well yeah but they aren't the kind of games that i want, penny pushers, teddy grabbers and ticket machines (wife loves 'em so get dragged along just to moan about it). Out of 4 arcades there is only bubble bobble and a couple of bad driving games, so i built my own and play mame and other emulators through it and the random new 2d/2.5d games that come on steam. great fun playing smash bros with my mates
Do you still go to Arcades
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Not really.
I mean technically, at the place I work, I go through an arcade, but I don't play there. (for obvious reasons)
Either way, I don't really play at them anymore as I can just play games at home.
I mean technically, at the place I work, I go through an arcade, but I don't play there. (for obvious reasons)
Either way, I don't really play at them anymore as I can just play games at home.
Sorta on topic: My brother bought the Dragon's Lair Trilogy for the Wii, and I can definitely the games' arcade like designs. Especially with Dragon's Lair 2, where there's so much happening on screen, it's easy to lose yourself and keep dying over and over. If it weren't for the on-screen prompts that came with the collection, I'm not sure how people could play the games without having to pump a whole lot of quarters back when you could only play them at arcades.hazabaza1 said:
Yes. Funny you should ask, I went to an arcade just yesterday. I go every time I return to my hometown, just spend a couple of bucks on Time Crisis over an hour and call it a day. It's always a fun trip. And I keep collecting these bloody coupons I have no use for. Maybe some day I'll exchange them for something.
Shiiiiii...
ARE there any arcades still left?
Back in The Day, every mall had an arcade (and if you're in Dallas, that's a lot of malls!). Now, they're all gone.
I suppose there are still the "Dave & Buster's" type places. But I just don't find the cost of the game there worth the experience.
So this former Arcade Rat must sadly admit that I haven't been to an arcade in about a decade.
ARE there any arcades still left?
Back in The Day, every mall had an arcade (and if you're in Dallas, that's a lot of malls!). Now, they're all gone.
I suppose there are still the "Dave & Buster's" type places. But I just don't find the cost of the game there worth the experience.
So this former Arcade Rat must sadly admit that I haven't been to an arcade in about a decade.
The arcades I see are nothing like the old school hangouts I used to frequent. The atmosphere is different, the games are subpar (except if they still have a Time Crisis or Silent Scope), people don't frequent them for the games so much as they used to thinning the competitive crowd out significantly.... Also the arcades around me have pay to play types of flash games or tablet games(seriously, fucking FRUIT NINJA?) that just seem like quarter sinks... I mean yeah some older games may have been overtuned to eat quarters (sneaky Arcade owners) but for the most part they were fun. I probably paid a good $300-500 on Galaga, Pac-Man and Donkey Kong but they were fun as hell and weren't available for a couple bucks on a handheld-type system. Also as much as I like fighting games, nothing beats mastering the arcade versions where you can't change the difficulty settings and you may not know the assjack who pops in a quarter the moment you finally got to M. Bison and had him down to 1/4 health on the last bout... But you still trounced his ass because he decided to pick a character you knew inside and out having spent last month's allowance beating to a pulp over and over again.
Those days are gone. bumbum bumbum... ALL BY MYYYYY-SEEEELF...
Those days are gone. bumbum bumbum... ALL BY MYYYYY-SEEEELF...
I wish there was an arcade around me, but the Sega gameworks or whatever in Minneapolis closed over a year ago and I never got to go.
I'd enjoy arcades more if they weren't such money pits, but I guess that's kinda the point. Still, songs at the arcade Guitar Hero stalls shouldn't cost 3 dollars to play just once.
I'd enjoy arcades more if they weren't such money pits, but I guess that's kinda the point. Still, songs at the arcade Guitar Hero stalls shouldn't cost 3 dollars to play just once.
ZZoMBiE13 said:I miss the arcade fighting game days. Early 90s were the most fun arcades ever were for me. I was pretty good at Street Fighter 2 and loved challenging new players, learning new strategies, etc. Pre-internet it was a different kind of world and finding like minded people who shared your passion for gaming wasn't as easy as opening a browser window, so it also doubled as a social function.
Ahh... memories.
Well said! As a kid without the infinite knowledge of the internet Arcades were a place of pure magic. One of my fondest childhood memories was discovering that Arcade cabinet of this little known game called 'Street Fighter 2'. Which ties into another one of my fondest childhood memories which was incessantly begging my parents to buy me a snes with SF2 and finally getting it for my birthday. Happiest day of my life!
i might if there were any in my city or county still.. there is one, but i haven't gone to check it out.. it's mostly a videogame store but it does have an arcade in it... i like home gaming more tough.. i don't' have to keep paying to play, i pay once when i buy the game and then play as much as i want.. it's better that way..