>Work at an arcade.
>Kid gets $50 credits.
>Lots of quality games to choose from Soul Calibur 2, Gunbird, Dodonpachi, Silent Hill Arcade, Initial D, Raiden Fighters Aces, Sega Rally, House of the Dead 1-4 a brand spanking new Wangan Midnight 5 and many more
>Blows it all on Big Bass Wheel
>Big Bass Wheel is a consistent top earner
I have given up.
Do you work at round1 user?
Those ticket based arcades are just child gambling. It's depressing.
Now, lemme just go open some Overwatch, PUBG, CSGO, Siege crates real quick.
>Silent Hill Arcade
What?
Big Bass Wheel looks like a literal slot machine. How is this allowed?
>he doesnt know about this great 2 player shooter
Im sorry user
>he doesn't know
Same way Pachinko is legal in Japan.
If it's dispensing tickets instead of money, it's not gambling.
It's a game of "skill".
Gambling machines are games of "chance".
This makes it "not gambling".
Same reason fucking lootbox shit is allowed, its not REAL GAMBLING*.
i worked at an arcade. i had a pretty good bunch of games. top earners were skiball and basketball games. but tekken tag and mvc2 always made money too
Its not money
>Go to small arcade
>Most of the cabinets are just Mobile Games made into arcade cabinets
At least I got to play Time Crisis for a bit.
but you can use tickets to win items and those items have a cash value tied to their ticket cost.
It's like gambling with store credit, how is this not gambling?
GOOD SPIN
When that kid grows up he's going to spend every evening pouring his paychecks into these things.
Legal definitions. Same reason piracy isn't stealing.
>not getting really good at the game where you stack the boxes up and cashing in
There's enough indirection involved. You can't cash the tickets so I guess that makes it technically OK.
God, I'd kill to have an arcade close to me that had MvC2.
There's no getting good at that.
Those machines are rigged, just like crane games.
>go to dave and busters with gf awhile ago
>trying to win her niece a gift through one of the large ticket machines
>dude bro who does work on the machines there is getting the jackpot literally every single spin
>ask him how
>gives me all of his tickets (5k+) then shows me how to get jackpot on every single machine in the building
wonder what he's up to now
I don't understand how stacker games aren't illegal.
They market it as a "game of skill", but it's entirely up to chance if the machine will even let you win.
The machine has settings that lets it go easy on you 1 in every 80 attempts, but this can easily be set to 100, 500, 1000, etc.
You literally cannot get the last line unless you're playing during one of these rare chances where the machine is letting you play fairly.
Otherwise, one guy could empty the machine out in 5 minutes.
I miss my arcade. Spider Stomp was my fucking jam.
Stacker is the same rigged gambling shit as all of the other machines. You can hit the button with pinpoint accuracy for the last block and you stacking it will depend entirely on whether or not it's set to start actually winning.
If he's working on them then he probably just rigged them to have a high success rate. Usually those things don't spit out shit until a certain amount of money's been dropped.
kids want tickets for prizes so they can leave with a toy
i remember as a kid i was the same
>tfw people have trashed all the SDVX cabs at my local round 1
>none of the staff there actually give a fuck about properly maintaining their rhythm games
>they've just indefinitely closed them down
Not that one where you stop the light, the one where you control the balance board stacking digital boxes.
nah there's a few D&B in my area, went to a couple of them and the same tricks worked 95% of the time
it's pretty simple with the majority of the ticket machines
Well tell me how to get jackpot on something.
So how did he do it?
>>Work at an arcade.
>I have given up.
Clearly
explain the trick
>tfw no arcades around me have Time Crisis 2 or 3 any more, just shitty 4 and 5
they're not profitable enough
What's the trick?
Gotta hook 'em while they're young.
underrated, spbp
DIVULGE THE FEAT
is this really any worse than playing a normal arcade game?
You pay money and get nothing.
>WILD FANG
Posting the superior arcade machine
I felt like a total pleb for playing this a ton, but it's so much fun with a friend.
The best kind of arcades are those ones where you pay a flat fee to get in and play all day, like Galloping Ghost or whatever. No shitty ticket dispenser machines there because there's no point.
it's also free on your phone
Why would you keep dropping a dollar to play it on a larger screen?
you get fun
Two things:
1. You always get something.
2. It can't be used for money laundering, which is literally the ONLY reason gambling has laws against it.
>no arcades in my city
>last arcade I actually saw was when I lived in a different place and it still closed down
>even CiCi's pizza is just claw machines now, they don't even have a pac man machine
i just wanna play some fucking racing games, why is that so hard
if you got an initial D/WMN cab close to where you live you're lucky.
Yeah, those fucking idiots are wasting their playing video games. Can you believe that?
Don't they know you only actually had fun at an arcade if you walk out with a stale piece of candy and a couple of army men?
There was someone doing that a few years back at one of the stores and they ended up getting fired for setting the games up for their friends. The real secret is a lot of the games are set to win only sometimes so you can't game the system, but a few of the wheel games actually let you win the jackpot as many times as you want.
Just play Time Crisis, the ticket games suck.
It's not even frogger...
this was like almost two years ago so any of the specific tricks i don't remember sadly. the only real memory i have is there is a big spinning game on there where there's multipliers and you just have to pull the lever when it hits a certain number and it will every single time land on the highest number. That's how majority of the big games are - pull the lever when it hits a certain area and it'll land in the same place every time. Sorry for the awful info but I don't remember anything, your best bet is to wait to see a young guy playing on a ticket machine during his break and just ask him yourself
if I had an arcade near me with one of these installed, I'd go there every day
Because it's co-op, so you have a buddy playing next to you. Plus you earn tickets
>3mi people city
>only 2 or 3 arcades
>only rhythm game is Taiko
>expensive as fug and the drumsticks are long gone
Breathing is suffering
>arcades HATE him
>go to round one
>buy the game pass and assume it lets me play every game that isn't a ticket game
>only games you can play are decade old racing and shooting games, and street fighter 4
Was kind of salty since they had so much cool shit.
>tfw arcade 10 minutes from me
>shitloads of good games
>Tekken, MvC2, X-men 6 player, TMNT, House of the Dead, and some other Good shit
>dont go for a year
>decide to head back One day out of boredom
>head into back room with the good shit
>it's all gone
>replaced with shitty shooting games and basketball machines
>only game left is Tekken
Fuck Ive never been more pissed in my life.
>There will never be a IIDX cab on your country
Feels bad.
>still supporting the original microtransaction machine
You only like arcades because they were all you had when growing up.
that near same exact same situation happened to me. some guy winning jackpot after jackpot on a football game and then going right to another machine and winning on that. I swiped my card a few times for him and he won me some jackpots and we split the tickets 50/50
what dave and busters were you at user
Fuck off underaged faggot, arcades are the shit and you'll just never understand them.
thnx reddit
>going outside to play games
Point and laugh at this fag
>visiting buds in Seattle early next year
>local arcade has a ton of rhythm games including beatmania, ddr/piu, groove coaster, and a few more completely in Japanese that I couldn't name
I can't fucking wait.
That looks way more fun than shitty old video games
THIS Ugly son of a bitch
Is getting LOTS OF TICKETS
And basically
YOU ARE FUCKING STUPID
can't tell you, he said not to say.
>The only arcade I know with Time Crisis 2 is the bowling alley of my old town which I barely set foot in
>Capital city doesn't have any fucking arcades at all and anything that's gaming related are faggy gayming bars with consoles stappled to the wall or Dota/LoL Warehouses that look like refuge hideouts
I swear to God half the reason I'm going to Japan next year is to play some fucking arcades.
>that one arcade game you were exceptionally skilled at and dominated the highscore chart with
what's her name lads
B8 is not so gr8 m8
You have an unnecessary "the" in your sentence.
It's a mediocre HotD ripoff.
I'm 28, suck my dick. Arcades are the worst nickel-and-diming scheme in vidya history. You're just okay with it because of nostalgia, you good little goy.
>Being this much of a scared bitch
lol, can't handle playing games in the open?
time crisis 2 and 3. my dad and I would crush the co-op scores, and I'd drop in for the solo scores now and then
>I spent 1 grand and all I got was this stupid plastic ring
>my dad and I would crush the co-op scores
I hope I never have kids but if I ever do, I'll fight Heaven and Earth to make this happen.
it lacks a shit ton of chinese electronic garbage bauble and the plastic coins/cards are just white, that's not eyecandy enough for me.
I think all those are cancer.
You're gonna have to try harder than that.
Never saw a ticket machine like that until I went to an American arcade for the first time as a pre-teen. In Mexico our arcades were made up of fighters, metal slug, time crisis/ house of the dead, and racing games with a few of these busted up fuckers around the little kids area.
>mfw I went through 22 opponents in a row on tekken 3
At first I thought arcade gaming was truly dead in London after seeing the trash that was Namco Funscape, but then I went to both Las Vegas Soho and Vega and gained a bit of faith.
Las Vegas Soho has Taiko, Initial D, fighting cabs with multiple games installed, Tekken, Groove Coaster, Out Run 2, light gun shooters, Bishi Bashi, Pump it Up, ITG and Jubeat. Very good arcade, with the only down side being that it's on the gayest street in London.
Meanwhile, VEGA is more of an underground arcade. Literally. It shares the same building as a gambling place that allowed the UK bemani community members to put their cabs down there as well as supporting e amuse. (Not officially of course)
VEGA has DDR 2014, Pop'n Music 23 (I think it's 23 at least, can't remember), Jubeat, Beatmania IIDX, Street Fighter cabs, some retro cabs and I think they had to remove Reflec Beat due to some issue.
Overall though, arcade gaming isn't dead yet in London.
Sega Rally 2
at one point, people started using my initials at a machine i played, since the entire top times list had my scores on it
Sonic The Fighters at Gameworks Las Vegas. Shame Gameworks and that same cab are dead now.
>that cute as fuck doll on the shelf behind the machine
Anyone ever play that game where a bunch of people would sit in front of a big screen and everyone had a separate monitor in front of them and you get to raise a horse and race it against other people and you could get secret retarded shit like a cow and you could save your horse by printing out a ticket?
>mfw my arcade took down the Tekken 3 machine today
18 years of highscores and salt
gone
I have 3 MVC2 machines nearby. And yeah its as great as you think it is.
Oh shit, you just brought my memories flooding back.
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I saw them when I went to Japan, but I never saw any in the UK. I did see something similar, but instead of voting you had to throw balls to get them into holes to change the speed of your horse. The higher up you get the ball, the faster your horse gets to winning.
Why must you do this to me?
HYDRO THUUUUNDERRRRR
Remember me?
I really hope they didn't destroy that cab. Please tell me they sent it back to SEGA, or at least was sold to a collector who takes good care.
Sure we have emulation, the Sonic Gems Collection and HD rerelease. It's just that it would be sad to see a rare cab go.
Cabs are only rare because people throw them out. If everyone saved them, they wouldn't be worth shit.
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