"Here's 10 dollars, sweetie. Stay here while I go to JCPenny."

>Had a mum and a dad.

Nice privilege, asshole.

I member
member no isis?

This is how you make a successful arcade is 2016.

Kids' tastes in just about everything is copying what the older kids like, because they want to be cool, and being older is cool.
And now Teenagers don't hang out at Arcades and play games, they all want CoD, Halo, Gears of War, etc.
Gritty and realistic with little attention made to the actual mechanics of the game.

>Having a bed to come home to every night in the orphanage.

Privileged bitch.

When is one gonna open in some place that's near the Gulf of Mexico

>had an asshole
I literally can't even

Do they have pinball?

>has a skeleton inside you
Ugh.

>being born
.

What is this?

It's sad how videogames actually let you socialize with strangers in real life at one point

You had a good life, stop lying

Never unless someone shows them there's market for it

You can't even what?

I always wondered why my dad loved to play pinballs

Don't you have one inside of you as well?

Because nowadays Arcade games are mostly shit or mediocre.
People don't go to the arcade because they want to play the games anymore, they go to the games when they happen to be at the arcade, get annoyed by old good games that haven't been repaired in years, and get bored by the functional, new games that aren't worth playing.
It really isn't much more complex than that.

I die inside everytime I see an arcade of a mobile game

>New location on Georgia is only 40 minutes away from my house

A bit far, but better then no where.

>it's sad how hobbies had you socialize with literal strangers

Dude did you never visit a skatepark before in you're life? LOL

*AUTISM ALERT*

*AUTISM ALERT*

>not being born
you lucky fuck

Le forever alone sloppy dressed fat fuck.

Just go.

>Dirty South

Never Ever. I grew up there; arcades and anything mildy nerd-related goes there only to die.

Georgia is getting one tho.

40 minutes is normal commute

That's why I said videogames didn't I?

I have been tested and nothing

I wish I wasn't born sometimes

I found the male model in the thread

Why is that?

@352221045
Are you that desperate for a (You)?
We need to ween you off.

Man the local laser tag place had cabs for that game and they were a ton of fun to control.
Then they replaced literally all of their video games with shitty claw machines

I think it's over, Mom.

No one is telling you to be a male model, just strive to be a less repugnant version of yourself.

(You)

lol /asean/ fag

I'm probably going to regret asking this but

The fuck is that?

I live in atlanta and, especially in the college and midtown hipster parts, nerd shit is popular. There are lots of comic shops and shit down here.

I want to smash your face

>what is this?

A Japanese arcade chain in the US.

>Ticket-spewers/prizes for the kids
>Bowling for families
>Billiards/Darts
>Widest selection of Japanese games in the States (Rhythm, Racing, Crane, Fighting, etc.)

All in a clean, open atmosphere.

>It's sad how videogames actually let you socialize with strangers in real life at one point
I know right? If you arent sitting hunched over in the attic with minimal lighting then you're not gaymin right XD.

What's on his neck, user?

holy shit that is awesome, post apocalypse mall is real

An ailment that affects dirty fatass virgin neckbeards such as op. You shouldnt be concerned.

That my friends is a redneck who doesn't shower. Take your finger and scratch your neck above your collarbone. You should get at least a tiny bit of skin and some dirt. Thats natural. But as we know from basic sciences, if you ket something sit and fester it becomes unpleasant. That filthy fucker in the pic did not clean himself for possibly years.

Crusty fungus shit.

>dirty
phew, that was close

What does ween off mean?

I miss laser tags too, good places to bring nerdy girls for a date

I really like the ruined city aesthetic, too bad only few games take advantage of it

That picture made me gag

Hello

Can you relate?

Most likely fungus

What places would you recommend?

That sounds great, I really wish there were at least one in Chile

I don't get this post

arcades are obsolete

BIDEOGAMES
VIDEOGAMES
WHERE ARE THE VIDEOGAMES

Bet many Cred Forums virgins are scratching their sweaty double chins at this moment reading this.

>Actually having the opportunity to be in the mall in the first place

I was strapped to a couch for most of my childhood and couldn't leave the house, check your privilege.

Settle down you fucking crybaby autist.

>sports entertainment
I didn't know WWE was still in the arcade business.

Lmao too funny. But anywho, that's all it is, just take a fucken bath and use anti bacterial soap and youll be good.

He's clearly underage

Maybe for you, we need more gathering places like those.

Hygiene is great isn't it

This is discussion related to videogames isn't it?

It must feel painful to have the fungus

How does that work? Were you home schooled?

I had no idea they had an arcade game, holy shit

There were 4 WWF arcade games; Superstars, Wrestlefest, Wrestlemania, and Royal Rumble.

Oh my, he flunked school for not knowing how to properly write the name of a chain store?

Color me surprised.

>anti-bacterial soap
And usher in the age of hyper resistant bacteria? No thanks.

Pumice stone, apple cider vinegar, rubbing alcohol, and home made mint ash after scrub is all I need.

Your post isn't video games either.

>implying

I grew up in Tokyo and have lived there until I moved at age 20. I remember every so often my parents would take my brother and I to Joypolis in summer and on some birthdays. I also hung out a lot with friends in arcades.

Then as I got older, arcades starting becoming more normie and gaijin infested. You couldn't play DDR or Pop'n without some fat American man filming you, then posting it to GaijinBook with the subtitle "lol Japanese guys are nerds" or something. Akihabra arcades are Gaijin cancer now.

Also, why am I on this board anyway? Guess I'm pretty bored as always.

>leaner
>Phonics
wew

Is that the Valco mall in Sunnyvale, CA?

infidel, when I blow up people it's FOR JUSTICE!

poal.me/vgqzqq

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>Make moderation staff maintain public profiles, provide written explanations for their decisions, and timely responses for user concerns.

Then invite friends over you dumb faggot.

Why the fuck would I waste gas, money, and time when I can play all those games in the comfort my home?

Shut the fuck up and kill yourself you fucking pussy nigger lover. Arcades are literally vidya.

Arcade games here cost only php5 (around 20¢) back then

How does this help anyone?

Yeah, I really really like the look of this game, I wish I could co-op it now

Do you really use all that? In what order?

How is it to grow up in that city as a gaijin?

Socializing, friend
youtube.com/watch?v=tvjeIB5E_Iw

Reminder not to waste your money on the claw machines.

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>Also, why am I on this board anyway?
Because 2chan is outdated and shit.

is that a micro penis or a chopped off dick

Neither did you. It's JCPenney, no space.

>I can't socialize unless it's at an arcade
>I cannot invite friends over to my house because I'm such a faggot

kek

arcadefags are cringe

>pop'n
you deserve the gaijin stares

This legit makes me sad.

Are you an ethnic jap? Your english is pretty good.

Move to the US?

Someone please kill that spamming retard. Already filtered his bitch ass lmao

Talk about scumbag machine owners

They usually cost around 25 cents here, sometimes 50 depending on the game

I mean to say socializing in the sense of being able to meet new people, not only hanging out with your friends, sorry I wasn't clear before.

It makes everyone sad

He will die young.

>Do you really use all that? In what order?
Make a mix of apple cider vinegar and rubbing alcohol to make Ethyl Acetate to dip the pumice stone in order to scrub my skin clean, rinse body with water, then lather on by hand a sort of homemade mint lye (ash) soap.

that's a male lizard

this so much

if I ran back to ask for another dollar, I'd never get one unless my mom was talking with one of her vapid friends that she was meeting up with. Then she'd give on just to make it look like she was a good mother.

>Being this much of a hippie

Too much effort, I just scrub myself with naturally sourced borax.

>its a "americans and their family problems thread"

Fuck off yuroshit.

This guy comes up to you and slaps all of your coins out of your mom's purse.

What do you do?

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Same here. My dad hated video games.

>mfw video games and comics taught me how to read at a higher level than everyone else at school.

Did I trigger you shartie?

Back to your containment board, foreigner.

>fly to washington to visit friends for a week
>arcades everywhere, from little mom & pop places to huge fucking barcades with billiards and bowling

dunno what you mean, op

Are you related in any way to Patrick Bateman?

My mom wouldn't take me to the arcade sometimes, I had to walk around to the mall with 2 bucks in my hand as a 8 year old

We all have problems

How strong is he

>tfw videogames helped me easy the introduction to the english language

thanks, it's been a long time since I've seen this

Last I heard that JCPenney was actually still open

Why is his dick bent sideways?

>How strong is he
With a name like Tokkentakker take a wild guess.

>arcade owners tended to be lazy sacks of shit
>machines were usually poorly maintained
>many arcades never kept up with releases so had insanely outdated games, old games aren't an issue but with poor maintenance meant they were broken 80% of the time
>other owners only put the cheapest games they could find so you'd see multiple cabinet of AREA 51
>gaming at home kept gaining traction since it offered games that never existed in arcades on top of many arcades never getting newer titles despite them looking better than home versions

This was pretty much why 90% of arcade shut down. The last bit was just a number of factors like location, terrible budgeting by the owner, or just not being proactive enough to hold events and branch into more than just a simple arcade. Too many people fell for the Field of Dreams meme.

Nope, it's just extremely cheap, makes me smell notably good. Unless you don't like mint. Then fuck you.

Borax is good. Good odor neutralizer. Smelling good on top of being clean is worth it.

yeah whatever, at least we aren't orphans

even if you get foster parents you are permanently fucked up and damaged goods for life, least we have our biological parents

>Are you related in any way to Patrick Bateman?
No, but I point out consecutive numbers sometimes.

That was way back before 1998, before the financial crisis in asia... i'm not sure how much they cost now... they use prepaid cards here now to play.

I'd rather have them be outdated than have Golden Tee/Big Buck Hunting/Fast & Furious Current Year Edition

That'd be such a cool finisher in pro wrestling.

Mad as fuck are we, Nigel?

>go to local arcade
>no galaga
>not even a fucking pac-man
>three shitty clones of house of the dead though
>Cabela's outdoor hunting
>Leave less than 15 minutes later

Someone has to be able to beat him though, why not call that person?

Plus maintaining the arcade machines and their pricetags didn't help

I'll be copying your routine soon enough user.

Keep being positive like that, it will take you far

Places that use cards to play tend to be expensive, but I wouldn't really know

Is Nigel an insult now?

It's Chrischan

Shut up you self-serving prick. My best friend is a fine young lass who never had her original parents around. She's well on her way to being an RN. Idiot prick.

quality posts

>Mom drops a $10 just to keep your bitchass occupied.
You were so lucky. I got allowance, sure. But it was little to nothing. And it hinged on me doing a whole list of chores throughout the week. M parents were just dropping 10 spots when we went to the mall.

Have you ever thought that maybe she feels sad at night because of that?

Whats a chrischan

How am I insulting? I said Nigel. It's like saying Ahmed or Ivan, or Sven or Aldrik,ust to refer to general location.

>go to mall
>dad and I play in the arcade while mom does her shopping
>dad plays more games than I do
I miss those days, where did life go so wrong?

Arcade Master Race here.

The answer is REALLY complicated, but here's a few bullet points:

1. Tax hikes and rising property costs made it harder to run a business that by nature can only make incremental profits.

2. Console tech caught up with arcade tech.

3. The Atari Crash hurt the industry in general and it never fully recovered, though arcades weren't hurt nearly as much as consoles obviously, but at the same time they never had anything like the NES come along and revive them completely like the NES completely revived consoles.

4. CRIME. This is a HUGE reason. You might not have perceived this in your white suburb, but in the cities crime was so out of control in the 90s that arcade were flat out unsafe and kids couldn't go to them, so the arcade owners lost out on a ton of their potential revenue.

5. Arcade games got too complicated for the general public that just wanted to play stuff like Pac-Man, so they random people that used to wander into arcades after work and spend a quarter or two on some ultra-simplistic single-screen game stopped going to arcades altogether.

You can still play videogames with your did if you wanted to.

>Nearest one is 2 hours away
>And its not even built yet

We talk everyday and night. She's my best friend. She doesn't cling to the past like you folks do. She doesnt do the muh genetics crap either. But she is German, very pretty girl. She is getting married soon. She feels no pain because she had loving parents all the same.

Not since he lost his hands in the war :/

Why isn't she marrying you?

>tfw two of these within a 35 minute drive
It's a shame the taiko drums from both are quite worn out already

How old are you?

>post yfw you aren't adopted

Not anymore, he's gotten old and can't play like he used to. Last game he played was The Witcher and he can't play 2 without hurting his wrist which makes him sad because he loved that game

Wish I could TURN BACK TIIIIME
To the GOOD OLD DAAAAAYS

Maybe you could find him an ergonomic controller or keyboard/mouse that would let him enjoy the game again.

20

But wouldn't being adopted mean your parents love you more since they chose you?

Bottomline: its the niggers and jews

Yea but now Ur shit posting on Cred Forums instead of having a good career

when our mamas SANG US TO SLEEP

>stay on the bench out here
>if you move you aren't getting dinner tonight you little shit
I'm white, where the fuck is my privilege and ten dollars?

No? It's considered social suicide to send back a damaged orphan child.

Nice photo, OP, I tried taking one of my mall's abandoned arcade and security camera up to me and handed me this.

ITT: GOAT Protagonists

I am not successful and would never permit her or myself to marry. I want only the best for her.

youtube.com/playlist?list=PLNz4Un92pGNxQ9vNgmnCx7dwchPJGJ3IQ
These are pretty long but it's pretty interesting seeing what abandoned malls are like.

>typing that post with your fingers

Stop oppressing me, you insensitive fuck. I'm a quadruple amputee and I had to type this with my balls.

back to your containment board yurocuck

But now WERE STRESSED OUT

Oh, 21 Pilots. Some other good songs, but inadvertently created the anthem for Nostalgia Guys and Ladies throughout the internet.

Forgot one.

6. Arcade owners had ZERO technical knowledge of how the machines worked, so they couldn't repair them on their own. This meant either massive maintenance costs or, more often, broken machines. Either way it hurt the profits big time.

>muh social suicide
Nobody gives a fuck about social standing, kid.

>tfw you've been going to R1 since it opened
>tfw PHM is the best location since it's the hotbed for all of the location tests for every upcoming vidya
>tfw access to IIDX,SDVX,GITADORA,Taiko,and every other rhythm game WITH e-Amuse and Nesica connections
>tfw on par with the rest of Japan
>tfw rhythmfags are on par with grorious Nippon
>tfw mastered the claw machines

Protip:ALWAYS ask the R1 clerks to reset the plushes for you.Normies will literally try and pick up plushes that are too big for the claw and it leaves the prizes in an unwinnable position.Instead of picking up the plushes,you're supposed to push and nudge the plushes towards the hole using the arms of the claw instead

That only would fix half the problem unfortunately. Arthritis makes it hard for him to dodge and stuff.

Adult arcades are alive and well in NYC.

PHM R1 is quite cool for anything Konami. But it still sucks that there's no Maimai/CHUNITHM. Also last time I went Jubeat wasn't networked (and there was only a single cab).

I can play SDVX/IIDX/Jubeat at home now, there's just no reason to go there.

>Protip:ALWAYS ask the R1 clerks to reset the plushes for you.Normies will literally try and pick up plushes that are too big for the claw and it leaves the prizes in an unwinnable position.Instead of picking up the plushes,you're supposed to push and nudge the plushes towards the hole using the arms of the claw instead

Or just buy them at 300~400 yens at Mandarake. Even with shipping it'll be cheaper than wasting your money on any claw machine outside Japan.

>not going shopping with your mom and learning about fashion

You should live in Portland OR if you care that much
actually please don't it's bad enough
We got Ground Kontrol, Wunderland, and Quarterworld just opened up

Doesn't Portland have a lot of crime, niggers, and druggies? Or maybe that's Atlanta?

No it isn't, he still has his dick.

You forgot one of the most important point.

Back in the day Arcade Owners would just spend a hefty amount of money for Cabinets and software/PCBs that went with them. That's it. Everything else from there was pure profit (obviously after local taxes etc.)

Now, game publishers are taking royalties and are forcing you to connect to their network. Which means: you are forced to upgrade to the latest version of every game constantly (typically ever 12 to 24 months there's a new version). You still pay for software and hardware but on top of that gives roughly 30% of your gross income straight back to the publisher. That's before any taxes.

So on a $1 credit, $0.30 goes to the Publisher already. Add taxes, maintenance costs, upgrade costs and so on... You get to a point where it's barely profitable anymore unlike your cabinets are constantly used.

Japan is resisting thanks to new way of monetizing arcade gaming. No one is spending ¥100/credit in average. Tons of DLCs/Paid extra features are now available to make people spend more (goes from random EXP boosts, to gachas etc.).

Floating pricing have been introduced as well so many places already increased their price from ¥100 to ¥108~120. At first the excuse was the increase of the global sales tax (from 5% to 8% and soon to be 10%), but that also enabled business owners to make more profits.

I was wondering why there were no arcades in Calgary for the longest time, apparently a bylaw essentially outlaws them unless they're part of a movie theater or something like that.

no arcades died out because of affordable game consoles and PCs.

but mark my words, there will be a comeback. VR arcades.

>people don't have the space at home for VR setup
>commercial grade rigs are more fun
>can forgo necessary bandwidth requirements for LAN play, no lag at all

>niche businesses are doing well in an area populated by millions of people

no shit

How recent is that even though? Arcades crashed WAY before any of that started.

>there will be a comeback. VR arcades.

This is the dumbest thing I ever read.

Arcades are about playing games in public with other people. VR is about leaving reality completely and totally ignoring other people. The two are incompatible.

I played that game on my 486. It was amazing

PCs had NOTHING to do with it. COMPLETELY different types of games. Consoles were a factor though, but it wasn't "affordability", it was the technology of consoles catching up to the technology of arcades.

There's no MaiMai/Chunithim there because of licensing issues,you can blame Konami and SEGA for that.

MaiMai is slowly dying in Japan so it might be feasible to bring that over sooner than we'll get Chunithim since it's the hottest game out there at the moment.

But with the arcade industry going down the shitter over there,rhythm games just aren't producing as much profit as one would think.It might force Konami,SEGA,and other developers to create international versions of their games much sooner if JP mom and pop arcades won't be able to afford them.There's always going to be Taito stations,but R1 Japan had a closing earlier this year due to oversaturation.Definitely a bold move to focus more on US openings than JP openings given the fact that outside of ticket games and claw machines,their exclusive networks only recently started becoming configurable for US territories.

It's a nightmare to configure a single machine on the e-Amuse or Nesica network,and even then stability and security is another question

>Or just buy them at 300~400 yens
I can win any prize with about 2-3 tries,so it's roughly $6 that i'll spend on a Rilakuma or Shiba-Inu plush

>Arcades are about playing games in public with other people. VR is about leaving reality completely and totally ignoring other people. The two are incompatible.

I have never touched VR but it seems to me as if you could just have VR multiplayer games, you retard.

I was lucky if I got $2 and im white

If you can't interact with a person face-to-face then you might as well stay home.

>all these triggered americucks replying to you
You did a good job

>bowling/arcade/lasertag place opens up nearby
>visit in the first week
>bowling is full of flashy neon lights, expensive, and they don't give you a lot of time to play
>shitty detectors keep saying we're fouling when we're not
>you can order restaurant style food instead of just pizza and nachos
>"arcade" is terrible, just shitty mobile games, games that you can't lose, and bad racing games
>costs $1 per play
>spend all of my money on Guitar Hero because at least it was fun (it sometimes charges $4 for more popular songs though)
>so miffed at that point that we didn't even want to try lasertag
>the billiard tables even looked bad

where did it all go so wrong

look at this normie

>save my snow shoveling money, all $130 of it
>14 years old, manage to convince mom to drive me and friend to arcade
>friend brought his mix of allowance and shoveling money as well as we usually walked the blocks together.
>we buy large drinks at the concession stand, load up with $20 worth of quarters each
>hit up motherfucking House of the Dead 3
>we. Are. Beating. This. Game.
>spend almost 3 hours trying to best this game.
>we do it, we cheer. Those around us cheer, free refill at the concession stand.

I was able to see the aimer from that game when I closed my eyes. I don't talk to that friend any more. He could be dead for all I know. Now I just have work. And bills. And loneliness. Was a simpler time.

>not going with your mom and be embarassed when you're in the women's section

home consoles and the nanny state (kids not allowed out anymore)

>it sometimes charges $4 for more popular songs though
What in the fuck? It costs less to buy the damn song.

I grew up in a city under siege by terrorist forces. They even car-bombed my school.

Check your country-on-peace privilege.

Fucking communist scum, I'm glad they gone.

How much money did you spend on it? Between the two of you? Or just individually if that's all you remember.

I still get nervous walking past bras and panties in department stores

Well you're the man now then dog

>tfw the local annual pinball expo is getting smaller every year

~10 years. And sure it declined before that, but that's still one of the reason why it's even harder if not impossible to be in this business today.

Even in Japan, arcades have been closing all across the country in the past 15 years. Metropolis like Tokyo are obviously still doing OK thanks to how many people are there, but in smaller cities you typically only have couple arcade and one of them is most likely a Round One, Taito Station which are all pretty big companies and not entirely relying on Arcades games to make profits. And even them aren't doing great.

Smaller arcades are just closing left and right. They only hold value for nostalgic gamer and/or local FCG which mainly play outdated fighting games.

I wouldn't say that maimai is dying. It's still doing fairly good in Japan. Granted it's not as crazy as when it started, but that's kinda like that with all games. It didn't fail as hard as MUSECA, Bit Stream or Cross Beat Rev...

>I can win any prize with about 2-3 tries,so it's roughly $6 that i'll spend on a Rilakuma or Shiba-Inu plush
You're still limited by the choice the machine has at that very time and at R1 it's extremely limited actually. I hardly doubt you'd be able to consistently get them with a 3 try average also.

Maybe 1 or 2 yes, but not 10, otherwise you'd be there 24/7 and selling them back on ebay. People in the US are buying those rila plushies for $20+ each easily. I average 500 yens (6 tries) per prize in Japan and even that is barely profitable. No one is making reliable profits on through claw machines.

My nigga. Played this and Dino Crisis all day every day. It was so badass.
Le epin nnny state meme again. Fuck off yuronigger.

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What does being white have to do with getting 10 dollars?

We spent close to $30 between the 2 of us. We both invested $20 worth of quarters each at the beginning.

>Arcades are about playing games in public with other people.

there's no difference between playing with someone on the same machine vs playing with someone in the room next to you. you're both strangers playing a game together in an arcade. if anything it's much better, now i dont have to smell his BO or hear him muttering under his breath while he gets worked up over how bad i'm beating him.

>I don't talk to that friend any more.

PLS user I CAME TO ARGUE NOT FOR THESE FEELZ

Pinball is a lost art.

My dad used to be a fucking wizard at the game and even had a machine in our home.

Now, the machine is gone and his hands are too fucked to play.

I was privileged enough to have this bad boy at the D&B I lived 10 minutes away from for a long time. It was replaced with the new Ghostbusters shooter this year though. I think I might buy the stand-up cab version when I get my own place.

>tfw a mods ban you because you reply to different posts
I don't get it

this is the equivalent of going to a restaurant to watch sports when you have a tv at home

I wouldn't have even spent the money if it weren't for the place using prepaid cards that I just threw $20 on. I just wanted to empty the card because I knew I wasn't coming back. Never felt more ripped off in my life.

Omfg I remember that thing. Was the game of the rich. $3 per play.

>it declined before that

It IMPLODED several YEARS before that.

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Who the hell makes these?

interestingly enough,MUSECA here in the states has gotten a lot more attention and play ever since the 1+1/2 update.it's actually pretty fun compared to the garbage that it was prior to the update.

saying that MaiMai is dying might have been harsh,but it's certainly not flavor of the month like it used to be,and Chunithim will follow the same path with enough time.That's just the nature of arcade games in general,they're a hot commodity for a certain amount of time and then they either update in a drastic manner or develop a different strategy for longevity.

Thanks to R1 and to a much lesser extent D&B,those companies are making a lot more money by including the US territory,there are a lot of rhythmfags myself included that pay a lot of money to git gud at these games and they're all easy enough for normies to play once or twice.

Look at the second coming of DDR,with A having a near global release,Konami saved the franchise giving the states not just new machines,but actual e-Amuse access.If you would have told anyone that two years ago,you'd be labeled an idiot and daydreamer,but here we are today with global rivalries and even tournaments to a game that was presumed dead a long time ago in the US and only kept alive by Konami in Japan out of fear of losing the dance game market

Boy the Flappy Bird bubble sure was a thing.

How many quarters is that per credit?

It's worse because you can literally play candy crush for free on the phone you have sitting in your pocket while you pay money to play this machine.

>there's no difference between playing with someone on the same machine vs playing with someone in the room next to you

There is if you have a fucking VR headset on.

Ask someone who works at an arcade anything

>You should get at least a tiny bit of skin and some dirt. Thats natural.
>tfw I'm pretty sure I have something on the obsessive-compulsive spectrum and take hour-long showers in the morning cleaning my entire body

>anti bacterial soap
The FDA just banned it

>being alive
Fucking priviligaed alivefags

HOTD3 is still at Great Mall Dave and Busters if you happen to pass by.

>He had a mom
You fucking lucky bastard.

Glorious. Back in college there was a student night at the dinky arcade/minigolf place in town. So my friends and I loaded up on tokens and decided we were going to beat the X-Men arcade game.
6 players. Fucktons of tokens. Fucktons of fun.

If I'm not mistaken it might have been 50 cents per player per play.

What's your job description? Mechanic, server, etc?

I take hour long showers cleaning my entire body as well. That doesn't make you abnormal, it just means you take way too fucking long in the shower.

That fiasco taught me one of the greatest lessons of all.

Hype is a dangerous and powerful thing

you're still playing a game together in a place that's neither of your homes you autist

How much money do the Ms. Pac-Man/Galaga cabinets actually make? I just assumed they were common because they were sold cheaply or something.

30 continues each is still a lot, but if it was 60 each I was gonna say that you guys must have really fucking sucked.

Be thankful you had your both parents and wasn't living in an orphanage you ungrateful privileged whinner

You have literal autism if you want to be tethered to a visor in public, you neckbeard nerd faggot.

>have to go all the way to Dallas
How could it possibly be worth the drive?

Be thankful you weren't aborted. Do you know how hard it is going through life an a fetus.

Fucking post-natal fags.

White kids have parents who care. Only the fringe whites are withoit caring parents.

I knew two brothers who were really good at this. They played it at our local bowling alley once and almost beat it on only a couple bucks worth of quarters. Despite having 6 other people watching them no one seemed to have any more.

What city are you in rn?

wealth is generally correlated to whites in minority groups

I only went there to watch other kids play.

I'm the guy at the front desk who reloads kids' swipe cards for the games and sells merch

It's a boring job, but it's better than most minimum wage, crappy jobs, and the hours are flexible while I'm in school

We don't have a Galaga machine but we have a similar game, and the Ms Pacman machine is a newer version that also let's you play with up to 4 people and compete. I don't know how much they make because we operate with loadable cards rather than coins, though there's probably some way for me to check, I imagine, so that the owners can decide which games to replace

No, because the shame of being abandoned by your actual parents is greater.

A shame that can only be cleared by founding the restaurant chain that would invent the Baconator. If you're adopted, you're worthless unless you're Dave Thomas

>I'm the guy at the front desk who reloads kids' swipe cards
Fuck, and I thought you were a mechanic or something.
Well then, do more kids or adults come to your arcade? And do you have more real games or D&B mobile ticket shit?

San Antonio

I feel like it's generally parents who used to go to arcades and want to share the experience with their children. Sometimes just adults come in to play, sometimes they come with their kids and use it as an excuse to play, but I think it's rare that the kids themselves ask explicitly to go to the arcade

There are 2-3 shitty games that aren't true arcade games, but for the most part they're all "proper" shooters, fighting, and the normal shit like air hockey, DDR, etc. There's a machine that has SFII and MKII on it, and another that has Gauntlet, so I imagine the business model is intending to get older people to come in for nostalgia's sake

Arcades were an archaic form of entertainment that is more cancerous than any modern games in the ways they tried to take away your money. Their death are the natural and expected outcome and the only people who miss them are either vapid nostalgiacucks or people who are incapable of socializing with random people without dozens of video game cabinets at their immediate disposal... Or an extreme minority of DDR/Fighting Game fags.

git gud

>tfw used to go to local mall a lot growing up, it was the cool place at the time and was always bustling
>Years go by, area becomes more ghetto and crime ridden, stores slowly drop out as the years go by
>Now there's hardly any shops left and barely anyone goes there but ghetto black people, whole area is pretty shitty

The last time I was there I was renewing my license, they have a DMV in there for some reason, place was fucking dead. I've got so many memories of the place as a kid and now it's a dead husk, makes me feel kind of sad.

>Arcades were an archaic form of entertainment that is more cancerous than any modern games in the ways they tried to take away your money.

>a quarter

>a quarter
For a game of Joust or some other shit that was already old back then.

Needless to say that the dollar was worth almost twice as much back then too.

Be lucky it was just a quarter. In Japan arcade games make you flat broke. Enjoy wasting that 100 yen coin on half a minute of Vampire Savior.

> Not going to JCPenny with your mom, knowing that she'll have to take you go into the fitting room because you can't stay alone

Im white and same

nah, a quarter was pretty standard fare. Sorry your arcade was run by jews though.

>Needless to say that the dollar was worth almost twice as much back then too.
You know that logic also applies to console games right

Like a Tony Hawk Pro Skater 35 level.

Interesting videos.

I lucked out in acquiring my Turtles In Time machine

Smart people who know how to milk money out of stupid people and fads.

Are you guys serious? There's a round1 about 10 minutes away from me in a mall and it blows. Bunch of little faggots running around with their overweight parents. The only cool game they have is Street Fighter 4 and that was a while back, haven't been there in a while to see if they have SF5. I once lost a Tekken match to some seriously old oriental man that was playing all night, and that was probably the highlight of my experiences there. Other then the couple of cool fighting games they have, the only reason to go there is to shoot pool with friends. I am surprised a bunch of people on Cred Forums of all places are hyping this place up.

Now I feel good tnx user

>arcadefags lament how terrible it is not to be able to go pay per play in games
>samefags who get assblasted when asked to buy dlc

Yeah paying an extra $20 bucks for another 10 hours of content is so much worse than paying a dollar for like 4 toons.

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What's your dream arcade cab, Cred Forums?
Someday I hope to own an Egret II with either Dodonpachi Daioujou or Espgaluda.

I'd be able to settle for an Astro City too though

A popular beer arcade is in Chicago. It is doing pretty well apparently.

>Existing
Fucking privileged existingfags

People actually paid to play the games? Why didn't you give the dude who worked there 5 bucks to play all day? He literally would unlock the cabinet and say press dis button to restart the game. Good lord twas a glorious time playing Marvel Vs Capcom 2 all day even if the old asians wooped everyones ass.

>My local Round 1 added Nitro+ Blasters

For what purpose? Still waiting on them to get Revelator.

>one one person in the thread got the reference
Disappointing.

I already own it. It's called a PC. My monitor can even be turned vertically for proper shooter play.

>Why didn't you give the dude who worked there 5 bucks to play all day?

Because he'd get fired over it, employee performance is judged in regards to how many times the machines have to be unloaded. Also there is no way to actually do that, as arcade machines only work if you put more quarters in.

Best rail shooter coming through.

>feelio when R1 location in PA changed from Bensalem to Exton

That's not LA Machine Guns.

>LA Machine Guns
That's not Deadstorm Pirates.

yeah and you were probably smart but lazy, right?

Holy shit there's an arcade in Exton? Fucking where?

>just heard that my local arcade finally closed down after 16+ years

Maybe if they hadn't sold Marvel VS Capcom 2 to that bar, they would've stuck around a little bit longer...

>tfw will never play f-zero or initial d arcade

I doubt it still loads though.

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I see this a lot. There's a bar/arcade (please let that never become "barcade") here in Phoenix that's pretty popular. I've never been since I heard they were shutting down because of a lease issue and I live on the other side of the valley.

Same.

:(

dead mall thread?

youtube.com/watch?v=3lWZLYa8FoM

at least you had arcades, only arcades I've been into has been in amusement parks

>Playdium in the GTA
>going there with bros every few months
>I got like 8000 tickets I am saving up for the darth vader helm :D

>She's my best friend.
>She is getting married soon.

>2016
>Living in an unwalkable jobless town instead of a city

>my local mall shut down the only arcade near me for a chick-fil-a in the food court.

Should have gone more often, user.

With 80% of machines not working

Playdium has been shit for years. Didn't they sell off even more of their machines recently?

I consider myself a lucky, about a month ago a Round1 opened up in concord, California and holy shit is it a blast, man.

What are you talking about they get new stuff in every 3 weeks. Every time I go back there are new machines.

>Mario kart WiiU arcade machines with 3 other bros is great

>had 2 real arcades in town growing up
>1 gets shut down due to fights and general gang activity
>other 1 gets shut down because the owners were running guns out of the back

i just wanted to play video games. fucking criminals get my games shut down :(

Heh, the baconater is utter garbage. The veritable McChicken, on the other hand? Es muy fantastico. I pray to the Holy Sandwich every night.

10/10 would left4dead there

>mfw only an hour away from here
>mfw come down here every 1-2 months with some bros and hang out then go gambling

>tfw no McChicken in your city because there's too many mexicans and all that's on the menu is the Spicy McChicken
Save me, Trump-sama

>darth vader helm
Speaking of dead franchises...

remembered a story about the second arcade

>be in arcade, getting in some D&D - Shadows over Mystara before my mom picks me up
>mom pages me 911
>go outside to use the payphone
>arcade surrounded by police
>some guy robbed a gas station at gun point and hid out in the fucking arcade
>i was in a hostage situation and didn't even know it

By the time I could walk around a mall by myself all the arcades were already dead.

There's now a new Dave & Buster's in one of them though

Based Dan Bell, I like his videos but worry that someday he's gonna be in the wrong building and get wasted.

>vibration of quantum strings

FUCKING PRIVILEGED QUANTUMFAGS

>Dave & Buster's
they don't even have games, just a bunch of mobile shit and casino garbage

>never saw an arcade here in germany
>go to poland for cheap ass vacation with family
>see this "video game hall" and ask if we can take a look inside
>Father unknowingly said yes
>spend hours just playing Arcade instead of getting swarmed by jellyfish in the baltic sea
>next year the arcade hall was teared down
at least I had 2 weeks with a real arcade
it was fun as fuck

Georgia here too, where is it?

>"if you're a dead mall fan"
>dead mall fan

i never knew this was a thing that existed

Where my Giant Eagle play area niggas at?

I remember playing Donkey Kong Country and Crash in there all the time while my parents would shop.

Same, where's it at I wanna go

Depends on the location.

Mine has MK8, TC4, and ITG/PIU.

>Lithonia GA

Not bad, 40 minutes for me too

>coming from the big bang

kys you universist shitlord

>There was a huge ass arcade at my mall near Tampa.
>Literally the size of the JC penny's with nothing but arcade machines from the late 70s to present (at this point in time, '92-'93)
>Remember going there every few weeks with some quarters and playing shit like Galaga, Rampage, Donkey Kong, or the Simpsons arcade game.

I fucking loved that place, I remember it having a major 80s vibe as well. The mall itself was pretty interesting, it even had a goddamn skating rink in the middle. They sadly tore it down in the mid 2000 and I think the arcade closed late 90s.

Oh shut the fuck up retard. Get bent.

Dude all i want is soul calibur 2 and 3 arcade edition.

>Tfw my local arcade has a bar and restaurant

That's about an hour away with perfect traffic. No longer interested.