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Video Games => Video Game Chat => Topic started by: Mr. Wiggles on February 23, 2008, 12:52:40 AM
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After reading the news that Street Fighter 4 would arrive in the U.S. early via arcade cabinets, I was more than disappointed at the many people cracking jokes that arcades don't exist in the U.S. anymore. It's understandable that there popularity has fallen due to technological advances, but they're not completely extinct.
In my area, I've seen many malls that carry an arcade chain that calls itself "Tilt" and it's been around for years. I go to those places every chance I have, and the machines that always attract the huge crowds are Dance Dance Revolution and Capcom vs. SNK 2. They offer ticket redemption machines as well as prize machines that offer prizes such as lamps, plushies and even an Xbox360 and a Wii.
A lot of small restaurants also carry NeoGeo cabinets, although most of the games they offer are old, like Art of Fighting and SNK sports.
Not to mention chains like Chuck E. Cheese's and Dave & Busters have arcades, as well as lobbies in theatres.
So do you guys live near any arcades? Are they anything like the ones here, which is to say awesome? Will you push for them to order Street Fighter 4 and blow your money playing that game, which will no doubt rule?
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There used to be a really cool one in my mall, but it closed down and now it's an H&R Block. I was angry.
The closest one is in the IMAX theater about 10 minutes from my house. It's pretty lame, but it has Time Crisis and The Simpsons so it's a winner in the end.
There's a Dave and Busters in Denver as well.
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The closest thing to an arcade I have around here is the little one in the movie theater. I've only been in there a few times, and always just end up playing Dig-Dug on the Namco Classics Series Vol. 1 machine or whatever the name is.
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There are some arcade machines in various local restaurants, but given that there are like 5 boardwalks on the Delmarva (Delaware, Maryland, Virginia lol) Peninsula, I've been to some pretty large, awesome arcades. I'll probably end up playing SFIV in the arcade. Of course, I think I'll be happier with the old Street Fighter II Turbo.
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^Image of the year
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I like images as much as the next guy, and as far as I know MV did indeed take that photo. But can we stop with the image of the year stuff? Posting some image you've taken no effort to create and getting some kind of award for it is just stupid.
Oh, and there's this place called "Nickel Town", but I've never been there.
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Ah yeah, we have a place called Nickel-A-Play, where each game costs a nickel (and some a penny!). The catch is, if you use their change machine, they don't give you a dollar's worth of nickels.
Which reminds me, in Manitou there's an arcade that spans the area of multiple stores in one spot (and some parts of it are outdoors!). Some stores have penny games, some have games where you play for tickets and prizes, and some have just awesome games. I played Police Trainer (my favorite arcade game ever) for hours. I can get to the second-to-last officer thing on one credit!
I don't get the funny in MaxVance's picture. Either I'm retarded or it's not funny at all. And I'm not about to admit to the former.
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I don't get the funny in MaxVance's picture. Either I'm retarded or it's not funny at all. And I'm not about to admit to the former.
Check the filename for a hint.
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There's a few arcade machines at my local Burger King (and by "local" I mean "a few miles away".)
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Sadly, the only arcade games that exist around the area I live are the classic "Buck Hunter" games in bars, and classic racing games wherever else. There is an real arcade around here called the "Time Out", but that is miles away.
Ah yeah, we have a place called Nickel-A-Play, where each game costs a nickel (and some a penny!). The catch is, if you use their change machine, they don't give you a dollar's worth of nickels.
Which reminds me, in Manitou there's an arcade that spans the area of multiple stores in one spot (and some parts of it are outdoors!). Some stores have penny games, some have games where you play for tickets and prizes, and some have just awesome games. I played Police Trainer (my favorite arcade game ever) for hours. I can get to the second-to-last officer thing on one credit!
I don't get the funny in MaxVance's picture. Either I'm retarded or it's not funny at all. And I'm not about to admit to the former.
I don't get it either. I even looked at the filename and still don't get it.
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it's not funny
because I don't watch Futurama and therefore do not get the joke.
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R.O.T.F.L.! Nice photo! Did you take that, or is it a repost?
To those who don't get it, it's a reference to one of those fantasy eps of "Futurama." Video game-themed aliens invade Earth, and Fry is mankind's only hope, since he's the biggest video game nerd. Recalling his days at the arcade, he says something like, "It's Friday night. I have no date, a bottle of Shasta, and an all-Rush mix tape." Classic.
There used to be a huge arcade in the local mall, but it's gone, presumably because it didn't make enough money to cover expenses. Making it was a big project, too. Shame. There are now 2 different Time Outs in the selfsame mall, but they're pretty bare bones. Each has a different version of "Galaga," and I'm known to waste quarters getting high scores.
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To those who don't get it, it's a reference to one of those fantasy eps of "Futurama." Video game-themed aliens invade Earth, and Fry is mankind's only hope, since he's the biggest video game nerd. Recalling his days at the arcade, he says something like, "It's Friday night. I have no date, a bottle of Shasta, and an all-Rush mix tape." Classic.
Thanks for clarifying that. XP
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Nope, but there are a lot of arcade machines in my FYE, if you count that. It's creepy, because every time I go there I hear sounds from the original Donkey Kong...
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Aladin's Castle, Chuck E. Cheeses. Both in the same mall. They suck, though. Aladin's Castle used to have the arcade Mario Kart, then they got rid of it. >_<
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R.O.T.F.L.! Nice photo! Did you take that, or is it a repost?
Repost. I couldn't have taken it since I have no money, no Rush mix tapes, and no Shasta. On the other hand, I have no girlfriend.
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If Chuck E. Cheese counts, that.
There used to be a big, nice one in the mall. But it closed down and since then has become a lenscrafters. It was awesome because it had Mario Kart GP.
Soon after the closure of that, for about three months, the smaller, weaker mall across the street had gotten an arcade. It wasn't nearly as good, but it did have Crazy Taxi, and this weird scooter game that was kind of cool. I tried to apply for a job there, to find out it was closing in a few days.
Chuck E. Cheese really has no fun games (except non-video games), I found myself having more fun running around, throwing a coin cup at my friends, using it to get some Mellow Yellow, and having a moshpit to Munch & Friends' performance :P Also when that little girl tried to kill me in the play-place, it was kinda random too.
I really wish there was a good arcade around here, with good games, new and old. The bowling alley a block from me has 3 or 4 games, but nothing too good.
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The Aladin's Castle at the mall has Soul Calibur II, but I don't like the arcade version. (My SCII main is a console exclusive)
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(My SCII main is a console exclusive)
Link?
There are several places in my town that I guess would qualify as arcades: Galactic Hurricane (which I know for sure is an aracade) and Chuck E Cheese's (not quite sure about, as I've never been inside myself).
There used to be an arcade place in the old mall, too, but since the old mall closed and most of the businesses went to the new mall, I haven't seen anything that is really an arcade in the new mall.
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There used to be a really cool one in my mall, but it closed down and now it's an H&R Block. I was angry.
Small world, my local arcade closed down because of H&R Block too!
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Small world, my local arcade closed down because of H&R Block too!
stupid H&R Block
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Wow you guys [had] Mario Kart Arcade GP? The latest game Tilt has is Tekken 5, and some sort of Guitar Hero knock off. I do wish we had F-Zero AX though, I'd kill to play that.
I also just remembered this one barnhouse south of here that had both an arcade and a kart racing track. Despite the fact that there's a Boomer's about 2 miles away from it's location, it's still in business. Plus it has a lot of old KoF editions, almost all the Marvel vs. games, and the Simpsons arcade.
I really need to go back there soon.
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Alot of arcades around here have Mario Kart Arcade GP.
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My Chuck E. Cheese has Mario Kart Arcade GP. I used to think it was only out in Japan, but then they ordered it.
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there's a galaxy cinemas arcade about half an hour north of where i live.
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I've got two really ratty old arcades near where I live (three if you count the arcade games in the lobby of my local Wal-Mart), the kind with nothing but redneck-y light gun dear-murdering sims, motorcycle-racing games, LED-graphics Tetris ripoffs with actual prizes that were last replaced in 1997, Area 51 cabinets with one of the guns ripped off, and broken-down AfterBurner machines. Sigh.
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In my area, I've seen many malls that carry an arcade chain that calls itself "Tilt" and it's been around for years. I go to those places every chance I have, and the machines that always attract the huge crowds are Dance Dance Revolution and Capcom vs. SNK 2. They offer ticket redemption machines as well as prize machines that offer prizes such as lamps, plushies and even an Xbox360 and a Wii.
We have one of these in the mall in my hometown. Its really fun. The Dance Dance Revolution game is always taken, so I stick to my classic arcade. A few years ago it wasn't TILT, all it said was ''ARCADE'' and had a bunch of heros and pacman border around it or something...... I was there yeserday, beleive me i know.
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some sort of Guitar Hero knock off
If it's Guitar Freaks (which it probably is, since I don't know of any other guitar games in the arcade), it came first, though from what I've heard, it's the inferior game.
I don't know if it still exists, but there was this minigolf place in Bloomington that also had an awesome arcade - and because of whatever package we purchased, we had full access to it, and it didn't require tokens or quarters - hurray for Arkanoid, Discs of TRON, and the Mario pinball machine (and a lot of other awesome stuff) on free play. Unfortunately, I don't think it had any fighting games, and it didn't have Bubble Bobble or Puzzle Bobble.
There's also a pizza place with an arcade that's much closer to me (about half an hour's drive, as opposed to about two hours). Garcia's Pizza is much smaller than the other arcade I mentioned, but it has some games that I'd never even heard of before I stepped foot in there - and it has Burgertime, Galaga, and a few other classics, along with some of those newer racing games. Also, the tokens have winged tomatoes on them.