99% of /v/ hasn't experienced this
Zoomers are subhuman
>>744612072>100% of /v/ hasn't experienced thisftfy, there are no Japanese people on /v/.
it was awkward weird and cringe when i went to a arcade , old and fat trying to relive youth
>>744612072I actively avoided fighting game cabs then. I'm more of a light gun person + some run n' guns and shmups.
>>744612072>1997>Walk into mall arcade >Mom only gave me $1>Die in the first level of Time Crisis 2, 4 times in a row>Watch a boomer beat the entire game on 0.25 centsI don't miss this shit. I hate being around you hoes.
>trying to play some tekken>someone pops in their quarters and wrecks me>he continues playingIt was the quintessential "git gud" era of fightans.
>>744613873every match is a money match and it feels so good when you win
I went to an arcade a year or two ago, and it was all enlarged mobile games. The closest thing they had to a fightan game was the mobile game version of Injustice that dispenses cards or some shit. Fucking tragic. Do people actually go for all of that? I can understand popping some quarters for some games you don't want to buy at home, but for some f2p mobile shlock? Fuck outta here.
>>744612275Did you have Japanese candy cabinets in your little shithole, you generation-obsessed faggot?That's what the OP is. If you didn't, then shut the fuck.
>>744612072>99% of /v/ hasn't experienced thisblame the fat boomer pizzaria owners who didn't know/cared enough to preserve them
>>744614312Stop fucking bullying me you zoomer.Why are they so fucking mean to me? I am sensitive.
An arcade just opened up in my city a few days ago
>>744614437Protip: if it has cabinets with modern displays running emulated games, you aren't actually experiencing arcade games.
>>744614481Its actually got a pretty good lineuphttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_BAMXmwHvFE
>>744613872poor skills belong in India!
>>744612072Well yeah, obviously. Arcades haven't been a big thing since like what, the 90s?Anyone who was of age to be hanging out at an arcade in the 90s is probably in or near their 40s by now. I don't know why you'd expect them to still be on /v/ at that age.
>>744614349Don't forget the Ground Round franchisees.
>>744614574Saar, India does not have malls.
>>744614589Speak for yourself nigga. My freshman year in college, Mortal Kombat appeared at the student union.
>>744614168Mine has the Street Fighter 6 arcade and a few other real fightan games.
>>744612072Uh, yeah, you can right experience this right now. it's called Round One.>NO BUT THAT DOESN'T COUNT YOU FUCKING ZOOME-I get to play old school Street Fighter AND play Beatmania! YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY!
>>744612072I did and they were mid. I was like: Damn these are shit compared to the PC I have. Also they were literally proto "you own nothing" p2w games/platforms.
im 22 and there are still arcades where i live, tho ive never actually gone into one
I did and they sucked>have to pay just to play a few minutes of a game>games designed to get you to spend as much money as possible>have to wait to play, always someone hogging the machine>have a bunch of little shits crowding you when you're playing
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>>744612072I went to a proper arcade in Akihabara. Before that even, I played arcade machines at cinemas, bars, and surprisingly a KOA campground.
>>744612275Except for the geniuses in their generation (all 5 of them).
>>744612275I'm a Zoomer and probably played on more arcade cabinets than you've ever seen in your life, faggot.
>>744615949Retarded derailing faggot.
I went down to the shore for a few days and there was an arcade that advertised itself as being the biggest in the country.98% of the "games" were coin-shooters, mobile games on big screens, and rail shooters.I just spent my credits on Guitar Hero Arcade and Stepmaniax.
>>744615846where was that koa?
>>744612072Not candy cabs no, my local arcade was all unique cabinets. It had a Die Hard machine and a House of the Dead machine. It was overrated, honestly. Having to pump in multiple quarters, screaming kids running around, food and human waste all over the place, attract music blaring from every machine. I still have nostalgia for the excitement of walking into the place but it's probably the worst place to play a video game. After this came the "gameplex" which was much better. In a gameplex you payed an hourly fee and they had multiple big comfy couches and every console you can imagine already hooked up. You went to the front desk and picked a game from their library. It was great for pick-up games with randoms. Could get a Halo 2 lan party going without having to drag heavy tube TV's, Xbox's and cables around. Arcades are obsolete now and even if they came back I'm not pumping quarters into a game just to play it like some boomer slot machine addict.
>>744616246I forget. I was a child. It was probably somewhere in New England because I think I was driving out east to visit family. I think they had Street Fighter 2, the Simpsons (or was it TMNT?) and some sort of rock band licensed pinball.
There's just something so aesthetic about blast city cabs
I haven't since like 1998, I miss it.>>744613629You were the only one being cringe and awkward.
>literal only sizeable arcade left in the states is in fucking Chicago
>>744616060Unlikely, unless you are one of the five geniuses in the zoomer generation. Everyone born after 1995 plays Fortnite.
>>744616060Keep seething zoomer
Anyone else can't stop derailing every thread to be about zoomers? I literally can't help it.
>>744616060Go back to eating Tide pods while listening to Billie Eilish, zoomie.
>>744612072Man, Metal Slug remains one of my favorite games because I played it in arcades as new ones rolled out. I remember the series getting wilder and wilder with each new entry.You kids weren't there. You wouldn't get it...
>>744616652>>744616742>>744616805Shaddup, transtesticle.
>>744616840Yikes.... This is why your generation doesn't have more than 5 geniuses, transphobia is a sign of low IQ.Why is everyone born after 1995 so transphobic? Come on. Do better.
>>744616914zoomers are the troonest generation
>>744616805>>744616742>>744616652>>744617160Excellent Discord raid sisters. Nobody is talking about arcades anymore.What thread shall we derail to be about zoomers next?
>>744616647>nobody has stolen that shitEither niggers think arcades are worthless, or there's something fishy going on...
>>744617220The fucking OP is about zoomers.
>>744612072>late 90s>10 year old me is playing Mahvel vs Street Fighter>barely know how to play>just happy mashing the brightly colored buttons>older boy comes in and inserts a coin>HERE COMES A NEW CHALLENGER>have no choice but to play against him>he beats me in seconds>GGWP kidI don't miss arcades that much.
>>744618627No Millennial in the US had an arcade filled with candycabs.Sorry, you're still retarded.
>>744612275Yeah it's dah zooms fault that arcades were murdered by home consoles before zoomers were even born, it's also dah zooms fault that modern arcades are a complete farcry to what they were in the 90s since normalfags want to play ticket redemption and crane game slop.
>>744618836Stop fucking bullying me you traitor.
>>744612072>stationed in japan for a few years>got to visit kowloon arcade before it closed>few years later as a civilian visit the area(2023)>majority of arcades turned into izakayas or karaoke spots>the few remaining arcades are overcrowded or on the 3 floor of a 5 floor tourist claw machine trapI had a drinking spot in yokohama station that had fighting games that were connected to the internet , revisited this past winter only to find out it turned into a boring izakaya.Not even japan is safe anymore.
>>744618794You are disingenuous and retarded. I hope you have a terrible life.
>>744612072rhythm game arcades are better anyway, and I can experience the next best thing at home
>pizza hut>tmnt>simpsons>mvcSimple as
>>744614589because you little gay shits aren't going to chase me away and should fuck off back to Tik Tok or whatever
>>744621753Obsessed retard who can't read. Just end it all you fucking niggerbrained idiot.
>>744612072i did, but i am from a third world country, so these things arrived late and stayed relevant until the late 2010s
>>744612072I experienced 90s arcade.Jumped off that ship the moment home consoles and PCs could run similar quality games with the SNES+ generation and never looked back.All arcade games were designed to just eat your credits and be a fucking chore to play. You have no idea how good you have it for skipping the Atari 2600 and NES generations which were still completely based on arcade games and were annoying as hell 2hard4u tryhard shit.
I still go to one in Girard OH when I'm there. It's called Past Times. Basically just like a big warehouse type building filled with rows of old game cabinets from different eras. Like really old stuff that's just on display, a ton of pinball machines, and newer stuff like guitar hero even. You pay about twenty bucks and then just get a wristband for the day and they've got a concession stand with food and drinks. It's pretty nice.
>>744612072I found out a few days ago that today's arcade hardware is literally just PCs running Windows, and you can basically run even modern arcade games on your PC with tools like Teknoparrot. However, I know absolutely nothing of today's arcade games. And most of them get ported to PC or consoles anyway, it seems. What are some arcade exclusive games that are worth playing?
Lionizing arcades is so fucking weird. It's like being black and looking back fondly on slavery. Mork and latinx uncs need to get psychiatric treatment.
Why do people here nostalgiabait over arcades so much? They were proto-gacha.
>>744622571>>744622518They were another "third place" for people before the internet became everyone's "third place." You got to be around your peers playing games together. And the cost wasn't a big deal because the economy was better overall and half the time you were just hanging out there rather than spending money.
>>744612072>Recently had to go to a part of town I don't visit much anymore>Drove past a strip mall with an arcade and a card shop I used to play YGO at>They're both gone
>>744622304if you can find whatever that site was that backed up myrient, they had a full archive of teknoparrot games.desu the biggest issue you're gonna run into is that most of the best arcade games are built around specialized controllers>What are some arcade exclusive games that are worth playing?house of the dead exinitial ddensha de goongekidrummania lucky & wildelevator action death paradeexvs
>>744623087outside is so gay now...
>>744623170Inside too.
>>744612072and i'm glad i never willhaving to play in a noisy, cramped arcade surrounded by sweaty bo gaymers sounds like hell compared to the comfort of my own home
Growing up in the late 80’s and 90’s, arcades were never really a big thing here in europe right? Especially here in Sweden, my brain can’t remember it anyway, seems far too extroverted. Internet café’s however at the early 00’s
>>744612072>tfw part of the 1% because over 10 years ago I went to Super Potato
>>744612072They have these arcade cabinets multiple times a year at local anime conventions. the same company provides them to the convention and they have all kinds of old and new cabinets
>>744622165>Anon with an informative and fully verifiable post I expected much worse but this seems to be a cool place. Their game list is also pretty impressive: https://www.arcade-museum.com/members/detail/Past-Times-Arcade-504534/gamesEven the menu looks affordable and paying $20 for a day's worth of entertainment is really not much. The "we do have foldable step stools available at the counter" part of the FAQ made me laugh for some reason.
>>744625297Yeah it's a fun place to spend an evening. The $20 door price isn't bad considering all the games are free and people seem to use the honor system as far as taking turns goes so there aren't any hall monitors types going around enforcing rules are anything like that. They supposedly have the largest pinball machine collection or something like that because there was a plaque on the wall about it and they sell old pinballs at the counter. I bought one for a dollar.
>>744612275fpbp
>>744612072Fighting games are the reason arcades died.Before 1991 (SF2's release) you could walk into an arcade and there'd be about 10 different genres of games to play.You could spent all afternoon in an arcade and have so many different gameplay experiences, it was fantastic.Then SF2 came out and every arcade was lined wall to wall with shitty fighting games, and maybe a couple of racers.This is why people stopped going. Nobody gives a shit about fighting games.You could just stay home and play more interesting games on your snes/megadrive/pc.
>arcade threadi don't suppose there's anyone going to california extreme this weekend is there
>>744625297that's a fucking steal. i easily spend twice that just on games in a night at the arcade
>>744626984Arcade thread? This is a whining about zoom zooms thread, bud.
When I was a wee lad out and about I'd always gravitate to the nearest arcade. There was one old dusty place at a seaside town nearby with TMNT in it. Even on vacation to Florida there was one in the hotel lobby with MK4 that just released or the Simpsons Arcade game. Also found my way to another while there and watched some older kid play Marvel vs Capcom then I found yet another one at a mini golf place with MK2. Found F-Zero GX at one abroad too. Sad to see them disappear from everywhere but bowling alleys or those big indoor family entertainment and eating complexes.
>>744612072this shit in America would cause retards to kill each other in rage if it was popular enough
>>744612072>candy cabssoulless
>>744612072I've experienced a superior modern version of it. I go to a place called "antics" I don't exactly know how to classify it. They have modern Xboxs and PCs along with retro Nintendo 64s all the way down to almost archaic arcade games, all in a comfy booth where they serve you tasty pizza while you play. I wish I took pics, it's a lot more comfy than OPs pic.
>>744627731What's the difference from let's say.. a wendy's or a highschool.
The Free-to-play system employed by 'arcades' nowadays, mostly in the west, changes the dynamic too much.No money at stake, infinite credits, kids hogging the machine. It's just for casual tourist types whilst pandering to people who actually went to the arcades a lot back in the day.That's why the fighting games are relegated to 'wallpaper' status because they get less attention than racers and other machines. You won't see hardcores there by chance on a random weekday, probably rare on a weekend too, especially when they have to travel and the entry fee is high, just for a 'maybe' that competition will be there. If you can arrange with a group, you'd go to a friends house instead and play on console or emu (cheaper too).
Beat'um ups > Fighting slop
>>744612072in the 90s, there was an arcade in downtown Cleveland's flats that my parents used to take me to, called Power Play and it was absolutely phenomenal. it was in the basement of an old powerplant and by far the best arcade i've ever been to. tekken tag, mocap boxing, crazy taxi, etc. upstairs had a comfy brewery and an improv comedy club nextdoor in the basement too. my dad would drink at the bar while i killed whatever bad guys there were in the aerosmith arcade game. it makes me sad how much the world has changed. zoomies never stood a chance.
>>744627994it did cause people to rage and assault each other since they were next to each other back in the actual heyday of it.the early fighting game shit was loaded with blacks, asians, and mexicans which made it even more funny since even after arcades started fading you still had guys notorious for punching people in the face show up to events.
>go to unfamiliar arcade>see game I want to play>it's not the deluxe cabinet>leave in disgust
>>744628174Yeah, it's really sad how zoomies can't go into a Round One and play the same fucking games today because uh...they just can't, okay?Retarded blogposts should be a bannable offense. Just shut this site down.
>>744628573>spending $5 on a game i spent $0.50 on>playing glorified android slot machine games on a big screenlol, kek even
This thread feels like dead internet theory LLM shit, what the fuck is going on
>>744628573>being this mad at someone's happy memories
>playing this at a walmart in florida>a little hillbilly kid comes up and asks me to put a dollar in so he can play too>plainly say no and he fucks off
Anime Central and Anime Magic has free old arcades at the video game area.
>>744612072>he didn't grow up with a chuckie cheese/dave and bustersKWAB
>>744629539neither of those are really arcades so much as they are casinos for retards
>>744629539ticket gambleslop is not arcade games
Well I didn't experience a japanese arcade, but I did experience arcades in their prime when I was a kid(I'm 43).I remember thinking as a kid, can't wait to have adult money so I can buy the food I want whenever and spend money at the arcade everyday.Now I have adult money and arcades no longer exist.
>>744612072>lame fighting game which you’ll lose to the hiko that plays it all day>assortment of mech or racing games which are boring and impossible to play unless you read Japanese >extremely fucking loud speakers with no way to turn the volume down You niggas have not been to an arcade in Japan. It’s overrated. Your local American arcade with Tapper, the old Star Wars cabinets, and pinball machines are 10x better than this weeb shit people force themselves to like. Not joking in the slightest about the volume btw, literally ear splittingly loud. So glad I brought my AirPods with me for the noise cancellation
>>744613872fag, it's called a skill issue
>>744630108Now you can buy your own arcade machines thoughGetting a candy cab and a couple of your favorites on real PCB and then a mistercade or something to fill the gaps is bliss and depending on what games you're after it may not even be that expensive
>>744630778Sounds soullessWhere's my pizza while playing?
>>744630778I've considered it but like every single retro market, its all fucked price was, 300, 400, 500 for some basic bitch boards, the more popular the game, the more expensive, and that's IF they still work(fucking suicide batteries). Given their age, it can be quite the crapshoot to find working ones.
>>744612072Why do so many think DLC and microtransactions are bad but give arcade games a pass?Light gun games are set to high difficulty and calibration is off, you paid by the step Gauntlet, and Dragon's Lair was notorious for instant death.
>>744617404Galloping Ghost has literally hundreds of cabinets packed so tightly that there's barely room to walk between them in some sections, good luck to anyone planning a heist
>>744631306Because of the distinct difference that unlike microtransactions and dlc, they had soul
Real pimps know that the only way to play this was to pay for both guns and dual wield them shits.
>>744629763>>744629848They are arcades retardsIt doesn't matter if it has ticket shit or not YOU PLAY ARCADE GAMES AT THE FUCKING ARCADE THE TICKETS AND PRIZES ARE THE BONUS
Stand Up>>>>>Candy Cab
>>744630817just order dominos or something you fat fuck
>>744631501That argument would be fine if they were just normal ass arcade games with the ticket payouts attached, but they aren't. Very few ticket games are actual "games" in the way a standalone non-redemption arcade game would be, they're largely short playtime chance-based wheels and shit like that.
I'm kind of surprised someone hasn't developed some kind of new ultra cheap MVS system cabinet that you can just slap me indie games in for modern arcade/bars
>>744632225Wonderville bar in Brooklyn NYC does this
>>744632017and those places have MOSTLY those type of "games" with a few random non-paying fun ones scattered
>>744617404taiwan has 24/7 self-serve arcades where you just punch a code at the door to get in and then play as much as you want literally whenever.what im getting at is, america is a failed country
>>744612072My niece had her birthday party at this badass place in Houston, 30 bucks and it was all you can play and it was nothing but arcade games, I took the high score in at least seven different machines including Galaga and Donkey Kong and I whooped a few people's asses in MVC 2
>>744616141I think I know that arcade. I went several years back, it wasn't any better then either.
>>744622853>They were another "third place" for people before the internet became everyone's "third place."So basically, the scum idolizing proto-GAAS arcadeslop are the scum that didn't have internet until 2007?
>>744632494we all know why we can't have this system in America
>>744632601i know you are talking about niggers but whites esp. american whites are nigger-tier compared to east asians.
>>744623130I've started playing Densha de Go on PS2 lately and I'm kind of pissed I wasn't into it back when I was in Japan last time, I remember seeing one of the full-sized cabinets there and it looked kind of neat.On the topic of arcade exclusives, I really enjoyed Para Para Paradise back in the day, but good luck finding a cab for that since the fad's been out of date for well over 20 years now.
>>744631039I settled and built a mame-cade cabinet. It's not perfect, but it is fun enough for me. I might plan to build a light gun and a driving mamecade cabinet someday too.That said you have to realize that home arcades suck. They don't bring you the "real" experience of going to an arcade and putting in quarters and playing games with your friends and other kids on a Saturday night. At best you have a friend adult friends over and play a game or two as a talking piece before going back to doomscrolling. You're really chasing the past when you were a kid, of a time when you were happier and carefree. That is something you can never get back or replicate. It is a bygone era that time has marched on from. It is the same as boomers buying those retro record players thinking it will make their empty lives more meaningful.
>>744631306Gee, what's the difference between:>paid cosmetics>pay to win boosts>paying for content that was ripped out of the game to be sold separately laterand>payment model that rewards knowledge and skill while incentivizing players to collaborate and compete, forming real life communities
Every single time I went to an arcade, I was sick by the next morning.
My local arcade has the Mario Kart arcade games and those japanese claw machines with the anime prize figures. Love that place. Got me a Miku figure last time I was there.
>>744619043schizogem
>>744617404>>744616647https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wY0iODSorYwhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dVMdigkuP00https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WwBDZiOMOOQhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i-yJYK-VNzM>LUDO>U>D>O
>>744612072I want to an arcade last Saturday and hogged Mario Bros. for over an hour, got real htperactive playing it.I was basically Skull from monster house, kek.
>>744631039I'm gonna give you the secretAll you need to get an authentic arcade experience is a good, large control panel and a good display. You can build your own panel out of wood, you can go to alibaba and spend $300 or so on a chewlix panel, you can just find a big arcade stick and use that too. Don't put it on your lap though, put it on a table. For the display, something nice and big. The smaller it is, the closer it should be to your face. It doesn't have to be a fancy CRT.You don't need real hardware. You don't need a full cabinet. Just a desk, a big controller and a screen. That's it.
>>744630778You don't understand. It can never be the same without the blatant overcharging for every little thing, ridiculously sticky floors, unnecessarily loud sounds coming from every direction all the time, and being forced to share your favourite machine with some random asshole kid.And no, I'm not being sarcastic, arcades were only so magical because they weren't a perfect way to play the games.Buying your own cabinet to play is the exact kind of pointless, performative shit that misunderstands the entire experience. Oh, you can buy movies and watch it on a big screen tv while eating popcorn, that's totally the same as going to the cinema!
