What was going to arcades like back in the day?

>>714704197 (OP)
A decent way to make friends outside of work/school as you'd go to physical location with other people to participate with a common interest.

>>714704197 (OP)
Idk about back in the day like, 80;s or 90's, but there used to be pockets of arcades in different places I'd go to like theaters or casinos. Metal Slug was always a nice sight to see, and I used to go to a local theater just to play Virtual-On either by myself or with other people. DDR and Guitar Hero also always get at least one or two people watching if you play even half way decently too. One thing I've never seen too much of that I'd love to see more cabinets of are traditional fighting games. I've seen some Street Fighter 2 Cabinets but none of the Alpha series which is my preferred SF experience. Wish KOF was more common in the States too because I'd love to play that in an arcade setting with others.

>>714704197 (OP)
You wouldn't get it zoomie.

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>>714704197 (OP)
>romantic comedy featuring 13 year old girl and 18 year old guy
How is nu-Japan getting away with this in the big 2025?

>>714705165
By having zero fan service

>>714706013
wow.... it's over

>>714705023
The girl in the jorts is so beautiful.

>>714704197 (OP)
they still exist. i have several near me

How do round one and chuck e cheese compare to old arcades

>>714704197 (OP)
R8 my recent Round 1 winnings.

>>714709821
Cool! Would hot glue bottom left.

Any good arcades in japan?

Arcade bros?

>>714704197 (OP)
They never existed in my country

>>714704197 (OP)
It was fun when you had enough money to beat one of those House of the Dead arcade shooters and had like 20 people standing around to watch.

>>714704197 (OP)
In the third world, arcades were a thing even well into the 2010s, albeit they were already clearly on their way out even back then. So as a zoomer, i was able to actually play arcade videogames. There were groups of people, probably already friends with each other, playing the most popular arcade games and having matches with each other. Mostly fighting games albeit sometimes racing games too. There were billiard tables too, and i believe beer was allowed in as long as you didnt cause a huge mess. There were group rules and so on, unwritten but spoken.

The atmosphere would vary i guess but there was the cashier (sometimes) demotivated as always, the sounds of laughter of the local group who still went to the arcades, and maybe some stragglers playing the rest of the arcade games. Most sound came from the attraction modes from the arcade games (which have seldom survived SADLY. Attraction modes are when a game goes idle long enough that the developers decide to attempt to secude a player onto spending his tokens into the arcade machine, in hopes that he would use it onto that machine instead of the others), which were loud as fuck. There was also the distinct feel the arcade game machinery allowed you to have, with their own gimmicks that depended on the specific game and such.

With time, they too started dying. Less and less people started coming and, after a few years of not going to the almost deserted arcare with the intention of reviving old times, i found out it got replaced by a retail store. That was one of the first times i knew history was moving before my eyes

>>714704197 (OP)
It was good because they used to have DDR and ITG. Now if you can even find one they only have boring sit-down games like Deal Or No Deal for lardass americans

Overrated and expensive things are better now unironically.