>>12073887
>I genuinely think the arcade room and environment does something, it adds a certain je ne sais quois that makes arcade games at home just not appealing
Of course it does. Ambience changes the mood.

>>12073887
It's because you were credit spamming at home.

>>12073887
personally, I have always wanted to test if it's the social environment or hardware environment. Specially prepared and configured systems and controllers do a lot for impression.

If you read a book, do you enjoy it better in a library/cozy book reading nook or your boring bedroom on a e-reader

>>12073887
The arcade that I used to go to had the same Darius II. It's a double screen playing through a mirror. (You can see part of the screen being reflected off the mirror.) Ninja Warriors had the same setup.

>>12073887
Yeah. It is a statistical fact that no 1up arcade machine in existence has ever been used more than 5 times before finding itself on facebook marketplace for pennies on the dollar.

>pixelatedarcade
I have never been there before but I think I would go sometime even though the floor looks dirty in that picture, but at least there's no cum in the games like at Galloping ghost.

>see the shmupfags at arcade
>they're middle age obese neckbeards

>>12073887
never actually seen these wide ass cabs before. the only darius i ever played was snes darius twin

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>>12074596
rent free
and still demonstrably false\wrong
they are the cheapest cabinets to get into the hobby and "mod"
i use jamma boards on mine
when the lcds finally fail i will swap them for pvm (already on hand)
>>12074851
im skinny and cute anon ;3
>>12074842
>chicago
you think i would go there? WILLINGLY?
we have jamma boards at home mom
no need to go to a live threatening area kek
>>12073887
this is why you need to build a nice cabinet at home with customizable\swappable buttons
or go down my rabbit hole of multiple cabinets

>vintage speaker sounds
>crt has wear but is still dialed in
>buttons have a bit of heavy-use but are still funcitonal
>public display of gaymen prowess as the girl on your arm watches you 1cc no hit\no death espgaluda
this only works on ladies old enough to remember the machines being ubiquitous in the 90s

its a sense of endearment

the same argument applies to emulation (poorly implemented becomes soulless) vs actual vintage hardware etc

the experience of owning the cart\manual\warranty\ads+system & a crt is hard to recreate even with the best (sometimes even with literally objectively better resolution\processing effects)

its all in your head anon

you can play an entry level electric guitar and practice amp and get a lot done;
but
>there is nothing like the gibson w\ the roar of the marshall 4x12's and tubes

you feel it
you feel alive
you feel it in your heart
memories rush back
a time, a place that can never be returned to;
the truth about arcade machines?
its a time machine- but it can only go to specific dates
if you look away, the illusion ends
and you return to reality

the reality where the USD is collapsing and machines are no longer made\affordable\commonplace
the reality where coins will no longer even be minted

>all lowercase schizopost
Shan't

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>>12074871
hes right you know
about all of it


the world grows darker
as the light is almost completely quelled+lost

>you think I would go there? WILLINGLY?
I don't think you're very sure of anything tbqh.

>>12074883
The fuck?

>>12074884
Yes, that's me
The fuck

>>12074904
kek

>>12073887
>arcade magic!
>pc soulless
>console magic!
>pc soulless
>steam magic!
>torrent soulless
>hurr durr social crap consumerism great
>games soulless

>>12075114
Some day you'll have a soul.

>>12075120
>soulless drone unable to appreciate art
> NO, YOU have no soul!
Yeah, the usual 'black is white / me is you' trash rhetoric.

>>12075114
Are you genuinely fucking retarded? The entire point of my thread qas there's a legitimate difference between the arcade environment and the home environment
You sound like you've never set foot inside an arcade

>>12074594
>do you enjoy it better in a library/cozy book reading nook or your boring bedroom on a e-reader
>be (You)
>in a library
>uncomfortable wooden chair that breaks your back
>it's too hot/cold in the building
>dusty table under your elbows
>*Cough cough* BE QUIET says Tyqueesha
>some weird looking guy and a "girl" went to the back
>are they sucking each other off? I swear I can hear it
>Fuck this chair, man
>*Adjusts chair* *CREAK* BE QUIET
>That will be 20 dollars/month young man
Don't you just wish you could be in a library right now

>>12075242
I stopped going to arcades in the 90s because someone always walked up behind me to watch me play and it made me uncomfortable.

I would say: hey want to continue the game?
then walk off

>>12075264
Plot twist is that you have a great ass

>>12075274
I did, and thats why I had to watch my 6 at all times. Distract them with a free game as I made my escape.

>>12075279
Based and strategicpilled

>>12074093
wasting money is so appealing

>>12073887
>I genuinely think the arcade room and environment does something
It does to certain games and certain games genres indeed. Also it's the arcades centers socialization part that made people having fond memories of arcades.

>>12074594
My room with an e-reader is infinitely better.
When I try to read paper books, I involuntarily think about touching the words I don't know, or that I want to have a more accurate definition of, thinking that this will make a dictionary appear.
This alone makes e-readers irreplaceable for me.
I still read paper books when they are not meant to be read linearly, because these are more advantageous on paper, since the bookmarking systems or even changing multiple pages at once on e-readers are all terrible. For example, I have all of Aristotle's works on my e-reader, but it's basically impossible to read them, whereas having his collected works in paper form is much more practical for consulting, studying, and reading.

>>12076825
*punches you*
yo this nerd reads books!

>>12074594
I own my own home and have a big comfy fainting couch I use for reading. Like the Victorian version of the psychologist's chair.

>>12076846
yes, I see
any new cum stains on it to report to us

>>12076854
I am married to a lovely woman and I don't masturbate. It's just a cool chair that's comfy.

Don't you have a nice antique chair?

>>12076867
yes, I see
any new cum stains on her to report to us

>>12076846
>>12076867

dont respond to cum boy!

>>12076876
>>12076908
I don't understand how a person owning a comfy chair could elicit such gay, trans responses.

>>12077005
not everything is about you and your cum chair bruh