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What ruined the "arcade generation"?
danny_galaga:
yes, it's always a pleasant surprise to find an old (or old stly re-release) cab in a shop. i had a quick look around Jamestown when i was in merica last. i bought some lunch in a little sandwich shop and there was Pacman! unfortunately i was never good at pacman, so even though it was still set on quarters a buck didnt last very long. but still ;D
oh, and my local fish and chip shop has raiden and metal slug, but theyve just changed the raiden board to raiden fighters. i might have to enquire after the vendor and see if they want to get rid of that raiden PCB...
SOAPboy:
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paigeoliver:
--- Quote from: danny_galaga on February 28, 2005, 03:18:46 am ---
oh, and my local fish and chip shop has raiden and metal slug, but theyve just changed the raiden board to raiden fighters. i might have to enquire after the vendor and see if they want to get rid of that raiden PCB...
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They likely just swapped the board to another location (probably wherever the Raiden Fighters board came from).
elvis:
I stopped visiting arcades when games became $1 a credit (the $1 coin was introduced here in Australia in '84), and arcade owners put each machine on the hardest difficulty they could. We had $2 coins introduced in '88, and low and behold the moment they came out, $2-per-three credits became the fashion. Not too bad, until the inevitable happened and $2 a credit was the norm.
I snagged a JAMMA board the other day, and out of curiosity checked the play stats on the board. Longest game recorded? 151 seconds. Yep, less than 2 minutes. And there where well over 1000 plays on this thing.
I remember when 20c lasted me a good 20 minutes.
I guess you could argue the reverse: that prices and difficultie settings went up, only because profits were low. But still, when arcades where fun, I played them. When they became a rip job to con me into pumping multiple dollars per play into them, I left the arcades for good. It was only AFTER I couldn't afford to blow my spare change on arcades that I decided to get into consoles. After all, a $100 console was 50 goes on a $2 machine, if you thought about it logically.
Paul Olson:
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This is the biggest reason for me, too. It just is not an entertainment value anymore. I don't think any of the new machines let you get more than 3 minutes of play time. I go to arcades once in a while, but I try to find older machines. I need to go out scouting one of these days to find some good games. I am in Reno, and most casinos have arcades, so I should be able to find a few mixed in with all the crappy redemption games.
Paul