General Arcade Game Discussion

[miyabi95_]

Im fucking mad at pachinkos and how konami killed every single franchise i love to be converted to penny guzzlers

which is also kinda funny as quite a few new characters in KOF XIV are derived from SNK's many pachinkos, which only like 0.5% of the world knows about. sad, but still pretty funny xP

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TBH, I don't usually play video games at the arcade because emulation and home ports don't cost me a quarter every time (although there is something awesome about using the Super Mario Bros. VS and PlayChoice 10 cabinets). When I go to the arcade, I go to play Skee Ball, pinball, Whacky Gator... The mechanical games. I wish there were more of them.

yeah, those mechanical games are guilty pleasures of mine (even though skee ball is the epitome of why gravity sucks ><). I'd probably separate racing games from the actual video games too, because they each have a unique system of controls. 

A retro barcade that I go to has a pair of Mario Kart Arcade GP DX machines (even though it's local. I guess it acquired them from a Dave and Busters after the end of the Nintendo promotion maybe? I should ask next time i'm there). It's quite possibly one of the most polished racing games I've played so far. The first two MKAGP's had pretty finicky controls and weird camera angles imo, but somehow DX is significantly better.