Who here plays games at an arcade?

[Tojo]

Well.....he deserves it....
I have no Idea why people still like it.
I wouldnt call you gay, but you need Jesus.

I wouldn't like it as much if CvS and CvS2 didn't suck so bad. Capcom really went downhill after MvC2. I will try but don't have high hopes for their new Dinosaur vs Beast Man fest aka Fighting Jam.

[dakidski]

I always came for the games, not the atmosphere. Now I can play those games at home, which is what I always wanted. Last time I went to the arcade here in Copenhagen, the girl in charge told me to stop honking the car horn on '18 Wheeler'. What fun that was...

The arcades in the 1980's and 90's in Copenhagen, Denmark, doubled as hangouts for male prostitutes, or so the rumour went.

When I visited Beijing, China, I had the oppertunity to play in both Sega World, Taito Station amongst others. The girl at Sega World told me that it was illegal to take photographs of arcades machines in China, but I took one of Samba De Amigo anyway. The two other photographs are from Taito Station, where I spend most of my gaming time.

Since I am not afraid to look like a fool, here is a small video of me playing 'Police 911' at Taito Station:

http://eukodal.homepage.dk/dakidski_...g_in_china.avi (~2mb)

Don't comment on how stupid I look, or how ghey I'm holding the gun plz. Hehe.

[Tragic]

I play at 8 on the Break in Dunellen, NJ. I know I've said this a million times though. They have many games but high lights include:

IIDX 8th Style
Guilty Gear Isuka
3rd Strike
Guitar Freaks 3rd Mix
DDR Extreme
Soul Calibur II
Puzzle Fighter

[Roufuss]

As others mentioned before, it's the fact that I can go into arcades now and everything that's decent has been ported to a home system, is going to be ported, or is just crap.

Nothing like walking into that arcade and seeing a mess of games I already own

I miss the days when arcade's were light years ahead of consoles.

[Chojin]

I still play at arcades when I'm near them. Mostly Pak-Mann to play Raiden Fighters 2. They used to have Jet but became too cool for it and then later replaced Dodonpachi with a busted Tekken 3 machine(Though they kept Dodonpachi 2....). =/

[Aurora]

Well, as disappointed as I am to report it, I don't actually live in Austin. I used to live here, but I do work here and all my friends are here and until recently my girlfriend lived here, and, well, I say here because 99% of the time I'm posting, like right now, I'm in Austin. I stay with friends some weekends who until recently lived in the 2222/Shoal Creek area, back behind Burnet Rd., kind of near where S&B Amusements is on Burnet. They just bought a house out off Oak Knoll somewhere so they'll be up North off 183 in the next coupla weeks (and I'm trying to figure out how I'm going to move my Neo-Geo 2 slot outta their place). I live South of Austin at another lake: Canyon Lake out in the hills and country. But I'm all over Austin all the time.

Tapioca, eh? Nobody else I've been to in town has had a decent selection of bubble teas. They're all fruity. I like the flowery ones and stuff, the pan one is really, really good. CoCo's never impresses. There is another on Guadalupe by campus that is good, I forget the name, near Hao-Hao next to where Animagix use to be. But the one near Panda Express isn't too hot. Momoko has a huge selection. And they show anime in there sometimes. And their grilled eel is to die for!! tho a bit expensive They're rice balls are really great too!

Oak Knoll? I am there ALL the time, hee hee. Well, right near it. I think the street is called Broad Oaks.

Momoko, eh? I'll have to check it out. I do like Coco's though, just because the strawberry smoothies are SO good.

[Grave]

Arcades depress me. When I was in Boston I used to play Third Strike and (get my ass kicked at) GGXX at the MIT arcade, but they took Third Strike away before the last semester ended, making me furious in the process. I don't know of any others in Boston, really, besides Good Times which sounds like a huge hassle to get to... never been there.

Anyway, I'm home for the summer, and while I was at school, they took away the Guitar Freaks 7th Mix we had here. Fuck. So now I really have no reason to go to any of the arcades nearby. The last good one closed before I was in high school, and the last mediocre one has been getting by on DDR alone. I really liked that Fist of the North Star punching game, but that's gone, and so is Guitar Freaks now. Hell, they never even got SC2. I think the last fighting game they got was CvS2. They used to take chances with new stuff, but now... it's DDR and crap hunting games or nothing else, it seems. Depressing.

I'm going to visit 8 on the Break sometime this summer, I'm disappointed that they don't have a later version of GF, in fact, I was just talking to someone on IRC about that. But I would like to blow some cash in an arcade that has a good selection of games to play, something I haven't done in quite a while.

[FX]

I play CvS2 at the arcade here. That's about it.

[gameoverDude]

I corrected your post XD!!

PS: Every arcade should have VC3 so that people will stop wasting their money on Time Crisis 3.

Every arcade should have them both. I play and enjoy both of them, although VC3 did sorta steal me away almost completely for a while at first.

Are you talking about the D&B on the west side of Columbus? I haven't been there in a little while and the last time I was there they didn't have VC3 or Derby. Methinks I'll be checking it out this weekend.

And the last time I was at the Magic Mountain over on the east side they had an ultracade cab. Back when I was working there they didn’t have shit besides a few decent Sega games.

Yep. It's the one right at Mill Run. I named my horse "Rolling Thunder"- one cool thing is some of the CPU horses are named after Sega games. I saw one of the rival horses called "Power Drift". I wish the D&B here had that Ultracade.

How long ago did you see this at Magic Mountain, by the way? I've yet to find it there. If they have Truxton II (one of the default games) and 1941 running on it, it'll sure be hard getting me off this thing.

[Scourge]

Oak Knoll? I am there ALL the time, hee hee. Well, right near it. I think the street is called Broad Oaks.

Momoko, eh? I'll have to check it out. I do like Coco's though, just because the strawberry smoothies are SO good.

Yep, try out Momoko. It used to be one single gift shop/tea room, but they split it down the middle and now one side is the restaurant, which is a chic little sushi bar with other stuff (definitely try the grilled eel or the vegetarian rice ball; fantastic). And depending on the type of bubble tea you like, I'd recommend the pan for a milk tea with pearls or the New York Manhattan which is a black tea with lavendar and some other stuff, and add pearls but no milk. What makes their tea menu so great is how they mix the flavors to create some really subtle but tasty things. I think there's one called Sunshine or something like that that's really good too. It's on 24th street about 2 1/2 blocks off of campus. Their gift shop specializes in Japanese import toys, anime stuff, sanrio and pucca stuff, tea sets, etc.