death of the video arcade

he game ROMs might work fine with one version and not with the other

of course this has to do with the dumping and scanning techniques involved

but it is annoying to upgrade to a newer version and have half your games working when ya run the audit feature to see if there compatible

Also id like to ask which tapper did you get the root beer or budweiser version?

The thing about the Dave and busters ect is that they aren’t traditional arcades and the machines they have usually have are too big and expensive for the owner of the normal “family” arcade and are usually novelty games like dance dance ect although im told they have some normal machienes
One poster said: It used to be said that the very first time that you play a new game, you should be completely done within 30-45 seconds, and the average game time should be under 3 minutes or so. 10-20 years ago, this was simply the norm. You’d walk up, put a quarter in, play, die, and hopefully repeat the cycle. But most people now (the younger crowd, anyway) have been raised on console systems and PCs - more specifically, on RPG-type games where a single game can last for hours, days, or weeks. The concept of having “GAME OVER” appear in only a couple of minutes just doesn’t click, when they’ve been playing the same “Zelda” or “Final Fantasy” game for the past week straight

which brings up something i recently seen
the movie chain here have a deal whit SEGA for games

they have a Star Wars game but the thing is except for some action scenes it was based on the 3 original Atari arcade games and you could beat the game on 5 bucks in a half an hour or less

and it dawned me just now that if that was a 20 buck game or more i could see the fit people would be throwing

so maybe the problem is the games don’t have a depth to them like described above

although i think the scene that comes to mind is in back to the future 2 where mj fox plays the wild gunman game and the kids standing there go you actually have to play with your hands? eww! will come to pass in 5 to 10 years

Oh, it clicks…just ticks us off…

Dragon’s Lair ticked me off from that - one of the few arcade games with an actual plot, and it’s also one of the hardest I’ve ever played…

I have the Budweiser version. It rocks!

wow your lucky i read they only made a 100 or so of them and theres like 25 left

althouhgh the rootbeer version i played had a actual tap ya used to fill the glasses … i like the joystick and button control better like on my consoles some of those gimmick controlls were hard becuase of my disibility

when the local arcade hooked up a version of robotron to the normal stick and 6 button seup i was in heaven heh

The Jersey Shore…Ocean City…the boardwalk in the 80s.
Simm’s was THE video arcade.
Pac-Man, Donkey Kong, Tron, Missle Command, the list is endless.

The joint must’ve taken in at least $5000 a day.

Now, it’s been subdivided into funnelcake and t-shirt stores.

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