Is anyone else glad that arcades are dead and gone?
Most arcade games were purposely designed to be total bs and drain as many quarters from you as possible. Even late arcade games were simple and relied on gimmicks so anyone could play them, if you try any of these games on an emulator where you can play as much as you want then the entire appeal and challenge vanishes and you are left with a boring poorly designed game.
Is anyone else glad that arcades are dead and gone?
Benjamin Ortiz
Charles Green
t. XBOXLIVE kid
Anthony Ross
Eh, racing games have a place in arcades.
Jaxson Baker
>>>/1cc/
Most modern Arcade Games run on standard consumer PC hardware that anyone can run anyways
Brayden Evans
Flagniggers need not apply to this discussion.
Xavier Bell
No, I miss them. It doesn't help that I kind of mentally tie in the death of arcades with the demographic death of the US, because they were both happening around the same time.
You went to an arcade for the atmosphere, and with fighting games, the face-to-face competition and having crowds cheering behind your shoulder.
David Anderson
I guess it's true, I made this thread since I visited one of the last remaining arcades of my city recently and there was literally nobody inside, the owner was angry and bitter as fuck, the games mostly busted and without people around there really was no appeal, the games on their own sucked dick.
Gabriel Murphy
I dont know about ghosts and goblins but ghouls and ghosts on sega was hard af
Brandon Price
It was a white person thing I guess
Gavin Robinson
I dunno. Are you young by any chance? I guess they hold more value in the nostalgic at heart. I personally love the old beat em up games like Captain Commando, The Punisher, the D&D beat em ups, Alien vs Predator, the Simpsons, etc and can still play them today (although to assuage the monotony I will often have a podcast or something on in the background). My fav arcade game of all time though is Mortal Kombat II, and I remember very vividly what it's release was like in arcades and it can't be replicated in any kind of "midnight release" or whatever you see bugmen line up for nowadays. It was very palpable energy and I remember literally being able to see the screen of the game in arcades because there were droves and droves up of people huddled up behind it. I've yet to feel any sense of anticipation or excitement for a modern game that has come close.