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| pointystick 860th Post
 
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|  "Re(1):Arcade's in your area"
, posted Sun 25 Aug 13:46:
There is only one arcade worth anything in the greater Seattle area that I have ever seen, it is in the mall at Southcenter. It's a 45 minute drive down there, and I don't often go. I went yesterday though, and they had KOF2000, CvS2, MoCap Boxing, Soul Calibur 2 (which I didn't get to play, both the coin slots didn't seem to be working), DDR 5th mix and ParaPara something.
There used to be arcades in Seattle proper, back when I was a kid, that I would go and waste time at in middle school and such. They are all gone now though. All that is left is GameWorks, which is fucking expensive and lacks MVS machines and any of the latest fighting games, not to mention the fact that no one who goes there has any interest in competition. I mean, there are women there for God's sake! That's how you know it isn't a real arcade.
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| ONSLAUGHT 2270th Post
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| "My arcades" , posted Sun 25 Aug 20:46
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How are the arcade's in your area.
Well arcades over here are very good.
There are tons of arcade cabinets scattered around here, you can play games (Usually KoF and the Vs games), in Drug stores, convenience stores, and even in food suppliers, you can find at least 2 arcade games in there.
There are 4 big arcade locals, in the crappies one, you can find tons of simulation games (Cars, jets, motos, pinballs and the like), and old games like the X-Men game that Konami made (With 2 monitors together and up to six players at the same time) the MK games, KI, SSF II and some others, that arcade is called Boardwalk.
Other is called "Fun", and it has every KoF, and every SF, every Vs game, and some other games, like Wild Ambition, Garou, Dance Dance games, soccer games, House of the dead 2 and similar games.
Another one is called... well, it doesn't have a name, but you can find DDR machines (Third Mix and up), Beatmania games, and any Bemani ones. There are tons of KoF machines lined, the Vs games lined, SF III TS, Darkstalkers games (In shitty cabinets, sniff), Tekken games and Soul Calibur 2, Light gun games (HotD, Silent Scope 1 & 2, a weird safari one, RE code Veronica, Jurassic Park, and many others), misc old games like Pacman, SF II, SF Alpha 1 & 2, Simulation games (cars, motos, snowboarders, skateboards, a weird game that I don't understand at all, candy and plsushies machines, air hockey, 1 Karaoke, a weird soccer machine where you have to kick the ball below you, a weird dance game using your hands, PiU, and some others).
And the last one is called "Espacial" (something like Spacey), and that's what I call the Fighter heaven. It has all the SF games (Except for Third strike and Second Impact), all the KoF machines, Garou, SF ex 1 and 2, all the Samurai Shodown games, all the games from the Vs series, Darkstalkers 3, all the Metal Slugs, Megaman Power Fighters 1 & 2, it used to have Gekka 2, but they replaced it with Garou, GGX, Dungeons and Dragons (Don't know wich version), soccer games, a DDR and a PiU machine, MK 2, 3 and Ultimate, a weird game in wich you have to get girls naked, light guns games (Outdated, the newest one is T2 Judgement day, ha ha) and I think that's all, I might be missing some games though...
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| GekigangerV
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| "Re(1):My arcades" , posted Sun 25 Aug 20:52
quote:
How are the arcade's in your area.
Well arcades over here are very good.
There are tons of arcade cabinets scattered around here, you can play games (Usually KoF and the Vs games), in Drug stores, convenience stores, and even in food suppliers, you can find at least 2 arcade games in there.
There are 4 big arcade locals, in the crappies one, you can find tons of simulation games (Cars, jets, motos, pinballs and the like), and old games like the X-Men game that Konami made (With 2 monitors together and up to six players at the same time) the MK games, KI, SSF II and some others, that arcade is called Boardwalk.
Other is called "Fun", and it has every KoF, and every SF, every Vs game, and some other games, like Wild Ambition, Garou, Dance Dance games, soccer games, House of the dead 2 and similar games.
Another one is called... well, it doesn't have a name, but you can find DDR machines (Third Mix and up), Beatmania games, and any Bemani ones. There are tons of KoF machines lined, the Vs games lined, SF III TS, Darkstalkers games (In shitty cabinets, sniff), Tekken games and Soul Calibur 2, Light gun games (HotD, Silent Scope 1 & 2, a weird safari one, RE code Veronica, Jurassic Park, and many others), misc old games like Pacman, SF II, SF Alpha 1 & 2, Simulation games (cars, motos, snowboarders, skateboards, a weird game that I don't understand at all, candy and plsushies machines, air hockey, 1 Karaoke, a weird soccer machine where you have to kick the ball below you, a weird dance game using your hands, PiU, and some others).
And the last one is called "Espacial" (something like Spacey), and that's what I call the Fighter heaven. It has all the SF games (Except for Third strike and Second Impact), all the KoF machines, Garou, SF ex 1 and 2, all the Samurai Shodown games, all the games from the Vs series, Darkstalkers 3, all the Metal Slugs, Megaman Power Fighters 1 & 2, it used to have Gekka 2, but they replaced it with Garou, GGX, Dungeons and Dragons (Don't know wich version), soccer games, a DDR and a PiU machine, MK 2, 3 and Ultimate, a weird game in wich you have to get girls naked, light guns games (Outdated, the newest one is T2 Judgement day, ha ha) and I think that's all, I might be missing some games though...
ONSLAUGHT where do you live? You seem to have good arcades in your area. Damn I wish there was a KOF machine somewhere in my area. There is a huge lack of good 2D fighters around here. I have never seen a Super2 Turbo machince nor KOF. I heard there was an arcade around that had those type of games but I have had no luck in locating it. I am sick of seeing that beach head game. IF you haven't seen it, it is a weird VR-type shooting game. That annoys me to death when I see it.
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| Megane
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|  "Philippine Arcades"
, posted Sun 25 Aug 22:18
hmmm... plenty of arcades here, but I'll only mention the good ones... all are in malls, btw...
Quantum - They got a bigscreen CvS2, two linked MvC2s, Tekken 4, 2 cabinets of SF3:3S (where both MK buttons are popping off their places), a bigscreen KOF2k1 (hogged by a wicked Angel player), Project Justice (hogged by a Roberto player), a linked Tekken Tag, several Touch-screen cabinets, and a lot of older games lined up against 2 walls. They also have the new DDRs (the ones with the hand maneuvering), Percussion/Guitar something. A Crazy Taxi, a Silent Scope, A Big Truck Driver (18-wheelers, I think). Expensive. Too bright. Decent-mediocre comp (good MvC2, bad 3s).
Worlds of Fun - They once had a bigscreen MvC2, but I think it's gone. Most of the ones I'm interested in are gone now (SF3,PJ,etc), but they have a classic lineup, where one quarter gives you two credits. ^_^ That's for the classic SFs, Mortal Kombat, Alien v Predator, and D&D2 (the other one, I think). That's dwarfed by the tons of UFO catchers and kiddie rides all over the place.
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| Zyzyfer 560th Post
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|  "korean arcades"
, posted Sun 25 Aug 23:00
in cheonan, they're pretty junky, a bunch of asian-style sit-down cabinets, usually broken controllers, your standard array of games. but they're dirt cheap, at a mere 8 cents us a game.
in seoul, they go up to a whopping 24 cents, but it's more or less the same. i haven't been but to one high-end arcade, at the movie theatre, but for a movie arcade, it's pretty big and has a varied game selection.
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| Sklathill
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| "Re(3):Philippine Arcades" , posted Sun 25 Aug 23:41
I'm pinoy, my parents were born there, I lived there not quite the first half of my life. About six hours away from the fun that is metro manila, but I've been there enough. I haven't been back in years, but I'd like to pay a visit... It's too bad my tagalog is worse than terrible...It's unusable. :\
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GOD I miss the Philippine arcades. I missed the huge malls, like Megamall and SM City and the Galleria (in Manila)...gah. I miss those arcades... :~( I want to go back!!
Woah, you've been here? Nice! 
Megamall: arcades there have no love for KOF... :/ I think the latest one is only '99... The most well-maintained one, Encore, uses those card thingies, and probably the only one to house a Guilty Gear machine (no GG here in the Phil, sucks for us :()
Galleria: Not been here a lot, but 3 of the 4 arcades there have bad controllers. Not to mention that one of them has bad ventilation, so it stinks. :(
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| Juke Joint Jezebel 807th Post
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|  "Houston, Texas ........ sucks"
, posted Tue 27 Aug 01:59:
Hagen de Merak can back me up. this place is crap. anyways, i'll list the arcades around us, from the best to the crappiest
Almeda Mall - even though a majority of this mall smells like urine, they have a pretty decent arcade. two NeoGeo machines with KOF2000, Metal Slug 4 (-_-), and some other games on them. other games in the arcade are CvS2, Tekken 4, Third Strike, MvC2, the latest DDR (A FREAKIN DOLLAR TO PLAY), and a couple of others
University of Houston Arcade - not bad. it has Third Strike, one of the newer DDR machines, Project Justice (whoo), CvS2, among other cool games ..... but absolutely NO SNK games, even though the request box is literally full of SNK requests. instead of buying a NeoGeo machine, they keep buying crap games, like this ass hunter thing that we only see rednecks play, or this virtual reality machine that's way overrated
Supertrack - this is some family fun place. last i checked, it had CvS2 and Tekken 4. also, some older machines like Soul Calibur. place kinda sucks. i got owned by some 8 year old playing with that capoeira girl
Baybrook Mall's Tilt - this place is as big as my closet. 'nuff said
Stargate - ok, for those of you that have read about this place at Shoryuken.com, it is not Houston's best arcade. it's no bigger than the Tilt i described above. this place is the cream of the crap. here's how it goes .. we [Hagen de Merak and i] read about this mystical, magical place on Shoyruken.com and heard all the rumors from people we played against at the university. so, we decide to check it out for ourselves. we go into the crappiest part of Houston and find it. first thing we notice: SOME DUDE IS GETTING A FREAKIN HAIRCUT IN THE MIDDLE OF THE ARCADE. ok, i mean WTF!!!! but we didn't let that discourage us. we kept walking on. there were literally only four arcade machines out: Third Strike, Street Fighter 2 Turbo (or one of those old Street Fighters), and some weird Capcom puzzle games i never heard of. so i walk past the barber to get to the puzzle games. right when i arrived at the machine, some guy runs up and fiddles with the crap in the back. he turned off the first puzzle game, then turned off the free play option on the second one. me and Hagen stood there, dumbfounded. we peeked in the back rooms next to us ... some bum eating chips on a couch?! another room full of arcade machines that weren't being used (even though i said the place was as small as hell, it could've fit a couple more machines in). well, that was it. they didn't want us to play, so we left. freakin' Ratgate
out of all of us, i think ONSLAUGHT's one of the luckiest 
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forgot about the title ^_^
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| Juke Joint Jezebel 807th Post
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| "Re(1):Houston, Texas =ROCKS Fairbanks Alaska" , posted Tue 27 Aug 04:02
Ferrio: haha, you got me beat there. Alaska must suck. The Wizard? i'll look it up and check it out this week! i was planning on checking out the chinatowns around here (i hear that's where the good arcades are at), but i haven't had much time lately. 25c a game. i can't wait! i'm lucky Almeda kept the NeoGeo machines at 25c. at U of H, it's freakin' 50c to play even the oldest of games
by the way, when i said Houston sucks, i meant a lot more things than just the arcades. when everyone hears Houston, they think of a huge Texas city, so it's gotta have lots of great stuff, right?
only a couple of good anime stores around here (and they're all god damn overpriced. the rest of those "anime" stores just sell a bunch of second-rate American Dragon Ball merchandise, sigh), the crappy arcades i mentioned earlier (although i will check out the one that Ferrio pointed out), and a huge majority the freakin' dojos around here are "Americanized" washed down crap from its original traditional roots. "American Karate" everywhere! and i do mean everywhere. every jackass that got to black belt think they can run a school. black belt's just the beginning. pathetic
(hehe, i know it has nothing to do with arcades. i'm just blowing off steam)
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| KaiketsuZubat
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| "Re(1):Arcade's in your area" , posted Tue 27 Aug 06:06:
Well, here in San Antonio, there's 2 major chain arcades, Cyber Zone and Diversions. Diversions for the most part does have decent stuff on occasion, the location at San Pedro has 3s, MvsC2, a 6 slot MVS with only 2k1 in it, a bootleg version with screwed up graphics on the screen. Also they have TK4, Tag... um... oh, yeaah, Soul Calibur 2, and DDR5th, Bemani Core Mix in minicab, and a few other things.. their other locations aren't quite as full, and look like a dumping ground for some of their older games.
Cyber Zone for a while used to be awsome for fighting games, having gotten in SF3 beta version, SFA3 beta, things like that, but then quickly made the change into the Bemani/DDR craze, now their arcade has Max2, Bemani 2DX 5th, in super deluxe cab <with stand-on subwoofer> the only fighting ggames theyy have now are CvS2, TK4 and MvC2 , anmd no one plays them.
Competition for fighting games is ok, I guess if you go to Diversions on a good night you won't have to play the regulars there who play Marvel and 3s.. their tournaments are atrocious, allowing any bug/infinite to be used, basically throwing out any chance of a decent fight. :/ That's just opinion though.
Ohhh yeah, there's also Tilt in Crossroads... a practically dead mall.. but I have to go there at least once a week to play Punch Mania.. oh, and Gameworks in the Quarry, which is nothing to write home about, just 2 DDR machines, Daytona2 link battle, and Wild Riders, s'bout it
Diversions is prolly the best, they've also got a good selection of shooters, and one of those Ultracade thingamajiggers.. They had Space Bomber, which has one of the best Engrish openings ever.. :)
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haha, you got me beat there. Alaska must suck. The Wizard? i'll look it up and check it out this week! i was planning on checking out the chinatowns around here (i hear that's where the good arcades are at), but i haven't had much time lately. 25c a game. i can't wait! i'm lucky Almeda kept the NeoGeo machines at 25c. at U of H, it's freakin' 50c to play even the oldest of games