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| Havok:
--- Quote from: manman on May 26, 2010, 10:44:48 pm ---someone before said that virtually every public venue had arcade games back in the golden era- how many different kinds of places did you actually find a lot of games? I probably started playing arcade games around 86 or so where I mostly found them in pizza places and movie theaters until I actually found arcades. I never saw many girls though, wish we could have kept THAT trend around :cheers: --- End quote --- That was me - and yes, they were everywhere! Every hotel would have them, in addition to the places already mentioned, and of course every bar. In fact back in the late 70's and early 80's I used to go on Saturday with my Dad to his work (he owned his own business) and I would go across the street and play the arcade games at the bar. They had four plus a pin. They always chuckled when I came in at around noon and asked for quarters to play the games. My Dad would give me money to spend some time there. That's where I played Space Invaders when it was first released and me and my Dad also played Missile Command together when he was done for the day. I got to the point where a five would last me a few hours. |
| RayB:
*EVERY WHERE* Every convenience store, even the small dingy ones had 1 or 2 machines in them. Restaurants, bowling alleys, ice rinks, hockey arenas, movie theatres, malls, department stores (usually by an entrance), gas stations, ... basically anywhere that today you might find either a vending machine or "Stacker" prize machine, back in the day there'd be a video game or two. This was especially true when PacMan was big as everybody who owned a business heard these machines could "print money". |
| ahofle:
--- Quote from: Patent Doc on May 25, 2010, 01:13:32 pm ---I think what killed the arcade experience for me was the fighting games...no not because it was putting money in to continue ...it was that the learning curve to play the game even competently was so high. So you kept feeding quarters into the machine just to learn to play. Golden age games had a minimal learning curve Take pac man, you move up, down, left, right ..eat the pellets...avoid teh ghosts. The person doing this is just as equipped to finish the game as the person who had done it before. By contrast with the MK SF games ...there were all these pecial moves that required you to simultaneously press up and left press three buttons, stick out your tongue and put your left big toe in your right ear...you need these moves to survive even a short time and there is no instruction on unlocking those moves. Yes, to be really good at a golden age game, you needed to learn a pattern or gain experience, but there was no requireement to learn anything to play the game. Heck you can get really far on pac man or DK without knowing any patterns..you're just not going to break the record. --- End quote --- This is a very astute observation. I always disliked that about fighters as well. You basically had to put in your time to learn the special moves/combos. Before the innerwebs and search engines, that equated to lots of quarters. To me, that was the element of those games that was completely skill-lacking. And without them, you would be ripped to shreds in 1v1 play. It's similar to why I don't care for MORPGs. The people who spend 12 hours a day get better 'stuff' than you, making it more of a test of patience than skill. On a side note, I find it interesting that the mid to late eighties has such a large number of (silent) followers, almost as many as the 90s! I always thought the games of that era were heavily underrated simply because of the 'crash'. I don't recall enjoy those games any less than during the golden age. Some of my favorite arcade games are from that era, particularly the Atari System 1 and 2 games. Marble Madness, 720, APB, Paperboy, etc -- such creativity and originality in some of those games. |
| TOK:
--- Quote from: Havok on May 26, 2010, 10:18:48 pm ---Don't mind TOK - he just likes to post so he can have a higher post count... --- End quote --- Uh, I've been here longer than you and have 900 less posts. Just sayin'. The back and forth over this just wore me down. Should have just ignored it. Sorry. |
| Havok:
--- Quote from: TOK on May 27, 2010, 05:40:20 am --- --- Quote from: Havok on May 26, 2010, 10:18:48 pm ---Don't mind TOK - he just likes to post so he can have a higher post count... --- End quote --- Uh, I've been here longer than you and have 900 less posts. Just sayin'. --- End quote --- You've been here a whopping 6 days longer than me. Is that really enough to brag on how you've been here longer than me? Anyways, I was just kidding around with you - don't read into it. Post whore. ;D |
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