Who here still pays money to play certain games at a game center or arcade?
(me)
Arcade gaming represents everything gaming is and comes from for me. Games come in many genres. Games can be either co-operative or competitive. Games can be played with friends, or total strangers. While limited in some respect, and console gaming has proven to provide better, more conveniencing, and cost-effective alternatives, the point still stands that arcades gave birth to modern gaming.
Our 'cade's hit the skids since 2005. We used to have MvC2, Third Strike, Tekken 4, Tekken Tag Tournament and a DDRMAX2, but all that shit's gone in favor of a terribly maintained Tekken 5 (character card slots are jammed with tokens, because of either a. minority kids b. stupid kids c. the management), CvS2 with broken-ass sticks, SC3 (Soul Calibur) with faggot profiles on it, a SC2 in an AM2 racing game cab (lol wut), and a (raped to high hell) DDR Supernova. There are also three Silent Scope 1 machines, and two Silent Scope 2 machines. (What the shit?) Nobody plays Tag Tournament anymore.
But over the years some cool stuff has come in too. We now have two TC3 (Time Crisis) standard cabs, one TC4 standard cab (TC4 sucks btw), a DDR EXTREME machine (we had two, sold one of them) that i'd rather play than the Supernova, A PIU DX (only Mexicans, people familiar with the franchise, and clueless middle-schoolers play it), and a KOF '98 with a harbl monitor.
Really, it's just a children's casino now.
But up north we have Nickels. (Nickel City) Third Strike, Second Impact, MvC1/2, Rival Schools Project Justice (holy ****), GGXX Slash (It could be AC now, I only went there just last EVO), ID3, Virtua On, ****tons of other great games despite the place being extremely small. I haven't been able to visit the place often because of school and the fact that it's a 30-minute drive south via the tollway.
the roof's on fire, we talk about arcades
(me)
Arcade gaming represents everything gaming is and comes from for me. Games come in many genres. Games can be either co-operative or competitive. Games can be played with friends, or total strangers. While limited in some respect, and console gaming has proven to provide better, more conveniencing, and cost-effective alternatives, the point still stands that arcades gave birth to modern gaming.
Our 'cade's hit the skids since 2005. We used to have MvC2, Third Strike, Tekken 4, Tekken Tag Tournament and a DDRMAX2, but all that shit's gone in favor of a terribly maintained Tekken 5 (character card slots are jammed with tokens, because of either a. minority kids b. stupid kids c. the management), CvS2 with broken-ass sticks, SC3 (Soul Calibur) with faggot profiles on it, a SC2 in an AM2 racing game cab (lol wut), and a (raped to high hell) DDR Supernova. There are also three Silent Scope 1 machines, and two Silent Scope 2 machines. (What the shit?) Nobody plays Tag Tournament anymore.
But over the years some cool stuff has come in too. We now have two TC3 (Time Crisis) standard cabs, one TC4 standard cab (TC4 sucks btw), a DDR EXTREME machine (we had two, sold one of them) that i'd rather play than the Supernova, A PIU DX (only Mexicans, people familiar with the franchise, and clueless middle-schoolers play it), and a KOF '98 with a harbl monitor.
Really, it's just a children's casino now.
But up north we have Nickels. (Nickel City) Third Strike, Second Impact, MvC1/2, Rival Schools Project Justice (holy ****), GGXX Slash (It could be AC now, I only went there just last EVO), ID3, Virtua On, ****tons of other great games despite the place being extremely small. I haven't been able to visit the place often because of school and the fact that it's a 30-minute drive south via the tollway.
the roof's on fire, we talk about arcades