Arcade Games

jae_hoon · September 16, 2017, 7:20am

Closest barcade to me is an hour and a half away minimum.

Foolinfection · September 16, 2017, 3:30pm

The only thing I hate about barcades is that it’s made the price on cabs go up because of the demand. So it sucks to be a collector now.

DoctaMario · September 18, 2017, 4:37am

AlphaCharlie:

Jion_Wansu:

Man that ending was weak for that Alien game. Reminds me of the weak endings of early Mortal Kombat games. Was this Revision 1.1 or something?

There’s this giant galaga, giant pacman, and giant centipede game at the local arcade

No that’s the finished game. It’s is called Aliens “Armageddon” after all. Meaning earth is fucked.

Anyway, ending aside, the game is otherwise 5-stars all the way. It’s every bit as good as classic shooters like House of the Dead and Time Crisis from back in the day. I’ve only ever seen it at Lasertag arcades though, so that’s your best bet if you want to try it out.

The same company also recently made a damn good Walking Dead shooter as well:

Your light guns are shaped like crossbows and you HAVE to get headshots to take down a zombie.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ogHpKGW42Jk

They have that Aliens game at Dave & Busters too. I played it Friday with my lady friend there.

One of my buddies is one of the partners in Game Galaxy arcade here and he was saying the same thing. You used to be able to get SF2 machines dirt cheap and now people want money for them. Guess it’s good that they have value again though.

Strider2k2 · September 18, 2017, 4:52pm

I’m currently vacationing in Wuhan, China (where my wife is from)…and there are arcades in every single mall we’ve visited. I was pleasantly surprised by how healthy & lively the arcades/game centers are there.

The games we’ve seen / got to play were racing games (Outrun 2 SP, Wangan Midnight Maximum Tune 4/5, etc), fighting games (SSF4:AE, KOF 98, Tekken Tag 2, SF2, Samurai Shodown 2, etc) and rhythm games (some DDR/Stepmania/Bemani clones). Other games that were there were lightgun shooting games, arcade basketball, mini Karaoke machines (which are actually really fun), Ocean King (a really popular tabletop fish catching game), slot machines, crane machines and random touchscreen arcade cabinets for kids.

Out of the the many (~8) arcades I’ve visited, I noticed that there was a lack of shmups (except for 1 or 2 locations), and Gundam Versus games - which is not too surprising, given how niche both genres are.

Seeing all these arcades in a random (but rapidly modernizing) city in China, kinda give me hope that the arcade scene isn’t exactly dead in other parts of the world. Needless to say, I really do miss this aspect of the arcade scene in the States.

Foolinfection · September 18, 2017, 9:09pm

DoctaMario:

AlphaCharlie:

Jion_Wansu:

Man that ending was weak for that Alien game. Reminds me of the weak endings of early Mortal Kombat games. Was this Revision 1.1 or something?

There’s this giant galaga, giant pacman, and giant centipede game at the local arcade

No that’s the finished game. It’s is called Aliens “Armageddon” after all. Meaning earth is fucked.

Anyway, ending aside, the game is otherwise 5-stars all the way. It’s every bit as good as classic shooters like House of the Dead and Time Crisis from back in the day. I’ve only ever seen it at Lasertag arcades though, so that’s your best bet if you want to try it out.

The same company also recently made a damn good Walking Dead shooter as well:

Your light guns are shaped like crossbows and you HAVE to get headshots to take down a zombie.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ogHpKGW42Jk

They have that Aliens game at Dave & Busters too. I played it Friday with my lady friend there.

Foolinfection:

The only thing I hate about barcades is that it’s made the price on cabs go up because of the demand. So it sucks to be a collector now.

One of my buddies is one of the partners in Game Galaxy arcade here and he was saying the same thing. You used to be able to get SF2 machines dirt cheap and now people want money for them. Guess it’s good that they have value again though.

Real talk. I have two different sf2 cabs that I got in my area for 200 bucks each a few years ago. Now it’s difficult to find them for less than 900-1000.