Great Arcade Collection

[gamer1942]

For those of you who live in Broward county Fl there are at least 50 arcade machine+some pinball games in the Sunrise Swap Shop.Sorry if it have been posted before.

[dgame]

Wrote this on 4/21/2008 about that Arcade, never posted it.

So I went into an actual arcade on Saturday . . .

The times certainly have changed. There were bunch of sit-down racing things, a lot of gun shooters, and a few fighter cabinets. The only thing remotely vintage is the Donkey Kong/Mario Brothers combo cab.

Like someone mentioned in another thread I also find my self examining these machines as if I were about to buy them instead of even playing them. Mind you most of them had sloppy sticks and sticky buttons. The control panels were even loose on some cabinets so I could peek inside.

99% of the buttons are old-school concave. Most of the joysticks are either round or octagonal restricted (Capcom fighters), with only a few squares (Tekken, I think). I never noticed this before and this is probably why I like my octagonal U360 in SF2 so much.