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TheBeast
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"New Sega arcade games in your area???"
, posted Thu 22 Apr 19:11
I notice that there seems to be a "new generation" of arcade games from Sega in my area. These machines warrant you to buy a special memory card that stores your game processes and hence encourages repeated plays. All of these games also allows link play that pits your gaming skills against others (Racing game like Initial D, 4-player game like MahJong, Simulation game like World Club Championship Football). They all comes in the original Japanese format, but nobody seems to mind as the arcade oweners usually have a translation guide near the machines for players to refer to.
Since these games allow many players at one go and thus takes up a lot of arcade space, many other arcade games are being replaced in order to make up the space. It seems that these machines generate a lot of interest among many arcade gamers in my area, and the games generate more revenue too (The games are placed 3 times as expensive as KOF machines here).
I was wondering if this arcade "phenomenon" is becoming the next big thing in the arcade scene? Could we be playing other forms of games using more expensive memory cards in the distant future as well? Imagine playing KOF with a memory card that stores your game experience, win/lose records, and having your characters taking less damage/dealing more damage to other human players due to higher game experience etc.
Anyway, just creating this thread to find out how these new Sega arcade machines are doing in the other parts of the world. Would be nice if I get some information on how big these games are in their own Japan arcades.
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GekigangerV
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"Re(1):New Sega arcade games in your area???"
, posted Thu 22 Apr 19:28
I will have to give the memory card thing a little longer before deciding if its just a fad or the new line of gaming. The only game at my arcade that you have to by a card is Initial D and then there is F-Zero AX where you use your own memory card. Oh and then there was Blitz, that asfar as I know was the first, but I never cared for the series.
However there are games that save data to the machine like that 3D gaunlet and Soul Calibur two right? Perhaps that kind of save system will pick up in the USA where arcades are pretty spread out and people have limited choices of places to go.
The memory card feature is only really good for games that allow a pretty decent amount of customization like Initial D and Virtua Fighter 4. I don't think it would be practical for a game like KOF unless they go 3D and you can edit the characters(being able to mix and match the Pre and Post Garou Terry would be cool though).
I don't mind the Initial D size games taking over the other game spaces, infact I wish that American arcade would take a Japanese approach to fighting games with the small sit down bench. I don't need a big screen to play SvC or MvC2.
As far as SEGA games in general they are doing so-so. The only game that has really picked up is Initial D, its so popular they got a total of four machines. There is a Gameworks in my area and for an Arcade that is owned partially by SEGA(am I right on this) they RARELY get any new SEGA games(not even ID).
SNK is really picking up in my area though. Three different arcades have SvC! And the local Golfland has KOF2k3(although on a crappy screen with a green tint and the default language is in Spanish) and the last two Metal Slug games. Just two years ago the only SNK game was SamSho3 and Real Bout Fatal Fury.
"New Sega arcade games in your area???" 
