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The Death of Arcades
TOK:
The people in this video touched on a point with the Final Fight comments, but completely failed to cite something much more important. When Street Fighter 2 Turbo came out for the SNES, it was one of the biggest hyped releases and most expensive games of all time. I remember being in Electronics Boutique and the pre-order price was $75.
Mortal Kombat wasn't more expensive than regular titles, but it was a huge release on both the Genesis and SNES.
They don't even seem to know enough about the subject to touch on the arcade game/console overlap, let alone on arcade games themselves. They talk in stereotypes, too, which is ironic, since thats mostly what they are... Wild Tattoo Girl, Nerdy Sweater Man, and Big Sideburn Guy. The slightly older looking scruffy dude seemed to be the only one who might have a clue.
SavannahLion:
--- Quote from: Malenko on August 15, 2007, 12:24:34 pm ---I don't really understand the attack on the Neo Geo though, the games were arcade perfect, the ROM data was exactly the same! The price point is what killed it, not the games. If you bought a Neo Geo , you went in knowing that 90% of the games were fighters.... I own 2 NeoGeos.
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Please tell me you're not an NGF fan. :(
I was thinking about their comparison between Arcades and the console ports. Did these people actually play any of the console versions and arcade versions? They say the ports are "exact" right?
I remember the exactness of console ports was always a sticking point between pro-console and pro-arcade gamers. The desirability of owning the NeoGeo was precisely for this reason. Even way back then, many of us were torn between buying a NeoGeo or a car (most of us went for the car. The possibility of sex is a damned good motivator).
RayB:
Randy: You really nailed it with the "first time you saw a car" analogy. I can't quite remember the exact first time I saw a video game, but I remember one of them being when we were on familiy vacation and stopped off at a little fast food joint in the New Hampshire mountains to eat. They had a Berzerk and a SpiderMan pinball. Berzerk TALKED man! The feeling I had as a kid, seeing this big standing "monolith" was that it was "computer technology", and for a quarter, *I* could be allowed to interact with this technology. To a kid like me, who had not yet seen or played a home video game, this was just AWESOME!
Green Giant:
The first time you saw a car analogy doesn't really hold water as an age determination.
I am 23, and I can still remember the first time I went into an arcade. It was amazing to me. I ran away from my parents, and after they found me, they had to force me to leave. Its not like in the 80's they were so common that by the time you turned 3 they were no big deal. I can remember the crowds of people waiting to play dragon's lair.
I had no access to computers or video game consoles before I played my first arcade, so the shock and awe carried through to my generation. I remember visiting my dad's rich friend who owned 3 arcade games and a pinball. Ever since then I wanted my own too, and now I have fulfilled that dream.
RandyT:
--- Quote from: Green Giant on August 15, 2007, 03:33:48 pm ---The first time you saw a car analogy doesn't really hold water as an age determination.
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Everyone had their own "awakening moment" to every technology, be it cars, TV, microwave ovens or video games. However, the thing that changes that moment is the knowing, by experiencing it, what life and society was like before any of those things existed. This allows one to see how the world changed to accommodate, even in the possibly negative ways, such as kids not getting as much exercise and fresh air as they should and the greater dependency on the TV and the machines that some said "possessed their souls" :)
RandyT