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Post by mrmolecule on Aug 8, 2010 14:52:34 GMT -5
In many areas, I don't keep track of everything in the video game news, and I was surprised to find that Midway is going out of business. It makes me pretty sad, given that Midway was involved in video games almost since the beginning of arcades, and it later owned the division of Atari that actually made the arcade games.
There's no arcade in the local mall, and most of the places that have arcade machines are usually older games (Ms. Pac-Man, that sort of thing). So, I want to know: who makes arcade games anymore?
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Post by 8bitretroshit on Aug 8, 2010 15:11:52 GMT -5
Capcom is releasing SSF4 for arcades so there's that
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Post by parrothead on Aug 9, 2010 1:11:37 GMT -5
Japan still plays real arcades more than most other regions do. I've seen Shinya Arino from Game Center CX visit several video arcades (called "game centers" in Japan) and plays them. He once saw one person scoring very high in Namco's Xevious and had to wait on him to either succeed or fail to beat the high score. Xevious was popular and successful in Japan, but wasn't quite successful outside of Japan. I really wish that someone would bring more arcade exclusives to home consoles or PCs, like... Data East's The Cliffhanger: Edward Randy (one of the things Treasure's video games were influenced by), Namco's Lucky & Wild (driving + shooting in a first-person cockpit view. I remember seeing this at the nearest theater to my home. There used to be good gameplay videos of the MAME version on YouTube, but there are only poor camera recordings of the real arcade cabinets. On Nico Nico Douga (NND) there are some very good ones, plus the OST.), and Irem's Ninja Baseball Bat Man (I even talked with its creator, Drew Maniscalco, about creating a reliable website dedicated to it so Wikipedia can have a source to link to. He said he is working on it, while he even showed me some interesting concept drawings, his deal with Irem and his favorite pinball game, Flying Carpet.) There is an arcade and pinball store several minutes away from my home called Chattanooga Pinball, but I haven't visited it, yet. They have Street Fighter 1. Konami has recently announced the Metal Gear Arcade, but it's kind of old news: www.joystiq.com/2009/06/11/famitsu-lifts-camouflage-off-metal-gear-arcade/   |
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Post by Fryguy64 on Aug 9, 2010 3:13:50 GMT -5
Arcades aren't massive in Japan either, but you see them in the same places you probably see them in the West - seaside arcades, service stations and occasionally entertainment venues.
The fact is, videogame arcade machines are big and expensive. Quiz arcades are cheaper and bring in more money. The arcade is dead because of the expense vs. profit.
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Post by kirbychu on Aug 9, 2010 5:29:57 GMT -5
Arcades are still pretty big in my hometown, but... it's a seaside resort, so that's why. There are at least eight of them along the seafront, and there are usually a decent number of people in them, but the machines are mostly pretty old.
One of them is themed entirely around really old games, and it does pretty well. I used to go there all the time for Pac-Man and Space Invaders before I moved. They also had an old Sonic 1 machine which had Marble Zone and Labyrinth Zone removed. Then they had some kind of power outage and all my high scores evaporated. And I'm sad.
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Post by Johans Nidorino on Aug 9, 2010 10:17:22 GMT -5
I remember when "ACME" existed... It was some sort of E3 for arcade games. It was cool to learn of upcoming arcade games that you'd probably never see on your SNES, or at least with the same graphical quality. When did it die? I wish I saw modern Nintendo arcade games in my city... Like the Triforce ones, but I don't think they ever came here. Wouldn't you guys love to have Pokémon Battrio outside of Japan? EDIT: Turns out ACME became this eventually. |
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Post by parrothead on Aug 24, 2010 14:40:11 GMT -5
I would like to play Pokémon Battrio, but worst of all, it's as impossible to convert to MAME as Midway's Baby Pac-Man, which is a Pac-Man/physical pinball hybrid.
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Post by kirbychu on Aug 25, 2010 7:01:21 GMT -5
I'd love to play Battrio too, but I'd have to live in Japan, like Shigeru Miyamoto - creator of Mario and Zelda.
SATIRE
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Post by Dances in Undergarments on Aug 25, 2010 7:41:25 GMT -5
I'd love to play Battrio too, but I'd have to live in Japan, like Shigeru Miyamoto - creator of overly popular Mario and Zelda, but more importantly, NES/ Famicom classic Devil World. SATIRE Fixed. You've gotta be more obscure than just Mario and Zelda. SATIRE indeed. |
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