Thread 720158098

holy shit I forgot all about this

>>720158098 (OP)
>Vacant L.A. Machineguns cabinet in the back
Imagine playing something other than this absolute masterpiece

Real gaming.

>>720158098 (OP)
Imagine if it was called Curb stompin' and instead of spiders it was...well....you know

FOREVERIAL TIEDUP (AND LOVING IT)

>>720158098 (OP)
For me it’s Duck Punch

>>720158690
Koopas, I know.

>>720158098 (OP)
for me, it's point blank

>MOOOOOOOOM
>HEEEEEELP

>Fan backlash for taxiderming the bots and encasing them in glass
>Caught using AI art in advertisements and clowned on for it
>Employee arrested while wearing the damn rat suit
>STILL no updates on the new cartoon when the pilot's supposed to be a Christmas special
Chuckbros, I'm worried.

>>720160279
>tries to distance themselves from FNAF
big mistake

>>720160279
>went to Saudi Arabia
>there's a Chuck E Cheese in the middle of a desert road
That was weird

>>720158098 (OP)
hey, i played that when i was young lad.

>>720158098 (OP)
>these were discontinued because amerilards obesity kept breaking them

>>720160279
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BPcC7cHEhzw

>>720158098 (OP)
>>720160659
for me, it was gator bonkin'

Take me back

>>720158780
t.

>>720162163
The rise of school shootings correlates closely with the fall of laser tag.

>>720161867
the gator game was fun as fuck

>>720160606
Anon you saw a mirage

>>720162271
Son what's all this screaming for, you're gonna wake the neighbors next door

>Parents dropped me off at some daycare place with all sorts of games like this around
>No money so I can't play any of them
At least they had Nintendo games and shit set up.

RULES OF NATURE

>>720162512
>Classic gets a soulless remake

>>720162748
the fuck anon
did you get dropped off at a mall arcade or something

>>720162819
kek

>>720162748
They were probably in freeplay mode and you were too stupid to realize it.

>>720162863
dear god that's awful
everything just gets worse

>>720160279
>Fan
How the fuck Chuck E Cheese have "fans" old enough to follow such developments? You're supposed to enjoy the place until you're 10, forget about it until you have your own kids, then hate it until you no longer have to take your kids there. That's it.

>>720162948
They were not, I tried.

>>720162883
This used to be a thing. I went to a place that had the Spider-man arcade game
>That one kid that actually wanted to play as Namor

>>720162994
Place was run by absolute penny-pinchers then.

>>720162883
There was a craze in the 90's where all sorts of places were trying to be like discovery zone.

>used to go to an arcade years ago
>a ddr machine would always play a song when it showed the high scores
>don’t know what it is
Sigh.

>>720162976
As such a kid and now adult I can confirm this.

My older sister guaranteed I would die if I tried this game.

>>720162445
played it once, was the gayest form of LARP i've ever seen. so i guess it makes sense that the audience overlaps with school shooters

>>720162445
Think about it!

>>720158603
>spend all money on dual wielding
>die immediately

>>720158098 (OP)
Jesus goddamn Christ

I remember

My Chuck E Cheese also has a semirealistic firefighting game where it was a rail shooter but you had hoses instead of guns that you could twist the nozzle of for different spray patterns. The plot was going into some kind of fancy hotel hosting a political event that went up in flames

Anyone remember that or know the name?

>>720163363
She was right anon, I tried it once and can confirm I died

>>720158098 (OP)
This game is what gave me a spider and bondage fetish

The air blowing felt good.

>>720158098 (OP)
>>720158603
>>720162163
>>720163363
nostalgianvke

>>720164012
This air blowing thing but instead it was Arctic Thunder

Remember this shit at chuck e cheese

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dF1opQhDRts

>>720162976
it's just modern outrage culture. people always need something to be angry about. see the crack barrel shit from a few weeks ago.

This was in the arcade of our favorite resort in Disney World and my dad and I would play every single time we went until they got rid of it. Just us dumping quarters and blasting sea monsters. He was never a vidya guy, but he still remembers it fondly, as do I

Local arcade had one of these bad boys. Blew my mind when I got older and learned that one half of the screen was actually a mirror.

>>720164217
fucking grim.

I found this shit at an amusement park arcade when I was a teen and it was the coolest shit ever
It didn't even have the fist guards so you had to hit it bare knuckle
Needless to say, the next time I went they had already gotten rid of it
You just hit the pads as they flip up and at some point they all flip up and you unleash a flurry of punches
Gave me an appreciation for Fist of the North Star, wish I could play it again

I used to love shopping mall arcades. Course, my parents would only ever play one (1) game each time we went, so I didn't get to play a lot.

>inb4 allowance
Didn't have any.

>>720160279
Things are looking grim for Charles Entertainment Cheese

>>720158098 (OP)
I miss those big indoor soft play places

>Kimball Farms in Massachusetts finally erecting an arcade tent after like a decade of not having one around the same time they started serving hot food
>Getting to go inside with futuristic game credits and play their animatronic knockoff Roger Rabbit BB shooting gallery, the giant stacking game with Source engine physics, the speed bag game, and picrel with the giant chunky guns
Take me back, PLEASE

>>720158098 (OP)
Remember doing this with my brother and sister to max out our tickets. We had to make sure no attendant was around because they would try and get us to stop.

>>720164335
They also had this fun and thoroughly exhausting boxing game with motion tracking and heavy ass gloves. I never saw it anywhere else.

>>720163774
heh

>>720164443
Omae Wa Mou Shindeiru

Just me? Alright...

>>720163943
Guilty

Someone try to help me, anyone remember that one game that was like, fight between animals, but they actually gave you cards you could use for playing next time? Like actual real cards.

I swear, that was the coolest shit ever when I found it

this and time crisis were my favorite

How is the chuck e cheese pizza nowadays? I remember thinking I hated pizza growing up, but actually it was the Chuck e cheese pizza that I hated.

>>720164594
theres no way minimum wage workers cleaned that shit properly.

>>720164719
sounds kind of like Mushiking

Animal Kaiser

>>720164986
Oops, meant to reply to this chick.
>>720164719

>>720164594
>going to the local one of these with my friend Matt at age 8, with adjunct gymnasium and foam ball pit area, having him explain the current LARP system he’s working on called Battle Riders, where the players design giant Tron-Legacy-esque mech suits and explore dungeons
>spending the entire day with him going on one continuous adventure campaign in the jungle gym area and the gymnasium, fulfilling a bunch of pent-up creative ideas, battling his Dr. Wily-esque mad scientist villain with a Yugioh-Cyber-Dragon-esque rainbow LED gamer lighting color scheme, and it was pretty much the greatest time I ever had playing with someone as a kid
How the fuck did things get this bad?

>>720162976
... he said on the forum allegedly designed for grown men to discuss a medium primarily targeted towards children.
Seriously, animatronic autists are something else, man. They're weirdly obsessed with archival and preservation to a degree i don't think I've seen from other fandoms. Bots, props, random family's photos from closed/remodeled stores, you name it. Hell, some even study the floorplans for their local stores, painstakingly recreate them in places like Roblox and rig the bots to play showtapes.

>>720164986
Yeah that was it. Getting a card from a game and being able to use it was wild to me back then.

>tfw you blow all your tokens/coins on picrel instead of playing some fun vidya
>even after your mom explains how it's rigged
i was such a little dumbshit, sorry mom

>>720165169
I was that kid

>>720162512
BOW BOW BOW BOW BOW BOW BOW

NOW IM ANGRY

>>720165296
For me, it was getting scammed by Stacker before knowing it was rigged

Any arcade machines you actually HATE? For me it's this goddamn piece of shit, I see it in just about every arcade I've been too and I swear none of the guns are calibrated properly so it's always off. Trash machine.

>>720165296
What is this machine? In my country all arcades used little cards instead of tokens so the rigged machines would be like, that digital block stacking one.

I really like this game.

>>720165296
a gacha gamer in the making

>>720165296
They weren’t rigged, they pay out great. Sounds like a skill issue.

>>720165457
I knew that shit was rigged on my first playthrough. I had some inhuman fucking reflexes as a teen and watched the fucking block continue to move several frames after I hit stop.

>>720165545
t. Arcade Owner

>>720160606
The Saudis love family stuff. They have amusement parks, arcades, kid stuff everywhere. I wish I grew up in today's KSA, kids get the 90s experience on steroids.

>>720165296
You’re retarded. This was actually my first major win at an arcade in my teens, and I actually did have to apply some thought and tacticality to it. Key Master or whatever it’s called is the one that’s really rigged.

>>720165465
>make a tomb raider arcade game
>base it off the 2013 game
why?

>>720164685
Not just you. The roller skating rink I used to go to as a kid had that one, early 2000s. I loved the graphics and the control scheme with the two sticks, and I loved to watch people play it, but I always got my ass kicked by the computer so hard that I never could figure out how to play it myself. It pissed me off when the machine was removed when the rink downsized their arcade section in order to fit in a food and drinks counter.

>hit the arcade after going to the movies expecting to play some time crisis, silent scope, house of the dead, DDR, virtua cop, ocean hunter, ghost squad, fuck even some mario kart or something
>it's literally all claw machines, flappy bird rip offs or other mobile games just converted into cabinets
i realize i'm old and expecting any of the games i played as a kid to still be there was wishful thinking but i don't believe that kids would choose flappy bird over a to scale MP5 with simulated recoil and tonnes of terrorists to mow down.

They did have this though. Shoots jets of water at the screen and that's how you attack the dinosaurs.

>>720165669
Caddicarus liked it, chud.

>>720160606
HAMS TO ALLAH
POOOOOGGGGEERRRSSS

ENTER

CYCLONE

>>720165748
You need to find a Round1 anon, those are the few remaining "proper" modern arcades

These should be a standard in arcades

>>720163363
I lost a brother to this game

>>720165669
You can't have this in a place full of children

>>720165889
What's weird is that we have those some shitty arcades too with the same awful machines but they'll have actual japanese racing cabinets in the back corner complete with the namco membership machines too, except those machines will have the arcade card readers bolted onto them as well and I'm really not sure why since they aren't actual games.

>>720163363
I watched my best friends eyes pop out like a cartoon character and when he got shocked I could see his bones!

>>720165481
It's called a coin pusher. The old ones use low denomination coins but the modern ones are self contained and just give you card points or tickets. It was always worth checking the payout slot on the old ones because coins would sometimes fall when nobody was around.

>>720163363
I fucking remember this!

>>720162819
NO CHOICE!!!!!

>>720165804
I found one of these that wasn't rigged for whatever reason and an employee came over and put it out of order after I had won like 10 times in a row. I got a lava lamp that I still have to this day.

>>720165771
Kek

>>720158603
this game is godawful. it's not even a lightgun game but the guns are just glorified joysticks

DAAAYYYYYYYYYYYY TOOOOOOOOOOOOE NAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH

>local laser tag place had one of these
>was always better than actually playing

>>720164335
I liked playing this game in Pirate Yakuza. Most of the monsters being IRL sea creatures is a cool touch.

>>720165296
how are these rigged? these are probably the least riggable machines in arcades. theyre just simple physics. at some point, a penny is gonna be the catalyst for a huge payout

>>720167517
>running around the local laser tag arena doing the callouts from Black Ops II complete with exact inflections and unnecessary fake reloads

This game terrified me as a kid, I hid behind trash cans but still wanted to watch the preview. I wish this would get a remaster.

SWIPE YOUR CARDS,
GET YOUR DINOSAUR CARDS!

I miss Gameworks like you wouldn't believe. Growing up near one of them was a magical experience and it sucks to know that we'll never get anything like it ever again.

You could build a cash prize on one of these sniper games and bet it double or nothing on the final level. I got crazy fucking lucky and actually landed the bullshit coinflip shot on the target, I won like $80.

I was 12 or something, shit was so cash.

>>720168149
I really hope we decide to start liking this dim kind of lighting again.

>>720165296
For me it was claw machines. I was fucking obsessed with them as a kid.

>>720168465
Something something parents can't find their children or some bullshit I bet

>>720168470
ex-gf always wanted to be one of the girls who won the massive 6 foot teddy bears, wasted like $500 over the relationship on that crap.

>>720168597
Kind of a valid point I guess.

>>720168690
>Blasto on one of the main displays
You just know they'd never do that shit now because Dunkeys have turned every console mascot that isn't Mario, Crash or Spyro into a fucking punchline to get back at autistic people.

The arcade in my town only lasted like three weeks before feral kids ruined it and forced it to shut down
I can't even remember what games it had other than Time Crisis 3 and Sonic Fighters

Otherwise there was a few machines in the lobby of the cinema, me and my friends used to make fun of metal slug for being a gay game because you rescued naked hairy guys

Which way, white man?

>>720169124
>feral kids
Does this actually happen where you live?

>>720169202
Usually that means someone is being polite and not mentioning demographics.

>>720169123
Kek that's funny, I was just noticing Blasto on the screen for the first time too.

>>720169202
And by feral kids he means NIGGERS

>Playing skeeball
>Throw the ball a little too hard
>It hits the scoreboard
>The front panel breaks off and falls onto the floor
>Run away and hide into the slide thinking I was gonna get kicked out
Good times

YAH YAH YAH YAH

make way for the GOAT

https://x.com/goegoezzz/status/1963115993129001339
Don't mind me just shilling a cool account I found that posts a bunch of old video game shit

>>720169123

that was actually the game bar, so whoever was at that seat last requested blasto

miss that place dearly

>>720169649
The local McDonalds actually had one of these years ago, but it disappeared after they remodeled into a soulless slop vendor. I always wanted to ask if I could have bought it off them.

>>720158098 (OP)
I can still hear the
>SPLAT!
sound effects all these years later

>>720168465
The only recent time I've seen a business use this low, industrial lighting was a burger joint that served you drinks in measuring cups. Completely unfitting and a shitty place to eat.
The aesthetic was okay for gameworks, but what I most remember gameworks for was charging 5x the price per pay of any small arcade so you could have the privilege of slamming down $12 beers and $8 hotdogs. I don't miss it, since the rise of shitty barcades seems to perfectly emulate what Gameworks did first.

>>720162976
fuck you
having kids has been an endless string of "let's do that thing i liked when i was a kid" only to find that thing doesn't exist anymore or is prohibitively expensive

This was my spot as a kid. It's changed hands and doesn't have what it used to, but back in the day it was called Startime and it was one of those crazy concepts that lived and died over a 10 year period.
>movie theater
>massive arcade, with a kiddy section larger than any arcade you'll find today
>two mini golf courses
>go-karts
>batting cages
>sports bar
>comedy club
I remember the first time we went, and my dad was floored by just how much shit was there. Good times.

>>720168149

i was able to visit one once on vacation, the multi-story arcade machine with those seats going up and down entire floors was mind blowing

>>720167394
I love how that machine was always twice as loud as everything else so you'd hear the song from across the room

>>720169359
HOLY SOVL OVERLOAD

>>720165296
they have had these with loonies / toonies ($1/$2 coins) at the local fair every year for over 20 years here. it's so easy to walk past them every hour or so and find one that's got ten bucks in change precariously hanging over the edge

>>720165748
>get told a local bar has "an arcade"
>rattly as fuck space invaders frenzy cabinet
>4 mario kart cabinets and only 2 work
>something completely ripped apart
>a tabletop MAME that didn't seem to work
>a pac-man that had no power to it
>one of those gumball machines that's kind of like a baseball themed pinball game

i was so fucking disappointed it was physically painful

Did you guys ever play the cow milking game?

>>720169674
>Literally unavoidable damage unless you'd played the game 200 times already and knew where to preemptively aim to block projectiles
Artificial difficulty

>>720169674
I liked 3 better with the cool shotguns

>>720167210
>arcade gets brand new bowling game
>it's absurdly easy to nail a strike
>strikes unlock bonus stages and strikes on those stages give huge points
>3 frames no strikes but playing well you'd get like 5-10 tickets
>almost all strikes on all 3 rounds and all 3 bonus rounds was an easy 80 - 120
>every other game had 30-50 tickets as a "good" payout and most jackpots on rigged games were under 500
we spent half our credits having fun and the other half bankrupting that place of their silly toys. next time we went the ticket payout was halved

Had a huge crush on Helen as a kid. I think she was one of many anthropomorphic awakenings I had, and the reason I like Glamrock Chica and other bird-like characters so much. Shout outs to Goldie from Rock-a-Doodle and Wave from Sonic. I'm sure there are others I'm forgetting but those are the ones that immediately come to mind.

Vgh......

We can never go back bros.

Do you not have an Andretti's in your state?

>>720169149
Mine was the fully enclosed one. Have fond memories of playing it.

>>720170220
i hate that i live in a boring shithole during the collapse of western civilization. i hate it so much. i am so fucking bored of my existence. what i wouldn't give to go back 40 years

>>720169649
Stand up drivers are so odd

>>720165296
>played one of these on a random trip to a bowling alley with a group from school
>somehow managed to win a cell phone
That was an odd but neat experience

>>720170672
it's super learnable compared to modern light gun games, like that shitty halo one where you take constant chip damage so they control how long you get to play

>>720170220
Who needs all that fun and excitement when you can give your child your phone and let them rack up your credit card playing cheap freemium games instead?
>Go inside any modern arcade
>Gigantic 10-foot tall monolith for Fruit Ninja

>>720171135
crashed one of these back to the windows 7 desktop once lol

>>720171135
>flat cardboard cutout using stock imagery
>literally just the phone game running on an upscaled touchscreen monitor
Absolutely, disgustingly soulless. God I hate modern "arcades", especially the VR arcades.

Proudest moment was completing Time Crisis 2 within two credits on holiday in Mallorca one summer. Them going to one of those popcorn machines with my last €uro

I remember right before we moved from Michigan, we ended up going to this really fucking creepy arcade that had a shit ton of really strange games. I'm just going to go out on a limb and say that it was this place called Marvin's Marvelous Mechanical Museum now that I'm looking up images of it. It was really unsettling.

>>720170827
80's Broadway Helen doing anything for ya, big boy?

>>720171236
vr arcades were cool very briefly when i was new to VR and getting my legs. After a couple hours of beat saber and zero caliber at a friend's place I knew that VR was only going to be good if I got it for myself.
Years later i got a headset and a good PC and I sink a few hours into VR a day. went to this event that had a typical VR 'experience' thing included with admission and the kids and I didn't even look twice at it.

Any Ohioans ITT?

This place was the shit as a kid. Just looked it up and it's totally shuttered now. Only exists as an at-home party service. Sad

>>720170220
I always liked mini golf, my favorite amusement attraction thing as a kid. We have a few in my town. What is upsetting is that we have an old mini golf place called Goofy Golf that has been around since the 50s or 60s, a local chain, but it is in such shit condition. And it's the only 'traditional' mini golf place in town with cool themed holes, instead of just a literal mini golf course with no cool attractions.
We do have another mini golf place in town with a human maze and that was cool but mostly tedious to move around in.

>>720171517
looks like a collection of the animatronic fortune teller style things. not really games but novelties

>>720171538
The thing with VR is, even after all these years, there's only a scant handful of actual games and almost everything else is STILL just a glorified techdemo. HL:Alyx was supposed to be the step forward everyone could look to for innovation, but it just seems that everyone was already packing their bags by that point.

Plus the arcades themselves are the most sterile bland rooms. Often just flat, boxy rooms with office paint jobs and a desk in a corner that you sit down at to play. Hell, even most of them are located in cheap old office buildings that they picked up for dirt cheap in some scummy neighborhood. Who thinks kids are going to be excited to go there?

>>720164945
The white ones did

>>720171659
I remember it having some standard arcade games. Lot of pinball machines from what I remember, which didn't interest me much as a kid. But definitely the main draw were all of the really strange and bizarre machines.

>>720167658
Just looked it up and that is super cool that they included that. Never played any of the Yakuzas.

>>720163961
this one?

>>720171775
>The thing with VR is, even after all these years, there's only a scant handful of actual games and almost everything else is STILL just a glorified techdemo
VR requires the user to do *some* work to get to the fun. HL Alyx is completely BTFO by the HL2 VR mod. Mods in Contractors VR allow for some of the best PvP I've ever engaged in. shit like Dolphin VR and UEVR where i can play games with a normal controller or KB+M, but i'm immersed in the game world.
Browsing the list of VR titles on the steam store is a sad time but VR has so much available on PC or quest that i'm losing my mind over it a bit. There are only so many hours in a day.

>went to arcade club in the uk in manchester
>went again a few months back while on a little holiday with my brother
>it's even bigger now
>before was like 2 floors iirc, now it's fucking 5
I wish there was on closer, my ass is in fucking Scotland. Thought they did a pretty good pizza too for the price, they actually fucking sold out before the night was over.

>>720172034
every now and then video games make you say "hell yeah, I am so glad they did this"

like that black ops game you could play zork in

FEED ME

>>720171775
They're using VR for the weirdest fucking attractions now

>>720172052
My Chuck E Cheese had this, too.

>>720164335
I hate swivel gun games so much

>>720158780
yea, kinda fucked.
Any kid that plays the game should be flagged as a future serial killer.

>>720164986
i only know about this from vore fetish compilations

>>720162271
https://youtu.be/ms2klX-puUU?si=ZGuvgaP36isiH1hp
fucking blast from the past

>>720172176
these sort of things used to scream "tourist trap" to me, but now I have no idea if it's targeting idiotic zoomoids, or brown immigrants, or retarded boomers, or if it's still a tourist trap

>>720172176
Just looking at this I can tell that it's located near some kind of high traffic area like Pigeon Forge, Tennessee or Orlando, Florida

>>720167957
The conjoined twin zombies in the Freakshow were the ones that creeped me out the most, especially with the way you could blast off their face and they'd keep coming after you. Made me scared of our upstairs balcony as a kid because my 6 year old little brain was like "That's exactly where Flapjack would come out."

College Student Union had a machine and I'd go play that in between classes till I was able to beat it. House of the Dead is more "fair" but damn if Carnevil didn't have absolute flair.

>>720163363
What did this even do? There's no way it actually shocked people

>>720168386
I was too short to see through the scope properly so my dad would hold me by the waist and lift me so I could aim with it.

The ultimate sniper team.

>>720172359
the handles vibrated really uncomfortably to simulate electricity.
like those joke hand buzzers

>>720168149
Went to the last one in Seattle a few weeks ago. It's in pretty sad shape these days. Weirdly the food was really good, better than the games.

>>720167957
Only thing I remember is that undead victorian zombie that had big floppy tits that bounced when you shot her.

>>720172318
It's normally meant specifically for kids to scream at their parents to let them go to it because it looks interesting on the outside while the family is on vacation

>>720170672
House of the Dead 1 and 2 are pretty fair all things considered. There's only like 1 cheapshot per level, and when you know it's coming you can actually block it since it's usually center screen. Even if you ended up eating a hit, there were lots of medpacks or end of level bonus to top you off. Carnevil had REAL cheapshots though where you would literally take mandatory damage from off-screen enemies.

>>720172473
>it looks interesting on the outside while the family is on vacation
oh i see, thank you for your help.
if only there was some catchy two-word phrase to describe such a thing.

>>720172552
You answered your own question, so I gave you a longer answer

>>720172359
It just vibrated so fucking fast that it was impossible to hold on.

>>720172473
I didn't know MagiQuest was a thing outside of Great Wolf Lodge. I've never seen a solo location

>>720164594
I remember being inside one of those McDonald’s PlayPlaces as a kid. One time, I turned a corner inside the big plastic tube and found a bat hanging from the rivets. It was small and asleep or dead, but it was about 4 inches away from my face. Scared the shit out of 5 year old me.

my local mini-golf place had one of these full afterburner cabinets and it was the coolest shit ever (still is)

>>720167957
kek same, something about it was way creepier as a kid than hotd or similar games.

>>720172359
I just remember being instructed to pull down my pants and attach electrodes to my balls.. (it was a different time)

>>720162163
I miss the laser tag place because it was THE de facto kid party place even over Celebration Station and Chucks
>Pizza party in separate rooms
>laser tag that had a leaderboard for the match/day (my autism liked this part a lot)
>Gauntlet arcade machine that I loved playing
>some crane shit that had Nintendo stuff as prizes
Good times.
>>720165804
Easiest ticket farm of my life right here.

>>720172613
i didn't see an interrogative mark at the end of my post, bucko

SMOKIN' TOKEN
EXTREME

>>720170827
>mfw

>>720172318
You'll get a pretty good idea of what this place "is"
https://youtu.be/alFxQsKCG2Q?t=680
Hint: The same guy who made that creationist museum made this

>>720172820
>nail the bonus a dozen times but never twice in a row as required

>>720158098 (OP)
I remember loving the Spider Stompin

A lot of the old Chuck E Cheese games really take me back.

>went to SEGA Joypolis in Odaiba last summer
>still feels like it was ripped straight out of the 90s/early 2000s
This place was fucking awesome. For once SEGA's refusal to progress as a company actually paid off

>>720158709
lol I miss read this as Dutch punch now that would be some game

>>720172884
oh god it's a tourist trap that is preaching at you.
they are gouging you for all that you're worth while trying to convert you.
Amazing. Things always get worse, without fail, don't they?

>>720160279
It was over when it was revealed they reheat customer leftover pizza and reserve it to people.

>>720164945
Why not? It would be fun to climb around in there, even of you had to clean while doing it.

>>720172626
No idea. But my family vacationed in Pigeon Forge all the fucking time when I was a kid, so I grew really familiar with and fond of the area, even if so much of it is the cheapest tourist trap crap you can think of. As a kid you think "Wow, it's like an amusement park on both sides of the street!" but as an adult you recognize how much better the area in front of the Smokey Mountains would look if it were more on theme.

>>720172972
Fuck, forgot image

>>720173031
do you know how disgusting children can be?

>pirate minigolf and then cvs2
perfect day

I got this slut down to a science and was able to consistently win the larger prizes every time I went

>>720173031
not a chance you were having fun cramming yourself into those nooks and crannies and trying to manage some kind of washing liquid. i don't agree with the death of the playplace but i sure understand the reasoning

>>720170269
I am grateful that other people have this exact experience

>>720162512
It was weird going to the bowling alley as a kid and in the arcade section there would be a like 30 year old couple tryharding the croc game for prize tickets.

>>720172884
>Pigeon Forge
kek, I'm right

>>720173042
I was just in Atlantic City/Ocean City NJ this weekend and witnessed pretty much the same thing. Same goes for Niagara, Canada.

>>720173031
not if you're having to do it multiple times a shift

>>720173025
There's no way that's legal from a food safety standard. Unless they mean pizza that was ordered to be made but never served.

>>720170220
We still have one of those style of buildings by me, minus the movie theater.

>movie theaters get rid of arcade games
>10 years later
>arcade nostalgia blows up
>parents taking their kids to dave and busters
>no one is watching movies anymore

>>720165980
A fully clothed woman? Thats way less skimpy than a lot of outfits i see in publoc theae days.

>>720173246
>There's no way that's legal from a food safety standard
That doesn't mean anything.

>>720173317
You get what you fucking deserve

>>720168082
Oh so that's what that minigame in yakuza parodies

Does anyone remember that dinosaur battling game where you'd get physical cards at the end? I remember playing it on vacation when I was a kid but I never saw that machine anywhere else

>>720173317
There's literally not a single movie worth seeing in the theaters at this point. Go up to a random person on the street and ask them what movies are playing and I guarantee you they'd shrug their shoulders.

>>720158098 (OP)
>Those walls
Wait, shit, was this Space Center?

>>720173391
It means you get shut down if it's true instead of just bullshit being spread by the anti-Charles Entertainment Cheese lobby.

>>720164945
Guess why everyone has allergies now?

>>720173025
what is that even supposed to mean, like reassembling the leftover slices into a full circle? what would even be the point

>>720173421
Dinosaur King

man i wish i could have gone to my local midway more often before it got closed down to the beheading

Sovl is no longer allowed

>>720173659
The munching sound these made is literally embedded into my brain, and occasionally when I'm chewing on something crunchy I can practically replicate it

>>720158098 (OP)
anyone remember that game where you dropped a token in and whatever number it passed through was the amount of tickets you got

I was the master at that shit, the ticket machines would keep running out

>>720173025
Matpat of all people actually mythbusted that a while ago. The reason the slices don't always line up symmetrically is they cut it weird with pic related. Granted, that doesn't discount locations in lower-income areas from doing it, but still.

Finally get a chance to ask if anyone else on earth has played this arcade machine that I only saw in one location ever.


There was an arcade/pinball/pizza place called "jungle jims", several of them nationally. This would have been around 93.

They had an arcade machine that was basically a large space ship, nothing covering the cockpit, I think it might have been red. The thing had a large barrier around the outside of it and the ship itself was probably around 6-7 feet in diameter. I believe it had a pretty large screen for the game. Anyway you would fly forward, sprite animation graphics, and shoot shit iirc. I just remember a level with lava and pillars of lava shooting from the ground to the sky. I think the entire machine was on hydraulics so it would bank left or right.
That motherfucker was like $2 a play in 1993 money so needless to say I didn't play it many times.

I've tried so hard to find anything about it for 3 decades now. somebody has to know.

>>720173659
Tickets were so much better than the stupid card bullshit arcades do nowadays. Lugging around a giant was of your hard earned gambling winnings was something else

>>720173317
I have a local cinemark that still has an active arcade. Although I usually just go the theater and sit in my seat after buying everything online. >>720173453
Weapons is pretty good. I'm looking forward to The Long Walk and Good Boy as well.

>>720158098 (OP)
STAMP ON THE GROUND, JUMPIN' ALL AROUND

Not gonna lie but I remember putting those pepper flakes on the pizza at Chuck E Cheese as a kid and it kicked ass

>>720173927
Why would you even need to lie about that?

>>720173317
Fan events still put butts in seats. The Sonic 3 showing I went to that handed out Shadow posters was packed, and if you want something more recent, a 35th anniversary screening of the 1990 TMNT I was at a few weeks ago was filled with dads taking their kids.

>>720170020
>low, industrial lighting was a burger joint that served you drinks in measuring cups
Unfortunately that fact was on the back of my mind. The only places doing it are extremely faggy hipster joints.

>>720173659
When I looked at these ice cream machines, I thought I saw the future. Everything is so sterile now. I hate that western civilization is in decay.

>>720173042
None of those could possibly be worse than this
https://youtu.be/EyVdldXN6pE?t=22

PinballGODS ww@?

>>720162976
most people who grew up going to chucks can barely afford to have kids to begin with let alone take them out

>>720164335
>Went to one of the All-Star resorts at Disney World like two or three years ago
>All of the arcade locations have now been converted into extra sitting areas
Maybe it was just like that because this was still just a bit after Covid, but goddamn what a shame, although I guess it's one less thing for children to nag their parents about

ENTER

>>720174031
Everything became sterile, but not in a cool futuristic way. Instead, everything just sucks now.

>>720168690
Looking at this makes my heart ache

>>720174059
I got to the 3rd place high score once on Medieval Madness.

>>720160279
Arcades are dead, no-one is making new machines, the old guard of companies are highly litigious and fucking NARCs will rat you out for using piracy machines and repro machines, it's fucking over

>>720174031
And to clarify, I mean that the future that the ice cream machine promised, wasn't the one that came to pass.
>>720174229
Yep. Feels bad man.

>>720169149
When I was a kid, I thought the dinosaurs looked so real that they might jump out and bite me.

>>720169149
A friend and I were able to beat the JP1 arcade. Probably spent $20 in quarters though.

>>720162512
OUCH OUC-OUCH OW-OW-OW-OUCH OUW-GOTCHU

>>720174435
>Watched a TAS run of the JP1 arcade game
>The game literally forces you to take massive chunks of damage at certain points (and an especially egregious one right at the very end)
It's really funny watching how badly the games themselves cheated just to get kids to spend more quarters
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mvDpogQ0w-w

>>720174031
We had one of these in my middle school cafeteria, except we weren't allowed to actually use it for some reason, even though it was fully stocked up. We always used to joke that it was only for the principal, since she was such a big fat bitch and needed all that ice cream to maintain her weight.

I wonder if I am the only one who played on these

>>720174229
Modern Disney parks piss me off so much. The fact that they still have dominance in the industry is disgusting.

At least Universal is starting to gain on them

Quality thread OP.

People thought that Chuck E. old animatronic designs were just so creepy the company remade his whole model and even made a successful horror game series based on him. Lol.

>>720158098 (OP)
Man I remember this game fondly from thr late 90s I also was a big fan of that alligator game where the alligator heads come out of a bunch of holes and you have to hit them with your hands. Me and my brother would “cheat” and play co op mode to get as high a score as we could.

>>720173816
https://www.arcade-museum.com/Videogame/galaxy-force

Probably Sega's Galaxy Force. Great Super Scaler game. Emulated well, so check it out again, even though it obviously won't be as cool without the awesome cabinet.

>>720158098 (OP)
>>720158603
>>720164012
>>720164217
These look like a nightmare to mantain or get spare parts

Remember the reaction time game? Lol.

DisneyQuest was the fuckin' PEAK. I pity all the poorfags that never got a chance to go before they all shut down.

>>720174690
Speaking of Universal and animatronics...

>>720162976
My dad and I had a lot of fun playing arctic thunder there back in the 2000s and hydro thunder as well. my dad (RIP) was kino and I remember he would break off from my brother and I occasionally and return with massive amounts of tickets for us he won from the machines you have to time when you put the coins in to win big prizes. Miss that guy every fucking day. Been a year and it still feels like it just happened a month or two ago.

>>720162163
My childhood friend got his teeth knocked out playing laser tag because he turned a corner too quick and caught a blaster to the face

>>720175026
How was this the only Hercules attraction that ever existed at the parks?

>>720175060
I'm actually going to HHN for the first time next month just to see this house and the Terrifier one I'm a fucking pussy and can.

Hoping I can get into Epic Universe too. I was able to get into the Nintendo Park when I visited Japan last year but have yet to go on the DK ride. Also pretty interested in the Universal Monsters stuff

Where do we go from here, /v/? All we can do is look back fondly. It's comforting to think about what all of us had back then.

>>720164663
Almost got banned by the arcade jannies

>>720175219
*can't usually handle haunted houses

Fuck me man, I'm retarded

>>720162271
I might be retarded, but this image takes me back more than most in this thread. Feels like a portal that goes back almost 20 years.

>>720175026
I miss it, honestly. For some reason it seemed like everyone but me in my family hated it. I honestly don't like the feeling of Downtown Disney now. Oh, I'm sorry; Disney Springs. The only place that closely resembles the feeling of what it used to be like is around the Earl of Sandwich. Now most of it is just a bunch of expensive shops and restaurants intended mainly for adults.

>>720158098 (OP)

I heard he shot up that school because one of the kids beat his high score on DDR.

>>720158098 (OP)
i considered these machines "coin eaters" because two or three light bulbs would always be broken which essentially means the game is unbeatable.

>>720173749
>anyone remember that game where you dropped a token in and whatever number it passed through was the amount of tickets you got
The Coin Game has that in it. one of them is in the mall arcade, in the back corner.

ARCTIC THUNDER
SELECT YOUR TRACK

>>720175357
Never in a million years did I expect to see Futurama at Disney Springs

>>720175452
Glorious no bar player in action

>>720175026
>>720175163
>>720175357
Were these the places where you had to remove your shoes? Does anyone remember Disney places like that? And there were scheduled times where they let you play with white clay, and taught you how to do swirly Mickey Mouse logos with them on paper plates you could take home with you.

>>720158603
this was ridiculously easy but really fun, got to play it with my brother on a trip to japan once

>>720175676
Might have been Club Disney?

>>720164685
I remember playing this with my friend during middle school for like an hour we probably went through like 20.00 playing this but it was just really fucking sick at the time during the early 2000s. I miss that sense of discovering amazing cool as fucking shit you didn’t know existed and getting sucked into it when you go somewhere.

>>720173054
Went there 5 or 6 years ago. One of the most soulful places ever.

I used to go on field trips to the local Brunswick bowling alley and always not have money to play the arcade games there, which while under 20 cabinets, was a good selection always.
When I got older, I would go to cosmic bowling where they locked you in overnight and still only had money for a few games.
I fucking loved that small arcade

>>720164889
I remember the rat costume guy delivering pizza to our table and my dad and I laughing but feeling bad for my brother because he got scared of the costume and started crying lmao

>>720174802
I do believe you found it. Thanks so much.

>>720175075
just imagine all the tickets he'll have for you when you see him again :)

>>720175890
They were having an Idolmaster promotion while I was there. Every 30 mins or so they would play a performance video with one of the male bands on the stage.

There were these two girls who were clearly superfans that stood in front of that stage for hours and were excited to the point of tears. Nobody else was watching. Very strange sight.

I hope it doesn't close anytime soon.

>>720165169
>the one kid who knew the gstring bodyboard code (I was that kid)

>>720161585
>paw-ghurs
>moans pathetically
This is the only thing I think of when someone brings up chuck e. cheese now.

>>720175935
You're welcome. It was a truly amazing game for coming out in 1988. Sega used to really innovate with amazing arcade games and cabinets. Space Harrier, Outrun, Thunder Blade, Super Hang On; all amazing graphics, music, and cabinets with unique controller/seats that make an already cool game that much more awesome.

There was an arcade game I played once at a go-karting place and it was like a 3D jet fighter game but you were like flying around/through a city I think

>>720175909
>be me
>freshman year 2005
>friends and I on a Friday night get bored and go to bowling alley
>looks like pic related
>we request a bunch of dumb bullshit
>side bumpers
>that metal contraption you drop the bowling ball into and it rolls down it
>we try to come up with the most retarded way to hit the pins possible
>some balls get stuck half way down the lane
>try to hit the ball with a second ball
>first ball moves and second ball is no stuck instead
>seeing how many times we can bounce bowling ball off side rails before they hit pins
>etc
>try to go onto the lane once or twice to retrieve stuck ball
>after about a half hour workers tell us we need to leave

Kek I miss those days so damn fucking much

>>720167957
i had a similar experience with getting scared shitless by a light gun game, and i thought it was carnevil for years, but i returned in like 2018 and it turned out it was a really obscure one that barely existed anywhere

>>720175627
Disney keeps trying really hard to appeal to adults and it just keeps failing. The only people at this point that care about Disney are people who grew up with it but also subsequently remember what it used to be like, and a lot of the people who grew up going there are really unhappy with the directions they've chosen. The parks feel as though they're being left to rot, and instead of just refurbishing shit, it's like they intentionally let shit get really bad so they have an excuse to remove the old stuff that people love.

>>720176318
What the fuck? I always thought I imagined this game. Three players with a shotgun in the middle? Looking at youtube playthroughs I'm surprised how ass the gameplay actually looks compared to House of the Dead.

>>720158098 (OP)
>wins your top prizes
Nothin personnel, kiddo

>>720176168
>moans pathetically
That was game audio, but the puppet lip-syncing it doesn't help.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vUSMF8pq0EA

Step one: find the sweet spot.
Step two: keep your hand as steady as possible.
Step three: endless tickets

I paid about $20 to get enough tickets to get a Nintendo 64. Still have it.

>>720174894
Yeah. I learned which light to hit it on and kept winning the jackpot.

>>720176497
when i went back yeah, it was really kinda shit, but it was still neat to pump like 20 dollars of quarters into it and figure out what the deal was after all that time

ENTER
the more retarded you and your friends made your faces the funnier the game was

>>720176846
That looks like a proto Earth Defense Force

>>720175593
Hell yeah.

>>720174031
>>720174229
>>720173317
The (mainstream) entertainment collectively went to shit in the 2010s, be it games, movies or theme parks. Everything is so soulless now, minimalistic, optimized, homogenized with the only goals to push some agenda or to suck out the maximum amount of money out of the consumer.
Companies weren't afraid to take risks before, now it's the same safe slop everywhere

>>720176372
I haven’t been to a Disneyland since 2003 is there literally anything that is the same now or have they replaced everything? I would like to maybe go back once to look at old things and see what memories come back but I suspect the parks have changed 100% of everything since then and there is no sense in going at that point.

>>720176896
there was a couple of EDF games released already as well as RAD and Remote Control Dandy, so they could've copied a little bit of it, but I don't remember a lot about the game. I assume I only played the vs mode with my bros, where you fight the other tanks because I don't remember the spoders.

>>720174059
played pinball for the first time at a con a few weeks back
way more fun than I expected

>>720176123
I think that must be pretty common, because something similar was going on when I was there. Looked like some kind of an anime boy band. There were probably 30-40 girls and a few guys who had the little color wands and they were all dancing synced up. I rode the coaster and it whipped all around while sonic music blasted. I'm not even a sonic fan but I was getting pumped up and couldn't stop smiling. Every now and then I check the website just to reminisce.

>>720172052
Fuckin A, this is it!!

>>720176123
when i went it was hololive stuff; there were like five dudes watching and one doing full energy glowstick twirling by himself

>>720172473
Out of curiosity I wandered through this place one time while I had some down time. This specific one.

It's shockingly indepth and if I was a kid I'd want to go here every single day

>>720176726
Completely forgot about this.

>have favorite spot for summer vacation since i was a kid
>it's an arcade cafe by the beach
>time passes
>owners decide to attract a wider demographic and keep up with the times
>keep the same name
>change the whole place into an internet cafe
>keep the arcade machines for the first two years and then gradually get ride of them
>every computer still had MAME on it so ,eh,still ok i guess
>after that fad is over change the place again
>turn it into a gift shop
>still keep the same name
>this persists for some time
>i get a bit sad every time i summer there and walk past it remembering how the place started and how it is now
>after the whole chink virus the place remained closed for a few years
>maybe it's better like that.exe
>recently learned it has re-opened decide to go by
>it's now health-smoothie bar that also sells organic beach paraphenalia
>still keep the name
>tfw
It reminded me the first time i saw Idiocracy and thought the whole buttfuckers segment was funny
i'm not laughing any more

I was more of a DDR guy, but I would go out of my way to the local minigolf/gasoline tainted water bumper boats/batting cages place just to play this thing. I thought it was super fucking fun and wish I had it at home.

>>720158098 (OP)
>...sou-

Not. This game was ass and I hated it even as a 6 year old

>>720177305
>I rode the coaster and it whipped all around while sonic music blasted
Fuck me, I knew I should have shilled out the shekels to ride that. I just played the games and didn't bother with any of the rides; I think I was too tall for most of them regardless. Kept one of the tokens from the Sonic Carnival as a souvenir after accidentally leaving it in my coinpurse.

>>720177439
>one doing full energy glowstick twirling by himself
Based

>>720162163

My place had a monthly memebership and a leaderboard.

I was #1 for a month when I was a kid and I still am proud of it.
They also had a 4 person simposons arcade cabinet.

Members night they would open up the upper levels of the building so it was like a real IRL experience. Just dont fall down the giant hole lol

Played this one in LA in the early 2000's in a K-town arcade while getting some bitching bibim guksu. LA always had great Korean food back in the day

>>720173246
My nephew has worked at domino's and another pizza joint and I'll never order that shit after what he's told me. They were told to remove expired labels and just put new ones on for dough etc.

>>720165457
skill issue
I won a psp from one once

Did Chuck E. Cheese sponsored your elementary school?
I explicitly remember someone was in the costume taking pics with kids and one of them just punches him in the gut right before the photo was taken

>>720177672
The coaster was totally worth it, it had a button rhythm game similar to ddr built into the front dashboard that you would play as it moved around the slower sections and it kept track of your score and showed the winners at the end. What a great experience

>>720177896
Kids are cruel, Jack

>>720172150
YOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO THIS SHIT WAS SO FUCKIN FUNNYY

*inflates*

I remember reading about this anus poking game in EGM.

>>720177836
skill is only part of it, which is the entire problem with Stacker
enough people must lose first before the game will allow a big prize win
your win was on the back of hundreds of losses
it doesn't matter how skilled you are if the game literally cheats until it decides to let someone win

>>720177243

Was this toomanygames and was it the Sopranos pinball machine? if so I saw you there playing.

>>720177637
This but with the halo franchise or starwars

>>720177923
If the place is still open whenever I return to glorious nipponland I'll check it out. It was always 50/50 whether or not my lanklet ass would fit on rides there though.

>>720178091
having the luck to only play it after hundreds have failed before you is a skill

>>720162976
Yes it's true, we were supposed to have kids.
We were also supposed to be able to afford college.
And a house.

But um...

>>720177896
No, but Nintendo did
There was a whole ass half pipe set up with BMX bikers, 2 vans custom fitted with Gamecubes and TVs, bunches of free stickers and pins. I remember there were demos of Donkey Konga, and I got a t-shirt for winning a round of Mario Kart Double Dash
It was pretty fuckin dope

>>720177770
>simposons

Based accomplishment though good work anon

I remember winning a pack of Japanese Yugioh cards out of one of those games where you have to stop the spinning light at the right bulb. I still have my Japanese Fairy Meteor Crush.

>>720178140
no it was dragoncon, they had a godzilla, lotr, deadpool, and the black knight machines, pretty fun
i thought the sopranos pinball machine was a joke, it's real?

>>720173102
Bullshit. Those things are rigged. If you won, it's because the arcade let you and simply had the settings fair(ish). They're designed to be riggable.

>>720178236
Same thing happened at my school
Got a Kirby Super Star Ultra poster
Still have it in a short box

have a cabinet i'm interesting in seeing info about again if anyone wants to help

it was in a Cinemark in the early 00s. it ran without power IIRC. it was basically a pachinko machine. you'd put a quarter in, shoot a bouncy ball to the top of the playing field and it'd fall through the grid of pins. you had to catch it in a cup and guide it to the goal zone at the center in the bottom. there was either a guy in a football uniform, or a soccer uniform on the cup. your only control was a dial, and it was on a spring so if you guided it all the way to one direction, it'd snap all the way back to the other.

what i thought was cool about it was the ball in play was your potential prize, and even cooler, if you won, you got another play. so i got extremely good at it, and would leave the theater's arcade with my cargo pockets completely stuffed with bouncy balls.