>this made boomers blow all their lunch money

the big kids were always crowding this and we had to play the bootlegs instead

I miss pic rel

>>715123050
for me, its l.a. machineguns

>>715122449 (OP)
>this made boomers suck penis for pennys

>>715122449 (OP)
Gen x here.
It's hard to describe how good Capcom CPS1 arcade games looked when they first came out.
Ghouls n Ghosts came out in 1988 and it's still to this day, one of the most beautiful 2d games ever made.
And arcade games ran on those RGB monitors so they looked even better.

>>715123941
Fucking nice. I'm honestly a little jealous of the SF2 boomers who got to play that shit in arcades. Seems like it was such a magical time. My local arcade has the game yeah but that shit obviously hit different when it released; nobody is coming around to play Street Fighter in an arcade anymore lmao

>>715122449 (OP)
the colorful graphics are still pretty and fun to look at. the sounds, especially the CPS1 version, are legendary. there's a reason that when street fighter gets referenced in mainstream media 99% of the time it's based off SF2.

>>715122449 (OP)
not me. I didnt get hooked on fighters til MKII

>>715123256
for me its lucky & wild

>>715124634
even recent manga both mainstream and obscure have characters obsessed with playing SF2 like Megami Terrace Cafe or revolve its entire plot around it like High Score Girl DASH and every single arcade is obligated to have at least one version of it
SF2's staying power is fucking unreal

>>715122449 (OP)
And I feel sorry that you'll never have the joy of ever experiencing it

>>715123050
>Played it once at a Dave & Busters
>Fell in love
>Gone the next time I went
>Tried to find one emat every arcade I see to no avail
>Eventually find one a decade later in a shitty mall I went to to play Yugioh
>Controls are fucked, gun barely moves, half the screen is warped
I can't man...

>>715124638
Yeah same, SF2 was cool and all but MKII was the one that actually pulled me in. The blood, the edgy vibes, the fatalities-felt like I was getting away with something just playing it. Plus the arcade cabinets for MKII had this gritty atmosphere to them, like the machine itself was daring you to step up and get your ass handed to you.

>>715126359
That's a shame. It's a really fun game once you get the hang of switching between the big display and your scope efficiently -- but I can imagine how ass it would be if people treat it to shit

>Metal Slug
>The Ocean Hunter
>Mortal Kombat 2
Gauntlet Legends
>Savage Quest
>air hockey

>>715126359
>>715126897
Iirc it worked with the gun moving not a traditional light gun so it should be possible to make today?

>>715124297
This anon >>715123941 is pretty spot on. I’m 42 so perhaps a bit younger but I vividly remember my local mall arcade having both Final Fight and Street Fighter 2 and they just looked so much better than every other game in the arcade. The sound on those cabinets was also really nice. Anyway, my arcade had two SF2 cabinets and on weekends there were lines (yes, people did this) of kids waiting to get curb stomped by the older high school kid who knew all the moves and combos. I mostly stuck with Final Fight because I didn’t wanna get BTFOd in front of everyone.

Does anyone actually buy these Capcom and SNK repo cabinets? I'm assuming they must because they keep making them but outside of FGC personalities on YouTube who I'm sure would get promo ones for free, who is their audience? I've never met anyone who actually owns one and they're fairly expensive so that'd price them out of South American audiences.

>>715122449 (OP)
Worth it.

>>715128754
I would like one but i already have a mame cab.

>>715122449 (OP)
Yeah whereas zoomeers blow their money on the people playing these games.
Not to mention shit like Iron Lung, fnaf, delta or other crap

>>715123256
Remember when you were a kid, and saw the "Operation wolf" machine for the first time?

>tfw I still go to Galloping Ghost a few times a year and always put in at least an hour at pic related

>>715122449 (OP)
Yeah it sucked not having Fortnite skins

>>715122449 (OP)
>bat tops
>for a fighting game with precise inputs, long before they became forgiving
Why do Americans even?

For me, it's DDR Extreme. The best arcade game.

>>715122449 (OP)
>Boomers
Kek Fucking what?

Anyone?

>>715122449 (OP)
I've never played an arcade fighter. Growing up, we only had Pole Position, Pac Man, a random pinball machine, and Galaga. My first experience with Mortal Kombat was my dad kicking my ass at it on the SNES via UMK3.

>>715122449 (OP)
You mean gen Xers.

>>715133010
Do you seriously believe that you can't do precise inputs on a battop? Unless you are talking about the rubber bands being used instead of restrictor gates, now that would make more sense

What was the most expensive state of the art arcade game your arcade had?

For me it was Sky Pirates.

It was a VR game where you sat down in a seat that goes up and down as you follow your hot air ballon. you had to battle other players hot air ballons and you had a drop attack where you popped someones ballon from above

https://youtu.be/DMXjFVfZbiU?si=-UEhJYDVhOHKBCeH

>>715133010
how is a battop worse than an orbtop?

>>715128754
are they running actual hardware? if not i don't see the point, it's just a mame cabinet that is purposely limited in function. there's probably a few games i would buy real hardware for just to have them (and take up space next to a mame cabinet so it looks more like an arcade)

>>715123256
Hah these games were fun. I played some of these in the early 2000s before the local arcade shut down.

>>715128754
No, but I have an MVS with all those games plus Metal Slug 1 and X, FFRB2 and Neo Turf Masters. I also got a CPS2 with a converted copy of Progear and a phoenix copy of Puzzle Fighter II. Honestly, there aren't a lot of CPS2 games I would want compared to the MVS library besides one of the Dungeon and Dragon games.

>>715133674
Harder to rest your hand and just use a couple fingers + thumb to handle the stick.

Anybody remember Disney Quest at Disney World? It was like 4 or so story arcade with everything imaginable, along with some old school VR shit at the very top floor, and everything was free-play. no idea if it still exists or if it was changed at all but it was truly glorious back in the late 90s.

There was an arcade near Philly that had this for a long time. It was a very kid oriented place but I wonder if they have it. Great game. Never got past level 4 as a kid though.

>>715124708
This game kicked ass.

My local arcade had free play nights for 10 dollars

>>715133071
I kneel

Play Abyss for me (on heavy)

>>715135760
10 dollars? Accounting for inflation you can buy a house nowadays with that kind of money!

Lightgun games are the most kino arcade games.
Fucking love Namco's output.

>>715133636
They had one of these at the former GameWorks at Ontario Mills and it was one of the main reasons I'd go there instead of a closer arcade

>>715136553
>GameWorks

my gameworks had this Jurassic Park game. it was hard as fuck and there was always a line to play it

>>715133071
Fucking based. I spent YEARS of my life playing DDR2 Max at a Scandia in California.

>>715122449 (OP)
>raiden cab
>crystal castles artwork

>>715122449 (OP)
My father has regailed me with stories of his youth and how Arcades were at their height in America and every "clic" or "group" would hang out there. The nerds, the jocks, the staceys, the outcasts everybody. The "pac-man era" as he calls it. Sounds nice.

>>715122449 (OP)
I feel sorry for you

>>715133415
Absolutely. I will own one of these one day.
Ill give you a weird acedote about Hydrothunder cabinets. Many years ago my dad took me on a crews ship for vacation. I was 12 i think. Made friends with a bunch of other kids on the ship and we had a whole gang running around all over the place. We hungout in the arcade alot as youd imagine. The arcade had 2 hydrothunder cabinets next to each other. I was screwing around and grabbed the throttle handles on both machines at once and took a pretty good shock. I told the other kids. It became a right of passage to get shocked atleast once.
One of my friends did something nuts though, he grabbed the thottles palm up, made his forarms muscles contract and he gripped onto the handles hard. He took the worst shock out of everyone. Actually flailed around for a second and was sent to the floor. I remember him telling me he saw blue while it was happening. Just a random childhood memory for me with a fav game

>>715141306

>>715126359
Tennessee? I think I saw that machine last week.

Only one here im mad about NuArcades being Slot machines in disguise nowdays?

I miss working at the arcade so fucking bad bros I've never been more sociable and in my element... I'm a fuckin weirdo recluse now and I don't know how to fix it.

The hardcore gamers were always nice to hang around on Soul Calibur, Tekken, Maximum Tune and shit. You could like hook a Playstation controller to the arcade machine of Tekken and someone would always get "dunked on" for that. Forgot his name. Love Maximum Tune, play it whenever I can. Been years now though.

The kids were great and fun (no pedo). I remember my mother showed up one time for some reason and started sperging out that "you can't be acting this way this is a real professional environment™" because I still had a box on my head some kid put there.

The parents though would start shit about "rigged games" and "scams" and that was always fun didn't like that bit I guess. Why are you even here all these good games and you just dump it all into Smokin Token and Cyclone thats a you problem.

I was able to 1cc House of the Dead 2, Gunbird 2 (which was a weird outlier it was only import and only shmup), and Time Crisis 2 and 4 by the time they finally closed.

I still keep the fact I "worked for Namco" on my resume, even if its pretty irrelevant now.

Kinda going through a midlife crisis at the moment. Why do I keep going on? I guess you can't jerk off and play video games when you are dead so theres that.

>>715136176
Goldstorm Pirates "just dropped™". Well it was "done" for awhile but it started shipping to North America this month.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R32YR3OQ08w

There are no arcades left anymore so I brought the arcade home instead. I have 2 Astro Cities, 1 for horizontal and one for vertical pcbs. I would love to have one of those big light gun machines as well but I can't fit those through my doorway anyway.