Cool and unique arcade games
Anyone else remember Namco's Crazy Rafting? I remember that there was a part where you get chased by a dinosaur but sometimes the dinosaur would be replaced by Pac Man.
this was the best feeling gun of any arcade game
>>12110780I genuinely wonder what happened to the arcade cabinet. Who owns it today?
>>12110662Some cool arcade cabinets were never exported outside of Japan. What a shame since The Japanese have a terrible track record of preserving arcade machines. To most of the Japanese, they view arcade machines as disposable. Something to be tossed away and abandoned once they don't make as much money. Not saying the West doesn't do that too, but the preservation movement is much bigger in the West.
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>>12111079These are incredibly rare Deluxe Galaxy Force motion cabinets. Worth tens of thousands of dollars even today. But Japanese owners just dump them out in the open next to the ocean.
>>12110524Ridge racer full scale
>>12110780Wtf is this game
>>12111074Seems like every other street corner had arcade machines in Japan back in the day. Guess people had money to just buy shit like that, back in the economic boom. You own a small independent business, and you buy some video game, and literally just leave it out on the street under a canopy. That's what I get from watching Gamecenter CX, anyway.
>>12111095I think there's a large selection of deluxe sega cabinets at some arcade tower in leafy niagra falls
>>12111074This is why i honestly cant feel too sad about "the filthy gaijin buying up all the retro games!!"
>>12112445The Japanese actually love when gaijin buy arcade cabinets. The problem is that shipping is just so crazy expensive. Transporting across the ocean is not cheap. So most don't do it. The few Westerners that are still willing to pay for ocean shipping have to do group buys to fill a shipping container to get a discount rate.Another issue is that all the cool deluxe cabinets from 1980s and 1990s that people really really really want...have already been destroyed or lost. You aren't going to find something like this >>12111428 or >>12111095 anymore. The Japanese trashed them decades ago. I don't think any are left in Japan. Another sad story is that not a single Sega R360 is left in Japan. Sega themselves actually destroyed their Sega R360 by mistake. It's a sad story. When Sega closed some of their arcade branches in the late 1990s, they had at least 6 or 7 R360s remaining (Possibly more). But during the demolition process, the machines were thrown away for some reason. Sega Japan later only realized what a blunder they did when the Sega CEO asked how come they didn't have a single Sega R360 in storage. He wanted to play it. But all the R360 machines were lost. The demolition crew Sega hired had tossed out the machines and no one from Sega supervised the process.
>>12113365It's weird how arcade companies will invest millions of dollars making arcade cabinets but then casually throw them away
>>12111428Did they really make arcade machines this big? Sorry I grew up as a poor fag and never went to arcades growing up except maybe seeing 1 old Pac Man machine at my local laundromat.
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>>12114445>Did they really make arcade machines this big?This was only financially possible during the peak of the arcade era. Arcade games were the main way to play video games back then and customers fill the arcade every day. So selling a $300,000 arcade machine would actually turn a profit in just a few months.
>>12114445These type of things were usually in amusement parks and not normal arcades.
>>12111428I love the Mazda Mx-5, but didn't they put any hub caps on it? Come on Namco! Don't be cheap!
>>12111807Japs have a culture of outside machinery. Not just vending machines, early washing machines were an outside appliance too. It's weird, they keep their indoors pristine and just let everything outside get rusty and fucked.
>>12114894That and sometimes they were there to get extra retention on the core business. Cinemas and bowling alleys would spring for the big deluxe cabs all the time and profit would be nice but unnecessary if it draws people in or keeps them in the business while they partake of the primary money maker.
>>12110774the best
That hot air balloon game/ride thing (vaguely pictured on the left) at GameWorks. While here, I also remember this bowling game... Usually on the second floor of said GameWorks. Was displayed with a projector on a screen floating in the distance, and you controlled the ball's movement manually with some oversized, turned over mouse ball kind of thing. Can't find pictures
This shit, at D&B waaaay back in the day
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>>12111074>To most of the Japanese, they view arcade machines as disposable.this wasn't a japan exclusive problem. nobody really gave a fucking shit at all for those old things. i saw a dude give away a cocktail version of space invaders because it "didn't work". it worked, just some wires had bad solder joints and speaker wasn't connected. when i fixed the machine he decided he wanted it back. unfortunately i had to get rid of the machine so i was no longer pestered by this fucking faggot. anyway, this guy was going to throw space invaders, a classic, into the trash. most people just don't care that much. i care too much.
The Original Full Body Game Experience
>>12116094>when i fixed the machine he decided he wanted it back.1. Why the hell would you tell him you fixed it?2. Why didn't you put your foot down and tell him that people can't ask for gifts back after giving them away? Thsts not how gifts work. Don't tell me you were some socially awkward weirdo who didnt know how to talk to people.
>>12113365Some guy made a video essay on the R360 recentlyhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I-LnKFILB5I
>>12116094>this wasn't a japan exclusive problem. True. It wasn't exclusive to Japan.... but Japan were the biggest violators. I don't think you understand how much Japanese business owners do NOT give af about saving their machines. In the West, we have organizations to help buy and sell old arcade machines. They are called arcade auctions. They happen all over the country. Japan doesn't really do that. They simply throw out their old machines. Or leave them abandoned to rot in old buildings or even just leave them out in the open. And since Japan is such a humid country in the summer, any machine exposed to the elements will rust and rot away very fast.
>>12116529あ!
>>12110524sea wolf was in an arcade I visited as a kid, the periscope control was cool
>>12110524Star Trek Deluxe Captains chair
>>12111095>>12111079What do you expect from a culture of demoralized collectivist drones that hate piracy and fair use?
>>12116367How many of these non video gamey arcade still exist, and not just the Luigi ones.https://youtu.be/-QLVX04royA?si=UekGQl-wjumQhldG
>>12116523As if all of this is good for the environment......
>it's a Stealth Gore ThreadDemoralize me more bitch.
Anybody know if there are any decent arcades with cool and unique arcade games left in socal?
>>12111095Genuine question to anyone with experience....Can these be restored?
>>12116481>45 minutes long Solid video. I give the guy an 8.5 out of 10. He actually spent time researching the R360, going out to interview people, traveling to Galloping Ghost to play it, and even finding Japanese interviews from the 1980s. There are a few small things he missed such as the surviving units that still exist or the reasons why so few machines still exist. But that's forgivable and minor. But his video is MUCH better than those other poorly done videos that are like 10 minutes long and clearly made with low effort. You see them a lot on other "arcade documentary" channels.
>>12118031Short answer: NoLong answer: how much money are you willing to waste?
>>12110524I never beat this game in arcades.
>>12118707I once saw a guy play through the entire game in arcades. There was an entire crowd watching him play through it.
>>12110524Anyone play this? I've been looking for one but not many arcades exist near me and none of them have it
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Have anyone played anything like these shoot out saloons? They're not really games. More just like a lightgun shooting gallery. You'd shoot the guy in the butt and he'd play piano or you could shoot beer cans. I want to say it was timed with a high score, but I can't remember.
>>12120882They have a big one at my local amusement park, some targets would shoot water at you. Pretty fun, so long as you don't get nailed in the eye.
>>12116560This is about as oldschool as it gets, Sea Wolf was a big hit in the 70s but I've never seen one in the wild.
>>12121427Almost all 1970s arcade cabinets have been retired from arcades. Unless you have a very dedicated owner, It's nearly impossible to keep them running anymore because you can't get spare parts. They also can't take the abuse from customers anymore. Only a handful of arcades in the USA still have them. Look for Penny Arcades, Arcade museums, and Retro Arcades like Fun Spot.
>>12121427The persiscope viewer was cool it had a lens in it and created great immersion, the audio was good as well. I would have played it in the late 70s
>>12119950I know CanCan Wonderland in Minneapolis has one on rotation, but it's not on the floor at the moment. May be a while before they bring it back out. They DO have it, though.
>>12121764Thanks. Im 25 years late to arcades. I didn't grow up near arcades. When I read all your stories of visiting arcades as kids in the 80s and 90s, I feel like I missed out on something amazing. Now I'm quietly trying to find all the interesting arcade machines I never got the chance to try. It makes me sad that some of them are gone forever.
>>12121774I've quite the veteran modern arcade hunter. If you ever want to know where to find any of these machines, ask. I know the modern whereabouts of MOST of what's in this thread. It's mostly just the super obscure Japanese games and the high-end stuff that likely don't exist in the US anymore.
To all you 1970s arcade fans where can I find one these? It was made by Namco and released in the 1970s in limited numbers. Usually in bowling alleys and large spaces.
>>12121824Sounds like you just said why they're hard to find...
>>12113365I saw one of these in estonia few years ago
>>12123374Awesome. I genuinely wonder how an R360 ended up in Estonia of all places. Lol
>>12123374glad someone moved it under cover at least
>>12123374I'm honestly tempted to buy this. Do you know where this is located?
>>12123374What's the story behind this?
