Is anyone else glad that arcades are dead and gone?

*being unable to see the screen

Not necessarily. There were a number of asians that haunted all the fighting games as well.

Dunno about him but my local arcades were filled with mexicans tho.

I'm 26 so I guess that qualifies as young, then again I was a kid who sucked at vidya and got mad at the older kids who would hog the machine.

dubs thread?

Nah, I visited my local arcades around the time when SF2 and the first Mortal Kombat was big and made arcades popular again. Nearly everyone was there of all colors and age and backgrounds. You'd see melanin enriched males, dudebros, chinknerds, white male suits playing. There was rarely any grrrlgaymer or their beta orbiting hipsters to be found in them. It was a pretty great time tbh fam.

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Your digits are weak.

>>>/cuckchan/

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I mainly play shmups, beat 'em ups and sidescrolling action games like GnG on MAME, and I've yet to play one which I can really consider bullshit or quartermunching. Most are 1cc-able with some practice. I've almost never been to an arcade hall (only once) and I wouldn't know what games you are basing your generalization off, though I know halls were staffed with a whole bunch of games like lightgun games or racing games which are never mentioned in retro arcade discussions.

Maybe I just happened to be playing the cream of the crop, but to me it sounds like you are a scrub who should be playing the betterer games anyways.

ITT: Boomers getting triggered because their nostalgic fee-fees were hurt

I agree to some extent. The novelty of arcade wore down when home consoles became a thing.

'82, so not really

That game is absolute bullshit and you know it, you have the chance to play it for free on your computer and tweak around with the dip switches nowadays, but as a kid at an arcade you were totally screwed.

No. And you're an idiot. Next question.

In all seriousness, arcade games didn't just provide challenging (and awesome) platformers, they also provided fun single and two player games that weren't explicitly trying to get your cash.

For example, Daytona USA and Killer Instinct provided extremely thrilling two player experiences that drew huge lineups back in the day, and they couldn't be described as quarter sinks. I recall in my youth, there was an arcade within a pizza parlor, and some guy from a local radio station was challenging people to take him down in Daytona USA and was offering free pizza to whoever could win. Seeing huge crowds gather around the Killer Instinct machine and yell and cheer and holler whenever you pulled off a sick ultra combo that knocked the opponent off the stage was an experience you had to be there for.

All these moments are lost in time like tears in the rain, and I wouldn't expect a dipshit post-millennial like you whose first console was a PS2 to understand why arcades were so fucking cool.

Daytona USA was fun but Killer Instinct was just a dollar store Mortal Kombat.

My first console was the N64.

Wrong.

They put a lot of thought into its design. Combos were easy and really fun to do, and the music and sound effects were top of the line, way better than what we saw in Mortal Kombat. It also introduced 3D rooftop stages, which were a gimmick, but still provided a cool spectacle.

And besides, even the games that could be described as "money sinks" weren't all purely cheap kill-filled games. Games like Metal Slug were difficult, but you could eventually get good enough to actually pave your way through the game. It's just that you needed lots of quarters and practice time to be able to get good. But as Cuphead has shown, difficulty IS part of the fun.

Past the point of no return, sorry. If your first console wasn't at least a SNES you're a no-hope scrub.

Why don't we have it anymore? I mean, it would be a fun place to hang out and play multiplayer-games against others. I mean it's not like it would be expensive either, just buy a bunch of computers, build it into some cabinets, load up the games you want on your cabinets and let people pay. Internet-café's all stink because they are shady as fuck and run by gangsters.

But an arcade, why not? It would work in theory, people having a place to hang out and have fun without contrived socialization or having to get drunk.

They don't make money.

The last arcade I went to was owned by a biker gang. The last korean net cafe I went to I am willing to bet had ties to some sort of triad. The kicker being both of them were actually well run from a customer POV and experience.

Karaoke bars especially with liquor license violation and possible prostitution at the back, now that shit can be really shady as fuck.

i couldn't care one way or the other

Guy who didn't live during the arcade era. Which ones? Wasn't the whole point of arcades to eat quarters?

They are sort of making a comeback because now they have "retro appeal" and that never goes out of style.

I went to this one place here in Leafland called the Rec Room (it's a chain of barcade/restaurant establishments that are popping up all over Canada), and it was pretty damn cool. The food was great, they gave free popcorn with a movie, and they have an arcade with a poutinerie and donut shop built in.

Yeah, most of the arcade games were shitty redemption games, but the one I went to still had some pretty cool ones too, like Daytona, Mario Kart, Street Fighter, Tekken and Time Crisis. They also have a VR arcade.

Overall I was pretty happy with the place and wouldn't mind visiting again. It wasn't quite the same as arcades in the 90s but I thought it was pretty neat anyways.

What kind of gay canadian shit is that?

This nigger gets it.

No, this isn't true, this is just a dumb meme spouted by people who don't actually remember arcades that well. The games they probably remember were probably really hard games like Metal Slug or Raiden Fighters, which were indeed challenging right out of the gate, but not impossible and cheap like these idiots would have you believe.

The games WERE well-designed and fun, how far you got depended on how well you could adapt. There were a few cheap money sink games but the majority of them rewarded skill and adaptation and you could get surprisingly far on your first credit if you were good enough. The thing is, since most of us were kids or teenagers when we visited arcades, we played like retards and that's why we remember getting our asses handed to us and having to credit feed our way through, because we lacked the ability to get good.

The myth of "quarter eater" games is largely overblown, except for Super Street Fighter 2 Turbo. That game was legit bullshit that read your inputs. Fuck that game.

There are still shits like Dave and Busters. Or whoever runs their entertainment branch, because I see the same exact set up in some modern bowling alley/entertainment centers. But all the games are racing games, light gun games, or just prize game shit. No fighting games or classic games.

And before anyone gripes at me about using a "cheap game" like Simpsons Arcade as an example.

There DO exist deathless runs of the game. Get good losers.

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Arcades were IRL imageboards and you are just a retarded soyboy. They were gathering places for boys of all ages and included games of all kinds, all pretty punishing. Visiting one was an accelerate crash course into gaming history and gitting gud.

Consoles created the modern geek, aka a loser who shuts indoors and becomes blind. Games got nothing out of it.

What differentiates hard and bullshit? I would say games like raiden are on the bullshit boundary. How much money did you spend back in the day to 1cc a game or did you?

I'm working on trying to beat raiden 2 and batrider. Do you have any tips to 1cc those

Hard games were just unforgiving for mistakes you would make. Bullshit games had actively unavoidable things that would shorten your game time.

The most egregious example of a "bullshit" game that comes to my mind is Gauntlet Legends. This game was a literal definition of a a quarter eater. It used a numeric health system where it started you off with 500 health and would gradually wear down your health at a rate of 1 per second, with enemy attacks reducing that number even further. Stages were a total slog to get through, and you had to destroy these structures that would endlessly spawn enemies unless if you didn't do anything about them. Inserting quarters didn't give you more credits but instead added numbers to your health value - I think each quarter added 250 health to your overall health.

It was a stupid game. I remember I went to an arcade one time and there was this really smelly sweaty guy who had been playing the game for what he said was 14 hours. He was trying to "100%" clear the game which involved playing through it multiple times to get all the rune stones, and was getting the arcade owner to open the coin door up to add a lump some of more credits in whenever he needed them (he was paying for them, it wasn't free).

I think he was doing it to get a T-Shirt, which the game told you that you could claim as a prize on some website or hotline if you completed it 100%. I only came in during the last hour or so where I saw him do it.

A hard game gives you all the tools to succeed, using just sweat and spirit and cunning. An artificially difficult game like Dark Souls, prevents you from canceling attacks into dodges to force you to replay the same fight ten times and memorize all animations.

I fell for the bait by replying

Artificial difficulty is a valid term albeit a retardedly named one.

I love arcade games' no-filler approach: you insert a coin, you play. No super-long unskippable intro getting in the way of fun.

There is a bit of bullshit and memorization of enemy patterns, stages, etc. in everygame worth it's salt. Saying dark souls is artificial difficulty at this point after 4 games is just bullshit though

Aside from the unwanted attention whores, everything that you said is the reason for Arcade's fall.
Games are for White and Asian people only. Not for the slave races.

All of them were done to get your cash as quickly as possible though.

The worst part are the machines with broken inputs that the arcade refused to fix. I played Cruisin' and it was terrible because the car automatically steered to the right. They don't refund you for playing on broken machines too.

The worst part is the niggers.

I will never understand this, just like get a new hobby. And if you're cheating the shit by feeding it fake space quarters of course something is going to be missing, dim bulb.

I also love playing with literal shit, trannypol

I don't know, the Mexicans sure did love SNK. Probably the only times i've ever seen a neo-geo in real life was when i went to one of their laundromats.

Not even Pokken Tournament? I know they made a big deal about importing that a few years back.

No

Not the one I went to. There was an Injustice game that from far away you would think was the fighting game. But on closer look it was some one-button type of game that I didn't look twice at. The coolest game I played there was a House of the Dead type game that shoots blasts of air in your face during jump scares.

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I mean, you're not wrong, but at least Gauntlet Legends and Dark Legacy were fun. I owned DL on classic Xbox back in high school.Fuck I feel old.

Feel free to exchange numbers with ddab43 so you two gommies can LARP as Holla Forums, the arcade I went to had a variety of people even before the SF2 explosion. SF2 merely raised the quantity.

Hey buddy I think you got the wrong arcade. The Holla Forums cocksucking BO club is two blocks down.

This is a video games board, not a tranny pornography board. Do not post tranny pornography.

Whatever dum dum.

Just say the real name of the board you're thinking of, it's faster and more accurate anyway. Just the Protip: It's listed at the bottom of the pic shown.

This is why the only real reason to go to arcades is for games that you literally can't play at home what so ever unless you own said machine. I have a place in my area that I go to and every time I'm in there, ninety to one hundred percent of my money goes straight into pinball machines. They have video games there too. But every time I start playing one, in the back of my head I'm always thinking "I could be playing this at home right now for free".

Not at all. In fact unless that retarded cocksucker the OP, I understand that most arcade games (in particular all the good ones that were hits) were designed to be a fair challenge experience. On the contrary, some of the tightest game design can be found in arcade games precisely because the arcade environment selected so strongly for good game design.

*unlike that retarded cocksucker the OP

Gay, just like the faggot who posted tranny porn.

Not a lot different than games that go for micro transactions then?

Same gimmick, different era. It worked to nab kid's quarters, it works now to steal NEETbux from addicts.

So pinball, and possibly custom VR setups are the 2 unique offerings that new arcades have to offer.

And that was the beginning of it being shit.
Games always were for White and Asian People only.
Slave races aren't Gamers.

No, Rami. There is a difference between jewy microtransactions in a game or system that you rightfully own yourself compared to putting quarter(s) into an arcade machine that you don't own.

You're neglecting to mention that you can find food in game to increase you're health for free. Plus using the gold you collect in levels you can also buy health in the in game store between levels. The whole system is designed around guaranteed game time and the fact that it's an rpg that you can save your progress in and come back too later. Even if you don't pick up a single piece of food and somehow manage to not get hit once, five hundred health is still almost ten minutes of guaranteed game time. Seeing as there are games that you can put your money in, get destroyed in 30 seconds before you're looking at the game over screen. That seems pretty good to me. How's it any different then other timed games like crazy taxi or outrun? If you know what your doing and have a strong mid to high lvl character you can easily go half an hour before getting anywhere close to death. And that's only with one player. If you have two, three or four people playing at once who all know what they doing. You can have very long game times. Two people is probably preferable. Other wise you start fighting over the food and power ups too much. But again that just adds to the fun (you're playing this game to have fun right). And when did you see the guy doing the t-shirt thing? Because that contest stopped being valid in like the year 2000.
Now the original two Gauntlets from the 80s are a different story and almost impossible to play alone fitting the definition of quarter muncher much better. With only one player you can easily get surrounded, stun locked and lose ninety percent of your health in like five seconds. All while still having the count down health system and no ability to save your character.

You spend extra money for the chance to play a little more, instead of paying once and owning the game forever.
Same shit.
Both shit.

I hate to say it, but streaming is the spiritual successor to the arcade.

Money, crime, lack of stable clientele, improvement of consumer grade hardware to the point where it's fucking pointless. Movie theaters get brought up a lot in these threads but the difference is I don't have a massive fucking projector in my house. Theater still has some novelty to it (thanks in no small part to Hollywood propping it up with early releases).

These generally suck as they are bar&grill establishments first and arcades second, but at least they have a sustainable business plan.

The last 2 times I got dragged to a Dave and Buster's there wasn't a single fighting game or pinball machine on the floor.

I've seen more beaners than whites at the arcade though

Except that's not what you said first, is it.
If you're going to clarify your stance you should at least be more accurate about it.
Still wrong, Rami. Most people with a functioning brain would obviously agree with
But there was a time where a console version of a game that you could own is not the same as the arcade version. Example, most 8bit era and older. 16 bit era was where the tech started to become close, with NeoGeo being an expensive 1 to 1 system.

But really Rami, "putting in a quarter=microtransaction" is an inaccurate analogy that does not help you convey what you are trying to say.

There has been some impressive advancements in mini LED projectors that got me very tempted.

And that is why Arcades are almost dead.

>>>/cuckchan/

I mean they're disgusting to be around but whites have some blame to shoulder for this if we're being honest

And another thing. That's not what microtransactions and it's cancer really is, if you're going to rightfully rail against microtransaction at least understand what the fuck it really is.

It's jewy nickel and diming for something that was once rightfully came standard in the game you bought and own.

Internet killed the arcade star.
Internet killed dozens of stars, actually.

Don't write it off as quite dead yet
arcadeheroes.com/2018/02/07/exa-arcadia-to-introduce-new-kit-system-at-jaepo-2018/

>arcadeheroes.com/2018/02/12/exa-arcade-board-gains-support-g-rev-seibu-kaihatsu-city-connection/

Is that a high barrier to surpass though?

An arcade I lived near a few years ago, but moved out of state:

That place was a joy to go to. Game selection was great, snacks were reasonably priced, and the games and building were well maintained. All for five bucks.

I grew up in late 80's and 90's arcades and pool halls. It was fucking amazing.

Not really. They were mostly shit, but there was the occasional game with a truly unique experience. There was an arcade near my old house with a pair of full MechWarrior cockpits, completely covered on the inside with controls, and with screens on the front and both sides, and that was the shit. You can't easily replicate that kind of experience at home. Maybe when better VR games come along.

We go to were it pleases us.
The thing is: only White and asian People can sustain something and keep it working and stable.
As literal workers or as customers.
Make any place unappealing to Whites or asians, and everything will fail.

As is paying to use an entertainment product that you won't own.

If you are really that retarded, then stop using the internet.

"Windows based"
It is shit.

Only because it was your parents' money that you spent on them.

You've never played in an arcade with free play on, have you? I will agree that they were designed as coin hogs with the games being cranked to the highest difficulties, but they taught skill. You could meet people and rivals at arcades and it was also a good way to spend time if you had some loose change and wanted to hang somewhere. Blasting through a game with another guy was the greatest feeling.
Now of course we don't necessarily have to pay for our games anymore, and with that the casual meet-up places died off. It is a sad development, since we need more and more effort to make human contact now. There are less and less places where people can randomly meet on a common ground. Arcades were the stomping grounds for 13-year-olds everywhere, and it was a good thing.

I had some kids offer me the last of their coins just so they could watch me beat Metal Slug 3 just a couple of years back, they couldn't even reach the controls by themselves. I was amazed the arcade machine even existed there. The real kicker is that Metal Slug was a pivotal game series in my childhood which I still played through regularly, and I admired all the older kids blasting through it with ease. Finally becoming the "cool dude" kids looked up to felt like a story coming full circle. Due to my years of training I got to the start of the last level with 5 coins before I ran out of loose change, because of course the difficulty was set to the hardest possible. They were pretty amazed anyway. That's what we are missing with arcades gone.

It was an anti-white thing. White normies like OP were too busy playing storyshit JRPGs on the SNES or inferior Genesis ports while still deluding themselves that they were winning a "graphics war" PR campaign.

Spotted the redditor.

No, user. You are reddit.

You've devolved from normalfag to regular fag.

All of the malls in my area died because the two groups that ruin everything. Jews throw out all of the proper games and through in block-drop horseshit and fruit ninja faggotry after their pet niggers drive everyone else away, so they can say that the kids don't like arcade games.

Don't know about that, it's not like Holla Forums doesn't also use the phrase.

wow things sure have changed!

I guess the only difference now is that playing a bad arcade required 0.25$ and a trip downtown, while playing a bad game requires a 600+$ investment for the hardware, 60+$ up-front investment for the biggest title and waiting more than a year for the game to be fully finished while also having to pay another 60ish$ to get the full experience. At best you needed ten dollars to git gud at a game or see it through, and Arcade games were (most of them at least) made to be as technologically advanced as possible to get people into the game.

Should I do it guys?
At the moment I can only afford one of them and if I go through with this I can't decide which one i want

What happened?

Play the Japanese version, which doesn't have the Satans that move bullshit fast. I can get the good ending in that game, and you can too if you just git gud.

Also, OP is a dumbass, arcades were better than either consoles or computers, shame they had to go the way of the dodo. Of course arcade games would be unpopular on nu-Holla Forums because you have to actually learn the game's mechanics and designs in order to enjoy them. Most people here still play kidtendo or jack off to nude mods in STALKER, bunch of worthless drooling tards.

A hard game is one that drops you into it only explaining the basics and with so many mechanics that need to be fully understood before you can actually even expect to be called "okay" at it, a bullshit game is the kind that drops twenty enemies all at once fully knowing that you can't win unless you exploit some oversight by the devs. Case in point, most freemium garbage on mobile phones are bullshit ni that their mechanics are simple, too much so in fact to actually deal with strong monsters without buying up packs or finding cheap grinding alternatives, like how some games erroneously let you watch multiple ads in a row without finishing them to get extra goldshit.

It's not that the games were well built as much as being "fair" in how they presented you with the enemy layout. The big problem is that most games expect you to be a complete newbie in the first level and up the ante immensely in the second, all of that on purpose so that at least you beat the first level, may as well drop another quarter and try and beat the asshole boss that did you in. But there do exist cases where an enemy has way more health than you can damage, don't know of them personally because most games I played hadn't them, but apparently Carnevil has some bosses that have no-sell attacks that will damage you no matter what.

They're priceless artifacts, user. I mean if you like them you get to play them personally and if you hate them you at least get to wait for their prices to grow. Try to haggle it down face to face, guy's clearly not interested in keeping them anyways.

Some LOL posters kept using monster girls in the vein of more monster than girl, with ridiculously thick figures but horrific shit like beastlike upper bodies and deformed vaginas, so people have been shutting them down out of fear they would come back or something.

/monster/ trying to push degeneracy and trying to excuse themselves with some amazing mental gymnastics

The whole reason i escape 3D is because i don't like fat blob human faces. Why would i want them to infect that shit on my 2D everywhere?

What conditions are they in? Do you also have the space for it, looking at some images of the cabinet for Ocean Hunter that one might be large. Is the guy open to some negotiation on the price.

The arcades have some scratches in the sides but everything is functional including the guns for TOH. I do have space for them, it might look out of place but I really don't care.
I don't believe that the guy is gonna lower the price, he doesn't seem to be in a rush to sell them but I'll try to see if I can get him to drop the price

So you miss being a grown up adult surrounded by kids that are not your own, and being idolized by them just for playing a game?
It is the same as being a clown or a pedo.

Spotted the redditor.

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I once knew a family whose dad had a Captain Silver arcade cabinet and put it in their kitchen. Needless to say, that family was quite rad to the max.

Arcades should be protected and preserved for future generations

You are missing the point. It's not about being adored or being respected by random kids, but just that a random occurence like that could happen so easily. It was just a part of my life that I had already grown out of, but which came at me when I least expected it.
The arcades made everyone equal in a sense that anyone could play and talk with anyone. The arcade games bridged gaps between generations, and those kids giving me the last of their pocket money goes to show how much they were willing to trust older players due to the positive experiences they've had with them. I could have walked away any second, but I showed them their trust was not misplaced.

And your attitude just goes to prove my original point further; everyone's too much of a fucking cynic now to hold anything dear in their hearts. I can understand seeing all this horrible shit can harden you, but succumbing to it is a mistake. You need to have hope if you want to hold on to your humanity.

except that's a /cow/ poster

Nobody is actually a /cow/ poster, /cow/ is just where you go to discuss lolcows when the cakekike starts screeching too loudly about it being not vidya.

This is reasonably true.
This is what I'm referring to, if something is good and whites don't support it in favor of cancer, they take some of the fault for it
Nips also bear this responsibility as well, why do you think its agreed upon that the average nip has shit taste in nipland?

Neca heard Alien arcade and thought they meant illegal alien so they made Linn look half Black and half Mexican.

no, they're autistic archivists who record literally everything; I also don't see cake kike screeching about it; people generally don't talk about lolcows here aside from a few vidya related ones

Well, he was screeching at me the one time i outed a tumblr spic on here

But i have hope. Hope for the whole industry to crumble and for normalfags become as cyninc as me and never fall for exploitation entertainment again.
You only hold arcades dear to you because you did not know any better.
They were made to scam you and take away your money, and nothing else.
Also, your example was sot on what a pedo would say, so, no, i'm not missing the point.

It is never our fault when some lace becomes unappealing for us.
We must never fight to have fun. We go were the fun is. If it stops being fun, we leave.
And for those that allowed slave races to take over, it is their problem now to deal with bankruptcy and literal apes infesting their place.

What part of
do you have trouble comprehending. We are not talking about 'lolz just emulate them all now' either, Rami. There was a time when the average PC did not have the power to emulate arcade games of the same era. If you wanted to play the arcade version of Space Harrier in it's original time, there was no 1 to 1 identical console version (until later), or a 99.999% faithful emulated version back then. It was either put in a quarter or token, or be the few who either had the cabinet through rental or outright bought them. Which was not very common.

No really, Rami, your analogy and trying to equate putting in a quarter into an arcade machine=microtransaction of current era pay2win\freemium model, just plain does not work once you examine it for longer than 5 seconds. Microtransaction does not entice people to pay to play longer either, if anything they entice players to play shorter duration, pay 2 win so you don't have to 'waste time grinding or whatever the fuck lolz it's only video gaymes anyway amirite'. Microtransactions urge the suckers to pay to access or use features that was once part and parcel of the products you bought and own.

It was based on board sizes around 1st April.
With exception for last tier.

Damn.

I kek'd. Holla Forums is a containment board you nigger. They're a hollow shell of what they used to be and they now have more in common with 4chan and reddit than Holla Forums. I bet at least half the board cross-posts.

It is the same practice, you deluded fool.
Spend money on a "games as a service" machine without owning the game.
The limitations of the time don't exempt companies from being guilty of doing exactly that: pay 2 win without owning the game.

You sound like you have zero skill at playing video games and no interest in learning.

Confirmed for being Rami Ismail, or underaged fagmosekshual who thinks arcade machines of older era when owning a real arcade cabinet or having the processing power to emulate it is a rare thing or did not exist is "pay2win" by putting in quarters. It's doubtful you ever stepped into an arcade, you even have a poor understanding of what microtransactions are. Just get into the car with the AC already Rami.

Holy shit Rami, you could have at least tried better, instead of saying 'pay2win' you could have easily went with 'pay2play' straw grasping instead.

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When you paid, you did not bought the game. Only the "right" to play it.
Same shit as today's practices.
Arcades were the first models of today's anti-consumer practices.

No

This is the gayest thing I've heard all day

Meant for

in what way?

Wrong again, Rami. Ever went to a (((cinema)))? Don't fucking lie or commit taqiyaa either by saying you never once went to a movie in your life, you goatfucker.

You could have saved the price of that ticket and put it towards buying an actual cinema grade projector, sound system, along with the space and furnishing to have a real cinema. Why didn't you, don't give me excuses of the tech or time or price limitations either. And we're obviously not talking about having gigabytes of passive media on a solid state media card or stick, so you can watch it on your laptop or phone. We're talking about the 1 to 1, 100% identical version in the same era here.

If you're going to be a contrarian faggot pretending to be some cynically cool consumer advocate, at least try harder Rami.

Jesus Christ guys, I don't have enough time life in my life to keep mourning all this shit that's gone away forever.

There might be some small pockets where there is still some Drive Ins. But nowadays the magic word for having sex with a woman in the missionary position strictly for the purpose of procreation is usually

That's just fucking with the TV on though. Who gives a shit about that? Part of the thrill of fucking at the Drive-In was the risk of getting caught.

A lot of nice things are getting lost in time, old timer. Would you settle for watching The Notebook on a cheap tablet, getting to third base with a woman in a car parked at a Home Depot parking lot after hours. Technically some of their parking lots are monitored by security.

These are the words of a post-millennial baby who was never around to experience arcades firsthand.

Putting a quarter in to play a game where the length of your playtime depends on your skill, is not the same thing as downloading a game and having its real content locked behind a paywall or paid lootboxes. One offers you the full experience for as long as you can survive and the other one is basically gambling.

I know you were still a nut-stain in your mom's snatch when the PS2 first came out, so the arcade era passed you by completely, but back in the day, arcade game developers fought a long and HARD battle to become recognized as games of skill, because the gaming associations were trying to label them as games of chance. Being labelled as gamblin is exactly what the devs of Pac-Man, Tapper, Burger Time and all these other classic arcade games battled against.

Another thing you don't understand is that these games existed in a time where doing 1:1 ports of the games was not possible. Take for example, TMNT4 on the SNES as opposed to the arcade version. The SNES could not offer the graphical and sound quality of the arcade version, or the really big draw which was the four player co-op, as SNES was then only a two player console (barring the SNES multitap for Super Bomberman which came later). When this game came out the only way you could experience four player games with really high quality animation and sound was in the arcade. To compensate for the lack of arcade features, the SNES version of TMNT4 added a couple of extra stages.

It's just not the same user, I mean where else can I get a thumbs up from a father with his two kids when he sees my girl's head disappear?

Yeah, I dunno why people are nostalgic for them. They were just proto-microtransactions.

No they weren't you fucking moron. Read what I just posted.

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I'd rather break into somebody elses house with my GF, don't break or steal anything, just watch their Netflix and fuck on their couch. Then slip out with nothing to indicate our presence except for some weird entries on the recently watched list and a smelly wet spot on the upholstery.

Real shit: I've only been in arcade one time in my entire life and it was terrible.
I'm convinced arcades were only good with friends and through nostalgia goggles. Sad, I really wanted to enjoy it but home alone with a SNES was better.

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Holy shit you are a faggot did you bruise your wrists trying to operate the big joysticks you fragile fuck fuck you

If we're being fair, that description fits most arcades that have ever existed in the United States. It's only natural for someone who has never experienced a real arcade to spout nonsense like that.

At least tell me what state, user. Please.

It was actually a pretty nice place. Like clean and in a good area, but I'm not really a judge of arcade quality so I had to go by looks and a cousin's word.
At most I would have to blame more the shitty kids and not the place itself.

Have you never felt the strength of an angered tard?

Looks like the problem is you being cucked out of your coins and seat and not a problem with arcades in general

Nigger, you just said it was in a complete shithole with unattended children kicking things, shit breaking, and gunk all over the cabinets.

The right game makes all the difference. We have a shitty casino in my town that has the original twin virtual on cabinets and it doesn't matter how many retards are around, the game is fun as fuck

Just the one. Unfortunately it was the only open one.
Other than that the place seemed fine but had shitty people in it.

T.Soyboy Hipster (Pic related)

My nigga! Someone finally gets it! The shit was a fucking haven to meet other like minded individuals who love the craft if that that specific genre of games. Inb4 when facebook or myspace was popular you would meet up at said Arcade location. Did it have it's cons with the shit being in public besides naming the obvious? Of course. Yet this is something you fucking soyboy millennials wouldn't understand nor ever will.

This is the most elaborate "haha I was only pretending to be retarded" I've ever seen.
You were pretending, right?

arcade games had a scumy as fuck business model. it was the dlc/gacha-shit before those were a thing.

I think it's the same retard posting this over and over again.

Why do you think that pirating movies filmed inside theaters on day one became so abundant?
People want to own their products. Not pay to use them.
If you pay and don't own, you have been scammed.

Exactly.
Overseas, in glorious nippon, they were even classified as gambling machines along with patchinkos, slot machines and others.
Arcades were always a scam.

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Hi Billy Mitchell

epik troll bro haha sic

Some (most) of the comments in this thread are really forcing me to face the reality that even post-exodus Holla Forums, all that it's been through, is allergic to good games.

Aint just this thread. And I think the case is chronic, Doc.

There was another arcade game where it becomes impossible at the end, developed by the same behind Scwharzenigger's SNES shoot 'em up.

My go-to example is Gauntlet, personally. The game was revised with later versions to make it impossible to 1cc. That kind of gouging, mismanagement, and abusiveness toward the player is endemic toward the western arcade industry as a whole.

tl;dr western devs a shit

So it was a normalfag thing?

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I don't know what the fuck a goonbeard is, now faggots are mixing buzzwords?

Sounds like a nomadic group of niggers to me

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Actually the quarter myth is really because Americans are the worst "feeders" or people who throw quarters in right at the continue screen. Acrade games are meant to be challenging while entertaining.

Careful with the edge there kiddo. I can hear the Lincoln park blasting in your room from here.

Someone has never played dwarf fortress. If fun isn't earned it's not fun, it becomes boring. You sound like a faggot who unironically enjoys micheal bay movies because it's all style and no substance. You're a nigger through and through who wants his gibs on a silver platter.

Between the BO only logging in to keep it from going up on claims to Kampfy being retarded you have a point, the T_D faggots didn't help and 8ch Holla Forums is a major infestation point of redditors at this point. I've intentionally omitted any mentions of Holla Forums because it's a given and the people who screech and accuse people of being from that commie shithole if they don't agree 100% with Holla Forums tend to be equally cancerous

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My first console was an atari 2600

Also OP GIT GUD
Nothing like using only 1 credit to beat:
Marvel vs Capcom 1
Xmen COTA
Marvel Super Heroes
ANY of the Street Fighters
Star Wars Arcade 1995
Star Wars Trilogy Arcade

I imagine they didn't let him keep his job huh.

I remember this one tropical/pirate-themed restaurant, which had and arcade, that we'd go to for for my older brother's childhood birthdays. I was around 5 or 6 at the time, so I don't remember all of the games, but I do remember Turtles in Time, Daytona or was it Cruis'n USA?, The House of the Dead, Metal Slug, one of the Galaga games, and a skeeball machine where you thow balls at pre-rendered 3D Tiki Heads and Moai Heads. The games gave out tickets that you could exchange for dollar-store tier prizes. Me and my big bro got lots of rubber Street Fighter figurines, plastic Galaga ships, and an Ayylmao keychain.

Sadly, the last year we ever went there, they had replaced every machine and cabinet with niggerball sports games. Not even the Tiki Skeeball machine had been spared.

you really like this image huh

I'll also go back and add:

The "hardcore" or most popular arcade in my city in the 90s wasn't even my favorite. My best arcade memories were at the arcade that was at this mini amusement park that eventually closed in my city. It was like go-karts, mini golf, a huge kiddie section with mini rides, a snack center, batting cages, the works. But if you went in the morning, the arcade was completely empty and it was so comfy getting to practice finishing moves in Mortal Kombat II without people lining their quarters up.

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All true, including nippon being glorious and not infested with deformed kikes.

That sums up all the problems in the industry: western devs.
Even in Arcades, the japanese ones mostly give you means to complete them, while western ones just threw everything at you to make you spend all your money on them.

That is because we can do whatever we want, without having to bend to kikes' will.
We demand things for US. If a place does not deliver it, we go away. Get fucked trying to sustain something without is.

So you go to a supposedly relaxing place to have fun, and find it infested with monkeys, and stay there, trying to find fun or fight for it, giving up all the relaxing moments that you could be having in other place: Retarded.

That is because you insist in your delusion.
Arcades were scams, exactly the same as current pay 2 win.
Also: "playing competitively against other gamer with a crowd cheering behind you" = esports.
Same shit.
Both shit.

The arcade games that take advantage of dedicated hardware to provide you with specialised input devices were interesting (racing games mostly since light guns were available for home consoles pretty quickly).

No longer true, sadly. Even when the games are good, many nowadays use actual subscriptions and microtransactions to take extra money away from players.
This is probably also contributing to the overall decline of arcades in Japan.

Yes.
I was referring to the older Arcades.
Today, glorious nippon have more like mini-PCs for Arcades, with even memory cards and most are QTE based.
Still, all of them, old or new, are scams to take your money as quickly as possible.

A lot of places now like that Galloping Ghosts famous arcade, you play a flat fee and everything is on free play.

t. guy who is shit at video games

Oh god damnit. I was all excited when I heard about it. Thanks for the warning, though.

Yeah, really, a $5 bag of tokens would last so long I've given away the last few sometimes.

american version? or nippon version?
the nip version is easier if i recall having fuggen nukes that made the game actually a bit easier

someone needs to service these machines

Oh, they serviced them right into a storage locker until the sun goes dark. That was in a K-Mart which is scheduled for shutdown soon.

why must realty be so cruel

If you want to let your money be stolen by scammers, go ahead, beta cuck.

Create a game that works online only (so people can't own it when they pay for it), full of microtransactions and dedicated to esports.
It is the same as arcade games.

You stick out so hard.

Anyone who says "arcades are just a scam" are only saying that because they're profoundly shit at video games.

Everything you said about "glorious nippon" classifying arcade machines as gambling is blatantly false too, because again, in the 80s during the dawn of arcade games every company fought long and hard legal battles to get their games recognized as games of skill and not chance. If they didn't make this legal distinction between them then there would've been a lot more prohibitions on them which would've been costly to business. So long story short you're a retard with no common sense who doesn't know anything about gaming history and we can all laugh at your tiny wiener sub-omega game skills because you most likely ran out of lives on the first stage of Metal Slug 2 and that's why you're upset about it.

I actually came somewhat close to opening up my own shop years ago. I had a nice little location downtown with decent parking and an attached apartment upstairs. I was going to use the upstairs apartment as a micro-bar and arcade, and the downstairs area as a used game shop. Was shopping around for a small business loan, and checking out alternate properties when I found out that a new WalMart supercenter was going in, and the attached mini-mall had a GameStop slated to go in. So I decided to abandon the idea before I got in too deep.

I mean, my location was decent, but it wasn't THAT good - and judging from the kind of business that the other local gamestore was pulling in for used games - most of my clientele was going to end up being mexican immigrants who could barely speak english and barely had any money to actually spend on games. Smart people would have emulated, leaving only collectors and enthusiasts, which the town wasn't really big enough to support.

A few years later, GameStop ran all the competition out - and the mexican neighborhood/ghetto which bordered on the location of the competition expanded eventually encompassed the location I originally had my eyes on. All the old businesses I used to frequent as a kid ended up getting abandoned because it was unsafe to shop there and eventually got taken over by Mexican shops/restaurants.

Even if I had avoided the deadly combo of WalMart/GameStop in a much better location - and moved away from the growing Latin Ghetto, I'd still only have had about 10 years to expand before shit started going all digital distribution and the deliberate push to kill physical media.

The only way to run a video game shop in today's market is to have it tied to other services/hobbies. There's a local comic shop which sells classic games/systems, and has done well, but they're on shaky ground since comics have gone to shit with SJW infestation. There's also an electronics repair shop that is 80% used game sales by floor space - but the bulk of their actual business comes from repairs on smartphones and shit. They're young and have a REALLY shitty location, so I doubt they'll last long. I'd have ended up having to just expanding out into running a bar, with a video-game theme… which isn't something I was really interested in. Though the combination of drunkeness & nostalgia could be fairly lucrative if I were of the Jewish persuasion.

Read about the history of japanese games and see for yourself.
Glorious nippon always put arcades in the same category as gatcha and patchinko machines, that are themselves in the same category as slot machines.
Arcades were always a scam and you got robbed of your money, cuck.
See this:

"Smart people would have emulated…"
That is the right thing to do with arcade games to avoid being scammed.
Unless you want a crowd of children screaming when you play, like the pedo user. Then you can look for it on esports, that are the same as arcades.

Fucking kike bullshit.

As a superior human specimen, I miss arcades and wish these inferior dudebros would get off my superior planet

The day Hollywood wanted to get into gaming was the beginning of the end. SJW are the AIDS icing to the Jewish cake. Current year gaymers should all have their teeth kicked in.

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Got robbed and thinks that this is good.
Go play some esports game with paid clothes. You will feel the same as playing your arcades, while we emulate them.

I miss them. In my teens I was addicted to nuke and the only dealers that had it were always dealing in the arcades. So I'd get my hit there and play sf2 nuked out my mind. Most arcades shut here tho after this hard ass tin head cop shutdown the dealers so there was no reason to go anymore.

Arcades were the most fun most people have ever had with video games in their lives. Shame only the Japanese have them anymore.

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If you knew what you were doing, you could beat the game with a few quarters or less depending on the difficulty. Hitting level 99 was stupid easy if you knew how to exploit Sky World.

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Aww, the weak troll ran out of gas. You choked faster than your MS2 run. I'd advise not ever trying to breed as your performance here and in the arcade gives a strong indication that your genitals are withered and useless.

Fuck off

I'm tired of seeing this smug megumin picture

I never got as far as looking in to a loan but I wanted to run an arcade/food automat in a growing town outside of a larger city. I started working on it a bit backwards buying the arcade boards I wanted first but it might pay off one day. I have a warehouse now so I have room to start building cabinets. I moved to another area so the spot i wanted is no longer an option but there are a lot more options where i am now. I might not ever public location but i am well on my way to a private arcade.

Well you gotta deface it with jizz then,clearly

Yes, don't use the term "normies". The correct term is normalfag or mundane. Only normalfags use the word normies.

arcades just had this atmosphere gaming at home could never match. that's what you were really paying for and back then in the golden age of arcades gaming was at its purest because it was purely about fun. no bullshit stories and cutscenes needed.

that's because it's a Megumeme and yes it's tiring now

Some people near where I live opened an arcade within the past couple years and seem to be expanding all the time. They have a wide variety of games, and see magic the gathering shit and host events.

Your dream doesn't have to die, you just have to find a good location. I remember like 5 years ago some user opened up his own game shop and did great. Go put in the work and get what you want. you'll feel like a king for the rest of your life.

my sisters fiance opened a pool game bar in a town that was pretty big but didn't really have anything besides a few average bars and its booming.

Why didn't one of them just kicked the cop in the balls?

Arcades never went away. They are called esports now. You can get the same atmosphere and be scammed out of your money, just like arcades.

You still did not get back the money that was robbed from you by the scam machines.

If it has Magic: The Gathering, prepare for it to be ruined soon.

f511ee is trawlawlawling for (You)s. It displays gamejourno level garbage knowledge of arcades and the things it claims to rail against, it's writing shows goon like tics and patterns, and reeks of suppressed identity politics. Who the fucks capitalizes the word "gamers"?
f511ee thinks it's a champeen of the White and Asian People, and again with that strange capitalization pattern, when he gets his shit pushed in he reverts back to the previous trolololing. It never set foot in an arcade because it's either underage, or pisses itself scared at the thought. So it just trolls for (You)s here.
It's a coward.
I'm sure f511ee has the guts if the time comes, to do whatever it takes to secure the future and country of white people and their children. :^)

yeah, cinematic experiences, walking simulators, autistic grinding/farming skinnerboxes and the other cancerous shit we have now are so much better

FUCK arcades and FUCK arcade gamers

The fuck they are, you niggers just aren't looking hard enough.

The amount of anons with rose-tinted nostalgia goggles ITT is quite sad.

Round 1 is shit, though. The last one I went to, it was filthy, half the games were bullshit ticket prize games like Crossy Road and Fruit Ninja with shitty consoles-in-a-box fighting games like Street Shitter 5 and Tekken 7 in the back, everything was ridiculously expensive Who charges $2 for a single 10m playthrough of a terrible game?, they had an overpriced bar with only two corporate ram piss beer brands on tap, and the parking lot was full of niggers and spics that hooted at all the women that would walk by.

Though, I admit that they had this really fun table-flip game, Cho Chabudai Gaeshi (Super Table Flip)completely in Japanese. Cheap to play, too though I wish it were cheaper.

lots of arcades i've been to these days have everything set to free play.
last month i played 3rd strike for 8 hours straight at one such place.
played completely by myself that whole time even though there was a second cabinet connected that anyone could have challenged me with.
they were all too busy with shitty normalfag games like marvel vs capcom infinite and street fighter V.
going there was pretty nauseating honestly just cause of them. i wish shit eating retards would die.

He's objectively wrong too, since as good as such a statement might sound, gaming has had too much of (((their))) involvement, along with the occasional chink and very rare nigger, for it to ever truly be "Whites and Asians only".

Anyways i miss arcades, last one i saw was a few years ago, a pizza store in my town had one of pic related in, but got rid of it not long after i saw it, fucking wish i could've at least caught them when it was for sale.

No.
This is how it works: Playing arcade games meant playing as much as you can while spending less money as possible. The objective was either getting a 1cc or defeating other dudes that also wanted to play the same game.
Playing arcades forced you to get good, because if you weren't, you were forced to spend more money or stop playing completely, something that neither PC or consoles have.
Yes, and that's how you get good, by knowing the bullshit and doing something to overcome it.

I'll take the extra stages over the marginally worse sound and graphics. And if I had as many as three friends I wouldn't be a loser who plays video games.

Also, only having to pay once in order to play as much as you want was sure nice.

Cry more faggot.

Let's be honest, arcades were great because you were a kid and got to experience them with the naivete a child has. If arcades never existed until today, we would all call them out as being cancerous. You have to pay microtransactions for extra lives.

Sometimes I forget Holla Forums is filled with underage faggots who probably only visited an arcade in the late 90s when most were on their way out.

LOL

You fight for greater achievements, retard. Fun is to relax. Not to be fought over.
Keep deluding yourself into thinking that the money you gave to scammers was a good decision. You might try to buy some virtual clothes for some ASSFAGOTS characters if you like arcades so much. They are the same kind of scam.

Both are shit torfag.

A bunch of deluded idiots that spent money without buying a product and were so lowlife that they felt pleasure in having unknown children cheering for them for being scammed while the owner laughed at them.

The fact that kikes tried to scam people in the industry does not mean that games were made for them. Kikes hate fun and accomplishment. They love arcades though. Get money for a (((service))) while turning idiots into addicts to paying without owning.

Precisely.

Spending your money and not owning the game sure paid off, didn't it? Consider paid online in online only games. You might like it, as it is the same scam.

kek

You know he is right.

Whole lotta (1)s in here, I wonder why that is? Maybe smug animetard might be able to explain :^)

Play Afterburner on a moving seat
GLORIOUS

How depressing, i bet nggers were there.

Not really, a lot of of the best games that came out on console were already released in arcades first like mk,street fighter and daytona. Arcades had superior graphics and sound compared to consoles, you also had games that were 4 players which was something that wasn't common until the 64.
you can set the difficulty on a lot of arcade machines which when set on easy makes them pretty simple until you reach the last boss, it was usually the arcades fault for making the game unbearably difficult.

Good god user, this unzips my dick.

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Nice dubs thread millennial nigger.

Are you trying to do normal course or advanced in Batrider? Make sure you plan around getting that 1up in the highway stage and also try to activate and then skip giant bomb icons whenever you can. Skip 3 in a row and the next enemy will drop a 1up. In the final stage you have an opportunity to get a number of 1ups quickly and drop the difficulty modifier substantially by killing yourself a bunch before the final boss. Finally, you almost never want to grab two 1ups in a row to bring your stock back to 3 ships. The difficulty increase by increasing your stock from 2 to 3 is NOT canceled out by dying. The only time this is really a good idea is just before the final boss. Beating Batrider is kind of about becoming such an expert on the game that you become comfortable always towing the line close to death, in order to keep the difficulty modifier down. I can give you more specific tips if you need them, I've single-credit cleared Advanced course a few times with different teams.

They were, though.

For any UK anons, there is an event called Play Expo in Manchester and Blackpool once a year where you can play a lot of old arcade games for free (well, you have to pay for the event, but there's no limit to how much you can play them). I know I sound like a shill, but I just wanted to get the word out since it's actually not bad.

Even if you had friends, you'd still be a loser on the inside.

This is why people go for one credit challenges.

Even better when owning the game via purchase or piracy.

I've always been jealous of burgers for this. Arcades here cost a dollar, sometimes two or more.

They do here too, one more reason that arcades are completely fucked here. They haven't been 25 cents in the past quarter century.
Be jealous of Japan instead, where Metal Slug exists on every street corner and costs 10 yen.

The barcade in my tiny city has a Gaunlet: Dark Legacy machine and fuck do I ever want it.

still miss the ol chinatown fair sometimes

Not true. Older games usually cost a quarter, in fact here in my city we have a hot dog restaurant with arcade machines that charge nickels for plays. Higher maintenance games like Daytona USA usually cost a dollar but that's justified by the expense of upkeep.

Reminder this is a dubs thread.

Even millenials know more of arcade to console conversions than you Gen Z niggers born after 1998.

I'm sorry you suck at video games and never once went to an arcade where the owners allowed for free games after a certain period of time.

Disgusting.

How did they go through the entire development of that thing without realizing that yelling a voice line every time you attack is fucking annoying?

0/8 b8 m8

They were my introduction to videomgames since I was too young and poor to own any consoles, handhelds or even a computer until 1999 to 2002. It was sad to see the arcade in the lowest level of the mall go the first time but I'm glad one returned with a Virtual-On cabinet and a retro game store in the upper levels the last time I stopped by a few years ago after I moved.

I don't miss the concept of making games with the intention to drain quarters, but I do miss physical arcades. Barcades are popping up trying to replicate the atmosphere but for adults but mostly its idiots trying to be SOOOOOOOO RETROXD. I just wanna play some lightgun games with my bros and some fighters and try to hold the gauntlet against strangers