I was playing some KoF 98 and Last Blade 2 on the old MVS today (gotta keep them skillz sharp) and started to feel kind of nostalgic for the old days. I mean, seriously, we never actually see our opponents anymore, and all trash talk has to take place over a mic. It just doesn't feel the same to me. Anyone else miss the old arcades?
Oh, no, I do that, but it's still not quite the same. It gets... stale. We all know each other's moves by heart now. I have to go to things like conventions to lock horns with new blood that don't use stupid names like t34b4gg3r007 and think they're unstoppable in any game because they are good at shooters and ragequit when I juggle them like Ringling Brothers.
BaronIveagh wrote:Oh, no, I do that, but it's still not quite the same. It gets... stale. We all know each other's moves by heart now. I have to go to things like conventions to lock horns with new blood that don't use stupid names like t34b4gg3r007 and think they're unstoppable in any game because they are good at shooters and ragequit when I juggle them like Ringling Brothers.
It's frustrating.
Personally, I think Juggling is exactly what's wrong with fighting games; LET'S FIGHT! Oh, you got the first hit? I'mma stand here for fifteen seconds because I can't do anything..... Sweet, I got a hit. Now YOU stand there for fifteen seconds being unable to do anything! It's just really, really stupid, I'm sorry.
Having said that, I think the problem with Arcades is that they don't have anything anymore; every one around me is basically as such: DDR Revolution, DDR 3, Some fighting game no one has heard about and doesn't know how to play (Different in each arcade, even), and some vehicle games. That's it.
Slarg232 wrote:
Personally, I think Juggling is exactly what's wrong with fighting games; LET'S FIGHT! Oh, you got the first hit? I'mma stand here for fifteen seconds because I can't do anything..... Sweet, I got a hit. Now YOU stand there for fifteen seconds being unable to do anything! It's just really, really stupid, I'm sorry.
Having said that, I think the problem with Arcades is that they don't have anything anymore; every one around me is basically as such: DDR Revolution, DDR 3, Some fighting game no one has heard about and doesn't know how to play (Different in each arcade, even), and some vehicle games. That's it.
The trick is to counter at the right moment.
And, sadly, I can probably play all of them and some that haven't been seen in the US. But I'm a 2d fighter freak that actually owns MVS carts for KOF, SS, and Last Blade games... so...
(Mmmmmm... MUGEN...)
The real problem with the arcades is that they focus on that sort of thing and just rent machines from someplace. It used to be they would compete over rare machines and carts and imports for gamers to play.
I agree with you Baron, I miss them also. I remember being a 8 year old kid being in the video arcade everyone smoking around you, burn marks all over the games, sighs I do miss the old days.
That was some nice counter blocking in that vid you posted. I still remember a time when the 'Guile freeze trick' was the big thing for Street Fighter II, good times good times.
I remember going in to play Tekken. Love that game to death (3 was my favorite) but that was back when I wouldn't know a good game if it slapped me in the face XD. I hated Galaga.
I used to play Time Crisis 2 obsessively, to the point where I had the game memorized.
Never got big into fighters in arcades, probably because I prefer a controller to fight sticks and their equivalent. Either way, I'm only good at the Soul series anyway.
I remember there was a videogame arcade at a hotel pool that I use to go to... IIRC, there was a screw on the Mortal Kombat machine that gave you a huge shock if you touched it.
BaronIveagh wrote:I was playing some KoF 98 and Last Blade 2 on the old MVS today (gotta keep them skillz sharp) and started to feel kind of nostalgic for the old days. I mean, seriously, we never actually see our opponents anymore, and all trash talk has to take place over a mic. It just doesn't feel the same to me. Anyone else miss the old arcades?
I do occasionally miss pinball machines. I remember first seeing Pong. The neighbor called me in a very secretive, excited voice, and showed me this thing on his TV all wired in. Drive in theaters. Memories. I need to go annoy my kids with tales for the 8 seconds before they bail for dates/parties/online killing sprees.
I feel your pain. There's an SNK vs Capcom (the superior one...) machine at a laundromat down the street that I have to indulge in every once in a bit. I like my DDR, but it sucks not having 2d fighters as a real genre when they were once such a powerhouse. Call me cynical, but gaming has simplified over the years.
But I miss seeing a row of three of four fighting games, a couple of which you'd never actually heard of, at every arcade. All the unnecessarily bloody SFII clones
Yeh, though one of them has some random ones I think that sort of get your hopes up like a Streets of Rage machine only to find it instead runs Virtua Tennis (after finding it before with King of Fighters)...
We've still got a couple of huge video arcades at the Minnesota State Fair. Only comes around for like two weeks in August, but still.
I remember actually buying the Time Crisis 3 PS2 game a long while back and beating the ever-loving gak out of it. Whenever I played it again in the arcade, I'd boggle the minds of other strangers there because I had pretty much the whole game memorized.
Ahh, the good old days of wasting Dad's quarters, one at a time, trying to beat all the games in there. Fun times.
Edit: Actually, I just remembered that we used to have a Fuddruckers in our town, and it always had some amazing arcade games. It was always the best place to beg our parents to take us for dinner when my siblings and I were kids. They had the old Area 51 shooter, this awesome shooter where you fought through various U.S. cities under alien invasion (I forget the name, sadly) and even a Gauntlet machine. That restaurant was one of the things that really got me into gaming - there was just so much fun to be had, spending quarter after quarter trying to beat the game.
I used to go to the pizza place on my way home from school, and I'd save my 50 cents from my milk money for a game.. because, really, who wants to drink milk for lunch at school anyway? They had Wizard of Wor, Zaxxon and Sinistar... some day when I'm rich I'll have all 3 of them in my living room, just like the kid from Silver Spoons.
I guess I am lucky, we have a few arcades here. A "retro" arcade that just opened. They have pinball machines ranging from 1968 - 1998, and video games from ms. pac man and dig dug, to street fighter II and whatever else they got.
They we have an arcade that has been running since the mall opened up, in the mall. Mostly it is ticket games now though, with some video games thrown in for good measure.
Not to mention the small arcade rooms attached to the lobby of each of the 4 major movie theatres.
Portland has a bar with tons of Pinball and Video game machines, both old school and new. Most of the games are only 25 cents as well. It's called Ground Kontrol.
http://groundkontrol.com
We also have a nickel arcade in a nearby town to Portland as well. That doesn't count the normal ones in malls, movie theatres and random locations.
And, sadly, I can probably play all of them and some that haven't been seen in the US. But I'm a 2d fighter freak that actually owns MVS carts for KOF, SS, and Last Blade games... so...
Whilst pretty cool and obviously emotion ridden, that is not Arcade classic Im afraid imho - but thats a matter of age not skill
All of these were ripped to console but the smokey, odour ridden arcade versions still rule all.
Lets begin:
Completed on 1 Irish Punt - haha!
Didnt the chair used to shake?! lol
Darkest corner of the Arcade - even your Parish Priest couldnt find it
Ratius wrote:Darkest corner of the Arcade - even your Parish Priest couldnt find it
Thanks alot; I wasn't sure what to spend my evening on, now I'm dusting out the Reboot of Splatterhouse to play the originals (You unlocked them by beating the game).
I've actually started planning out make a MAME cabinet. Has anyone else attempted this before? I plan on going all out, 4 player arcade madness. A pity the light guns are FREAKISHLY expensive, at least the ones that cock back when you shoot them.
And the ones where you have to shoot offscreen are so much more cooler.
MAME is Multi Arcade Machine Emulator. Basically you construct an arcade cabinet and put a computer inside it, and with a little bit of wiring you set up your joystick, buttons, quarter slots, etc. etc.
Acquire said games, and run them. Instead of spending a G or so on a single game, you can make an arcade that plays, well, any game. I looked it up before and buying a premade controller layout for 4 people is like 300-400, and it all totals out to be like 800 or so including the price of a new computer, but if you make your own joystick layout its much cheaper.
Edit - Whoops, forgot about the gun comment. Idk, there's just something about feeling the feedback of pulling that plastic trigger and having it kick in your hands.
Edit 2 - Your thinking of reloading methinks, which you will still do (or whatever the game has you do). However as I mentioned earlier the sliding bolt lightguns actually kick when you shoot them. Great fun gunning down zombies (House of the dead) of dinosaurs (Jurassic park) with a semi realistic gun in your hands.
We have an arcade down our end called Timezone, we used to get free video games every time we partied there. Now its pretty empty and disused. Loved doing the shooters and the flight sims. (we had one where you launched a nuke at the end). And the gun games...
Sadly, its closing in about 3 weeks, and the one in the city is closing too.
Doctadeth wrote:We have an arcade down our end called Timezone, we used to get free video games every time we partied there. Now its pretty empty and disused. Loved doing the shooters and the flight sims. (we had one where you launched a nuke at the end). And the gun games...
Sadly, its closing in about 3 weeks, and the one in the city is closing too.
Sounds like a chance to score some cabinets on the cheap! Jump on it! Since you're regulars (?) you might get some good prices.
People have hobbies, many of which involve developing specialized (and often impractical) skills, and once people do it's entirely natural that they be proud of the skills they have worked to attain.
Coming into a thread about a given genre of games to proclaim one's disdain for it is off-topic and rude. And it's particularly ironic on a forum dedicated to another genre of game also involving arcane, geeky, and impractical skills.
I used to goto a nickel arcade In Mira Mesa. 2 bucks to get in, and most games were 1-3 nickels with the back wall being free games. I had a blast, any fighting game there was an invite to get beat down by the locals. Some guys who worked at Midway Games would frequent there and I was no match for their skills!
My favorite game to play when the good games were full of good gamers was Rampart. For a terrible game it was fun! I wonder if that place is still open 10 years later....
Necroshea wrote: Whoops, forgot about the gun comment. Idk, there's just something about feeling the feedback of pulling that plastic trigger and having it kick in your hands.
Agreed. Without those, and the foot pedal, Time Crisis is nothing.
I love the games which involve the time-crisis like rifles. We had one mech game, (which you were soldiers) and you had rifles with kick. Was amazing to actually feel. Our cinemas also have arcade games in the lobby as well, which is well awesome.
Necroshea wrote: Whoops, forgot about the gun comment. Idk, there's just something about feeling the feedback of pulling that plastic trigger and having it kick in your hands.
Agreed. Without those, and the foot pedal, Time Crisis is nothing.
Also great thing about constructing your own cabinet is when you want to throw down on some light gun action, you don't have to worry about the guns being broken and the screen not being calibrated right, resulting in a loss of 50 cents or more.
Now here's an idea, a silent scope cabinet with a rifle you have to hold.
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Doctadeth wrote:I love the games which involve the time-crisis like rifles. We had one mech game, (which you were soldiers) and you had rifles with kick. Was amazing to actually feel. Our cinemas also have arcade games in the lobby as well, which is well awesome.
Crises zone had the sub machine gun with the kick.
Ratius wrote:
Whilst pretty cool and obviously emotion ridden, that is not Arcade classic Im afraid imho - but thats a matter of age not skill
I couldn't find a good vid of the original X wing.
But I'll see your Aliens and raise you a Metal Slug.
feth yes, I LOVE me some Metal Slug. I wasted a small fortune on that one as a child, and I have a version on my Wii, its fun and all, but its just not the same.
Necroshea wrote:
Now here's an idea, a silent scope cabinet with a rifle you have to hold.
You may have just cost me a great deal of money.
I did some research on creating such a monster, sadly I dont think it would work. I recall the gun could never be pointed off screen, so I'm thinking that it's mounted on a trackball of some sort. Ergo a free floating rifle might not work. However pelican made one for xbox, something I'd like to see the insides of. It's not that expensive, so surely it doesn't work like a real one (with a build in screen).
KingCracker wrote:feth yes, I LOVE me some Metal Slug. I wasted a small fortune on that one as a child, and I have a version on my Wii, its fun and all, but its just not the same.
One nice thing about SNK: Fio and Eri from MS turning up in KoF, and Ralf and Clark from KoF turning up in MS. Too bad they're no longer producing a new one of each more or less yearly. I spent a lot of money keeping up with that, and to this day don't regret it.
Necroshea wrote:
I did some research on creating such a monster, sadly I dont think it would work. I recall the gun could never be pointed off screen, so I'm thinking that it's mounted on a trackball of some sort. Ergo a free floating rifle might not work. However pelican made one for xbox, something I'd like to see the insides of. It's not that expensive, so surely it doesn't work like a real one (with a build in screen).
It seem to use a potentiometer, which is what underpins most joysticks. Theoretically freeing the gun wouldn't be all that hard, and getting an LCD on one could be done as well, but making it responsive to the original code would probably impossible.
SlaveToDorkness wrote:Damn, I remember spending every cent I had at "The Barrel of Fun" in our local mall. I still get wistful when I walk past where it used to be.
Anybody remember Black Tiger?
It took me forever to get a good dump of that game for mame. I love my mame, not its not in a arcade cabnet ( I was going to do that as I got a free arcade game, but once I looked into sourcing parts for it it the dream just kinda crumbled) but still love it . I want to pick up a
I was that geek in the 80's- early 90's who spent every weekend up at the local comic shop,7-11 and laundry mat plunking quarters into videogames....good times good times.
I would love to collect pinball games but hot damn they go for a lot. Here is a clip of my fav pinball sound track of all time. I loved it it would just sit there and randomly laugh at people and say 'Give me your money!!' I mean how many pinball games had there own theme song? = pure win.
edit another one of my favs, Side Arms Hyper Dyne, imagine that I even liked giant robots back then, go figure
We are in the process of building a MAME Cabinet right now, the monitor, joystick and buttons all arrived today.
Old computer (check)
Now we are debating what material to use for the cabinet itsself, Plywood or Melamine. Should be cutting material for the cabinet next week, at least the sides, top, control panel, and bezel.
Another one I used to LOVE in the arcade was Crazy Taxi. The speakers were right next to your head and they'd just blast the punk while you drove around like mad. Good times, and enough time to have a run in between MvC2 matches.
There used to be an arcade a few minutes away from me, but it closed down a few years ago, and I havnt been able to touch a fething arcade since. Sucks sooooo bad. They used to have the absolute best air hockey table Ive ever seen in my life, and my cousin and I used to go up there a few times a month and play it for a few hours. Now Ive been thinking about just buying an arcade thanks to this thread. Damn you lot, making me spend my money
KingCracker wrote:There used to be an arcade a few minutes away from me, but it closed down a few years ago, and I havnt been able to touch a fething arcade since. Sucks sooooo bad. They used to have the absolute best air hockey table Ive ever seen in my life, and my cousin and I used to go up there a few times a month and play it for a few hours. Now Ive been thinking about just buying an arcade thanks to this thread. Damn you lot, making me spend my money
LOL Don't worry, I think about it too. My ol six slot MVS is nice in my basement, but would shine brighter on the Arcade floor.
KingCracker wrote:There used to be an arcade a few minutes away from me, but it closed down a few years ago, and I havnt been able to touch a fething arcade since. Sucks sooooo bad. They used to have the absolute best air hockey table Ive ever seen in my life, and my cousin and I used to go up there a few times a month and play it for a few hours. Now Ive been thinking about just buying an arcade thanks to this thread. Damn you lot, making me spend my money
Dakka members better get free tokens/credits or I will join DCM and slag you in there KC
So I've been thinking a bit more about coin op gaming as of late because of this thread, and it's got me thinking.
Why do you want to revisit it?
Were the games that good, or is it just nostalgia goggles?
If you created your own MAME cabinet, would it not be the same experience because you're not paying to play? How would you make a workaround for this?
Me personally, I'm making a cabinet with co-op play specifically in mind. I want to see who's the best at killer instinct, but I also want to see who can get the top score playing Dungeons and Dragons Tower of Doom with only 3 "quarters". I'm seeing my cabinet as a means to enhance a party atmosphere more than just adding another gaming system to my living room.
KingCracker wrote:There used to be an arcade a few minutes away from me, but it closed down a few years ago, and I havnt been able to touch a fething arcade since. Sucks sooooo bad. They used to have the absolute best air hockey table Ive ever seen in my life, and my cousin and I used to go up there a few times a month and play it for a few hours. Now Ive been thinking about just buying an arcade thanks to this thread. Damn you lot, making me spend my money
Dakka members better get free tokens/credits or I will join DCM and slag you in there KC
I should make it clear I mean an arcade system, not an entire arcade full of games. But yea sure, come on over and Ill give ya a free game or 3
Necroshea wrote:So I've been thinking a bit more about coin op gaming as of late because of this thread, and it's got me thinking.
Why do you want to revisit it?
Were the games that good, or is it just nostalgia goggles?
If you created your own MAME cabinet, would it not be the same experience because you're not paying to play? How would you make a workaround for this?
Me personally, I'm making a cabinet with co-op play specifically in mind. I want to see who's the best at killer instinct, but I also want to see who can get the top score playing Dungeons and Dragons Tower of Doom with only 3 "quarters". I'm seeing my cabinet as a means to enhance a party atmosphere more than just adding another gaming system to my living room.
I personally would say that Coin Op was not better, but rather a different..... "Genre" of gaming than most other games.
Look at Splatterhouse 2010, for instance, compared to the older ones. Splatterhouse has three difficulty settings, allowing you to pick your pace, and there are many moves that you can memorize to take out all different types of enemies. Now look at Splatterhouse, the Original. You have four damaging attacks (Punch, Jump attack, Crouch Attack, and Slide), and you have to fight the same type of enemies. You don't have options, you don't have advantages, you need one thing and one thing only; skill.
Dark Souls was the closest thing to this, but it's not exactly the same.
I appreciate the "screw story, gameplay is more important" focus of coin-op games. Aero Fighters/Sonic Wings is a good example; you can choose a baby or a dolphin as some of your pilot choices, and their interaction makes little sense, but you got to blast away at hordes of enemies and you better have had some good reflexes. I don't like what gaming has generally become (three button fighting games and first person shooters...) as much as what it generally used to be (tons of 6 button fighting games with lists of moves and shooters where you're a little guy in screen full of bullets with one-hit deaths).
Cannerus_The_Unbearable wrote: as much as what it generally used to be (tons of 6 button fighting games with lists of moves and shooters where you're a little guy in screen full of bullets with one-hit deaths).
If you go on Steam, you can get "Realm of the Mad God" on Steam; Bullet Hell, Can only take three hits, and if your character dies you have to start all over at the beginning. All for Free.
Necroshea wrote:
Were the games that good, or is it just nostalgia goggles?
Some of the games were good, Virtual On was a legitimately good game (think Zone of the Enders), but its mostly nostalgia goggles.
I have many, many fond memories playing Time Crisis 2 with my best friend in the theater before the movie started, and there was an arcade in Yorktown Mall, back in the day, where my parents would leave me with 20 bucks and a piece of Sbarros and say "Have fun!" while they shopped.
Bubble Bobble is where it really is at.....and everyone knows that's the truth..
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Necroshea wrote:
Were the games that good, or is it just nostalgia goggles?
Some of the games were good, Virtual On was a legitimately good game (think Zone of the Enders), but its mostly nostalgia goggles.
I have many, many fond memories playing Time Crisis 2 with my best friend in the theater before the movie started, and there was an arcade in Yorktown Mall, back in the day, where my parents would leave me with 20 bucks and a piece of Sbarros and say "Have fun!" while they shopped.
The one in Chicago has, or used to have, a mech simulator.
Virtural on was the bomb, I loved the twin joysticks....bet you have been waiting for someone to say the eh?
sarpedons-right-hand wrote:No no no in fact
Bubble Bobble is where it really is at.....and everyone knows that's the truth..
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Arcades galore.....
Bubble Bobble was great, it got even better if you knew the codes so you could always get Diamond rooms, the lvl skip at 50 and fight the real end boss on the first run through, it sucked beating the boss and having to finish the game again...also the power up trick so you where always bubbling and moving fast. =o]
Necroshea wrote:
Were the games that good, or is it just nostalgia goggles?
If you created your own MAME cabinet, would it not be the same experience because you're not paying to play? How would you make a workaround for this?
IN my case, don't need a mame, have a six slot Neo Geo MVS, so I have the real deal. And it's not that. It's the difference in the social environment. Granted, you can get your pals together and plant yourself on the sofa, but that gets boring after a while. I've played the same guys and gals so often we anticipate each other's moves and all know that (in KoF) which characters MUST be eliminated or the other guy will pretty much steamroller you. Online play for fighting games is a grab bag of talent, you never know what you're going to get from the randomizer, when it's not a cesspit of donkey-cave trashtalk worthy of drunken fratboys' playing HALO.
Damn, you're right! where on earth are they anymore? I can remember waaaaay back when my mum used to work as an accountant for a bowling alley I used to tag along with her and sh'ed give me $5 in coins to last all day! I used to play PacMan and air hockey but my favorite game was a rather brutal fighting game that no one seems to remember called Time Killers! it was the bomb! cave men that shot acid spit and preying manti with circular saw arms...... ah those were the days
KingCracker wrote:
Soooooooooo Ill just have to hope for yardsales, or found memories
Meh, I just put it in the machine. At the time I was buying a lot of Square RPGS. Sadly, mine's opened. And played. A lot. Also on PS1 for the animated sequences.
KingCracker wrote:I seriously love the NES....it was/is a fantastic little machine. I own 2 toasters, and a toploader. Just love em
SNES. One Word: Chronotrigger.
That game was the bomb, I wasted a few good years of my life trying to get all the different endings and trying to master the button movements for the combo's. I loved the way you could combine different party members attacks together.....plus the race in the future just kicked ass mode 7 all the way =o]
I also loved FFII (IV) and FFIII (VI) they where amazing for their time, Cecil and Kane are still two of my fav characters.
Secret of Mana was also a great game so many memorys.
Agreed, secret of mana and those older FF games were/are just classics. Secret of mana is another one of those games that fetches a gak load from Ebay as well. Hind sight would of been nice eh?
SlaveToDorkness wrote:Damn, I remember spending every cent I had at "The Barrel of Fun" in our local mall. I still get wistful when I walk past where it used to be.
Many years ago, I actually owned a full-sized coin-op game. It was a bit of an obscure one, though -- Xenophobe. (Dr. Kwack FTW!) My roommate and I were already disgustingly good at the game when we bought it. I think we could play for an hour or more on a quarter or two? Dunno if anyone remembers the "Superman" arcade game from the late '80s, but the same roommate and I got to the point where we could go start to finish on two quarters each. The one I really wanted to own was Crossbow. Used to be able to go over a million on that one. Defender is another one I would have loved to own, but I was only a competent Defender player and not someone who'd challenge the high score. Although just being competent set you ahead of about 95% of arcade customers.
Don't mistake any of this for a brag, mind you. I think it all speaks to the fact that I probably should have gotten out more.
I think a real turning point in the industry was in the late '80s or so when video game manufacturers wised up and focused more on games with time limits or sufficient difficulty such that you had to pump quarter after quarter into machines.
Necros wrote:I used to go to the pizza place on my way home from school, and I'd save my 50 cents from my milk money for a game.. because, really, who wants to drink milk for lunch at school anyway? They had Wizard of Wor, Zaxxon and Sinistar... some day when I'm rich I'll have all 3 of them in my living room, just like the kid from Silver Spoons.
You have hopelessly dated yourself with that description.
And by acknowledging this, I too, have dated myself.
gorgon wrote:Many years ago, I actually owned a full-sized coin-op game. It was a bit of an obscure one, though -- Xenophobe. (Dr. Kwack FTW!) My roommate and I were already disgustingly good at the game when we bought it. I think we could play for an hour or more on a quarter or two? Dunno if anyone remembers the "Superman" arcade game from the late '80s, but the same roommate and I got to the point where we could go start to finish on two quarters each. The one I really wanted to own was Crossbow. Used to be able to go over a million on that one. Defender is another one I would have loved to own, but I was only a competent Defender player and not someone who'd challenge the high score. Although just being competent set you ahead of about 95% of arcade customers.
Don't mistake any of this for a brag, mind you. I think it all speaks to the fact that I probably should have gotten out more.
I think a real turning point in the industry was in the late '80s or so when video game manufacturers wised up and focused more on games with time limits or sufficient difficulty such that you had to pump quarter after quarter into machines.
Played Xenophobe a bit, though I liked the professor And the superman one where player 2 was Shazam?
gorgon wrote:Many years ago, I actually owned a full-sized coin-op game. It was a bit of an obscure one, though -- Xenophobe. (Dr. Kwack FTW!) My roommate and I were already disgustingly good at the game when we bought it. I think we could play for an hour or more on a quarter or two? Dunno if anyone remembers the "Superman" arcade game from the late '80s, but the same roommate and I got to the point where we could go start to finish on two quarters each. The one I really wanted to own was Crossbow. Used to be able to go over a million on that one. Defender is another one I would have loved to own, but I was only a competent Defender player and not someone who'd challenge the high score. Although just being competent set you ahead of about 95% of arcade customers.
Don't mistake any of this for a brag, mind you. I think it all speaks to the fact that I probably should have gotten out more.
I think a real turning point in the industry was in the late '80s or so when video game manufacturers wised up and focused more on games with time limits or sufficient difficulty such that you had to pump quarter after quarter into machines.
This post is made of Right and Win. Xenophobe was the awesome. Other favorites for me included Rush'N Attack, Contra, Wonder Boy, and Rampage.
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Monster Rain wrote:How did Mannahnin post in this thread and not bring up Funspot? It's more arcade than you can handle, mortal.
If you keep making these drive-by posts without reading the thread, people will keep thinking you're trolling. I keep telling them you don't troll anymore.
Yeah, Laconia doesn't have a lot to recommend it, but Fun Spot is the major thing.
Secret of Mana was the game that turned a nerdy jock into a full on Gamer. Despite always being stuck as the "Icky girl", it was the first time my brothers and I went through and played a game day after day to beat it together. I need to dust off my copy and play it once more.
Monster Rain wrote:How did Mannahnin post in this thread and not bring up Funspot? It's more arcade than you can handle, mortal.
If you keep making these drive-by posts without reading the thread, people will keep thinking you're trolling. I keep telling them you don't troll anymore.
Huh. I must have missed that on page 2... Or at least the funspot post. I definitely listened to that pinball music link though. Still, I think you might be getting a bit overly excited about this. Attributing some sort of malice to missing a two post blurb in a very busy thread seems inappropriate.
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Slarg232 wrote:Secret of Mana was the game that turned a nerdy jock into a full on Gamer. Despite always being stuck as the "Icky girl", it was the first time my brothers and I went through and played a game day after day to beat it together. I need to dust off my copy and play it once more.
Holy crap, SoM goes for $5,000 new......
I'm not sure why, when you can download it on the Wii. Then again, I've never really understood the "collector's" mentality.
Bakerofish wrote:I wouldnt call it nostalgia goggles. some games are just better played in the arcades or can only be found in arcades.
i especially love 4-player beat em ups
Xmen (Konami 1994?)
Armored Warriors
Aliens Vs. Predator (Capcom)
Dungeons and Dragons 1 and 2
Cadillacs and Dinosaurs
and fighting games of course
Mine were mostly fighting games.
Street Fighter (back when Sagat was the final boss and being able to throw a fireball or do an uppercut made you badass....)
Art of Fighting
The Last Blade (1 and 2)
Samurai Spirits (Shodown in the US)
The King of Fighters (mostly 98)
Metal Slug
I'll add a little something. There are too many good fighting games that never make it to the US. This is a shame. A friend was telling me about this awesome one he got from Japan, but I'd need a modded PS3 to play it...
Edit: Huh, I wrote this as a 'Edit' not a double post. That's odd.
Hey take the +1 mate. Thats one reason to stick to NES/SNES for japanese games. Its A LOT easier to mod those systems to play their Japanese counter parts. The NES you pop out 1 pin on a certain chip and presto! And the SNES is even easier, you push open the dust cover, and chop out 2 plastic rods/screw things and boom, Super Famicom compatable
gorgon wrote:Many years ago, I actually owned a full-sized coin-op game. It was a bit of an obscure one, though -- Xenophobe. (Dr. Kwack FTW!) My roommate and I were already disgustingly good at the game when we bought it. I think we could play for an hour or more on a quarter or two? Dunno if anyone remembers the "Superman" arcade game from the late '80s, but the same roommate and I got to the point where we could go start to finish on two quarters each. The one I really wanted to own was Crossbow. Used to be able to go over a million on that one. Defender is another one I would have loved to own, but I was only a competent Defender player and not someone who'd challenge the high score. Although just being competent set you ahead of about 95% of arcade customers.
Don't mistake any of this for a brag, mind you. I think it all speaks to the fact that I probably should have gotten out more.
I think a real turning point in the industry was in the late '80s or so when video game manufacturers wised up and focused more on games with time limits or sufficient difficulty such that you had to pump quarter after quarter into machines.
Played Xenophobe a bit, though I liked the professor And the superman one where player 2 was Shazam?
Yes and no. The second player looked just like Supes, but with a mix of alternate and inverse colors (such as a red uniform, so yeah, he looked a bit like Captain Marvel). We referred to him as "1 over Superman". I dunno that it was even a great game, it was just there, so we played it.
It's funny, I just had a conversation with a clubmate a few weeks ago about the best weapon in Xenophobe. (FYI, I'm a laser pistol devotee.)
