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    DocFoster Tuskegee Airman [concentrate my unpalatable boomer]
    At the arcade where I work now were looking to build 3 more cabinets. We'll probably roll picades as original boards for obscure shit are not only crazy rare but also very very expensive. What are some suggestions you might have for good arcade games, or even homebrew cart games (ideally no older than n64) that would make an often played good cabinet? Also ideally something with awesome art on the outside.

    While I'm here I may as well plug 2 games I just beat. MetalBlack is phenomenal. It's like the "2001 a space odyssey" of shmups. Also Armored Warlords. Honestly one of the best beat em ups I've ever played, and I've played my fair share.

    Also, seriously fuck wizard Lord. On every level. Looks great but it is such bullshit
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    infinityshock Black Hole
    whats an arcade?

    i thought they went extinct with the dinosaurs.
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    DocFoster Tuskegee Airman [concentrate my unpalatable boomer]
    They did. Not many left. This one opened up with a different business model (and may be a front or money laundering scheme, but who gives a shit) in a bigger city. Not even a year old it's seeing decent attendance, and only time will tell if it truly succeeds
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    The Dude Yung Blood
    Now theyre "arcade bars", and sell booze
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    Esplender Tuskegee Airman [my gynecological profit-maximising katar]
    The Bishi Bashi series will always be my favourites. Arcade cabinets can vary depending on which installment.



    Post last edited by Esplender at 2017-07-30T15:29:33.581789+00:00
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    infinityshock Black Hole
    Originally posted by DocFoster They did. Not many left. This one opened up with a different business model (and may be a front or money laundering scheme, but who gives a shit) in a bigger city. Not even a year old it's seeing decent attendance, and only time will tell if it truly succeeds

    the only video arcades I've been in lately have stupid games that are way overpriced. one wanted $1.00 to play ms pacman...a video game older than most of the posters on this site and considering the sophistication of modern video-games, not even worth the quarter that it originally cost. fuck that.

    I know/knew a dude that collected old arcade games and rebuilt them. he has a literal arcade in his former garage. I used to help him haul them around in my truck when he'd pick them up from estate sales or from foreclosed storage units.
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    RisiR † 29 Autism
    Hotline Miami.
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    benny vader YELLOW GHOST
    street fighter ii
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    -SpectraL coward [the spuriously bluish-lilac bushman]
    Defenders [Williams]
    Joust [Williams]
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    The Dude Yung Blood
    Aliens vs.Predator
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    Any House of the Dead where you get to pew pew pew with a gun. There's this one at my local Dave and Buster's that costs $3 for two people. It has three screens and a chair that spins. I didn't know that the first time though and the girl I was with freaked the fuck out because it turned so fast lol. Really fun. That machine must cost a lot, but damn man.

    VR arcade machine would be pretty cool too. You don't see those around.
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    mmQ Lisa Turtle
    Battletoads

    Mortal Kombat 3

    The Simpsons

    Michael Jackson's: Moonwalker
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    mashlehash victim of incest [my perspicuously dependant flavourlessness]
    Ghouls and Ghosts
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    mmQ Lisa Turtle
    I actually had a dream where I was playing mk3 arcade and I picked Smoke but it gave me Sub-Zero so I kept doing his freeze move but it would shoot out flames like Dhalsim from Street Fighter and then eventually I was Scorpion and I harpooned Sub-Zero but he three an ice block right before so I actually harpooned his ice and brought it right to me freezing myself and then idk the dreem switched
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    mashlehash victim of incest [my perspicuously dependant flavourlessness]
    Originally posted by mmQ I actually had a dream where I was playing mk3 arcade and I picked Smoke but it gave me Sub-Zero so I kept doing his freeze move but it would shoot out flames like Dhalsim from Street Fighter and then eventually I was Scorpion and I harpooned Sub-Zero but he three an ice block right before so I actually harpooned his ice and brought it right to me freezing myself and then idk the dreem switched

    Sub-Zero is my mother fucking nigger
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    mmQ Lisa Turtle
    Originally posted by mashlehash Sub-Zero is my mother fucking nigger

    Be anyone you want against 7th grade me at Laffen's gas station after school and I'll ruin you and your family, including all the fatalities and babalities and beastys.

    But only if I'm Smoke.
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    mashlehash victim of incest [my perspicuously dependant flavourlessness]
    Originally posted by mmQ Be anyone you want against 7th grade me at Laffen's gas station after school and I'll ruin you and your family, including all the fatalities and babalities and beastys.

    But only if I'm Smoke.

    You don't have enough quarters to win
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    CASPER Soldier of Fourchin
    Idk Im still sifting through the tens of thousands of emu files I just discovered at the young age of twenty-fucking -nine. HOW DID NO ONE TELL ME ABOUT THIS?!

    That said, I always loved Gauntlet Legends on N64/arcade.
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    -SpectraL coward [the spuriously bluish-lilac bushman]
    A fantastic archive of arcade games are here>> http://www.theisozone.com/downloads/retro/mame/
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    Esplender Tuskegee Airman [my gynecological profit-maximising katar]
    METAL SLUG
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