Thread 714634061

Arcade bros are we finally back?

>barcade
Cringe

>>714634121
Scared of a lil alchy?

Ill go as long as there are pinball machines.

Will it have exposed red bricks and IPAs?

Will it have pizza?

Also reminder that the guy who created Atari also created Chuck E Cheese. But both Atari and Chuck E Cheese were eventually sold off.

>>714634061 (OP)
Uhhh exposed brick uhh hoppy IPA barcade wife's son uhhh hustle and bustle.
Yeah.

>>714634061 (OP)
How do you get retro games?

>>714634061 (OP)
I like that they used the old chuck logo, but I have absolutely no interest in stepping food into a nostalgia bait chuck e cheese.

>>714634061 (OP)
>barcade
millennial bait

Unless you are a parent, nobody over the age of 14 should be going to Chuck E Cheese to play the games. If I saw an lone adult at chuck e cheese I'd assume one thing: Pedophile.

>>714635409
You emulate them.

>modern hits such as Jurassic Park
What is this constant meme about Jurassic Park being some modern beloved hit?
Jurassic Park hasn't been loved or relevant to anything since the original in '93.

>>714635409
Unfortunately I have to emulate them. I had a Neo Geo arcade cabnet but when I went to college my parents sold it since they needed the storage space. The carts were INSANELY expensive so I can't replace them so I just emulate neo geo on my steam deck now

>>714635568
Kids still like Jurassic park and they are still making movies and stuff. They even made a cartoon series with belle delphine in it.

>>714634061 (OP)
>retro games
This feels so weird. The whole point of arcades used to be technology far beyond home systems. But now it's the opposite, looking into the past instead.

Theyd be better off doing some fnaf themed pizza place with murder mysteries and an appeal to children than this soilennial crap

>>714634061 (OP)
>food & drink + video games
those two things don't mix

>halo and jurassic park
>modern hits

no street fighter 3 no buy

>>714635274
Was that the 3do guy?

>>714635463
I used to go there to shoot hoops when I worked at the sports authority and was on break would get some pizza too

currently chuck's

My local barcade has an Alien Vs. Predator cabinet. Love that place.

>>714636704
Didnt a brand new Jurassic park movie come out or some shit

>>714635568
>>714636704
???
There has been a Jurassic Park movie every 3 years, and the last three all sold more then the original.

>>714635862
Because almost no one is developing arcades outside of adapting mobile shit. You can still have a reason for arcade games like doing things that aren't feasible for home that a lot of older games still did. Like Super Hang-On, Dance Dance Revolution (not everyone is willing to have a dance pad), Fist of the North Star, Silent Scope, and so on.

>>714637294
why dont they put these type of machines in the gym? If they did id go

>>714637315
Gym isn't supposed to be fun it's supposed to be a membership you don't use outside of january

>>714635454
Yes it says thats the target audience in the op

>>714637396
Imagine how cool a gym would be if it had interactive shit like that?

>>714637294
>Fist of the North Star
how could you forget the improved ashita no joe boxing mania

do they make new arcade games

>>714634061 (OP)
No. But the fact that we're not 100 percent dead, and Raw Thrills and Konami, and Namco still have a shot at putting new machines up is good enough for now.

Any music game players of course need to get their asses to a round 1.

>>714634061 (OP)
Isnit gonna have an adult pizza dinner theater with animatronics also? and an adult sized play place with rape tunnels?

>>714634061 (OP)
>Kids go into regular chuck e cheeses for the pizza, birthday parties, and games
>When they grow older open a barcade to wrangle them in with alcohol and nostalgia
This might have worked if the franchise was better run and happened like ten years ago, I don't think the thirty year old boomers of today have many positive memories of chuck e cheese, or maybe they do idk

>>714637315
That's actually Round 1's Sportcha concept. Now available in like 3 places in the US.

>>714637625
Because it was available in like 2 places ever in the entire US? Did you go to Arcade infinity back in the day?

>>714637665
Just looked this place up never heard of it, they have one 40 mins from me, the games they have look pretty cool too

>adults-only arcade
it's time to grow up

>>714634061 (OP)
>Ms. Pac Man
>Galaga
>Donkey Kong
Who the fuck is this meant to appeal to? People in their late 60s? Put some actual decent arcade games in there like Simpsons Arcade, Raiden II, Time Crisis, Metal Slug not this ancient boomer shit from the 70s

>Alcohol
Gross

>wife and her friends on a work holiday to the bahamas
>wife's son at school camp and I've paid it off
>2 for 1 on IPA alcohol
>chuck e cheese has my favorite childhood retro consoles at stretched widescreen on giant 4k TVs
we are so back!!!!

>>714634061 (OP)
If you're wondering if this is a barcade, no. They're just mall arcades with Chuck E. Cheese branding inside of them. This is their second or third launch of these things because they weren't doing too hot and I guess the new pivot is to say that they're 'adult' themed. They don't have beer or anything you wouldn't find in an existing mall arcade from another brand. Chuck E. Cheese fans are pissed because some of the animatronics from the restaurants got busted up and locked into positions that they weren't meant to be in as statues.

>>714637841
>you need to stop having fun as soon as you hit 18
>>714637905
They're going full retro which I guess is kinda cool, but hopefully they add some more early 2000s type stuff.

People prefer to stay at home on their smartphones these days. And when they do go out, they prefer to sit somwehere and stay on their smartphones just the same.

DUDE i just LOVE the hustle and bustle of the big city, it’s so DYNAMIC and makes me feel like i’m in one of my favourite TV SHOWS. you should totally come on down to my studio apartment, it’s got EXPOSED RED BRICK walls and 50 square feet! we can crack open a nice hoppy ipa or three and get crazy watching some cartoons on adult swim! and dude, dude, DUDE, we have GOTTA go down to the barcade- listen here, right, it’s a BAR where us ADULTS who do ADULTING can go DRINK. BUT!!!! it’s also an ARCADE like when we were kids, so we can play awesome VIDEO GAMES, without dumb kids bothering us. speaking of which megan and i have finally decided to tie the knot- literally -we’re both getting snipped tomorrow at the hospital, that way we can save money to spent more on ourselves and our FURBABIES. i’m fuckin JACKED man, i’m gonna SLAM this craft beer and pop open another one!!!

>>714637490
Honestly there was a time in the Wii era when they tried shit like this when it was novel - it kinda worked. The problem now is that the big exercise gaming arcade stuff takes up LOTS of fucking space. Like equivalent to a big fuck you weight lifting machine or rack to get a DDR or a FotNS Arcade 2 setup, or even retro stuff like the old Punch Out with the punching bag or the Arm Wrestling from the 80s. so they'd have to get ENOUGH people using it to justify its presence and upkeep.

There's also the issue of morons breaking shit. The biggest hulkiest roid rage douche deciding he's totally going to full power the FotNS machine's targets means it breaks, or if he gets pissed off he was punching hard but not fast and got a low score and so he takes a dumbell and bashes the thing its repair time. Even if that doesn't happen you still have to have ernough people show up to use the machines and either A) buy a subscription that is required to use the machines, but they are free play, at the risk of making it so that people walking off the street won't come in or B) charge per play, or at very least merge the two so that random players can put in quarters but gym members can use tokens issued from the counter a certain amount per day/week for free.

Its an expensive prospect... but I wonder...

>>714636904
Yes anon, and you're a pdf.

>>714637985
Animatronic autists are up there with Thomasfags, literally nothing would make them happy except having full scale shows and pretending it's still 1999

>>714638026
>>you need to stop having fun as soon as you hit 18
yes
grow up

LE HECKIN' SCARY ANIMATRONICS AAAAIIIIIIIIIEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

>>714638084
I guess it could work if you gatekeeped it behind expensive membership to weed some of the trash out

inb4 oops all raw thrills machines

If it doesn't have Bemani rhythm games then I don't care

People keep saying Chuck E Cheese is dying but they seem to be expanding nicely
Seems more like 20 year old Animatronicfags hoping/saying they are shutting down because there's no more animatronic shows no one cares for but them

>>714638276
That's the difficulty. You do that too much, you don't get people who are close enough and will come to your gym specifically FOR the games. For a lot of the moms in yoga pants coming for classes or to lift a 5 lb weight, dudebros from high schools or colleges working out, or grunting roid rager bodybuilder types will be annoyed that there's a loud video game in their palace of fitness. I mean maybe some will try it once or twice, but they're coming for protein shakes and training and forget to wipe the benches of sweat . The people who love the games or even those who want to say... have Ring Fit Adventure day on a big screen (ie the fat guy getting fit at home with his Switch is not going to want to do it in public. I mean maybe some moms encouraging each other or twitch thots streaming themselves but you never know) are a different demographic and they may not want to pay a gym membership just for that stuff unless you have a best-in-the-state collection of vaguely physical arcade games etc. That is why I think it hasn't been done before.

>>714638347
>Raw Thrills
MY UNENDING RAGE YOU FUCKERS RUINED DAVE AND BUSTERS THEY USED TO HAVE ACTUAL GAMES NOT GIANT PHONEFAG SHIT OR CARD COLLECTOR BULLSHIT

>>714638347
You're probably right, I don't remember seeing a game like House of the Dead inside a real CEC

>>714638064
this but unironically

>>714637483
Millennials are just one of the 5 demographics of adults?

>Making the retro arcade with the old Chuck
>(Supposedly) making a game show
>Making the animated show that definitely has some adult audience targeting and furrybait designs
For sure CEC is trying to get adults into the brand again, wonder if it'll pan out

100 tickets to fuck the little twink fursuit chuck and I'm in

I hope so.

One day zoomers will have exactly this but it will be one further down the simulacrum chain and be fnaf themed.

>>714634061 (OP)
I want arcades back, in the sense that I want arcade exclusive games developed by companies like Sega and Konami but this model died for a reason. Once home consoles dominated the market and even exceeded arcades there wasn't a point to them.

Similar to how movie theaters are losing to streaming, people find bothersome to drive out to a place only to have an inferior experience to what they could be enjoying at home.

Standalone game companies do not have access to the cutting edge technology that would make arcades feasible again, in that, they cannot develop hardware that could beat Nvidia or AMD, the best bet would be making VR exclusive titles for Arcades since VR is still not widespread, that would be the only chance for Arcades to make a comeback.
As for this is just a sad reminder that there are too many adults hooked up on nostalgia unable to let go.
It was a good time, it is over, it cannot comeback and it was not that great either.

>>714635862
I've thought about making an arcade machine for myself, never fully committed to the idea due to time issues

>>714638064
Exactly, why would you want these people reproducing?

>"Retro games"
Can't they just say old games?
Just fucking say old games. Fuck these people and their fetishism for decades they never experienced.
Hate this gayass Stranger Things hipster insincerity.

>>714640961
electricity was also dirt cheap in the 80s and 90s, we're rapidly hurdling towards an energy crisis across the developed world
even if arcades came back, they would be way more expensive

>>714634061 (OP)
I'd be interested if a place opened near me.
I loved chuckecheese as a kid, but almost never got to go.

>>714634061 (OP)
Chuck testa

>>714641039
I like retro games like Call of Duty 4, MGS2 and Assassin's Creed.
We called Pac-Man retro in the early 2000s and Call of Duty 4 is just about as old in the same relative terms, 2000s are games from two decades ago. Now Seethe.

>>714634061 (OP)
I remember during covid (and probably still) chuck e cheese set up fake restaurants on skip the dishes and uber eats to sell their pizza lol.

Anybody else have animatronic branded autism?

Americans are funny

>>714634061 (OP)
>fail to rebrand as a dave and busters with more shitty giant "arcade" machines
>fail to rebrand into a more modern funhouse targetting zoomers with a vtuber game streamer
>fail to ride the coattails of FNAF success and pivot into a more zoomer/horror direction
>rebrand as barcade for adults despite 99% of independant barcades failing
how is this company still alive? they've been blowing it for 20 years and they still exist, how do they keep getting investors to fund this shit?

>>714635568
The sequel had an amazing light gun game

>>714634061 (OP)
But how does it compare to Round 1?

>>714641714
Kids like having birthday parties and going to arcades and playground/trampoline elements
That's their audience not 20 year old FNAFags

>>714637727
My most prominent memory of CEC was trying to play the railroad handcar game, when some toddler waddled over.
I thought she was going to watch, but then she pulled out a coin and started trying to put it in the machine despite being too small to even reach the bar, let alone play the game.
I reached over to try and stop her from putting the coin in while trying not to lose the game at the same time, when her fat ass mom came over crying about me touching her free range niglet.
I don't know how I'm not more racist growing up in the deep south, honestly.

>>714636794
>flailing retard can't hit one 3 hit combo but can mash out a super parry when he's about to die

>>714637727
I loved it but Round 1 ate their lunch years ago when they moved to the states. They're already established in most major cities and also offer bowling and other normie shit that actually pays the bills. Barcades don't pull a big enough crowd to stay open.

>>714637841
>why does he have such a shitty haircut and dress so stupid?
>steps outside
oh that's why. pretty par for the course for favela monkeys.

If they actually manage to have old light gun games in good condition I'll pay them hundreds of dollars.
I want to play Time Crisis, House of the Dead, LA Machine guns, the old Jurassic Park light gun games.

>>714637951
Why do you see cuck wherever you look? Got something to tell the class?

I always dreamt of opening a bar that featured animatronic characters hanging out and riffing live with the audience while people drank. Something that could bring back the classic 70s Chuck E Cheese style antagonism and grit but in a setting of adults trying to have a fun night out rather than needing to appeal to small children.

https://youtu.be/VINPLJ_xviw?si=e8klUMFQab_nWiuF

>>714634061 (OP)
Isnt Dave and Busters pretty much adult chuck e cheese?

>>714642268
No, it's all just mobile games on bigger screens and full of kids.

>>714635568
All world movies have outsold the OG
Get fucked.

>>714641714
>fail to rebrand as a dave and busters with more shitty giant "arcade" machines
Wut?
>fail to rebrand into a more modern funhouse targetting zoomers with a vtuber game streamer
WUT?


I went into one recently for an event.
The food sucks and the games are all mobile shit on big screens, and I am talking iPhone 1 / Zynga type games

>>714634061 (OP)
target audience is literally mang0

this won't end well

>>714642215
Non-yanks will NEVER get this

Imagine putting your barcade tab on Klarna and paying like $80 for a round of rum n cokes

>>714634061 (OP)
I hope they have the tubes, ball pit and ddr machines.

>>714637841
i would just assume he has some kind of terminal disease or a birth deformity

>>714636335
surprised that isn't a thing yet.

>>714634061 (OP)
sounds comfy but not sure it will do well.
did they release a full list of games they'll have?

>>714642941
>surprised that isn't a thing yet.
It is. The mall in my small town has one of those escape room/mystery game things. Back during corona they almost closed down because of a lack of traffic, then the owner's son came up with an idea of changing the escape room around to make it like FNaF. Shit is insanely popular and every time I go to the mall I see a huge crowd waiting for the next game to start.

>>714642215
About 20 years ago Disney had the Island of Adventure section in the Downtown area with bars that offered entertainment aimed at adults, but still you know on the level with the brand.
This worked terribly because drinking adults can be complete assholes to the cast and other guests.
I remember being at the comedy club and some frat boys had to be kicked out.
It was an improv bit and they were whatever to the point I remember more the frat boys than the actual jokes.
There was an adventure club that was pretty neat but again, people under influence are hard to manage reason the concept failed despite being comfy.


I feel only Universal studios did this idea correctly during the Horror Nights, then again the park is really EXPENSIVE so guests are not looking for trouble, meanwhile at other similar but less expensive themed parks adult guest would sneak in pot.
I really do not get why stoners need to be high for just about fucking everything, you can be stoned at home, you are not going to remember a fucking thing.

I hope it's better than Dave and Busters, their 'arcades' are mostly just shitty mobile games and they disguise them with the arcade cabinet. Like I can't see that's fruit ninja.
>>714637841
This reminds me of a story about some illega guyl who was pretending he was a highschool student and his wife ratted him out and he ended up getting deported.

>>714637841
>grow up
fuckk off, jp.
don't you have a news broadcast to cry during?

>>714643106
Not Island of Adventure, it was called Pleasure Island.
On that topic, I miss Disney Quest, I am glad I always managed to convince my parents.
I went straight for MvsC2, then the VR games, and the Rollercoaster Sim.
I always made mine extreme, GOD I loved that.
The fact the star wars and the avengers attractions are factually worse than the deprecated stuff from Disney Quest, physically hurts me. The Aladdin VR game was the shit.

Is it gonna be a robot brothel, because it's "for adults"?
Asking for a friend.

>>714643104
cool i guess.
just in your town though?

>>714641103
You would need to make Arcade experiences on par with Universal Studios attractions and charge over $100 a ticket for a meal and a ticket.
Would that work? Like let's say a stupid expensive Arcade multiplayer game like Tron or Quake on VR with outrageous production values? I am not sure if that is viable.
Or something like Top Gun as an Afterburner type game in VR and you step in a life size cockpit.

The only games there are gacha games and Royal Match.

>OH HECKIN' YEAH BRO I LOVE ARCADES
>HAHA IT REMINDS ME OF GROWING UP IN THE 90s!

>>714637798
Round 1 is a Japanese arcade company. and they have deals with Konami and Namco to have their legit japanese games there. You can get an Eamuse pass there for example. So they have Street Fighter type arcade, and beatmania eamuse, and DDR world. It's the closest thing to a japanese arcade as exists. If you don't go, I will crap in your USB slots.

>>714643179
It isn't. It's a light version of D+B. D+B sometimes tries with Pump, and big lightgun games, and the big hotwheel games.

It MIGHT change though.

>>714634061 (OP)
chuck e cheese's already had retro arcade games and alcohol though

>>714635274
No. That's the regular chucks.

>>714642268
No, but it's close. D+B is half sports bar.

>>714638584
Chuck E Cheese had problems with dying malls and some of their locations getting culturally enriched. They've been able to pivot though.

>>714635463
chuck e cheese's is the only place i've ever seen with a cyber sled cab
if the place wasn't filled with shiteating gromlets and if their prices didn't suck, it would be worth going to play that and some skee-ball

>>714635274
Atari and Chuck E Cheese were both sold off because Activision fucked the market on their own. It was out of Nolan Bushnell's hands.
Nintendo actually managed to do what Bushnell couldn't, and forced publishers to only release good games. Instead of flooding the market with dogshit, knowing it was nigh impossible for the customer to make an informed decision about a game back then.

>>714636794
why the fuck is everything blue

>>714638064
i look like this and i say this

>>714642215
Why do they always call Jasper a "fruitcake?"

>>714637490
The dude behind Bob's Game tried that and it closed within a year because he refused to monetize it beyond donations.

>>714637727
I dunno about other boomers, but Chuck's was a dingy ass hole in the wall where I grew up. The cops were always there breaking up fights between nogs.

>>714644902
Anon Jasper has always been the biggest fag ever

>>714637294
That rafting game looks fun as fuck. I want to make a survival horror Deliverance-themed version.

>>714641191
in the context of videogames, retro doesn't mean "made x many years ago"
i find it interesting how zoomers refuse to learn the dictionary literaly fucking definition of ANYTHING but they sure hold mirriam webster as the holy gospel that they can never waver from when it comes to retro games, the one time when it's flat out wrong to do so, none of those gay modern nigger shits you listed are retro at all, howabout you faggot fucking zoomer niggers learn what the word computer means when you incorrectly use it for your incorrectly used "crpg" term instead? you dumb broccoli head cunts

>>714645204
I really hope they don't lean into it in the new cartoon. That shit looks like it's going to hit furries like crack hit the hood. Making him canonically gay, or at least hinting at it, would be a nightmare.

>>714638064
You will never have friends or a family.

>>714643512
Yeah, it's just a local thing.

https://youtu.be/tij9hJHzK-A
There's something kind of dark about regularly mentioning that you're bolted to the ground forced to sing the same song over and over to different kids. But it's reassuring to me since I know they won't kill me. Animatronics wouldn't lie would they?

>>714635862
What is there to have that'd be more advanced? That and you should be well aware how we've basically frozen ourselves in time to circa the 80s. I think culturally we're starting to finally shake that off but it'd been the way of things for like 15 years now.

>>714642215
So it'd utterly lack the charm of anamatronics, but I figure Vtuber-esque shit (Performing actor behind a digital screen) would be appealing for audiences. Apparently disney has someone do so as that turtle from Finding Nemo. It's for kids, but you'd just do it for adults. Since I think the success of vtuber shit is both (1) Waifu oneitis retards but also (2) Many more people can be a lot more outgoing, funny and engaging when they are no longer insecure about their appearance but are in an idealized form.

I'm not saying this is necessarily a 'good' idea so much as it's a marketable idea

>>714645413
>in the context of videogames, retro doesn't mean "made x many years ago"

I get your point and I agree with it since retro-futurism is specific to a particular era and retro-sci-fi doesn't magically mean 90s-2000s sci fi because it's in the past. But city hall at least says X many years ago. But again, I get your point and share that view that retro should mean a specific 70s to early 90s era, and something from say 2000 is just older rather than retro.

>>714634061 (OP)
>Chuck's Arcade

>>714645481
Zero chance they make any mascots gay or have any romance even hinted at, even straight romance.
Now what furries will do with him and them overall in fanworks is a different story

>>714634061 (OP)
>arcade retro games
It's probably going to be the same old 70s/80s shit with modern ticket sloppa mixed in.

>>714646046
I can hear it...

Wait a minute ... regular ol' Chuck-E-Cheese's locations serve beer already. That and the cheap(ish) pizza and the "your kids can run amok with no consequences" environment is what draws in all the niggers and makes those places miserable.
Are they actually going to be ballsy enough to make these 21-and-up locations? Because if they're not, I don't think the lack of pizza is going to stop these places from becoming nog pits.

>>714645840
>retro-futurism is specific to a particular era
No it isn't. You have Art-Deco Retrofuturism like Bioshock, Americana Retrofuturism like Fallout. As well as Gen X, Millennial, and Gen Z having their own retrofuturism styles based on the conceptions of the future that came from the 70s, 80s, 90s and 2000s. Stuff like Deathloop, Cyberpunk as a genre, Cruelty Squad, Hypnospace Outlaw. All of that counts as retrofuturism too. Most of them don't have names, or draw their names from what should rightfully be a subgenre of that particular variety of retrofuturism. Anything with a Victorian aesthetic is called Steampunk, even if it isn't particularly Punk influenced. Anything with a chunky, blocky aesthetic is called Cyberpunk, even if it's not particularly bleak.

I genuinely don't get the appeal of alcohol
it tastes like shit
>but it gets you drunk
that seems like another negative point

>>714641857
>>714644656
what's your fightcade

>>714646826
theres no positive
it's just npc behavior

people drink because other people drink

>>714634061 (OP)
I can emulate The Simpsons Arcade Game whenever I fucking want. I don't need to go to a soiboy "adult" arcade that doesn't even ban children or blacks when I can play my favorite retro games from the comfort of my house.

>>714646891
Do you have friends in real life? If so, and you invite them to your house then you win nigga
If you do not, and you turn your nose up at a barcade for those who do, then you don't win nigga

>>714634061 (OP)
how will they keep the trouble makers from showing up and making trouble?

>>714646891
>anon doesn't understand social places
color me surprised

>>714646826
Some people only care about the fun short-term effects, not the potential long-term consequences on the mind and body.

>>714646826
Gin is fucking great and I will not stand for it to be slandered in connection with the others. Beer, I can take or leave though, and fuck IPAs and all that other fancy shit. Plain, low hop lagers are better than any nonsense craft beer, and even then, I'm not in the mood to drink a loaf of crusty bread all that often, even if it's a particularly good loaf of crusty bread, like a Yuengling or something.

>>714646891
literal autism
of course 4chan

>>714634061 (OP)
I'm fine with that. It'll be populated by a bunch of 30 year olds uncs and aunts. I'm thirty and single. Maybe I can find a bitch my age in the same situation.

>>714637798
I had one 90 minutes away and made the trip frequently.

Future doctors and lawyers broke all the machines and caused it to close but it was fun while it lasted.

>>714635862
If arcades go back between 16-bit to 32-bit games, I'm all for it. That's fucking ideal.

>>714634061 (OP)
Isn't that just Dave and Buster's? Fuck how did it take long for them to copy those dudes.

You think the show will be good? Apparently they're supposed to be young adults who live in an appartment above Pasqually's pizzeria.

>>714647817
I might be fine with PS1/N64 era polygon graphics too, though. Lightgun games were great like that.

>>714647949
I have no hope, but if they can pull off a good halloween episode, I'll be satisfied.

>>714634061 (OP)
Still pissed that the one nearest me (27 miles) teased the concept of selling PTT/90's merch, only for it to just be for a press event and none of it was for sale.

>>714648167
>>714647817
The taito type x and the like has loads of late ps2, DC, x360 classs shit, maybe a bit further ahead.

>>714634061 (OP)
Spielberg already tried doing this in the late '90s. I forgot what it's called. It had cards you load up with credits instead of tokens.

>>714646891
>The Simpsons Arcade Game.
Unfathomably based, anon. God-tier taste.

>>714647817
Why? I don't get it. You can easily play these games at home?

Give me the HOTTEST NEWEST arcade releases. STRAIGHT FROM THE DOCK. FRESH OUT THE CRATE.

>>714648396
When the limitations of games disappear, so too does innovation and inspiration. There's no game that you could only have in an arcade anymore. None. They aren't putting a super-computer in these things, your PC can surely do better.

Mech warrior would make a good arcade game.

>>714647949
Decent enough for kids, I'm sure. Nothing groundbreaking, but not atrocious. I'd be willing to give it a shot if they bring back the former characters from >>714641490 to fill out the background cast.
>Crusty is a local baseball star the gang idolize
>The other female guest stars are Helen's gal pals/ esports team
>Dolli runs a diner across the street, with the other cabaret characters as her employees
>Babysitting episode where the gang looks after Munch Jr.
>Chuck has his parrot from Studio C
Plus any of the newer characters kids are more likely to recognize.

>>714634061 (OP)
they already screwed up before by allowing alcohol. it resulted in endless nigger brawls. trying it again won't change the result.

>>714648926
The leaked script makes it seem like it's going to be at least as funny as Sonic Boom was. Without the baggage of a really bad video game holding it down, there's no telling how popular it could get. It could turn into an FOTM, one of those things a certain demographic get obsessed with like Hazbin and TADC, or a serious phenomenon that gets ten seasons for no good reason.

>>714642215
This was the original concept for the ultra exclusive and still existing "Club 33" quasi-secret VIP restaurant/lounge area of Disneyland. It has memorabilia and stuff on the inside in one area that still includes the telephone, power, and other wires in the wall that would let the animatronics speak and interact with the guests "live" as Walt was hoping; they could never quite get it to work as widely as planned apparently.

>>714634061 (OP)
If there's no Bemani games, SHMUPs, and fighting games of both anime and street fighter-like, it's not an arcade.

>Visit the one pinball arcade place in my city
>Dark as fuck with no pinball tables in sight
>Nobody else is around except this sleezy looking manager
>Arcade machines were those shitty 400-in-1 chink computers with mushy buttons
>Ask manager about the state of the place
>"Yeah the pinball tables were too expensive to maintain. Also we're getting rid of the arcade cabinets and turning this place into a bar."
>Go on Google reviews and see he's incredibly defensive over 1 star complaints
Eat shit you faggot fuck.

>>714646826
NPCs are legitimately retarded and will drink poison to "fit in".

>>714648926
>>714649418
Yeah, seems like they want to go for a tween audience for the new show. I have a gut feeling Jasper will become a fan favorite.

>>714649562
There's a "pinball museum" in Las Vegas that does indeed have a lot of classic tables (dating way back to pre-microprocessor days) and more modern ones that aren't seen much anymore.
Unfortunately, any table with updateable firmware is running "hacked" shit. I popped a quarter into the Star Trek: TNG pinball table and when I launched the first ball it started 5-ball multiball instantly and none of the usual modes were even accessible because it insisted on keeping multiple balls in play in that mode.
Fucking sucked. Such a waste of historical equipment.

>>714646826
>Drink one of those vodka mixed with strawberry soda cans because it actually tastes good
>get made fun of by dry throat whiskey fags for drinking "a ladies drink"

>>714646826
>DUDE IT MAKES ME FEEL HAPPY AND FUN
>I'M INCAPABLE OF JUST HAVING A FUN TIME NATURALLY
I don't fucking get it. Maybe I'm just with the wrong crowd, but all my life whenever I see people drink it's when they're all on their asses on the sofa believing it's the only way to have a happy and fun time. Fucking get a group hobby. Do an activity together. Like holy shit, A FUCKING 27 YEAR OLD NEET, knows at least a dozen fucking ways to have a fun and happy time without needing to drink. I truly don't get it.

>>714649963
>Gov. Dolly Parton
They're setting the show in Tennessee?

>>714650095
I fucking hate it too, all of my friends are like "LETS GO DRINKING YEAH AND HAVE A PARTY WITH THE BOYS!!!!!!!!!!" which just amounts to sitting in the living room listening to shitty music while 2 people talk like we could've gone to the zoo and pet the little pigs or check out the local mall instead like how is what we're doing any fun at all?

>>714634061 (OP)
We've had Round One and smaller local arcades in nearly every single state for a decade though

>>714634061 (OP)
I thought these fell out of style a decade ago when lots of smaller places popped up to try and copy the dave and busters model and all of them closed down in a few years

>>714634226
We had a barcade where I used to live and it was absolutely the worst experience ever.

>>714646836
xXfagobliterater69Xx

>>714650095
It *can* be fun, but the mistakes people make are myriad:
>Drinking too much
You want to be tipsy, or at worst a little bit clumsy and silly. That's fun (and funny). It does indeed loosen tongues a bit. "Liquid courage" and all that. More than that is just miserable. You can't move under your own power without hurting yourself, damaging something or pissing people off. You're at risk of vomiting with no notice. You're guaranteed to wake up with a vicious hangover (or if you're an alcoholic, wake up drunk the next morning). You're similarly at risk of accusations of sexual assault without so much as a memory of the fun as consolation.
>Drinking with the wrong people
Sad drunks suck. They drag the mood down. Angry drunks suck more -- they pick fights, damage property, make the kind of noise neighbors complain about, and make people uncomfortable. You want to drink with happy drunks who laugh at bad jokes, laugh when they trip and fall, and play billiards just a bit better than when they're sober.
>Drinking in the wrong environment
Most bars suck unless you know pretty much everyone there (staff and regulars alike). Sports bars are worse (annoying sportsball fans, louder in general, far less tolerant of harmless drunken tomfoolery). House parties are better if you know the hosts; risky otherwise. Tailgating can be fun too if there's lots of people. Doing it with a small group on your own invites police interactions and busybody wokescolds.

>>714635274
What the FREAK

>>714642268
Kinda, but like the other anon mentioned its also part sports bar. This was not an issue. In the old days, Dave and Busters was pretty great. It had a HUGE arcade with both recent and older games, especially some big peripheral/experience using games. Dance Dance Revolution (though sadly the closest one always had Pump it Up instead which had a different step layout), Mario Kart driving games which were networked with all the machines present, Police 911 I think it was that was a "realistic" Japanese police game that was motion controlled with IR from above so you had to duck and lean, and more. For instance there was a shooter that took place in a giant darkened "room" with 2 doors, a 100"+ display broadcast and had sit-down spots for either 6 or 8 players. It was a co-op space fighter style game where each of the players controlled a different turret; I hadn't seen this style since I played something similar in a Las Vegas arcade years ago; I think they eventually used the same machine thing for a Halo co-op title but it wasn't anywhere near as good as the original couple of games on the platform. For awhile it was great and outside of the arcade, it had decent food and booze, TVs everwhere, pool tables, darts, one of those Golden Tee projection w/ real clubs and balls wacked at the screen golf simulators that you always saw some older guy getting frustrated, and a few other things. It wasn't the greatest "large arcade" I'd ever been to in the states (those being the couple that I saw in Las Vegas in the 80s, 90s, and 2000s, but D&B was well worth and much closer its time.

>>714642435
The issue came at some point in the 2010s when they not only relaxed their kid policy (earlier you had to be 18 to enter by yourself at all and 21 on certain days/after certain times; otherwise, you needed an adult to get you in), but worse, switched from proper arcade games to all Raw Thrills-made knockoffs and "giant flappy bird" mobile garbage.

>>714650217
Might just be in reference to Jasper himself being from Tennessee (it's what his middle initial stands for). Odd, considering there's no mention of him being southern in his bio, anyone know if Nolan North can pull off a southern drawl?

>>714634061 (OP)
doesn't dave & busters already do this?

>turning childhood IP into some quirky shit for manchildren and alcoholics
Why? CC isn't the pillar of childhoods but thats retarded. Like putting Ronald Mcdonald in porn.

>>714634061 (OP)
>retro game
doa
Import unlocalized japan games like my local does

>>714634061 (OP)
holy shit
that's an insane idea. Imagine getting a big slice of 'za, a cold long neck, and a card full of credits to play some good old arcades
chucking genius

>>714635454
zoomer have less kids and less marriages than millennials even adjusted for age at the time.

>>714647817
This isn't real. ...Right? No. This isn't real. Is it? I want to watch it.

>>714642619
inflation

>>714650085
Because the older you get the more extremely sweet stuff tastes like shit and those drinks are already associated with retarded college freshman
any sugared alcohol is legitimately too sweet for me and makes your hangover worse than some straight up whiskey or something
everything has a stigma but if you enjoy it go ahead anon

>>714637841
>go to the arcade
>pick up some girl
>go to jail
this is the problem they avoid

>>714641038
Because their behavior is environmentally determined.

>>714646826
how much pussy are you getting?

>>714634061 (OP)
Do you guys not remember how fucking shittily maintained those games were at chuck e cheese?

>>714651587
Mine were always just fine, except for that gay-ass helicopter ride. But who gives a shit about that thing?

Hi, does anyone want to work on an Unreal Engine 5 project?

>>714634061 (OP)
SOVL NVKE

>>714651813
Wrong thread.

>>714650747
I'm surprised it took THIS long.

>>714651872
I'm creating a horror video game. I need some people to help me with this project.

>>714650647
>anyone know if Nolan North can pull off a southern drawl?
Probably, he actually has good range.

>>714651990
Yeah. Wrong thread.

>>714646826
Alcohol makes you a great dancer, an amazing conversationalist and irresistibly charming.
And if you can get the bitch as drunk as yourself she'll believe all of that about you, too.

>>714634061 (OP)
How long before niggers ruin it?

>>714650647
>>714652012
Is he actually confirmed for being voiced by Nolan North? I was worried they weren't going to get someone who could pull off the delivery for the kinds of jokes they were going for with Jasper. But if it's Nolan North, he's absolutely going to be everyone's favorite character.

>>714634061 (OP)
Chuck's Fuck and Suck

>>714636704
They have had a 4 person halo shooter in the last few years at arcades.

>>714652116
They’ve only confirmed Chuck’s VA is Freddy from iCarly so far, with Grey Griffin, Nolan North, Kari Wahlgren and Fred Tatasciore in undisclosed roles, presumably the rest of the main cast. Given the kind of characters each VA is known for, it’s not hard to deduce who’s playing who.

>>714650520
only good place to go drinking is one with hot girls

>>714650727
cc isn't popular with modern kids like pokemn or something. Either leverage the brand with its generation or it dies completely. Also acohol is socially and publically acceptable unlike porn which is shameful and kept in private.

>>714638064
brick walls are kino

>>714652770
CEC is still visited for birthday parties or whatever but that's about it
CEC was already doing shit like ghost kitchens for their shitty pizza on delivery apps so this additional rebranding isn't that far off
the childhood -> dying brand -> appeal to millennials trend that has decent success path and it's the smartest thing to do

>>714653068
>CEC was already doing shit like ghost kitchens for their shitty pizza on delivery apps
That was only during COVID, because no one was going to actively choose middling-ass Chuck E Cheese Pizza unless it was obfuscated.

>>714650095
>NO DUDE WE JUST NEED TO GET LIT FIRST AND THEN WE'LL HIT TOWN ITS GONNA BE WILD MAN!
>proceeds to start acting like a paranoid faggot, whine about how they just wanna like chill man and pass out watching shitty television
it took me way too long to stop getting suckered by these kinds of faggots

>>714648386
I'm honestly surprised we haven't gotten a follow up beat-em-up based on The Simpsons. Imagine if someone made a new version that had Streets of Rage 4, Double Dragon Gaiden, Fight N Rage, Kunio/River city games (Rival Showdown, Girls 1 and 2, Underground) TMNT Shredder's Revenge, Scott Pilgrim, Castle Crashers etc...style depth, features, and content mixed with the fuckloads of Simpsons characters/lore/items/features etc of the past 30 fucking years. Could be amazing if done right, ideally with both a home PC / console release + arcade cabinet and you could transfer your save/progress between them.

>>714653206
Maybe not where you are from but in my big ass city their shitty ghost kitchen still pops up when you search pizza on delivery apps and it's very obvious it's them
it's crazy expensive too like $30+ for a large pizza I have zero idea how they are still in business

>>714650378
idk how to feel about this because most round 1s i went to in japan were technically 'barcades' except the bar was on a different floor than the vidya and the bar people mostly just played darts or pachinko

>>714646826
>>714646860
>>714647229
>>714649664
>>714650095
upboated

>>714644945
>Bob's Game
That's a name I haven't heard in a long ass time.

I live near the oldest Chuck E. Cheese in America and have to pass by this incredibly depressing effigy everyday on my way to work

>>714655389
The funny thing is, that's probably more appealing to the target demographic than a big, shiny new renovation could ever be.

>>714634061 (OP)
I have an arcade at my local mall and the pricing is fucking retarded
20 bucks lets you play like 3 games
What's worse is they make you pay on a prepaid card, so you're bound to always have some stuck leftover on there
Fuck arcades, they should just die for good

>>714642215
I had a genius idea and because I'm a good guy I'll share it instead of keeping it for myself to become a millionaire.
Open an animatronic barcade with animatronics sitting behind the bar making small talks with customers. How?

Use ai.

The only good use of ai I can think of. This and making npcs in mmo games "sentient".


The golden rule to win? Make the animatronics hot.

>>714646826
Being tipsy is fun. Try it sometime.

Bump because I like to read about weird hobbies, factoids and exotic trends and culture and off topic/v/ is the only tolerable part of this shit board.
Sorry I don't have anything to say about animatronics I never set foot in america I'm just bumping.

>>714658450
To be fair, where would discussion about arcades fit better? I'd say something like this does actually belong on /v/. Video games and their culture, and all that.

>>714638064
the same fags that post this copypasta are always the same ones sucking off rome despite being the big city of back then