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MeIon Bread
07/23/18 2:59:50 PM
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I miss the 2D stuff, which then gave way to 3D driving games and 3D light guns games. Some of that stuff was great. I used to love Bells & Whistles. I also played a lot of Wonderboy III: Monster Lair.

Despite not being that into racing games, I was still fascinated by the 3D games. Virtua Racing was a pretty big step forward for graphics, and Daytona USA was a huge step forward from even VR. Then came all the other stuff, like the Ridge Racers, Scud Racer, that game with Minis in and tons of short cuts, and the Sega Rallys. I also thought the 2 and 4 game setups were cool, and ocassionally saw 8 game setups.

In the UK, a lot of the arcades were on piers at the sea. Was it like this in America? I get the impression they were mostly in city centres, and all the pre-teens and teens would pour into them after school and at weekends.

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MeIon Bread
07/23/18 3:07:08 PM
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Has it finally happened? Is it that CE no longer has anyone old enough to remember the arcade culture of the 90s...or the 90s themselves?

This is really sad, it true.

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s0nicfan
07/23/18 3:08:05 PM
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I still play Daytona USA sometimes. There's a Dave and Busters near me with an 8 person Daytona setup so we can all race.
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MeIon Bread
07/23/18 3:13:52 PM
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Wow, those things are still around?

To be fair, perhaps arcades were too limited in their range to really stay popular. It was almost entirely light gun and racing games. In Britain, at least, they had pretty much died out by 2000. Of course, consoles pretty much caught up in terms of graphics, so that was probably part of it as well. It's still a shame, though, I guess.

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s0nicfan
07/23/18 3:15:32 PM
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MeIon Bread posted...
Wow, those things are still around?

To be fair, perhaps arcades were too limited in their range to really stay popular. It was almost entirely light gun and racing games. In Britain, at least, they had pretty much died out by 2000. Of course, consoles pretty much caught up in terms of graphics, so that was probably part of it as well. It's still a shame, though, I guess.


I mean there was always a Simpsons or X-men cabinet to work with, or MVC1 (plus other fighters) in the later 90s. Personally I always just preferred a good pinball cabinet, but light gun and racing games always dominated because they could charge the most and/or got the most out of a single person (I don't know anyone who just put one quarter into Time Crisis or House of the Dead... you knew you were going in for at least a dollar). Ultimately I think it was the return on investment that killed arcades... they kept going for bigger and bigger "experiences" and then DDR came along and fundamentally altered what arcades were for and that was that.
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SauI_Goodman
07/23/18 3:15:52 PM
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*puts quarter on machine*
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MeIon Bread
07/23/18 3:18:27 PM
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A quarter? You lot were lucky. Most 3D games was 1 here, which would probably have been a lot more. The 2D games were only 10p, which was good.
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SauI_Goodman
07/23/18 3:19:26 PM
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Well, i was really just signifying that the mortal kombat and street fighter games were so popular there was a line to play so you had to put a quarter on the machine. "I GOT NEXT!"
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alphagamble
07/23/18 3:25:19 PM
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Some of my fondest memories are going to Blackpool as a kid and playing on the arcade games

GTI Club, Star Wars Pod Racer, Time Crisis 2 were my favourites
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s0nicfan
07/23/18 3:26:33 PM
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SauI_Goodman posted...
Well, i was really just signifying that the mortal kombat and street fighter games were so popular there was a line to play so you had to put a quarter on the machine. "I GOT NEXT!"


SF and MK were staples, but there was always a strange hype around the Killer Instinct and Primal Rage cabinets. Maybe it's just because they were so odd relative to everything else.
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SauI_Goodman
07/23/18 3:27:07 PM
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s0nicfan posted...
SauI_Goodman posted...
Well, i was really just signifying that the mortal kombat and street fighter games were so popular there was a line to play so you had to put a quarter on the machine. "I GOT NEXT!"


SF and MK were staples, but there was always a strange hype around the Killer Instinct and Primal Rage cabinets. Maybe it's just because they were so odd relative to everything else.


I remember the guy who used to fart in primal rage. Good times.
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Dash_Harber
07/23/18 3:27:38 PM
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"Man, I sure fucking hate all this DLC and micro-transactions nowadays! Why can't games be an art form anymore? Why can't I just pay to replay the same content over and over one quarter at a time?"
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KBGiantsfan
07/23/18 3:28:01 PM
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I used to spend countless hours in arcades during the 90's. Used to really enjoy going to 7-11 during lunch in high school to play Mortal Kombat 2
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apocalyptic_4
07/23/18 3:28:48 PM
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I remember that one kid no one could beat at street fighter. When no one played him he'd say through the story.

Only time I've ever seen the boss of street fighter 3rd strike cause he wasn't playable.
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smoke_break
07/23/18 3:28:50 PM
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Anyone remember that horse jockey game? There was like a horse thing you had to climb on and kick your feet or something. I used to love it as a kid.
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Kombucha
07/23/18 3:28:53 PM
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arcade games encouraged me to buy a sega genesis.. streets of rage, golden axe, etc.

a quarter was pretty much the norm that i remember.
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Ving_Rhames
07/23/18 3:31:11 PM
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Fucking Time Crisis man
And House of the Dead

Also remember a Sonic arcade game that had this funny ass opening theme.
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SauI_Goodman
07/23/18 3:31:52 PM
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Kombucha posted...
arcade games encouraged me to buy a sega genesis.. streets of rage, golden axe, etc.

a quarter was pretty much the norm that i remember.


Classic games.
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Hexenherz
07/23/18 3:34:38 PM
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I've been to D&B a few times the past year and it doesn't really have the same feel as back in the day... does anyone get that feeling? You swipe a card and then you "win" some numbers and that's it... I miss the days where you'd win a jackpot and this line of tickets would come out for like five minutes.
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