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High guys I just moved to Kissimmee and Im wondering if Orlando has any good Arcades / video game tournaments...I remember seeing soemthing in Tips and Tricks awhile back when they had the Tournament report that there was a MVC 2 tournament in Kissimmee. But if there is whats the Best Arcade, I remember Pac man Cafe but they closed down like 4 months ago...A sad day for pac man

I haven't been in forever, but there's an arcade on Semoran in the Casselbery/Altamonte area called Rocky's Replay. At that time it was very alive and well and had several new deluxe games, including a pair of linked, motion-base F-Zero AX's. One thing to be aware of is that it tends to be smokey there.

Rockys Replay is THE SHIT.
when i was in school down in FL, that place was amazing.

When I was in Orlando for my Honeymoon in January we had lunch at the Pac-man Cafe on International Drive it was down at the end of the Drive by the Wonderworks Building, and they had a very nice arcade on the 3rd floor of the Cafe.

They had F-zero AX? oh hells yea that game was awsome.
Damn I just checked, thats an hour away from me, do you suppose disney has a good arcade?
or is it all kiddy games?

Disney might still have an amazing arcade. Look up disneyquest. I went there one time, it was about $30 for a day pass but after that all the games were free and they had some pretty unique attractions.

http://disneyworld.disney.go.com/wdw...entPage&bhcp=1

oh yea that place, I went there 5 years ago but they didnt have too much stuff. My Dad tells me he knows someone who can get me in there 4 free so I might go soon.

I haven't been to DisneyQuest in several years. When it first opened, it was super state of the art. Unfortunately, because of the nature of the attraction, the "rides" may no longer be as futuristic as they once were. They tend to be virtual reality/immersion rides with lots of physical involvement. Who knows if/when they'll update them, but they're still good after all this time, especially since they tend to service out-of-town visitors instead of "regulars" who'll get tired after not too long.

As for actual arcade games. The selection really shows its age. That's really all that needs to be said about that. They have a pretty good selection of vintage games, though. I think the newest game they had when I went was OutRun2, which was pretty surprising. The 8-player Daytona USA setup is really nice, but it's not the motion-base ones that they used to have at EPCOT. One noticable omission were shooting games. They used to have them (used to have a set of big-screen Time Crisis 2's), but being Disney, I can understand why they've been removed. If you're a DDR person, you'd think unlimited play would be great, but not if you have to play on DDR USA Mix 1, the absolute worst version released. Hell, Disney Rave is awesome, but for some reason they don't even have that mix there!

It might be worth it if you're going with a group of friends to check out the nice "rides", but otherwise, don't go there is you just want to play arcade games.

Rockys Replay is awesome. I live right down the street from it!

"Rockys Replay is awesome. I live right down the street from it!"

You bastard! Im an hour away...anyway can you tell me if they Got Mario Kart Arcade GP...if not what other games they got?

EDIT: I bet you go to either Full Sail or UCF dont you?

Originally Posted by BirdofTruth "Rockys Replay is awesome. I live right down the street from it!" You bastard! Im an hour away...anyway can you tell me if they Got Mario Kart Arcade GP...if not what other games they got? EDIT: I bet you go to either Full Sail or UCF dont you?

They don't have Mario Kart, unfortunately. They have Time Crisis 2 and 3, Inital D ver. 3, and well, there are too many to list. And yes, I go to Full Sail.

I thought Full sail has their own arcade that is free to an student

actually to be more specific, Building 4 I believe...the one across from those shitty looking indoor Full sail Offices that look like converted apartments

Originally Posted by BirdofTruth I thought Full sail has their own arcade that is free to an student actually to be more specific, Building 4 I believe...the one across from those shitty looking indoor Full sail Offices that look like converted apartments

They do, but some of the machines are broken right now.

oh I see, anyway what are you going majoring in at Full Sail, I heard it is really expensive

Originally Posted by BirdofTruth oh I see, anyway what are you going majoring in at Full Sail, I heard it is really expensive

Game Design and Development. It's pretty damn expensive, I'm paying $62,000.

EDIT: You can download a cool student project here. http://litteratus.net/ It's in the download section.

oh shit that is. I can see why youre a Cheap ass Gamer haha well I plan on useing my Bright Future Scholarship (a florida scholorship you get for any in-state college which gives you 100% tuition aslong as it's public) for UCF on BS Computer science, maybe it's just the audio department but my brother had 3 friends go major in Sound and one of them does sound for a church, one is a Photo lab manager for Walmart, and the other is still looking for a job...so they didnt do to good on employment rate, is the video game depatment differint?

edit: those three went to Fullsail, just had to specify

Damn 104MB they should of used WInrar to compress it, however Im downloading it right now

Originally Posted by BirdofTruth oh shit that is. I can see why youre a Cheap ass Gamer haha well I plan on useing my Bright Future Scholarship (a florida scholorship you get for any in-state college which gives you 100% tuition aslong as it's public) for UCF on BS Computer science, maybe it's just the audio department but my brother had 3 friends go major in Sound and one of them does sound for a church, one is a Photo lab manager for Walmart, and the other is still looking for a job...so they didnt do to good on employment rate, is the video game depatment differint? edit: those three went to Fullsail, just had to specify Damn 104MB they should of used WInrar to compress it, however Im downloading it right now

From what I'm told, it's all about the amount of effort you put into it. The worst job I've heard a game student get was Quality Assurance at EA.

I played the game, I can tell their was alot of codeing for the physics of the ball, it's pretty cool game. Obviously I dont expect it to have a million polygons like the picture I created in MAYA, Im trying to be a programmar but just getting a taste of everything...does basically everyone from Full sail go to EA becaue of ther Orlando Office?

Originally Posted by BirdofTruth I played the game, I can tell their was alot of codeing for the physics of the ball, it's pretty cool game. Obviously I dont expect it to have a million polygons like the picture I created in MAYA, Im trying to be a programmar but just getting a taste of everything...does basically everyone from Full sail go to EA becaue of ther Orlando Office?

No, some do though.

In the Disney Contemporary hotel, they have a nice arcade. Lots of games I rarely see anywhere else (but then again I live in an area where arcades are non existant).

Originally Posted by dafunkk12 If you're a DDR person, you'd think unlimited play would be great, but not if you have to play on DDR USA Mix 1, the absolute worst version released. Hell, Disney Rave is awesome, but for some reason they don't even have that mix there!

I'm not 100% sure on this but I think they did upgrade to DDR Extreme but once they saw one of the songs on that mix was Little Bitch, they got rid of it because it's a family friendly place and got back the US First Mix. The same problem happened at Six Flags Great Adventure in NJ. They went from 3rd mix to 4 brand new DDR Extreme machines. Some mother saw that was a selectable song, complained and Great Adventure got rid of all their DDR machines and replaced it with a 1 Pump It Up machine (which has worse language than DDR in some songs). They did get back the machines last year though.

The machine in the area I like is DDR USA at MGM. It's an old mix but it has some songs you just can't play in the arcades anymore because most arcades upgraded to Extreme.