Whats up tampa? Just moved out here, lookin to find some casuals whether theres some goin around or maybe starting somethin.
Same here, relatively new to FGs and just moved to Tampa. Are there any arcades that people play at regularly?
Been lookin around a lil for some but i havent found much, theres gameworks in ybor (sorry its gametime now) but they dont have much when it comes to FGs maybe like a tekken cabinet which isnt my thing (no disrespect to the tekken players) same thing with the tilt arcade in citrus park mall. I hear theres a place in sarasota but havent looked into it yet. What area of tampa are you by?
Yo, welcome to the Tampa community. The casual scene is weekly at Serenity Games out in St. Pete on Tuesday nights and Sundays. Check their Facebook page for their address and more info. Also, if you need any modding done, just send me or bobcustomgamer a message with what you need and we’ll work it out.
Damn, I’m throwing out fb links and I’m not even on that shit. Guess an old man’s got to get with the times.
Thx, thats the place i was talkin about to elephant thought it was in sarasota but its in st. pete. Nice what games do they usually play out there if you dont mind me askin
Currently I’m up at the University of Tampa without a car, so transportation is kinda limited. Finding a place nearby is going to be completely luck
We play mainly, UMvC3, SFxT, AE, KoF, we’d host MK9 but people never bother to come out for it.
Tonight was mad fun guys!
You should be able to find people to play most things that aren’t too anime, basically. Current popular games around here, are something like Marvel 3, SF4, Skullgirls, KOF13, SFxT, roughly in that order. Serenity has a cabinet with a good lineup of old games available; ST, CVS2, Breaker’s Revenge, Garou, Project Justice, Samurai Showdown, and probably a couple more that I can’t think of right now. Ask and you can usually get people to sit down and play some of those also, especially the owner, Delly, he’ll generally play any of those with whoever. If you want to play anime games, ask on Dustloop, there are people in the Tampa/St Pete area that will play them, but generally I think they gather for casuals at people’s houses.
Like was said earlier, casuals at serenity are on tuesdays and sundays, with sunday being the ‘main’ day usually. There’s a stream running most, if not all sundays, and there are anywhere from 8 to 16 people in the store at any given time for casuals.
As for Sarasota, a few of us are down in that area, and we did run some weekly casuals at a barcade here for a couple months, but we stopped doing it a while back.
You could also look into Sore Thumbs, they’re more in Tampa proper I believe, though I have no idea where in relation to the University, since I live all the way down here in Venice, so that’s all foreign lands to me.
You guys should also join the Tampa facebook group: http://www.facebook.com/groups/266497330081332
Fair warning though, don’t take anything too seriously, there’s a lot of bullshitting and stupid trash talking and all that there.
Tampa Lanes has an unrivaled line up of games of every genre. There’s no there’s no other arcade worth going to in the area
This is probably the closest arcade I can find, I’ll definitely show up one day. Assuming the games are current? (I’ve been playing Blazblue, which I quit, for 2 years, and just started SF4/UMVC3, so those are the games I’m curious about.) Any days some good players come by on? I’d assume like a friday night but I want to ask before I bike out for 20 minutes for nothing
TL hasn’t been relevant since '08, they don’t fix their machines at all so no one goes there anymore. You can still drink there though, so that’s cool.
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If anyone is down for a local game I just upgraded my arcade.
Our lineup is now
Capcom Vs Snk 2
Marvel Vs Capcom 2
Snk Vs Capcom Chaos
Street Fighter 3 Third Strike
Super Street Fighter IV AE
King Of Fighters XIII
Dodonpachi Dai Ou Jou Black Label
Espgaluda
And many many more!
wait what
what is this and where?
My house in south Tampa
Egret 2
Naomi universal
Naomi USA
2 midway conversions
Big blue cps2 capcom
i think there needs to be a party at this guys ^ house stat. i could definitely go for some Cave shooters on Cab
My cave lineup is currently
Akai Katana
Deathsmiles
Deathsmiles 2
Donpachi
Dodonpachi
Dodonpachi Dai Ou Jou
Dodonpachi Dai Ou Jou Black Label
Dodonpachi Daifukkatsu
Dodonpachi Daifukkatsu Black Label
Espgaluda
Espgaluda 2
Esprade
Fever SOS
Guwange
Ibara
Ketsui
Muchi Muchi Pork
Mushihimesama
Mushihimesama Futari
Mushihimesama Futari Black Label
Pink Sweets
Pro Gear No Arashi
Non cave shmups include
Gigawing 2
Gigawing Generations
Homura
Karous
Psyvariar 2
Raiden IV
Raiden Fighters
Raiden Fighters 2
Raiden Fighters Jet
Shikigami No Shiro 2
Shikigami No Shiro 3
Trigger Hear Excelica
Under Defeat
Zero Gunner 2
I basically have every Naomi , Type X , Cave , Atomiswave , Neo Geo fighter / shmup worth playing.
with how much you have I’m sorta shocked i don’t see Dragon Blaze. regardless your collection is beastly impressive and you only listed shooters, much respect
edit: it’s nice to see someone else in this forum who’s actually even heard of these games, owning them is just a giant plus. we’ll have to exchange some scores later
I play alot of Psikyo shmups. Just so many different games to list. Dragon Blaze , Strikers 1999 and Cannon Spike are some of my favorites by them.