Arcade Gaming Thread

[BLUNTMASTER X]

Given the current-gen gaming drought just now, I've resorted to going back to my old favorite arcade games! Here's tehuberknowledgebomb for everyone who wants to try out some old arcade classics, and maybe play them with friends:

http://www.mame32-roms.chessman21.com/mame32%20roms.jpg (http://www.mameui.info/)
MAME stands for Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator. When used in conjunction with images of the original arcade game's ROM and disk data, MAME attempts to reproduce that game as faithfully as possible on a more modern general-purpose computer. MAME can currently emulate several thousand different classic arcade video games from the late 1970s through the modern era.

http://supercade.net/supercade2.png (http://www.supercade.net)
Supercade.net is the successor to 2DFighter.net. With a web-based user interface, Supercade allows netplay of modern standard in 207 different arcade classics. Although the catalog is predominantly composed of fighters, games like Metal Slug, Dungeons and Dragons and Double Dragon are available for co-op play.

http://ggpo.net/img/logo-vertical.png (http://ggpo.net/)
Pioneered arcade netplay, and its netcode library is used on Supercade and in commercial games such as Marvel vs Capcom 2 and Final Fight: Double Impact. Similar to Supercade, but uses a downloadable client and has a huge playerbase for fighting games. It's not uncommon to see around 500 Chinese players on late at night for a KOF98 session!

Arcade games worth checking out:
Final Fight (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Final_fight)
DoDonPachi (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dodonpachi)
Twinkle Star Sprites (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twinkle_Star_Sprites)
The Punisher (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Punisher_%28arcade_game%29)
Metal Slug 3 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metal_Slug_3)
Dungeons & Dragons: Tower of Doom (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dungeons_%26_Dragons:_Tower_of_Doom)
Cadillacs and Dinosaurs (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cadillacs_and_Dinosaurs_%28arcade_game%29)
Neo Turf Masters (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neo_Turf_Masters)
Neo Geo Cup 98 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neo_Geo_Cup_%2798:_The_Road_to_the_Victory)
Dunk Dream (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Street_hoop)

[Vampiro V. Empire]

what do i do

[BLUNTMASTER X]

what do you mean

[Vampiro V. Empire]

how do i play

[BLUNTMASTER X]

well if you download MAME its just a standard emulator that you run roms from

for supercade/ggpo you join lobbies, its all pretty self-explanatory once you check them out

[Vampiro V. Empire]

oh. too much work

[Prince Shondronai]

Indeed. Come to this place instead and spend some cash:

Awesomest arcade ever. (http://www.paulsarcade.com)

[BLUNTMASTER X]

dude you really need to hire a web designer or something, holy shit

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i was producing web pages that looked better than that in my 2nd year of high school CS

[S0LID 5NAKE]

i remember back in the day Wunderland was the ish for gaming. it was hella cheap to get in like about 2 bucks and half of the games were free and the other half were a nickel or 2

[fnool]

Indeed. Come to this place instead and spend some cash:

Awesomest arcade ever. (http://www.paulsarcade.com)

your game list has zero scanability. mystery meat navigation at its fucking worst. your designer should be flayed

[Apathetic]

Haha you should try my colleges website fnool. It would be like ff7 all over again.

[Kamek]

Prince you should host fighting game tourneys at your Arcade. Get the MN scene poppin.I guarantee, get a few fighters, post about it on shoryuken.com and watch your revenue go up a million percent.

[BLUNTMASTER X]

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That's $60 worth of tokens!

[Prince Shondronai]

Prince you should host fighting game tourneys at your Arcade. Get the MN scene poppin.I guarantee, get a few fighters, post about it on shoryuken.com and watch your revenue go up a million percent.

I've got a Tekken 6 tourney scheduled for September 7th. I'm not running it, one of my customers is, but it's going to be exclusively run on the T6 machine I've got.

I absolutely loathe running tournaments myself, so I rely on my customers to run them for me.

Capcom has said that it'll be 2 years before Street Fighter vs. Tekken comes out on consoles, so I'm hoping it'll come out in arcades next year for a reasonable price. I'll snatch up a kit for that game and should be able to make a good profit on it with an entire year of exclusivity.

[Yoshi[NX]]

set up a classics area

[Kamek]

I've got a Tekken 6 tourney scheduled for September 7th. I'm not running it, one of my customers is, but it's going to be exclusively run on the T6 machine I've got.

I absolutely loathe running tournaments myself, so I rely on my customers to run them for me.

Capcom has said that it'll be 2 years before Street Fighter vs. Tekken comes out on consoles, so I'm hoping it'll come out in arcades next year for a reasonable price. I'll snatch up a kit for that game and should be able to make a good profit on it with an entire year of exclusivity.

Do you have a Street Fighter 4 cab? At the legendary Chinatown Fair, although Super SF4 isn't out yet, they have a nice set up in which you pay 25 cents for three minutes of play and it's a 360 setup that just looks like it is an arcade set up. Even an original SF4 set up would be cool to have, although Super is legitimately coming to arcades soon. This place is the last arcade left in NYC and what makes it so popular is that it has something (an arcade setting) that no one else has. Tekken is popular and all, but Street Fighter would definitely give you a lot of people too. Also, you might want to consider importing games like KoF13 that aren't here stateside, so lots of die-hards would come to your arcade just for the chance to play the game. Getting more into the fighting game scene would really do wonders for your arcade.

[Prince Shondronai]

Do you have a Street Fighter 4 cab? At the legendary Chinatown Fair, although Super SF4 isn't out yet, they have a nice set up in which you pay 25 cents for three minutes of play and it's a 360 setup that just looks like it is an arcade set up. Even an original SF4 set up would be cool to have, although Super is legitimately coming to arcades soon. This place is the last arcade left in NYC and what makes it so popular is that it has something (an arcade setting) that no one else has. Tekken is popular and all, but Street Fighter would definitely give you a lot of people too. Also, you might want to consider importing games like KoF13 that aren't here stateside, so lots of die-hards would come to your arcade just for the chance to play the game. Getting more into the fighting game scene would really do wonders for your arcade.

You would think so, but you'd be wrong. Once those games come out on consoles, business dries up real fast. Since it was released for PS3 and 360, I've seen maybe 2 of the 40 or so people who used to come in and play Tekken 6 every single day of the week. I have serious doubts that I'd get a ton of people playing Super Street Fighter IV when it's already been out on consoles for awhile.

It's tough to be a major destination in Racine, Wisconsin. If I was in Chicago or even Milwaukee it might work better, but the malls in those cities are all against arcades because their security is so incompetent. I had to deal with that in my mall for a little while before the mall managers caught the security chief lying in his reports about my store and realized that I could have probably sued the pants off all of them and won if they kicked me out.

[Futuristic Jet]

I never had any arcades nearby growing up, but whenever I found one I always went to play mortal kombat for some reason, despite always utterly getting my ass kicked.

[Prince Shondronai]

Think I'll try swapping Soul Calibur III into my SCII machine this week and see how it does. I've always felt it was the weakest game in the series, but apparently the arcade version is supposed to be quite good compared to the shitty PS2 one.

[Apathetic]

Spent way to much money at arcades. Too much time as well. But it was fun?

[Yoshi[NX]]

I used to go to Funspot every year with my report card.

It owned.

[BLUNTMASTER X]

I never had any arcades nearby growing up, but whenever I found one I always went to play mortal kombat for some reason, despite always utterly getting my ass kicked.the game used to read out high score initials, 6T9 for the win

[Apathetic]

Local pizza place had metal slug. We fucking beat that shit so hard. Pinball and claw machines too.

[jongx3]

Local pizza place had metal slug. We fucking beat that shit so hard. Pinball and claw machines too.

metal slug is awesome,i wonder how much money i wasted playing the game