When was the last time you went to an Arcade?

at my school we have a crappy arcade with an SNK machine, and other crap. The only thing that kicked ass.. was the Raiden Fighters JEt machine... But since they got rid of it, and replaced it with Raiden 1.. i havent stoped by..

I went to the arcades constantly from the late 80's, to the mid 90's. I went every weekend, and always made it a point to go the day after Thanksgiving, and Christmas Eve, as those are the busiest shopping days, and the arcades were always packed. There were SIX arcades within 2 miles from my home. Alladins Castle was the place to be in the mid 90's. They sponsored tournaments for various fighters for prizes, but one real cool thing they did was the midnight lock-ins where they would open up the arcade after hours, and you paid 5 bucks, and all the games were set to free-play for 2 hours. After Tekken 3 was released, they started to scale down the tournaments, until eventually they dissappeared all together a few years later. For the last few years of the late 90's, I only went to play pinball, and eventuallty stopped going all together. It's been many years since I've spent any large amount of money in the arcade, and I only go to one if I have some time to kill

BTW, what is you guy's definition of an "Arcade". I consider it an arcade if it has 10 or more cabinets. Besides the 6 above, there's some other places that have a few cabinets, such as small resturants, and convenient stores.

Probably High School, really ;) Since then I was a regular at this one Donut shop in Chico, CA, where they had an X-Men vs Street Fighter there. It's kinda odd, most of the Donut shops in that town have arcade games :D
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Originally posted by Sl1p
Since I was like....uhhhh..I'll say 8 I've made it a habit to stop by an arcade once a week. I started becomming a regular at Sunnyvale Golfland around the time Alpha 2 came out.

Rececently though, I've had to cut back drastically, so I really only get to stop by once a month for some CVS2 and IIDX =\ I'm scared of EVO2K3 now, I bet I'm really out of it.

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Don't worry as long as you remember the power that is crouching fierce and to use K-blanka, Sagat, etc. as much as possible, you'll be fine.

Never. :(

Last week. I still try to go to the closest one to me (read: 45 min drive) weekly. Soul Calibur 2, Beatmania, and DDRExtreme keep me coming back.

Some months back, I went for the weekly afternoon of Soul Calibur 2 and DDR, with stuff like Virtual On (nobody plays it, of course), Virtua Cop and Daytona USA on the side. I haven't been going recently, but that's because of a lack of money. That'll change soon enough.

Last time I went was during Christmas break when my cousin (who likes Soul Calibur) was visiting. We went to play SC2 at the arcade, but the shitty monitor combined with the absense of any competition compelled us to play it only a couple times. I was like, meh, I'll wait for the home version. A year ago the same arcade had good competitors going at the Tekken, MvsC, and SC machines. Now those cabinets are in the corners, the center of the arcade is a DDR machine and some gigantic Star Trek Voyager game. The rest is gigantic sports cabinets too.

Last summer, at a mini-golf place in Windham, Maine. They had a Strikers 1945 Plus MVS cab, but they had it placed so that the evening sun glared RIGHT into the screen, the 1P start button didn't work, and the 2P joystick (which I had to use) was pretty un-responsive. They also had a Gyruss cab, which I initally drooled over, but I was quickly let down when I discovered that the joystick was completely fucked up.

My girlfriend and I had a better time playing air hockey, anyway, so it wasn't a complete waste of time wandering in there. :)

I live 20 minutes away from 10 differnt arcades.
But most of the games they have these days suck.