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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.

Good times.

Also, this place is awesome.

The one in Chicago has, or used to have, a mech simulator.

Had some good memories from the Dreamcast port of V-On

There was a Dreamcast port?

I may need to do some ebaying shortly.

How did Mannahnin post in this thread and not bring up Funspot? It's more arcade than you can handle, mortal.

No no no in fact

Bubble Bobble is where it really is at.....and everyone knows that's the truth..




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And whilst I'm on the subject, anyone craving arcade goodness and living in the UK should just get there asses down too their local (and probably empty) seaside town.

Arcades galore.....

dogma wrote:

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.

Good times.

Also, this place is awesome.

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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And whilst I'm on the subject, anyone craving arcade goodness and living in the UK should just get there asses down too their local (and probably empty) seaside town.

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

NF09

Monster Rain wrote:How did Mannahnin post in this thread and not bring up Funspot? It's more arcade than you can handle, mortal.

Laconia. Yuck.

I don't even know how to respond to that.

Monster Rain wrote:I don't even know how to respond to that.

Have you been to Laconia? Funspot may be the only good part of that. For some reason, I was thinking it was in Concord, but I was misremembering.

Nah, Laconia is okay.

Granted, the only reason I ever go there is for Funspot!

nerdfest09 wrote:$5 in coins to last all day!

This is the part of arcades I don't remember fondly. 5 dollars would last me 20 minutes if I'm lucky.

The NES version of Bubble Bobble was the first thing I ever took to show and tell I love Taito.

I seriously love the NES....it was/is a fantastic little machine. I own 2 toasters, and a toploader. Just love em

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.

Yea thats a great game....problem is it ranges usually from this
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Chrono-Trigger-SNES-Super-Nintendo-Rare-Game-Cartridge-Original-Cart-/150761403140?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item231a147304#ht_870wt_1163

To this
http://www.ebay.com/itm/CHRONO-TRIGGER-SNES-SUPER-NINTENDO-GAME-/230756941009?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item35ba2f7cd1#ht_500wt_1413


But sometimes, its unopened
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Chrono-Trigger-SNES-Super-Nintendo-New-Sealed-VGA-80-/110609351320?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item19c0d4c298#ht_2333wt_1163


Soooooooooo Ill just have to hope for yardsales, or found memories

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.

BaronIveagh wrote:

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?

KingCracker wrote:Yea thats a great game....problem is it ranges usually from this
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Chrono-Trigger-SNES-Super-Nintendo-Rare-Game-Cartridge-Original-Cart-/150761403140?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item231a147304#ht_870wt_1163

To this
http://www.ebay.com/itm/CHRONO-TRIGGER-SNES-SUPER-NINTENDO-GAME-/230756941009?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item35ba2f7cd1#ht_500wt_1413


But sometimes, its unopened
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Chrono-Trigger-SNES-Super-Nintendo-New-Sealed-VGA-80-/110609351320?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item19c0d4c298#ht_2333wt_1163


Soooooooooo Ill just have to hope for yardsales, or found memories

You know they rereleased it for DS, right?

REALLY?!? Get fethed! I had no idea. I think Im going to go looking for that then

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?

Loved this game!

My other favs were Tron...Joust....and Journey.


GG

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

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

The Simpsons
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
King of the Dragons

And not quite a beat 'em up, but one of my favs of all time...

Sunset Riders!

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.

Regardless, your post is made of win.

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.

And Rampage! Gah! I loved that game! Big monsters are super cool, which reminds me of King of the Monsters...