What were arcades in the 90's to 2000's like?
You put the quarter in the machine and you play the game. Not that difficult of a concept to grasp, OP.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Et7P58QRoQQ
>>748266114It's when home consoles were taking off so they had to offer a big expierence to move it. Sometimes it was just higher graphical power, but a lot of it was the perephial type games. Lightguns and racing making up a bulk. You were less likely to see Japan only cabinents outside of more densely urban specialized places. A lot still featured ticket muncher games, and those have largely went unchanged. A coin a play was pretty standard and it was a lot easier to track spend than with neblous points.
>>748266274It's a zoomer thread, at least sensationalize it a little.
>>748266114Not good. A fad passed and dying out. Arcades are in a much better position these days since we seem to be moving past the giant fruit ninja / flappy bird bullshit, at least in my area.
>>748266114>mfw I grew up going to that exact theaterWasn't expecting to see that all these years later.
They were magical. You had the carnival/circus element with getting tickets for prizes and the ticket counts weren't that outrageous. I remember getting plenty of army men to set up RTS-style battles with my friend and the real big things like electronics were only like 2000 tickets. Something you could totally score if you hovered over a lottery machine for a few days. Or cheated at skeeball by standing on the ramp like I did. Yes I was that little shit.For vidya besides skeeball and ticket grabbers, it was just as amazing. Mahvel, Time Crisis, Motocross, Initial D, That one jetski one, House of the Dead, The Simpsons, there was a type of game for any type of gamer. Hack n Slash, Shooters, Fighters. And the place was always packed. Kids, teens, and adults all playing games and having fun.Another not very talked about relic of the 2000s were net cafes. Definitely more of a thing in BR-land and Asia but there was one near me that my family would go to constantly because my Dad knew the owner. All night lan events of CounterStrike Source and BF2 or Desert Combat. CoD4 tournaments where the winner got a copy of WoW and an extra month of game time. Bawls...The early 2000s were a magical time. Not yet totally faggotfied or depressed. Still hopeful for the future. You really don't miss it until it's gone.>>748266446I fucking hate 'game cards'.Lemme use quarters you fucks
>>748266898I went to a Round One recently.>1 Tekken 6 cabinet>3 (?) SF6 cabinets>That stupid fucking touchscreen marvel (((fighter)))>House of the Dead and that Terminator game (No Time Crisis)>A few racing cabinets>AND ALL>THE>FUCKING>GACHASThe entire middle part of the fucking place was just gachas and claw machines of the same normalfagstale isekai figures.
>>748268058Forgot to mentionThe only thing that seemed interesting that they had going was a wide range of different Jap rhythm games. Those seemed neat but not exactly what I was looking to play when I went
>>748266114They were fun but there were way too many quarter eaters. You'd need like 15 bucks in quarters if you wanted to beat Time Crisis.
Best era of gaming>very social and can play with lots of different people and form new relationships, some even meet girls and date>nowadays everyone sits alone in their room and plays alone, sometimes may call a friend to play couch co-op>tons of games offer way different and unique ways to play with like a dancepad for DDR, light gun for shooters, a car driving wheel and seat for racing games, etc>nowadays most games are only played with controllers or keyboards, these dont replicate the feeling of something like a light gun and physically pointing a gun at the screen and shooting>arcade was focused on pure gameplay and competitive as you try to beat your locals high score, quick jump in and do your best and only takes minutes of your time>nowadays games are less focused on pure gameplay and more focused on story/characters/cutscenes and are less competitive and more fair to the player to help them beat the game. The competitive multiplayer games you are against everyone in the world so you don't form a local bond and once the game is over you probably won't see them again>nowadays games take hours of your time at once instead of the quick challenge of an arcade you instead get long stories >arcade games were more physically active and expressive and required more movement >nowadays people just sit in a chair or lay in a bed and are sedentary >arcade was custom made hardware so they can push the graphics and technology as far as they wanted>nowadays a lot of games have to be designed for low end hardware to maximize the potential user with old hardware
>>748266114I only played arcade around mid2000 but by that time PC was absolutely better than arcade so it felt (and was) a waste of money.
>>748266114>Ninety'sESL faggot.
>>748267878they were all the exact same thing
>>748266274Some places it was a nickel for some games, or two quarters for one game, or a full fucking dollar. Then there were the places that had the early VR shit for $30 a go.
>>74826611432 here, when I was a kid every "arcade" I knew of was just ticket redemption trash. I don't know if it was a regional thing or what, but it's pretty much all we had here and back then it's what I thought "arcade" meant. They'd occasionally have one or two driving games or light gun shooters but never a traditional arcade game. I didn't discover true arcades until the 2010s when I found a couple specialist weeb arcades with imported rhythm games and shmups
>>748266274First post, thank you captain autismo post.
>>748266898Peak street fighter to the start of the Dance Dance revolution "Event Machine" movement?Also peak beatemups. The shooters? NBA and NFL blitz?A place where it was all gamers all the time and no fucking sports bar or a flood claw machines like D+B or R1?I mean if you love R1 that much, I sort of get it, but Segaland's peak is this time.
>>748268128unfortunately that's most of the new shit being made. I don't think you're getting bombergirls outside japan, and Initial D the arcade is covered by so many goddam licencing issues that it's not showing up.
>>748271927I was just at a place where it was $2-$3 per play. You'd literally pay 3 bucks, push a button one time and hope you won tickets. What a fucking scam.
>>748272181Definitely regional. This is peak SHGL. Peak Arcade infinity. Where do you think the MVC2 and third strike players were? Or all the DDR players?
>>748266114It was the transition from dingy arcade parlors with rare imports and an ashtray at every cabinet to movie theaters, Chuck E. Cheese-likes and overpriced touristy places with only the most common cabinets.
>>748266114A casino where you always lose and toddlers smeared shit all over everything. I miss it, but it was also pretty gross.
>>748272782Oh, and I went to a different one and this really pissed me off. I'm pretty good at the ring the bell game where you have to hit it at the exact right force to get a jackpot. So I'm playing it, I win the jackpot easily. The machine starts counting my tickets super fucking slow (it's 1,000), so I keep playing. I end up winning the jackpot like 4 more times. Well, when the ticket counter finally got to 1,000, it said "maximum payout reached, then it started counting tickets I didn't win. I come back 20 minutes later and it's still counting over 4,000 tickets it said were unallowed. The game let me keep playing despite the fact it paid out the maximum. The machine shut itself off for all plays after that. I wasted several dollars while it was counting. What a jewish fucking design.
In high school as much as the jocks, snobs, preppies, and stuck up girls looked down on arcades, every time we went to one as a school trip they had a blast with the rest of us. It was one of, if not the only, school mandated trips where social barriers were lessened and nerds and athletes and outcasts would play against each other in arcade and other games.
>>748271593There's literally nothing wrong with what he said, you jeet faggot.
>>748266114I use to go SegaWorld as a kid. It was basically heavenhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EOALZHBfLTM
>>748273183The children of today don't know what we have lost.
>>748268058>>748268128This is the arcade /v/ is always gassing up? My local DnB has better pickings than this.
>>748266114>go to las vegas as a kid>arcades in almost every casino>start going las vegas trade shows twice a year since early-twenties to buy stuff for mr business>almost all acades are gone>biggest one is this 24hr one and circus circusit did move away from family entertainment awhile ago, though
we still have nickel nickel here>3-4 dollar entry>most expensive games are only five nickels>row of free old games in the back
the arcade at castles and coasters (phoenix arizona) always had a bunch of black brown and white kids just playing games with each other and eating food and just hanging outracism literally didnt exist
