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| pcates:
--- Quote from: Kremmit on July 17, 2006, 12:29:34 am ---Scrolling shooters, scrolling fighters, and platformers are just plain dull when you can walk up to them and know you're going to play through to the end in exactly 24 minutes, no matter how bad you suck. It's not gameplay anymore, it's just going through the motions. The whole challenge in those kinds of games is in trying to get good enough to play farther than you ever did before, until one day you're finally good enough to reach the end. --- End quote --- Your right... The kids enjoy it, mostly because they are under 10, and like being able to beat something. One of the games, I think either spiderman or the avengers tells you how many credits it took to finish the game. 4 kids spent the equivalent of $75 each to finish. :o So... No skill involved, only cash and time.... The plus side though, I can put a group of kids down there and not see or hear the for more than an hour ;) |
| leapinlew:
--- Quote from: pcates on July 17, 2006, 10:29:30 am ---So... No skill involved, only cash and time.... --- End quote --- I believe that summaries a lot of the newer arcade games. Quarter gobblers. |
| arcadepcnut:
--- Quote from: MaximRecoil on July 17, 2006, 03:43:58 am ---If you had never seen a real arcade machine in your life, would you have come up with the idea to build one? Since people who build these machines are obviously doing so because they enjoyed playing these machines in the past, and not because they thought of something that no one else has thought of; there is an obvious template to go by; and that template is a real coin-op arcade machine which includes a coin mechanism whose use is required to start the game. --- End quote --- I hate to say this but you have made a really good point. I am adding a coin door to my xbox breaktime driving cab just to make it look more authentic. So I see where you are coming for taking it a step farther. however someone said games with infinite continues you wont play as long or require less skills or after beating it you wont play it anymore i think are mistaken. I play golden axe and altered beast a ton still to this day. After school me and a friend would play golden axe every day. He had about $2-3 even day but for me I like most people had only a dollar and he let me continue on his money. We got where whe could beat the game on .75 cents. Today I cant beat the game on less than $5 in credits. I mentally remember how much money the last time I played it that it costs. I dont just sitt there and first starting out put in 99 credits. I hit the button a few times to get started and then hit the button when needed to insert another imaginary quarter. So its not like what you guys are thinking. Fighting games is nice to go ahead when friends are over and insert a bunch of credits so when you beat them or they beat you the next player selects a character and goes at it....so you dont have the problem when the winnering player is fighting the computer because someone didnt get a quarter/token in time. It looks like there is 50% bonus one way and 50% another...guess it depends on your style of play. the thread title made me have to come here and see why was the reasons I just had to convert to tokens. I thought I might be missing something. Kinda like why you have to have a marquee or something. I understand. You dont have to have it....but it just looks nicer and make it look like what its supposed to. I have working coin doors and mechs. I may just hook them up on one machine and try it. I'll still leave the coin returns as credit buttons. I'll get back to thread with more opinions once I have actually TRIED it. thanks. |
| Dreamwriter:
One interesting sidenote to all this is me and a friend discovered an arcade game with limited continues - when using quarters! Snow Bros. 2 stops letting you continue after a certain amount of credits |
| shardian:
--- Quote from: Dreamwriter on July 17, 2006, 01:54:58 pm ---One interesting sidenote to all this is me and a friend discovered an arcade game with limited continues - when using quarters! Snow Bros. 2 stops letting you continue after a certain amount of credits --- End quote --- Contra is the same way... |
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