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Vigo:

--- Quote from: CheffoJeffo on April 29, 2011, 06:35:07 am ---
--- Quote from: Vigo on April 28, 2011, 03:28:32 pm ---I really don't think that SF2 should be under the gun at all, weren't ops always looking for the next big thing? Love em or hate em, SF2 ushered an era of the arcade. SF2 should be considered nothing other than a beacon of what a good arcade game in the 90's is.

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Of course they were looking -- the point is that, after SF2, they stopped looking and blindly bought because SF2 was such a wild success.

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Well, I don't think SF2 came with a stupidity circuit that make the owners want to buy any old dumb game...it was more that there were a ton of dumb choices out there after SF2.

Nonetheless, I think we are both agreeing that SF2 isn't the problem, it is more that there wasn't the same climate at the time to revive the industry, so it tried to revive itself in the wrong direction. Big specialty machines, redemption junk, and a lack of genre diversity.

brad808:

--- Quote from: Thenasty on April 28, 2011, 03:32:42 pm ---"Insert Coin to CONTINUE .... " that killed the Arcade for me.

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This actually kills a lot of games for me in mame as well. I try to disable continues as much as possible to keep these games fun for me. I cant find anything fun about a game that you cant lose at. The exception to this being games like ghouls n ghosts where you can continue but you start at the begining of the level again not just where you died.

Dude111:
When they started ading these newer trash games (Fighting,etc) and removing the GOOD GAMES from the 80s is when it was ruined for me!!

What happend to the good days we remember??

Mikezilla:
I love that he is hostile, cause I totally agree with him, it saves me the time of typing my posts out as well. Its all an age thing. Aside from pac-man and MAYBE Galaga, if I have my older cousins over, everyone wants to play the games that Donk listed: TMNT, the Street Fighters, the Marvel vs, Simpsons, MK's etc.

I trip out sometimes because I have never even played some of the games you guys have mentioned. Centipede of course, but moon patrol? Im also going to get ostracized(sp) for this, but, I fired up Donkey Kong on the cab last night, and you know what? It was boring. I barely got past the first level and was bored with it. Same with pac-man, or all the other games where the only point is the high score. I understand why most of you like them, but its just not the case for me. Its like I want to like em because they are classic, but man. Some of those obscure games are just not fun to play to me. 

scofthe7seas:

--- Quote from: CheffoJeffo on April 29, 2011, 07:00:03 am ---
--- Quote from: scofthe7seas on April 28, 2011, 06:42:11 pm ---
--- Quote from: TOK on April 28, 2011, 06:28:17 pm ---I could name 50 more great early 80's games no problem.

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I call shenanigans.

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Read Van Burnham's Supercade and you will see the folly of your claim of shenanigans.

There were tons of fun and unique games in the golden age.

 :afro:

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I wasn't disagreeing with the fact that there may (or may not) be 50 more early 80s arcade classics, so much as I was calling him out on not being able to name 50 more. :D (at least not without looking them up)

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