/vr/ - Retro Games

[Anonymous No.5060060]

What was it like in the 80s when arcade games were at the height of their popularity?
I was born in '89 so I didn't really get to experience the true arcade experience outside of some nickel nickel and some arcades in Vegas casinos.


Do arcade games have a place in modern society?

[Anonymous No.5060168]

>>5060060
>What was it like in the 80s when arcade games were at the height of their popularity?

The greatest thing ever created by humanity. Almost every story you have heard about them is at least slightly inaccurate and they were probably very different from how you think they were.

>Do arcade games have a place in modern society?

Probably not. For many different reasons.

[Anonymous No.5060376]

>>5060168
Elaborate?
What was the average experience like? What kind of people were in attendance?

[Anonymous No.5060384]

>>5060060
>What was it like in the 80s when arcade games were at the height of their popularity?
it was great.
>I was born in '89
90s were a golden time for arcades too, friend.

[Anonymous No.5060389]

>>5060384
My arcade experiences were limited as a kid, I was a console kid mostly.

[Anonymous No.5060395]

>>5060389
i was fortunate. grew up in a time where arcades were booming. i was fascinated with them. as a little kid, i was so curious how they worked i would power them off/on in people's shops or arcades (when they weren't going to notice) just to see them boot up, hoping to get a hint of what kind of computer was running it.

[Anonymous No.5060410]

>>5060060
You were in Vegas but didn't go to the pinball hall of fame?

[Anonymous No.5060414]

>>5060395
Ever mess anything up?

[Anonymous No.5060506]

>>5060414
high scores

[Anonymous No.5060517]

>>5060060
It was alright.

The teenagers would sit close to the arcades and drink. They were the party kind of teenagers rather than the troubled ones so people wouldn't mind seeing them with a beer or two.

little kids were cunts because they didn't understand the autistic unwritten rules of not being a cunt. By that I mean they would use cheap tricks in fighting games like using the obviuosly broken character and spam moves in fighting games

[Anonymous No.5060531]

Some of my earlier memories involve my dad giving me some money and asking me I if want to rent a vhs, buy candy or go to the arcades. It was something you would do every x time, like going to the cinema or playing a sport with your friends.

[Anonymous No.5060548]

Would occasionally get some older gay pedos trying to pick me up at the arcade.

[babbage's gramps !RATGzMALLY No.5060585]

>>5060384
>90s were a golden time for arcades too, friend
80s arcades were different from 90s arcades


>>5060517
>>5060548
Teen smoking, drinking, drugs, sex all that kind of stuff happened at arcades in the 80s and had pretty much been pushed to private parties by the 90s.

>>5060531
My dad taking me to the mall on Sunday afternoons and giving me a few bucks to do whatever I wanted was one of my first tastes of unsupervised freedom and the arcade was at its relative safest

[Anonymous No.5060620]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QWJM6sEyRZI

[Anonymous No.5060634]

I mostly remember arcades from the early 90s, there were a few in our town - we had a proper arcade where bigger kids would hang out and take speed, a small one with maybe 20 cabinets (mostly Neo Geo games) above the comic book store, the local laser tag that was the first place in town to get Mortal Kombat and Super SFII and also the local bowling alley and cinema had a few cabinets. There was an independent game store that got Virtua Fighter, that was a pretty 'wow' moment when we first saw that.

[Anonymous No.5060652]

>>5060634
>bigger kids would hang out and take speed,
People took drugs in arcades? There were no drugs in my country until the late 90s so I never saw that.

[Anonymous No.5060654]

>>5060376
>What was the average experience like?

You'd go in, play a game, and leave. People would usually either go to the arcades after school or after work and spend as little as a few minutes in then. Staying at an arcade for HOURS was rare unless you were a kid and it was a weekend and you had nothing else to do all day. Most games were single-player then, so you might have a few people watching you play, depending on the area. The whole thing of random people walking up and joining in a game was more of a 90s thing when suddenly every game became multiplayer.

>What kind of people were in attendance?

Very random mix of young adults (and teens I guess), like 16-18 or so up through like early or mid 20s. People over 30 seemed to be rare unless they were taking their kids there. Now at any dedicated arcade 25-30 is like the starting age lol. It was basically just average people. Going to the arcades every few weeks or even once a week for a brief period was a fairly common activity back then depending on where you lived, how close by an arcade was, and how stocked the arcade was and what kind of environment it was. There weren't really "gamers" back then, and the few that might have fit that description were mostly PC gamers that didn't get out much lol, so they never really showed up at the arcades (or anywhere else aside from "conventions" or hobby shops) except for maybe rarely. There were also females. Females disappeared from arcades in the 90s.

Then there was the criminal element. Arcades in the 80s were kind of notorious for drugs. Though this was more of an issue in neighborhoods that were just shitty in general. Not so much of a problem in the suburbs. In the 90s the crime problem was WAY worse though. Some inner city arcades practically got taken over by gangs in the 90s. They used to love the fighting games especially for whatever reason.

[Anonymous No.5060656]

>>5060384
As successful as the arcade business was in the early 90s, it was COMPLETELY different from the early 80s, both in terms of the level of success and in terms of the overall environment of the arcades themselves. VERY different experience going to an arcade in 1982 vs. 1992.

>>5060395
Ever get a free game out of resetting or messing with the machine?

>>5060517
This depended on where you were at. In a lot of places people hated the people that complained about "cheap" tactics in fighting games more than they did the people that used "cheap" tactics. "Hood arcades" though you could irl get beat up if you pissed people off in a fighting game.

>>5060548
That's fucked. I never heard of pedos at arcades before.

>>5060585
>sex

I sure as fuck don't remember anyone fucking in an arcade.

[Anonymous No.5060662]

>>5060652
Yeah, teens would just congregate around the pool table and smoke and dab at speed wraps. It was just a place off the streets to hang out with little to no adult supervision.

[babbage's gramps !RATGzMALLY No.5060667]

>>5060656
>That's fucked. I never heard of pedos at arcades before.
>I sure as fuck don't remember anyone fucking in an arcade.
I got my kid junk groped many times while playing arcade games - mostly by teenage girls though. By the mid-to-late 80s people were on the lookout for creepy old men but there were certainly pedos earlier than that, especially at seedier arcades. Actually some of the attendants when I was a kid were probably molesting those teenage girls who then molested kids like me. Whatever though, it was part of the experience. By the 90s when I would have been more into it that sort of thing was pretty much over.

[Anonymous No.5060672]

>>5060652
>There were no drugs in my country until the late 90s

What the fuck country is this?

[Anonymous No.5060675]

>>5060662
>It was just a place off the streets to hang out with little to no adult supervision.

FUCKING THIS. The biggest thing that people don't realize about arcades back in the day is that they were HANGOUTS. They had video games because that was something fun to do while you were hanging out. Same reason the ninja hideout in TMNT had arcade games in it lol.

[Anonymous No.5060693]

>>5060060
Awesome

>>5060585
So you never went to an arcade in the 80s. Just heard stories your crazy religious freak of a neighbor told your mom. Cool story.

>>5060667
>LARPing this hard

[Anonymous No.5060732]

>>5060060
>Do arcade games have a place in modern society?

No, I'm afraid it's all cell phone games and microtransactions. I wish they had a place but let's be honest, how many people would even feel comfortable going into a place with other people and trying to socialize. You'd have to serve alcohol and probably ecstacy just to get people to open up like they did freely back then.

I'd love to have seen pic related back in the day. google timeout arcade.

[Anonymous No.5060748]

>>5060667
>I was more into pedophilia when I was an adult in the 90's, not so much when I was a kid in the 80's.

[Anonymous No.5060770]

>>5060748
Some of the things that this guy shits out onto this forum are completely laughable. I think he sees himself as this sage of wisdom and experience but mostly he comes across as a sad old embarassung cunt.

[Anonymous No.5060795]

This needs to be an old arcade photos thread. Plus that would answer OP's question better than us just telling him about it could.

[Anonymous No.5061068]

>>5060060
>Do arcade games have a place in modern society?
They've never been stronger since some time in the late 90s/early 00s. Pretty much every major city has some kind of barcade now which sounds cliche as fuck but they're generally all run and patronized by older people (early 30s and up) who have an appreciation for the machines. I'd almost argue Japan's scene is a little worse because they can still smoke at the cabs and they're almost all NESiCAxLive machines running the same 25-30 games, even in the little mom n pop neighborhood places

[Anonymous No.5061130]

>>5060654
I remember asking about the arcade experience back on /vr/ around the time /vr/ was new and some anons said that the Bishop of Battle segment of Nightmares that shows the arcade culture was accurate.

[babbage's gramps !RATGzMALLY No.5061169]

>>5060748
When teens fool around with other teens it's not pedophilia, Anon. I find it really fascinating how paranoia about "pedophilia" has become such an internet meme among incels. I could fuck a 16 year old right in her butthole and that in and of itself would be perfectly legal.

>>5060770
What I see myself as is someone who's been where the stereotypical Anon is and managed to come out of it as a relatively normal and most importantly a happy person. Nobody's forcing you to read my posts.

[Anonymous No.5061217]

>>5060585
dude wtf are you talking about? I dont know what shitty arcades you've been to but this wasnt the norm

>pretty much been pushed to private parties by the 90s
lol just no. there were still arcades in malls, hotels, movie theaters, bowling alleys, fucking boats well into the mid 90s. Are you just talking out of your ass or what? Do you know how many times my mom dropped me off in arcades while she went shopping between the late 80s and mid 90s? I might of gotten slightly bullied a few times but you're just straight up making things up. Ive ignored you for so long cause you're seriously the most annoying tripfag since toxic jester and Lanced Jack but this post takes the fucking cake.

[babbage's gramps !RATGzMALLY No.5061235]

>>5061217
Maybe you should just continue ignoring me since your reading comprehension is atrocious. How could you possibly think I was saying there weren't arcades in the 90s? There are still two arcades in my small ass city right now. Nobody is mugging kids or selling weed out of them though that's for sure.

[Anonymous No.5061251]

>>5061235
how do you want me to interrupt that shit sentence you constructed? because "80s arcades" were still around in the mid 90s. that's what you're retarded ass is saying right? that "80's arcades" were pushed to "private parties" but magical 90s arcades were different? you're fucking stupid dude.

[babbage's gramps !RATGzMALLY No.5061263]

>>5061251
Well, technically everything 80s stopped existing as of January 1st 1990 but I think it's pretty obvious that I was talking about the teen smoking, drinking, drugs and sex. I'm sorry for presuming you are as literate as a 2nd to 4th grader and capable of parsing compound sentences.

[Anonymous No.5061283]

>>5061263
kys faggot

[babbage's gramps !RATGzMALLY No.5061290]

>>5061283
no u

[Anonymous No.5061293]

>>5061263
>technically everything 80s stopped existing as of January 1st 1990
you really are retarded.

[Anonymous No.5061306]

>>5060656
>Ever get a free game out of resetting or messing with the machine?
Not him, but there was a Pump It UP machine (Korean DDR) at an arcade called Kahunaville. There was a small hole about the size of a normal domino. You could fit your two fingers inside and do a "come hither" motion and graze the switch for credits.

[babbage's gramps !RATGzMALLY No.5061310]

>>5061293
It's funny that you say that when it appears you may literally have some kind of learning disability that keeps you from identifying main ideas. Although I guess that's more of a 5th-6th grade concept and we've already determined your literacy is that of a smart 8 year old.

[Anonymous No.5061325]

>>5061310
>i keep larping that i was raped in an 80s arcade so every one else has a learning disability

[babbage's gramps !RATGzMALLY No.5061368]

>>5061325
Molested over the clothes, not raped. It's the kind of thing that people would go shit crazy about now but was just considered "kids" fooling around back then I don't know how you could have possibly been around poorly supervised kids in the 80s without seeing it. I've always been tall for my age and it was probably a case of 13-14 year old girls thinking I was their age when I was actually 8-9 but you can believe whatever you want. If it makes you feel better, when I actually was an adolescent it was quite awkward for me and I didn't lose my virginity until I was 18.

[Anonymous No.5061423]

I grew up in Eden Prairie, MN. Our mall was the one used to film the movie Mall Rats.

They had an arcade down by the food court. It was great. Spent hours playing TMNT 2 and the Simpsons 4 player games. Parents gave me $10.00 which lasted all day and I was able to then get food as well. Everyone was happy there. It was over 20 years ago, but I remember it as some of the best times of my life.

[Anonymous No.5061484]

>>5060656
>Ever get a free game out of resetting or messing with the machine?
Different anon here. The Track & Field cabinet at a restaurant called Mama's Pizza in my home town would give one free game when turned on, so we would pull the cord and plug it back in. Eventually the staff made us stop doing that.

[babs No.5061489]

>>5060693
Missed this one, Janny. Guess you've got a problem with the discussion of adolescent sexuality - on 4chan. Incredible.

Anyway, the reason my perception of "80s arcades" vs "90s arcades" may be especially delineated is because in the 80s my mall arcade was a "Gold Mine" like pic related. It was simply lit by yellow faux gaslamps with false beams, piles of gold and a freaking mine cart combining with various cockpit cabs to creating all kinds of dark nooks and corners evidencing foul activities.

Maybe it just coincidentally crossed the filth threshold but in 1990 it closed and the same machines immediately materialized in a "Tilt" that was 3x the size, brightly lit plus neon and a wide open facade. Totally family friendly.

So yeah, to me there's a very big clear difference between an 80s arcade and a 90s one.

[Anonymous No.5061548]

>>5060654
>The whole thing of random people walking up and joining in a game was more of a 90s thing when suddenly every game became multiplayer.
DON'T SHOOT FOOD

[Anonymous No.5061557]

>>5060656
>I sure as fuck don't remember anyone fucking in an arcade.
Never touch anything in a photo booth.

[Anonymous No.5061745]

>>5061263
Yup. Everything that existed, what made, whatever in the 80's immediately disappeared January 1st 1990. That's totally not the most bat shit crazy claim youv'e ever made.

[Anonymous No.5061783]

>>5060548
This reminds me of an old PSA about pedos/homos and it mentioned how they liked to stalk boys at arcades and game shops. So it was a legit threat.

[Anonymous No.5061787]

>>5061783
Wait waaaat? I remember hearing that there used to be PSAs in the 50s, but in the 80s?

[Anonymous No.5061808]

>>5060672
Most likely behind the Iron Curtain. Russia started to get massive drug problems once its borders were open and people had more money to spend.

[Anonymous No.5061812]

>>5060795
Agreed.

[Anonymous No.5061817]

>>5061787
Now I know you're a dumb kid but PSAs haven't stopped being produced. Hell, in the 80s alone we had them embedded into cartoons. Now you get them in your shitty youtube channels, stop acting the fool.

[Anonymous No.5061819]

>>5060060
>I was born in '89 so I didn't really get to experience the true arcade experience
'88 here, same shit. I remember going to maybe one or two arcades in my childhood. One (I would later learn) struggling & slowly dying one, and another one in an amusement park. I think I would've loved it though. The little tastes I got to have are cherished memories.
Apparently they tended to be pretty sketchy, though. My dad had a lot of shady friends and according to one there wasn't a better place to deal in drugs or prostitutes. His words, not mine, just in case one of you rainmen is already typing up a storm.

[Anonymous No.5061821]

>>5061787
What do you think all those "a very special episode" were?

[Anonymous No.5061826]

>>5061817
>>5061821
I meant PSAs warning about fags.

[Anonymous No.5062051]

>>5060654
>Very random mix of young adults (and teens I guess), like 16-18 or so up through like early or mid 20s.

Meant to say: "Very random mix of young adults (and teens I guess), like 16-18 or so up through like early or mid 20s, AND LITTLE KIDS, MOSTLY PRETEENS." Fucking forgot that last part, but that's really essential if you want to understand what the arcade audience actually was like.

[Anonymous No.5062162]

>>5060060
I was born in 89 and spent most of my formative years in arcades with my dad, where the fuck did you grow up where there were no arcades in the 90's?

[babs No.5062176]

>>5062051
Hm I wonder what all the 13-15 year olds were doing.

[Anonymous No.5062269]

>>5062176
You know very well that they meant that most arcade goers were either young adults or little kids. Stop being retarded on purpose.

[babs No.5062408]

>>5062269
I think "pre-teens" pretty specifically refers to 10-12 year olds and he further specified 16-18 year olds and young adults

[Anonymous No.5062421]

This probably gets brought up often but Round1 isn't too shitty. It's mostly music games and ticket machines, with a couple of shitty mobile games and Japanese arena games. There's a fighting game section too but it's deserted since people just play those at home. A lot of families go there, Asian teenagers, and young adults go usually to play one of the dancing games. I go there to play DDR. It's almost always busy and it's the only real arcade anyone goes to here, so I'd say there's a place for them.

[Anonymous No.5062432]

>>5062421
I honestly wish I had a round1 near me, the fact that their taito stuff (nesica, groove coaster, etc) is actually online is really appealing to me

[Anonymous No.5062489]

The actual games were fine, but the monetisation was horrendous. Fuck arcades. Also fuck the arcade community, on /shmupg/, the self proclaimed bastions of retro games they constantly pretend to know about games even though it's clear they don't, and they don't even play the games they talk about

[Princess Sevenleaf !IT2uZpX.Ic No.5062492]

>>5062408
"Preteen" is a word pedophiles use when talking about their preferences. No one who isn't a creeper uses that word, please don't use it. The word you are looking for is "child."

[Anonymous No.5062517]

>>5062492
This is excellent bait

[Anonymous No.5062519]

>>5062489
Don't name drop them, they know they don't play the games, it's all about shitposting about deathsmiles and twitter/forum posts

[Anonymous No.5062578]

>>5061808
Not true. There were already a lot of drugs in Eastern Europe in the 80s, it just wasn't as big as it became during the 90s and it was kind of "hidden" from public view by the communist governments, even though the people knew what was going on.

[Anonymous No.5062624]

>>5062489
>the monetisation was horrendous

What in the fuck are you talking about?

[Anonymous No.5062635]

>>5062624
t. never went to an arcade

[Anonymous No.5062682]

>>5060060
>I was born in '89

Get the fuck out of here. YOU ARE UNDERAGE

[Anonymous No.5062978]

>>5060168
This. God I wish I could explain it. There's just no way to translate my memories into an adequately descriptive 4chan posts. Video arcades in the 80s were like pure magic. It was like stepping into a realm of pure imagination. It was the future, and it was YOUR future.

[Anonymous No.5062995]

>>5062978
Stepping foot into an 80's arcade for the first time was about as wondrous of an experience as stepping into an alien spacecraft. The technology seemed so advanced at the time that it was like the arcade machines were brought to Earth by an advanced alien life form. imagine being beemed up to the Star Trek Enterprise and experiencing the Holodeck for the first time. It was like that for me going to the arcade when I was 8 years old. It felt like Heaven. I never wanted to leave.

[Anonymous No.5062998]

>>5060548
h-hot

[Anonymous No.5063015]

>>5062995
Every single bit of flashing light and sound was a new experience waiting to be explored. Imagine if you can, young lurkers in this thread, what it would be like to see video games for the time when nothing like them had ever existed in your universe. When you had no basis of comparison to judge them against each other because each new game was a completely novel experience, with the creators taking part in the adventure just as much as the players. We played them just for the sheer joy of seeing what would happen next, what combination of gleaming colors would sear onto our eyeballs to simulate aliens and giant bugs and wizards and psychedelic mushrooms. Imagine the sheer excitement and mystery of telling your friends you once saw a slightly different tiny pixel shape appear once rarely and the urban legends that would spring up around trying to reproduce it. All of this taking place in a secret world just for your generation, a science fiction fantasy universe only you had a portal to.

[Anonymous No.5063024]

>camping once
>wandering through woods
>find little public shelter on edge of campground with electricity
>no one else around for miles
>there's nothing inside but a picnic table and a working Galaga machine
One of my favorite childhood memories, so comfy

[Anonymous No.5063041]

>>5060060
they weren't so great

[Anonymous No.5063083]

>>5060060

Fucking glorious. Like casinos for kids (and adults).

[Anonymous No.5063120]

>>5060060

If you go to Japan you can still experience arcade culture. They have multi-level arcades scattered all over Tokyo, filled with every hit and sleeper hit of the past 30 years. All kept in perfect condition. Lots are yakuza owned and at times thick with cigarette smoke.

But sadly the blacklight style, glow in the dark arcades are strictly an American thing. We probably won't see those ever again. I was lucky when a very authentic retro arcade opened in my town a couple years back but sadly- despite my patronage, it closed down.

[Anonymous No.5063151]

>>5060384
90s arcades were just hords of niggers hanging around street fighter/mortal kombat with the rest of the games empty.

[Anonymous No.5063174]

>>5063151

Thankfully I lived in mostly white areas the majority of my life.

Little shitty city mutts and nogs purposely break arcade cabinets out of spite.

[Anonymous No.5063308]

>>5062421
Nearest Round1 is about 3 hours away from me. Honestly considering it someday, I drove much further than that for DDR tourneys back then.

[Anonymous No.5063313]

>>5063015
it sure is raining here

[Anonymous No.5063365]

>>5060060
You wanna know what arcades were like? Nothing like this thread. People were pretty cool to each other even if we did smack talk one another. It was a place we could meet new people, play some games and trade tips & secrets.

[Anonymous No.5063406]

>>5060517
using guile's cuffs on some dbag was pure gold

[Anonymous No.5064342]

>>5060060
>Do arcade games have a place in modern society?
Yes, they have. Of course since the times have changed, arcades scene nowadays isn't the same like it used to be from the '90s and before. Arcades today are mostly casual appealing with most of them being light gun shooters, racing games, arcade ports of popular smartphone games, VR cabinets and so on and you mostly meet them at the malls.

Things are different in Japan because of Japanese culture.

[Anonymous No.5064352]

>>5063024
Reminds me this experience of mine from mid '90s
>Me and my family going to a small mountain village
>My mother is relieved because she thought we wouldn't see any arcades there
>There was a tavern that had two arcade cabinets: One with Street Fighter 2 and one with Tehkan World Cup
>My mother was like "Not here too!"
So priceless even if we didn't played with them (since there were more modern games back then in arcades)

[Anonymous No.5064792]

>>5064342
>VR

VR is a pipedream and there's nothing you can do about it.

[Anonymous No.5065473]

>>5060652
Did you ever see the original TMNT? The part with the foot clans hideout and all the kids were smoking and drinking and doing bad shit? What do you think that was based on?

[Anonymous No.5065491]

>>5065473
What about the Bishop of Battle segment of Nightmares?

[babbage's gramps !RATGzMALLY No.5065609]

>>5065491
Patrician

[Anonymous No.5065731]

So I was a lad in the 80s, and an adolescent in the 90s. And an arcade freak.
>80s
I was kind of young so I don't remember everything. But this was more of the late 80s. Not the booming PacMan years. Though you could still find a few games in a pizza shop, or a decent amount in the bowling alley. The stand alone arcades were drab, and dark. Granted I lived in a shit town. But it was rather seedy. Our arcade had about 13-14 games in it. I specifically remember Crystal Castles,Shinobi,Star Wars, Mighty Bomb Jack, and staple games like Pac Man, and Galaga among many more. The front of the store acted as a candy shop. There would be mostly kids in there, and some weirdos too. This is in stark contrast to the 90s.
>90's
There was another boom period mainly due so Street Fighter 2. Anyone who was around at the time knows whats up. That game was fucking everywhere. Arcades,pizza shops,markets, even random deli's would have a machine in there. I also noticed the arcades opening up more. The games were multiplayer, and the arcades themselves actually used bright lighting as opposed to that drab shit. They also had "game" sections. I'm just guessing for every ones little sisters. Cause that what mine did. Ball pits, whack a mole, skee ball and the like. The big arcade had about 4 Street Fighter games. With lines going out the door. Once Mortal Kombat came out these places were absolutley packed to the rafters. Most kids were playing these games for bragging rights. Alot of shit talking, but nothing too serious. You'd even make friends waiting on line to play, or randomly playing another game. I remember bumping into some other wrestlefag while playing Wrestlefest. We were best friends that day. (remember those?)The fad died down eventually but I remember there being remnants of arcades into the early 00's. 04 being my last memory of seeing one.

[Anonymous No.5067014]

[Anonymous No.5067018]

>>5067014

[Anonymous No.5067043]

I'm from a city in Spain, and back then (middle to late 80s- 90s) I think I only saw once a big arcade decorated as such in all my life. Usually, machines were at bars, where it caused the strange picture of groups of kids and early teenagers around drunken adults or old people having coffe and reading the newspapers.
Arcade places where usually dirty, dark and full of cigarette smoke, but you didn't care because it was amazing seeing and playing those games you could never have at home.

That's a major problem arcades have today. The have lost the awe effect that had in the 80s and early 90s. When people was playing black and white games (or 16 colors) at home in a small screens, you could go to the arcade and literally have your head explode watching Outrun, Power Drift, Strider, Dragon's Lair, etc.

When people bash TMNT or the Simpsons game by Konami, you have to remember that in those days, it was like seeing alive the characters of the TV shows an being able to control them. You couldn't have at home such colorful and amazing games at home. Let alone playing 4 players at the same time.

[Anonymous No.5069025]

>>5067043
Arcades were always mostly only big in America and Japan.

[Anonymous No.5069686]

>>5069025
>i've never been to an arcade but i read some things on the internet
Cool story kid. There were plenty of other places where arcades were "big"

[Anonymous No.5069825]

>>5067043
>I'm from a city in Spain
>>5069025
>Arcades were always mostly only big in America and Japan
>He hasn't even heard of Gaelco

[babs No.5070001]

>>5062492
Don't talk to me.

[Anonymous No.5070028]

I was born in 81 on the east coast. The first arcades I remember was the TMNT arcade in the front of a supermarket chain IGA when I was much younger, A Golden Axe arcade in the local Deli, and the Superman arcade game was in The Ground Round, a family restaurant.

The local Mall had random arcades scattered through it, not many, I remember one being N.A.R.C. and another being Street Fighter II Champion Edition.

The local roller skating place had a shit-ton and I loved going there for friends birthdays they had games like Road Blasters, Rampage, Dragons Lair, After Burner (The sit-down one)
Paper Boy, Aliens, Root Beer Tapper, X-men, Simpsons, both TMNT games, Pac-Mania, Jail Break, all kinds of shit, most of the hits from any good MAME set these days.

It had a magic about it I guess, you gave a fuck about credits because you only got like $10 in tokens to spend, but you also wanted to win some weird shit from the prize counter so you had to balance between arcades and skee-ball, the moles hammer game, smash the crocodile heads with the mallet game, or the giant ticketwheel thing.

I always liked it because you would make a friend for the day just playing through games together if you were both good or if one of you was a quick learner.

[Anonymous No.5070032]

>>5069025
The ameridumb, everyone. To him only america and japan are "real" countries. To hell with the rest! Dragons and Wyverns, I tells ya!

[Anonymous No.5071498]

>>5069825
Thunder Hoop yo.

[Anonymous No.5071704]

>>5065491
Holy shot...with Emilio Estevez, right? Brings me back

[Anonymous No.5072705]

>>5067043
ayy payo dame cinco duros

[Anonymous No.5072752]

>>5060732
Kind of ironic they still exist and run strong despite them being much less outgoing and a bajillion times more addicted to smartphone games.

[Anonymous No.5072762]

>>5070032
Amerifat or not, he’s right. Like, I’m sure there were arcades in South America in the 80’s, or in the Soviet Union. But I think one can be forgiven for not knowing about these small markets, and their collective culture. America and Japan likely represented 90% of Coin-op revenue from the 70’s to the 90’s.

What was up in Spain or Thailand back then? Likely nothing, playing bootleg games or second hand units? Maybe rows of Famicom clones that you’d pay a few coins to play for 15 minutes in a sweltering hot steel shed on the edge of a slum? Curse those Americans for not knowing OUR culture!

[Anonymous No.5072805]

>>5072762
Spain had a quite strong arcade culture, and as someone has said above, they had companies like Galeco, which are famous worldwide with titles like Thunder Hoop, Word Rally or Radikal Bikers. They also had such and advance protection scheme than until recently, the MAME team couldn't emulate those games. Even CPS-2 was easier to crack.

It's not a third world country, and by the early 90s, the New Park series of arcade centers offered a lot of big hi-tech games games like the R-360 cabinet, Virtua Formula, the Ridge Racer cabinet with the real mazda, plenty of Datyona USA games, etc. You could play all thsoe games in all the big cities in Spain.

[Anonymous No.5072824]

I wanted to join the thread, but reading through it, it seems everyone else's experiences with 80s arcades in their respective countries is nearly identical to my experiences with arcades in 1980s Italy.
Unless you were in a resort town, the arcade itself was a scary place for little kids and I was certainly a little kid in the 80s. Thankfully, arcade games were everyfuckingwhere back then. The dry goods store, the green grocer, the ice cream shop, the neighbourhood café/bar and the laundry all had several machines. FFS, in my town, even the furniture store had a pair of machines the owner would put outside every morning (she'd unplug them every night to take them in, thereby deleting the high scores, but most people didn't care too much).

[Anonymous No.5073556]

>>5060060
I was born in 77 so I remember it all pretty well. They varied a lot depending on where they were located. An arcade in a strip mall could be very different from an arcade at a amusement park or restaurant. What kind of people went to them? If you were alive in the 80s you went to them at least occasionally. I loved the places but after the nes came out they began to decline slowly. But the nes still didn’t have the computing power of a arcade cabinet and computer games of the time were complete trash.

[Anonymous No.5073562]

>>5072805
>Galeco
kek, the off brand version of Jaleco!

[Anonymous No.5074173]

>>5073556

'78. Family owned a arcade from '80-'92. I practically grew up in one. Missed the days of pizza, the background noise, but what sticks out is the smell of electronics.

[Anonymous No.5074416]

in the 90s it was the first time seeing a 3d game running at 60 fps which my pc at home ran games at about 20. By about 1998 home games had more progression such as in gran turismo which made people turn away from the arcade. By 2000 the arcades were mostly still using games from 1995 and were pathetic compared to before.

[Anonymous No.5074537]

ITT: people who weren't there and don't know make wild guesses.

[Anonymous No.5074562]

>>5060060
I live in Finland and arcades were rare, but there was one big one here that we used to go to. It had some amazing games and it felt like going to a carnival basically. They also had a go-kart circle there, which was so cool but too expensive for my poor family to go on. We used to hang out in the place play games and admire them, but being from poor backgrounds we didn't get to play much so as little kids we would often just watch others play, eat our candy and then leave. I still remember the day the place closed down. I was a teenager and I saw the place just empty. Fucking hit me hard. Never seen an arcade anywhere since. I'm 30 now and that arcade closed like 15 years ago. I feel like my life is over already. I wish I could go back to those days of being 15 and playing video games without any feel of guilty. Just play endlessly and let the days go by. Now I play too much I feel guilty. But then again I'm still NEET and I let game ruin my damn life. I dont feel too well anymore. I wish I had money so I could buy a house or even rent a home for a year and continue NEETing, but times are getting rough. Parent probably dying soon. Then I'll be alone with my dysfunctional brothers who are both also NEET losers like me, but I'm the more emotionally prepared one since I think about her death all the time and that it is coming. I tried convincing my brother to get a job but he isn't listening. I think he's at a brink of full on depression. Second brother is an alcoholic and 10 years older than me, so he has given up long ago. He gets benefits, I don't. Mainly because if I go and report myself as unemployed and get benefits, they might cut my mothers benefits. She doesn't want that. So here I sit. Wasting away. Making a few bucks online. God. I wonder when I'll kill myself.

[Anonymous No.5074587]

>>5065731
MK was far bigger, you're being a hipster

[Anonymous No.5074595]

>>5074416
In 93 we had Doom on pc. Everything after that for arcade or console is irrelevant. It started the disparity between arcade/console and pc we still have 25 years later.

Furthering the point. PC had 70-90hz gaming in the mid 90's. Also resolutions, in games and OS, as high as 2,304 x 1,440 with most CRTs averaging between 720p and 1080p.

[Anonymous No.5074603]

>>5060060
It was a good time. Arcade I went to in the 80s was in a mall. Me and my friends would hang out there all day. Eat in the food court, watch movies at the theater, play Defender and Berzerk. When they got a Gauntlet machine and all four of us could play at once that was the shit. The real tragedy of today isn't just the loss of arcades it was the loss of malls. Malls were fucking amazing back then and they were everywhere. Americans just got too fat to walk any more so they weren't popular and shut down.

[Anonymous No.5074626]

>>5074603
>Malls were fucking amazing back then and they were everywhere.

I still remember the pink neon and aqua colors so popular in malls at the time. We didn't have anything this fancy in small town Iowa, but I love this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FZUfiW3W1KY

[Anonymous No.5075831]

>>5074626
Fellow Iowabro, what's good? Hope you're staying warm, this weather went cold quick.

I was born in '88, and it's both cool and sad to read the stories about arcades since I kinda missed out on the 80s and a lot of the 90s scene.

I kinda vaguely remember the early to mid 90s arcade stuff, as my dad liked to take me to one while at the mall on occasion. It seemed like a pretty hopping place most of the time, as there would be people always hovering around the MK and some of the beat em up machines, as well as the shooter ones.

For being in the middle of nowhere Iowa, our mall arcade had some pretty decent games during the early 2000s. I vividly remember spending a lot of money on post-/vr/ games like Soul Calibur 2, initial D, Tekken 3-4, MvC2, Project Justice, and so on. I got to talk to and meet a lot of different people I otherwise wouldn't have interacted with face to face. They were good memories, and I still think about them from time to time.

>Just the other day had a dream about this cute girl that came in to play me in SC2 that would play as Talim every time

I kinda regret not talking to her

[Anonymous No.5075956]

>>5062421
I got a Round1 in my area 2 years ago, I go there once every two weeks or so with some of my friends. It's got a good amount of music and fighting games like you said, but half of the place is just dave and busters tier stuff and claw games for anime plushes. Mines has a good amount of racing and figthing games, and the oldest rhythm game is a taiko game from 2010

[Anonymous No.5076056]

>>5070032
You're delusional if you think the arcade business was ever significantly large in any way in any country other than America or Japan.

[Anonymous No.5076058]

>>5076056
it was relatively big in central and south america problem is, they mostly bought bootlegs

[Anonymous No.5076178]

>>5060060

well, an actual dedicated arcade outside of a major population center was still somewhat rare until about 85 in the US. Instead you just had arcade games supplement other kinds of games, mostly pinball and pool tables, in other places, like food joints (bars especially), but also places where people might've had some excess time despite being there.

Places like movie theatres, or public laundry machines, private transit like bus stations, larger college commissaries, roller rinks...they had up to 5 machines tucked into a corner somwhere. I remember seeing a Yie Ar Kung Fu in a Kroger at those ages.

Chuck e cheese/showbiz pizza is probably one of the first dedicated arcade/family centers that reached various suburbs across NA. That or mini-golf, or go-kart parks.

I guess what it was like will depend on what your neighborhood was like, because it still largely an extension of your community that was hanging around at the time.

[Anonymous No.5076203]

>>5060548
anon that is the wrong type of arcade

[Anonymous No.5076205]

>>5060675
I always went to the skating rink that had a huge arcade. you could hang out there for hours skating and spending time in the arcade. if someone didn't want to do arcade stuff they could go chase after girls. I never did the mall scene much tho

[Anonymous No.5076335]

>>5074595
doom was outdated as soon as the ps1 was released, ridge racer had the 3d look while doom with its ray casting looked artificial then you had daytona which took ages to match on pc, maybe nfs 3 with 3dfx.

[Anonymous No.5076337]

>>5076335
you know daytona had a pc release

[Anonymous No.5076340]

>>5060060

Arcades were awesome and I miss them to a certain degree, if only because it was a part of my youth.

It was like being in a club; Your parents would drop you off, you'd see who was there. Play a game, talk to your friends, play another game, talk more with your friends...

Depending upon the arcade, you'd either eat there or eat nearby... There was one roller-skating rink that we regarded as an arcade because they had so many of them and so you'd roller-skate then play some games then go back to roller-skating then eat then roller-skate... Meanwhile, your parents would be doing whatever in town or at home and they'd pick you up after six or so hours...

The rise of consoles in the mid-to-late 80s began spelling the doom for arcades. They first disappeared in the normal stores (a lot of stores would have one / two arcade machines to keep the kids busy while Mom shopped) and then the arcades themselves began to close. Even before then, a lot of the "normal" arcade machines left and were replaced with the shooting or sit-down ones (non-joystick) machines that couldn't easily be replicated by a console.

[Anonymous No.5076342]

>>5076178

No offense but we had two dedicated arcades in our town and we were hardly a "major population center."

Will agree that a lot of stores had an arcade machine or two and that places such as roller-skating rinks & movie theaters (especially multi-screens) were treated as arcades for the # of machines that they had.

[Anonymous No.5076721]

>>5060168
Japanese arcades do fine. Hipster arcade bars in the US are a big thing now

[Anonymous No.5076742]

>>5076335
>doom was outdated as soon as the ps1 was released,
Not really, early 3d lacked a lot of the detail that 2d sprites in a raycasting engine had. I'd say it took all the way till 1997 before you really saw 3d engines that started to surpass. There is a reason why raycasting in games existed in parallel with true 3d for a while.

[Anonymous No.5077205]

>>5060060
Arcades were still relatively popular in my town during the early 00s (most of them were bootleg cabinets with hundreds of games installed though).

[Anonymous No.5077220]

>>5076721
I want to hate on the hipster barcade thing, but at least they're actually collecting, restoring, and taking care of these old cabinets instead of just letting them get tossed into the trash.

[Anonymous No.5077232]

>>5060060
wtf i was born in 90 and got to play hella arcade games
>>5077220
collectors of any type are good cause they keep games from getting trashed, no joke theres people who collect fucking CRT TVs

[Anonymous No.5077868]

>>5076340
>The rise of consoles in the mid-to-late 80s began spelling the doom for arcades.

They did fine during the Atari 2600 era. It was more likely the rising crime rate, rising taxes, rising utility cost, etc. just made the business less profitable.

[Anonymous No.5077887]

>>5076340
>The rise of consoles in the mid-to-late 80s began spelling the doom for arcades.

They did fine during the Atari 2600 era. It was more likely the rising crime rate, rising taxes, rising utility cost, etc. just made the business less profitable.

[Anonymous No.5078084]

ticket value inflation wasn't so bad

[babbage's gramps !RATGzMALLY No.5078252]

>>5077868
>>5076340
Is just Moore's Law. Eventually an arcade machine that cost 50x as much as a Playstation for an experience barely 50% better didn't earn enough tokens to pay for itself let alone keep the wolves from the door

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>>5076056
Nah. He's fine. Arcades were big many places. Not sure if you're just delusional or also underage and retarded.

[Anonymous No.5079325]

>>5076056
You might be the dumbest person on this board, congrats.

[Anonymous No.5080346]

>>5079325
>>5079301
both of these posters are underage

[Anonymous No.5080664]

>>5074416
I finally had the realization hit when I went to put a coin into a Marvel vs Capcom machine and thought "why am I doing this? I have this at home..."

Up to that point, yeah, home consoles were eating into the arcade's market share but you still understood that the home version wasn't quite the same. there was always some little advantage that made the arcade worth the coins. But at that moment I felt like that time had ended.
The only thing arcades could do to compete was getting more of the big gimmick machines.

the last hold out I've seen around here these days is the Walmart keeping that Batman Batmobile arcade machine for years before swapping it out for some snowmobile thing.

[Anonymous No.5080675]

>>5060060
Yeah, I live in Japan and arcades are fucking everywhere here. Good date spot, great place to drink some beers and play Mario kart and Street fighter with your mates.
My favorite game was Bingo Party Pirates, me and two buddies would sit down with a case of beer and a pack of cigs and play that shit for hours

[Anonymous No.5080845]

>>5060517
>they would use cheap tricks in fighting games like using the obviuosly broken character and spam moves in fighting games
scrub

[Anonymous No.5081415]

>>5074416
Arcades crashed in like 1994, so the "LE PLAYSTATION KILLED ARCADES XD" meme doesn't work.

[Anonymous No.5081465]

>>5061217
>dude wtf are you talking about? I dont know what shitty arcades you've been to but this wasnt the norm
Arcades here in canadaland were shady as fuck in the 1980s. There were always people who sell pot and pull alcohol for kids in every arcade and it didn't matter if it was in the good part of town or in a shithole beside the bus depot downtown, they had a very shady clientele. Outside the arcade there would be the kids trying to sell you stolen bikes their recently shoplifted gains.

In the early 1990s a lot of communities called for arcades to be shut down due to the heavy gang presence. Newspapers published warnings about the big arcades in places like west Edmonton mall where teen girls were being lured by pimps.

But fuck were they ever a great time, even with all the Indians.

[Anonymous No.5081486]

>>5079142
>Dragons lair out of order
Fuck that was a common sight. The old laserdisc player was always broken.

[Anonymous No.5081635]

>>5080664

I'd have gone to more arcades as a teenager for the sheer novelty of it, but the Nintendo WIi satisfies most of the need for peripheral satisfaction, and I bet VR does much of the same.

Dave and Buster's is pretty cool, I walked into it once. It's nice to see them use relatively modern tech. In the early 00s, most arcades looked nowhere near as good as what Gamecube and PS2 were doing.

[Anonymous No.5082146]

>>5080346
>maybe if i call people underage they won't notice how retarded i am
Nah. It actually draws attention to you and suggests you're underage

[Anonymous No.5082567]

>>5079148
>late 90/very early 2000s
>the N64/PSX era
>goin to Costco in mah country
>Either playin N64 with GoldenEye or Cruisn USA
>Or Playin KI on SNES in a giant projection screen!
>or playing PSX sampler disc 7 and playing Tomba or Einheinder!

Memories.

[Anonymous No.5082693]

>>5062682
>29
>Underage

Bet you he's older than average on this board.

T. Born in 1996

[Anonymous No.5082704]

>>5076337
3 years after the arcade games release, and if I remember correctly it was based on the Saturn port so had much worse graphics than the arcade version.

[Anonymous No.5082717]

>>5082693

I doubt that. most people on this board are late 20s-early 30s

[Anonymous No.5082726]

>>5082717
lol the delusion

[Anonymous No.5082860]

>>5074562

it'll get better anon, but only if you take the first step, try to move to your own flat and youll get your own benefits and gov will pay up some of your rent, then apply as unemployed and theyll get you rehibilitation to get you back on your feet and finding a job

i know its normie shit but i was THIS close of becoming an eternal NEET but i managed to save myself from becoming fulltime sad shitposter, now i live on my own, work and get money for vidya

[Anonymous No.5084512]

I wish I could've gone to an arcade in their heyday. I only got to play Outrun at a highway restaurant once. My parents had to physically drag me away from it.

[babbage's gramps !RATGzMALLY No.5084550]

>>5082717
>>5082726
I spend a lot of time on this board and I wouldn't even speculate on the relative age demographics. There are definitely some people quite a bit older than I but there are also a lot of very young people too who are unfortunately met with such anger they pretend to be older which leads to the kind of "I'm not underage you're underage" bickering where a 19 year old will claim that 29 is too young to post here, as counterintuitive as that sounds I have no doubt it happens with great regularity.

[Anonymous No.5085098]

>>5084512
>My parents had to physically drag me away from it.

nigga how old were you?

[Anonymous No.5085128]

>>5085098
5 or maybe 6 years old. The only videogames I had seen before were NES games at the neighbors house.

[Anonymous No.5087220]

>>5085128
lol

[Anonymous No.5087262]

>>5067043
>>5072805
Not only in the big cities, in Spain in the 80s and 90s every tapas bar or cafe had an arcade cab, im from a city with a population of barely 130.000 and we had 5 different arcades with lots of machines, billards and ping pong tables, i played tons of arcades, time crisis 1 and 2 , the jurassic park lightgun game, all the house of the dead even the one with the shotguns, ninja assault, every tekken, street fighter, denjin makai, megaman power battles, almost every neogeo cps1 and 2 game, we had even japanesse games untranslated... was fun gathering with the usuals and talk about games and exchange console games I miss those days... now everyone of these is something like pic related

[Anonymous No.5089007]

This thread smells like larping

[Anonymous No.5089054]

anybody know of a good arcade near Minneapolis? All I can find are gay barcades

[babbage's gramps !RATGzMALLY No.5089127]

>>5089007
It's sad that relatively mundane human experience is unbelievable to you - and you're probably not even reading the unpruned version of the thread on the archive

[Anonymous No.5089142]

>>5060060
truthfully, they were free daycares for parents, give your kid 5 bucks and give or take your skill you could spend 5-6 hours, or blow it in minutes.

Also
>pedophiles
few incidents of grown men and 1 woman caught in my city trying to solicit kids.

[Anonymous No.5089171]

>>5060656
Well of course you wouldn't.

[babbage's gramps !RATGzMALLY No.5089213]

>>5089171
I very nearly chose "King Vidiot" when I decided to namefag. I wonder how the perception of me would be different.

[Anonymous No.5090907]

>>5089171
Anybody ever seen this movie?

[Anonymous No.5090926]

>>5089213
Not much, it only takes reading any if your /pol/ posts to figure out you're a braindead racist hillbilly fedora owner.
Also, actually caring about how you're perceived on an anonymous image board is antithetical to very notion of 4chan. But I've pointed this out to you before and you seem to take it as a point of pride.

[Anonymous No.5090995]

>>5060654
>They used to love the fighting games especially for whatever reason.
Unironically maybe they could relate to them more.

[Anonymous No.5091040]

Born in ‘85... first arcade game I remember was x-men. Also remember playing a shitload of games at the bowling alley or skating rink. Damn it was a lot better growing up then than now.

[Anonymous No.5091042]

>>5062578
There also wasn`t such a thing as murder, or rape in the Soviet Union.

[Anonymous No.5091051]

>>5089171
>Leif Green
>Jim Greenleaf
pot-themed pseudonyms?

[Dillweed No.5091137]

Here's a good example.
https://youtu.be/VJss6qOejCg?t=675

Best to start around 11:15, if 4chan doesn't accept time codes.

[Anonymous No.5091385]

>>5090907
yes. it's kind of shitty but i'm a sucker for joe don baker. also the guy on the poster looks like a shorter, fatter joe don baker and he just fucks with him the whole movie.

[Anonymous No.5091408]

>>5060732
there's like 10 arcades in and around denver

[Dillweed No.5091424]

>>5090907
Yeah, it's a slutty, shit movie. There are arcade games in it though. Even the incredibly rare STREAKING.

[babbage's gramps !RATGzMALLY No.5091727]

>>5090907
Only about ten times. It's great. Teen sex comedies are just the best.

>>5090926
"European" is not a race. In fact, one of my go-to phrases in this great nation is that "people of European heritage have a right to a cultural and ethnic identity" however there is something deeply and disastrously wrong with the current European mentality at both the microcosmic and macrocosmic levels. Something very bad is going to happen in Europe very soon and I'm sorry but I'm going to have very little sympathy for you when it does.

If you're just a coastie liberal though, I still care about you as a countryman and believe that you will come to see things more realistically when you grow out of your idealism. There will always be a place for you in our system though, even if you don't.

[Anonymous No.5092359]

>>5091424
Wait, that's REAL?!

[Anonymous No.5092381]

>>5063041
how dare someone make money off screaming kids and stoners

[Anonymous No.5092470]

>>5079142
>>5079140
>>5079138

Looks like it's set up in someone's basement.

[Anonymous No.5092529]

>>5062978
Reddit weirdo.

>>5060654
Duh, blacks and mexicans all love fighting games and they also commit most drug crime and crime in general.

[Dillweed No.5092532]

>>5092359
Oh, yes.

[Anonymous No.5092569]

>>5060654
>fighting game players commited more crimes
Wow, wonder why...

[Anonymous No.5094232]

>>5092470
It does, yeah. I wonder if that was some bar's back room or something.

[Anonymous No.5094241]

>>5079140
someone give the sim girl in red pants new orders, she isn't doing anything

[Anonymous No.5094318]

>>5060060
They're the only reason for me to get out nowadays, besides watching movies alone in a VIP cinema. It's mostly just music and racing games these days though.

[Anonymous No.5094325]

It’s unrelated but I feel like soon this is what people will say about movie theaters

[Anonymous No.5094532]

Going to hijack this on good grounds: in case you like anime then go a watch Highscore Girl. It is totally worth it for the arcade comfy feeling alone. Great watch right on the subject. Imho.

[Anonymous No.5094692]

>>5094532
The animation's not great, but it's a pretty solid show.
Hopefully someone will start translating the manga again.

[Anonymous No.5094752]

>>5079150
Looks like the old Delta attraction in Magic Kingdom at Disneyworld.

[Anonymous No.5094867]

>>5094752
I don't think that's it.

[Anonymous No.5097285]

What are /vr/'s favorite arcade games?

[Anonymous No.5097420]

>>5097285
Area 51
Point Blank
Alien vs. Predator
DDR
Police Academy
Simpsons
X-Men
all SHMUPS

[Anonymous No.5097447]

>>5097285

Outrun 2012 and Outrun 2 SP SE
Daytona
HOTD 1 & 2
Dark Escape
Cruisin USA
Dirty Drivin

[Anonymous No.5097886]

>>5061306
delaware?

[Anonymous No.5098926]

>>5097886
1 of paper=3 of coin

[Anonymous No.5098995]

they were degenerate hubs for gen xers to get VD.

[Anonymous No.5100005]

>>5061306
that's a good way to lose a finger

[Anonymous No.5100943]

>>5061787
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MmqNiFJyI28

[Anonymous No.5101068]

>>5079179
>gloves
>bare feet

Is this how life was back then?

[Anonymous No.5101320]

>>5091727
answer the part where your name is addressed

[babbage's gramps !RATGzMALLY No.5101359]

>>5101320
I'm not going to explain the role of the tripfag in chan culture to you. Lurk moar.

[Anonymous No.5101364]

>>5101359
the role of a trip is to be an obnoxious cunt. you're nobody special and you have no authority on this board whatsoever. the other anon is dead on about use of trip, just less insulting

[babbage's gramps !RATGzMALLY No.5101370]

>>5101364
You really hurt my feelings, Anon. I hope you're happy.

[Anonymous No.5101371]

>>5101370
thank you i am

[babbage's gramps !RATGzMALLY No.5101387]

>>5101371
Wow you're dumb.

[Anonymous No.5101672]

>>5101387
teh ironing

[Anonymous No.5103120]

>>5060060
There's a number of arcades still active where I live. Granted this is the UK so I'm not sure if this applies to the US or not.
1. They're a lot smaller than you think. Don't expect an entire warehouse full of machines unless it's a literal arcade museum like the OP pic.
2. Expect a lot of older stuff from the 50's and 60's. Coin drops, crane games, that sort of shit. They're the reason your grandmother keeps a giant jar full of coins.
3. Now this one is definitely only a UK thing, fucking fruit machines. They're like the British pachinko, and they're everywhere.
4. Dont expect a huge amount of activity around 'proper' game cabinets. Lightgun games are king. Followed by rhythm games. Then racing cockpits. Arcades are 99.9% about novelty.
5. Screen burn in. If you're expecting amazing crt image quality, prepare to be disappointed.
6. Ticket machines are great fun. Especially when they spit out a comical amount of tickets.
7. They were expensive, and were the haunts of rich kids. They still are expensive, probably worse now as new machines cost £2 a credit. Fucking Terminator Salvation.
8. If you had food or drink, you finished it outside the arcade. They could still stink of sweat, but it wasn't that bad.
9. Same goes for smoking. I'm sure there were some seedier arcades out there, but arcades were places for kids first and foremost
10. I never envied the attendants. They're not cool nerd types who lean on the machines giving tips, or setting machines on freeplay so they could get some practice in. They're just random retail workers who spend their time either counting tickets or cleaning up puke. Not a fun job.

All in all, I still think they have a place in modern society. My local arcade still gets new machines, even if they're arcade ports of mobile games these days. I wouldn't go there often myself, but they still make great places for a date, or a night out with mates when you're bored of pubs. Fuck the fruit machines though.

[Anonymous No.5103674]

>ywn play mario kart VR
Can't believe this shit only exists in like 3 video arcades in japan.

[Anonymous No.5105293]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4W3uctov8eo

Who else had an Aladdin's Castle? I just found out this was a chain and not just a local place.

[Anonymous No.5107243]

GIB ARACADE GF! GIB GIB GIV.

[Anonymous No.5107269]

UNF

[Anonymous No.5107271]

VINTAGE FASHION

[Anonymous No.5107521]

>>5103674
That's classic Nintendo. Have something that will be a wild success everywhere, and then sit on it and do nothing or severely limit supply for no real reason at all.

[Anonymous No.5108332]

>>5107521
Nintendo is so set in doing things a specific way all the time that they've become totally inflexible to the point of regularly missing huge opportunities for profit.

[Anonymous No.5108504]

>>5090907
Yeah, it's like a time capsule. "Bad" 80s movie that's still fun to watch. It would never pass in today's world, but it's kind of hilarious how common showing boob was in a rated R movie back then.

[Anonymous No.5108509]

>>5108332
They really are. I'm amazed at the opportunities they pass up to do the same old formula. Maybe they are scared to branch out too much after seeing what happened to their competition.

[Anonymous No.5109114]

>>5091408
Plenty of stuff to do downtown like smoking weed and getting drunk. Probably why they work out so well.

[Anonymous No.5109120]

>>5109114
arcade culture lives, lol

[Anonymous No.5109217]

>>5060517
I was that kid.

Now that I'm older I will bust your old ass up!

[Anonymous No.5109341]

>>5061217
Are you retarded? Anon said the sex/drugs/rager lifestyle had been pushed to private parties by the 90s. Anon did not say arcades were pushed out. Next time you plan on writing a block full of stupidity go back and read again.

[Anonymous No.5109764]

>>5107271
>denim EVERYTHING

that's one of those things with 0% chance of ever coming back in

[Anonymous No.5109921]

>>5062624
>blow your entire quarter jar in one night at the arcade
that's how. it helps if you're a good player, but I always lost so I had to put in quarters to play again. JUST

>>5060060
anyone know of good arcades where lots of people go nowadays?

[Anonymous No.5110112]

>>5060548
I bet they had some cool videogames at their house you shoulda gone with em

[Anonymous No.5110218]

>>5077220
Why would you want to hate on Barcades?
Other than the name being gay, it's literally a fucking arcade with the only difference being you can buy drinks. I don't get the hate.
The one where I live is $5 to get in and all the games are free, and they are constantly collecting new machines, with some being almost 40 years old but still working. It's fucking great man. They have some super old Nintendo machines that have OG Mario Bros. shit, I saw a 50 year old or so Japanese dude at one showing all these old games to his little kid, warmed my heart it was fucking great

[Anonymous No.5110230]

>>5089213
I hate all tripfaggots regardless of name

[Anonymous No.5110254]

>>5105293
We had one. I was born in 83 and we had the old shitty mall in the shitty part of town that had an Aladdin's Castle, and the newer mall that had a Time Out. I think the AC was a holdover from the seedy 80's arcade era, because it was older, had older machines and was smokey and really dark. I actually was kind of scary going there as a kid. I seem to remember all the decor was pink for some reason. You always had a vague feeling that you might get abducted/mugged/raped there.
The Time Out was great though, a lot of great childhood memories there. Total opposite of Aladdin's Castle, it was brightly lit with a more normal decor and you couldn't smoke in there, and they always had the latest games.

[Anonymous No.5110394]

>>5110218
>it's literally a fucking arcade

No, it's a BAR. It used to be the norm for bars to have arcade and/or pinball machines. This isn't "bringing arcades back", it's "bringing OLD SCHOOL BARS back".

[Anonymous No.5110714]

>>5110394
>>>5110218 (You)
>>it's literally a fucking arcade
>
>No, it's a BAR. It used to be the norm for bars to have arcade and/or pinball machines. This isn't "bringing arcades back", it's "bringing OLD SCHOOL BARS back".
Bullshit, I was around in the 90's and I never saw a bar with more than a few games. The local barcade has dozens, and no tables to sit down at, just a bar and games everywhere.
Are you really so offended by people around you drinking that you have to act like it's a bad concept?

[Anonymous No.5110736]

>>5060060
>>5060517
>little kids were cunts
Mostly because none of them had money, and whenever you just wanted to play a round of Metal Slug, some little faggot would go "can I be player 2?" and then they'd put their fucking hands on the player 2 stick and you'd have to break your attention away from the game to make sure they're not pressing the start button.
And you couldn't even kick the little shits.

[Anonymous No.5110962]

>>5060060
OP don't even get me started. From my Freshmen year of highschool to my Junior year of college me and my greasy headbanger friends would go out every fucking weekend and hit up that mile and a half stretch of Sunset Boulevard. There were arcades everywhere. I grew up in Ohio before my parents moved to LA and my only experience with vidya was the NES. It had some cool games. When I went cruzing and boozing with my friends and we went to the place a block away from the Whiskey and I saw Outrun for the first time, I was blown the fuck away. Arcades were the shit, underage drinking, burnt out stoners, headbangers, nerdy kids, a thick cloud of cigarette smoke. Cruzing from arcade to arcade, rock club to rock club, parking lot parties, fuck dude you could pick up bitches in the cruse scene man.
OP, I sincerely wish you could experience arcades just like we old fucks did back in the day. By the time Grunge, the Playstation and the N64 came around, arcades where I lived were dead. There were still some downtown that had good games, but the culture I fell in love with wasn't there.

[Anonymous No.5111002]

If you get a chance try going to something like California Extreme. It's a convention with hundreds of arcade and pinball machines and it's busy enough that you can get a bit of an idea of what arcades were like once upon a time.

[Anonymous No.5111019]

>>5062492

[Anonymous No.5111449]

>>5110714
>I was around in the 90's and I never saw a bar with more than a few games

>he thinks they were talking about the 90s

[Anonymous No.5111748]

>>5110714
>I was around in the 90's and I never saw a bar with more than a few games

No one said they ever had more than a few. Just that bars used to have arcade or pinball machines.

[Anonymous No.5111913]

>>5109764
Leather on leather was way cooler anyway,

[Anonymous No.5112520]

>>5107243

source? any info? i wanna buy my gf those heels for Christmas

[Anonymous No.5112541]

>>5110962

Geez man, buncha nerds just playin vidya in there? How long did that scene last, what years?

[Anonymous No.5112557]

>>5112541

I mean about the 90s arcade culture, what did it become? Did you phase out during the golden age and come back to see it changed, without seeing the transition? That's the hardest way to deal with time passing, anon

[Anonymous No.5113017]

Are there any multi-story arcades in America anymore? I know there used to be one in like Connecticut or wherever.

[babbage's gramps !RATGzMALLY No.5113268]

>>5112557
>>5112541
In 1991, Street Fighter II basically saved arcade culture single handedly but then the whole 90s was pretty much all about fighting games. Consoles got "good enuf" then so in the '00s it was about attraction style games with fancy gimmicks that were too big and/or expensive to have at home but were expensive for operators too with all that overhead now in the '10s it's more about nostalgia and/or getting back to basics

>>5113017
There used to be two in Columbus. a Sega Gameworks that closed and was resurrected by an investment vompany as something called KDB I think with stickers stuck over the Sega Logos (now closed) and Silver Ball on High Street, that building even has since been heavily converted into a theater

[Anonymous No.5113380]

cold war era was pure sex. space age technology,video games,the internet. i still don't know a game that feature the M60A2 starship.

[Anonymous No.5113975]

>>5113380
>that's actually real

huh

[Anonymous No.5114043]

i used to go to the arcade at the mall in the 80s, i was still pre-highschool i would wander the few hundred yards up the hill to the edge of the mall, it was situated next door to a rowdy bar and a chipshop, (there was also a church on its doorstep) but i will get back to that and wander in this dark place with a low neon glow that stank of beer, pot and glue, where shifty kids stood in dark corners smoking and playing fruit machines, i would normally have a £1 maybe 2 on me which was my allowance in the 80s lol but the games were 10p a play... i was eventually a regular face, and being "the kid" was looked after by a few of the older rogues, and dabbled in "petty crime" but anyway it had frogger, pacman, double dragon, golden axe, return of the jedi, rush'n'attack, operation wolf, shinobi, fantasy zone, a space harrier ride on set up, WWF. so many classics i cant remember.. eventually things like mortal kombat appeared, and the new wave of arcade cabinets around that time but it was never the same.. back to the church i was mentioning earlier outside the arcade.. once or twice a month there would be a wedding and the traditional scramble was thrown, the arcade would empty minutes before this, everybody would assume what they thought the best position was and it became a literal battle royal for loose change, many hands were trodden on, many skint knees and bust lips.. all for those elusive silver coins and more time in the arcade... was sad to see it go.. eventually the bar next door bought the arcade and knocked it through as an extension to the bar and create a lounge area... yer so that was me from like 7 years old

[Anonymous No.5114081]

bumpity bump

[Anonymous No.5114113]

>>5079148
>deluxe sit-down version with controls on the armrests like in the show
That game finally fucking makes sense now that I see this. I've only ever seen it in a stand-up cabinet, and in that configuration the warp button is off in the middle of the controls, where it's impossible to reach.

[Anonymous No.5114119]

>>5062492
Uh-umm...when I was in late elementary school my teacher used to call us all "preteens". Should I have been scared?

[Anonymous No.5115187]

>>5114113
Huh. Well, shit, I didn't even notice that until you pointed it out.

[Anonymous No.5115903]

>>5113380
t. LARPing zoomer

[Anonymous No.5116105]

>>5114043
>chipshop

What the fuck is this?

[Anonymous No.5116253]

>>5116105
Ironically it's a shop that sells, you guessed it, chips

[Anonymous No.5117375]

>>5116253
What the fuck are chips?

[Anonymous No.5117462]

>>5117375
im that guy from that post

chips are like fries but they a lot thicker cut and they are the main accompanyment of meals called "suppers" these can range anywhere from traditional battered or breaded fish, to a smoked sausage, to a bloodsausage, a mince or steak pie or even a haggis or a pizza, with the aforementioned chips.. everything being deepfried (occasionally an oven baked pizza) of course... they also sell a variety of icecreams and sodas and candy... some sell cigarettes.. a lot of places now do a variety of other takeaway style foods like a doner kebab or even pakora

[Anonymous No.5117472]

many chipshops especially in scotland are owned by italian immigrants/families of who came here during after the war

[Anonymous No.5117875]

>>5060060
How the fuck would I know? I'm not a boomer. I imagine they were basically dave and busters, but with more cocaine.

[Anonymous No.5119304]

[Anonymous No.5119534]

>>5060517
>By that I mean they would use cheap tricks in fighting games like using the obviuosly broken character and spam moves in fighting games

>being this mad you were beat up by a kid

[Anonymous No.5119580]

>>5117462
Sounds like what burgers call Steak Fries

[Anonymous No.5120429]

>>5119304
MORE OLD PHOTOS OF PEOPLE IN ARCADES! That's the best part of these threads!

[Anonymous No.5120440]

>>5060732
This looks neat. If I ever own an arcade, I'd do this, but every threshold would be a different year, like going through a time machine.

[Anonymous No.5120618]

>>5117375
They're the things that go under the fried fish to soak up the grease and vinegar. Or the things you put in the middle of a butty.

[Anonymous No.5121713]

>>5120440
That would be a long fucking entranceway.

[Anonymous No.5121740]

>>5111748
>Just that bars used to have arcade or pinball machines.
Looking way back, the very first pong machine was in a bar named " Andy Capp's Tavern". They chose it because the bar already had a good variety of pinball machines and a "computer space" game.

Things didn't become kid friendly until the late 1970s/early 80s and even then the bars and pool halls still represented a big part of the arcade and especially pinball industry. Home consoles were for the kids, the sketchy teens and drug dealers had their arcades, and the adults had their bars, bowling alleys and pool hall games.

[Anonymous No.5121748]

arcade machines in the home in the late 1970s and early 80s was also an ultimate symbol of wealth and luxury. The whos who of celebrities had them, and the TV show "silver spoon" was about a Richie rich kid, and his ad had a small collection of arcade machines because he had limitless wealth.

[Anonymous No.5121752]

>>5121748
This was the first appearance of the "home arcade".

[Anonymous No.5121753]

The best thing about arcades was going up to a machine like Simpsons and having a bunch of kids you didn’t know come up and join. No one really said anything, it was just kind of an understood brotherhood-type thing. Didn’t really matter who they were, in that moment you became friends of a sort. During certain parts of the game you might say something about the game, but otherwise it was just you and 3 others plus some spectators maybe.

[Anonymous No.5121762]

>>5121752
Different strokes 1982 season also added an arcade set to the TV show. it was the local arcade the kids hung out at. There where whole epsidoes dedicated to arcade shootouts and other drama around arcades at the time.

[Anonymous No.5121767]

>>5121762
Season 5 was the peak of the arcade episodes

[babbage's gramps !RATGzMALLY No.5122507]

>>5121762
>>5121767
The way Gary Coleman met his demise makes me sad.

[Anonymous No.5123350]

>>5122507
RIP my dude

[Anonymous No.5124193]

>>5121762
That actually sounds pretty fucking awesome.

[Anonymous No.5124306]

>>5124193
The arcade wasn't always portrayed well in that show. Soemtimes it was friendly competition or just a place for the neighborhood kids to hang out, other times issues like skipping school would tie into story lines. There may have been an episode where a criminal or drug dealer confronted the kids, an they did the responsible thing and told their parents. It's been yeas and I can't remember.

So 50% comfy arcade, 50% PSA warning kids about dangers of arcades. Typical for an early 80s sitcom.

[Anonymous No.5126330]

>>5121767
what the fuck is going on in that pic?

[Anonymous No.5126343]

>>5122507
babbages is a child molester. i happen to know this for a fact. how can i report him? i know it wouldnt be the first time on here.

[Anonymous No.5126712]

>>5122507
I heard he fell down the stairs. Didn't realize it was the stairs to your rape dungeon. You mistook him for a little boy or something?

[Anonymous No.5126910]

Any good arcade documentaries?

[Anonymous No.5127236]

>>5061306
niagara falls kahunaville?

[Anonymous No.5127247]

>>5061306
Fun fact, women love it when you do that too.

[Anonymous No.5127691]

When I was growing up, my parents used to take me and my sister camping in Grand Bend over the summers. There used to be a little arcade there (it’s title was actually Arcade), and they had the only Virtual-On cab I’ve ever seen. I hold that game and, consequently, that place responsible for getting me into both arcades and mecha.

Unfortunately, it closed sometime within the past decade, and to my knowledge the building is still vacant.

[Anonymous No.5127728]

>>5097285
Cyber Troopers
Metal Slug
Cannon Spike
SFII Turbo
SFIII: 3rd Strike
Children of the Atom
MKIII
Time Crisis II
Marvel v. Capcom

[Anonymous No.5127874]

>>5110736
this, holy shit. some kid slapped start when I had loaded a machine up and completely fucked me over. From then on I only loaded the games credit-by-credit

[Anonymous No.5127881]

Bump

[Anonymous No.5128583]

>>5127874
Yeah, anyone who put multiple credit in at once was practically asking to get screwed over.

[Anonymous No.5128668]

>>5100943
based and redpilled.

[Anonymous No.5130408]

>>5127691
So the camp grounds are still there, but they have some random empty building that no one uses?

[Anonymous No.5130568]

Am I mistaken in my impression that retro arcade games even in Akihabara are dying out?

[Anonymous No.5130579]

>>5130568
Crane games are their biggest business. As you go up from floor to floor they become less and less busy. When I was there in 2016 the gundam pod games were untocuhed, and on a row of kancole arcade machines only one autist was playing. The fake VLT poker machines and those coin pushers had more action than most of the arcade games did.

[Anonymous No.5131771]

Born in '89 and from my experience it has been interesting to see how arcades dwindled out. My mom worked at a skating rink when I was around 6-7 and my sister and I would sometimes preoccupy ourselves with whatever games they had. Then places like Walmart and Kmart had a small area with cabinets (Walmart having its own booth area near the front of the store while Kmart was out in the open by the entrances). Most noteworthy game I can remember was a translated DBZ Fighter in a Kmart.

Seemed like in this part of the US arcades took a massive dip or mostly disappearing between 2001-2015. There were still places like Chuck e Cheese but they started popping up again thanks to barcades. One place has been open since 2015 and is now opening their third location. So yeah, I think arcades still have a place in society but it might just be another fad catering to young adults. Who knows.

[Anonymous No.5133145]

>>5131771
>Then places like Walmart and Kmart had a small area with cabinets (Walmart having its own booth area near the front of the store while Kmart was out in the open by the entrances). Most noteworthy game I can remember was a translated DBZ Fighter in a Kmart.

What in the fuck?! I've NEVER seen arcade cabinets in Wal-Mart or Kmart, and I used to go to those places back in the 80s when arcade games were everywhere.

[babbage's gramps !RATGzMALLY No.5133152]

>>5133145
My Walmart literally has a Big Game Hunter cab in it right now. It's even part of a little "arcade" but literally every other thing is prize machines, a basketball shooter and a ride on for kids. Guaranteed that shit makes more money too. They used to have a Cruisin World in there but it gone.

[Anonymous No.5133216]

>>5060517
>By that I mean they would use cheap tricks in fighting games like using the obviuosly broken character and spam moves in fighting games

Like what, picking M. Bison in Champion Edition and spamming Psycho Crusher? Or are you just a pussy

[Anonymous No.5134026]

>>5133145
I remember them from the early 2000s, maybe 2006 at the latest. The Walmart was brand new at the time and that adcade spot was replaced with an optical center.

What really threw me off was the translation for the DBZ game (can't remember the title for the life of me). Hercule was Mr. Satan, cursing, stuff like that so I have no idea who handled that.

[Anonymous No.5134931]

>>5130579
Redemption machines in general make way more money than video games do in arcades and this has been the case for years.

[Anonymous No.5136314]

>>5121748
It cannot be overstated how COOL arcade games were seen as in the pre-crash era.

[Anonymous No.5137323]

/vr/, I give you the mother lode of arcade photos. It hasn't been updated in 4 years, and most of the photos were uploaded 9 fucking YEARS ago, but the fact remains that it has a TON of photographs from 1980s arcades. Almost all of which are taken by random people and not professional and/or staged stuff. Feel free to post anything you find in this thread.

https://www.flickr.com/groups/arcades/pool/

[Anonymous No.5138369]

Bump

[Anonymous No.5138431]

>>5119304
Oh shit I completely forgot about stool. I remember going to some arcade when I was really small and they didn't have a stool for me to stand on and I was really sad. I tried to play anyway using some horrible viewing angle where I couldn't see anything

[Anonymous No.5138472]

>>5137323
Good find. Makes me nostalgic to throw away endless quarters lol.

[Anonymous No.5139069]

>>5138431
Parents holding little kids up to play a game used to be very common in 80s arcades.

[Anonymous No.5139672]

>>5126910
Ive looked for this too. Surprised theres nothing really good.

Theres a few short ones but they looked shitty.

[Anonymous No.5139685]

>>5079179
Yes, and the teen girls weren't all fatties.

[Anonymous No.5139985]

>>5060060
bump

[Anonymous No.5140009]

>>5091385

[Anonymous No.5140060]

>>5139672
>>5126910
The best arcade videos on youtube are just footage from back in the day. If you search you can find old clips of people in arcades in the 80s. Fucking incredibly cool stuff.

[Anonymous No.5140592]

>>5074562
You could go to Sugoi.

[Anonymous No.5140612]

>>5061235
fuck u faggot

[Anonymous No.5140615]

>>5126343
Fact.

[Anonymous No.5141134]

[Anonymous No.5141150]

[Anonymous No.5141173]

[babbage's gramps !RATGzMALLY No.5141184]

>>5140612

[Anonymous No.5141319]

>>5060060
OP, it really depends on what period of gaming you're talking about.

Early early arcade machines were in dedicated third party arcades. They would be in malls and shit. Kids would go there to hang out in addtition to hanging out at the mall. There were also sketchier arcades, kind of like bars. Maybe People did drugs there, I don't know. I never got to go in those. I was like 3. Showbiz and mall arcades were what I got. This was around the time atari shit was huge, pre home console market death, pre nes.

Around the time of the end of the big days for Atari, and around the start of the big days of nintendo, arcade machine popularity peeked in my opinion. Probably around 86-91.

The thing is, its not even about the arcades when we talk about the popularity and cultural impact of arcade machines. No, its that around 86 to 91, arcade machines were everywhere. FUCKING EVERY WHERE. Pizza places had them, walmart, target, kmart had them up front, gas stations had them. God damn airports had them in the waiting area. Video stores had them. Every fucking place had them.

And this was before cellphones. Or the internet. So anytime you left the house, you might be surprised by some wonderful new game that you didn't know anything about. And there was a mystery when you played it. How far would you get on the money in your pocket? How much of the game would you get to see?

Then your parents would come, ready to leave, and you left. Perhaps never to see the game again. Gone in a puff of life smoke.

Mysterious exciting times.

Around 91/92 the fighting games hit. There was a culture around that. And Pizza hut was getting bigger. Smaller towns started getting them. And they usually had a MK2 cab.

Around 94/95 you started to see more polygon games. And big sit down cab games. And big screen shooting games. This was around when ticket games started to creep in too. This is probably also when arcades really started to die out.

[Anonymous No.5141329]

>>5141319
>This was around when ticket games started to creep in too.

I mean, there had been ticket games for a long time. At least like 85. But 32 bit period of home gaming is when you really started to see half a normal arcade be dedicated to ticket games. Before that, it was really only showbiz and chuckeecheese that had half a store dedicated to ticket games.

[Anonymous No.5141339]

On topic

http://www.ebaumsworld.com/videos/alan-a-video-junkie/81302474/

[Anonymous No.5141346]

>>5141150
>Vs nintendo machines

I only EVER saw the mario one on the wild in the 90s.

[Anonymous No.5141352]

Could someone tell me, or at least give me a good hint on where I can download the latest set of CHD files for MAME? I've been searching for days, and I was only able to find one 2 TB download which turned out to be just the LS CHD's. Not what I was looking for at all

[Anonymous No.5141381]

>>5072805
>You could play all thsoe games in all the big cities in Spain.

yeah, but you could play them in the middle of nowhere in the US and JP. Shit you could probably play them in small towns in the UK and Germany too.

[Anonymous No.5142327]

England had a great seaside arcade culture which helped to keep things alive for a while.

[Anonymous No.5142341]

>>5141352
Archive.org has them all

[Anonymous No.5143194]

>>5142327
What time frame are we talking about here?

[Anonymous No.5143247]

>>5141319
>Around 94/95 you started to see more polygon games. And big sit down cab games. And big screen shooting games. This was around when ticket games started to creep in too. This is probably also when arcades really started to die out.
How to tell if you're in an arcade that's been around since the 90s and can't afford to throw out their old machines:
>mid-90s fighting games, including at least one version of Tekken or Mortal Kombat
>a Neo-geo machine that barely works
>Jurassic Park: The Lost World, Star Trek Voyager, or House of the Dead 2 sit-down machines
>showcase cabs (pic related), usually running fighting games but sometimes running shooting games, beat-em-ups, or Gauntlet Legends
>some simulation game like Top Skater, Prop Cycle, Rapid River, or Wave Runner
>at least one version of House of the Dead, usually several if it's a bigger arcade
>those machines where you electrocute yourself
>either Cruis'n, SanFransisco Rush, or Sega Super GT (also Daytona USA, but even newer arcades have that)
>some non-DDR rhythm game they got to cash in on the late 90s/early 00s rhythm game craze, usually Drum Mania
It's always fun to find an arcade like that. You'd be surprised how many are still around.

[Anonymous No.5144060]

>>5143247
>>those machines where you electrocute yourself

Why do those exist?

[Anonymous No.5144308]

>>5061745
He's a special person

[Anonymous No.5144325]

>>5060060
It was both incredible and intimidating for a little kid. Certain machines were off limits, the older cool kids had a monopoly on those, you'd be forced to watch. You just tried to endear yourself to the older kids and sometimes they'd take a liking to you if you're funny or have some spunk. That was fun.

One thing I remember clearly was late at night, the area outside the arcade was similar to the area outside of an old run down bar. Older kids would hang out there near the entrance, maybe they were drinking maybe they were smoking, and your parents would tell you to stay away from that area. I remember a lot of times there would be fights around there and other weird stuff going on, especially on Mischief Night. It was a wild time, like the wild west. I wish I could go back.

[babbage's gramps !RATGzMALLY No.5144332]

>>5144308
I was being facetious. 80s style arcades were suffering badly by the end of the 80s and many were closed by 1992 when Street Fighter II saved the arcades and those that were still operational and wanted to remain so quickly transformed into what Anon probably meant by "90s arcades"

[Anonymous No.5144554]

>>5144060
Believe it or not, those things are among the oldest arcade games, from the same era as things like non-digital Skeeball. They just had a resurgence in the 90s for the same reason Warheads candy was popular.

[Anonymous No.5144563]

>>5141329
I remember differently. Most mall arcades I remember from 91-ish were already ticket arcades.

[Anonymous No.5145067]

>>5060060
youd go in and youd want to play a particular game, but someone else was always playing and then youd play something else but youd want to save quarters for the game you actually wanted to play, but then when you go back to it someone new is playing it.

[Anonymous No.5145887]

Are non-redemption arcade machines even still made outside of Japan (excluding pinball)?

[Anonymous No.5146015]

>>5145887
Yes, although Raw Thrills has a near-monopoly on ones produced in America. A few other companies, like Sega, still localize Japanese arcade games (House of the Dead: Scarlet Down just came out last month. I think every Dave and Busters location carries it).

[Anonymous No.5146707]

>>5146015
>(House of the Dead: Scarlet Down just came out last month. I think every Dave and Busters location carries it).

Well, shit. Looks like it's time to head to Dave and Busters.

[Anonymous No.5147457]

>>5140060
could you post some links please

[Anonymous No.5147747]

>>5144332
>Street Fighter II
>1992

[Anonymous No.5148170]

>>5092359
It’s Shoei, how are you surprised?

[Anonymous No.5148173]

>>5097285
Area 51, Time Crisis, Hydro Thunder, Galaga.

If an arcade doesn’t have at least one of those cabinets I’m walking out.

[Anonymous No.5148689]

>>5148170
What's the significance of Shoei?

[Anonymous No.5148715]

>>5148689
It’s Japanese is all. Or else they didn’t particularly care about western conventions.

[Anonymous No.5149479]

>>5146015
When the fuck is that getting a console port?

[Anonymous No.5149534]

>>5147747
>Street Fighter II
>1992
He isn't wrong. There was time lag back then between the release date and a game's peak. Despite a 1991 release SF2 mania peaked with champion edition in 1992. Vanilla SF2 did well but champion editions would literally cover an entire wall at the arcade.

"pac man fever" social craze was also late 81 and early 1982, despite the game arriving in arcades in 1980. The pac man cartoon aired in 1982 and that was when merchandise exploded.

[Anonymous No.5149749]

>>5133145
Got fazed out but at my local Walmart in Tx their was a cutout room with maybe 6-8 arcade machines. Standard shooters, two racing, and some pinball. Mostly kids would just go post up there with a couple quarters while the parents shopped or you’d sneak over to it while your parents checked out because they could still supervise you.

[Anonymous No.5149759]

Wish I could’ve seen the prime culture for a time, as fleeting as it sounds. Was born in mid 90s but whenever my dad sees a Pac-Man machine or Galaga he gets the goofiest smile and proceeds to play till he gets a high score. I remember Pac-Man specifically he knew all the tricks. Him and all my uncles, they’re total “normies” too

[Anonymous No.5150156]

>>5149479
Given that it took seven years for HotD4 to get a console port, probably like a decade.

[Anonymous No.5150168]

>>5144332
I remember SFII was a completely takeover of all arcades, I never saw one game so completely take over every single kid's attention and coins at such a level as SFII did, arcades might as well have had 50 SFII machines and nothing else, because nothing else was relevant once SFII got popular, every single kid at arcade was glued to either playing or watching SFII. Same thing happened with Mortal Kombat not long after. That was a total takeover. For anybody who played MTG growing up, it's similar to black summer with necropotence.

[Anonymous No.5150176]

>>5149479
Console ports of arcade games mostly stopped being a thing around the time arcades switched over to PC-based arcade boards. If you're lucky, Sega might toss it up on some digital store eventually or throw it into a "House of the Dead HD collection" some time in the 2020s.

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>>5150168

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>>5150263
That HAD to have been during a tournament. Over half the arcade is Street Fighter II machines!

[Anonymous No.5151269]

>>5150176
But WHY though? Why not put that shit on consoles? Why not put EVERY arcade game on consoles? Nintendo hasn't even ported Cruis'n Blast yet!

[Anonymous No.5151368]

>>5110218
i like the idea of barcades, but the reality of them is kind of depressing.
the biggest problem i have with those places is the hipster clientele; i hate hipsters because of how fake they are. those assholes are just glib facsimiles of real people, and barcades are crawling with them. this probably has more to do with my hatred of modern american culture, and what most people have become, than barcades themselves. whatever.

i guess i'm just an old curmudgeon now.

[Anonymous No.5151454]

>>5151269
Because then people stop playing it at the arcade.

[Anonymous No.5151461]

>>5151269
Dave and Busters were pretty adamant about bringing Pokken Tournament arcade to the west. The moment the WiiU port was announced, they suddenly became far less enthusiastic about the idea despite the location test doing well. Nowadays, arcades need as many customers as they can get. Drawing them with exclusive games is a hell of a lot easier than trying to talk them into playing games they can play at home.

[Anonymous No.5151871]

>>5076056
We had Neo Geo Lands in Finland.

[Anonymous No.5151926]

>>5150513
The extra crowd and the papers on the cabinet look like part of the tournament, but odds are good that was their normal amount of SF2 machines year round. Even here the local arcade downtown had 7 champion edition machines and I am in a small city. The traveling arcade that followed the fair had over a dozen SF2 machines (mix of champs and turbo). This was normal in 1992-1993.

[Anonymous No.5152208]

>>5151461
That's fucking bullshit.

[Anonymous No.5152461]

>>5076056
That's why European-exclusive arcade games don't exist, right?

Fuck off, idiot.

[Anonymous No.5153502]

>>5150263
So many Asians.

[Anonymous No.5153938]

>>5153502
Almost definitely a west coast arcade.

[Anonymous No.5154548]

>>5151926
That's completely insane to think of how HUGE that game was.

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>>5150176
http://www.emuline.org/topic/819-teknoparrot-loader-v180-arcade-pc/

[Anonymous No.5156618]

>>5156407
Yes, arcade games are based on PC hardware nowadays, so they're super easy to emulate. The biggest hurdle now is whether or not someone rips the data off the arcade machine. House of the Dead 5 could be ripped any time between now and years from now.

[Anonymous No.5156640]

>>5061306
>pumping it up until it cums credits
Teaching you valuable life skills while you exercise

[Anonymous No.5156650]

>>5084550
No one gives a shit, tripfag

[Anonymous No.5156672]

>>5076340
>Meanwhile, your parents would be doing whatever
Fucking. That would be fucking.

[Anonymous No.5156675]

>>5156402
this a rad shot

[Anonymous No.5156684]

>>5089213
A dumbfuck tripfag by any other name would post as shit

[babbage's gramps !RATGzMALLY No.5156742]

>>5156650
Really burned me five weeks later good job

[Anonymous No.5156751]

>>5060060
I want to know too.

[Anonymous No.5156756]

>>5156742
Go back to taking care of your illegitimate son.

[babbage's gramps !RATGzMALLY No.5156762]

>>5156756
Got two now. The baby looks just like the 5 year old looked and the 5 year old looks just like I did soooo... SHE'S FUCKING MY BROTHER THAT BITCH

[Anonymous No.5157016]

>>5063120
>perfect condition
>in a room filled with cigarette smoke
nope

[Anonymous No.5158217]

>>5142339

[Anonymous No.5159465]

What's the WORST arcade you ever went to? Is there a place worse than Chuck E. Cheese's?

[Anonymous No.5159673]

>>5159465
Remember When arcade in Wildwood. It's a shame, since the place was loaded with vintage arcade games from the pre-digital era. It's less an arcade and more the owner's personal collection that he was only very, very grudgingly lets other people play because he wants the money. I didn't personally get into any kind of confrontation with the owner, but he kept staring at me like he wanted me to hurry up and go. I know people who've been chased out for checking their phone while they're in there.

[Anonymous No.5160058]

>>5159673
>Remember When arcade in Wildwood

I looked this up and it LOOKS cool. Is the guy who owns it just a faggot? He looks like a faggot.

[Anonymous No.5160261]

>>5160058
To put things into perspective, the change machines were set to give you 3 quarters when you put a dollar in.

[Anonymous No.5160470]

>>5063120
Pinball Pete's in Ann Arbor is a solid retro-style arcade that's still truckin'. I'll never forgive them for starting to switch out the old CRT monitors for flatscreen displays, though.

[Anonymous No.5160490]

>>5160470
Pinball Pete's is one of those arcade that's legitimately survived that long. I know of a few others like it on the east coast, if you're into 90-style arcades. Fun World in Nashua, New Hampshire has to be seen to be believed. It has three floors. The first is all ticket games. The second is LOADED with deluxe machines like Top Skater, Prop Cycle, Wave Runner, Rapid River, a full-size Sega Rally, and loads of other similar games. The Initial D and Wangan Midnight machines still despence cards, even the Wangan 2. The top floor is where they keep DDR, Guitar Freaks, and various sports games like NBA Jam and shit. Photos do not do that place justice.

[Anonymous No.5160497]

>>5060654
>Females disappeared from arcades in the 90s.
>Females
?
Are you not allowed to say "women" for some reason?

[Anonymous No.5160504]

>>5160497

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>>5160261
WOW!

The guy that owns the place is literally jewish and that is the most jewish thing I've ever heard of.

[Anonymous No.5161940]

>>5160490
That sounds fucking amazing.

When was it founded?

[Anonymous No.5162181]

>>5161940
Just given the way the building looks, it's probably been around since the early 80s. It's hard to tell, since they obviously prioritized keeping the largest machines so most of the ones from before 94-ish had been rotated out. There are huge replacement monitors for games like Top Skater just sitting on the floor all over the place. It's really got a "we're a gigantic arcade and fun center in the middle of fucking nowhere, but we're getting by" vibe.

[Anonymous No.5162187]

>>5121762
>it was the local arcade the kids hung out at.
that and the bike shop owner's basement

[Anonymous No.5162858]

>>5162187
>the bike shop owner's basement

At best that sounds unnerving, and at worst it sounds like a euphemism.

[Anonymous No.5162879]

>>5060060
You know, it probably wasn't too different from the old "wild west" era of internet flash games. Where you never really knew what new games you'd stumble upon.

[Anonymous No.5163004]

>>5092359

Yes, real.
Also, shit Pac-Man clone.

[Anonymous No.5163715]

>>5162879
>the old "wild west" era of internet flash games

oh man that takes me back

[Anonymous No.5164083]

>>5162858
I wonder how many people had rape dungeons in their basement back then...

[Anonymous No.5164298]

>>5164083
You just don't find the same sort of enterprise and proactivity among young people of today, they play it safe and stay on the computer all day.

[Anonymous No.5165343]

Anybody here old enough to have gone to an "amusement center" from the days BEFORE video games?

[Anonymous No.5166232]

What was your favorite "deluxe" cabinet? Like those sit-down machines or the ones with bikes elaborate peripherals or walk-in cabinets or whatever?

[Anonymous No.5166353]

>>5166232
Top Skater is the one I put the most money into throughout the years. That and the Daytona games.

[Anonymous No.5166448]

>>5151368
>i guess i'm just an old curmudgeon now.
Yes, you are. That's why you need to be like me and find a bunch of other old curmudgeons to go play arcade games with you so you don't have to give a shit about being surrounded by hipsters.

[Anonymous No.5166765]

>>5166448
I'm surprised that "arcade meet-ups" never became a big thing.

[Anonymous No.5167060]

>>5156762
Cringy even for you

>>5164083
Tripfag did. But it was just the space under his bed and it was just small animals

>>5165343
I went to arcades before video games but never heard them called that

>>5166448
I guess that's one way to go but most of those guys I know are out of practice and have early onset parkinsons or whatever. I prefer playing with people who can at least try to keep up. Some of the teens who grew up during the "retro" fad aren't that bad. I know a few who can even give me a run for my money in some games. Never experienced that with the generation in between.

[Anonymous No.5167248]

>>5166765
There definitely are still arcade communities out there. The ones I know of are:
>The 40-50 year old score attack players leftover from the 80s. Nearly any arcade linked to Aurcade has droves of these guys.
>Pinball players, the ones that have the largest age spread. These guys are very, very active about organizing the local pinball community, so it often turns into something more akin to very large bowling league.
>The fighting game players. There are still circles out there that go to the arcade, if they have a local one that caters to their needs. Round1 has started to make these guys more active. These guys tend to be in their 30s, but there are a bunch of college kids mixed in with them.
>The rhythm game players who are, by far, the most tight-knit arcade community still out there. About half a decade younger than the fighting game players, but with a lot more youngblood among their ranks. As a group, these guys are, by far, the most hardcore arcade players out there. Owning 500 dollar controllers to practice at home is considered standard and a LOT of them own DDR machines in their basements.
>"Advantage Players", a bunch of faggot high school kids from Reddit trying to min-max their money-ticket ratio from Dave and Busters. If they lucky enough, they can sometimes break even, but usually don't. Avoid these guys.
>The few. The proud. The ones who still meet up to play Initial D and Wangan Midnight. Whether you have a group of these guys around depends entirely on whether you have an arcade that keeps these machines in good condition. Even v3 still has weekly groups in a lot of places.
>East coast competitive skeeball players. It's a big deal in some places.
>Drunk, nostalgia barcade kids who just want to socialize.
Am I forgetting any that still exist?

[Anonymous No.5168115]

As great as this thread is, I'd be even more interested in hearing stories about arcades in the 70s BEFORE "the height of their popularity". It seems like that era is almost NEVER discussed (and yes I'm aware that dedicated arcades weren't as much of a thing then).

[Anonymous No.5168206]

>>5150513
>>5151926
>>5154548
I had a fairly large-sized arcade in my area that lasted until just a few years ago. Like, warehouse-sized buildings. When SFII and MKII were at their height both games essentially took up a third of the entire floor space. Standard cabs, the then-newly introduced larger format screen ones with the separate control panel, and even a few custom-job CRT projector setups in their own mini-tent housing. By that last one I don't mean rear-projection like on larger SEGA cabs of the time, I mean full on large format screen

[Anonymous No.5168207]

>>5168115
That's assuming you'd be lucky enough for anyone in this thread to be 60 years old and have grown up near an arcade.

[Anonymous No.5168209]

>>5168206
>the then-newly introduced larger format screen ones with the separate control panel
The proper term for those is "Showcase cabinet". It's a term few people know outside of collecting circles.

[Anonymous No.5168774]

>>5168207
Fair point.

[Anonymous No.5169984]

>>5168209
This is actually interesting. Thanks for the info lol.

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>>5171786
Jilly's still has a Jr. Pac-man machine in the back that was probably in the arcade somewhere when this photo was taken. It's a shame it didn't make it into the picture.

[Anonymous No.5171834]

>>5171825
See? Right there in the back.

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>>5097285
Donkey Kong
Time Crisis II
Metal Slug
X-Men
Cruis'n USA
SF Rush
Strikers 1945

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[Anonymous No.5172695]

>>5172675
That article was from 1983, but it mentions the article from Time magazine about the previous defender high score champ.

Imagine having your photo in Time magazine just for having a high score in a video game.

[Anonymous No.5172701]

>>5172695
http://vgpavilion.com/mags/1982/01/time/games-that-people-play/

[Anonymous No.5172814]

>>5172701
>women view the games as black holes, soaking up male attention, and that even liberated wives are made nervous when their male protectors act like little boys

[Anonymous No.5173760]

>>5172695
>>5172675
These are GREAT fucking articles! Thanks for posting these.

[Anonymous No.5173792]

>>5060060
What is it with modern people being so ass backwards?

All I see everywhere on line these days is virtue signaling, holier than thou bullshit that would make the entirety of the 1950's roll it's collective eyes, "it was a different time" posting fucking everywhere about rings that happened less than a decade ago and god damned bone headed fucktards musing about the place of this and that in "modern society".
Not to mention how every fucking thing is a "culture" now.

Just shut the fuck up and stop being a retard.

Arcades still exist, they are businesses that attempt to make money off kids, couples and families looking to kill some time at the mall or strip mall. End of story.

There's no culture, there's no deeper meaning about the place of such things in modern culture, and there's no opertunity to look down your nose at someone for being a brutish, knuckle dragging primitive.

It's not that big of a deal you fucking dumbass. Go to a fucking mall and see for yourself.

/thread.

[Anonymous No.5174040]

>>5173792
Get over yourself, loser.

[Anonymous No.5175347]

>>5173792
Regardless of how this poster presented it, this post is still true.
>>5174040
The exact same sentence above goes for this post as well.

[Anonymous No.5175374]

>>5173792
>There's no culture, there's no deeper meaning about the place of such things in modern culture, and there's no opertunity to look down your nose at someone for being a brutish, knuckle dragging primitive.
I'd really like to see your reaction to something like CTF before they changed ownership.

[Anonymous No.5175382]

>>5173792
It's hip to be autistic

[Anonymous No.5175391]

>>5175382
No shit

[Anonymous No.5175401]

>>5175374
My online reactions generally build up until I get annoyed and rage/troll (depending on general mood and or topic)

Not to be a drunk dumbass (which I am, btw) but what the fuck is CTF? I'll gladly react to it if you enlighten me.

[Anonymous No.5175404]

>>5173792
>projecting about "holier than thou bullshit"
>having a complete and total misunderstanding of what "culture" is
>/threading yourself
What the fuck is your definition of "modern" anyways? Are the 1950's not modern enough to your limited view of history? What culture has "deeper meaning"? Is there an entire society where a population's every action whether fucking, eating, shitting, bartering, etc. was actually intended to be just an incredibly clever metaphor for something else that anthropologist have yet to decipher?
>>5175382
I don't even think it's autism, just genuine stupidity.

[Anonymous No.5175408]

>>5174040
Not invited to the hug circle eh?

Well here's a thought: everything I said is true. I'm sick and tired of every fucking thing being a "culture" and every fucking thing needing to be mused about (to death) (twice) by dumbasses with zero critical thinking skills.
Because anyone with said critical thinking skills wouldn't even give any of this shit a second thought beyond "it's fun".

If I offended you, I am sorry, believe it or not. But I'm not sorry because you feel bad. I'm sorry that your life is so worthless that a superficial freak out by an angry stranger on 4chan of all places is that important to you. As in: I feel sorry for you, you pathetic animal.

[Anonymous No.5175409]

>>5060060
In 20 years, will morons ask if movie theaters and walmarts have a place in modern society?

[Anonymous No.5175429]

>>5175408
>If I offended you, I am sorry, believe it or not. But I'm not sorry because you feel bad. I'm sorry that your life is so worthless that a superficial freak out by an angry stranger on 4chan of all places is that important to you. As in: I feel sorry for you, you pathetic animal.

[Anonymous No.5175437]

>>5175401
Chinatown Fair. Really ghetto-ass place in New York that was always loaded with really hardcore players. Up until 2012-ish, it was arguably the most famous arcade in the country because of how deeply ingrained it was in the fighting scene. Going in that place felt like walking into Fight Club.

[Anonymous No.5175905]

>>5175409
Both of those will still exist and you're an idiot if you think otherwise.

[Anonymous No.5176651]

>>5167248
>>East coast competitive skeeball players. It's a big deal in some places.

Huh. I did not realize this was even a thing.

[Anonymous No.5176829]

>>5176651
Oh yeah, especially in Ocean City. Nearly every arcade on the boardwalk (like 12 of them) has a daily skeeball tournament of some sort. Some places have actual tournaments, while others have raffles for money prizes that require a qualifying score to enter. The locals go to Jilly's and train on their 10 cent Skeeball machines.

[Anonymous No.5177197]

>>5167248
>>The 40-50 year old score attack players leftover from the 80s. Nearly any arcade linked to Aurcade has droves of these guys.
>Aurcade

Thanks for the heads up about this site. I had never even heard of it before.

[Anonymous No.5178893]

>>5167248
>>Pinball players, the ones that have the largest age spread. These guys are very, very active about organizing the local pinball community, so it often turns into something more akin to very large bowling league.

Huh. I love pinball, but I never realized the fanbase was this active or widespread.

[Anonymous No.5178902]

>>5150263
White shirt central

[Anonymous No.5180257]

>>5167248
>>The fighting game players. There are still circles out there that go to the arcade, if they have a local one that caters to their needs. Round1 has started to make these guys more active. These guys tend to be in their 30s, but there are a bunch of college kids mixed in with them.

It's weird how old the fighting game community has become.

[Anonymous No.5180328]

>>5180257
Nah, the fighting game community is still mostly college kids, but the vast majority play exclusively on console. At arcades, if you see anyone that age they're probably playing a newer series like BlazBlue. The veterans tend to stick to older series. The new Street Fighter games tend to draw a little bit of both.

[Anonymous No.5180394]

>>5060060
>Do arcade games have a place in modern society?

Arcades have been doing fine and surviving in Asia, especially in the far east and some parts in southeast asia. it's not really as widespread as they were before but they're still around

[Anonymous No.5181406]

>>5180394
They barely even get by in Japan anymore. The most profitable places there are all redemption machines.

[Anonymous No.5182429]

Living in Malaysia and i gotta say as far as i remember, arcades have been going strong during the 80s until the derby machines were installed in the 90s and got people real hooked (they cost real money to play than tokens) . This led to a decline in arcades in a lot of places in the cities where licensing which are supposedly applied to curb gambling machines hit game cabinets as well.

Despite this, some arcades are still operating today and they were crowded during the late 90s and the early 2000s. Most of them survive in department store however and our weeb PM managed to get some businesses with the japanese bringing in their big chain stores like Sogo and Jusco which happen to have arcades as practically a requirement. This is probably the reason why a lot of the arcade cabinets here are japanese or even japanese exclusive despite the words flashing "FOR SALE IN JAPAN ONLY" in those old CRTs. I guess they offload and imported the older cabinets that are more than 4 years old to be set up here then though, not always

[Anonymous No.5182883]

>>5182429
>derby machines

What is this?

[Anonymous No.5182991]

>>5079150
>>5094752
It's the "rainbow tunnel" that was in the ImageWorks (located upstairs, above the ride) in the original version of the "Journey Into Imagination" ride in EPCOT Center at Walt Disney World. The whole upstairs area was closed to guests in 2000 when the ride was changed to "Journey Into Your Imagination," though a newer (and significantly more lame) version of the ImageWorks opened downstairs.

[Anonymous No.5183845]

>>5182991
Interesting. Thanks for the info.

[Anonymous No.5183925]

>>5182883
King Derby. Gambling cabinets were unregulated back then so, they even end up in normal arcades

https://youtu.be/ehW9gX0TPNQ

[Anonymous No.5184375]

>>5183925
So there are, or were, arcades that are basically casinos in disguise, built entirely around machines like that?

[Anonymous No.5184423]

>>5162858
>he hasnt seen this episode
No euphemisms at all friend.

[Anonymous No.5184529]

>>5061484
Lol. Our local track and field cab got physically punished. If you smashed your knee into the front plate near the coin slot it would throw credits nearly every time.

[Anonymous No.5185073]

>>5060060
>>5060376
>>5060654
>>5178893
Do they still have a place in society?
No. They were only a stopgap for technology. Differences between modern arcade/comp games is almost nil. Its ogre.

Born in early 80s here, but imma going to say that the arcade experience in the early 90s was about the same as it was in the 80s.
>The big thing that drew all of your attention immediately was this thing...
THE TOKEN PUSHER... as a kid it was like the lottery if you could manage to get it to work. It was probably the first solid indoctrination to gamble, if you were poor and your family was poor you couldn't bother to even drop 1 token in it to try your luck. Because you probably only had like 5 bucks worth of tokens and that was precious for the limited time and games you could play there.
But that was the huge thing that drew attention at the arcade, kids' version of the slot machine.

The bigtime games that drew attention was stuff with a gun attached to it, and stuff you had to get inside to play. Also anything with Good Graphics for the time. Another thing is games that may have made a transition to NES or SNES but because of the arcade tech could be drawn in more detail with more colors... and in Arcade format the perspective on characters was usually somehow larger than it was on the console version. Im just going to rattle off some titles here that always ate my tokens:
> Some NBA game that got ported directly to Genesis and looks beautiful on CRT/RF.
> Terminator 2 (light gun game)
> Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2)
> Afterburner (of course)
> 1942 or 1943 I forget which
> Mrs Pac Man
As for the Experience?
It was better than the movies the parents might've went to see, leaving you babysat by your friends or brother at the arcade for 2 hours.
You didnt want to leave even if you ran out of tokens.

>>5173792
People tired of current culture and the lack of creativity in further expanding it (we've hit our limit) so they're forced to look to the past for answers.

[Anonymous No.5185103]

>>5185073
>>5141173
GFdamit... right in the feels.
Mere months after I had been born that picture was taken. I may cry.
> though im sure this picture may have been worthy of crying over, the sight of seeing your own arcade machine right there in the truck
> no longer will it eat your quarters, because you can get them all back again

>>5141319
As others mentioned a couple frenzy inducing games to panic spend tokens on to keep playing were Street Fighter 2 and Mortal Kombat. It was also confusing as heck and difficult to pull off doing combo moves even though the combinations were usually listed right there on the plaque for the game. Thats where you really ate through tokens because you'd really focus on trying to do some move and get your butt kicked because you wasnt paying attention to the normal gameplay, so you'd have to keep dumping tokens until you managed to get it right and incorporate that move into your skill set. Die before even getting the move off because you're not even looking at the screen. If you were poor like me and only had 2-5 bucks of tokens per visit because dad-just-doesnt-understand! then that could wipe you out before you even got a chance to get the move done properly.
Arcade Games started their downward spiral around 1998-2000 and it was mostly due to Playstation. Full stop end of story. Because many of the games that were being recycled year after year or had never moved from their spot for the last 5-10 years could now be played, or rivaled in quality by the PSone.
> N64 was really abit more cartoony than cinematic, but it helped drive PSone, so it did have its effect too if indirectly.
Destruction Derby, Tekkens, Resident Evils, Silent Hill, this shit was like having your own arcade machines.
> Pizza Hut
Yeahhh... I must have lost 10-15 bucks in quarters total playing that NBA game and 1942, with the smell of breadsticks and oregano in the air under dim light.
It was romance. As a kid it rivaled the experience of sex as an adult.

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>>5185103
Some more examples I remember from the old days was
> Pang - gotta prevent these balloons from hitting the ground or something like that, character shoots steel arrows up to pop them
> Aliens/Ripley game side scroller
> The Simpsons side scroller game which has a really fat guy wrestler at the end of the first level as a boss, almost undefeatable.
Remembered those from a laundromat, movie theater lobby, and a local yearly festival.

>>5173792
But seriously the thing that killed the Arcade was technology, at some point all of the technology catches up and there's a threshold for keeping people entertained. When the game quality is "good enough" then its not worth paying the extra expense or time to go out of your way for something a little more.

I dont see VR or Holographic Projections as being anything to write home about either. Its easy enough to get suspension of disbelief looking at the tv/monitor. If anything these experiences are just a trivial trinket - "oh thats neat" but it doesnt offer anything truly new in the content aspect. People arent into true realism. Nobody has gotten true edgy gore right anyway, and its abit too scary to watch.

Might just be my unjaded 90s eyes but for example some game made in 2008 can keep me entertained just as good as one made in 2017 if im playing it for the first time and its got enough content to it. I still let graphic issues or lack of realism pass as long as the overall mood is still appropriate and its not blatant polygonz.

Fruck... I still play F.E.A.R. even though ive got the maps memorized, games like that have the mood, and the visuals are "good enough", from screens and vids ive seen of Doom '16 im not more impressed with it than I was with Doom3. Im not really into multiplayer games, I prefer going against AI opponents who I have an inherent stat based advantage against, who have variety, and tie it in to some kind of plot or story.

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>>5173792
>>5175347
>>5175404
>>5185125
The main idea ive had to Expand on game culture is having much greater in-depth FPS games which are focused on Single Player WITHOUT the Open World architecture. But still go on for 100+ hours and keeps the short road to victory a secret.
Reuse of some assets, map blocks, changing colors on things or slapping new skins on them is okay as long as the behavior or setup is different. Just to keep the production time manageable and focus the size of the game on its maps.

Couple ideas I had that basically make you feel lost:
> Some FPS counter terrorist game
Where you get pushed around into an increasingly paranormal Fringe-like experience that goes nonstop for the character. They would have to be cut off and on their own for most of the time. Some cutscenes might involve the character resting or eating... but unlike a season of 24 it just keeps going on and on and becoming more psychological. Some open architecture is okay but no open-world shit. Send the player to other locations because they have to get there by car in time to prevent some FBI raid from getting put into a blender because his superiors arent listening to his crazy advice anymore.

> Some Silent Hill style game
Where the player might be occasionally jutted into alternate realities which they may or may not be able to find their way back from (or may be able to do either to progress the story). And then having to even switch between or be handed new characters to pass the torch with, and the longer they stay alive the more of these characters they have available to get to the end of the game. Done right it doesnt have to stay in the same locale, different item mechanics could change the game halfway through into a borderline Shump instead of survival horror, could end up having to face nightmarish former-dead-characters as bosses (so an incentive not to die).

By removing the freedom of absolute Open World sandbox it keeps you focused on moving forward.

[Anonymous No.5185239]

you guys have ANYTHING from the 90s?

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>>5113380
It's in the Wargame franchise of RTS games.

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>>5184375
sort of. granted, almost all of the arcades here nowadays run on tokens that you buy but can't exchange for actual money. This leads to a loophole where games like Ocean King Fish, which can be used for gambling, are instead repurposed to run on tokens instead of money. granted this didn't exactly stop people from hoarding tokens just to play this, especially old chinese people who visit these parts

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>>5185239
There's been plenty of discussion of 90s arcades in here.

[Anonymous No.5187653]

I need to go to bed because I'm supposed to be at work in 8 hours, but it'll be my Friday so please recommend me some good arcade games to try out via MAME, especially platformers and racing games but also beat-em-ups, shmups, and puzzle games.

[Anonymous No.5188265]

>>5187653
>platformers
Pig Out
>beat-em-ups
Denjin Makai
Guardians / Denjin Makai II
Gaia Crusaders
Sengoku 3
Ninja Baseball Bat Man
The Punisher
Battle Circuit
Cadillacs and Dinosaurs
Warriors of Fate
Alien vs. Predator
Armored Warriors
Captain Commando
Vendetta
Die Hard Arcade
Dynamite Cop
>shmups
Space Bomber
XEXEX
X-Multiply
Batsugun
In The Hunt
>puzzle games
Uo Poko

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>>5188265
Thanks! I deeply appreciate it.

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>>5188476
No problem. You want any more recommendations? I was mostly sticking to less obvious stuff (excluding the Capcom beat 'em ups).

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>>5189925
Sure. Any more puzzle games you can recommend, or platformers.

Ideally ones with endings rather than dozens of hours and a kill-screen. I want to pick something to try and 1cc.

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>>5189925
I'm gonna second his recommendation of Ninja Baseball Bat Man. It's one of the best early 90s Beat-em-ups out there, but it's a game most people outside of arcade nerds have ever played.

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My time in arcades was about 87-91. It was awesome, an absolutely fascinating experience for a kid 7-11 years old. Especially at the younger end, playing loud games with creepy themes in the dark was actually rather scary but in a good way.

My local arcade (pic related) was the major distributor of coinops in the region so their collection was HUGE, with a legacy of hundreds of games going back from the newest games at the time back to 70s games like Night Driver and pinball machines.

I don't remember the kids drinking alcohol and smoking everyone is talking about in this thread, that must have died off by the late 80s. My time was several years ahead of the early 80s arcade boom when teens would have seen arcades as hip. All those games from that boom were there though, as well as new games. Seeing Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles there for the first time blew my mind and was a triumphant experience compared to the first NES game.

I also remember the songs the jukebox would bump. Double Dragon was in the front right next to the jukebox and I have clear vivid nostalgia of playing it while this song was playing:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bzA6yO7BO10

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>>5175437
I was at Chinatown Fair once in 2001, good memories of playing Pump it Up with some dudes who were really nuts breakdancers.

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Went to a local bar/arcade today. I had fun overall, but Altered Beast ate my credit and I didn't get to play it.

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>>5189931
>puzzle
Magical Drop
Magical Drop 2
Magical Drop 3
Puzzle Bobble
Puzzle Bobble 2
Puzzle Bobble 3
Puzzle Bobble 4
Super Puzzle Fighter II Turbo
Money Puzzle Exchanger
Klax
Taisen Puzzle-Dama
Susume! Taisen Puzzle-Dama
>platformer
Snow Brothers
Bubble Bobble
Bubble Symphony
Bubble Memories - The Story of Bubble Bobble III
Strider
Osman
Black Tiger
Magic Sword
Blue's Journey
Spinmaster
>shmup/puzzle hybrids
Quarth
Twinkle Star Sprites

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>>5121762
>>5121767
I never thought I'd want to watch diffrent strokes again but sheeeit..

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>>5171790
badass camaro

[Anonymous No.5192153]

>>5172701
>Brazil’s laws forbid the importing of video games, so they are manufactured locally, and are given the necessary touch of international chic with such English names as Aster Action and Munch Man.

Can barely find anything on these games.. there does seem to be a game called Aster Action but it's a modern hentai game. Found this image, but not sure if it's the same thing. Would love to see more weirdo foreign video games.

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>>5192153
I'm betting Aster Action and Munch Man were just identical clones of Asteroids and Pac-Man but with changed title screens

[Anonymous No.5195152]

I just broke 100000 in Joust

[Anonymous No.5195412]

>>5079140
I imagine going to arcade on Friday night 10pm, hearing a whisper from the corner - "hey kid, wanna taste something good?" and then there's 60 year old guy with grey beard pants down sitting in one of the Outrun machines. "Sit next to me and I'll show you good time". You obey and sit and he pulls out a huge throbbing cock. "Take my stick". As you touch his cock he forces your head down and forces you to suck his cock. It's all dark and nobody can really see too well. It looks like someone is just playing the game. You suck until the old guy comes into your mouth. "Nicely done, good game".

This is how OPs childhood was and his love for arcades come from experiences like this. It all happened probably hundreds of times.

[Anonymous No.5195489]

>>5060732
So Dave n Buster's?

[Anonymous No.5195525]

>>5193681
Munchman is a TI-99 cartridge. It’s a pac man clone, and it’s called Munchman in America.

I have no idea what this game has to do with Brazil. Doubt it was even released there.

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>>5195152
Nice. Congratulations.

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>>5070032
He's right tho

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>>5192153
Doubt very much that's the same much man. Although I guess it's possible huefags might have put TIs with games in them in arcade cabs like other 3rd world shitholes do with PCs today.

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>>5198253
it's really sad when you realise all these children are no longer alive. simpler times.

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>>5198267
LEL
they would have forty something years, though.

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REMEMBER THESE?

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>>5198273
yes, that's true, life spans were much shorter in those days.

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>>5198267
It's really sad when people not old enough to do simple arithmetic brag about it on an 18+ board. Or they were all murdered in the back of that van?

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Who here would go to the arcades at the seaside in England? They were huge and full of smoke and dodgy gamblers

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>>5198280
>>5198285
>>5198287
I was born in 87 so not really but that's fucking dope.

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>>5113380
Not retro but Armored Warfare has it

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This is the best thread ever.