Dude I know the article is not about megaman. I just referred to it as that because thats what the previous poster did. Sheesh you really need to stop chewing on that Pride Pie. Switch to some humble pie. It’s good for you. Intellect? That is sure a closed minded view of intellect. I know many people with successful careers, that are not so efficient in our language. You’re pride is disgusting, and what you pride yourself on is even worse. And your stuck up elitist attitude which is so self centered is more distasteful than any type of intellect or lack of. Good Day… But Fez… I Said Good Day
Wait, weren’t we talking about arcades?
been waiting for OP to show up and grace the thread with his boundless wisdom and angelic charm. getting kinda boring without all those excellent interjections and half-sentences.
back to topic : someday, someone called illSim will create a thread on the SRK Fighting Game Discussion forums entitled “esports is not the death of the FGC… here is why”.
lightbulb…
8P
Banned by Preppy.
awww… that’s kinda sad to hear. RIP illSim. another online troll will take your place very soon here on the SRK forums, guaranteed.
peace out.
8P
I dont believe you.
It was a different time.
And you were not there.
maybe the OP meant to say that online gaming is what killed the arcade FG scene, or at least greatly diminished it.
you bring up a point here. even if you didn’t have a problem with troublemakers or jack ass behavior at your local arcade, laindrymat, or bodega that has cabinets…with losers having fits and getting stupid, the store owners don’t want that nonsense going on in their business. i mean, when shit happens like kids taking out stun guns and box cutters and stuff…the store owners will just tell the cab owners to get the cab out of their store coz its too much of a hassle or trouble.
my local laundrymat had of all things…a MvC1 cab!
but it was a quarter eater. the game looked like it worked fine, but when you put in your 2 quarters, it wouldn’t recognize you did! so…yeah…no one played it…no small marvel scene then.
bummer. point is, broken cabs that never got fixed doesn’t help social scenes either.
i miss my 2 quarters.
but i’d say online gaming is what did in american arcades more than anything. or cabs in general coz you can never find one…or at least one that isn’t broken:-/
Belief does not make it true. :E
All I’m saying is most of the people who play now probably would not want to go the arcade. Do they go to local tournies?
word. Is that your belief, given your hypothetical? hahaa
I cant believe you didnt agree with my Haiku
And why do you think people that play now prob wouldnt go to an arcade? Could it have something to do with the convenience of an option?
I could just as well have said that lots of the people who used to be regulars in arcades never bothered to purchase consoles. The only difference between that statement and yours (which is basically the converse) is that mine is not hypothetical and can actually be demonstrated.
There was a time that If you played games, you played them in an arcade. That’s what it was for. Yes, even casual ‘gamers’ seemed to be regulars. Your view is demonstrative that ‘playing at the arcade’ is not the same thing today as it once was.
Times just change. Your comment didnt seem to acknowledge that and it just struck me as strange.
The casual players of that day would be considered hard core today. Games were different during that time.
This thread is comedy gold.
Of course arcades withered because of the rise of console gaming. Let’s not be asinine.
The other thing I wanted to address is that there were great things about arcades that will never come back. That’s not nostalgia talking. Dismissing almost two decades of the dominant medium of video game experience as nostalgia is kind of insane.
Read this thread and tell me that it’s nothing but nostalgia.
No. Not at all.
It was packed with people just messing around.
Am I seriously this old?
Stupid thread, but I enjoy ranting so…
I think the modern SF player likes talking about playing in arcades more than they actually like arcades. It’s funny now that almost nobody who plays SF actually plays it in a real arcade, but you still constantly see people talk about how arcades are essential to SF culture, blah blah.
I played CVS2 at my local arcade regularly until it broke down. The machine doesn’t make enough money for the operator to convince the franchise owner that it’s worth fixing. Isn’t that sad?
But I guess I wouldn’t classify myself as a “modern” SF player, considering I was never really big on 3 and I’ve only played 4 a few times.
Yeah I wouldn’t call anyone who plays mainly CvS2 a modern SF player, which makes me sad in its own right (although the game is 10 years old, what could anyone expect?)
It’s just my observations here, but I live in socal, and its always underwhelming how many people are actually in an arcade playing SF4. And I’m talking nice arcades with working hardware!
That goddamn heartbreaking. Same with a the CvS2 cab in the mall I live by, it and MBAC are in bad condition and they won’t fix them due to lack of use outside of me and like three people. Thankfully the Project Justice cab gets fixed seeing how the owner and the employees love that it.
Old nah. Could just be nostalgia. From what I seen most people messing around were not there for fighting games they would get beasted and go on to other amusements.
i was never talking specifically about fighters
This morning I found a Metal Slug 2 cabinet at a Greyhound station and discovered for myself that both coin slots are broken. A few minutes later, I watched a seven-year-old girl feed two of her grandfather’s kind quarters to a Galaga machine: both of its coin slots are broken as well.
Kind of funny, kind of sad, Donnie Darko lyrics, etc.
Even at their peak, though, I’d say that arcades in general were pretty infamous for having games that were prone to breakage and/or poorly maintained.
Banned. No fake accounts on SRK. If you get infracted, and we are pretty damned tolerant, you will need to sit out your time-out before returning.