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| Toxico 3858th Post
 
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|  "Re(2):OT: Random tidbits on arcade business.."
, posted Sat 28 Aug 21:22
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I haven't seen them myself, but I've heard of arcades in the US with mame cabinets inside. Pretty lame if you ask me.
Well, I personally take the bother to salvage these machines and break them, it's not only fun and helps the companies, it also brings back memories from the old days ;P
There are also machines with PS2 hardware and the load a CD, with no memory card, so if the game had secret characters that was bad for you.
Also you can't truly play on these craps, lets say that you gang up wih your friends and want to play VS on a game, then you arrive and there is already a mob playing other game, you lose.
Also, said Mame machines had several bugs and fails, and it's a PC actually (I have seen it loading DOS when they starting up the thing); so most likely that machine will over heat and have all of those stupid bill gates product problems XD
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| IkariDC
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|  "Re(6): A new hope for 2D games"
, posted Sun 29 Aug 05:58:
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Here in Granada are three of them, two in the same arcade. Tons of CPS2 and NEO-GEO games, with, as Toxico said, horrible button configurations.
The sad thing is that those are now the most interesting arcade machines here... The rest are years old driving and shooting arcades.
And yes, of course the're illegal.
Well that's too sad! More or less that's what is happening in every arcade location out there...
But hey! This happened to me some weeks ago:
I was in a small vilage in Navarra, visiting a friend and his family. They run a small shop with you know, candy, ice cream and those kind of things. They also have some arcades and computers with internet access. When I was heading to the shop, I asked my friend what arcades they had there. He told me "Bubble bobble", "Super Pang" and "Metal Slug". He's not into videogames, so I was thinking that it was Puzzle Bobble and not Bubble Bobble, and wondered what Metal Slug it could be...
In the end, it was Bubble Bobble Memories, Mighty Pang (It was the first time I saw those 2 ) and Metal Slug X. There were 6 computers with internet access, my friend told me that almost nobody played with them.
We were about to open the shop and the kids were already waiting in front of the door and shouting!
It was a really great thing watching kids playing 2D games, they were good players too! I decided to play Metal Slug X. When I reached the 2nd mission, some kids surrounded me and asked: Hey do you know "tricks"? I answered shooting a hot-spot and obtaining some diamonds. "Like these?" I answered. The truth is I played Metal Slug 2 the most, so I don't know every hot-spot in X, but that's nothing that trial and error can't solve. Anyways, the kids were just pointing out to me where all the hot-spots were, even when I picked up a new weapon, they told me what was it, like "You picked up fire!". I even could teach them some hidden stuff they didn't know. It was really entertaining.
It was great to see that even girls played those games. There was a girl of about 12 playing Metal Slug X, who was better than me!
Isn't it beautiful to see kids growing with old-school 2D games?
But then again, the kids "betrayed" all this by playing GTA in one of the computers XD. They were just driving around and punching people. They surprised me when one of them shouted "Get out of the car! There's a bitch out there!". It was fun XD.
Isn't it even more beautiful to see kids growing with old-school 2D games and modern 3D games, and watching how they prefer 2D games?
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| Toxico 3863th Post
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| "Re(10): A new hope for 2D games" , posted Sun 29 Aug 16:37
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Just imagine: having to play Third Strike with only two working buttons.
Oh, it wouldn't make that much of a difference, I would beat you either way.
Well, as long as he can taunt he will be OK, at least he could hurt you psychologicaly...
The other day I got to play SS0 with odd button layout (upper buttons a, b, c, buttons beneath, d, start), and the stick couldn't do anything (you couldn't even run, much less make a SP move).
Now, let us convert this on yet another french men spamming thread...
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I'll pick Chunli and be ready to kick ass ^^.
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move comes out, people cheer you as if you did something incredibly difficult... Ah! That's because it's incredibly difficult.