lol

Bowling alleys used to have based arcade cabinet selection

Latest SF and MK plus 4 player racing game of the moment with a few classic atari/namco types thrown in

Pinball if lucky

@naynay

:blackpill

it sucks arcades died out

dave and busters still exists

It was inevitable once home consoles came out

But it's just like drive-in movie theaters, they're still around, it's just that it's more of a niche thing now

Definitely recommend the drive-in movie theater if you ever get the chance by the way

The 2d fighter era saved arcades and carried them through the 90s. Even ps1 and saturn ports weren't as good as the jamma cabinet experience. RGBS or RGBHV screens. Sound too. Think of the TMNT intro

The arcade SF2 punch and kick sounds are all powerful

None of the ports got it right

The svac snes audio tho made guile stage music better

Ruined dhalsim stage tho

Idk what any of that means but house of the dead is fucking fun

You don't really get cool light gun games for console

I beat that shit in the arcade

It took like ten bucks

Time Crisis was also fun

What pissed me off is the lack of consistency in difficulty. Some arcades set it to CHEATIN ASS CPU mode

Others you could run through without much trouble

First time I noticed it was SF2 CE

At this rec complex with batting cages and shit I dominated through to m bison w/o problem

Then at a boardwalk arcade I kept getting btfo by balrog

You know what game is good as fuck

Metal Slug

That legit has to be one of the best games of all time

Just the whole series

The art is really good, the music is really good, it has really cool bosses and enemies, and it's just like a simple game that's also challenged and you can chill out and play it

It's like everything a video game is supposed to be

Yep

Metal Slug 3 was the first game I remember playing after successfully building my first media pc/mame rig

Is Metal Slug 3 the one where they're fighting the aliens

That one is really good

Yup

I remember in geology class in High School playing some flash version where you fight like a robot gorilla man

That shit was fun

The cringe and bluepilled teacher was making us watch Carl Sagan videos and I was just playing Metal Slug on the shity computers

Yeah fuck the school library for not letting students play games even when there were plenty of open computers