I remember seeing a MK2 cabinet just like this one at a seaside resort in England once - i just HAD to play it and it kicked my a$$ (probably coz my jaw had just fallen so far down it stopped my hands from hitting the punch buttons!). Walking away from it i just couldn't stop gawping at the huge picture of Raiden on the side of the cabinet and wanted to play it all day long - I had to buy this for the Mega Drive and got it for my birthday in October that year.
Anyone ever play this game? There used to be a place in Hereford called "The Ritz"; a shitty little run-down cafe that had loads of gambling machines and a couple of arcade cabinets (of which Virtua Racing was in there once!). At one time they had this game and it was by Midway. Not only that, it played exactly like MK4 that came later on and i believe perhaps it was a preview of how MK4 was to be (just read on Wiki it was a "litmus test of its new 3D software prior to the release of Mortal Kombat 4")
The highest win-streak was 17 wins, so a few of my mates took turns trying to beat me as i aimed to beat 17 wins and get myself on the top of the high-score table. My skills of MK helped me overcome their challenges and i got the highest score - YAY!!
.....then about a week later the cabinet was removed from the shop, so that was a waste of time (and £19!)
GGRRGPPPRPRREYYWYWWGGGHHH!!! I was a gibbering wreck when i saw this at Hereford's May-Fair one year! Me and my dad had a go on it and i loved every second of it! Thankfully so did my dad, and he bought it for "me" (or rather, him!!) on the Mega Drive, as well as a nice shiny SEGA Menacer gun.
I still have the game but sold the gun many years ago when the Playstation came along. Thankfully i now have a job and a flat and therefore enough room to buy loads of crap, and i re-bought a Menacer, boxed, from eBay! Woop-woop!!
I was never too bothered with arcades, always seemed way too pricey here . But when I was a kid on holiday... taken away from my beloved Amiga ... I used to play around on the Mortal Kombat 2 arcade machine at some Haven site. I won £8 on the jackpot of some money machine and proceeded to spend it all on the MK2 unit. Everyone used to watch me play cuz I knew how to do all the fatalities .
Originally Posted by Mark Radon SEGA's Virtua Formula - 8 Virtua Racing cabinets lined up together, complete with commentator!
Dear goodness I forgot about those. Never played one. I didn't play too many arcade games since we almost never had extra change (or time) on hand. My favorite one that I did play was Vapor TRX... fun one, that.
I think our mall's mini-arcade closed recently. Nothing exceptionally good, just a quick buck for the owner with a DDR, a few very generic zombie shooters and Sega racers, I think a deer hunting game, and a few miscellaneous ones that used pixel art rather than bad 3D or mocap.
We never really had them here. The only time I ever saw an arcade cabinet was at Blackpool, Haven camp sites or cinemas. None of which we have around here! That's what you get living in the middle of nowhere I guess
Arcades are pretty cool. Except for the price. I'm surprised that people actually go to them when they charge $0.5-$1 for a game.
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I keep wanting to make a custom arcade cabinet that runs PC games (like the MMF one Jason Orme made a while back.) but I don't have the resources or the time and space to work on one. I really want a game room with a pool table and arcade machine.
I remember seeing a MK2 cabinet just like this one at a seaside resort in England once - i just HAD to play it and it kicked my a$$ (probably coz my jaw had just fallen so far down it stopped my hands from hitting the punch buttons!). Walking away from it i just couldn't stop gawping at the huge picture of Raiden on the side of the cabinet and wanted to play it all day long - I had to buy this for the Mega Drive and got it for my birthday in October that year.
What memories!
heh i too remember mortal kombat 2 kicking my arse. I saw a demonstration of the game running in our local woolworths one day (dunno if it was the megadrive or snes version though) i couldn't stop myself looking at it until we left the shop.
I actually rarely played arcade video games. we always stick to those silly 2p sliding games where you have to keep pumping it full of money for an hour to get a crap plastic keyring or china ornament. I got a small Crash bandicoot plushie keyring once though which was nice.
Originally Posted by Muz Arcades are pretty cool. Except for the price. I'm surprised that people actually go to them when they charge $0.5-$1 for a game.
There are some good arcades here that just charge an entry fee then let you play all the games for free. Just gotta show some common courtesy and let someone else play when you get a game over.
Originally Posted by Ricky There are some good arcades here that just charge an entry fee then let you play all the games for free. Just gotta show some common courtesy and let someone else play when you get a game over.
I want to go there! That would be fun for a nice way to kill a few hours. I bet they're successful too.
theres nickel arcades here in california. nickel nickel. most games are 1 to 5 nickels. and theres a free section off in the corner. its more of a chucky cheese type place though. with tickets n crap.
Ricky, i so wanna go there too! Arcades were/still are a rip-off when you consider a console/PC game is much more value-for-money. You still can't beat the buzz of a well made arcade game though, despite the cost of playing. Here's one i discovered recently and pumped £4 into, and still wanted more.....
I'm not even that big a fan of oval racing, but this game oozed charm and atmosphere, along with that "man if i have one more go i can win this race!" factor that well made arcade games have.... and then they suck the quids/dollars out of your pocket!
Not really the start, but it was a big part of the gaming chapter, in the same way that each generation of consoles was. And of course some arcade games spawned some of the most successful franchises in gaming history, for example Mortal Kombat, Ridge Racer, SEGA Rally, Tekken, PACMAN and of course, Street Fighter.
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. But when I was a kid on holiday... taken away from my beloved Amiga 
... I used to play around on the Mortal Kombat 2 arcade machine at some Haven site. I won £8 on the jackpot of some money machine and proceeded to spend it all on the MK2 unit. Everyone used to watch me play cuz I knew how to do all the fatalities 
Never played one. I didn't play too many arcade games since we almost never had extra change (or time) on hand. My favorite one that I did play was Vapor TRX... fun one, that.
Thank you, Radon! This is a breath of fresh air.
That would be fun for a nice way to kill a few hours. I bet they're successful too.
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