>mfw my local arcade finally shut down
>it was $3 to get in and all the games were free play
>many didnt work and everything had graffiti
>everything is loud
>still had fun playing Marvel vs Capcom 2 and 3
Heres a tour video of it from someone with minimal commentary.youtube.com
>go to arcade as a kid
>play metal slug
>never get past 3rd level with 4 quarters
I also hit a small kid once with an air hockey puck that flew off the table. I felt terrible about it and still do.
>go to another city with friends because local arcade shut down
>$10 each to get in and play whatever we want for as long as we want
>everything was fucking broken
>they had CarnEvil but the light guns weren't registering
>metal slug had busted sound, was the loudest thing in the arcade
>was hyped to play the silent hill lightgun game only to find that the screen was shattered and no light guns in sight
>only the NASCAR games and Let's Go Jungle! were playable
>pinball machines had no pinballs
>basket ball machines had busted hoops
>arm wrestling machine was stuck to one side
I'm glad arcades are dying
Looking back arcades were pretty shitty, $1 only gets you 4 plays and that's if your lucky. Some arcades had DDR for $1 a game and if you didn't know how to play, or worse if some guy was jogging the machine, you were shit out of luck.
>they had CarnEvil but the light guns weren't registering
I've never seen a working CarnEvil machine
I miss the times where cybercafés were a thing for gaming, going with childhood friends and playing WC3 together
I was truly happy and I didn't know it
Meant for
>Sup Forums defends arcades but hates micro-transactions
Arcades were literally free to play game centers with pay to win mechanics. More money, more lives.
>he's never 1cc'd
get good, faget
>go to local arcade with a buddy to celebrate him buying his first house
>excited to play all these vintage games
>significant amount of cabinets have defective coin slots and unresponsive buttons
There's a corner of the place where you can report broken machines, but I didn't want to fill out a stack of sheets describing all the various games that screwed me one way or another. I'm just glad the pinball machines were mostly functional
>went into arcade with friends and family
>all around fun
>went behind a machine with enough room for two
>stuck my dick inside some other, came in 2 minutes
>took a piss on the wall
>stole a few toy airplanes and candy when register was left un attended
>watched some girl bouncing in the back seat with a few others and heard her moaning.
>good ol 90s.
You were paying a subscription to use the consoles along with their games more or less
>Playing Time Crisis 2 a little after it came out
>Struggling hard, putting in coin after coin
>Go frustrated
>Teenager comes over, spins the the gun around on player 2, puts in his coin and goes Co-op with me
>Managed to get to see the ending of a Time Crisis game for the first time
>He clicks his fingers and walks off while I stared at the end screen.
As a child, you didn't recognize yourself from the future.
As a man, you didn't recognize yourself in the past.
>As a man
Kek
>arcade cabinets
>literally free to play
Not unless your dad owned an arcade and decided to turn free play on for you after hours or you were that rich faggot who had his own personal machine (AKA, literally no child who has ever existed)
went to a chuckie cheese recently. birthday party from a coworker and everyone they knew. seen the coworkers tits once and saw her get finger fucked. stayed for the beer and pizza and got her tipsy. started to rub my leg and fuck around while all the little shits were playing games. she asked for a cig and took me to her car for a light. fucked her with her pants down for like 2 minutes and nutted on the seat. came back with death stares from her friends because im clearly not of her race and short, and would rather think of me as a gay because thats the word on the street. they tried to cock block me a shit ton and got mad when i just got the opportuntiy because they were busy looking out for the shitheads demanding more tokens. i had a face of catching a canary the whole time after that.
Arcades are still pretty popular in poland
Why are you so fucking stupid?
>i'm a degenerate in a minimum wage job
cool, but this is Sup Forums, and nobody cares.
>go to arcade in Mexico
>there's some cabinet hacked with timed Mario 64 and GTA games
>there's cabinets with MAME emulators for all the KoF and Capcom fighters
>bunch of /fa/ fuccbois showing off in the DDR machines
>bunch of neckbeards in the keyboard DDR machines
I'm too stingy to go there since I can play almost all of those games for free... the DDR machines are a god-tier workout though.
But I'm glad that some people still enjoy these places.