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# They've ruined the arcades!
They're all packed with 2Fast2Furious wanky crap poo games. Where's all the JAMMA cabs with Double Dragon at 10p a go?! I found a sit-down Outrun in the fair, and Oasis had an arcade graveyard at the back with a full sit-down Simpsons, but it was bost. I could've cried. And I did.
(I helped save b3ta! Dimrill HMS Average Nostril, Mon 9 Jul 2007, 16:14, archived)
# fuck yes! Wheres Samuarai Shodown when you need it
(I helped save b3ta! mugatu, Mon 9 Jul 2007, 16:17, archived)
# It's soul destroying.
The oldest game they had on the pier was House of the Dead 3. In my youth, it was jammed with JAMMAs of The Punisher, DD, Knights of the Round, Captain Commando, plus a few of Neo Geos with King of the Monsters.

At least it has a working Propcycle though.
(I helped save b3ta! Dimrill HMS Average Nostril, Mon 9 Jul 2007, 16:20, archived)
# I remember seeing Firefox, and later Dragon's Lair
both laserdisc games on that pier.
(I helped save b3ta! joefish It's hard for thee to kick against the pricks, Mon 9 Jul 2007, 16:26, archived)
# Man Dragon's Lair was quite ubiquitous in the late 80s early 90s.
I played DL a grand total of once, not making that mistake again.

I would slaughter thousands upon thousands of innocent people in order to play Virtua Cop again :(
(I helped save b3ta! Dimrill HMS Average Nostril, Mon 9 Jul 2007, 16:30, archived)
# With you there on Dragon's Lair. A definite case of WTF? gaming.
Virtua Cop was OK, but Time Crisis beat it with that foot pedal.

Then again, NAMCO did brilliant jobs on Ridge Racer and Tekken but only after SEGA had got there first with their plain 3D vectors.

Don't get me started on I, Robot though...
(I helped save b3ta! joefish It's hard for thee to kick against the pricks, Mon 9 Jul 2007, 16:37, archived)
# Just do what I did
Get a copy of MAME for your PC, and get all the old arcade games for that. I build a USB joystick out of decent jap arcade parts and am loving playing all the old classics at home!
(I helped save b3ta! mugatu, Mon 9 Jul 2007, 16:29, archived)
# I'm still trying to convince HER
to allow me to build a MAME cab for the front room. Apparently I "have enough game shit" and she won't let me buy the MDF.
(I helped save b3ta! Dimrill HMS Average Nostril, Mon 9 Jul 2007, 16:31, archived)
# I wish I had the room/skill to build a MAME cab
This is what I use:



Got my PC hooked up to a Scart TV with a hacked VGA cable, so it displays virtually identically to an arcade monitor.
(I helped save b3ta! mugatu, Mon 9 Jul 2007, 16:39, archived)
# I say
that's rather decent

:D
(I helped save b3ta! discomeats This canoe, Mon 9 Jul 2007, 16:42, archived)
# I wish I had this:
The most glorious cab in the whole wide yorld
(I helped save b3ta! Dimrill HMS Average Nostril, Mon 9 Jul 2007, 16:44, archived)
# Bah!
If you where really hardcore you'd have a Neo Geo hooked up to a bare arcade monitor that gave you shocks when you touched it, and you could only play it using a coin mech that only took old 50p pieces! :D
(I helped save b3ta! Poisoned Al R Tape loading error, 0:1, Mon 9 Jul 2007, 17:23, archived)
# Tell her the alternative is to buy enough Lego to make one...
(I helped save b3ta! joefish It's hard for thee to kick against the pricks, Mon 9 Jul 2007, 16:39, archived)
# NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
*cries*
(I helped save b3ta! Captain Wow currently being a cunt in Infamous, Mon 9 Jul 2007, 16:17, archived)
# buy it
and restore it

live out your dreams in your garage
(I helped save b3ta! mictoboy shitting in your cunt since, Mon 9 Jul 2007, 16:17, archived)
# I would've done.
But I am not Archer Maclean, so I have no clue how to go about restoring cabs. Plus the fact that my garage is full of corpses.
(I helped save b3ta! Dimrill HMS Average Nostril, Mon 9 Jul 2007, 16:23, archived)
# I'd be willing to shell out a four figure sum
for an original sit-down Spy Hunter. Rare as hen's teeth.
(I helped save b3ta! RiffRaff lurking like a lurky thing, Mon 9 Jul 2007, 16:24, archived)
# R-Type
and Bubble Bobble right at the back.

Mind you, Mablethorpe had one of those sit-down light-projection racing games for aaaaages. Can't remember what it was called, but it was lovely to see it while it lasted.

A full Star Wars cab is still the best, though full motion Space Harrier and Power Drift are a merry old whizz.
(I helped save b3ta! joefish It's hard for thee to kick against the pricks, Mon 9 Jul 2007, 16:24, archived)
# Power Drift
is the only driving game I play, as all the rest are foetid arseholes.

I'll have to look out for the BB cab, but I now have a huffy girlfriend to drag around these places. She didn't even let me look around Eastgate market last time.
(I helped save b3ta! Dimrill HMS Average Nostril, Mon 9 Jul 2007, 16:27, archived)
# Umm. don't hold your breath.
I've not been to Skeggy or Mablethorpe for about 10 years now. *sighs*
(I helped save b3ta! joefish It's hard for thee to kick against the pricks, Mon 9 Jul 2007, 16:33, archived)