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Post by VectorX on Oct 18, 2011 10:07:00 GMT -5
Oh no!! Heresy! The drive-in must go too then! (No, spare them, but still...  ) |
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Post by braido on Jan 4, 2012 1:04:49 GMT -5
My fav is Tempest, i just got a Space Fury so that is pretty fun as well. The taunting Alien is killer lol
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Post by VectorX on Jan 4, 2012 1:54:10 GMT -5
Yeah that was a bit different back in the day...one of the earlier talking games!
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Post by sokurah on Jan 4, 2012 19:15:08 GMT -5
I'm sure it doesn't come as a big surprise, but my favourite is Omega Race and I'd love to have a real cabinet.
I also love Black Widow but I don't think I've ever tried a real one - probably only played it on Mame.
Space Fury is good too, but I prefer Zektor (of those two) myself.
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Post by VectorX on Jan 4, 2012 20:55:25 GMT -5
I'm sure it doesn't come as a big surprise, but my favourite is Omega Race and I'd love to have a real cabinet. Do you currently have any arcade games? I also love Black Widow but I don't think I've ever tried a real one - probably only played it on Mame. I wasn't pleased when it didn't appear at the annual gaming expo here I usually attend in November--it was there the previous year Oh well. |
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Post by sokurah on Jan 5, 2012 3:36:33 GMT -5
Do you currently have any arcade games? Yes and no. I don't have any dedicated cabs as they're usually too expensive around here. I do have a generic Jamma cab though. It originally came with 1942 but I accidentally put it into the connector the wrong way once so it died.  I do have a handful of PCB's for it, though. Side Arms, Insector-X, Soul Edge and some other ones, but I had to move it to the attic 6 months ago as I just don't have space for it in the apartment, but if I could get some of my favourite games as dedicated cabs I'd buy them and store them until I had more room.  |
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Post by VectorX on Jan 5, 2012 10:17:56 GMT -5
I do have a generic Jamma cab though. It originally came with 1942 but I accidentally put it into the connector the wrong way once so it died. Oh no! I do have a handful of PCB's for it, though. Well, at least you're set for some future gaming at some point though! |
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Post by gliptitude on Jun 4, 2012 20:54:25 GMT -5
Asteroids. I always loved the booming audio fx Wow I played Asteroids Deluxe in an arcade last week and the sound blew me away! .. eh of course it is also a sweet game. Maybe the most imitated one there is. So iconic. ... Was the only vector game at this retro game arcade here in Cincinnati. |
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Post by VectorX on Jun 4, 2012 21:24:17 GMT -5
Yeah, those deep EXPLOSIONS are great! Same goes with the original Asteroids too. A shame there aren't any more vector games at that place though.
What non-vector classics do they have?
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Post by gliptitude on Jun 4, 2012 22:33:07 GMT -5
Yeah, those deep EXPLOSIONS are great! Same goes with the original Asteroids too. A shame there aren't any more vector games at that place though. What non-vector classics do they have? Here's their published list. I believe it changes frequently as they buy and sell games. arcadelegacy.wordpress.com/game-list/I didn't go through this list, but it seems like there were fewer games than this on display when i went there. I went there one other time, about a year and a half ago, and it was much cooler then. They changed locations since then, as well as eliminating some of the best games they had when I went the first time, such as TRON. Their old location was in a strip mall. It was dark inside, the space was filled to capacity with arcade machines and it had a low ceiling. New location is huge and not filled up, high ceiling and flourescent lighting. It has great potential, being in a store front inside of a HUMONGOUS old shopping mall which is 95% vacant. It's easily the largest mall in the Cincinnati metro area, but located between other malls that are more convenient, so has been under-occupied for years. ... I'm a person who enjoys depressing scenes and sights, but this arcade is even beyond my threshold of depressingness. The empty shopping mall is awesome, but the flourescent lights are killing me! Other old games included Joust, Galaxian, Centipede and Rampage. Some of the older games were on multi-game cabinets. They had some japanese-looking sit down set-ups, including Neo-Geo games. I ended up playing Metal Slug 2 all the way through, at a stand up cabinet. X-Men multi-monitor cabinet, some other stuff... This is the same arcade that is having the art show I mentioned in the new thread in the Vectrex area, BTW. |
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Post by VectorX on Jun 4, 2012 23:24:08 GMT -5
Odd place, to say the least! Mostly empty mall...
"Missile Command/Centipede/Let’s Go Bowling"? Hadn't heard of that last one before.
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Post by gliptitude on Jun 5, 2012 13:41:57 GMT -5
Yes is odd. The food court has ONE restaurant. There are four or five anchor stores, mostly spread out far away from each other, one of which is Bass Pro Shops, about the most convenient place to buy a gun in Cincinnati. There is one security guard roaming the place on a segway. The food court/arcade/discount movie theater are all located by an entrance to a MASSIVE parking garage, several stories tall, these days housing at peak hours less than 30 parked cars huddled together by the entrance to the mall. Would be great place to film a zombie movie. I watched Parnormal Activity 2 there a while back, and then roamed the mall with a buddy after the movie let out, around midnight. (The other 2 people who watched the same movie as us left the building promptly.) Everything was closed for the day and we were pretty far even from anything that was in business when the segway security guard rolled up next to us. We were peeking in some windows and we thought we might be in trouble. But the guy just informed us that the empty store we were looking at used to be a Sears or something. Then he rolled off.  Another time I went there, this winter, there was a car in the parking lot with about 6 inches of snow on it. It hadn't snowed for at least a week! I don't think it snowed 6 inches all year this winter. |
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Post by VectorX on Jun 5, 2012 17:59:42 GMT -5
That guy must've forgotten about his/her car!! Would be great place to film a zombie movie. ...or buy a gun and make your own documentary of shooting up people and such, but then I shouldn't say such a thing  |
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Post by TrekMD on Jun 5, 2012 18:08:37 GMT -5
Tempest is my favorite with Star Wars a close second.
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Post by ledzep on Jun 12, 2012 16:14:50 GMT -5
Tempest is my favorite as well, with Star Trek a close second.
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