3s HK/International Version.
Don’t get me wrong Denjin is a great arcade and it is the MECCA for Third Strike. But in my experience when it comes to 3S players Denjin is about quality while FFA is about quantity. I started going to FFA in late 2004 and I know too well about the golden age of third strike at FFA.
But I live in a place where I have to decide to either go to AI or FFA to play 3S since they are both about equal distance from where I live but in different directions. I usually pick FFA rather then AI because it has the American cabinets, since I prefer them, and the drive is better (Just up the 405). And when I go to FFA I have to go late because there is no traffic.
While it takes me 30-40 minutes to go to FFA or AI, it takes me about an hour and fifteen minutes to go to Denjin and there are four or five times where the drive wasn’t worth it because there was no one there playing 3S when I went there. Whenever I go to Denjin I end up going on the wrong days. When I go to FFA there is always someone playing there and even though they are not the elite like Denjin, they are good. They are not trash. At FFA there’s actually new people playing 3S. In other places new people don’t pick it up if the game is there. I’m thankful that at least at a place like FFA, there are people constantly playing 3S. Besides Denjin and AI, that game is so dead everywhere else and it’s my favorite game.
I like all the arcades in SoCal and I’m glad that out of the places in the country we still have a scene. So I hope there is no feud between Denjin and FFA. I go to FFA because it’s just the most convenient for me.
But yes I agree with you, SoCal arcade players deserve to have all their fighters at $.25. Fighting games are meant to only be a quarter. I actually think the game will make more money if it’s only $.25 since more people will play and won’t be scared of losing all their money fast if they get mopped up by better competition.
Really enjoying the posts, they’re detailed and give me a little more insight on what the arcade scene was like before '09.
Also $.50 per SF4 play makes me think the arcade owners are stingy… or at least that was before you set up every machine for free play all day. Once again, I really appreciate it!
you mean like how postage stamps are meant to be a quarter?
are arcades stingy, or are you just too cheap to pay 50 cents per game? There’s a difference.
I’ve paid $.50 to play each time I’ve been to FFA, I just have the luxury of going across the street and pay $.25 to play. I’d have more incentive to drive all the way down there to play different people if it were the same price, considering I’d be going there to play large amounts of different people and lowering the price would increase the traffic dramatically.
Must need them in my dungeon now.
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Am I doing it right?
A message from my Master:
Shout-out to charming Tim for treating a Goddess like how she’s supposed to be treated. 
I really want to believe everything you’re saying, but it still doesn’t add up. If everything does get fixed with new parts as you say, then why is shit still messed up? Like the mvc2 bigscreen people say hk on left or right side ALWAYS goes out, and the jab. So you’re saying people press the jab and hk too much? lol that shit doesn’t add up man. Maybe you were told the parts were new when replacing them, but something tells me you were lied to. Doesn’t ralph want the place to be poppin where theres like 7 quraters minimum on each cab? I guess not.
And the whole console thing. I think it was an attempt to bring in more customers to make up for the loss the other games are having, 95% im pretty damn sure relating to shitty sticks/buttons. Please dont lie saying shit is new. You might be able to fool the new crowds, but the old comers know. You should be blocking when you’re holding back and not get hit. But at ffa, it’s 50/50, so might as well not block and try to reverse, but o wait, buttons are broken too. Shit, that means you can’t play properly at ffa. NO FUCKING WAY?! Yes people not take care of the parts, but there are other arcades that people manhandle the controls too, and they seem to be in fine working condition still. Like James games, their sticks suck ass, but at least they work, and so do the buttons. AND their SF4 is 25 cents.
Why do you think the first sf4 ffa thread died? same thing happened with the old 3s thread. the only thing alive is the mvc2 thread, and that shit is slowly dying too. Someone should just open an arcade right next to ffa and call it bffa, better than ffa. have the same set up and same games, but everything works. now that would be great. HINT HINT fix your fuckin shit. stop being fucking stingy, seriously. all that money wasted on the consoles could’ve gone to parts and new wiring.
This sounds like hate, but it is merely just criticism. It’s time people start talking shit (well, telling the truth) so this shithole turns back into a GDLK arcade. hahaha i doubt thats ever going to happen unless we start seeing changes, and some BIG Changes…
Thanks for the free games FFA. FYI ^^^ 90% of mvc2 players will always say they blocked this or blocked that.
Cmon JR. You have to admit those sticks and buttons are ass. Don’t tell me you’ve never had an ffa moment where you know 100% SURE you were holding back and you get hit with some bullshit you know you blocked. Just read the ffa thread and james thread. It’s always ffa “jab is broken, or low kick is out.” I never hear that shit from James games. So when romfinite beat you first set, you’re saying sticks/buttons were perfectly fine? I think not. You should’ve scrapped him 1st set, but hey, its FFA. I would rather play on DC controller than ffa sticks, until they get shit fixed. FFA = Frugal Foney arcade, where we say we fix shit, but really dont.
I didn’t take him seriously. That’s why I lost the first set. I’m not saying sticks are perfect, but forreal mvc2 players always complain about blocking. Nothing against your game. Do i know you btw?
I’m gonna make a stand here with my hammer and sickle. Fighting games today especially Marvel and Street Fighter, a lot of the player base is made up of the working class aka the proletariat. A lot of these players work their crappy exploitative jobs at best buy, car max, home depot, and/or domino’s pizza. After work they play a game like Marvel or 3S and kill everyone so that they can feel like kings. These fighting games today are the modern working man’s chess. If the games are expensive like 50 cents per play our fellow workers will be exploited and they will get a hole burned in their pocket and stop playing because the price is too high to spend a lot of time on these games.
With the economy down today, fighting arcade games are a cheap and sophisticated way to have fun, especially when there are a lot of players. I think 50 cents per play is taking advantage of the working class player base. 50 cents per play will not work in the long run and it will alienate the enthusiastic players. Arcades have to think about the players who cannot afford a fucking new gen console, a SF4 game, and a fucking tourney stick. So the only way they could play is in an arcade.
We are so lucky to be in SoCal/LA area to have a great arcade scene. Anywhere in the country an arcade scene as strong as ours does not exist.
If you don’t believe me go to fucking San Diego and play some 50 cent per play Marvel, CVS 2, and third strike in a shitty arcade like all the Tilts.
The norm and the tradition is $.25 per play for fighting games. Let’s try to maintain that.
Workers of the world unite!