What happened to good old arcade games?

[The DoggFather]

I still haven’t gotten through ghosts n goblins.

Easily the hardest game ever made!

Just save and load on an emulator lol

 

[Blue_boost]

Yeh if I won lotto I would have an arcade room with classic arcade games including a pinball machine. Always wanted my own pinball parlour, since I spent a lot of time in them as a teenager.

You need to visit a pachinko parlour in japan. Buy a bucket of pinballs and play for prizes . Seriously they are awesome

 

[Memberberries]

Just save and load on an emulator lol

I've got an app for it. It has 2 modes. One where you can select whatever level you've completed.

 

[MatstaDogg]

Yeh if I won lotto I would have an arcade room with classic arcade games including a pinball machine. Always wanted my own pinball parlour, since I spent a lot of time in them as a teenager.

A mate of my brother used to be a technician for arcade machine and pinball tables. He has a massive work shed/man cave full of arcade machines and pinball table. Old ones up to modern ones. No idea how much money's worth he has there but some would definitely catch a nice price I reckon.

 

[Bad Billy]

Final fight, tnmt, metal slug & mortal kombat.
I was a gun at MK2, ma favorite thing to do was wait at arcades till some kid was near the end (kintaro) I’d drop $1 on him double flawless, fatality and finish his game.

 

[Wahesh]

Street Fighter 2 is still my favourite game of all time, can still play it for hours

I don't even know where to start. SF2 and MK2 are definitely up there but I could literally name 100 games and from that still not find my GOAT.

 

[Wahesh]

Emulators. You can get them for free online for arcades and every console ever made. I have them all covered. Still love playing them.

Same. Master System, Mega Drive, MAME32, Neo Geo - my childhood in all of those.

 

[Wahesh]

I still haven’t gotten through ghosts n goblins.

Easily the hardest game ever made!

Yes certainly is up there. I loved that game but only passed the first stage once. I loved getting that golden suit and powering up but damn that game was hard.

This bloke made it look easy...

 

[Wahesh]

Such games are still around but I agree in that I prefer games with simple controls.

Doom, Wolf3D .. all those old school classic games with simple controls.

Arrow keys, space to jump, left mouse button to fire.. SIMPLE.

Not requiring half your keyboard in controls, or pressing 400 buttons.

That's why I'm a pixel gamer

 

[Wahesh]

They are my go to on my laptop in hospital.

Currently playing SoR2

Streets of Rage on Master System. I picked Blaze Fielding... best character.

 

[Wahesh]

Final fight, tnmt, metal slug & mortal kombat.
I was a gun at MK2, ma favorite thing to do was wait at arcades till some kid was near the end (kintaro) I’d drop $1 on him double flawless, fatality and finish his game.

Used to love Metal Slug... still do. I played "Metal Slug Defense" on iOS religiously until they stopped updating it. Had the same graphics, sounds, characters etc... such a gem!

 

[Wahesh]

A mate of my brother used to be a technician for arcade machine and pinball tables. He has a massive work shed/man cave full of arcade machines and pinball table. Old ones up to modern ones. No idea how much money's worth he has there but some would definitely catch a nice price I reckon.

They are expensive. The really deer ones can get up to about $25,000.

 

[The DoggFather]

Streets of Rage on Master System. I picked Blaze Fielding... best character.

8k graphics.... lol

 

[Wahesh]

8k graphics.... lol

Pixel art brother - love it

SoR on Master System was very good given how late in the Master Systems life it came out. Very smooth play and the graphics were almost Mega Drive worthy.

 

[Blue_boost]

Anyone played a game called "smash TV"

Tough game.. i used to sweat playing that. So much happening on the screen at once

 

[Blue_boost]

Also if you buy one of those SNES classics, you can download all the roms and put them on there.

My snes classic has about 100 games on it. Beautiful to play with the original snes controls.

 

[hayes]

Pandora box on ebay look great.

 

[CroydonDog]

The retro consoles sound romantic/nostalgic, but it's likely that if you buy one, if you buy one, you'll play with it for a few hours and then never touch it again...

 

[Wahesh]

Anyone played a game called "smash TV"

Tough game.. i used to sweat playing that. So much happening on the screen at once

I can't say I've heard of it, but a quick visit to YT resulted in the video below. It also seems that this game was released on Master System... which is very odd as I'm a Master System specialist and have never heard of any such title?!?!

 

[Wahesh]

Pandora box on ebay look great.

If you're talking about one of those "hybrid" game consoles that's meant to run everything, it doesn't run everything.