLES.
I love it there, but it's about an hour's drive for me. The only arcade relatively close to me went to shit a few years ago. Walking in there just depresses the hell out of me.
Awww shi-
Man, game consoles used to be so big back then, where did you put the disk even?
I made my own. Assembled a cabinet for a total of about $250 - I've 45 gigs worth of games on my MAME machine. Best DIY project I've ever done.
>>337644427
In ur mum lol
That's why she is so big too
>>337643914
Went to the Arcade when I was in England for highschool graduation trip. Wish we had some here.
>>337644483
>k-on
hahaha fag
nice patchy fig and whatever the reimu thing next to the 64 is tho
>>337644483
Best way to do this? How much of it was prebuilt? Specs? I'd love to do this as well
I live near a round 1
>>337644027
I wish round1 was around New York so I can play DDR without the broken pads and buttons...
>>337643914
of course. games that have an enclosed cabinet like star wars were the best
Yeah, I live near the seaside. There's arcades everywhere.
Where my Chicago suburbs bros at?
>>337643914
Yes, but not very often. In fact, I spent my 18th birthday at a Dave & Buster's, if that counts.
Most of my experience with arcade machines came not from an actual arcade, but from the local roller rink when I was in elementary school. I still remember seeing CarnEvil and Killer Instinct there.
I live in a border town so anything that can be destroyed is destroyed by the fucking cockroach beaners.
We have a park full of bolted down exercise equipment and half of them somehow have been fucking ruined too.
>>337644421
A staple arcade game imo
If there isn't one there, then it's not an arcade
That and ddr/mvc2
Millenial swaggots will never know the joy. I forgot how many children were on this board.
>>337643914
Used to have one in the mall where I live. I must have spent at least 30 dollars on the Initial D game where you save your car and progress onto a little card. Shit was so hype.
>tfw speedy speed boy starts playing through the headrests
>>337643914
Old fag here (34) grew up in arcades during my youth.
>>337644846
I'm a millennial and I've been to multiple arcades.
Stop trying to act superior grandpa, we'll be fucking space alien pussy when you're rotting in the ground
>>337644734
>A regular beaner just wants to play games
>They fuck shit up
I seriously hate when this happens...
STOP
DESTROYING
SHIT
YOU FUCKERS
>>337644983
Thank god for the olds who knew how shitty games were and how much they have progressed
>>337644734
tfw little beaner shit ruins best game at the arcade
>>337644483
Nice battlestation anon I must say
>>337644580
Glad to see a fellow weeb on a weeb image board. It's a Griffin figure; usually they're shit, so for future reference.
>>337644583
>Best way to do this? How much of it was prebuilt? Specs? I'd love to do this as well
You can build a cabinet for about $50-$100 if you've the tools and understanding for woodworking, although if you've no experience like me, you can usually find an empty cabinet on Ebay, cheapest being $50 to $150 for reasonable prices. There's plenty of public guides if you do decide to build one though.
The CRT I got at Google for dirt cheap, I used an old computer I had (2gb, Vista, integrated gfx, etc) and ordered an interface that simply plugs into the computer. I'd give you more details but I'm feeling garbageassy and tired, sorry Anon. Best of luck to you though, it's extremely satisfying!
>>337645095
Im 28. I grew up enjoying classics like Ocarina of Time, Halo, and Resident Evil. Pure gaming magic. Enjoy your memories of candy crush and OG flappy bird
>>337645284
Thanks!
WHO PLAYDIUM HERE
>>337645353
Are you retarded or am i being baited?
I've played all 3 of those games you listed, it's not like they have locks on them that prevent people born during a different time period from playing them
>>337645353
>mentioning baby's first fps
You've got to try harder than that, anon.
Oldfag here, Arcades where everywhere in the 80's/90's. My favorite was the Dream Machine in the Mall, also there were two large arcades at beach near me. My favorites where Simpsons, X-men, Avengers, Frogger, Lethal Enforcers, MK2
>>337644724
o shit waddup!
>mfw Red Robin near me had a MAME cabinet
>old anonymous poster
>absolutely has to mention that they are an oldfag
>>337644483
>that button layout
absolutely disgusting
>>337643914
Chinatown in NYC. Sadly the selection is pretty bare bones and the one of the pistols in the lightgun cabinet is broken but the fighting game ones are good enough. I'm surprised it was seeing some activity last I checked.
>>337644724
I live like 6 hours away from that. I swear one I day I'll make a roadtrip there
>Canada
>Ontario
>arcades
Just kill me.
Almost completely mastered Time Crisis 3 at a local arcade. Even put together a Wild Dog outfit that I sometimes wore trying to do a 1CC run. If I did wear it, it was almost a guarantee that that if someone was looking by watching, they'd stop to try and figure out what's going on.
>>337645884
You mean Chinatown Fair? Did you ever go there back in the day before the new owners?
>>337645353
If you're 28 you're a millennial dumbass
>>337644483
I thought about doing this but I decided I'd rather just collect actual PCBs so they run perfectly with no input delays.
I just need to find a jamma cab that actually fits in my shitty apartment
>>337644483
>playstation betwixt the nintendo consoles
shaking my head family
>>337646072
That sounds like autism to me.
>>337646092
Nope, I just wandered in when I was walking around. Was it better?
Who /round1/ here?
It's like dave and busters except it's not shit and it has actual video games
>>337646327
that aspect ratio
I am not a small child, so yes, of course I have.
>went to a local, busted arcade recently
>no friends, so played Tekken 2 with myself for 10 minutes
>couldn't even convince the one 13 year old in there to play with me because "fighting games are just you hitting buttons'
I bet he plays Smash.
>>337643914
>MK4
Fuck that arcade
I want nothing to do with a place that will attempt to hoist that garbage on its clientele
>>337644672
>Steven Universe
REEEEEEEEEE
>>337644734
Did they even destroy the KoF machines?
>>337646228
Stylish autism since what he wore was just business casual.
Subtle Cosplay is best cosplay.
>>337646378
Yes, that's how Cave shooters actually look.
>>337646240
Not from NYC but it was a legendary spot for Fighting games before it originally closed down and got bought
Once, if the one at PAX East counts
>>337646572
no, there's a degree of aspect ratio correction done by the monitor normally
that's how they look internally, but the monitor's supposed to squash it vertically
![HOD2%2B2014-12-02%2B17-10-35-53[1].png](https://i.imgur.com/WJVKOy8.png "HOD2%2B2014-12-02%2B17-10-35-53[1].png")
There is a pizza place near my house that has a HoD2 machine should I go play it? Does it still hold up?
>>337645353
>Ocarina of Time, Halo
>>337646484
I'm not sure about that one but they did destroy pacman, mortal kombat, and metal slug.
A few months afterwards the arcade closed down.
You used to be able to rent games there too and they had a drivethrough for soda, hotdogs and all kinds of cool shit. It was like the perfect hangout spot
>>337646327
They have fucking cave shmups there?? I need to visit california some time
>>337646378
Yeah it's fucking ugly, I wish they had astro cities or egrets or something for the older PCB games made for 4:3 CRT monitors.
Still, I'm thankful to be able to play $1200 cave pcbs at all
>>337646572
No it's not ya dingus, these are modern 16:9 flatscreen monitor cabs made for 3D fighters and shit.
I know DOJ's internal aspect ratio is something weirdly tall, but it's made to be played on a 4:3 and the graphics are designed to squish down to the right proportions.
>>337646678
I prefer Typing of the Dead, but yeah, HotD 2 is pretty cool.
>>337646739
>>337646651
But lots of people do this.
>>337646728
That's from the one in Taunton MA, I'm not sure if any others have them.
>>337643914
Tfw old enough to remember when arcade machines had built-in cigarette holders/ashtrays
Took the gf on a date to a arcade near us the other week will post pics.
>>337643914
I have a round1 near my place, and a lot of my friends are into shumps. We just had a meetup recently. Was a lot of fun, ended up playing a lot of 3rd Strike, some IIDX and a lot of Xbox 360 shumps and some shumps I'm not really familiar on a candy cab.
>>337644846 is that at hawthorne mall in vernon hills?
>>337647073
Did that gross pig show up in pajamas? what are those fucking pants?
>>337646678
SEEMS LIKE MY ADVICE HAS NO EFFECT
SUFFER LIKE G DID?
>>337647073
>pajama pants
What are you, 21?
>hear about people cracking some online-based arcade games like Mario Kart GP
>Wanted to see some of the technicalities about making my own cheap MAME machine to play online.
On topic, though, I've been to a Dave and Busters. They had great burgers there, and I mostly wasted my credits on useless games.
How difficult is it to play online on some bootleg MAME machine using particular cracked games?
>>337647073
>>337646678
Dogs of the AMS... time they made a move.
>>337644483
>Minute white rice
Patrician taste
>>337643914
Came back from the Vegas expo in cashmen right now
I remember why I loved arcades and hated them too
Pros:fun as shit, very social I can't believe how often I was actually interacting with people face to face rather through a keyboard
Cons: tryhard at every level , ruin the atmosphere
I was watching a buddy of mine play SF4 and this dude was using ibuki against a novice balrog , he spammed the move where ibuki sweeps your feet , I saw this guy beat 4 guys this way and when he finally lost he walked away immediately
Not even a "good game" or anything
Same shit near this MKX cabinet , played as aztec guy and did the Aztec sword swing a thousand times to win
Speaking of aztecs there was small booth for aztez a game that I saw at e3 once
Very easy to pick up and play but almost too simple
>>337647375
>empty cus no one goes anymore
of course, I can remember the hype and excitement of entering a arcade with all the noises and sounds from all the other games, I remember putting quaters in and the arcade music blaring out fuckin loud, it was a fuckin awesome time as a child.
https://youtu.be/jWUPoDtxh8k?list=PL7F33FFE221481E90
https://youtu.be/sEPZqu3kGRo
https://youtu.be/0VZBgUDVdpc
My Gameworks in Michigan closed years ago, they put a dank ass aquarium exhibit to replace all that real estate so I guess that's ok.
Last arcade I went to was the UFO Arcade in Austin four years ago. Really neat place.
>>337647072
Was that in the 70s? I know that a lot of Japanese cabs have ashtrays on them now, but they aren't built in.
>>337647218
>heard that line in a song
>had no idea what it meant
>wake up one night and suddenly all of the memories return of HotD
>>337643914
of course, where else would I play the best drifting game ever made.
>>337644846
Man, I used to have birthday parties at my local Aladdins castle in the early/mid 90s. It was a blast.
>>337647623
>tfw my only interaction with females was in an arcade 15 years ago
>>337644483
Always wanted to do that, but never had the room
>>337643914
There used to be a great free play one when I was in junior high/high school (so like 15+ years ago). Owner was cool, there was a small group of regulars where he'd just let us hook up an imported Dreamcast to play MAHVEL all night on Fridays. Eventually turned into a general game store/game rental place that was still pretty good, then he got divorced, his wife took all his money and he had to shutter it.
>>337648047
>Was that in the 70s?
Close, 1980's though i'd imagine many of the cabs back then were made in the very late 70's ear;y 80's
Stood in line to play SF 2 when it first came out. They were so popular that you had to stand in line even if there were 4 cabinets. Ive seen fights break out over that game. I also played SF 1 aka Street Fighter where you could only play as Ryu unless you played another person and they could be Ken.
>>337648242
That looks weird, what's the third pedal for?
>>337646963
Nobody seriously play shmups with that.
>>337649708I do
>>337643914
Boomers! still exists, but haven't gone in a few years.
I gave up at one point because they were giving three tokens for $1.
They used to have batting cages, laser tag, and bumper cars. Now only mini-golf and go karts. I think the motorized boats are gone too.
Calibration sucks on all light gun games. Most have ticket games now.
>>337643914
Yeah
When street fighter 2 was new and arcades where a real thing at malls and not a retro thing where you have to drive 3 hours to find one.
Dave and Busters is the only game in town where I am.
>>337646628
So where is the new spot for fighters in NYC?
>>337649674
Underage fag detected
>>337649674
Emergency break
>>337646327
They go through the trouble of buying PCBs but not 4:3 monitors?
>>337643914
>>337646678
I love the Wii because of all the light gun games it has
The PS3 has just as many and half a dozen others that couldn't run on the Wii and has remastered five or six remastered games that are on the Wii. I do need to try to get a MOVE
>>337651394
Sad thing is all the new systems don't have lightgun games anymore.
Wish I took a picture of the gaming room on my college campus.
I play Capcom Vs SNK 2 all the time there.
>>337651505
Last gen was bad with that too. All I played on the PS2 were all the Bemani games.
At least there are still HDD rips of the games.
>>337646327
>cards to play games
>>337644483
>you'll never have a room this comfy
>>337643914
yeah but i didn't play shitty american games like MK
>>337644846
I vividly remember having my 1st grade birthday party in Alladin's Castle. Went there all the time. Met all my friends there. Worked there for awhile too in my early 20s between jobs.
Closed a few years back and its really like a part of me died I can't even go into the mall anymore because it hurts to see concereted in.
>Nearest Round 1 is 6 hours away
>Nearest Gameworks is 5 hours away
>Nearest Dave and Busters is 5 hours away
Just kek my shit up family.
I live in Portland and when they started closing up arcades here, people instead opened up arcades with bars in them.
They are a huge hit here, and also bars all over here have arcade and pinball machines in them. We even have a pinball league and stuff.
>>337652518
>not calling it a barcade
What a missed opportunity
>>337652640
I didn't wanna sound like a hipster, but yeah that is what people call them, barcades
They're also open during the day but alcohol isn't served so kids can come in and play games in them too, but after 8 pm or so no kids allowed
>local movie theater suprisingly had this
Was this game ever popular in North America?
>>337646484
I see the reference..........
WHO DID THIS!?
>>337645353
You're a millenial you moron
Only when I was in Japan, but besides that I've never seen an arcade ever in my life.
It was actually a little disappointing.
>>337643914
>no Round 1 near where I live
>tfw stuck with WMMT3DX+
>tfw I will never play MT5
>>337644027
I just discovered this place last week. I played Silent Hill Arcade for the first time.
>>337654979
And I hope it will be your last because it is shit.
>>337645346
Sorry had to run out and do errands, but thanks for the info. Thinking of making this a summer project. appreciate it!
>>337644846
Looks like LA. Hmm
>>337647151
>beatmania
Shit I went to tokyo back in 06 and this guy was crushing heavy doubles. I'm talking 2-3k combos... fucking unreal
>>337649674
>get a load of this guy
>>337653660
A little late for a reply, but yes. In fact, I've only seen it in theaters here as well, despite going to dozens of arcades when I was younger. Actually, reconsidering, I shouldn't say "Yes, it was popular," but it DID have presence. That's what I meant.
I used to go to an arcade in this chink mall. The mall was usually full of shady ass stores but the arcade was pretty legit.
are there any venues in western NC? or NC at all
I've been to arcades in Japan, does that count?
>this thread reminds me of Gameworks
>look it up to make sure I was thinking of the right place
>turns out there's one 30 minutes from my house I never knew about
This place is awful but sometimes good shit happens on it.
>>337647375
Of course there is an Ocean Hunter full cabinet. Those reports that say it's rare as fuck are not really credible. Only in my city there should be at least ten.
>8 years old
>go to beach with parents
>arcade on boardwalk
>mvc2
>this game is great, it has spider-man
>mashing random buttons because that's how you play fighting games
>guy twice my age comes up
>"hey let's play"
>puts in money before i can answer
>he doesn't seem to be playing right, he's not just mashing buttons
>completely destroys me
>leave and never go back for rest of trip because i dont want that older kid to beat me in the spider-man game
>>337659117
that was fate's way of inspiring you to become a pro fighting game player to make up for that experience. come on, man.
When I was growing up, I went to real arcades in the early to mid 90s. They've all been shut down since then.
Real arcades where you can smoke and all you smelled was tobacco, it was dark, and people gathered around one machine.
I used to go to the arcade and play all the light gun games. Lucky and Wild was my favorite when I was a kid. They had the full size cabinet shaped like a Ferrari and it even had seatbelts it was cool.
>>337659418
are you sure it wasn't fate's way of telling him to go on /v/, complaining that the motion for the dragon punch is "artificial difficulty"?
We have ultra arcade in my town
its awful but they have some cool dedicated cabs
>>337658572
i walked 5 miles from my hotel in vegas to go to one
needless to say,the tekken 5 cabinet they had was pretty cool
whats with every single one of vegas' arcades having mvsc2?
>>337643914
Yep, many, many times growing up.
Was a really great experience.
If someone wanted to talk shit, it had to be to your face and not online.
Never ran into any shit talking eight year olds in an arcade, not like all the little shits online these days.
Besides that though, it is a whole different atmosphere and much more fun than sitting around at home everyday.
Last time I went to an arcade was about two years ago, and then I moved, but growing up I was hanging around like a fly on shit.
yes, and if i had one nearby/locally, i'd be there a lot
>>337653660
No, CPS3 were rare because the whole system was expensive as fuck, the actual hardware also has a shitty protection system where it KILLS ITSELF if it detects tampering, and the battery has a set life expectancy, if I recall correctly when the battery life runs out the game will destroy itself because of how shit the whole thing was coded, also the hardware breaks down easily
CPS3 was a fucking disaster, no wonder why it only had 6 games (Heritage, Venture, Warzard, SF3 1-2-3)
>>337644027
lakewood, ca? i go there once in awhile
i used to go to nickel-nickel and mall arcades all the time
>>337644734
Ugh this, a thousand times this
>Go to mexican arcade when it opens up
>All shit works as intended
>Visit it some months later
>some buttons don't work and still feels wonky like if someone sat in there a fucking night just to screw it over
>Visit it after some time
>Lightgun games don't work at all, buttons don't work, MAME arcades with games that don't even boot, arcade machines where the shutter for coins doesn't work
Fuck Mexico
>>337645470
>tfw haven't been to one in 9 years
the unlimited credits deal was so much fun, used to play all the light gun cabinets and dual wield both guns, what a good time
>>337661113
I go to the one in Lakewood sometimes as well. The rhythm games and occasional rail shooter alone make it worth it.
>>337647990
Hell yeah, love that place, wish their second player for initialD worked though
>>337661258
Does this pop easily or is it worth it?
Chtouka is a small town and rural commune in El Jadida Province of the Doukkala-Abda region of Morocco. At the time of the 2004 census, the commune had a total population of 29939 people living in 4541 households.
>>337661549
find out
did anyone say arcade hall?
>>337644027
I didn't know there was one near me.
I go to Nickel City. They used to be owned by Capcom.
>>337660978
>if I recall correctly when the battery life runs out the game will destroy itself because of how shit the whole thing was coded
No, that was intentional. Capcom had that in CPS2 as well, since it was an easy way to upsell operators. CPS3 was a failure due to the financial hit operators would have to take, and the home video game market getting better and better ports.
>>337661487
let's go RIGHT NOWjust kidding
>>337658572
Sega sold off Gameworks, iirc. Some other company owns the brand and locations now. The one in Vegas is a complete shadow of the old one that used to be by MGM Grand.
I haven't been to a real arcade in about 20 years.
Time really does go by fast.
Theres a small place called Flashback right around my area. been there a couple times. arcade cabinets, consoles you can play while there, as well as the exclusives to compliment them, a place to sit down and eat (bring your own damn food) air hockey table, and to top it all off, a fully stocked bar
>>337661636
If this thing pops while I'm in the middle of fucking it I'm gonna track you down and fuck you up
>>337643914
When I was a little kid, I used to go to an arcade to play a Nickelodeon racing game with some girl. Simple times.
>>337662370
maybe you should just order a 6-pack of tenga eggs online
>30
>literally grew up during the arcade era
>remember once going into a laundrymat to buy a coke and noticed a street fighter II machine with players throwing fireballs mid-air and randomly swapping to different characters during play
still don't know the name of that version, but watching chun-li throw out fireballs with her kick before transforming into blanka, was some wild shit for me at that age.
>>337662491
Rainbow Edition.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pg7eL5DJUgk
>>337661113
>Lakewood Round One
>nickel-nickel
Aiy those were my go to arcade spots too but now I usually just go to the Round One in Puenta Hills mall. It's better imo
As far as I know, the last arcade in Budapest closed about 4 or 5 years ago.
There are a couple of gaming pubs now though, so we have some venues to hold our locals at.
>>337662671
What's better compared to Lakewood?
>>337644027
It's a bit of a drive for me to get to the Round1 near me, but it's pretty worth it for the fun rhythm games they have.
>>337662569
damn, thanks. need to find a way to emulate this.
>>337662671
i wish nickel-nickel was still here. last one here closed ten years ago or so. puente hills too far for me
>>337663232
It's probably the most famous of the SF2 hacks, so it should be piss easy to find a MAME rom of it.
>>337659117
>12 years old
>MK 1 is out in arcade
>watch people play a bit and get pointers
>put in my money and fight some college kid
>wreck his ass hard with scorpion
>just hitting the controller around when it says finish him
>pull off scorpions finisher on accident
>Everyone goes "OH SHIT" and flips the fuck out
>everyone thinks im a child prodigy at mortal kombat.
That accident forced me to get good, I became a local legend because of it. "the mortal kombat kid is here..."
"Hey you gonna play MK today?"
"Hey fight ya"
"Dude bet you 50 cent I win"
Damn I miss pocket change.
I don't miss the howling black kids that always tried to steal when they lost.
>>337643914
Yes, here in I***y I played some arcade when I was 13-15 years old, metal slug, pang, virtua soccer, virtua cop, time crisis, radikal bikers,some erotic arcadeand many others, but those days are gone.
>>337643914
A real arcade? Not since the mid 90s
>>337663432
Oh man I used to wreck shit at the local arcade which was conveniently placed near my high school
>Amazed at how Xmen vs SF played, because there was nothing like that at the time except maybe guilty gear on ps1
>Learn it slowly and git gud, gathering tech, combos and etc from watching people play and through trial and error
>Learn all you can do, infinites and etc with Wolverine/Cyclops/Magneto/Sabertooth
>Wreck people everyday until I got famous with the teenagers that played there
>No one could beat me and if they did then it was a day of glory for them as they didn't want to continue playing calling it quits, getting really excited at the same time
>Guys telling me "dude please let me finish arcade mode" as soon as they saw me
>cabinet always full
>>337663275
>>337662950
>>337661487
>>337661113
>lakewood
>school of ragnarok
>only lets you play one full match
>>337664342
forgot picture
>>337660103
evo
>>337660103
>every single one of vegas arcades having mvc2
>not picking ruby heart
>not glitching the arcade and leaving it frozen when you're almost at the last boss or during a match just for shits and giggles
>>337663275
The best thing about Nickel Nickel was it had arcade games you could never find anywhere else.
That game where you had to slam into each other was the shit.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jUPG9SsJVHQ
>MvC2
>DDR: Extreme 1 and 2
>HotD 1 and 2
What are some other must have games for an arcade?
>>337664984
donkey kong
>>337643914
>Has /v/ ever been to an arcade?
My best friend's grand father used to run Mr. Arcade back in the 90's. It was in a huge store front and had a shit load of cabinets, and in the front his uncle used to hook up the SNES and PSx, and then the N64 when that came out.
You would pay $5 and you could play all day, so my parents used to drop me and my younger brother off and we'd play arcade games all day with my best friend and hang out.
There used to also be a Tilt arcade in the mall so when we'd go see movies sometimes we'd go play there. But they closed down when I was in middle school.
>>337664984
Metal Slug
>>337664984
A good racing game, maybe Rush or Wangan Midnight.
>>337644483
I am jelly
>>337645856
>newfags always bitching about pointless shit
Typical
The gameworks in Ontario is a hollow shell of what it once was. It's the saddest thing i've ever seen. A friend and I went to one while visiting Colorado and they actually have e-sports internet cafes built into the newer ones, which was weird as shit to see
>>337643914
I literally lived in one when i was 18-25
I scrapped for whateevr coins I could get just to be able to play metal slug x and 4 since those I could finish most of the tie with a single coin and gather crowds usually.
Also Alien vs predator was my other choice, for CPS1.
When I had cash to burn, I played DDR extreme or operation varth.
>>337644027
>Round1 near me has School of Ragnarok & Gunslinger Stratos 2
Been wanting to try these out.
