Topic: I miss the arcade feeling. Does anyone else feel the same way?

[Abnormal Freak]

I found out about a nearby arcade that would be fun to check out. Right now they mostly just have '80s games; apparently '90s ones are harder to come by due to a lot of closing down arcades dumping their machines and that. I also got this discouraging information from them:

"Right now we are looking for more fighting games for Rusty Quarters, but they are very very hard to come by, especailly Capcom games. They actually have a thing called a suicide battery in their boards. if they're not changed out every 5 years, when the voltage drops under 2V, the battery goes bad, erasing all game data from the board... we learned this the hard way."

Bummer. What the hell?

Anyway, maybe they'll get some baaaaaadaaass beat 'em ups someday. Think I'll go pay a visit. One of the owners posts on a nostalgia-centered website and he's big into horror movies, so that'd be fun to chat with somebody who knows his stuff somewhere other than the Internet.

[Bloodreign]

Capcom CPS2 boards came with suicide batteries, folks are always having to phoenix the boards all the time, but not sure if they are putting in better batteries or not. Capcom was very foolish to put these batteries in their boards to begin with.

[Munchy]

No way the family fun arcade in california next to that sushi place and car wash and Ihop in Granada hills ?  very competitive place I'll tell you what. Had fun with blazblus CS and KoF 

Also glad I am not the only one who feels this way  what a year or two can do man...

That's the one! It'd be a damn long walk, but by car it's maybe five minutes away.

Sometime I should fire up those games again. I had a blast with practicing KoFXIII.

Capcom CPS2 boards came with suicide batteries, folks are always having to phoenix the boards all the time, but not sure if they are putting in better batteries or not. Capcom was very foolish to put these batteries in their boards to begin with.

Oy shit, that's tragic. It's like a premonition of today's Crapcom.

[Neobelmont]

That's the one! It'd be a damn long walk, but by car it's maybe five minutes away.

Sometime I should fire up those games again. I had a blast with practicing KoFXIII.

Oy shit, that's tragic. It's like a premonition of today's Crapcom.

That is freaken crazy    Hecka small world we live in huh never thought a dungeonite would go to the same arcade as me    I have to take the bus in order to get there.

[CrashDiary27]

There is a place here called retro arcade. 10 bones for a wristband which gets you in from 11am to 1am. All the classic cabinets and they even play 80s music. Its rather sweet, but the feeling of community just isn't there like it was back then.

[Phoenix7786]

Unfortunately I was only born in 1986 so I'm just a bit too young to remember the legit arcade experience my brother and cousins do. I have a vague memories of stumbling into arcades, but when you're a prepubescent teen going against someone who is like 16-18 they're going to absolutely MAUL you in something like Tekken, where I was still struggling with the idea that there was more to the game than tapping buttons.

The closest I've come was, when my family took us to Disney years ago, they had some place where it was a ~$15 fee to get in, but they had just about every single fu***** arcade I've ever seen and they were on free-play. Mario bros, Pac-man, all the other classics, all the Tekken series, the Soul series (including the brand-new SC2), beat'em-ups like Double Dragon and the Turtles games, even a shit-ton of light-gun shooters. My family had to drag me out of that place. They couldn't understand how I could have sat there playing arcades like that, but what do you really expect from a gamer when you show them Eden

[Abnormal Freak]

A friend of mine once told me about a huge arcade he hit up at Disney World. I'd love to go there someday, but it would feel kinda pathetic to travel to the opposite end of the country and pay all that money to sit in an arcade room for several hours, lol. Once I'm there, I won't wanna do anything else. :p

[Phoenix7786]

A friend of mine once told me about a huge arcade he hit up at Disney World. I'd love to go there someday, but it would feel kinda pathetic to travel to the opposite end of the country and pay all that money to sit in an arcade room for several hours, lol. Once I'm there, I won't wanna do anything else. :p

Your buddy is talking about the same place I remember. I *think* it was--aw f*** it lemme just look it up right now. Yeah that's Disneyquest. And it was (last time I was there) about $15 per person, but ALL the arcades were on free-play. And considering the pass lasted until closing time, you save a helluva lot more than $15. Again though, we went before I was even in college, so before you decide to hop over I'd call them and ask a few questions.

[Abnormal Freak]

Yeah, this was like 2003 or '04 that my friend went. Would suck if it's gone. But he related how amazing it was that you only pay an entrance fee and then everything's on free play. Sounds like Gaming Mecca to me.

[Phoenix7786]

Yeah, this was like 2003 or '04 that my friend went. Would suck if it's gone. But he related how amazing it was that you only pay an entrance fee and then everything's on free play. Sounds like Gaming Mecca to me.

That's probably around the same time I went, since I graduated HS in '05. Hell who knows; I might have played your friend XD

[TheouAegis]

I haven't been there in a while, but I vividly remember either Enchanted Village or Wild Waves theme parks in Poulsbo, Washington had a giant arcade. And the Seattle Fun Forest had an arcade too, but now that place (the whole Seattle Fun Forest) is gone. Nostalgia...

My dad has Commando. He used to have Ms. Pacman, Robotron, and Bagman, but they broke. He has a couple pinball machines. Used to have a bunch but again, they broke. Or something. One of his buddies is a pinball technician.

[K.G. Morder]

I regret never having gone to the one arcade that existed within a reasonable distance from me.

[Neobelmont]

I am thinking of buying a joystick for my fighting games and arcade games and one day I want to be able to make my own arcade cabinet.

[Las]

@NeoBelmont hell yeah rock that bro!, you may wanna check out this site.
http://www.mameroom.com/home.asp
 I found it a while back. I think these guys are out of Ohio...but not sure. Anyways, yeah i got one from here,custom built. Very sweet if you ask me! YOu really can go balls to the walls customizing it. I mean their are two player sit down, 1 player, 4 player cabs, all sorts of goodies. I have a 4 player one and though a bit pricy totally kick ass and worth it imo. I also considered making another one at some point to host shooter or racing games. There's a gallery on the bottom right of the page....wayyyy at that bottom. YOu should check out some of those to get ideas on what you'd want. Plus you can customize controls any which way. I thought at the time their side art was limited so i bought my banner(the picture at teh top of the arcade)elswhere.
Here's one i wouldn't mind building if i had the $$$:

I think he did a nice job. Well i do have a 4 player one but so far neglected to get bezel(the picture that goes around the screen), or side art(art on both lef and right side of the cab). I actually made my own side art cuz i didn't like what i'd seen online at the time in terms of choices. I probably should get it made at some point. Hurting in the wallet though.

When i get to it i can show a pic of my cade. Also i can tell you a thing or two about front ends,wiimote's as lightguns, and various other goodies to enhance your cade if you build one. Just pm me if you interested?

Anyways here's the side art i never got around bing made into side art.  But at least the options are always their.
I did these collagues 5 yrs ago or so from various pics from the web, back when me and my sisters boyfriend built the 'cade!




I should probably post 2 pinballs  machines screenshots my dad's owned since i was a kid. 9ball(has a wizard on it) and Raven(some female rambo girl!!). Sadly they have some issues from sitting out in our garage too long. But i think there's totally fixable. all the parts are still in tact though.
Sorry bout the big picture sizes. Also you can shift right to left to view the full picture, otherwise some of them get cut off.

[Oralox]

Here in Houston we used to have Planet Zero Arcade and that had Castlevania the Arcade.
But everything changed when their land lord attacked...its closed now.