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Originally Posted by Timber

Destiny of an Emperor!

I rented that game for about 2 months straight before I got around to beating it (thanks to 50 cent, week long NES rentals from Phar-Mor)

Dude, Phar-Mor was how I did most of my gaming as a kid! Yes!

I bought it on a trip to an outlet mall in Buffalo, never having heard of it before. I just liked the theme and figured a Capcom RPG (had there ever been such a thing before?) had to be rad. Turned out to be one of the best gaming purchases I ever made, though I find the fights to be interminably long today.

Destiny of an Emperor!

I rented that game for about 2 months straight before I got around to beating it (thanks to 50 cent, week long NES rentals from Phar-Mor)

Looking back, stuff I remember:

Ninja Gaiden
Mega Man 1&2
Destiny of an Emperor
Castlevania III
Golgo 13
Shadowgate
Tombs & Treasure
The Immortal
Gyruss
Metroid

NES was such an epic system it feels bad to only list 10, I'm looking at that and I can't believe I didn't write down Blaster Master, Batman, Ninja Turtles, Ice Hockey, Final Fantasy or Dragon Warrior, Tecmo Super Bowl, Zanac, Super C etc. etc. etc.

Fixed, sorry!

Timber - I agree, it was hot garbage, lol. But I played the hell out of it for some reason. Bad taste? Probably

Dude, attach function is mandatory.

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I guess MobyGames really is the definitive resource for PC games, although I'm not sure what that has to do with the NES.

And I really hope your talking about the Japanese/European Ghostbusters 2 and not the Activision one that came out over here. That thing was a pile of hot garbage.

Totally Rad never did live up to its name but it was still pretty cool.

if your area has a trendy/hipster neighborhood, that's probably the only place something like this could be viable. in other areas bars like this won't fly because people go to bars to relax or meet members of the opposite sex. plus the overhead and maintenance would be expensive.

We have one here in Dallas. Haven't been there yet.

http://barcadiadallas.com/

Golden Tee machine has to be there! Defintely stick to old school games. 80-85.

I've had the same idea.

I give it 3 months.

If I ever visit NYC, I will for sure stop and check out Barcade. Retro to me is the 1990 - 1995 but to Neo's point, they haven't been gone for very long. I just hate the fact that 1, arcades barely exist any more and 2, the places that do have them are so expensive for food and alcohol.

Barcade sounds awesome. I know Hot Like Wasabi wants more of a '90s focus but there really is less novelty factor in that simply because (in my experience) many of those games were still pretty common less than a decade ago, especially in places like movie theatres and bars that didn't always have the latest stuff. I really need to find an arcade with games like Atari Star Wars, Discs of Tron, Battlezone, STUN Runner, etc.. I feel really deprived of playing the real things. Emulation's not the same for those.

Yeah, this exists, as Revolter pointed out, and it's pretty awesome, fairly huge (for a bar, not for an arcade), and always packed. It helps that in addition to having a great collection of 70s and 80s games, it's also a great bar with an excellent tap.

Barcade keeps their entire collection very retro. I think Outrun is the newest cab there, and there's a lot of very old stuff like Asteroids. These games are all easily emulatable, but they're old enough that seeing original cabs is a bit of a novelty. Nothing is on free play, but nothing costs more than a quarter either.

I think the most important thing is to make the place feel consistent and coherent, not like a bar with some cabs lying around. You need people to feel like the cabs are an attraction, so a good collection is probably pretty important. People ignore arcade cabinets when they're at the laundromat or pizza shop, so the bar is going to have to have games they don't see everyday. Cruis'n Exotica and Tekken 4 won't cut it. A great collection of fighting games or shooters, or 80s stuff or whatever might have more novelty factor.

http://www.barcadebrooklyn.com/

I only wish I lived a little closer to it.

Make everything a quarter, and make sure there's a working change machine. And you might want to throw in a Pacman machine or something.