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KenToad:


--- Quote from: SirPoonga on June 13, 2005, 02:29:40 pm ---you ean accurate as in having leaf buttons for games that used leaf versus micros for ones that had micros.

I don't think people will have both on.  The people who put leafs on are the ones that want their childhood experience and remember a couple of specific games they liked that had leafs.

Example, I prefer micros because I remember the clicks from when I was a kid.

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I agree, SirPoonga.  I don't really remember the leaf switches.  I think I was too young to care.  Now that clicky SFII ... like a symphony to me before I admitted liking classical music.

My friends have no trouble taking the world records in Track and Field without the revered leaf switches ... no cheating, although one of my friends is a certified massage therapist and uses this "chop" technique until his hands hurt. 

Cheers,
KenToad

BSR:

For me, the arcade experience is the most important thing but that includes more than blinking and ambient light.
I think you need to define what et cetera actually is. For me, it would include look, feel and sound. This in of itself would include accurate controls.

Authenticity for me would also mean not having keyboard drawers, external speakers, or a 14 inch PC monitor mounted inside a huge cabinet with controls for every game imaginable.

ChadTower:

It's not a real arcade experience from my youth until a greasy dropout tries to sell me pot, pills, firecrackers, or ninja stars.

KenToad:


--- Quote from: BSR on June 13, 2005, 02:38:01 pm ---For me, the arcade experience is the most important thing but that includes more than blinking and ambient light.
I think you need to define what et cetera actually is. For me, it would include look, feel and sound. This in of itself would include accurate controls.

Authenticity for me would also mean not having keyboard drawers, external speakers, or a 14 inch PC monitor mounted inside a huge cabinet with controls for every game imaginable.

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What if those external things were hidden?  Arcade ambience is anything relating to the arcade as you remember the thing embodied.  I don't mean to cover all the bases.  Everybody has their own memories of what arcade means.  We had several here in town and most were quite different, i.e. bowling alley, candy store, pool hall, magazine/newspaper shop where you could pause for a moment in front of the stag/t.tty magazines and maybe get yelled at and of course the dedicated arcade with stained rug, tokens, etc.  Now, we have all those except the dedicated arcade, but they are not visited too frequently, at least not for the games. 

For me, just hearing the elephants in SFII is ambient and nostalgic, but for the purposes of this thread I boiled it down to: do I want to buy seperate and/or many original controls to play my favorite games or just one or two that satisfy my need to play these games and play them well.  That's really what I mean by accurate control vs. original or "real." 

I must go now.  Keep voting folks and post confusion if you have it.  Thanks to all who voted so far.

Cheers,
KenToad 

KenToad:


--- Quote from: ChadTower on June 13, 2005, 02:41:27 pm ---It's not a real arcade experience from my youth until a greasy dropout tries to sell me pot, pills, firecrackers, or ninja stars.

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Firecrackers and Ninja Stars, yes!!!!  I remember buying firecrackers on the street in Chinatown, NYC and a friend sold me a car antannae for fifty cents that he said was a Ninja weapon, since you could make it extend and poke someone in the eye.  My mom made me get my money back from that kid's grandparents, and then I had to apologize for sneaking into their house.  His little sister told on us.  They were a deranged family. 

See what you've made me remember, Chad. ;)

Cheers,
KenToad

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