What is the appeal of arcades in this day and age?

This picture makes me want to hug the lil zoom. I bet most of us have those kind of days and similar yearning for affection. Kind of sad that the wallet must replace his dad's attention.

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In the west all the games are oversized smartphone games and IF YOU'RE LUCKY there's maybe 1 light gun or racing game.

In Japan you have 5 story arcade buildings where every floor is host to a different game genre. Food and beverages are available, every machine new and old is kept in immaculate condition, and you can game 24/7 under the watchful surveillance on Yakuza in suits who maintain order and respect for the cabinets.

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eh, first floor is always crane games, there's always a floor dedicated to FGO and Kancolle and the top floor is usually weird niche RTS card games. At most they are 2 stories of actual goodness

looks like a pretentious faggot that needs an ass-whoopin' to me

I just recently went to an arcade here in the west filled with obscure japanese arcade machines
it was fun

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If you hate microtransactions, you should hate arcades too.

Either overpriced nostalgia (seriously I found a Galaga machine that was a buck per play) or tickets. Which can be redeemed for inordinate amounts of army men and fun dip.

Rhythm games, Initial D, bowling, cheap beer. I go to Round1 once a week to play Groove Coaster and DDR and every few months my friends and I make a big outing of it. It's good shit, plus it's nice to get out of the house for a change of scenery

There's a comfy yakuza owned place in theatre square with no signs outside. There's just an escalator and inside it's all classics from the past 30 years. Every fighting game franchise, neo geo, initial D, all bases covered.

Imagine being this stupid

Fun if you’re drunk with friends in a foreign country. Also pinball is always tops

I actually really want to play this game. But we don't have arcades where I am from, and somehow I doubt this is getting an international release anyway.

Who the fuck is this dude on the right. I recognize him but cant put a fucking name to him. It's his goddamn teeth

esfand is a cool dude, but how can he smash that cutie? sad life

You know that whole "game is impossible to beat unless you're spending money like a rapper" shit that mobile games love? Where do you think that shit started? In the arcade.

Hope they have the bandages on hand, that fucker is nearly mummified.

its crazy how advanced some arcades are in japan, fgo and soccer games and others with a whole card collecting system that saves progress
arcades in the western world are crap tho thats why theyre dying

Sometimes when I watch American tv I see ads for Dave and Busters and think it'd be neat to go there once.

I spent over $1k on Initial D arcade booths ama

>Spend 20 hours in a chair streaming
>thin as fuck

whats the fucking secret?.

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It's basically Chuck E Cheese but with beer and more prizes.

hey i went there when i was in japan

A social outing

>cab cost - $500,000

why do arcades keep closing??

He subsists on nothing but diet coke and 800 calorie pizzas

THESE ARE IT SAID CHIEF

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he doesn't look like he's balding

This game sucks

Specialized hardware that you can't get at home.

It's literally all the arcades have left, that can't be replicated by modern consoles / PCs.

Hence why you see so many arcade games that are literally just phone games but on a big screen.

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Nostalgia for a time when random people physically interacted in a purely social setting.

>In the west all the games are oversized smartphone games and IF YOU'RE LUCKY there's maybe 1 light gun or racing game.
The arcade where I live at in Sweden has multiple DDR-type games, multiple other rhythm games and several racing and light gun games. Fuck off anti-shill.

OP litterally seething people are talking about the thread question and not his streamer pic.

That's not something you put in an arcade, that's an amusement park ride.

Did you see the aiming? It looked awful

Light gun games, old racing games, DDR and playing darkstalkers with a real person.

I hated arcades back in the day

>young delinquents drinking, smoking and harrasing other kids

Ah christ I hate this faggot

>Drink water
>Avoid trash food/alcohol/drinks
>Eat 3 times in the day
>5'9 - 81kg

fuck my life. I dont wanna go to gym.

Sounds like you were the pussy faggot my friends used to blow smoke in the face of as we played MVC2

I seriously want to know if they actually have fucking on-screen cursors, that's the worst thing I've ever seen. I laughed when they showed the guns weren't even connected, there was no recoil.

>>Rhythm games with weird controllers that are either impossible to replicate in the home market or way too expensive to justify buying for a single game.
All the expensive ones are gimmick bullshit like touchscreens, though.

You can build an IIDX, Pop'n, or SDVX controller for about 50 bucks. And then play the arcade rips.

Is this inspiration to the yakuza town kamurocho? Or is kamurocho real?
Like Hinamizawa from Higurashi

Cheap, nostalgic, also some form of social interaction. Plus the idea of arcades in general are cool, especially if you actually know what the fuck you are doing and can beat a lot of the games 1CC or can get shitpiles of tickets to go spend at the booth on stuff, or win something playing stacker.

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>>Eat 3 times in the day
there's your problem fatty

>20-something with no social life thinking he knows a damn thing about parenting

At least we have Round 1 now and can play the latest riddim games on the actual Japanese networks.

What I do then? starve and suffer until I get desperate?.

Looks like an above-average wow-dweller cave.

oh yes, I was bullied there a lot by teenagers. I was fucking 11.
all I wanted was to silently play Street Hoop on neogeo cabinet ;/

I liked arcades, but they were so fucking hit and miss. Kids today will never know the pain of putting a dollar into a time crisis cab only to find that it hasn't been calibrated properly and every shot is a mile off, and the bottom third of the screen is actually unusable because of it. Or that some kid broke the recoil.

t. guy who watches too many jvloggers

I went to a barcade last week, had watered down drinks and my girl got kicked out several times for indecent exposure. It was lame as shit. Mall arcades had more freedom in 2003. I’m not fucking with public arcades ever again

All we have is Casinos where I live and I fucking hate gambling.

>tfw too embarassed to play at arcade now that I'm too old

My first arcade exp was playing Altered Beast. Shit was cash, loved the graphics, the horror setting and gameplay. I wasted a fortune beating it for the first time

Post your card

If you don't want to be a fat manlet for the rest of your life, yeah.

>my girl got kicked out several times for indecent exposure.
did you fuck her on the mario kart arcade gp machine or what

>indecent exposure
Did they flash their dick or what?

Why hes famous again?

What’s even the point of society anymore if it’s cheaper to do everything at home

Droppin it low, Copping a few feels with some thots. Nothing out of the norm.

that man looks like Little Orphan Annie with a beard

Yes. Kabukicho is Kamurocho and Dotonbori is Sotenbori

>tfw my state is finally getting a fucking round1
I can finally fucking play Taiko and Pop'n without having to drive down to Texas.

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>my girl got kicked out several times for indecent exposure
You let your girl flash strangers?

Go with other virgins. Then people will be to scared to bully you because the might catch your loser.

The appeal is their difficulty. It's satisfying to beat a game with few coins as possible, and it can only be achieved by spending more coins until you get better. If you do that, you can also show off your skills to anyone watching, which makes it even more satisfying.

What's your favorite arcades? To name a few, mine's Metal Slug 2, Gunblade NY, The House of the Dead, and Strikers 1945 2.

When will USA get stream tax in Texas?

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Me too but I still have to drive all the way to OKC to play. I also have to wait until 2020.

How do people even play shit like popn? I just confused by all the buttons

>starve and suffer until I get desperate?
Holy fuck, I'm 5'10 and 170 pounds and I can go 24 hours easily before i actually get hunger pains.

you are a fat fucking loser.

>all the way to OKC
We're talking about the same place. Quail Springs Mall is in Edmond, anyways, because OKC/Penn Square was probably too expensive.
You just practice. Start with the mode that lets you use only the middle 5 buttons, which makes it more or less Guitar Hero Lite. Then move up to the full 9 once you're good at that.
youtu.be/I16DlneFCeU

Specific controls hand made for each game.

I eat when Im hungry so 5-7 times a day aprox

>Edmond
Still a pretty far drive from where I live. Either way, I can't wait.

>its hard to make your own mame cabinet
but its not...the only limits is your rat hole rent-a-life 2 room apartment.