How come you guys dont cover arcade games?

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How come you guys dont cover arcade games? They still make them. Japan has a huge arcade industry, Games like Big Buck Hunter Pro are big in NYC, or at least thats what people are saying. Any thoughts on the current state of the arcades?
 
[quote name='Qslugs']Any thoughts on the current state of the arcades?[/quote]

Yep.

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The last arcade I went to had the same games the previous last time I went there-- 10 years ago.

Arcades in the US are all but dead. The only 'new' machines I've noticed are Time Crisis 4 ( :roll: ) and DDR 431th Beat. ( :roll: x2)
 
I like that one game with the electric drum kit. I always forget the name...

I think it's called Battletoads or something.
 
Why, in my day, we had to walk fifteen miles in the snow to get the 'Cades. They were just called 'Cades by then, and you pronounced it like "Kaydeez," as was the style at the time. The "ar" didn't come 'round till naught of '82! Also, we had to whittle our quarters out of corn cobs! Which is why we called 'em Kurn. Want to play a game of Galaga? That'll be one Kurn. And the games were WAY better back then! Just a big television screen and a joystick overflowing with grease. "Joygrease" we called it, and sometimes we had to hide under the machines 'cuz we were afraid of the big one.
 
[quote name='Strell']Why, in my day, we had to walk fifteen miles in the snow to get the 'Cades. They were just called 'Cades by then, and you pronounced it like "Kaydeez," as was the style at the time. The "ar" didn't come 'round till naught of '82! Also, we had to whittle our quarters out of corn cobs! Which is why we called 'em Kurn. Want to play a game of Galaga? That'll be one Kurn. And the games were WAY better back then! Just a big television screen and a joystick overflowing with grease. "Joygrease" we called it, and sometimes we had to hide under the machines 'cuz we were afraid of the big one.[/QUOTE]

I used slugs because I'm haxx0rz like that.
 
It is too expensive of a hobby for most cheap-a$$es on this site. :)

The cost of the machines is one thing (although some older machines are "cheap"), but the real cost is the on-going maintenance.
 
I wish the arcades in malls were still around (I know there are few left but not many). I also used to enjoy walking into the arcade and seeing a new game and specifically the games that could not be played at home like Top Skater. I'm glad some new arcade games are still made like DDR but it seems like if an arcade isn't at a resort like on the boardwalk at a beach area or in a family fun center, or an entertainment type place like Dave & Busters or Gameworks, it won't do well.

I don't understand how Gameworks even survives though. I went to one in 2002 and the prices were ridiculous, DDR was $3.75, same with Daytona USA. Even Skeeball was close to $1.00. I could buy a console game for less than 1 round of DDR!
 
Arcades arent popular now. Seriously my arcade got replace with a shitty LAN place with just a few gaming PC's and some consoles. Place is crap compare to the older arcade.
 
Personally I would be into it but Artcades are epensive to maintain. Again I would like to get a Lightgun from the terminator or Alien games and hook them into my machine but then again Nnnnaahhh I am just to bored and too broke to get into it. Also this webpage is mostly about buying and selling of games and related objects.


Arcades cost like 1200,00 and so on to get while yes there is some nice ones for 100-70 dollars less and hey we can even build our own cabinets but then again thats a whole nother level of buying things.

My excuse is that I don't have a main source of income that will allow me to make such ventures.
 
[quote name='Richlough']Every time I walk through an arcade I think " Man , I have games at home that blows this shit away ".[/quote]
My thoughts exactly.
 
Yeah, the problem really got going when the home consoles were on near equal par with the arcade (or WERE the arcade machine like the Dreamcast)--then people could just buy the games and be done with it and play whenever they wanted. It wasn't like Atari 2600 Pac-Man vs Arcade Pac-Man anymore.

And a lot of arcade games are just really terrible. Take a trip through MAME sometime. There are, of course, some gems out there, but generally speaking they're just kinda boring to me.
 
[quote name='Qslugs']How come you guys dont cover arcade games? They still make them. Japan has a huge arcade industry, Games like Big Buck Hunter Pro are big in NYC, or at least thats what people are saying. Any thoughts on the current state of the arcades?[/QUOTE]
Well, there just isn't a big market for cheap ass arcade games. Hell, I dont even know where to buy them, and they kind of take up some space.
 
Arcade Infinity in Rowland Heights CA is always packed on a friday saturday nite.

anybody who is anybody who is a gamer needs to go there at least once.
 
I know there are people old enough to remember when Time Traveler came out. Candidate for worst fucking gameplay ever, but it had MOTHERfuckING HOLOGRAMS.

We had two nearby arcades...the smaller one was tucked away in the corner of a moderately sized mall, "Aladdin's Castle." It had around 20 games or so with the usual SFII upgrade and latest MK installment front and center. The larger (two level!) arcade at the larger mall, "Tilt," was awesome. They had everything from older Sega games like Golden Axe to "throw the ball at the target" stuff to most of the popular 2D fighters to never-get-sick-of-them games like WWF Wrestlefest and Punch-Out!! When Time Traveler came out, they'd put it right at the entrance so you could see it even when the arcade was closed and the fence was down.

Now that space is gutted and made into a multi-restaurant area/dining room. Yeah, I like my A&W but I'd rather have a giant arcade. The Electronics Botique is still around the corner from that area, but it's not as fun to go in there without an arcade primer first.



No reason to really cover it in any aspect here as U.S. arcades are dead outside of dance games.
 
Like others here, the only "arcade" in my area has "older" games like Ms. Pac-Man, NFL Blitz, and Darkstalkers. There just isn't any reason to go since games have evolved a great deal, those older games can be found on home consoles, and competition can be found over the internet in almost every major genre.
 
In Reading, PA there's this place called the Challenge Arcade, it's a really cool joint. They have a good mixture of games, including a bunch that are hard to find, or impossible to emulate. And if nothing else they have Super Don Quix-ote.
 
I know there are people old enough to remember when Time Traveler came out. Candidate for worst ing gameplay ever, but it had MOTHERfuckING HOLOGRAMS.
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:lol: I tried playing it a lot when I was a kid. tried and failed. there were no instructions, no ques for when you were supposed to hit a button...just some dude in a cowboy hat.
 
[quote name='JEKKI']Arcade Infinity in Rowland Heights CA is always packed on a friday saturday nite.

anybody who is anybody who is a gamer needs to go there at least once.[/QUOTE]

address?
 
Did some cleanin' and movin around in the garage today. Here's the new gaming setup:

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Sega Astro City 29 with a Street Fighter II: World Warrior board and an American Tekken Tag Tournament standup cab.

Still gotta do more cleaning tomorrow and throw Tekken 5: Dark Resurrection in there. :)

BTW. R.I.P. one of the greatest, if not the greatest Southern California arcade of all time... Southern Hills Golf Land. :(
 
[quote name='MarkMan']
BTW. R.I.P. one of the greatest, if not the greatest Southern California arcade of all time... Southern Hills Golf Land. :([/QUOTE]

was that the Golfland where all the new fighting games were tested at? I remember a Golfland in Southern California that always got the new 2-D/3-D fighters before everyone else, and the competition was always good.

also, really nice setup MarkMan
 
I was at a Dave & Busters last night. Just a bunch of Racing and Light gun games. They had one fighting game, a stupid Tekken 4 machine that hasn't been touched in a year.

Japanese arcades rock. So many hardcore gamers, tons of games for everyone. Usually one floor dedicated to each type of game. One floor for fighters, one for gambling games, one for gimmick (light gun) games, etc.
 
Laundromats are America's arcades now.....

You are almost guaranteed to see either Ms. Pac-Man or Galaga, and you can wash your draws (aka drawers) while you play!
 
I stopped caring about arcades when they started to house nothing but driving and gun games. Blech.

However, I do love me some pinball and air hockey. If I was more social and driven, I'd try to start a SoCal Airhockey League or something.

My buddy has a Japanese arcade cabinet and a PC dedicated exclusively to MAME. He's got literally thousands of games on it. That's a good time.
 
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Arcade Infinity (AI)
1380 S Fullerton Rd
Ste 206
Rowland Heights, CA 91748-1250
(626) 581-4361

it's in Diamond Plaza rite off the 60 at Fullerton Dr
 
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