One Old School Arcade on State Street. Black Knight 2000 owns so badly, he will be defeated!
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One Old School Arcade on State Street. Black Knight 2000 owns so badly, he will be defeated!
University Pinball in Philly is amazing...
Awesome level of competition, and an excellent selection of fighting games.
You've got to be s!!ting me. :|Quote:
Originally Posted by NeoZeedeater
There are some decent arcades in my area, TriCounty Flea Market being the best of all of them (DDR, PIU, StepMania with Pop'n buttons, GGX2, Metal Slug 5, KoF '03, and MAME cabinets). Most of the rest of them are random Nathan's restaurants, one of them has Guitar Freaks and PIU (and is across the street from TriCounty. Lots of gaming in Levittown, New York, I tells ya), the other having a veritable cornucopia of fighters and shmups. Other than that, there are a lot of overpriced, "big cabinet" arcades like Fun Zone and Jillian's that have nothing but racing and other crazy cabinet games, with the occasional craptastic Tekken and maybe some SCII or DDR.
I'm at TriCounty every weekend, though, myself.
Out here at Seaside (Sleazeside) NJ, the arcades get more and more dull with one exception: there is an arcade there that has only classic games:
Space Invaders
Tapper (Budweiser, oh yeah)
Mr Do
Sinistar
Paperboy
Punch Out
720
Cabal
Gyruss
Robotron
Spy Hunter (sit down cab)
The Simpsons
Donkey Kong
Super Mario Bros
Ms Pac Man
Star Wars
Defender
Defender: Stargate
Tempest
Operation Thunderbolt
Kung Fu Master
Plus, they have a sit-down Ultracade cab chock full of Capcom games...and they have SNOW BROTHERS!!!!!!OMG!!!! :) :) :) :)
its the best arcade ever, and is always chock full of people (lots of 30-somethings)
Fun'NGames and 8 on the Break are OK too...
Zero that sounds really cool, I'd love to be able to play Snow Brothers in the arcade again. :)
Apart from the Trocadero in London there is literally no-where to play any new arcade games. All we have left are the dodgy old seaside arcades which still have the likes of Daytona, Ridge Racer Tekken etc.
I pray that I can find an Out Run 2 machine when I go to Spain in a few weeks.
All I want is an Ultracade cabinet near me. Surely that's not asking for too much!
I used to go to arcades, y'know, back when they used to be fun.
I still go to arcades every now and then, but this is about a once-a-month frequency. Unfortunately, the only people left in California arcades are pricks. The type of guys who let their emotions consume them when they're playing Third Strike. I'd rather go to an arcade just to have fun, not to deal with the people who take this crap too seriously.
I still like finding arcades full of older games. I like "discovering" a working machine of a game I haven't played in years, or only seen on MAME. I still like playing the occasional fighting game. But obviously it's not going to be the same day of fun as it was when I was thirteen.
I found a dive bar that had an Ultracade machine. I could get into playing Strider and Liquid Kids while drinking. Fuck socializing.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ex Ranza
A year and a half ago, we had one, only one, arcade left. It got bought, and even though it was turning a profit, the new owner didn't see it as a big enough profit... So he gutted the fighter section and put in redemption machines. Then he guttedmost of the racing to have a clear floor, brought in a DJ on the weekends and actually expected THAT to turn into a hotspot. Instead of even trying to change it back, he gave up. No one bought it. It's empty.
No more arcades :(
We have an Aladdin's Castle and a bowling alley. I frequent the Aladdin's Castle nearly every day for my MvC2 fix. We also have DDR Extreme there that gets played a lot too. As long as MvC2 is at the arcade, I will go there.