The "What Are You Doing This Moment" Thread
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CiG
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I went to the arcades a few times, we definitely had that here, and I had some friends growing up who were into the whole arcade thing. I was just too dirt poor to ever do any of it lmao.
TechnicalBarbarity
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i love Tekken 3, but T2 and Tag Tournament will always be my fav. Im a Heichachi main and i still go on killer win streaks at the arcades when i play those games. I can easily ebat the CPU on almost any difficulty(and if you know arcades machines, you know they set difficulty is set way higher on them). Best 3D fighting game franchise imo.
I grew up in dark arcades filled cigarette smoke and sluts, lol. Not events but sometimes there would be like 20 of us huddled up around the same machine for hours having our own little tourneys with everyone watching like it was some spectacle. I remember when they first brought in the 2 Mortal Kombat II(one of the best fighting games ever) machines to Pac Man Arcade(the name of our old OG spot), that plays went bonkers.
edit: Ive went to a bunch of events in recent years, but local ones. And i dont wanna brag, but im pretty fucking good.
CiG
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Crusty Demons bruz.
That's awesome! Honestly as much as events can be pretty cool (FGC seems to have gotten less fun and more corporate these days though) I will always prefer just a bunch of people doing their own group games. Some of the best times of my life were times me and my friends did massive LAN events in my buddy's backyard unit we built to fit 12 computers in there, so we could play StarCraft until the early morning, destroying pizza, or cook up meat on the BBQ and shit. Good times.
They were massive nerds though and never got into fighters, but a few of us would do Tekken tournies and my girlfriend at the time usually dominated lmao.
Also I had to go and make this clip into a gif, so good:
Satanstoenail
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Yeah it was definitely huge when I was a kid. I never had enough cash to hang around them for long either.
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My old man used to fix pinballs and tables tops back in the late 70's early 80's. At that point they were so popular in bars, clubs and pool halls that the mob making them had a 24 hour call out to all techs so they could be fixed within the hour of any call. Often the problem was just that the hopper was full and wouldn't take any more coins, so my old man would be heading out at all hours of the night emptying hoppers which had also been emptied before knock off time. The company actually petitioned the government make round 50c piece because the coin mechanism at the time couldn't handle anything but round coins and they wanted to increase the game price from 20c a game, obviously they were successful.
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They weren't allowed to it was all under agreement. The machines were all rented and the venues got a percentage of the hopper, they weren't allowed to open any machine. Every machine had trip wires and hair thin tell tales that the techs had to check before and during emptying and if any were not in place the venue forfeited their cut because they'd tampered with the machine.
CiG
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Just going by memory I'm pretty sure some games were 20 cents, most of the best games were 50 cents though. Then they started jacking the price up, I think the last time I went to an arcade was when I went to see a movie and the arcade was adjoined and it was like a 2 dollar coin to play Time Crisis with the guns. That was maybe 8 years ago at this point.
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Sophii
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I wish Microsoft didnt fuckiny destroy Killer Instinct. That is my favorite retro fighter.
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Just arrived at work. What a weird commute. The bus was nearly empty, the streets are nearly empty, is this is a working day? It's like that Amrucan comic book movie where some dude erases one half of population and it cleans up the city quite nicely.
TechnicalBarbarity
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Out here the arcades where where most of the poor kids who couldn't afford consoles hung out at. They also had a machine or two almost everywhere in the early to mid 90's.
nice. I have Diablo 3 on the PS3, another one of those games i stopped playing because something popped up and i just never got back into. I plan on picking up MK once i'm done playing through the Borderlands games again so maybe we can get some games in.
the original KI was the shit. They had a machine right outside my middle school in some little snack shop and we used to always be on it.
yea the cunts jacked up the prices out here too. The fake "arcades" they have nowadays have machines that charge like a dollar or someshit
CiG
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Stingy fuckers man. Yeah that's true about arcades being a place for poor kids to hang out, I was usually one of the poor kids just spectating, and ever since then I've always just enjoyed watching others play vidya games. I watch my younger brother play all the time.
I've been thinking about buying a machine of my own lately, just for the fun of it.
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A pinball is not worth it these days. They are nearly all propriety parts that only come from the manufacturer, the only techs who really know how to fix them are the techs from the manufacturer and anything from the service call to parts are fucken expensive. My brother in law has a $6500 dust collector in his possession these days because the parts and labour to fix a 5 year old machine are nearly $2500.
For cabinet games there is a couple of mobs in Sydney who really do a good job of full size cabs with licensed software but the hand crafted work and the license doesn't come that cheap. For the average mug the Aldi cabinet that came down to $250 last year are hard to beat, 2 games, the screen, an emulation board, all the controllers and about 2 hours work. But then if one isn't worried about paying licenses for 30 year old games they are all available for download, as is the emulator and you can make your own cab (without the cab graphics) running a standard PC, decent monitor, even go as fas as getting the car seat for racing games and you'd easily come out of it for $500 with a thousand games.
For cabinet games there is a couple of mobs in Sydney who really do a good job of full size cabs with licensed software but the hand crafted work and the license doesn't come that cheap. For the average mug the Aldi cabinet that came down to $250 last year are hard to beat, 2 games, the screen, an emulation board, all the controllers and about 2 hours work. But then if one isn't worried about paying licenses for 30 year old games they are all available for download, as is the emulator and you can make your own cab (without the cab graphics) running a standard PC, decent monitor, even go as fas as getting the car seat for racing games and you'd easily come out of it for $500 with a thousand games.
