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What ruined the "arcade generation"?
Gunstar Hero:
The issue isn't I'm an arcade stud. It's that older games game you better bang for the buck (or quarter) if you dig it.
And of course it was after much practice... Ghouls is a HARD game, 1943... not so hard... if you use the right weapons. :)
On new games tho, drop in your buck and don't know how to play? 30 seconds. Maybe. :-\
RayB:
How many quarters did you spend to get up to the point of playing a whole game on 1 quarter?
Sephroth57:
yeah your point doesnt really prove anything gunstar, ghouls and ghosts is probably the worst example because most people cant play it for more then 1 1/2 minutes without needed a continue. the new star wars arcade game, which is/was 1$, is the same thing, i can now beat the entire game on 2 credits, it used to take me 2 credits to beat 1 area..
FractalWalk:
--- Quote from: RayB on March 01, 2005, 04:16:35 pm ---How many quarters did you spend to get up to the point of playing a whole game on 1 quarter?
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I agree with Gunstar. For me, the learning curve on older games was not as steep as newer games which were designed for buying extra lives.
Gunstar Hero:
No. it's the PERFECT example.
I can be a DDR MASTER and get as much playtime out of one credit as possible. 3 songs, 1.5 minutes per song, 2 minutes in the menus and high score screens. My dollar bought me 8.5 minutes of play. If I'm a noob? I get the first song as a gimmie on most machines (no fail first stage), bite it on the second. 2 minutes. For a buck!! On Ghouls, sure you'll get your ass kicked at the beginning. But as you get better, you get to keep playing. If you beat the game it's about 40 minutes of playtime, but if you work the system (get to Lucifer without the Magic Weapon) it sends you back and you can keep going! With Ghouls mastery if you want you can play FOREVER. 25 cents.
And thats how games were. Defender. Pac-man. Dig Dug. Galaga. 1942/3/1/X. There was no "maximum" playtime, unless you count eventually crashing the machine, something I've never seen done, but you were repaid for your efforts with getting to keep playing! That's why vs. fighting games were SO awesome... the possibility of almost endless playtime if you got a hot streak. But the arcade makers screwed themselves out of that. 3 and out is BS. That's how I see it. I still go to the arcades sometimes to play a game like Ghost Squad or Silent Scope or god willing find a nice pinball machine. But when I get repaid for mastery for 8 minutes of play for a buck? Screw that.