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[Arcades] And Arcade Accessories

Romanian My EscutcheonRomanian My Escutcheon Two of ForksRegistered User regular
edited August 2010 in Social Entropy++
So this is a thread for discussing those wonderful machines that make better use of our loose change than our stupid washing machines could ever hope to, and the places we go where we can find such wondrous mechanical distractions.

We can also whine about how Time Crisis IV was a complete and utter waste of everybody's time. Seriously, fuck you Terror Bite.

So SE++, what recent arcade experiences have you had that you want to talk about?

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  • AgentofOrangeAgentofOrange Registered User regular
    edited August 2010
    I haven't been to an arcade in about nine years.

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  • Romanian My EscutcheonRomanian My Escutcheon Two of Forks Registered User regular
    edited August 2010
    I haven't been to an arcade in about nine years.

    You mean a traditional arcade, or just any place with an old arcade machine?

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  • lostwordslostwords Registered User regular
    edited August 2010
    one of these days, when i'm rich and loaded, gonna buy me this badboy

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    i miss arcades

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  • AgentofOrangeAgentofOrange Registered User regular
    edited August 2010
    I haven't been to an arcade in about nine years.

    You mean a traditional arcade, or just any place with an old arcade machine?

    I'm going to say both, Romanian My Escutcheon, Doxy.

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  • Romanian My EscutcheonRomanian My Escutcheon Two of Forks Registered User regular
    edited August 2010
    I haven't been to an arcade in about nine years.

    You mean a traditional arcade, or just any place with an old arcade machine?

    I'm going to say both, Romanian My Escutcheon, Doxy.

    Then this isn't the thread for you then, now is it?
    I kid, I kid.

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  • UsagiUsagi Nah Registered User regular
    edited August 2010
    Yes Lost! I want that one and the Addams Family pinball machine

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  • mensch-o-maticmensch-o-matic Registered User regular
    edited August 2010
    the only arcade ive even seen outside of an amusement park was in chinatown

    it wasnt that great honestly

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  • humblehumble Registered User regular
    edited August 2010
    lostwords wrote: »
    one of these days, when i'm rich and loaded, gonna buy me this badboy

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    i miss arcades

    my boss bought one for 600$

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  • BrainleechBrainleech 機知に富んだコメントはここにあります Registered User regular
    edited August 2010
    I want a pinball machine but I am still rather upset I lost the chance to buy one because someone paid for the one I wanted with a check in the ammount he wanted and ran off with it {the check was for a closed account} And I had the cash not the 450 he wanted but in the end it is his loss

    Now I have tired over the years to get the machine I wanted and failed due to shipping o well

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  • lostwordslostwords Registered User regular
    edited August 2010
    wait waaa? Thats pretty reaosnable! Hrm!
    Usagi wrote: »
    Yes Lost! I want that one and the Addams Family pinball machine

    heck yeah! I also kinda want the terminator 2 pinball machine, the simpsons arcade, and the TMNT arcade machine as well

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  • Romanian My EscutcheonRomanian My Escutcheon Two of Forks Registered User regular
    edited August 2010
    Speaking of four person beat-'em-ups...
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    Ten bucks blown beating this asshole.

    Mr. Burns is cheap as shit.

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  • SquallSquall hap cloud Registered User regular
    edited August 2010
    I love the jurassic park 2 machine

    dave & busters gets points in my book for being a place I can shoot dinosaurs with one hand and down liquor with the other

    living the american dream

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  • AgentofOrangeAgentofOrange Registered User regular
    edited August 2010
    I went to band camp every summer throughout my childhood. It was held as a week long stay in the dorms at the University of Florida.

    They had an old pacman machine in the lowest quarter of the building. I'd play that thing every day of that week. And all the walk across campus there was a legendary Soul Calibur machine in the bowling alley. All my money went into those two games, with a heavy favoring of pacman.

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  • SkulloSkullo Registered User regular
    edited August 2010
    I spent my last night before I moved to Grad School drinking and playing games at a Dave&Busters.

    They had Street Fighter II! I am not good at that game while drinking!

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  • skettiosskettios Enchanted ForestRegistered User regular
    edited August 2010
    Speaking of four person beat-'em-ups...
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    Ten bucks blown beating this asshole.

    Mr. Burns is cheap as shit.

    Hell yes!

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  • RedZeroRedZero Registered User regular
    edited August 2010
    I'll try and post pictures when I get home today, but my roommate built a stand-up arcade machine that is basically just a computer and monitor hooked up to the built-in controls and has a library of over 5,000 titles, though some are repeats/foreign releases. It is by far the best thing about our garage.

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  • tsplittertsplitter Registered User regular
    edited August 2010
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    i want thiiiiis

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  • TankHammerTankHammer Atlanta Ghostbuster Atlanta, GARegistered User regular
    edited August 2010
    Speaking of four person beat-'em-ups...
    The%20Simpsons%20-%20Arcade%20Game.jpg

    Ten bucks blown beating this asshole.

    Mr. Burns is cheap as shit.

    This, X-Men and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles were my childhood.


    I loved arcades, but even the awesome, gritty, loud, sci-fi-themed "Fun and Games" arcade I used to frequent as a teenager has been transformed into a bright and colorful funland for children ages 4-10. Arcades are not profitable anymore and that's sad.

    Hershey Park had an awesome one last time I was there, though.

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  • RedZeroRedZero Registered User regular
    edited August 2010
    tsplitter wrote: »
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    i want thiiiiis

    Played it for the first time in well over ten years the other day. Forgot how damn hard the boss fights are.

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  • OlivawOlivaw good name, isn't it? the foot of mt fujiRegistered User regular
    edited August 2010
    tsplitter wrote: »
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    i want thiiiiis

    Hell

    yes

    Also that one Punisher beat 'em up co-starring Nick Fury was pretty sweet

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  • TheySlashThemTheySlashThem Registered User regular
    edited August 2010
    The best arcade game is SkeeBall.

    Fact.

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  • GeoMitchGeoMitch Registered User regular
    edited August 2010
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    owns

    every time you fire a weapon the seat would shake
    graphics are current-gen
    you can take a picture of your face as your avatar

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  • TankHammerTankHammer Atlanta Ghostbuster Atlanta, GARegistered User regular
    edited August 2010
    Great-granddaddy.
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    This machine was so goddamn glitchy but I was just impressed it worked in any capacity.

    Other photos from my trip through Pennsylvania:
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    EARLY ARCADES!
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    THE 1980s!
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    MY FIRST TRUE LOVE!
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    FUCKING PINBALL!
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    INJOKE!

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  • VisionOfClarityVisionOfClarity Registered User regular
    edited August 2010
    Squall wrote: »
    I love the jurassic park 2 machine

    dave & busters gets points in my book for being a place I can shoot dinosaurs with one hand and down liquor with the other

    living the american dream

    Hell yea. And if it's a game where I cock my gun while playing throwing back a shot just accents the manliness.

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  • TankHammerTankHammer Atlanta Ghostbuster Atlanta, GARegistered User regular
    edited August 2010
    VoC is the manliest lady I know.

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  • RedZeroRedZero Registered User regular
    edited August 2010
    Best pinball machine right here (spoilered for huge)
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  • skettiosskettios Enchanted ForestRegistered User regular
    edited August 2010
    TankHammer wrote: »
    Speaking of four person beat-'em-ups...
    The%20Simpsons%20-%20Arcade%20Game.jpg

    Ten bucks blown beating this asshole.

    Mr. Burns is cheap as shit.

    This, X-Men and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles were my childhood.

    Same!! :D

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  • skettiosskettios Enchanted ForestRegistered User regular
    edited August 2010
    RedZero wrote: »
    Best pinball machine right here (spoilered for huge)
    addams-family-pinball.jpg

    Fact.

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  • DouglasDangerDouglasDanger PennsylvaniaRegistered User regular
    edited August 2010
    I love arcades. The one at Hershey Park is a pretty good arcade. Some of the stuff is always broken, there are always a couple of really creepy weirdos in it, it is kind of hard to see, it has a lot of old games.

    The one in the Park City Mall has a couple of shooting games, five or six racing games, and ugh ddr. It is mostly empty space though, which is terrible.

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  • VisionOfClarityVisionOfClarity Registered User regular
    edited August 2010
    TankHammer wrote: »
    VoC is the manliest lady I know.

    Not true, I could never beat Usagi's mean 'stache.

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  • GeoMitchGeoMitch Registered User regular
    edited August 2010
    in san diego we were at this arcade and one of the rows was broken, so you could play for free
    the games on it blowed, but there was one of those things where you click a button to align the lights to win a movie

    we were all trying to do it, and 2 guys got avatar for free. the repairman came and kicked us out before we won anything though

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  • DMACDMAC Come at me, bro! Moderator Mod Emeritus
    edited August 2010
    I remember finding a Donkey Kong machine in a hotel we stayed at that would give you back a dollar in change for your quarter if you hit the coin return button. My parents gave my brother and I a dollar or two each to go play and we came back a couple of hours later with about $5 each.

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  • manjimanji Registered User regular
    edited August 2010
    i spent every friday and saturday evening in my local arcade playing MK1, samurai showdown and world fighters when i was 17. that time is nestled nicely between giving up on drinking on my local park where i would consistently fail to make it with any drunk girls when i was 16 and turning 18 when i could legally go to bars and fail to make it with any drunk girls :<

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  • TankHammerTankHammer Atlanta Ghostbuster Atlanta, GARegistered User regular
    edited August 2010
    My local pizza place had one of these growing up.
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    Ms. Pac-Man and Centipede.

    I convinced myself that I was playing the demo sometimes because my mom would never give me quarters.

    Cocktail arcade machines are classy as fuck.

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  • Caulk Bite 6Caulk Bite 6 One of the multitude of Dans infesting this place Registered User regular
    edited August 2010
    There was a best western on the route to Champagne, Illinois that my family and I stayed in when we went down to visit family this spring. in the lavish pool area (with a waterfall!) there was an old SNK machine with World Heroes 2 on it.

    I played the shit out of it, mostly as Rasputin.

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  • SquallSquall hap cloud Registered User regular
    edited August 2010
    Squall wrote: »
    I love the jurassic park 2 machine

    dave & busters gets points in my book for being a place I can shoot dinosaurs with one hand and down liquor with the other

    living the american dream

    Hell yea. And if it's a game where I cock my gun while playing throwing back a shot just accents the manliness.

    thanks for havin my back dude

    good to have someone manly to relate to

    lets [strike]makeout[/strike] drink beer and go skeet shooting

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  • SquallSquall hap cloud Registered User regular
    edited August 2010
    TankHammer wrote: »
    My local pizza place had one of these growing up.
    5ul6x0.jpg

    Ms. Pac-Man and Centipede.

    I convinced myself that I was playing the demo sometimes because my mom would never give me quarters.

    Cocktail arcade machines are classy as fuck.

    I actually own both of these in my basement

    the pacman monitor is all fucked up and won't work, and the centipede needed new rollers

    I got the rollers installed and it worked for about a day before the board shorted out somehow after trying to get the coin slot to work

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  • TankHammerTankHammer Atlanta Ghostbuster Atlanta, GARegistered User regular
    edited August 2010
    That sucks dude.

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  • Goose!Goose! That's me, honey Show me the way home, honeyRegistered User regular
    edited August 2010
    I want to open an arcade/music venue with a bar and maybe a kitchen.

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  • TankHammerTankHammer Atlanta Ghostbuster Atlanta, GARegistered User regular
    edited August 2010
    I want to live near a bar-cade.

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