Would you go to Chuck E Cheese's new nostalgia retro arcade concept targeted to adults?

no. I have no idea what this is but people need to stop reviving the past. the culture is dead and gone.

>>11833518 (OP)
Gotta have the Showbiz equivalent of this to appeal to people as old as I am.
One thing I like about Chuck is that he’s not a cute little mouse, he’s a disgusting rat with a gross long tail dressed like a sleazy carny. Or at least he used to be.

What's the point if they're using replica machines with LCD monitors? and exclusively pre-NES and Amerishit games?

took my nephew to chuck e cheese yesterday and boy is it shit compared to the old days. hardly any actual games - mostly just "time the button press to get tickets" shit

but they do serve beer on tap now.

>>11833523
This is maybe 1/6th to 1/10th of what they have for these
Someone brought up in another thread but reason they don't have any Japanese machines is that those companies charge a very heavy royalty cut from the whole arcade to have their machines used, as the Japanese mindset is that the games themselves are the reason people would come into a particular arcade. CEC's mindset is their branding and entertainment is a large reason people come there and not specific machines, so they would never agree. Hence you're stuck with western machines as they don't charge that.

>>11833548
>as the Japanese mindset is that the games themselves are the reason people would come into a particular arcade
based japanese

probably not because i would feel gay going in there. unless they had the 1980s sit down wireframe star wars machine, then i would go because i havent played it in so long

>>11833530
Given CEC’s reputation for massive brawls breaking out, it’s surprising they still sell beer.

>>11833518 (OP)
no

>>11833606
yeah i was surprised too since this one exists in the Shadowlands where the Dark Ones come out after noon.

>>11833660
What is it about Chuck E Cheese that attracts these people. The closest one to me growing up had a legit drive-by shooting in the 90s

>>11833774
those damn whites and their frequent drive-bys cant they just invest in the stock market instead of fighting

>>11833518 (OP)
This is the most soulless shit I've ever seen. Might as well put some arcade1ups in a sit-down pizza restaurant and claim "It's just like the 80s guys!".

>>11833606
We would go right when they open on Sundays for my neices/nephews/kids. Hardly anyone there and all the urban customers are still sleeping off their hang over. Luckily everyone grew out of goint because outside of ski-ball all the games now suck.

>>11833519
I rather have a dead puppet culture of better eras, over the nightmare hellacape that is the current.

>>11834045
>I rather have a dead puppet culture of better eras
ezcept that isn't what we have on any widescale basis. what we have are hollyjews remaking things from the past with white man bad propaganda inserted to ruin the past and present in tandem.

the secret to getting over all of this is, of course, to realize that mass media has always been godless fake and gay trash for NPCs and to disconnect from it all.

>>11833996
>early day CEC

Sorry, this just triggered a hyper specific memory for me. I remember a classmate invited me to his birthday at a Chuck E Cheese. It was early in the day and a good 30 minute drive away and my mom and I got there really early. It was so early there was nobody in the store at all except one girl working. The games were all on but the show wasn't playing yet. It was very surreal being in there all by myself. When the birthday party all got there they served us breakfast food (eggs and sausage and OJ) instead of pizza. Lowkey one of the weirdest experiences of my life. This was probably fall of 1991.

>>11833548
>>11833561
Feels like we're not missing much though. I went to Japan recently and checked out their arcades in Akihabara and it's buildings had different floors dedicated to crane games, rhythm, more rhythm, and Gundam.
Only one arcade had a floor not dedicated to the previously mentioned, and it was shumps and fighting mostly. I was disappointed that there wasn't an arcade with a retro set up.

>>11834089
How early did they open back then? iirc on Sundays it was something like 11am we I went with my younger family(00s and 10s) and no way we had breakfast food. Always just had the pizza.

>>11834127
I remember thinking it was pretty early. Probably 9 or 10 at the latest? Maybe they would open early for parties? It was one of the locations that had been converted from a Showbiz a year or two prior. Maybe I should ask someone from that hyper autistic Showbiz pizza website about the breakfast

>>11833774
I don't know, but the last retro arcade I went to had the surprising presence of nail salon looking black women. You know, the kinds who wear skin tight spandex pants and revealing tops despite weighing over 250 lbs and having ass that would probably rip said pants wide open if they were to bend over an inch too far, or the lanky ones in tank tops. It was toward downtown, so maybe it was less specifically an arcade thing, and more of having an air conditioned public place to mill about for a few hours to kill an afternoon.

>>11833519
when fortnite and tiktok finally get their plug pulled you will be at their arcade too

>>11833519
Imagine being this miserable.

No, because from what I saw of the games, a lot of them are cheap bootlegs / not original cabs.

>>11834353
Such as the MO of the corporate barcade. We have two barcades in my city. One independently ran, had to crowdfund to get off the ground but has a great selection of well maintained cabinets and even a few old consoles with Everdrives hooked up to Trinitrons. Everything works and they do tournaments and game trivia nights.
The corporate place, though? They just bought a smattering of cabinets and threw them in the middle of a bar. There’s tons of broken sticks, aging monitors and bootlegs out the wazoo. Their SF 2 cab is actually just rainbow edition. The games are an afterthought.

>>11833518 (OP)
I would if there was one within an hour's drive, but that's highly unlikely.

>>11833519
So this was your last post on /vr/, then?

>>11833660
>>11833774
>>11834207
Anyone ever go to the CEC in Little Rock? Many Dark Ones but they had 25 cent credits on every game until I moved away in 2008, and were basically empty half the time. I loved that place in spite of how infested it was

>>11834207
>>11834948
>see nogs
yeah, i'm out. i go to the arcade to relax.

>>11833518 (OP)
that just looks depressing

>>11833774
>when you's a 35 year old gangsta, but the Whagg-a-Mole game at the Chugg-ee-chee disrespettin' you by ain't givin' you all the tickets you was owed
Sheeeeeit

>>11833518 (OP)
yes, this would probably be more viable than what they have now if they do a decent collection of pinball and arcade games.
Hell I'd take my kids here too, way more fun than whatever bs modern arcade "games" are.
It's only japan that actually has arcade games that aren't just retarded ticket bs, they could lean more into that too. Stuff like the initial d arcade games, etc.

>>11833519
when everything keeps getting worse and worse it's no surprise people keep looking to the past as escapism

>>11833518 (OP)

>>11833518 (OP)
>arcade machines
>targeted to adults
Targeted to geriatrics, maybe

>>11833518 (OP)
TFWY only viable entertainment demographic is manchild millennials. WTF is this just make a normal arcade. Everyone loves R1, just copy it.

>>11833518 (OP)
Do CEC restaurants even have animatronics anymore

>>11833518 (OP)
Never heard of this, but it looks low effort as fuck. Random stuff on the walls as if it's a TGIF restaurant, a few memorabilia of the older designs of Chuck, and a few random very old arcades. It looks like your typical zero-effort barcade with a Chuck'e'cheese theme. Also who even actually cared about Chuck? As kids we were excited to go there for the games and some pizza, not to see the mascots that everyone ignored.

Focusing on all that Chuck memorabilia is missing the mark, nobody will look at it and goes "Ohhh, there's the old Chuck E design!". The arcades are of the wrong time period too, they are mostly early 80s cabinets. Most knew it as showbiz Pizza in the 80s, by the time Chuck E Cheese got them in the 90s kids were familiar with arcade cabinets like Simpsons, Jurassic Park, and Primal Rage among others. Honestly, that's what I dislike about most barcades in general, it's all the same Space Invaders, Pac-Man, Donkey Kong, and others early 80s cabinets with a few random Pinball machines. They rarely have 90s era cabinets.

>>11833518 (OP)
Never heard of thi, but it looks low effort as fuck. Random crap on the walls as if it's a TGIF, a few memorabilia of the older designs of Chuck, and a few very old arcades. It looks like your typical zero-effort barcade with a Chuck theme. Also who even actually cared about Chuck? As kids we were excited to go there for the games and pizza, not to see the mascots that everyone ignored.

Focusing on all that Chuck memorabilia is missing the mark, nobody will look at it and go "Ohhh, there's the old Chuck design!". The arcades are of the wrong time period too, they are mostly early 80s cabinets. Most knew it as Showbiz Pizza in the 80s, by the time Chuck E Cheese got them in the 90s kids were familiar with arcade cabinets like Simpsons, Jurassic Park, and Primal Rage among others. Honestly, that's what I dislike about most barcades in general, it's all the same Space Invaders, Pac-Man, Donkey Kong early 80s cabinets with a few random Pinball machines. They rarely have 90s era cabinets.

>>11833521
>One thing I like about Chuck is that he’s not a cute little mouse, he’s a disgusting rat with a gross long tail dressed like a sleazy carny.
Not anymore, he's been cartoonified. And the animatronics are being retired.

>>11833530
>took my nephew to chuck e cheese yesterday and boy is it shit compared to the old days. hardly any actual games
Pretty much. I don't remember when the last time I was there as a kid, but I went to a nephew's birthday in 2019 there for the first time in decades and it was all just ticket-dispending not-even-games slop. That were no actual games anymore like they used to have. Also for some reason they still had this one machine intended for babies where it just very slowly spins a chair around for a minute. I remember that thing being there even when I was still a kid and even back then I considered it for infants. Picrel except this one was somehow much much older, I have no idea how it was still working.

>>11835572
>Pretty much. I don't remember when the last time I was there as a kid, but I went to a nephew's birthday in 2019 there for the first time in decades and it was all just ticket-dispending not-even-games slop.
its even more soulless now because there are no tickets or game tokens. You get a card that has "points" on it (tap each machine for a credit) and that also keeps track of your tickets I guess.

>>11835621
Yeah, it was just a NFC card that was both your tokens and tickets. I guess it makes a bit of sense since you don't need to keep buying tons of rolls of tickets that you will just then toss away, and have counting machines and all that mess.

I remember only one "game" impressed me, and not because of the game itself but the technology as it had a giant 8-12 foot tall or so transparent LCD on it. Shame it was wasted on something like that.

>>11835192
Mr Cheese, my name is uhh, Jamal Airforceones, and I was wondering. Why come the brothas cant have all the tickets

>>11834113
Maybe you just went to a shitty arcade. When I used to go to anime conventions before covid they would generally have an arcade room and it was filled with both old and new cabinets, most of them were newer music/rhythm games that used all sorts of crazy control methods.

>>11835646
>comparing normal arcades to pop-up convention arcade rooms
Nice brain on ya m8

>>11835545
No, The one near my house was a late holdout but even that one got rid of it's animatronics in 2023

>>11835658
You realize the pop-up room was BETTER in this case? Which was my damn point that he likely went to a shitty arcade if a temporary pop-up in a small room had better games. Nice brain you have there.

>>11835720
Yes retard thats what im saying? The temporary one is the result of a bunch of collectors donating machines for the con, or the con renting them, so of course for 3 days it will outshine a 24/7/365 arcade. If you're gonna flip a coin to decide what im saying again, don't bother

>>11833521
>he’s not a cute little mouse
He is now. He's even got a cartoon coming out. /co/ was cooming themselves over the furry loli character last year when parts of it leaked.

>>11835726
*continued because I realized I left dots unconnected for you
Hence it being stupid to call a normal arcade shitty when that's your point of comparison. The arcade described in >>11834113 is like 99% of arcades in Japan, not some particularly shitty one.

>>11835726
>The temporary one is the result of a bunch of collectors donating machines for the con, or the con renting them, so of course for 3 days it will outshine a 24/7/365 arcade.
That's some of the most retarded logic I have seen on this board yet. The cabinets aren't "donated", they are rented from actual arcade suppliers. And thinking that a few autists "donating" machines can somehow outdo a dedicated 24/7 arcade that is actually good is peak retardation. If you're going to reply to this post with more autistic screeching then don't bother.

>>11835737
There was nothing to "connect" your logic only led to a mental trainwreck and exposed your terminal retardation for all the board to see. Screech some more if you like, won't make you any less retarded.

>>11833519
>I have no idea what this is
Non-American detected

>>11835729
They probably coomed over every character, that's just /co/

i mean, i was into chuck e cheese for the pizza. what is this about video games?

The best arcades nowadays are those run by collectors.

>>11833519
if boomers got to have their 70s wood paneling and mexican slave labor well into the 2000s then I dont see why we cant have our 90s games and crap into the 2020s

>>11835740
>donated or rented
>"no they arent donated they're rented"
Plenty of people bring their special meme cabinets to cons for free to show them off btw

>>11837218
Right?

>>11833518 (OP)
i would go if it actually looked like the old pizzerias and had the animatronics. my nephew would get a kick out of the later.

i think what bothers me about CEC trying to cater to a wider audience is their last couple of attempts basically boil down to "we wanna capitalize on the popularity of FNAF but we're too cheap to do so or collaborate with/talk to scott cawthon." so we get these weird wink & nudge attempts at marketing like pic related the week of the FNAF movie's premiere.

Only if they bring back the cigar chomping rat who's not afraid to smack you if you're out of line.

>>11837231
>"no they arent donated they're rented"
Correct, they aren't from collectors.

Yeah, I am sure the kind of people who collect meme cabinets have no problem with thousands of people at cons messing with them unsupervised for 3-4 days straight. And that such people would be able to outdo an entire arcade that actually cares about it's quality.

>>11837417
He is the logo of the place
They don’t have the balls to give him a fig again though

>>11837417
Why did these animatronics always look like roadkill?

>>11837218
>70s wood paneling
I love this shit and I will fill every room of my house with it when applicable.

>>11837412
Why did they get rid of the animatronics to begin with? the FNAF stuff is literally free advertising.

Luckily I already have a nickelcade that has tons of early 80s and 90s arcade cabs.

The problem with this place is it's putting soulless corporate spin on the idea, it looks too clean, the space between the arcade machines is way too far apart. Theres WAY too much light. Arcades are supposed to be dark, kind of grimy. loud places where machines are stacked super close to each other, also shitty carpeting is a bonus. Arcades had that unique chaotic setting for weirdos and kids who don't want sunlight. Its a vibe thats pretty much completely lost in the modern times.

I cant even find pictures of arcades from the 90s-early 2000s when they were way more threatening and scary and full of weed dealers and adults, I can only find pics of 70s and 80s arcades when they were a family fun center.

>>11833518 (OP)
>No Sega
>No Namco
>No Konami
>No SNK Neo Geo
>No Japanese games.

Shame.

>>11838763
You’re forgetting the smells like dirty feet and cheese pizza part.

>>11833518 (OP)
We've already got at least five of these "retro arcades" in my area, so I'm not trying any more of them until the other ones do something to upset me. It's actually really depressing to think about how there are now so few kids running around that venues centered around kids now have to rebrand to cater to childfree manchildren. First you saw it with McDonald's tearing down their playplaces and rebuilding their locations to look like sad Starbuckses, now you've got kiddie arcades trying to be adult.

>>11833548
>reason they don't have any Japanese machines is that those companies charge a very heavy royalty cut
All the arcades I've been to in my state had Japanese games anyway, they're just usually bought from private collections and don't get updates since they're "unofficially" here. I used to think the Round 1's that are in America did have the licenses you speak of, but turns out their stuff is from private collections too. Maybe the licensing has changed since I was told this information though.

>>11835201
My guess is they'll just copy what Round 1 is doing in the states.

>>11835572
>Honestly, that's what I dislike about most barcades in general, it's all the same Space Invaders, Pac-Man, Donkey Kong early 80s cabinets with a few random Pinball machines. They rarely have 90s era cabinets

>>11838649
As other people ITT said, kids came for the games and largely ignored the animatronics, which are hell to maintain so they got rid of them as a cost cutting measure.

>>11838790
>I used to think the Round 1's that are in America did have the licenses you speak of, but turns out their stuff is from private collections too. Maybe the licensing has changed since I was told this information though.

Round 1 is a Japanese owned company.

It's actually quite hypocritical. Many Japanese arcade companies claim they don't export their machines to America. But the moment Round1 (a Japanese company) got involved, suddenly all those rules disappeared. They were more than happy to let Round1 have the arcade machines exclusively.

>>11838649
animatronics be they chuck E cheese or disney are a bitch and a half to maintain and break pretty easy. lack of proper maintenance is largely where the memes about "creepy animatronics" originated from.

>inb4 but disney...
disney despite bleeding money in the last 5-10 years is still a billion dollar company able to afford upkeep on their animatronics (which are arguably more advanced than anything CEC has ever had) while CEC is basically a mom & pop pizza chain who's best years are behind very much it.

that said i completely agree that CEC left money on the table not properly collaborating with scott be it the premiere of the FNAF movie or even just some annual halloween thing. hell, turning the chain into a IRL freddy fazbears for the halloween season alone would print money.

>>11838935
>disney despite bleeding money in the last 5-10 years is still a billion dollar company able to afford upkeep on their animatronics
Disney has actually been slacking on maintaining their rides and it's become an issue. Several rides have fallen into disrepair or parts of the ride have shut down completely. The technicians say Disney won't spend the money to order spare parts.

>>11838953
i didn't realize this and it kinda explains why they've been so gung ho about making the parks about the IPs they own rather than original stuff.

>>11833518 (OP)
prolly not, because the local offerings are better. i'm never paying with play money cards. i need coins, especially for pinball. A pin that does not take coins is a pin neglected and likely to not be fully functional.

>>11833602
for Minnesotans, i think i remember seeing one at Starcade in St. Paul, and a standup model at Two Bit Game Room, which also has the Battle Pod, with a blower to simulate the wind you'd feel flying through space in a closed cockpit

>>11838616
Lower budgets.
Less refined materials and techniques because of above.
First round attempts, so few 'standards' to compare to, or market research to address.

>>11838935
Animatronics are just a hell of a hard medium to upkeep
People keep hoping Disney is bleeding money but it's not, parks alone give them profit of tens of billions a year
Even then, they have issues with their animatronics being upkept, and this is with them being the core part of the company's income. While they have fare more maintenance budget, they have more strain then the arcade entertainment which has them paused for breaks often and relative singular motion.
Turns out having riders go through non-stop requiring animatronics to be moving almost 24/7 every day for years causes trouble with upkeep

>>11838953
>>11839003
First thing that comes to mind is that Star Wars ride. Several animatronics during the ride have stopped moving and now just sit still.

>>11838701
>They have to be dank and grimy and full of drug dealers.

I don't know what kind of shitty neighborhood you grew up in, but that was not what most arcades I went to in the 80s and 90s were like. Many were somewhat dark so you can see the screens better (but they still had lighting) but they generally weren't some dank run-down grimy place that looks like a dive bar filled with drug dealers. Sounds more like you lived in a shitty neighborhood. Usually thy were some room between sets of cabinets too, i rarely went to one that was wall-to-wall of sardine-packed cabinets, usually they were several in a row here, several in a row there, a circle of them here, etc. Still plenty of space to move around, especially when you had larger ones that used lightguns.

Everyone is bringing up FNAF, why the hell would CEC want to collaborate with that? The whole FNAF franchise is about how the animatronics have a mind of their own at night and become vicious murderers.

Why the hell would CEC want to basically go "Hey kids! See that Chuck doll on stage there? Well, it can VICIOUSLY MURDER YOU!". That's like McDonalds collaborating with the Supersize Me guy.

As for Disney, they are still spending millions into research for new animatronics and other such tech. I remember watching a video of a floor made out of spheres that can move anything in any direction on it, and a prototype of a new animatronic they showed off of Judy that was able to rollerskate on it's own. Both of these were just a few years ago.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=orSr0wOQwZ0

>>11839254
>Everyone is bringing up FNAF, why the hell would CEC want to collaborate with that? The whole FNAF franchise is about how the animatronics have a mind of their own at night and become vicious murderers.
FNAF was originally made as an indie horror game however it ended up becoming extremely popular with children hence why the later FNAF games and the movie were geared towards kids.

>Why the hell would CEC want to basically go "Hey kids! See that Chuck doll on stage there? Well, it can VICIOUSLY MURDER YOU!". That's like McDonalds collaborating with the Supersize Me guy.
Kids would absolutely love that and eat that shit up. Funnily enough the same thing that happened with FNAF happened with the Child's Play movies too albeit to a lesser degree, the later Chucky movies are a lot more comedic.

>>11838701
This was my local arcade back in the 90s. Finally shut its doors in 2012.

yeah because they don't let me in regular chuck-e-cheese

>>11833518 (OP)
That pic is just not the same as when I was young, back then it was all about experiencing something you couldn't get at home. Sitting there on the concrete like that, it just lacks the excitement from back then.

>>11838790
They try but a lot of the times the buttons don't work, a lot of the time they just seem like decoration and not for real players. It was that dumbass supersize me movie that started this, literally proved to be made up.

>>11839294
>This was my local arcade back in the 90s
Sure it was, the fact that it's the most common photo that comes up when you search for pictures of old arcades is just coincidence, right?

>>11839254
>Everyone is bringing up FNAF, why the hell would CEC want to collaborate with that?
because as i said before they've been trying to capitalize on FNAF's popularity in the most roundabout ways for a while now. from a halloween short on their YT channel that has chuck going to a freddy fazbearse-like establishment to what i mentioned here >>11837412 during the movie's premiere where it's pretty on the nose about what their referencing ("five nights of fun", referring to munch as "the purple guy" and the whole poster being a legally distinct version of the FNAF movie's poster).

>The whole FNAF franchise is about how the animatronics have a mind of their own at night and become vicious murderers...
i've been playing the games with my nephew and i will say it's been a pretty huge departure from when it was just scott working on them to the point where the newest game is almost unrecognizable from the rest of the series.

>>11839309
It's FFA in the SFV. If you lived in the area, it was THE arcade during the 90s/early 2000s.

>>11839294
ha thats about what mine looked like

it always had a random fat gen x'er and 2 or 3 asians that could cheat or beat any game standing around (when it peaked in the mid-late 90s)

I don't remember ever actually going to a CEC. The only children's amusement places I remember going to were Putt-Putt Golf, Mountasia, Discovery Zone, and some laser tag places. The Putt-Putt near me had a decent arcade. Over the years they had Confidential Mission, Lost World, Tekken Tag, The Simpsons, SamSho, and others that I'm forgetting. One time when I was older (mid 2000s), i went to a WhirlyBall place that had one of the first DBZ arcade games (though it might've been OOO when I went) as well as one of those big rear projection Japanese cabs with a connected bench (I can't remember the model, but it was running Shock Troopers 2nd Squad at the time).

Ngl as a 90's kid I'm awed at the whole Arcade thing and sort of jealous of those older than me who got to live through it. I've never been to an Arcade in my life, by the time I was old enough to appreciate video games (2003 or so) Arcades were dead. I like the whole idea of you going to a physical place where there's machines, and playing that way. Nowadays everyone plays alone in their home through the internet, which has pros and cons like anything but its honestly lame how antisocial everyone is. I wouldn't try and "go back" to relive it 'cause i realize it's liek a Zeitgeist or "spirit of the times" that you can't relive. For example I love how back then, there wasn't Social Media. And because of that, there wasn't this mania that we have because of Social Media. Like I know it's a meme but people were "living in the moment", let's say something cool happened at your Arcade, you wouldn't whip out your "smartphone" and try to record it for "upvotes" at your social media of choice, you would just admire the cool thing and then tell the story of what happened to your friends, that's whole other way of experiencing an awesome phenomena like video games. That's what I find to be really cool, although I never did get to see it with my own eyes.
>Nostalgic for places I've never been

>>11839503
Arcades have seen a bit of a resurgence over the past several years, might be worth checking if any are in your area. Yeah, the times might be different and maybe you'll get more people who look at you like you're a weirdo if you try to gather people to play a multiplayer game or if you hop into one yourself, but there's still people out there who will engage in the communal aspect and instead of insisting on being left alone.

>>11839503
I miss the the responsibility that came with the 1980s and 1990s. We didn't have easy mobile phones back then. So parents just trusted their kids to go out on their own and return safely by dinner time. It felt so cool as a kid that have level of trust and independence. You go out on a Saturday morning or early afternoon and meet other kids at the local arcade spot.

And every single kid there was a dedicated gamer. Not some Normie or poser who pretended to love games like they do on modern social media to get attention and likes. Nope. They were all gamers.

It didn't have to be a huge arcade either. Maybe a local spot like a Laundromat or 7-11. Each place maybe having 1 to 2 fighting games, a racing game, sports game, etc. The cabs changed every few weeks so it stayed fresh.

The cool thing back then was that arcade cabinets used to be everywhere. So you could "discover" little hidden hang out spots. Each spots had different groups of kids hanging out. And you could challenge them directly on the fighting game cabinet. Or develop friendships by helping them beat a game.

Imagine playing Metal Slug with a local kid you only just met. You both have $5 or $10 dollars and you both work together to clear the game. Both of you doing your best to stretch your money and try to survive and beat the game. Maybe you fail. Maybe you succeed. But it's epic either way. You forge a bond through through gaming combat. Then you developed a new friendship. You both don't even go to the same school, but that doesn't matter. You are friends now and now meet up on weekends. Maybe even during the week if your schedules match up. No mobile phones back then, and so you just had to trust that someone would be there.

That's how it was back then. Very exciting. New experiences every week. I'm sorry. I wish I could have given you that experience. That my generation could pass it on to you.
But the world changed so quickly. Arcades died in the early 2000s. Consoles killed it.

>>11839672
Really sucks how new generations will never experience true freedom (and danger) without having a smartphone. I remember how some kids would get into fights over Street Fighter 2 matches because one kid would smack talk too much, or would be cheap and spam range attacks so much.

Still no locations with a Jasper taxidermy

>>11838828
This
Also why you had arcades by Namco like Time Out or Aladdin's Castle and they would import their machines

I honestly didn't know that arcades have to license their machines. I figured you could just buy them direct from the company or distributor or whatever and do whatever you wanted with them.

>>11841985
>I honestly didn't know that arcades have to license their machines.
The other anons aren't correct.

>I figured you could just buy them direct from the company or distributor or whatever and do whatever you wanted with them.

You can.

The issue is that these large corporate arcade businesses (like "Dave and Busters") usually have a policy of not using arcade machines that are older than 10 years old. Usually because of reliability issues due to age, and also because the manufacturer doesn't make spare parts for the older machines anymore.

From what I'm seeing in the pictures, it looks like "Chucks" are using some reproduction cabinets. These are cabinets built to look like older machines from the 1980s and 1990s. And inside the cabinet is some sort of emulation board. Not original hardware.

>>11841985
>I figured you could just buy them direct from the company or distributor or whatever and do whatever you wanted with them.
For the most part, that's correct. As long as the boards inside are official, you can do what you want.

However, in the case of using emulation, it either needs to be an official multigame cab (For example, Pacman's Pixel Bash is an official multigame cab from Bamco that you can buy) or you need to obtain permission from the rights holder to use the game in an actual arcade.

What's interesting is that in OP's pic, there's a Mortal Kombat Kollection cab. Except there IS no official MK multigame cab. It's from a company that makes unlicensed multicabs intended for personal use. It's possible the other cabs in the pic are also from them. Emulating at home is a grey area, but running an unlicensed emulation cab at a commercial arcade is a big no-no. It is absolutely possible that Chuck E Cheese managed to get permission to use these games because WB hands out the licenses like candy, but otherwise the this would be a valid opportunity for WB to take legal action. Bamco for example, is VERY protective of their IPs and have been known to sue any arcades running unlicensed emulated cabs into the ground.

>>11842583
>For an additional fee we can add 3000 arcade games and 4000 Nintendo, SEGA, and Sony console games to the arcade cabinet you're buying that is full of Mortal Kombat branding on the outside.

How the fuck have they not been sued into oblivion? Might as well call it the Souljacade

>>11842587
Not worth the effort because most home arcade companies are pretty small and don't have distributors, and their target market is even smaller because these cabs are intended to be used at home, not in actual arcades. But if Chucks really is using these cabs, that company could indeed be in trouble.

>>11833518 (OP)
No. If they really want to sell nostalgia, set it up like their old arcade rooms that were dark, seedy, and full of punks. It also needs better beer than whatever watered down piss my parents were drinking back in the 80s and 90s. They'll also need much better cabs than that. The fact that these places are being installed in malls is a guaranteed fail.

>>11842680
For additional authenticity they should bolt ashtrays to the machines. I remember seeing that on a TMNT machine in a Hills department store. I imagine some cool teenager with a leather jacket and maybe a chain wallet taking drags off a cig while muttering “Fuckin’ Krang…”

>>11842612
Emulation and unlicensed hardware to run old games has become so normalized, particularly among younger generations, that the concept of illegally operating a multicab probably didn't even cross the CEC buyer's mind. Not like a "oh yeah we can buy this illegal cab, nobody will ever know," but the concept of it being illegal didn't even occur to them. Even back in the 2000s I remember Dave & Busters having one of these jumbo UltraCade emucabs (apparently the founder of the company got in legal trouble).

>>11833606
>reputation for massive brawls
Man, I had no idea lmao. I used to fucking LOVE CEC as a kid. Reading articles about crazy shit going down at them in low-income neighborhoods is pretty sad,

>>11842583
>For the most part, that's correct. As long as the boards inside are official, you can do what you want.
>However, in the case of using emulation
>you need to obtain permission from the rights holder to use the game in an actual arcade.


Not necessarily.

There is a workaround. If the business does not charge money to use the arcade machines, then licensing doesn't count. For example, if the machines are there for free "entertainment purposes" only. Like in the example of a barcade where the bar charges for drinks and food, but the machines are free to play.

It's how so many barcades have official consoles and emulation multicades set up for customers to freely play. Since no money is directly involved with the machine directly, the licensing agreement doesn't really apply. The machines are essentially just decoration and amusement in the eyes of the law.

I admit it's an interesting workaround, but who knows if that's the path this new "Chucks" arcade is going to take.

>>11843053
>I remember Dave & Busters having one of these jumbo UltraCade emucabs (apparently the founder of the company got in legal trouble).

The Ultra cade founder promised that everything was legal and he had all the relevant permissions. So D&B didn't care either way. They weren't the ones legally responsible in case something went wrong.

>>11842587
>How the fuck have they not been sued into oblivion? Might as well call it the Souljacade

Nintendo and other companies used to sue them. But then realized it wasn't worth the effort. It cost more money to hire lawyers to sue...than any money you could get in a lawsuit from these companies. And even if you shut down 1 custom arcade company, suddenly 5 more take it's place.

Some custom arcade companies get around the lawsuit by shipping the cabinet seperately. Then they mail you a seperate hard drive (with all the games and software pre-loaded). You connect them yourself. So it technically doesn't break the law.

It's only gotten much worse over the years now that phones can emulate too. So companies don't care anymore. They only target you if you get too big.

>>11833518 (OP)
They should rename it back to Sneed E Sneezes

>>11843587
Most barcades have a cover charge in order to play the games. If somebody really wanted to give them shit, I don't think they'd have much of a leg to stand on if they tried to argue that the games were free and that people weren't paying the entrance fee in order to play the games. I remember back in the day that people would try to sell fansubs on ebay under the guise of shit like "buy my original poem printed out on printer paper for $150, and as a totally free bonus you'll get episodes 1-100 of this anime, fansubbed in good quality, on 20 tapes!!"

>>11843587
I mean, you are correct, but then legally it's not a commercial arcade.

>>11843587
That's what some do, yes, but clearly that's not what Chuckster plans on doing since those cabs have credit card readers installed. They're charging per play.

The reality is that I doubt most modern arcades are under serious threat of getting busted for running MAME cabs or other forms of multicades, in part because I wouldn't be surprised if most modern comptroller office employees are ill-versed when it comes to arcade cabs. It would probably take somebody actively reporting them.
That said, given that arcades seem to be making a comeback as a viable business model, the risk might increase as more money is at play and officials have to learn what is legit and what's not.
The arcades near me that I've been to all seemed to be on the level, with legit cabs, including some exA-Arcadia and modern rhythm game stuff.

>>11843967
>Most barcades have a cover charge in order to play the games.
My barcade near me doesn't do that. As long as I buy a single drink, then all arcade machines are free to customers. All of them are set to free mode.

>>11844160
Yeah the one nearest me doesn’t even force you to buy drinks. You could come in and just play for free if you wanted. It’s a really good one too.

>>11844051
I guess it's possible it could just be an access card thing, like, they give you a card that is good for unlimited plays for that day or something so someone doesn't just walk in and play for free all day without buying anything. But I would not be surprised if they are charging per play.

>>11844062
>That said, given that arcades seem to be making a comeback as a viable business model
How so? I would love if that was the case, but they seem even deader than they used to be. Even the ticket slop most of the existing ones I knew of got turned into have started to die. The few that I have seen are literally ports of mobile games or meme nonsense like a giant fidget spinner that's somehow an arcade game, nothing interesting or new that I would call actual games.

>>11844160
>>11844261
Never tried the ones near me, but one a bit further away in a main city y me is like that. It's more of a restaurant/bar than just a bar, but no cover charge and it does have some games that are not just the same old 80s cabinets like Crusin, Moonwalker, or Contra.

>>11845201
At least around me, arcades were almost entirely gone until probably 8-9 years ago when barcade-type establishments started to pop up. There's now multiple near me, accounting for different locations of a chain, and they're pretty busy whenever I go. Mostly older cabs, but some newer stuff, mix of traditional joystick games and lightgun/alternative games, plus pinball. None are exclusively Japanese style, but one has a row of Versus City cabs with fighting games. Maybe it's just localized to where I live, but I was under the impression that the barcade business model had been making headway across the US.

>>11845210
>but I was under the impression that the barcade business model had been making headway across the US.
The Barcade and Freeplay business model has been a huge boost to the arcade industry. It's given businesses a reason to use old arcade machines again.

This is both a blessing and a curse. As an arcade player I'm happy these machines are being used again. As a collector I'm extremely annoyed because some arcade machines in the used market have shot up like crazy in price. I used to be able to find some machines for cheap. Now supply is slim and everything super expensive. Barcades are buying up all the old stock. Lol

I don't go outside. So... no.

Give me a recreated 80s bar with faux-wood paneling and a cloud of second-hand smoke in the air that also has 3-4 arcade games and then we'll talk.

>>11845334
We know you're on 4chan after all

>>11833518 (OP)
No because that's screaming for creeps to gather around.

>>11845813
Kek

>>11843053
Even Michael Jackson had one of this!

>>11833518 (OP)
that looks so depressing. i know many barcades that look better than this.

>>11849373
It's very "corporate barcade"

>>11839015
Neat. You still live in the Twin Cities?

I'm moving there later this year. Curious if there's any good spots left for this kind of thing or if they're all just barcades at this point.

>>11839254
Except the Super Size Me was a confirmed alcoholic and liar

>>11838778
You ever walk into the ball pit in your socks and the entire bottom is wet? Zoomers will never know this feel.

>>11846159
Pretty much any arcade is going to bring a some unwanted, but this looks like it'll bring all the Walmart people and waffle House folks. Actually seems pretty cool, probably be a swap meet out front on tail gates

>>11835192
>>11835640
I fucking hate you faggots

>>11833518 (OP)
Will it have tits?

>>11833660
>the Dark Ones

>>11833518 (OP)
Will it have complementary loli to follow me around?

>>11833519
You don't get it. This is the current culture.

>>11850262
Sep

The industry just never managed the trends well, arcades as in playing live with other people were always popular specially after people got good at the games, the industry first moved on to consoles, and it lost to piracy then to online gaming and it lost to how terrible it is

A good arcade option with local tournaments would rule the incel who can take a shower market

This thread is sad. It's clear almost none of you actively go to arcades anymore. Truly unfortunate.

I'm lucky I live near Galloping Ghost and can play vintage games whenever I want. Arcade culture still exists here.

>>11850368
>Arcade culture still exists here.
>all machines unused, even the ones in the reflection

>>11850368
I went to an arcade in Ohio about a year ago. I had fun there. I was a pretty low key arcade with a very dark interior. Lots of old Nintendo arcade cabinets.

>>11850378
Are you seriously demanding I take unwanted pictures of people in the arcade as they play? Don't be a creepy weirdo.

>>11849861
I know, my point was it would make no sense for McDonalds to want to do any sort of collab with him regardless if it was before or after he was found out.

>>11850390
be a creepy weirdo

>>11849861
I haven't looked into it because I just don't care, but exactly how is it confirmed?

>>11850431
Other people did the same exact diet that he followed in the "Super Size Me" Documentary. They didn't get the same bad results like Morgan did. This created a lot of suspicion against Morgan.

Morgan later confessed to heavy alcohol drinking while filming the documentary. He said he struggled with alcohol his whole adult life. He never disclosed to the Doctors in the documentary how much he was secretly drinking behind the scenes.

>>11850431
>>11850450

>>11840907
>fighting someone because they used game mechanics to play the game as intended
Mutt nigger behaviour. I played fighters heavily in my youth and we never experienced this in civilised countries.

>>11840907
>I remember how some kids would get into fights over Street Fighter 2 matches because one kid would smack talk too much, or would be cheap and spam range attacks so much.
it's post like these that remind me and reaffirm who fighting games are really for....

>>11850851
You've never been to New York?

>>11851162
nigs love fighting games because they're filled with bright colors and doobidy doo soundtracks, in addition to appealing to the nig's innate desire to resolve conflicts with animalistic behavior. it's also worth noting that nigs are pack animals that rarely fight alone in real life, so having a riskless medium for fighting one on one is similarly appealing to them. it's the perfect genre for them. it's like digital newports.

>>11850465
Is there even evidence that he was a vegan? I don't hear about too many vegan alcoholics.

>>11851848
>doobidy doo soundtracks
Doobidy doo? Whaaa bou chew?. Doobidy doo? Whaa bou chew?

>>11833518 (OP)
How do you even get retro arcade cabs? They're all 30 years old.

>>11852327
I bought mine from a closing down arcade in Ohio for $300. It's a Dynaco Showtime. The big monitor one. It came with a NeoGeo board in it and an old multicart.

>>11839254
Disney does this shit to maintain their reputation. Almost none of this shit ends up in the parks, and the things that do barely function. They make it for the shareholders, not for the consoomer.

>>11849958
There are few things more disgusting than stepping in something wet while wearing socks.

It was surprisingly decent. I was expecting Dave and Busters but they had a good variety of games

Behold the retro corner for stupid nerds and boomers

>>11853627
>4 cabinets and an arcade 1up
>coin slots replaced with Combine technology
You can't even use Chuck E Cheese tokens, might as well play MAME at home.

>>11853624
Finally a man of culture.

>>11833518 (OP)
cant be worse than those shitty cookie-cutter phoney baloney hipster fake ass $9 beer places around here that dont even fix their games. I know somebody who worked at CEC in the 80s, they had repair techs on site and they fid their job well.I stopped going to CEC because of all yhe diverse babby daddy drama, full on screaming matches and fights and nasty, dirty brats.

>>11853623
>>11853627
You must really like ticket games then huh.

>>11853627
Looks better than all this shit in
>>11853624
pic. IDK how people enjoy those types of games.

>>11837412

>>11837412

>>11833521
>showbiz pizza place reference
based

>>11856472
It's always two types of people that ruin everything for everyone else.

>>11856670
It’s kinda weird, despite Chuck E Cheese being a much longer lived and more prolific brand, it doesn’t seem to have the psychotic fanbase that Showbiz/Rock a Fire Explosion has. The documentary is kino and worth checking out.

>>11856762
I fucking love that movie. It's only riveled by I Think We're Alone Now.

>>11856764
It’s great. I like the scene of the guy in his Showbiz Pizza room playing TMNT on an old TV. A guy eternally trying to relive being 7 years old. Makes me sorta sad and melancholy.

I also like how the Showbiz robotics wunderkind guy has a hot bimbo wife. I understand he’s some sort of massive lolcow too.

>>11839052
The Splash Mountain retheme had a brand new animatronic placed next to one of the lifts.
The thing broke within a month, so now you just have a disembodied voice playing while Tiana is hunched next to the ride.

>>11856669
>let’s give them something to talk about more than what they’ve been saying
>so we thought we’d just think

>>11856669
This is hilarious. I hope they got sued.

>>11856762
I still can't decide if reprogramming Showbiz Pizza robots to play modern pop songs is really cool or embarrassingly cringe.

>>11850450
>>11850431
Here's one of the responses to the documentary.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vvIfIRMuVks

>>11859830
I'm not convinced. You ate what is today's BigMac, a large Fry, a large Sprite, and a McDonalds apple pie for three meals in a day that's just about 5,000 calories.
And back then the portions were higher. And some of the ingredients were probably higher in calories as well.
To just say it's debunked isn't good enough. There's money to be made and preserved by attacking Super Size Me. So I need more evidence to change my mind on that.

>>11859950
The weight gain isn't the issue. What's being debated is him suddenly getting all these sudden and dangerous health problems in just a matter of weeks of eating only McDonalds. McDonalds isn't the healthiest food in the world, but it's not THAT bad. Detrimental effects take much longer to appear in humans. It doesn't just immediately happen in several weeks of eating McDonalds.

So the debate about Chuck E Cheese pizza being "bad" is the same thing. The CeC pizza wouldn't immediately cause issues. It's a slow process.

>>11859967
Was it NOT that bad over twenty years ago? It does not take that long to start feeling and seeing the effects of inflammation from food issues.

>>11859967
Also some people are more sensitive to food additives than others. The guy was probably slamming down McDonald's icecream too? Their "icecream" is probably mostly made up of Polysorbate 80 just like Dairy Queen's. For a lot of people Polysorbate 80 dissolves the mucilage barrier in your intestines. If that happens it opens the door to much faster reactions to other food issues.

>>11860079
The worst thing about McDonald's food is the high sodium levels and the high calories (if you overeat too much). Not good but not horrible either.

But the documentary makes Morgan get very unhealthy very quickly from eating McDonald's. But we only found out later that Morgan was an alcoholic and refused to tell anyone about it. He was secretly drinking heavily during the filming of the documentary. This alcohol issue would explain nearly every health Morgan was experiencing during the documentary. Like the fast weight gain, bad blood test results, severe health problems, etc.

If I make a documentary about how bad Chuck E Cheese pizza is, but not tell anyone I was secretly an alcoholic, then don't you think it's disingenuous?

>>11860106
>The worst thing about McDonald's food is the high sodium levels and the high calories
No, it's not. It's not even close. If you think the salt and caloric density of McDonald's food is the worst problem you don't have a clue.

>>11860086
>Polysorbate 80
Not listed as one of the ingredients. But nice try.

>>11860136
That's funny. You're lying and you're attempting to defend McDonalds.
https://www.canceredinstitute.org/uploads/2/3/8/8/23883109/mcdonalds_ingredientslist.pdf
It's in the "whipped cream". Not only that it's in a lot of their food products.
Try lying somewhere else, SHILL.

>>11860136
You can even ask Google if McDonald's icecream contains Polysorbate 80, but you were too lazy to even do that. Instead you decided it would be just fine to spread misinformation about dangerous food additives.

>>11860197
I checked McDonald's website. Clicked on menu, clicked ice cream and clicked on ingredients. It's not listed as one of the ingredients.

>>11860207
>relying on flawed AI to do the work for you.
Wow you are lazy.

>>11860257
I posted a link to each product and their ingredients. You're a lying malignant shill.

>>11860257
It's just crazy how stupid you think everyone else is. It's fucking soft serve. ALL SOFT SERVE IS MADE WITH EMULSIFERS. Guess which one they're using just like every other fake icecream.

>>11852327
There's a lot still out there. Some are in warehouses, in the hands of other arcades that sell off excess or go out of business, or collectors and collector-suppliers. I know longer go after arcade cabs, but I know there were, and I assume still are, amusement machine live auctions where you can go to bid on cabs and whatnot. It was over a decade ago at this point, but my fairly decent condition NeoCandy 29 was apparently at a church of all things.

>>11852327
There's a lot still out there. Some are in warehouses, in the hands of other arcades that sell off excess or go out of business, or collectors and collector-suppliers. I no longer go after arcade cabs, but I know there were, and I assume still are, amusement machine live auctions where you can go to bid on cabs and whatnot. It was over a decade ago at this point, but my fairly decent condition NeoCandy 29 was apparently at a church of all things.
And for candy cabs in particular, a lot of decommissioned ones wound up in China, so people import them in bulk.

There's a lot of McDonalds products that contain Polysorbate 80. It's not just limited to their whipcream and softserve.

>>11833518 (OP)
Peak retro comeback was 2012 right around Wreck it Ralph, what are we doing Chuckee where were you

>>11861940
That was around the start of it, took a few years for things to really peak, thanks in no small part to YouTube ecelebs/social media causing everybody, including zoomies who'd never thought of touching an NES until after having been fed a steady diet of GameGrumps through their tween years, to fancy themselves retrogamers and collectors.

>>11833518 (OP)
Chuck E Cheese's business model was already obsolete by the late 2000s. What kid is going to want to play arcade games when they have a Playstation/Xbox at home? The pizza was mediocre at best and the robots long since lost their novelty value to kids. People blame FNAF but honestly it likely gave kids more interest in animatronics than they would have otherwise, CEC would probably have gotten rid of the animatronics in 2016 if it wasn't for FNAF and it bought them a couple more years.

Realistically, pandering to nostalgic adults is their only business move left. It's funny that kids are going to grow up playing FNAF games and not even realize what they were originally riffing on.

>>11853624
What are the odds this changes from an answer to Dave and Busters, to an answer to Round 1

>>11861983
Probably didn't help that CEC developed a reputation for brawls. If parents made their kids go to places like CEC, Discovery Zone, laser tag, etc, the kids would probably wind up enjoying themselves, even if they'd been conditioned to just want to iPad and Fortnite all day; I know I was very much a videogame kid in the 90s, but every time I wound up going to a playground, playplace, minigolf, etc thing, I wound up having a lot of fun, even though if left to my own devices I'd probably have opted to sit at home and playin videogames. Problem is that parents themselves are increasingly lazy, and since CEC developed a reputation as a brawl spot for low income parents giving people a reasonable excuse to avoid, now nobody wants to go.
Some of the saddest shit is how even fast food places have done away with their meaningful play areas, instead opting for touchpad games and maybe some tiny 5ft x 5ft doohickey for preschoolers to crawl around on for a few minutes.

>>11860106
>The worst thing about McDonald's food is the high sodium levels and the high calories (if you overeat too much). Not good but not horrible either.
considering that mcdonald's food doesn't really rot due to all of the chemicals & preservatives in it i agree with >>11860126 in that there's so much worse stuff in mcdonald's food and i say this as someone who goes there semi regularly.

>>11859950
>>11860086
>>11860197
the problem with morgan's alcoholism that that it compromises the study. if he was drinking booze during all of this then what health issues were actually caused by his """all""" mcdonald's diet and what were from his heavy drinking? you just wouldn't know even if you think you do.

>>11833518 (OP)
It unironically seems great. They have actual games unlike Dave & Busters. I'm not autistic enough to care if they're "original hardware" or not. As long as they're keeping arcades alive it's a good thing.

>>11843596
>The Ultra cade founder promised that everything was legal and he had all the relevant permissions. So D&B didn't care either way. They weren't the ones legally responsible in case something went wrong.
Yeah you can't get in trouble for buying something in good faith. The most that would likely happen is any profits you made would have to be given up and you'd have to stop operating the cab, but even then you had no way to know, so the courts would likely make Ultracade pay instead.

>>11849768
>>11833518 (OP)
Corps have so much to learn from real gamers.

I mean I'd go to it but I'd probably go once every 2-3 years. I suspect it won't exist in 3 so looks like I'll only go once.

fuck janny kikes

Arcades completely died around here about 25 years ago but I always wondered why big light gun games didn't manage to hang in there. They were always popular and there's still no realistic way to recreate something like Time Crisis or Silent Scope at home even today.

>>11861887
>I posted a link to each product and their ingredients. You're a lying malignant shill.
Why would I trust some random website you posted over McDonald's own ingredient list on their website? McDonald's would get sued for lying so it's in their best interest to be honest.

>>11862241
Surprised they haven't been sued for all that artwork of copyrighted characters all over the walls, especially since Disney owns Simpsons now.

Some thing to note.
>The retro games are licensed
>All of the retro games use OLED screens but all of them support VRR/Freesync/G-Sync and are at least 144Hz so their refresh rate will match that to a CRT.
>Donkey Kong is emulated through a X64 AMD APU based PC emulator originally design for Nintendo Museum in Kyoto, meaning Nintendo NERD's efforts are seeing a US release.
>All of the Williams and Midway games are emulated through PC hardware but it is unknown what type of PC hardware is being used.
>CeC is working out deals with Namco and Taito for their games but the hardware is the same ball park as what Nintendo, Midway and Williams are doing, plus they be based on their Arcade Archives versions (PS4/5 ported over to PC).
>Nothing about Konami yet, but the games they're eyeing require legal dealings with Disney (The Simpsons, X-Men) so Frogger (which will have neutered music if they do get it due to legal issues with Toei and Nippon Animation), the SHMUPs (Gradius, TwinBee, Ect.), Haunted Castle and Contra/Super Contra are up in the air, also they will be based on the Arcade Archives versions of these games (PS4/5 ported over to PC).
>CeC did speak with Capcom and SNK but details are unknown right now.
>All the arcade parts excluding the screen are Sanwa parts while the screens are manufactured by LG.
>>11838763
You get Donkey Kong which is a Japanese game, more are coming.
>>11843053
If you're going down that route you might as well be using a MiSTer cab.

>>11862475
You a CEC insider or something?

>>11862475
That sounds like a lot more cost and effort than just rounding up some actual old arcade cabs. Granted, yes, I realize this is more readily scalable and ultimately ready-to-order for a bigger corporate chain, assuming CEC plans to expand this business model.

>>11862526
Yes.
>>11862536
>Assuming CEC plans to expand this business model.
That is the plan.

>>11856797
I was working as a freelance contributor for a fairly-known website and worked on some features about Showbiz Pizza and the Rock-a-fire Explosion.

I reached out to this guy for an interview (forget his name off top) and he essentially told me he would only do an interview if I subscribed to his patreon. Super rude guy, immediately dropped contact with him.

The fans are no better. Legitimately one of the creepiest fanbases I've ever interacted with. I wouldn't leave my kids around them.

>>11862438
Why don't you take a look at this you piece of shit.
>>11861920
mcdonalds.com/content/dam/sites/ca/nfl/pdf/ingredientslistCA_EN.pdf

>>11862241
arcade monster kicks ass. they even somehow have updated rhythm games.. shit that even round one doesnt for some reason

>>11839254
FNAF is kids horror, if it came out in the 90s it would have been a Goosebumps book or a episode of Are You Afraid of the Dark? Anyway I don't know how popular FNAF is anymore but during its peak CEC should have converted the building into a FNAF theme in October and raked in the zoomer bucks. Probably their best month all year.

>>11862996
That already got debunked long ago, most of FNAF's fan base is teenage girls (13-17) and that fan base mostly talks about it's lore rather then being scared.

>>11862996
FNAF was pretty clearly targeted towards a young adult demographic at least for the first few games. Saying FNAF is for kids is like saying Call of Duty is for kids.

>>11862640
Yeah he seems like a bit of an egomaniac. There used to be an extensive thread about the guy on kiwifarms and I guess he's a massive grifter too.
>>11863275
Yeah it was meant for people who grew up with Showbiz and CEC and thought the animatronics were creepy (people like me basically). It quickly became popular with kids though.

>>11863308
Kids never liked it, that was the parents dressing up the kids as their favorite characters which the kids hated.
Japan did the same thing with Demon Slayer, far too violent and later on too sexual for kids but mothers dress up their kids as their husbandos anyway because they're single moms, the kids hated it as expected.

Plus FNAF is too scarry for kids anyway.

>>11862386
>Arcades completely died around here about 25 years ago but I always wondered why big light gun games didn't manage to hang in there
They did. We're already on like Time Crisis 5 and like House of the Dead 6. Plus a bunch of new franchises like Deadstorm Pirates and Let's GO Jungle.

>>11863315
What? No, FNAF was absolutely popular with a young audience. You really think the primary fanbase of FNAF was a bunch of Gen X parents and zoomers only knew of it because said parents forced them into it?

>>11863406
Ummm..., the fake "facts" thread is over there >>11844692
Parden that some of the "facts" posted are real because some people didn't get the memo.

But anyway...
>You really think the primary fanbase of FNAF was a bunch of Gen X parents and zoomers only knew of it because said parents forced them into it?
Yes, that is the case.

>>11863437
This is a ridiculous theory. Kids love Internet ghost stories and creepypasta shit and FNAF falls right into that.

>>11863171
>>11863315
>>11863437
it sounds more like you guys are terminally online and think IRL is /5N@F/. maybe you should go outside and find out that the real world isn't the fnaf general on /vg/. especially with this take...

>Plus FNAF is too scarry for kids anyway.
yeah because kids running around with the plushes/toys or watching the videos on youtube or scholastic selling the books at school fairs or the fact that none of the games are rated M is a sign that the games are too scary for them.

>>11863491
No, they don't, thats just the weed you smoked last night.
>>11863528
The plushes/toys kids are buying are Mario plushes/toys, same goes for YouTube videos.

>Scholastic selling the books at school fairs.
Yea, IN HIGH SCHOOLS!

>>11863275
Who it was targeted for doesn't matter you don't need to know anything about Chuck E Cheese to like FNAF. Pewdiepie and every other big youtuber with a young audience played/reacted to FNAF during its peak and millions of kids all around the world got into it.

>>11863553
Thats not how it went, plus kids don't watch Pewdiepie, they watch Game Sack just like their adult counterparts, get your facts straight.

I would only go to one of these if they had original arcade machines. Not soulless recreations or butchered sets with LCD screens.

>>11862475
>emulation
soulless. Not a real arcade and it will fail without real machines

>>11863540
>>11863564
nah. they're sold in elementary schools too (t. someone who works in one) and you're straight up delusional if you think kids don't watch guys like pewdiepie anymore.

>>11862654
>no resource found
Retard.

>Vanilla Reduced Fat Ice Cream
>Ingredients: Milk, Sugar, Cream, Corn Syrup, Natural Flavor, Mono And Diglycerides, Cellulose Gum, Guar Gum, Carrageenan, Vitamin A Palmitate.

>Contains: Milk.


>Ice Cream Cone
>Ingredients: Enriched Wheat Flour (wheat Flour, Niacin, Reduced Iron, Thiamine Mononitrate, Riboflavin, Folic Acid), Tapioca Starch, Sugar, Contains 2% Or Less: Canola Oil, Leavening (baking Soda, Ammonium Bicarbonate), Salt, Annatto Extract (color), Natural Flavor, Corn Syrup.

>Contains: Wheat.

>>11863629
A lot of people wouldn't care or wouldn't notice, or would even have the opinion that a modern cab with an LCD monitor is the superior option relative to a legit old cab. But yes, I absolutely agree with you, as would a lot of people who frequent arcades that have a heavier emphasis on retro, or at least being for gamers.My guess is that CEC won't be targeting these audiences, and primarily actual children followed by the mainstream adult demographic.

>>11863676
No, high schools, you're the delusional one who hasn't left his house since he dropped out of high school and now leaches off of SSI, and kids never watched Pewdiepie, they watch Game Sack, just like their parents.

>>11863629
FPGA boards are still a bit too expensive for these places like Chuck's Arcade, just be thankful they using 144Hz OLED screens that support VRR/Freesync/G-Sync so their refresh rate matches that to a CRT and they're using Sanwa parts.
>>11863635
The emulators came from Hamster through their Arcade Archive series (at lease through the Japanese games as Hamster never released any Williams and Midway games through Arcade Archives but they're all PS4 ports (PS4 to PC) due to both pieces of hardware being X86 based and the arcade boards used are PC based) while Donkey Kong (also running on X86 hardware) was handled by Nintendo NERD and that was originally designed for the Nintendo Museum in Kyoto.

The emulation is on the much better end, plus some locations have reported to have Namco games such as Pac Man and Dig-Dug so they are using the Arcade Archives builds of those games.

It's not M2, but Hamster is no slouch.

That also means if Pac Land shows up at Chuck's Arcade it will be the Pac Mom version rather then the Ms.Pac Man version.
>>11863803
They're using OLED displays.

>>11861983
I only went to CEC in particular once or twice as a kid but I loved going to Dave And Busters/Cicis/etc and I would always play the shit out of a Ms. Pac Man cabinet at a local restaurant even though I had a console with Namco Museum + multiple Pac Man plug and plays. There was still an appeal to playing the actual cabinets you just couldn't get at home.
Maybe I was just being autistic though

>>11863883
>FPGA boards
Also a form of emulation. If it's not authentic arcade machines there's no point compared to having friends over at home and emulating.

>>11863803
The type of people this would appeal to would definitely notice. Might as well go to a shitty barcade or stay home if you are going to emulate. This just sounds like something that already exists except even more soulless and corporate

>>11862472
because their business doesnt depend on whether simpsons drawings are on their walls or not.

not part of their business profit model.

>>11863991
Maybe the guy itt who apparently has some insight could chime in, but based on >>11853623, it appears that they're going for more of a modern, all-ages and normalfag arcade which happens to have some throwback cabs, as opposed to an arcade that more specifically caters to more hardcore gamers. And it makes sense, I doubt that a corporate chain like CEC would want to fuck around with sourcing, restoring, and maintaining 25-40 year old cabs and monitors, especially when compared to fresh off the assembly line units which are presumably under warranty and can be more readily repaired by just buying a new part directly from the manufacturer and tossing it in. I'd imagine that running an arcade that primarily features legit old cabs is enough of a headache that whoever owns one probably has a passion for arcade gaming that exceeds simply being a business endeavor. Some old PCBs can be a bitch to maintain, and given their age, there's no support, so if a unique custom part fails, your left hoping that somebody has made a modern repro, that there's a cheaper board from which you can harvest the part, or you just buy an entirely new boardset and hope that same part doesn't fail.

>>11863991
Maybe the guy itt who apparently has some insight could chime in, but based on >>11853623, it appears that they're going for more of a modern, all-ages and normalfag arcade which happens to have some throwback cabs, as opposed to an arcade that more specifically caters to more hardcore gamers. And it makes sense, I doubt that a corporate chain like CEC would want to fuck around with sourcing, restoring, and maintaining 25-40 year old cabs and monitors, especially when compared to fresh off the assembly line units which are presumably under warranty and can be more readily repaired by just buying a new part directly from the manufacturer and tossing it in. I'd imagine that running an arcade that primarily features legit old cabs is enough of a headache that whoever owns one probably has a passion for arcade gaming that exceeds simply being a business endeavor. Some old PCBs can be a bitch to maintain, and given their age, there's no support, so if a unique custom part fails, your left hoping that somebody has made a modern repro, that there's a cheaper board from which you can harvest the part, or you just buy an entirely new boardset and hope that same part doesn't fail.

All the retro arcades I know (both barcades and non barcades) charge admission but it's free play after that. Is this new Charles Entertainment Cheese place making people pay a buck to play Donky Kong?

>>11863990
But it's hardware emulation, and thats much better then software emulation.

>>11864356
True but I wouldn't go to a retro arcade to use it

>>11864309
Plus they don't make Z80s anymore so PC based arcade boards are the way to go.

>>11863701
Too fucking dumb to open up a web page. Take your L loser.

>>11863701
>mcdonalds.com/content/dam/sites/ca/nfl/pdf/ingredientslistCA_EN.pdf
Here's your McLink you McRetard

>>11864709
That's a very old listing. Stop relying on Google. Go on McDonald's main website. Click menu and check the ingredients of the food. It's listed there.

>>11862536
CRT maintenance is untenable. shipping old machines around must cost a fortune

>>11862475
>>All of the retro games use OLED screens but all of them support VRR/Freesync/G-Sync and are at least 144Hz so their refresh rate will match that to a CRT.

I'm less concerned about LCD refresh rate, and much more concerned if the monitors will come with a CRT shader? That's an absolute must for old 2D games.

Old CRT monitors blended pixels together to create a pleasing look. Game developers designed games around it. LCDs dont do that and make pixels way too harsh.

Look at this picture example. CRT on left. LCD on right.

If the cabinets are just going to be LCDs without any CRT shaders, then the games are going to look bad.

>>11864840

>>11864840
OLED, not LCD.

bump

>>11863997
Like that would stupid the overly litigious companies.