Guest KoR Fungus Report post Posted April 11, 2003 Conquest is a big draw in SC2, but thankfully in our arcade several of the people that got bored once they became Edge Masters stuck around and got into the versus scene. Now there's pretty much no conquest (and when there is, we just jump in and beat them in versus so they leave), and about a dozen people that play versus pretty seriously. Good thing, because fighting games get boring very quickly when there's not competition. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest EQ Report post Posted April 11, 2003 Versus is pretty big for SCII by me as well. I'll jump in and whip some ass if there's someone on the machine, but my main goal is to get them off so I can play conquest. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Sakura Report post Posted April 11, 2003 $450 from a guy who was closing his arcade and getting out of the business I guess. I don't know if that's a good price or a bad one. I don't know where you could even find them to buy. Depends. Is it a dedicated machine(does it have a full picture of Raiden on both sides and all the art on the control panel)? Mine is in the original dedicated cabinet and I paid 500 for it. I also own 6 other games, including the first MK and MK4. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest KoR Fungus Report post Posted April 11, 2003 I was looking into buying an arcade game (MK2 or SSF2t), but shipping always keeps me from it. You can find machines on eBay for pretty reasonable prices, but unless the seller is right near you (which they never are in my case), shipping is hundreds of dollars more. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Sakura Report post Posted April 11, 2003 .You could buy an old JAMMA ready cabinet from a local dealer and then just buy boards off Ebay. I wouldn't do it, because part of the coolness is actually having the dedicated cabinets with all the art and what not, but if you want to play SSF2T for cheap that would be a way. You should also check newspapers and call distributors all the time. You'd be surprised what you can find. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Rendclaw 0 Report post Posted April 11, 2003 $450 from a guy who was closing his arcade and getting out of the business I guess. I don't know if that's a good price or a bad one. I don't know where you could even find them to buy. Depends. Is it a dedicated machine(does it have a full picture of Raiden on both sides and all the art on the control panel)? Mine is in the original dedicated cabinet and I paid 500 for it. I also own 6 other games, including the first MK and MK4. ::falls to his knees and worships Yuna:: Call me silly, but I mark out for people that actually own arcade machines... a friend of my ex-roommate owned a cyberball arcade game and I thought that rocked... I wouldn;t want his power bill at the end of the month, but cool nonetheless. EDIT: BTW Yuna, could I commission you for a banner? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Sakura Report post Posted April 11, 2003 I'm not Yuna... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Rendclaw 0 Report post Posted April 11, 2003 Oops! I guess I had two trains of thought collide when I posted that Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest redbaron51 Report post Posted April 11, 2003 I'm not much of a video arcader, never cared for it much, but its hurting for sure. I'm more of a Pinball Person instead, and no one even touches those Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Sakura Report post Posted April 11, 2003 You're not the first to mistake me for Yuna. Must be the sig. I guess there's not enough room in this forum for the two of us. We should have Winner Take All or Loser Leaves Town match. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Rendclaw 0 Report post Posted April 11, 2003 nah, no need for a Trish/Victoria-style feud here.... although I will buy tickets if it goes that way Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest TheBigCalbowski Report post Posted April 11, 2003 Really just depends on the arcade(s) that you go to in the types of games as well as prices. Location also plays a factor. In terms of arcade vs. console, take MKII for instance. At home I can play it on my old Genesis system(yes I still play it on occastion), I get a tv and a handheld controller. At the arcade, get a nice screen and a joystick with large buttons. Different experience. In MA, most of the prices I've seen for all types of games have been reasonable for the most part. Games like SCII, Gauntlet, etc. you can play for 50 cents on average here. Same goes with gimmick games. I can play DDR Max2 for 50 cents and DDR Ex for 75 cents. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Sakura Report post Posted April 11, 2003 In terms of arcade vs. console, take MKII for instance. At home I can play it on my old Genesis system(yes I still play it on occastion), I get a tv and a handheld controller. At the arcade, get a nice screen and a joystick with large buttons. Different experience. Also, Genesis MK II is really nasty. That port looks, sounds and plays like krap. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Rendclaw 0 Report post Posted April 11, 2003 I thought that SF II: SCE and SSF played inifinitely better on the Genesis than the SNES... Then again back then it was about better gameplay (Genesis) vs. better sound and graphics (SNES). Then the Playstation came out and put systems out to pasture, and Sega and Nintendo have been trying to catch up since. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Renegade Report post Posted April 11, 2003 The aracde I go to still has a very decent set of games so I still go very often. All its missing is one or two KoF games and Capcom vs SNK2 (it has the first one). Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest EQ Report post Posted April 11, 2003 I thought that SF II: SCE and SSF played inifinitely better on the Genesis than the SNES... Although I can hold my own with arcade controls, I always preffered playing fighting games with a D-Pad. It just seems more comfortable to me. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
The Dames 0 Report post Posted April 11, 2003 Personally, I always preferred the SNES controller for fighting games. When SFII:CE came out for Genesis, if you didn't have the 6 button pad instead of the 3 button pad that came with your system, you were fucked. Dames Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Sakura Report post Posted April 11, 2003 SF II may play better on a Genesis but MK II is an entirely different subject. The Genesis port of MK II has really messed up gameplay, especially with the combo system. Stuff that works on other systems doesn't work on Genesis. It doesn't even have the crouching low punch at all, which is used in a bunch of corner combos. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest CanadianChris Report post Posted April 11, 2003 I'm more of a Pinball Person instead, and no one even touches those Amen. Pinball is dead, and I greatly mourned its passing. The only pinball machines you can find nowadays are 10-year old, beat-up machines that have some flaw that makes them unplayable (weak flipper, saucer that doesn't recognize ball entry, etc.). When I was in university, I could play at the row of pinball machines we had (Lethal Weapon 3, Indiana Jones, Getaway, Demolition Man and Twilight Zone) for HOURS. Man, I miss those days. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest converge241 Report post Posted April 11, 2003 I like finding a nice arcade that has old machines like mfn Crystal Castles or Dragon Lair theres one a few towns over from me but its kind of dumpy and one at an amusement park in NH that has some oldies Jurassic Park was the best Pinball game I ever played Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Pegasus Kid Report post Posted April 11, 2003 This thread kind of shocked me at first and then I realized that most of you aren't in what I call "Street Fighter Communities." The thread should probably be "no one cares about random arcades" anymore because certain arcades around the US and Canada are ripe with competition. For instance, up here in Ontario, we have Wizards Castle, The Games Skybox, Virtual Amusements, ORBIT, Yorkdale Wizards, and Virtual Funland all with 45 minutes of one another at the very most. That's not even accounting for random arcades around the Greater Toronto Area. All six of those arcades are host to regular Street Fighter tournaments. The tournament scene breeds greater competition as people want to get better and keep playing others to do just that. The result is increased business for the local arcades regularly and huge business when they host a tournament. If any of you are interested in Street Fighter (at present the common games are CvS2, MvC2, 3S, A3 and GGXX) and are willing to take an ego bruising when you find "real players" (and trust me, your ego will be bruised) then you should head over to Shoryuken.com and look at the forums. It'll really open your eyes to the community of fighting game players there are not only in North America but in Europe and of course in Japan. BTW, if any of you are in Jersey, I'll be in that area over the Memorial Day Weekend for The East Coast Championships 8. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest KoR Fungus Report post Posted April 12, 2003 Yeah, the same thing is true with SC2. There's a very strong community out there, but you wouldn't know it from going to your average arcade. If you want to find serious competition, look at the North America match finder forum at www.soulcalibur.com. Will there be T4 and SC2 tournies at the East Coast Championships or is it just 2D games? I've been looking for an excuse to go to 8otB for awhile, that could be it. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Rendclaw 0 Report post Posted April 12, 2003 Personally, I always preferred the SNES controller for fighting games. When SFII:CE came out for Genesis, if you didn't have the 6 button pad instead of the 3 button pad that came with your system, you were fucked. Dames Amen, Dames... that was the only good thing about the Genesis was the advent of the 6 button controllers.... having ANY controller with diagonals (something that I am still looking for in PS2 controllers aside from the crappy, low-quality, last for about 4 months of heavy gameplay Mad Catz brand) made games on both systems that much easier to play.... I have to admit, Sakura, I lost interest in MK after MK II... there were no major innovations to the game, although MK: DA looks like a game that could seriously revive my interest. Oh I knew about the SF communities back in their infancy, at least in the Orlando area... they really started coming out when SSF2t hit the market... I think my ex-roomie was one of the first in the area to fight Gouki/Akuma and beat him (with freaking Blanka, of all people). By the way, I hardly ever was one who went to the arcades for competition, though I had no qualms about wiping the floor with anyone who would just interrupt my game without asking, unless he was better than I was, and not many were. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Sakura Report post Posted April 12, 2003 Yeah, the same thing is true with SC2. And Tekken. To continue the links...there is Tekkenzaibatsu.com, pretty much THE Tekken community. Like I said earlier, as far as high level and tournament play goes it's never been more organized. People from KOREA travel to play in tournaments here! It's just not like the MK II days were EVERY arcade had a cabinet and a ton of players. I guess you could say it's more underground and hardcore. Too many people mash buttons as Eddy and think their masters or can do Honda's hand slap and think they're experts. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Rendclaw 0 Report post Posted April 12, 2003 Yeah, the same thing is true with SC2. And Tekken. To continue the links...there is Tekkenzaibatsu.com, pretty much THE Tekken community. Like I said earlier, as far as high level and tournament play goes it's never been more organized. People from KOREA travel to play in tournaments here! It's just not like the MK II days were EVERY arcade had a cabinet and a ton of players. I guess you could say it's more underground and hardcore. Too many people mash buttons as Eddy and think their masters or can do Honda's hand slap and think they're experts. Oh yeah, I ran across such websites during a search here at work one night.... I couldn;t help but think that if they had such a thing about 12 years ago, the arcade scene would be a little different today. But then again, no one saw the Crash coming, either. Ah, the proliferation of the Internet has changed us all.... some for the good, some for the worse.... And I agree totally with your assessment on players, Sakura-chan... I used to be like that with Chun-Li before I actually started developing strategy.... by that time I had graduated to play Sagat, who is probably the best defensive fighter, even though he had sick power in CE. Capcom balanced him out in SSF II, but I just loved watching people's faces when I would drain about 40% of their life meter with a well-placed Tiger Uppercut, knocking their asses off the machine. A friend of my roommate's is heavily into Tekken, and he plays Eddy exclusively... I saw from the first how cheesy he can be used, though his combos are fun to look at. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest kkktookmybabyaway Report post Posted April 12, 2003 "See, I never play those gimmick games where it costs like a dollar for one game. Fuck that." The only gimmick game I ever played was Afterburner, when you got to sit in that little device and move around. Check that -- I also liked playing in those Daytona games where you sit and drive... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest C.H.U.D. Report post Posted April 12, 2003 I have over 3800 arcade games on my PC I play for free. Long live MAME! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest TheArchiteck Report post Posted April 13, 2003 Well its only 2 that I seldom visit...and thats like when i'm with a nice size group.... Daves & Buster and the Butterfly. People in Michigan might have been to the Butterfly. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest CanadianChris Report post Posted April 13, 2003 I have over 3800 arcade games on my PC I play for free. Long live MAME! Yeah, until the day your hard drive crashes. I'm still looking for someone who has a lot of MAME files...I can't find them on the Net anymore. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest areacode212 Report post Posted April 13, 2003 Use IRC or Direct Connect. The ROMs are still out there, just not as widely available on the web. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
