I have an intense recurring daydream where I'm an early-mid 90s arcadegoer. I prodigiously become the top dog at my local arcade and eventually start travelling to the other side of town in search of tougher competition. Also along the way I get a cute gamer gf. Later, her family has to go back to Japan and she asks me to go with her (start of the Tokyo arc). To fuel these fantasies I play Fightcade, consume media from the time period, and read archived posts from retro gaming forums like this one where people share their arcade memories. Hopefully in our lifetime they develop one of those deep sleeping pods you hook your brain into and can live forever in your ideal dreamworld.
>>12517968chrischan tier cope
>>12517968>I have an intense recurring daydreamlmao its you doing it retard don't act like its something that just happens to you
>>12517968my dad is literally a boomer, born in mid 50s. he never played videogames. most boomers never did.by the time 1990s came around , he was already nearly 40. still didn't play arcade games at all. my slightly younger boomer mom took me to arcades instead.stop getting the timeline wrong.
>>12517968>Zoomers would rather wish for Deep Dive VR because the idea of a high trust space like an arcade proliferating anywhere in the world at the present moment is SO unrealistic My genuine sympathies. If it helps at all; the younger end of Milennials never got to experience proper arcades either. I'm 94 and all I got was Dave and Busters and Chuck E Cheeses with a rate of about 1 real arcade game machine to every 15 ticket based machines. I got to experience very very specific arcade games but crazily none of those brands with the tickets ever had fighting games. Basically only light gun games were ever in that style of arcade in my experience
I live in a 90s type constant roleplay with my best friends with none of us parting from the theme. You should figure out something like that. Of course, I lived it so...
>>12520467Boomer, Gen X, practically the same difference
>>12517968I was in highschool when SF2 landed. There was limited pvp for control of the machine but people quickly realized who was better than they were, and didnt waste quarters fighting someone they couldnt beat. After a few weeks the pecking order was established and it was more common to simply watch people play and beat Bison, and then they would have their turn. If there was PvP it was usually limited to the experienced older kids kicking younger kids off the machine. It wasnt until SF2 landed on SNES a year later (summer 1992) where people could finally put in the hours needed to get good enough and confident enough. SF2 turbo arrived soon after, and this was the first time you really saw decent competative play at the arcades, and it only lasted a few months. By this point every laundromat and convenience store had their own SF2 machines so the player base become very diluted. Mk 1&2 had even less of a PvP scene than SF2, pople just gathered to watch experi2nxed players cheese the computer opponents and perform finishers. MK was always "watch people play" rather than PvP.>Eventually start travelling to the other side of town in search of tougher competitionThis didnt happen either. We rode bikes for 10 miles or took the bus to distant arcades but that was only to discover new games we hadnt seen yet. You would not cross the city to play a game you already had at the place 3 blocks from your highschool. I had to do this because "in the hunt" was only found at a single arcade in the north end, and it was worth the trip there. If I could best describe the PvP scene of 1990s arcades, the best analogy would be those 25 year old autists who hung out at card shops in the early days of pokemon CCG, beating all the 12 year olds with their incomplete mashed together decks. That is who the SF2 "pros" were IRL. A few arcades sponsored tournaments of course, but for the most part it was nothing big outside a few California events in the late 90s.
Skip directly to the Japan arc then. They still have some solid arcades there. Expect to get humbled tho the players are 40+ year old chain smokers that can beat you at SF2 with one hand. (happened to a friend of mine, hilarious) Taiwan also has some solid arcades but I don't know if they have such a big scene at those arcades.
>>12520467Came here to post this. Parents are from '52 and they know Space Invaders, Pac Man, and Donkey Kong... and that's about it.
