I miss those days when I would walk into the arcade to watch people playing a certain fighting game. There would be a teenager in there who defeats every single opponent who challenges him (he's playing as Ryu), doing his "victory" dance and making himself looking like a complete tool when doing so. That same person would then storm out of the arcade, screaming obscenities and accusations of cheating at his latest opponent after being schooled multiple times... by a middle aged guy who picks the fighting character wearing the pink Gi. Y'know, the character with the really short ranged fireball and the no-ranged dragon punch move. 
Now, in arcades..
we dance! 
and sometimes play other instruments and stuff
Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it's just the opposite. - John Kenneth Galbraith
Was great.
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I miss the passion.
The passion of handling red and blue guns at the same time.
Pretending I was a bad ass.
Yep. Area 51 was the shit yo. Some random dude who was playing with me quit and I took over his spot, and ended up with a crowd of like a dozen people watching me as I beat the game for the first time.
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I miss the passion.
The passion of handling red and blue guns at the same time.
Pretending I was a bad ass.
Dual-gunning House of the Dead?0
Terminator 2 was a better game to do that with. The machine light guns would rattle around as you held the trigger down, so dual-gunning would lead to bullets being sprayed all over the place. 
And Silent Scope. And there was one Jurassic Park game where you were in a big jeep thing and dinosaurs would come at you and it was actually pretty amusing.
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That one game where you were a tank, and it was.. like.. a line of chairs that you and your friends sat in, and they were tanks too, and you trundled around a city blowing each other up.Was great.
Tokyo Wars. Ya, that one was fun.
I had a super high warrior in Guantlet legands. And I had the suyper high score on time crisis 1 and 2, getting one long chain of head shots after i played it so many times 
But I really miss playing Gauntlent Legends with my friends, but then we got the N64 version and played on a bigger TV
As silly as it seems, I miss pinball machines. I guess there is not much of a place for them today in the digital world. 
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Tyewa Dawnsister was listening to Cher while typing:
I guess there is not much of a place for them today in the digital world.
It's not something people hear about.
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Akimbo lightguns on those kinds of games. There's a House of the Dead machine at the theater that I still fool around with every now and then.But I really miss playing Gauntlent Legends with my friends, but then we got the N64 version and played on a bigger TV
I tried playing 4-player Gauntlet Legends on the N64 once. It was damn fun, but for some reason it kept freezing in the middle of the Dragon boss whenever we had more than two players. 
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It's OK. It's OK. Just... just put it down, Manticore. It's all forgiven. You don't have to do this.
Do you know what I liked better than those arcades? The Laser-tag arenas; we have a two-story one about an hour from where I live.
I loved those things. There was one in the CN Tower that I went to all the time (Q-Zar?). I got the home laser-tag kit one year for Christmas, and while it was amusing to play laser tag in the comfort of your own home (read as: you'll break shit), having that huge futuristic laser-lights-and-dry-ice arena was really neat.
Especially when you have bad eyesight. 'Cause then you can spend five minutes stealthily tracking someone only to realize it's your own reflection.
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I loved those things. There was one in the CN Tower that I went to all the time (Q-Zar?). I got the home laser-tag kit one year for Christmas, and while it was amusing to play laser tag in the comfort of your own home (read as: you'll break shit), having that huge futuristic laser-lights-and-dry-ice arena was really neat.Especially when you have bad eyesight. 'Cause then you can spend five minutes stealthily tracking someone only to realize it's your own reflection.
Oh yes, real Laser Tag. I have not played that for quite sometime. Oh, how I miss the ol "knock on the wall, duck behind another corner, then ambush the person who fell for my trap" trick that I learned from some fancy new game called "Metal Gear Solid" 
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I'm pretty sure there's at least ONE of you out there who's never been to a video game arcade or at most don't even know what one is...I miss those days when I would walk into the arcade to watch people playing a certain fighting game. There would be a teenager in there who defeats every single opponent who challenges him (he's playing as Ryu), doing his "victory" dance and making himself looking like a complete tool when doing so. That same person would then storm out of the arcade, screaming obscenities and accusations of cheating at his latest opponent after being schooled multiple times... by a middle aged guy who picks the fighting character wearing the pink Gi. Y'know, the character with the really short ranged fireball and the no-ranged dragon punch move.
That was Dan.. he was one of my favorites 
heh
By the same token, for all the fun soloing a shooter can be with guns akimbo (and yeah I've done it), it's a blast to have teams of people playing Time Crisis or the like.
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But I head a chain bought them out, on that failed miserably back in NY call Boomers
Oh well. I'll never forget the fun I've had at the place though playing imported cabinets that were still in full japanese from the art to the instructions and of course the game it self.
I miss that place.
--Satan, quoted by John Milton
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Any of those race games/combat games where you and a couple of friends can plop into a row of chairs and have a ball racing and colliding. I remember the one time my old roleplay gang were all at the mall in Raleigh at the same time. Ended up dropping like five bucks a piece into the one boat race game (Hydro Thunder? something like that. Rocket-powered boats) chasing one another and acting like a bunch of freaks. With the full on "sit down console" thing you get so much more of an experience than if you just hold a vibrating controller.By the same token, for all the fun soloing a shooter can be with guns akimbo (and yeah I've done it), it's a blast to have teams of people playing Time Crisis or the like.
There was a racing game a long time ago, in the late 80's I think. It was a racing game from SEGA. Basically you raced "chibi" cars around from the top view and earned credits to buy upgrade parts for them. This was on a standup console with up to 4 players on it.
Oh... and then there's the ASCOT machine (also from SEGA) where you bet your tokens on a horse and got tickets from that.
I miss the old pinball machine Fathom, my first arcade game ever played was it, I played that thing every time I had a quarter from like the age of 7 onwards. Plus the backglass art both disturbed and intruiged me.
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When I was visiting some friends in Savannah three or four years ago, we went to the arcade down there and there was some awesome Fist of the North Star import game. It was a sensor mat on the floor and six pads that could pop out ranging from mid-chest to eye level. You had to throw punches at the pads kinda like Whack-A-Mole, and the part that wound up causing me to lose involved hitting a 150-hit combo on this badass guy in a period of 20 seconds with all six pads flying back and forth insanely.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IDrPgPgx6Hw&search=Gackt%20punching%20game Yeah, like this? (They start playing a quarter of the way through.)
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IDrPgPgx6Hw&search=Gackt%20punching%20game Yeah, like this? (They start playing a quarter of the way through.)
That would be exactly it. If I remember correctly, that was like the first boss.
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That would be exactly it. If I remember correctly, that was like the first boss.
Yeah. Puffy and Gackt playing it just amuses me.
The only remaining video arcade in town is a piece of shit with DDR and those awful gun shooting games that really want to be Time Crisis, but fail horribly. Bummey the Fool fucked around with this message on 03-15-2006 at 12:41 AM.
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I don't know how people can enjoy the NES version. I just don't know.
It's so fucking terrible.
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Bloodsage's fortune cookie read:
I miss Princess Daphne from Dragon's Lair.
Awesome Art, and humour, but really crappy as a game.
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Channeling the spirit of Sherlock Holmes, Tarquinn absently fondled Watson and proclaimed:
Awesome Art, and humour, but really crappy as a game.
At the time, it was the coolest thing evar, because of the smooth integration of the animation and control--it was like controlling a movie instead of a sprite.
--Satan, quoted by John Milton
For all that arcades have gotten worse in america, the ones I've seen in singapore and a now in the middle eastern countery I cant mention that Im at, they have made them fantastic.
I was at a place that was a mini skate park, net cafe, and arcade, one the 3rd floor of a mall, directly across from a chucky cheese style kids thing, with 6 resturant food court in between the two. They had all those weird "prop" games. DDR, Soccer, Gun games with weird controllers, and the current standard of Time Crisis.
I havent seen an arcade like it anywhere in the states, from the looks of it, and how popular it was, maybe arcades just need to diversify a little, and import more foreign games, parachuting onto (off all things) CVN 59, was pretty funny, as was the little red rocket labeled, "The United States" (I think it was supposed to be a nuclear missle or something)
I miss being able to go to an arcade, and people remembering who you were, when I first moved to the town I was living in pre-navy, I didnt have my computer yet, and spent dozens of hours at the Arcade in the mall, after I left, people who the arcade people knew who knew me asked about me. Touching
Anyway, its raining in Arabia, and like, midnight, peace yall
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I miss Princess Daphne from Dragon's Lair.
