Arcades in your area?

Hey:

I skipped work yesterday to deal with my broken car, but ended up at an arcade with PaCrappa. The place was called Game Town and it was all right, but I did have some issues with the...presentation. For example:

*The place was small. Not really a flaw, but there was plenty of room in the back where they had their espresso bar. I doubt the average guy who walks into Game Town is going there for a coconut latte, put some cabs there.

*They had many, many cool and rare PCBs (fuckin' JPN Outfoxies and Parodius!!!), but they had them all crammed MVS-style into these cabs that housed 16 at a time. I was happy to see Ghouls n' Ghosts even running, but I definitley would have preferred 16 cabs. However, I'm sure scoring marquees for many of these games is why they were set up this way.

*They had a single-slot MVS running Bust-a-Move Again...in a Smash T.V. cab. Does this bother anyone else? I've always thought it looked trashy.

On the plus side, they had a Raiden Fighters cab and a 6-slot MVS complete with Metal Slug, Baseball Stars 2, and KOF '98, which I HUMILIATED PaCrappa at over and over again. That boy truly has no KOF skill. Or CvS2 skill. Or Real Bout Special skill.

A really nice arcade around here is Nickels in Kent, lots of classic Capcom stuff. The best part is you can spend hours there and only blow like ten bucks. Then if you want to venture further south, the South Hill mall has a killer arcade with Capcom Alien vs. Predator and the Punisher, not to mention lots of MVS support. The South Hill mall was flooded over the weekend, so I can only pray that Alien vs. Predator wasn't damaged...

Do you have a good local arcade(s)? Do tell.

-Technosphile

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Do you have a good local arcade(s)?

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No.

any good arcades? no

... any slightly decent arcades? no

... any terrible arcades with one or two good games? yes

there are two arcades near me. One used to be the place to play Capcom fighters, people used to line up by the dozens to play the newest Street Fighter or Vs. title to be released... then the arcade changed management, and became terrible... they got rid of the big screen that we played the 2d fighters on, and there was a long stretch where there wasn't a single fighting game (2d or 3d) to play... just racing and shooting... but lately they've been shaping up a bit, adding a MvC2 cab (which is basically useless because no one goes there for any vs play anymore, so it's no different than playing on my DC), and they had a Tekken 4 cab... but for some reason got rid of it...

the second arcade is total shit, except they somehow aquired a import DDR 3rd Mix... which they intelligently placed infront of the movie theatre, so there's quite a crowd around, which draws more people to it, and helped to make tons of money (since it's the only DDR machine i have ever seen anywhere near me)... but they wasted their profits on a EZ2Dancer machine (which no one plays), and a Percussion Freaks cab, which i would play, if the pads weren't all busted to hell...

... yeah, that's the story of the arcades in my area...

...can't wait until next year at penn-state (if i get in) so i can go to Playland (best arcade ever...) all the time...

Let's see, there's a Family Fun center with almost nothing worth playing by my standards, then I have Southern Hill Golf Land that has a plethora of good games including Metal SLug 4, KoF 2000 and 2001, many a MVS game, VOOT, Tekken 4, VF4, CvS2, MvC2, many DDR/BeatMania/guitar freaks and other bemani games.

And the hard to find, ok selection of games arcade at Palomar college, included in this little wonder is:
MVS system (KoF 2000, Sengoku 3, Metal Slug X, Puzzle Bobble)
Garou Standalone Cab
SpikeOut Online
House of the Dead
Capcom vs SNK 2
Capcon vs SNK
X-Men vs Street Fighter
Marvel vs Capcom 2
Zero Gunner 2
2 Pinball machines

and how can I forget the mythical arcade in the LA area that has the only known Ikaruga cabinet known in the US.

There is a Gameworks near me (and you Technosphile) that has big gimmick machines and:

WSB '99
Mr. Driller
Raiden DX
SF3 3rd Strike
VO:OT

Decent ones (Time Out, GameWorks, Cols. Square Bowling Palace, Dave & Buster's) but nothing earthshattering.

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Originally posted by NGEFreek
Let's see, there's a Family Fun center with almost nothing worth playing by my standards, then I have Southern Hill Golf Land that has a plethora of good games including Metal SLug 4, KoF 2000 and 2001, many a MVS game, VOOT, Tekken 4, VF4, CvS2, MvC2, many DDR/BeatMania/guitar freaks and other bemani games.

And the hard to find, ok selection of games arcade at Palomar college, included in this little wonder is:
MVS system (KoF 2000, Sengoku 3, Metal Slug X, Puzzle Bobble)
Garou Standalone Cab
SpikeOut Online
House of the Dead
Capcom vs SNK 2
Capcon vs SNK
X-Men vs Street Fighter
Marvel vs Capcom 2
Zero Gunner 2
2 Pinball machines

and how can I forget the mythical arcade in the LA area that has the only known Ikaruga cabinet known in the US.

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As 88mph would say...

"Fuck your lifestyle!"

Master: Argh! You happen to be yet another person near the Northwest VOOT machine that I am now jealous of. And it's a 5.45, if I'm not mistaken...

Anyway, as far as local arcades go, there's next to nothing here, aside from a mall's arcade 20 minutes away that, last time I checked, had nothing but Tekken 4, TTT, and MvC 2. Or, those are the only games I could slightly pretend to care about.

...Maybe they've got a VF4, now. Of course, I'm sure there's a DDR in there as well.

In The Swing is the local joint. Family owned which makes most of it's money from the batting cages. They get quite a few parties there which helps a good deal. I remember when some guy rented the arcade out for his 40th birthday. Closed the place like 2 hours early and everything. No idea what it cost him, but it's a pretty small place. 2 pinball machines, 3 skee ball, and probably 30 or so cabs (some that give tickets, like wack-a-mole type). They have an air hockey unit, crazy taxi, MvS2, NFL blitz 2000, House of the Dead, Crisis Zone, Jurassic Park (sit down shooter, the sub on that thing is great). Nothing too outstanding, it's been awhile since it's seen any gems (that was the place to go around the MKII/KI days).

Then there is sports world which you need to spend 10 bucks to do anything worthwhile. Place is really big, not uncommon to see 3 or 4 of the same cab sitting next to each other. About 12 pinball machines, a mini-golf, mini-bowling, laser tag, bumper cars...

Alot of school bus trips go there so you'll have herds of 12 year olds running around.

What's an arcade?