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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 just get together with my friends in real life. Plenty of room for trashtalking.

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.

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

There are arcades around here, well a 20-40min train trip to any of them. All of them with at least 4 Tekken or SF3 machines.

Then again I only really play air hockey, or the shooter games which I seem to be decent at.

What they're missing is the NeoGeo machines with 4 random games. Those things were always a blast once you figured out the game play of each one.

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)...

I haven't thrown a Burn Knuckle for at least 9 months. My life is hollow.

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.

Two words:

Virtual On.

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.

The trick is to counter at the right moment.


*video link somewhere!*


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




If you remember this one, then, you're Gold

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).

Is there a /salute Orkicon?

Well beep it, Slarg gets one!


Uhm watch out for the ooze worm level dude, reactions are everything! Arrrrrrrrgh!

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.

First down, gave up against the Giant White Head dude, will take another stab at SH2 tomorrow.

End of!

Whut?

No link brutha!

Off-topic content deleted. -Mannahnin

Ratius wrote:
End of!

Eh.... not really. Now, if it was X-Wing, hells yes.

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.

MAME? What's that?

And the ones where you have to shoot offscreen are so much more cooler.