damn yo
i was in nifty fiftys and looking at the pacman machine like damn
20 yrs ago
the avg. nigga ain't even have a system
fam had to hop in the station wagon and drive like 20 miles to the local arcade to get his game on
then since each game was a quarter niggas took them games serious as shit, lol

the arcade been dead man
and it's a shame
i member my dad use to take me to the one in chelthenham mall in philly
niggas use to be in there going to war
shady niggas trying steal ur game and shit
or act like they wanna "help" u real quick
next thing u know that nigga brodied ur game from u, lmao
and when i was in grade school we went to local corner store arcades
GOT DAMN when SF2 came out man
shit was like a routine, right after school 30-40 niggas would make the trek to the corner store jawn called Geminis
long ass lines to get ur turn in a VS. game of SF2
and then the owner of Gemenis got smart and put a Neo Geo machine in there , i forgot the name of that fighter...but it was like some fake ass SF2
it had a dude that looked like Birdy from SF1 on there if anybody know what i'm talking bout
so all the garbage niggas or the niggas who didn't feel like waiting 20 min. for a chance to play SF2 played the neo geo jawn

imagine if we still had that culture yo
i guess the whole online thing is *kinda* trying recreate that
but it just ain't the same as standing up, facing an opponent u see, and using actual money to play each game
i bet half them niggas online talking shit a) are too young to remember how fierce arcade comp. was and b) wouldn't be talking shit like that in person wit 20 niggas in a circle behind them
plus in the arcade era, cats gained actual reps for their work on the sticks
i remember it was some asian kid wit anime bangs that use to merk niggas in SF2
it was too the point he'd be playing the computer sometimes cause niggas wasn't trying waste quarters against him

i think david and busters and them type spots tried to bring the arcade back
but those weren't really "arcade" games imo
just a bunch of fugazi .75-$2 racing games and shit
and it didn't have the same atmosphere in those places either
too many kids, and pizza and birthday parties and corny shit

shit i'm just ranting now, but older niggas know what i'm talking bout
lmao remember back in the day instead of niggas arguing about pc vs. mac
niggas would argue over SF2 vs. mortal kombat,lol
and most niggas picked SF2 obviously
but u always had some elitest ass niggas trying say mortal kombat was better and shit
and remember the jawn mortal kombat copied off of...PitFighter,lol
that shit was crazy

.

>imagine if we still had that culture yo
>i guess the whole online thing is *kinda* trying recreate
>that
>but it just ain't the same as standing up, facing an opponent
>u see, and using actual money to play each game

YEP.

>i bet half them niggas online talking shit a) are too young to
>remember how fierce arcade comp. was and b) wouldn't be
>talking shit like that in person wit 20 niggas in a circle
>behind them

NO FUCKING DOUBT.

>plus in the arcade era, cats gained actual reps for their work
>on the sticks
>i remember it was some asian kid wit anime bangs that use to
>merk niggas in SF2

The Doc just about died at this shit.
LOL @ anime bangs...

There used to be a mess of cats that we used to give names to, like "Ben Panced" and shit that used to be at the arcades all the time.

>it was too the point he'd be playing the computer sometimes
>cause niggas wasn't trying waste quarters against him
>
>i think david and busters and them type spots tried to bring
>the arcade back
>but those weren't really "arcade" games imo
>just a bunch of fugazi .75-$2 racing games and shit
>and it didn't have the same atmosphere in those places either
>too many kids, and pizza and birthday parties and corny shit
>
>shit i'm just ranting now, but older niggas know what i'm
>talking bout
>lmao remember back in the day instead of niggas arguing about
>pc vs. mac
>niggas would argue over SF2 vs. mortal kombat,lol
>and most niggas picked SF2 obviously
>but u always had some elitest ass niggas trying say mortal
>kombat was better and shit
>and remember the jawn mortal kombat copied off
>of...PitFighter,lol
>that shit was crazy

LOL!!!

On the real, when games like X-Men VS. Street Fighter came out on the Sega Saturn, and cats were buying $50 Saturns on clearance and that 4-in-1 cart so they could pay the shit, and especially after the Sega Dreamcast came out, the arcade scene quickly became moot.

After that, the same shit you played in the arcade could be played on a PS2 or XBox or whatever... and may even look better at the systems.

Other thing is, arcades kept stockin' wack ass shit in there. The Doc never played SFIII for real until it came out on Dreamcast.

caught up tho
for yrs there was NO CONTEST as far as the graphics
by like dreamcast it kinda had gotten closer and arcades were dying off

>caught up tho
>for yrs there was NO CONTEST as far as the graphics
>by like dreamcast it kinda had gotten closer and arcades were
>dying off

but by Dreamcast, and PS2 -- ish was already caught up or passed the arcade.

Some PS1 games (Tekken) were just about the same or better as the arcade.

>shady niggas trying steal ur game and shit
>or act like they wanna "help" u real quick
>next thing u know that nigga brodied ur game from u, lmao

next thing u know that nigga been on ur sticks for 5 minutes

after that it was "naw...lemme keep dying...I gotta learn to get better ".

deebo took my game.

even when i ran out of money to play, i just stood around and watch other folks play. one of the best memories i have playing videogames was playing Gauntlet II for 3 hours with a whole mess of different folks.

i remember when SFII Champ Ed. first came out, and folks were lining up and stacking quarters on the machine to go at it. even though it was competitive, shit was REAL civil and fun. i even remember shaking some an older guy's hand after a close fight. dude lost and turned to me and was like "THAT was a good match!"

i think i spent most of my childhood in an arcade lol.

4 player jawn
made ppl would be joining in and shit
i never played gaunlet at the arcade
shit is too hard imo

In Junior High we had a fire drill in the winter time one year, everyone standing outside, only it was during lunch hour. Everyone was waiting around to go back inside when someone decided to take off, yelling "school's canceled" like some kind of authority. About half of the school just followed the guy off the premises for the rest of the day, including me and my friends. Probably like 200 people all together.

We didn't want to get in shit, but we didn't want to go back to school either, so one of my friends gets on the phone with the deep "dad" voice asking about if it's canceled or not. The secretary said no, and that my friend's "son" should go right back to school. Instead, we took off to the mall and played that X-Men joint all afternoon. There were six of us, subbing in and shit. We played it til we beat it with stolen dough from my friend's family's milk money stash.

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Space Ace!!!!!!

I used to stand around that game forever. That jawn was a dollar to play so I couldn't get with it(too young)... But man those were the days.

Since reading up on VF5 and learning about why it, and many games just won't work online, I've been thinking about what happened to the arcade scene.

I've even been toying around with the idea of opening my own arcade and was planning on making a post here and at other gaming message boards asking if it was a feasible idea and what it would take to be sucessful.

So far, every message board I've gone to beat me to the punch with an arcade related post. I hope this is a sign that people want arcades to come back.

I completely agree with the shit talking thng too. One of the main reasons I could never fuck with Xbox Live like that is because of the random assholes who say shit online that would make Krammer say damn. I can't remember every being called nigger at an arcade.

I think if the game companies wanted to make it happen, and they joined with arcade owners to take certain steps, we could see the arcades make a comeback.

no body will come man, lol
like 3-4 jawns already have closed in philly
the jawn that use to be on 40th and walnut
and like the jawns on chestnut downtown
all gone
i think its still one on cottman ave., iono
mostly only d&b are the only arcades left in the whole fucking city man
maybe that jawn in cheltheham mall too, iono

I was reading about how much a Tekken 5 console costs. It's bananas. The machines are ridiculously expensive and it's hard to get a good ROI.

I want to point something out to you. Let's look at what are some of the hottest games in the arcades right now.

Tekken 5
Initial D
Virtual Fighter
DDR Supernova
House of the Dead

All these games require special cabinets, and Inital D and Tekken use those card reader things. A DDR machine used to be reasonable, but they upgraded the hardware and software with Supernova. And that's the thing with custom cabinets...they are usually only good for that one game and that's it.

It takes a while to make your money back with the exception of Ms. Pac Man and Marvel vs. Capcom 2. Those games are money makers all over, and relatively affordable. They also don't have custom cabinets like the games above.

shut up, hooker

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For one, I have no financial means to start any business at the moment. Hell fam, I got student loans to pay back. What I'm doing now is just starting the research part of my plan. It will probably be years before I'm ready to look into renting/buying space or buying any machines.


As for here, a lot of the arcades you mentioned were poorly run. I mean, I can't speak for all of em, but the one downtown on Chestnut always had machines on the fritz, sticks that weren't working, screens with crazy discoloration and all sorts of other problems. Not to mention the last time I went there, they had a ton of old games that nobody likes (not old classic like Pac-Man or Donkey Kong, but old trash). Other than the one at the mall, they weren't necessarily in places with a ton of people who would be likely to play games.

It's mostly old-school 80's games and shit like that though.

My gf lives not too far from there on 4th near Broadway.

It's a nice spot...just wish they had Street Fighter.

I got the #6 score on Q-Bert tho.

Awww man I remember the SF2 battles. My boy and I had some classics.
I remember when MK2 came out, we dropped like $5 each on it...trying out characters and moves. That was at Playland on 4Deuce (it's a bank now *sigh*). There used to be three arcades in the city that I used to hit up. Playland and their mini spin offs by West 50th.

This was like from 86 - 94. There also used to be two jawns in Penn Station called Space Shuttle. Woooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo. We used to cut school to play some games. That's where I first played Time Killer, Primal, and what's that fighting jawn Rare had out.

Remember when niggas made you play on the broken side? Like if one of the buttons didn't work, you be pissed if that was your favorite.

Remember when you first knocked that cheesing nigga, you were all in his face "Cheese now, nigga!"

Remember the first time you saw someone uppercut someone in the last round of MK in the Pit stage?

Remember when you first used the Force in the Star Wars vector game?

What about Space Ace and Dragon's Liar?


We are all dreamers...

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>We used to cut school to play
>some games. That's where I first played Time Killer, Primal,
>and what's that fighting jawn Rare had out.

shut up, hooker

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We are all dreamers...

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facing towards the left, lol
remember when niggas would try to hog up room on the machince
like putting they arm on the shit and what not
so you couldn't get off hard ass combos like tiger uppercut,etc

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R-Type, Vigilante, Final Fight. Those were the days. I really didn't even start getting away from arcades till around 2000. I was still a serious arcade gamer because of the competition. I'd leave campus after class in the afternoon and spend 3 to 4 hours a day gaming. My wife who was my girl at the time use to have to pull me away. Wild Tekken battles at Underground Atlanta. The owner of the arcade in the Undeground still to this day gives me free tokens whenever he or his wife is there because I got him so much business from running up rediculous streaks on the machines to the point that hordes of people would spend all their money trying to beat me in some Tekken.

We are all dreamers...

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We are all dreamers...

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used to love that game.

were the shit! especially when it was 4 of yall man those were the days. I remeber when SFII champion edition came out I first saw it at southlake mall in ATL and dudes was lined up for it. The funny thing is it was always some asian dude killing everybody. lol he knew all the combos for all the new characters already and the game just cam out the same day!

other classic arcade games:
MKII
simpsons arcade
operation wolf
termminator II
ace combat
out run
wrestlemania(1st joint with my man The Million Dollar Man Ted Debiase)
double dragon 1 & 2
narc
turtles in time
after burner

holllllllllllllllly crap i loved that game.

At the time, it was the most amazing thing I'd ever seen lol. Just the look and absurdity of it. I spent all of my money on that one and was devastated when it was time to leave. I hoped and prayed the game would show-up on the SNES...........and of course it did.

Plus, I swear the commentator is one of my favorite in-game voices ever. The way he would say "Ugly shot!" and "He's on fire!" never got old.

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I was going to the Underground Atlanta Arcade consistently up to 2000. Before that back in the 90s I was going to Dream Machine arcade in Boston near Chinatown every day after school.

they prolly just got SF2 down there

a lot of transplants from other states. Masters of games like Soul Calibur, Virtua Fighter, Tekken, Marvel vs Capcom, etc. Some nice gamers.

just like what you said, 20 or so people standing behind you waiting to get in on the action ready to play winner. Dudes would be there the minute it opened sitting in front of SF2 or MK machines ready to take on anybody (or hustle the fuck out of them for money)

it had all the hottest games back in the day! The one next to that Paramount theater, right? It had to be that spot. Sux there are basically no more arcade spots anywhere

Best Arcade BBall game since NBA Jam.

I used to play that shit at my brother Mahdi's store. That was a fun ass game man. I'm still trying to find a working rom for that shit to play on MAME. I remember the 3DO had a very similar game.

the only late generation arcade games I enjoyed....

i dropped a lot of quarters on that one.

I killed it on Dreamcast, too.

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SFII was that an event. You would have a crew looking for the one machine where the stick wasn't broken or one of the buttons didn't stick. Nothing like trying to play with Chun Li with a busted forward button.

There were like 5 of us that just wanted to fight each other. When there was someone on our machine we took that shit personal. If they beat one of us, the next man stepped up to body the dude. None of us used Ken or Ryu (we hated that short-jab-dragon punch shit people would do) and did out damndest to beat the shit out of them. My buddy would use Zan and scoop him up from 1/2 way across the screen and pile drive his ass. Great fun

A typical summer day was hit the mall, blow damn near all your money there, grab a pound of snickerdoodles from the cookie shop, go back to the crib and battle some more on the Genesis/SNES, depending on your preference. Mortal Kombat / Killer Instinct / Pit Fighter (wretch!)were shitted on.

Now I gotta go home and fire up that SFA Anthology for an hour or so

cheesey ppl used chun li or vega cause of the wall flip thing
truly skilled dudes could body u wit zangrief, borag, or dhalesim

>truly skilled dudes could body u wit zangrief, borag, or
>dhalesim

Borag? damn haahha

I was like 12 playing Mortal Kombat in the arcade with lines of like 30 dudes waitin, and if someone knew one of the fatalities and no one else knew, people would wild out and praise that dude. I remember makin so many old head friends, I was gettin into every R rated movie in the theaters back in those days.

"Either I'm one of the strongest people left ...
or y'all should stone me for even trying to steal breath" - Brother Ali


- B.

...no, fuck that... I remember the first time someone did a fatality in Mortal Kombat... daaaaaaaaamn.

--Maurice

All you heard was "OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOH SHIT! Do it again!"

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although there aren't many games worth mentioning there. Initial D, Capcom VS SNK 2, and Tekken 5. VF5 might be there now but i doubt it. There was nothing like being in an arcade back in the day though. It's even more exciting when you have so many people standing behind you watching and ready to jump in at any time. Nothing beats that tension.

> chelthenham mall
>in philly
>niggas use to be in there going to war
>shady niggas trying steal ur game and shit
>or act like they wanna "help" u real quick
>next thing u know that nigga brodied ur game from u, lmao
>and when i was in grade school we went to local corner store
>arcades
>GOT DAMN when SF2 came out man
>shit was like a routine, right after school 30-40 niggas would
>make the trek to the corner store jawn called Geminis
>long ass lines to get ur turn in a VS. game of SF2


lol.True story...Cheltenham mall arcade was the shit back in the mid & late 80's The corner stores around the way had some dope arcade games too.

....26 years ago was atari ...MAAAD people had that too

fall back suburb ass nigga

...

All times of the day, people are constantly in there - in Tokyo at least. Usually, the arcades are like half video gambling or whatever, so that helps with the ROI. When I say video gambling, I don't mean slots either, like they have horse racing and shit with a widescreen and big ass reclining chairs. I'll take some photos next time I'm around there.

They've also got a bunch of strategy type card-based games. I don't know a whole lot about them, but they're usually pretty busy.

Last year, this sick Gundam game came out. You sit in a capsule and the screen wraps around the front, almost 180 degrees. You control it with sticks and shit, they way you'd control a real Gundam (well, you know what I mean). There's two teams, a red team and a blue team, like Halo or whatever. It looks incredible, but I haven't played it yet.

I think the reason they've stayed successful in Japan is because people don't have as much of a hang up about playing games when they're older. Girls play too, all the time.

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> You control it with sticks and shit, the way you'd
>control a real Gundam (well, you know what I mean).

or are there some english jawns?

Yeah, like Skyezgrrl said, mostly Japanese. That's really the biggest thing stopping me from fucking with the Gundam; it's like 5 bucks to play and the controls are wild complicated and only written in Japanese. Most of the games are pretty simple though, except for the strategy type ones, so it doesn't really matter.

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I went to some bangin arcades in Akihabara(sp). I heard about that Gundam game your talking about. Actually the first time I played a gundam game was out there and that shit was hard as hell. It takes time just to master how to move that joint, let alone fight. Also I kinda like the way fighter games are set up in Japan. One person with his own machine against the opponent on the other side. You don't really see the person unless you want to. Shit is cool. Also you get more space that way.

Yeah, the fighters are set up way better. How long ago were you here? I know Skyezgrrl came over last year.

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I stayed in Tokyo most of the time. I went to Hakone for one day though. I will be back definetly.

I can't wait to see what it's like during cherry blossom season.

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...if you couldn't beat a level, let that new teamate do it....you can't beat a dude in SF2, do the same thing...

...shit, i remember back in the Showbiz days, they used to have sleepovers in that joint....all you DID was play games ALL FUCKIN NIGHT...damn them were the days...i don't even think such a thing would be viable now....

...i even remember wgen folks would have birthday parties at some arcades..


...i still find it hard to resist playin Ms Pac-Man or stuff like Pole Position when i see em....

I used to not eat lunch for a week, tell my moms im going to my friends house that saturday, and just spend 25$ at the fucking arcade(thats the same way I paid for alot of my SNES/PS games too lol)....but gotdamn, wasnt anything more satisfying than having a ton of tokens in your pocket.

I was never up on Marvel vs Capcom, but damn if we aint have some SERIOUS battles on Blitz...shit was just wild. I remember it would always be me and this other white cat, easily the top 2 there, and we'd have some ridiculous games, but then the winner would be forced to play the other scrubs in line while the other cat is waiting in line, fuming and pumping himself up, analyzing wtf he did wrong and what could have been.

However, i started out going to arcades as a young'n, just putting in some tokens on gems like P.O.W, wrestlefest, some shooting game where like aliens/goo type things would fly at you and splat on your screen(anyone remember that? at the start, some young girl gets kidnaped by some flying creature thing, duke was scary), we had this sick motorcycle simulation game, top gun was ILL, Virtua Fighter blew me away.....and then in the center would always be the big fighting games of that time....Primal, Killer Instinct, and then Xmen took over and then M v. C came in, I've never been solid at fighitng games but damn, I would just stand around and watch these cats for hours and be happy about it....I remember the asian cats would hold the stick in betwee their middle and pointer finger, just straight murking fools left and right lol.

Everytime we went to the mall, it always ended with a trip to the arcade. Theres still one in Valencia right by the movie theater, but its not nearly the same. Nowadays, all I really go to is Gameworks(sunrise specials, 20$ for 2 hours, we just share the card), still some relatively fun games, Time Crisis 2 is my fav plus I have the whole damn thing memorized lol.

Also, shoutout to the Excalibur and Circus Circus arcades...the former had the OG 5 player X-men game(yeh we beat it) and then the former's entire 2nd floor was just carnival games(my dad basically won an endless supply of Circus Circus coffee cups off that game where you gotta knock the 3 milk bottles off the stand thing with the pouch) and then the Simpsons Arcade game fam....gotdamn, I wish they brought that out on consoles.

Damn, I miss the arcades.

thats another corny david and buster type spot tho
for a minute that was real big in philly
like the hang out spot,etc

I was an arcade fiend. I've always toyed around with the idea of opening an arcade with as many classic games as I could round up, or at the very least, buying a house and having a mini-arcade in the basement.


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I was only seven or eight when SF2 came out so I'd get owned on that game. I remember there'd always be one cat that was whipping on errybody. He'd been there so long he had a seat. A seat. Some of you know what that means and some of you don't. Basically, if you had that seat you owned that machine.

But I spent all my quarters on those side-scrollers, though. X-Men....Ninja Turtles....even Sunset Riders. What do these kids know about that...

Not a damn thing.




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Good points bought up in here.

Esp a Black female?

I remember seeing this sister who was good at SF3 one time.

now that i think about it, i don't remember ANY girls EVER being in them spots

She used to play in Tekken tourneys

looking for us grrl gamers back then don't play

y'all only wanted fast ass little neon wearing sorta hootchies. My happy gay ass wasn't even on the radar. But then again I just wanted a cute little new edition button wearing grrl myself lmao
:)

She was a big girl though...

and The Doc was a little wary about the looks he got from her (this was back when The Doc looked like Angelo Lite or like the avatar), especially when he mentioned he was up on them Saturn versions of those games.

But dawg.

When Slacksoff was in the spot, that mugfucker would be whoopin' our asses each and every time. We learned the art of "punishment" (looking for frames where someone is "open" after throwing out a special move and /or super move) and run in there and combo the hell outta them.

Always, always on the Capcom machines, whoopin' ass. She and this other dude who played the command throw characters like Zangief.

Next to Ben Panced and his Easy Mode cheese, Slacksoff wasn't the one The Doc wanted to run into.

The popular ones so more people could crowd around and see it better.

in the center of the arcade, big ole screens......once MvC came out, it never left that center area.

I know some cats down here go to the arcade at the bowling alley and play Marvel and CVS2. The thing to me that did in arcades was when they started porting fighters to home consoles. People would rather stay home than go to the arcade and spend .50. I really don't understand why companies did that besides making money. I mean 95% of fighting games that come out on home consoles are not arcade perfect. I've seen dumb ass people go to tourneys trying to do some glitch shit that they can do at home get they're asses handed to them b/c they didn't realize that bullshit is not in the original game. As big as a following Capcom has with Street Fighter they just said fuck ya'll we're going to get this Devil May Cry, Resident Evil money.

was to go to the arcades. Yes gotdamn it I am just that effing nerdy :)

and I had fun and will go back. I do enjoy Dave and Buster's though. I wish I could go back to the Shakey's Pizza on PCH in Long Beach in the late 70's early 80's they had the best games and pizza.

Um and there's a Shakey's pizza in Harajuku. I didn't get to go in but I had some serious nostalgia. :)

I wish Malls still had game rooms, because my happy ass would be there.

I remember fondly the days of saving quarters or buying a roll from the bank- or rather mom getting me a roll of quarters. Hell my new Schwinn bike was stolen as I played Donkey Kong with said roll of quarters.

I think those of us that are old school gamers have a fondness for arcades that these younger cats will never know.

The chance to put up your initials ~ was the top of the world
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gotta love it. There's actually a place in Williamsburg Brooklyn called Barcade that is a pretty big bar with about 15 or 20 old school games. They have stuff like Donkey Kong, Punch Out, Joust, Out Run and they are all 25cents.

I used to play that shit all the time. I used to search for that 3-eyed fish, trying to get to that shit first.

Konami was KING of them four player games.

That Simpsons game was as dope as TMNT... which might be the 4-player arcade side scroller GOAT

n/m

Xmen(albeit only 3 players, not the original version), Ninja Turtles, and a grip of other old school games(no simpsons though which fucking sucks).

Asian kids owned everyone.

>i remember it was some asian kid wit anime bangs that use to
>merk niggas in SF2
>it was too the point he'd be playing the computer sometimes
>cause niggas wasn't trying waste quarters against him

I only saw this is one spot. This was back in England on Alconbury Air Base (94-ish)....

They had a Street Fighter II in the bowling alley where (for example):

Ryu/Ken could throw as many fire balls at once as you wanted. They would move reeeeal slow, come out 2 at a time, and you could do them in mid-air. You could literally fill the screen w/ 14-20 fireballs at a time (they would flicker like crazy, tho.....too much to compute lol). Fireballs also came out when they did hurricane kicks.

And the dragon punch would extend across the entire screen.

E-Honda would throw fireballs (like Ken/Ryu) when you did the 100-hand slap.....

The game moved EXTRA fast (when the screen wasn't filled w/ fireballs...)...

You didn't have to "charge" back to throw sonic booms, Bison's torpedo, etc....(kinda like being the computer in 1-player games lol)

Every character could throw fireballs (and fill up the screen) and you could do their special moves in mid-air (even if it logically shouldn't be possible).









Interestingly, that SF 2 cabinet was only there for a couple of weeks and then it was permanently removed................


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"I don't like the beat anymore because its just a loop. ALC didn't FLIP IT ENOUGH"

Flip it enough? Flip these. Flip off. Go flip some f*cking burgers. (c) Kno

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And cap it off w/ the flash kick.

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Flip it enough? Flip these. Flip off. Go flip some f*cking burgers. (c) Kno

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...The flashkick was completely unnecessary but you threw it in just to break up the monotony of 375 sonic booms

.

when Sub Zero froze you in that game, your character would start to float up in the air a little (the animation looked like you were getting uppercutted in super-slow motion).

by doing things i thought the game wouldn't understand

with dhalsim, you could yoga fire in mid-air and jump immediately after the animation finished. if you continually jump-yoga fire-jump'ed you could actually 'climb' up and off the top of the screen. if you kept at it for a while you could eventually circumvent space and time and appear at the bottom of the screen and keep going 'up.' if you stopped doing anything, the character would fall through the bottom of the screen, then the top of the screen and land on the ground. the thing is, the yoga fires would still hit the opponent. the opponent was helpless because dhalsim was technically one screen 'up' and therefore untouchable

that trick worked with zangief (spinning lariat) and blanka (electricity) too. one of my fondest memories is playing a zangief v blanka match with a friend and jump-special-jump'ing both characters 5 screens 'up.' through some divine intervention he was able to land the greatest spinning piledriver EVER that lasted for 3 entire seconds in all its multiple-screen-passing-through glory

p.s. i hope this makes sense because i'm not sure i can describe it any better, haha

>by doing things i thought the game wouldn't understand
>
>with dhalsim, you could yoga fire in mid-air and jump
>immediately after the animation finished. if you continually
>jump-yoga fire-jump'ed you could actually 'climb' up and off
>the top of the screen. if you kept at it for a while you
>could eventually circumvent space and time and appear at the
>bottom of the screen and keep going 'up.' if you stopped
>doing anything, the character would fall through the bottom of
>the screen, then the top of the screen and land on the ground.
> the thing is, the yoga fires would still hit the opponent.
>the opponent was helpless because dhalsim was technically one
>screen 'up' and therefore untouchable
>
>that trick worked with zangief (spinning lariat) and blanka
>(electricity) too. one of my fondest memories is playing a
>zangief v blanka match with a friend and jump-special-jump'ing
>both characters 5 screens 'up.' through some divine
>intervention he was able to land the greatest spinning
>piledriver EVER that lasted for 3 entire seconds in all its
>multiple-screen-passing-through glory
>
>p.s. i hope this makes sense because i'm not sure i can
>describe it any better, haha


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sadly imo this is when SF2 started to fall off
it was like they were just reaching too hard to make new versions of the game

or Black Belt. Those were regular versions of the game where the machines simply had some sort of debug mode enabled. Basically you can do it with any Championship edition machine; simply set the switches to the correct settings and there you go.

In fact, the Sonic The Hedgehog games had such a mode on Sega. You could just create all kinds of shit and build a new level on top of the one you're playing and everything.

Anyhow I remember reading on a website years ago (like, early 00's and shit) that those versions of the machine were frowned upon by Capcom and that's why the Hyper Fighting version was created.

i'm next.

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>i bet half them niggas online talking shit a) are too young to
>remember how fierce arcade comp. was and b) wouldn't be
>talking shit like that in person wit 20 niggas in a circle
>behind them

Captain America and the Avengers
Afterburner
X-Men
The Simpsons
Metal Slug
Virtual On
Super GT

I remember I went to Disneyworld in elementary school and they had the fucking 18 person Daytona USA joint...I will still throw money into an old Model 2 cabinet to hear "Sky High"

that and Sega Rally (or the ever rare Sega Rally 2)

Sega had the arcade on lock back then, they are probably the GOAT arcade company

SF2 was too intense for me; I'd wait in line and then get my shit fucked up in like 30 seconds

later when I got my SNES I'd be practicing at home and shit but I couldn't get the moves down on the joystick

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It was like 4 bikes on nice ass screens, that game was so ill.

We were constantly on Captain America as well.

Hands down the funnest wrestling arcade game, imo 2nd all time to Revenge/Wrestlemania/No Mercy(basically the N64 THQ joints).....the dopest cast of characters, great graphics, specials were on point, the interview before the match???? lmao, plus that joint was only a quarter.

...now THAT is the goat all time wrestling game

its been around forever(although it moved once).

a year ago me and a friend got bored and said fuck it lets game. the machines they had were the exact same ones we used to play on over 10 years ago.

lots of wack play for ticket games too. infact 70 percent of the games were play for ticket type games.

i like the idea of dave and busters. a bar in the middle of an arcade? thats gotta get interesting at night. i went once at the palasades(sp) mall but the fuckin system was down and all we could do was drink....and drink i did.

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(it's worksafe, but has links to non-worksafe shit so don't click on any of that if you're at the job)

Is that what it sounds like?



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Bongs, papers, shit like that along with related art/decor nick-knack type shit. Damn shame it ain't literal though.

I think that Microsoft especially could almost single handedly create an arcade renaissance if they incorporated their Xbox Live functionality into arcade cabinets.

Imagine if you could take your Xbox 360 memory unit, pop it in an arcade machine, and have whatever you do at the arcade (win/loss records, high scores, customized characters, etc.) go with you. You pop the memory unit in the machine and instead of seeing a generic high score list for the machine, you get additional leader boards just like on 360.

Let gamers earn achievement points by playing games at the arcade and you’d have the gamerscore whores in there instantly. For Microsoft, it could boost brand awareness as well as garner more interest from Japanese developers (pretty much the only people making arcade games nowadays).

I think this would also help with MS’ idea of a download only future for software. If everything’s download only, specialty game retail stores aren’t gonna last too long and companies are gonna need places where consumers can see what games are looking like. I think something like that would be a good way to keep games visible to Joe-public.

(That jawn on 40th & Spruce for all the Philly heads)

It seemed pretty cool. I only played the SFIII 3rd Strike machine (tried to beat the game on $5), but it seemed like a nice enough place. Shit stays open pretty late, too...til 12am Mon-Wed, and til 2am Thurs - Fri.

But right now, Dave and Busters LOST cause they took the jawn with all the SF2 games out. North Bowl, too.

:(

What is an arcade without a Street Fighter game of some sort?

It wasn't THAT bad when I went, plus that SFIII they had in there was nice. The buttons were really snappy and the stick felt great (nh).

Cats from the Shoryuken boards are having a tourny there on saturday:

http://forums.shoryuken.com/showthread.php?t=145020

wtf

gets pooled and paid out to the winner in the form of prize money and the $3 is just the entrance fee.

Normally the games are only 50 cent.

That Sega Joypolis is an amazing piece of work. I could have spent days there.

It's awesome

Dee

first time snuck into r rated movie, first alcohol experience, first drug experience, first cigarette, first time walking 5 miles cause moms refused to pick you up, reason for skipping school the first time...

I used to live on Mortal Kombat 2 religiously, like... there'd be 20 quarters lined up on the front monitor, people used to mark theres with colored tape did prove where they were in line, and I used to be mad as hell when I lost, waiting like an hour to get back on

good times


"Dancing with the Devil leading/
I won't die, I'm never leaving/
I pledge allegiance to forever breathing"

Family Arcade on Vermont in Los Angeles, across the street from LACC. Every now and then, my friends and I blaze up and head over there. They still have a deal, 5 tokens for $1 (if you get the gold token from the dispenser, you get like 500 free tokens..... in my damn near 2 decades of going there, I have NEVER received the gold token). I remember when the SFII Champion Edition came out, they had a whole wall stacked with like 10 machines. And every single one of them had a gang of fools waiting for a game. When I go there now, I'm all about Point Blank, OutRun, and fucking PINBALL! Earthshaker, stand up! They have Billiards and Air hockey too when my friends and I get tired of video games. Also, there used to be an arcade next to it called College Arcade where you could get 6 tokens for $1 AND they had Gal's Panic which was awesome to all teenage dudes everywhere. College Arcade felt like the "real gamer" spot whereas Family Arcade felt like the "Chuck E Cheese" spot. It was a sad day when they closed College arcade.

There's also an Arcade on the Redondo Beach boardwalk with carnival rides and skee ball and shit. They have a bunch of old school games like R-type, Cabal, Operation Wolf, Narc, etc. in addition to your DDRs and racing games and such. That's a little too far from where I am to go often, but when I do, it's always a fun time.

Back in the day, My buddies and I would get our SFII fix at video shops and our pinball fix in car washes. There's a car wash right next to my old elementary school that used to have an ill little selection of pinball games like High Speed, Cyclone, PinBot, etc. Good times in those days.

Man, reading all those stories made me nostalgic, lol. Funny how even though OKPs are all over the country, we all had similar stories (asian kids owning everybody, fools stealing your game, beating the "cheeser", the debut of a hot game, etc).

Man, with the Guncon3 that it comes with, I'm reliving the that nostalgic arcade experience with this game. Its getting bad reviews but, shit, I don't think the critics get the arcade-like appeal to games like this.

I used to LOVE Crazy Taxi and other little simple shit like that.

cops was hanging around and taking pictures of cats coming and going. crackheads all over the place. first time a cop asked me questions, was the last time i ever went.

i don't have a problem with D&B or Jillians or spots like that. but more and more console spots are opening up. i remember the first time i went to a store and dude had NES and Genesis games and TV's everywhere i was like, "what!!!". there was one SF2 machine in the back but that was it. that was the end of the acrcade as i remember it.

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now that was the truth !!!

they had that in a local takeaway place and it was the single arcade game in there and it had lines of people wanting to play

everyone went there

we played "winner stays on" sometimes people were on there for hours if they had the money

that was one of the best arcade games

LONG article, but fucking great. No swipe though, too damn long

http://www.theverge.com/2013/1/16/3740422/the-life-and-death-of-the-american-arcade-for-amusement-only

that was my shit.

It can get very addictive.

beast at Gemini's
well we found each other on fb lol
but yea dude is like some major tourney fight head, magneto halfway
iono if he's known or whatever but apparently he's one of the best fight heads out

I grew up in L.A. and remember the arcade at the Santa Monica pier(I saw Space Invaders there for the first time) . The places I played at were Westworld in Marina Del Rey and Westwood; UCLA bowling alley; various bowling alleys; an old school spot in Marina Del Rey where Gary Coleman worked(!); miniature golfing/go-kart parks; and liquor stores/7-11's. Then when I came up to NorCal for school, then it was the Underground at Cal and an upstairs spot off of Durant and Telegraph.

Westworld was amazing, but freaking expensive. Really clean and all of their machines were always in great condition. They would get the latest games, but they would charge 50-75 cents for some of the newer, exclusive games. Also, they turned the difficulty way up on most of the games too, so folks had to drop more quarters in. Looking back , they must have been paying a fortune in rent for those spots, hence they why they were the first with charging more for games. Unfortunately, shootings and fights doomed both locations even after getting security guards.

Now the only arcades I know of are at amusement parks, some bowling alleys, and large piers like Santa Monica or Santa Cruz. There is a cool pinball museum in Alameda where you can pay a flat fee and play for a couple of hours. You can also BYOB on Friday and Saturday nights.

My games:
Heavy Barrel
Ikari Warriors
I, Robot
Golden Axe
Double Dragon
Ring King
Nintendo vs. Baseball
Cyberball
Star Castle
Tempest

I liked Gauntlet at first, but quickly realized how much of a quarter dump it was. I stopped playing any game where your life meter drains and you are constantly looking for food/energy.

Like vertical scrolling shooting games(1942-->Raiden), but had to stop. Too damn stressful with all the shit coming at you.

That Verge article on the death of arcades is amazing. Unfortunately, arcades will never come back as they once were. Either they will be retro adult spots like Barcade or they will be places with redemptive prize games and a few old school video games in a back room.

one in Philly and soon to be in DC. not sure if they are the same company but mostly 80s early 90s games. NYC has one as well. Vegas has a few places like this.

And I've been to the one in Philly a few times since they opened it.

It's nice for old school stuff and their selection of craft beer is pretty damn good.

No dance-dance bullshit.
No Shoot The Aliens/Zombies/Terrorists 5 bullshit.
NO Cruisin USA/World/Mars/Whateverthefuck
Sorry Daytona and GT.
Sorry guys, no galaga or any of that shit.

Just fucking ROWS of the classic fighters and MAYBE a few old standards like skee ball and shit. Maybe.

SF2-4AE, Alpha 1/2/3
All the MK's
Tekken
Virtua Fighters
Primal Rage
Killer Instinct
DOA
Soul Edge/Blade/Calibur

Shit would be a KOF wet dream with every last iteration. FF..... not so much, perhaps Garou MOTW but the early games, meh... I guess people like them though. I'm a sucker for Rock so every game he's in is in. AOF too, I guess, though those games were way too fucking hard.

Samurai Showdown 1-6.
Dark Stalkers

Everything would be a fucking quarter too, none of this 50 cents/dollar bullshit. Arcade games should always cost a fucking quarter gawdammnit.

Maybe I'd need to be more selective because that's an awful lot of machines, but I'm betting a lot of 30-40 year olds with money to burn in a metro area will fork over some dough at a joint like that, especially when they want to put their sons onto what an arcade 'scene' actually looked and felt like once upon a time.

You know, when you actually had to talk your shit to your opponents fucking face instead of on a mic while he's 2200 miles away.... and where he talks his shit right in front of your face. Where the derision you'll get after getting your ass handed to you is front and center and you've got to have thick skin, a sense of humor, and MAYBE a cold right hand or steel jaw if the other dude gets too personal. Where your mom can't get on the mic and scream at the kids talking shit to you.

Plus, there was actual camaraderie. I made friends at the arcade. We share rounds, spotted quarters, kicked in for a coke, etc. Fuck all this XBOX cafe bullshit.

Yes, I'm an old man and semi going in on this sad sack excuse for a gaming generation.... but I miss that shit.

At least, I know I'd spend money on that.

Cut out the low-rent pretentiousness of Dave & Busters, make it a dog/burger/pizza/nacho joint with music and decor from the eras golden age (what.... 92-96 or so?) and I'm betting I'll make at least a nice couple stacks each month in profit.

No swipe, longform article, but great read if you're interested.

http://www.polygon.com/features/2013/2/26/3992898/the-rise-of-barcade

had an amazing time

If they had a bar inside, the place would do MUCH better, and attract a more diverse crowd. But they keep giving excuses.