To any older anons who grew up when arcades were still popular...

To any older anons who grew up when arcades were still popular, or to those who live in Japan lol there's a question that's always been on my mind.
I've had these autistic fantasized from time to time where I'm in a crowded arcade, and notice tons of kids surrounding one machine. I manage to get a glimpse and see two guys in a heated match in some fighting game. They're neck and neck where one slip up would crown the victor. Eventually someone wins, and instead of acting cocky or upset these two strangers high five each other and say what a great game it was. I see this genuine maturity and strive to one day be one of those kids.
Does this ever happen? Is it just one big American movie trope?

In my time in arcades I not once met the equivalent of a "lmao gg ez git gud faggot" nerd. People would crowd around and watch them fight and then they would fight each other again or the kids would switch off.

At the time it was just a way to get away from home or school and hang out with kids, meanwhile today those "ggez" nerds use the vidya to escape life.

I'm eurocuck but i will anwser

I only saw good vives like you describe in arcades during the 80s
Late 80s and 90s arcades here were filled with gypsies trying to steal your coat or a few coins when you were playing and everything went to shit, hell, I even remember the local dealer selling heroine there.

People that played fighting games were the worst people at arcades, most people tried to avoid them entirely, and god forbid you were having a friendly match with a friend on one of the cabs when they came in.

what the fuck is the story behind this picture

Penis inspection day at work in Minnesota USA.

>he never had popcorn with watermelon

some older kids gathered round to watch me complete the double dragon coin-op in an arcade in the late 80's. felt like a god.

>Does this ever happen?
i had a really cool arcade. if some "pro" guy would start hogging the machine (and lets be honest there was always one of these guys) the owner would kick him off and let other people play. there were always crowds of kids with 5 bucks in quarters who wanted to play MK. people just wanted to have fun and marvel at stuff like mortal kombat fatalities, unlocking hidden characters, doing cool combos, and seeing all the special moves. nobody cared who won it was all about fun and just seeing people doing cool stuff, there was no competitive aspect, it was more "how do you rip the guys head off?" but there was always that one guy who would literally shake the entire cabinet and throw his whole body into trying to throw fireball and just jerk the fuck out of the stick and mash the buttons.

As an old fag I'll tell you what the NYC scene was like in the Chinatown Fair which is where Justin Wong used to play when he was younger.

>be me
>playing X-men vs Street Fighter
>fighting some Latino kid
>normal fight
>I keep throwing him as per my usual strategy
>he gets visibly upset
>match ends and I win
>"You play like a cheap fuck and you didn't offer me throwbacks you cheating fucking"*
>"Huh what.....cheating what.....?"
>Latino dude pulls a switch blade on me and asks if I want to play Street Fighter for real and that he will be outside with his buddies waiting for me.
>Look outside and there are 20 Latino thugs all waiting for me.
>Owner calls 9/11 and police have to escort me to a cab otherwise I would have died

another

>be me
>playing SF 2 Turbo at laundry matt
>beating a different Latino kid
>he goes outside returns with a friend
>friend fucking with my buttons and controls as I play
>push him away, he gets mad and steals my hat and runs away
>have to abandon game and chase him
>he outruns me and I lost my hat

another

>be at local comic shop
>playing a black dude
>beat him over and over
>he awkwardly stands behind me and watches me play story mode
>at some point bumps into me and runs out
>Yup he stole my wallet

Blacks and Latinos ruined arcades. The only times I high fived someone was fellow whites and this one Chinese kid I knew who was cool and tried to help everyone get better at vs games.


*Throwbacks were a thing where when you throw someone you had to let them throw you back because for some reason minorities really got mad when you threw them.

It's a /ck/ meet up, iirc.

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Actual New Yorker here. This doesn't happen

I lived right by a roller rink with a ton of cabs as a kid. It wasn't a dedicated arcade, but I'd go and waste hours playing fighting games. There were a few cocky kids and rivalries but nothing terrible. Usually everyone was just eager to play and learn new 'tricks' with characters. I even buried the hatchet with a couple bullies by playing and giving them tips in SF2.

As an adult I've attended tournies for random games. Most of the time the players were great. Went to a third strike tourney a while back and every single person there was cool as hell. Fist bumps before matches, handshakes after and people complimenting good plays etc. even during losses.

I saw a guy playing House of the Dead with both light guns at the same time. Looked pretty cool.

>>be me
Who else would you be?

It doesn't happen now because we don't have arcades anymore but in the early 90's it absolutely did. Chinatown Fair was like real life Mos Eisley a lot of weird people from weird cultures and if you say or do something stupid you get beat up.

t. Latino

>minorities
I'm assuming you mean Hispanics and black people.

I grew up in the golden era of arcades and, thankfully, the arcades I went to had no black or Hispanic people in them. The Asians didn't do any of the typically thuggish things that get black and Hispanic people typically do all their lives, which inevitably results in them being "overrepresented" in the U.S. prison system.

In general, when playing against another person at a fighting game, the loser quietly went to the back of the line to wait another turn.

Sounds to me like you just got bullied, white boi.

Yeah this happened a lot, but coop games were more popular on arcades, what you are describing happened more on PSX. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles attracted tons of people around the machine, especially when you had a team of 4 players. Seeing a close match in Tekken 3 with 20 people around was a common occurence but the thing is, no matter what you played, people stopped by, watched a bit and commented on something. We didn't have internet back then, so the only way to find out about video games were magazines or other people so we talked a lot and had tournaments often. I was the "raining champion" of Duke Nukem Time to Kill.

It was amazing, but so were the years from 1999 to 2009, games like World of Warcraft changed the world back then. I still have Duke Nukem Forever poster from 1998 somewhere.

Thats exactly what happened and none of them were direct confrontations all sneaky shit.

saw some dude literally pull the steering wheel off the front of the chase hq machine. i wanted to play that next.

I can confirm minorities ruined arcades. Latinos and blacks always took fighting games seriously and got mad when they lost. They also like to talk a lot over your shoulders.

I belive you. Here in Brazil we used to have fun times in arcades until poor fags would try to stir up shit and rob people

Ah, arcades. The original microtransaction jews.

Fighting games were where all the hype was
You would get some mild shit talk unless they were the little wannabe asian gangbangers, then they wouldn't shut the fuck up
Couldn't fight them unless you wanted to fight 72 motherfuckers in the arcade tho

>huge machines you couldn't have at home or tech that was way better than consoles back then is the same as horse armor

Alright, kid.

not really. you were paying in order to get a gaming experience of a quality that was only available in that one place. there was nothing even approaching that level of graphical fidelity available for home use.

it was more like there was always someone much better than you and you would be putting coins in it like crazy if you wanted to keep playing

then some new game would arrive and the older game would be always free, so you could play longer against the machine

I went to NYC arcades when I was a kid but none of them were the grimy hoodrat hangouts fgcfags always talk about

which ones did you go to?

I know this feel
>be obsessed with vs games
>especially x men v street fighter
>can beat 99% of the guys there
>the one guy that plays as sabertooth well pushes my shit in nearly every time

feels bad man

Are you American? In America we normally celebrate watermelon Wednesday. We fill our offices with hay, to sit around on, and eat catered watermelon.

The closes I ever experienced to that was a large group of Asian teenagers all gathered around the DDR machine.

the latino kid that keeps trying to stab everyone for winning against him, obviously.

so new it hurts

>Throwbacks were a thing where when you throw someone you had to let them throw you back
How does this make any sense whatsoever?
Why would you ever throw with that rule in place? Who even comes up with that shit?

did he have a headband and a sleeveless denim waistcoat?

Man look at them hungry dads

>the typically thuggish things that get black and Hispanic people typically do all their lives
Donald Trump posts on Sup Forums?

Outsider newfag most likely. A lot of them start stuff with that.

It sounds strange in retrospect but almost every arcade in Queens NY had this stupid rule and sometimes in was observed in the fair. Minorities really hated throwing and saw it as cheap and dishonorable. I mean throws in xmen vs sf were sorta broken I will say this and easily exploited to kill a guy fast but it was in game and legit.

damn dude how did you get a pic from Sup Forums irl meetup 2017?

Except for the third Wednesday of January of course, for that day is sacred.

Shhhh. They already talk about us enough.

Interesting. I can't remember which podcast, maybe old Dr. Sub Zero, but I remember a guest or someone on there talking about how in their city shit would get started from people grabbing too much in games.

>shoop da whoop thread in 2018

good players would regularly give the other player "seconds" in fighting games. They would let the other player have the second round to make it a closer and more exciting game.

Mental gymnastics.
You're only defending it because you liked it.

fucking orthodox weirdos.

No, just a person who's calling it as he sees it. There were no blacks and Hispanics at the arcade I visited and there were never any fights or threats of fights. My arcade experience was entirely safe and I never had any problems despite not looking like a person you wouldn't want to fuck with.

The only black person incident I saw was actually kind of funny. The arcade was very close to the university I was attending and this was when Fighting Street (the first Street Fight game) just came out. The game was the model with the two big rubber pads instead of six buttons. The harder you pressed/punched the pads, the harder the punch in the game.

A black person once was in the arcade and I can only assume he was a member of the football team. He was very tall, maybe 6'4" or taller and was built like a linebacker. He decided to play Fighting Street and I and a bunch of other people gathered around to watch him play.

No one really knew how to play the game and we all truly believed that a particularly strong person who could pound the pads harder would do better in the game. Well, the football player really pounded the machine and you could hear the noise on the other side of the arcade. I think the machine pretty much jumped every time he hit one of the pad.

Anyhow, football player didn't do any better than most other players and left shortly afterwards. Everybody watching wondered how long the game would last with the kind of beating it took from even regular people never mind quasi professional athletes. About two or three weeks later when I visited the arcade again, the rubber pads, which initially protruded about two inches from the surface of the cabinet, were slightly sunken into the cabinet. :)

Nope. Have fun being wrong though.

i saw nothing but sportsmanship at the arcades when i lived in japan. no high fives but a lot of handshakes.

Wait do yuropoors really not know about watermelon wednesday...? God, how sad!

Damn thats a better story than my black person story. I was playing Street Fighter EX against one using cheap D Dark tactics and he stopped mid game and punched me. Knock me right the fuck out for like 20 seconds. He never came back so we couldn't tag him.

the irony. ">be me" is 2010-tier newfaggotry

I can't imagine how those monkeys would have behaved had they been playing the original Street Fighter II which had some very interesting bugs that made some players invincible.

Some of the infinite dizzy attacks were bad but the most egregious one of all was the Guile handcuffs trick where the person playing Guile could in a sense control the opposing player.

Spiked watermelon Wednesday is the best.

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Same way in America. Pretty much everyone I've ever seen was polite. Except there was once a group of hicks, that had no place in there, going around begging people for coins.

>my wh*Te ass still hurts all these years later
lmao get over it fag

Wuz a matter white boi you afraid of the big black dick?

Which of these men deserves a handjob the most?

As far as the fighting game scene goes, basically only happens in Japan or in super small communities that FGC shits on like the ARMS community. Doesn't help that most American fighting game players are ghetto as hell

>that one dad with his hands in his pockets
Jesus christ man what the fuck are you doing

You're probably too young to have experienced it. Back in the 1980s when arcades were really big, the games on the arcade games were far, far better than anything anyone who wasn't super rich (tens of millions of dollars or more of 1980s money) had at home.

Most personal computers had crappy CGA graphics (320 x 200 resolution with 4 colors) and no sound cards. Even if you had a sound card, it was stuff like the AdLib card which only had an FM synthesizer and no PCM channels.

It wasn't until the Sega Genesis and Super NES that home games got even close to what was in the arcades and even then, the arcade games were still noticeably better. Daytona USA could never be done on the 16-bit consoles with any degree of fidelity.