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Arcades

Just thought i'd start a new topic.

Arcades does any one miss them? dose any one have a decent arcade near you? Best arcade memorys?

Most arcades now are full of gambling machines and very few games.

There was a time when arcades was the door way to seeing the very latest and best games.

I always found arcade gaming to be a bit special comapired with home gaming. You was forced to get good at games so your money would go further. Down to your last 10p chasing that high score or final boss. It always seemed to add a edge to gaming.

Playing with or against random people working togetherto beat the game, or fighting each other for pride and glory.

I was quite a mean street fighter 2 player when i was a nipper, i would beat teens and adults often after games there would be hand shakes there was a real sense of pride and respect. If you was owning on one game a crowd would sometimes gather would would add extra pressure to do well.

Arcades was very social places and a good way to meet new friends. Now they seem full of drunk chavs spending there pocket money on fuirt machines and ddr (least the ones around me)

I guess now lan partys are the new form of arcades but i dunno i still dont find them as fun as i did arcades.
 
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Oh and what sort of player was you.

Would you put in pound coins to get more credits for your money or just play it buy ear on the 10ps.

If you got a hgih score would you put a bad word in or your inishals, or random symbols or numbers.
 
No but I do miss Arcades though :p

It was one of the great things about growing up in and around Southsea/Portsmouth in the mid eighties to late eighties which I feel was the golden era for arcades and arcade gaming.
 
I miss the arcades of my youth also. Most ones that are still around that I've seen recently are in seaside towns and they seem to be slowly detereorating, less game cabinets more fruities, more penny drops and grabber machines and stuff.

Some of them used to be great with all the classic cabinets at 10p a go along with the newer games. Nothing beats some afterburner in that giant machine that rocked about and shook as you played. I remember pumping pounds & pounds into final fight with my brother trying to finish the game and running out of money on one of the last levels and knowing that we couldn't get more change before the timer reached 0.


I've been back to some that I remember from when i was younger recently and most of the good stuff has gone or is in a poor state of repair, still managed to find some good pinball machines still going strong but that was about it.
 
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I live in Margate so we still have Arcades along the seafront, although for the past few years, it just became worse and worse due to places burning down (Insurance scams *cough*) and all the good machines being ruined by chavs or gone altogether and replaced by crappy family oriented mini-game stuff.

Used to be such an awesome place for Dance Dance Revolution machines pre-2005. I probably wasted around £30 a week on these things, which each pound giving 3 to 5 songs per turn. Light Gun games too like House of the Dead 1-3, Time Crisis 1-4, Virtua Cop 1-3, Gunblade N.Y.C etc. Classic racing games like OutRun 2 SP and Daytona USA 1-2. We still have some of these machines but they gone worse and the Arcade owners are too cheap to refurbish or fix them.

The only game worth going for now is Battle Gear 3 where I get 3 credits per pound. If I am in London for a few days, I ALWAYS at least make a trip to the Trocadero. Shame this place isn't as good as many years ago, but at least there are some decent games there i.e. rows of Daytona or OutRun machines, Initial D and DDR machines or the other odd quirky Japanese game.
 
They priced themselves out of appeal to me, £1 for a few minutes gaming, no thanks

If they were 20p a game I'd still play.

Had many fun games of Time Crisis
 
I don't really miss them at all.

The only games I really bothered with were:
The Simpsons (4 player)
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (4 player)
WWF Royal Rumble

I do admit those 3 games were awesome!!!
 
GAUNTLET! Up until Gauntlet arrived, Arcades were something I'd just waste twenty minutes in waiting for the next bus. Gauntlet was my first ever multiplayer (ie. more than two player) game, and I made some good friends playing it.
 
I spent a lot of time in arcades but only really played splatterhouse and shinobi
must have completed splatterhouse dozens of times on a single credit,as for shinobi was never able to finish it:)
 
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I don't really miss them at all.

The only games I really bothered with were:
The Simpsons (4 player)
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (4 player)
WWF Royal Rumble

I do admit those 3 games were awesome!!!
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Don't forget Konami's X-Men arcade game which was 4 and 6 players as well.

There was also this Final Fight/Streets of Rage-like game that was 4 player too but I cannot remember what it was called. I remember one of the characters you get to chose who was in the colour blue, looked like Hulk Hogan.
 
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