Who here plays games at an arcade?

[Sl1p]

Because it's obviously a version 1. Thats how.

Stop trying to impress people with 3 year old arcade games please.

[Scourge]

Because it's obviously a version 1. Thats how.

Stop trying to impress people with 3 year old arcade games please.

Ummm... What are you talking about? Stop trying to impress people with your amazing knowledge of 3 year old arcade games please. It's an arcade thread. I'm posting stuff about the arcades around here. Deal with it. I asked you a serious question because I was curious, but I forgot your gimmick is to be a dipshit.

[Cheebs]

When I'm near an arcade (vacation or something), I play arcade games. I prefer the style of arcade games over the style of home games.

But I'm never near an arcade. Wilmington De's got nothin.

[Sl1p]

Ummm... What are you talking about? Stop trying to impress people with your amazing knowledge of 3 year old arcade games please. It's an arcade thread. I'm posting stuff about the arcades around here. Deal with it. I asked you a serious question because I was curious, but I forgot your gimmick is to be a dipshit.

You listed a bunch of games and bolded the fact that you have a Percussion Freaks as if it actually meant something important. Yeah, thats great. You have an awful asian bootleg of DrumMania featuring midi's in place of licensed songs. Way to swing for the fences slugger.

We talked Initial D, you but in HERES OURS ISN'T IT GREAT WOW WE HAVE IT when no one really cares considering it's old. You asked how I knew it was old. I told you that it's pretty fucking obvious. You got butt hurt.

Is your gimmick to be a know-nothing cry baby? If so, mission accomplished. Now shut up and wipe those tears. No tears!

[Scourge]

You listed a bunch of games and bolded the fact that you have a Percussion Freaks as if it actually meant something important. Yeah, thats great. You have an awful asian bootleg of DrumMania featuring midi's in place of licensed songs. Way to swing for the fences slugger.

We talked Initial D, you but in HERES OURS ISN'T IT GREAT WOW WE HAVE IT when no one really cares considering it's old. You asked how I knew it was old. I told you that it's pretty fucking obvious. You got butt hurt.

Is your gimmick to be a know-nothing cry baby? If so, mission accomplished. Now shut up and wipe those tears. No tears!

First off, I don't play rhythm games, so I don't know anything about them and was hightlighting them as a joke because people like you get a hardon for them. So if I highlighted some piece of shit game, it's all the same to me. Secondly, I haven't played Initial D, so I actually was curious what version they had there. Thanks for your help, you're a real class act.

[Ex Ranza]

You listed a bunch of games and bolded the fact that you have a Percussion Freaks as if it actually meant something important. Yeah, thats great. You have an awful asian bootleg of DrumMania featuring midi's in place of licensed songs. Way to swing for the fences slugger.

We talked Initial D, you but in HERES OURS ISN'T IT GREAT WOW WE HAVE IT when no one really cares considering it's old. You asked how I knew it was old. I told you that it's pretty fucking obvious. You got butt hurt.

Is your gimmick to be a know-nothing cry baby? If so, mission accomplished. Now shut up and wipe those tears. No tears!

Geez.

[Sqoon]

Geez.

Forget about it, he's just a stupid nigger.

[gameoverDude]

The best thing to ever happen to the gaming industry was the death of the arcades.

You can't be serious about that.

Arcades near me are fairly dead and I'm not too pleased with it. Namco's Time Out has jack other than fighting games, gun games, handful of racers, and REDEMPTION pieces. Redemption pieces are not what I call real games. Magic Mountain has a slightly better selection than Time Out and they've got a couple classics (Ms. Pac-Man, Frogger, Galaga). Neither place has shooters like DonPachi/DDP though. Time Out just chucked Crisis Zone, so it's not really worth the drive for me anymore. Genuinely new games don't come too often and frequently are gone too soon. Warzaid, Star Trek Voyager, and Wangan Midnight all disappeared within a week. I had one kickass winning streak on WM 2 player during its short run there.

The Easton GameWorks sucks. The latest there is Time Crisis 3 which is STILL labeled "NEW GAME!" even though it hit the PS2 long ago. Hel-looooooo? Their Newport, KY location has Percussion Freaks 3rd Mix- "Bambina" sucks hard on this with the vocals taken out. GW is totally overpriced ($2.00 for Time Crisis 3? You have to be kidding.). I call GW "AlkeyWorks" because they seem to care more about their bar than the games.

It's a damn shame Ketsui and ESPGaluda haven't showed up anyplace. Arcades here don't generally have the cojones to import. Time Out does have a Japanese Mocap Boxing- whooooopee.

Light in the tunnel? Well, Dave & Buster's actually isn't bad. The prices per play actually beat GW, and they are better at updating. You'll find Virtua Cop 3 and Derby Owners' Club there. VC3 kicks, especially when you go into E.S.Mode and start shooting down bullets. Unfortunately they don't have an Out Run 2 (it's time to get rid of that damn Crazy Taxi and put this in its place). Even better is the D&B in Springfield which has an Ultracade featuring a lot of Capcom games (1941, to name one. ) and Robotron.

If you buy a $25 card at D&B, you're actually doing better than you would at GW. Virtua Cop 3 costs only about 90-some cents a play as opposed to what it'd likely be at GW- there, try $1.43 on a $25 card.

[Dyne]

Forget about it, he's just a stupid nigger.

wait......ill give you another for that

[Dolemite]

*sigh*...arcades. Alas, the good ol' days are long dead. Sure, you have mainstream 'entertainment' chains like Jillian's in NY, stocked mostly with driving games, horse-racing sims and DDR, and the occasional mall arcade, but otherwise the scene is a shadow of how cool it used to be. Man, I remember the days when Marvel Super Heroes, Mortal Kombat 2 or Street Fighter Alpha 2 were released and there would be a rabid crowd surrounding the machine, all with their quarters lined up, everyone feverishly awaiting their turn, talking, cheering, whatever. God, the magic I felt the first time I went to an arcade and tried Street Fighter 2 for the first time, discovering it along with countless others. There's none of that now. Now that we have super-powerful home consoles the arcades can't offer the same experience that they used to, and the masses aren't digging it.

What true arcades that are left tend to be stinky holes in the wall populated by pretty unsavory characters. A nice exception is the arcade in Tri-County Flea Market...after listening to Chaoofnee go on and on about how great it is, I finally got my ass there this past weekend...I remembered it being a shithole, but they've fixed it up quite nicely and they had a pretty good selection of games. Thumbs-up.

But man, do I miss the old days.