Arcades: 5 Reasons they are Unforgettable

[@XR1000]

Superb narration on why we still love our arcades💜.

[@dbzdude2002]

As a kid, I remember going to a local place and I remember playing virtual on regularly there and with a similar experience that you described. Also, I remember whenever my family would go on vacation up north. There was always an arcade at the hotel and it was pretty robust in the 90s and I just remember looking forward to playing the Neo Geo cabinet that had samurai showdown among others including metal slug. I also miss the days of the arcade in its prime. Most of the arcade games in my area nowadays are ports from smart phones like Flappy Bird clones or Fruit Ninja and ticket generating games like basketball or Ski ball. There are certainly some modern games like Injustice or Time Crisis. But nothing beats the magic of the original arcade variety in the late 80s and 90s.

[@jamesnelson5618]

Oh and Don't forget the Fatal fury/King of Fighters Series on Neo Geo.

[@rubbara]

I remember the Sony Metreon was the only place in SF I wanted to go to, they had some huge multiplayer tactical shooter with massive teams and a huge room dedicated only to it. Also had a massive arcade itself, but I remember that shooter most clearly! I went back a couple of years ago and it is all gone, not even a trace of what was... Great Video!!!

[@neverchris]

Thanks!!

[@mitchzer0iii919]

I recently remembered playing Rush 2049 as a 6 or 7 year old, hogging the cab so much at chuck e cheese that it became a problem to others wanting to play, and even my parents would criticize me for it. What a time

[@neverchris]

Rush was great! I really enjoyed that one too and eventually got it on N64.

[@MathieuPronovost]

I remember at South of the Border in North Carolina, they had the arcade version of Popeye. The character sprites had a higher resolution (probably 480p) compared to the usual 240p games of the time. I was used to playing the NES version, so it was quite mind-blowing for my 9 year old mind.

[@gauchegoose]

Thanks for making this. I appreciate just the right amount of nostalgia you have here, the stories you shared are genuine and pure. I did not grow up going to arcades but I have spent a lot of time in the past two years since I moved to a big city exploring a few including some "Family Entertainment Centers" like Dave and Busters and Round1. I can't say enough about how much they've changed the way I look at and experience video games. It is so awesome to meet someone at an arcade and connect with them through a shared game.

[@XR1000]

The multifloor arcade in London was the Trocedero. Our home here every friday night!

[@neverchris]

Yes! I was hoping someone would be able to tell me the name of it. I hope to be able to visit again someday!

[@earthskarma]

Show off! Good for you 🤘

[@XR1000]

@@earthskarma I wish! It sadly closed down in the naughties. We still have a few cool venues preserving the culture but the Troc was a moment in time. Hope you have some arcades still near you too.✊

[@mopbrothers]

90s kid here. Great video. Big memories of playing the Simpsons arcade game. My middle brother would always use 2 tokens and get to the third level (the night graveyard one). He always made it to the third level, but never further. Weird. This was in a mall and we had a movie theater nearby and would often play at the arcade before going to the movie and sometimes after. Many machines would come and go. Tickets 🎟️ were winnable at some arcade machines for merchandise behind the counter. One ticket machine had the monopoly guy on it and you could win 125 tickets with one token if you knew which way to put the token in. I did this a lot.

[@earthskarma]

Great video, thanks for sharing. There was a small RadioShack/video rental store in the town that I grew up in. And in the armpit of America, I found battletoads/double dragon in the front window of that store. It was about 10 blocks from my house, but I walked countless miles looking for change to put in that machine. More pennies than nickels, but the guy behind the counter would swap my change for quarters. In the next town over was a mall. For my tenth birthday I got to take a friend to the arcade there. We got 10 whole dollars -each- to burn. I loved it. Terminator ate most of that. I had to get in a little ski ball.

[@NicolaARRMagnolia]

I remember at the local Chuck e Cheese the big four player cabinet Konami TMNT was so popular it would always cycle through an entire game even though usually no one was good enough to play the whole time. When someone would loose and was out of tokens another kids would replace them. That happened sometimes with The Simpsons and X-Men too. The six player version of X-Men was kind of amazing since it needed to use two monitors to fit everything on screen. I know some other games used multiple screens too, but I don't remember seeing any of those in person. I really liked the racing games with the little cars to sit in and light gun shooting games even though I didn't play those styles of games at home much. I only ever played Mario Kart and Star Fox, I guess. You can't quite get the same experience at home. When Street Fighter 2 came out it was so popular all kinds of random businesses used to have cabinets. I think a pizza place that was takeout only had one. I wonder how much people played that. I guess it kills time if your pizza isn't ready yet. Oh and yeah, isometric games like Marble Madness or Q*bert were really hard to play on home consoles with regular controllers. You had to hold them at a weird angle or have the directions not match up with what was on screen. A lot of early games had fairly unique controllers and you can't really experience those accurately at home either.

[@NeoTōkyōMusic-j1m]

the beat fits this bitter sweet video perfect! big props

[@sjvlecwokrtqamp]

These thesis like videos are amazing and so grateful that you are back. You need to start making top 10 lists (which are aslo great) to catch the attention of the algorithm and be recognized

[@neverchris]

Thanks! I'm glad you enjoy them. Yeah, I've been putting a lot of though into how I should adjust my output for this and that is a good idea.

[@gundamzerostrike]

I'm subscribed to some arcade channels on KZbin. There are still plenty of releases coming out and they still feel like 90s games (like, dozens of new releases a week I think). Lots of crazy racing games and fighting games (including 2D ones)... But we don't get any of them on consoles (the last one I remember being ported was Crusin' on the Switch). Man, if I could I would open a dev company just to port modern arcade games to consoles. Here in my country every mall still have an arcade, but they are not really video games. Just some random stuff for little kids, I have zero access to these new games (back in the days these same places had plenty of real video game arcade machines). Well, there's a shady bar here with 3 arcade machines that are running Capcom and SNK games I think.

[@neverchris]

Which arcade channels do you recommend?

[@gundamzerostrike]

@@neverchris The best one is Arcade Heroes. There's also PrimeTime Amusements and Toy Hunting Games. By the way, look for "Mario Kart VR is INSANE" on KZbin. It's awesome. I think it's the second or third arcade Mario Kart I see. They all look awesome with all original tracks and amazing graphics. Meanwhile, instead of porting them to their consoles, Nintendo just re-released Mario Kart 8 and is giving us some badly designed tracks from that Mario Kart Tour mobile game nobody likes. It's depressing.

[@neverchris]

@@gundamzerostrike Thanks! Arcade Heroes was really cool... I've subscribed. That Mario Kart VR is nuts! I'd love to try that out sometime although it seems like there's barely any locations that have it sadly.

[@kevind4413]

@@neverchris Arcade Heroes, Indie Arcade Wave and s34videos Video Game Arcade Tours are great. They do dispel the myth that arcades have/are gone.

[@jacquesstrap185]

Great Video!

[@neverchris]

Thanks!

[@K.Simpson]

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