I’m pretty sure Crazy Taxi was one of the first (if not the first) arcade game I ever played. I think it was at a laundromat. I couldn’t have been any older than 5 or 6 max. I thought it was the greatest thing ever.
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I hate when people call me but if I don’t pick up they don’t leave a message or send a text. Why do people do this, especially if I’m not expecting the call. Then they get mad when I don’t call back.
Am I just supposed to just call you back when I see your name? If I’m busy how do I know this is important?
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Probably because it wasn’t that important.
Don’t read too much into it.
If they get mad then fuck’em
Maybe it’s a friend asking for a first to 5.
It is important.
But then why not send me a text I can read in a few seconds? It takes no time, I don’t have to stop what I’m doing to get your message, and if miss it I know what it was when I see it.
I don’t care but people apparently get upset by this.
No bullshit I hating talking on the phone in general.
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And quite well optimised.
I ran into this video and it runs on old hardware as well if needed.
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Unfortunately they’re mostly considered a relic at this point. I know you still have Round 1 all throughout the US keeping the culture alive, but for the most they’ve went the way of the dinosaur. Now a lot of people say it’s still going strong in Japan, so that’s good to know.
What’s funny is that I always assumed I’d be content once I had the home version of the game. Felt this way when I got Super Street Fighter 2 for Sega. Had the six-button controller and everything, so no pausing and changing the layout. Same with Mortal Kombat and many others. Having access to the game at home was awesome.
Having said that, it still wasn’t enough to replicate the experience. That’s why I’d still find myself gravitating towards the Arcade machines to play those games. I was really guilty of doing this with Marvel Vs Capcom 2. I’d always go to the Gameworks to play that or Alpha 3 just to fight strangers. Some of my friends would ask me why I’m spending $ playing these games when I had it for free at home.
I always told them it was like night and day. There’d be so many people gathering around just to watch the intense matches in MVC2 on a nice summer night. Some of these people weren’t necessarily fighting game fans, but the hype was still enough to draw them in. Before you knew it, hrs went by because it was easy getting lost in the fun.
Even though I’d sometimes get in trouble for staying out too long, those experiences were totally worth it.
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If you guys are ever in the area, I implore you to go to Galloping Ghost. Best place I have ever been in.
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This is sort of happening in M:TG as we speak (and with the CoVId situation, its definitely going to). People seem to have forgotten the value of doing things as groups in person. Actually leaving your house and congregating provides a different set of circumstances to things.
The funniest thing to me is the number of people who shit on that. “I can just play at home, you guys are just being old”.
Nah, you’re missing out and your brain is missing out too. Sucks for kids TBH.
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Over here in Europe it’s even worse. The only arcades you see are filled with slot and pinball machines. Real gaming arcades have almost gone the way of the Dodo, I think you can find more arcades in any one of the bigger US states than in all of Western Europe combined.
I definitely echo your thoughts on still wanting to play in the arcade even if you had the console version of the games at home. I always figured I’d never set foot in the arcade again once console gaming was up to the level of the arcade machines, but there’s something about playing in front of a mixed crowd of strangers and friends that you just can’t replicate in your living room. Socializing while playing in the arcade is just such a unique experience. Sometimes I’d be tempted to move to Japan just for the arcade culture.
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Bad, no, that was definitely never the case with this series
Mediocre/questionable, however? Absolutely
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It happened before my time but when Evo went from cabinets to consoles, there was a massive amount of bitching.
People have a goofy view of progress. Anything replacing something fold is always deemed “better” regardless if it actually is. Playing fighting games is cheaper and more accessible, but is people staying at home than going out and meeting with other people who like what you like a few times a week? Its way cheaper for sure.
Modern M:TG has gotten rid of a million things that made the hobby fun for competitive people. No more easily acessible qualifying tournaments to get on the big pro ones. No more State tournaments that you traveled to and get a chance to dick wave as state champ; definition no more national state championships.
All that got replaced by these things called Magic Fests which have one big tournament. They’re also sort of conventions with lots of dealers and other stuff. Is that better overall?
Modern and Better are strange concepts. Most of the people stan the only stuff they know because its what they know. Maybe we shouldn’t tell them its straight ass 'cause they don’t have anything else. But old things died for reasons.
I can tell you that winning at an arcade with people watching me do it was way more meaningful than winning online at home by myself.
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Could you blame those people? Console versions weren’t exactly superior when it came to Capcom titles. To this day there are no arcade-accurate versions of any pre-MVC2 fighters available on consoles. Even the most recent anniversary collection for Street Fighter is “off” and/or has glitches and bug that prevent them to be tournament standard instead of arcade cabs. And that’s a big issue because those arcade cabs aren’t gonna last forever. while maintaining/repairing them will only continue to grow more expensive over time
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You could either keep the hobby going or super niche stuff in the US going. Those were unfortunately the breaks in the US.
It was the right decision though.
You ( i don’t mean you ) can’t blame organizers for going for more the more accessible option , the transition from cabinets to consoles in this example.
However, i fully agree that a lot of the charm has been lost.A lot of small local tournaments are gone or deemed not important because everybody’s eyes are upon the bigger ones.
Small communities pretty much vanished over night at one point.
This is true because tbh for a lot of people it’s not just about winning it, it’s everything that builds up to that point. Thing you can’t experience staying at home next to your monitor / tv screen.
Sadly if you look at modern society, pretty much everything leads up to less social interaction , in all domains.I personally dislike it.
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I was curious how they’d get the game to run on Switch until how much better Eternal performed on Base Xbox One and Base PS4 in comparison to Doom 2016. The Switch version of Eternal should actually be more impressive than Doom 2016
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the current speed of information is awesome but takes a lot of the fun out of things. Getting decklists in M:TG was a grind. Getting actual tech was kind of a big deal. You used to hide lists so people didn’t know. Now you can get hundreds of decklists at random.
Its awesome but a lot is lost that is kind of hard to define. The benefits of not having it are also hard to explain to people. Its kind of like the grind of getting good. I had to work really hard to come up from a trash collection to a really good one. Now people can get on M:TG Arena and end up with playsets of everything easily. How do you quantify the benefits I got from grinding for my cards? Or how much I got from grinding things on my own? There’s a lot great things that happen to your brain when you have to go without and figure it out.
Its definitely something that I think about a lot in education. Kids have more technology than ever, more access to information than at any point in history, but is their education now better than my analog one in PR?
When you add up all the different costs/benefits of moving forward, it shouldn’t surprise you when the benefits of the past end up being incredibly important and hard to replicate.
I had someone on my YT ask me if a specific character was a “tournament worthy” char
and im like
there’s no tournaments anytime soon friend 
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