MAME ROW #15

obsidianspider

I wonder if anyone made a utility to count up how much money you would have spent if you'd been inserting coins for every time you pressed Select in MAME. This game alone would have been quite an investment at the arcade.

mediamogul

@obsidianspider

When I was a kid, I never brought more than four or five dollars to the arcade. There were times that I wanted that money to go as far as possible and i would work my way from one game to another until I was broke. Then, there were other times that I wanted to use that money to complete a beatable game. Although I remember being shut out from time to time, I also recall beating a fair amount of games that way. I especially liked completing beat 'em ups Like 'X-Men' and 'Teenage Mutant Ninja Turles' because you could transfer the skills you learned from one game to another, significantly reducing the amount of money it took to succeed each time.

GtBFilms

@mediamogul the only games I ever completed in the arcades were Vigilante (they were testing it and had loaded it up with lots of free credits), Golden Axe (with a lot of credits) and Double Dragon (lot of credits, 2 player with the inspired fight against each other at the end) and Robocop, which is basically a test of memory, I could eventually complete that on a single credit, so if I wanted to make my money last, I'd play that.

Just waiting patiently for for that one to come up in the MAME ROW!

Oh yeah and Altered Beast, which is a just a credit gobbling slog to the end.

lilbud

@GtBFilms @mediamogul

To be honest, I've never been to a real arcade. But, if I did, I'd be broke right now. Especially after the likes of Aliens and Phoenix.

meleu

@lilbud said in MAME ROW #15:

To be honest, I've never been to a real arcade.

cerealguy

Just kidding! Now my turn to tell my arcade story. My father forbade me to go to arcades and I had to go without his consent. I was the guy who never use continues, I started from the beggining just to maximize the time playing. :-)

mediamogul

@meleu said in MAME ROW #15:

My father forbade me to go to arcades

That's terrible. Although, it must have been a thrill to go when you were able.

UDb23

@meleu When I saw first Arcade games ... Arcades did not even exist. You could find single games at Bars.
Space invaders, Arkanoid, Scramble, Vanguard, Cosmic Guerilla... these were the first I played.
:-))

mediamogul

@UDb23 said in MAME ROW #15:

When I saw first Arcade games ... Arcades did not even exist. You could find single games at Bars.

Very cool. Although, seeing things in Bars that don't exist anywhere else is a bit of a warning sign to most people. Proclaiming that you were only trying to stop the giant gorilla from throwing barrels at you doesn't help matters either.

lilbud

@meleu I wish I could upvote this a million times.

And for my story. I was born LONG after the advent of arcades. That is why I have never been to a real one...they don't exist anymore. The closest I have been to an arcade would either be...Ed's Funcade, or the pinball museum north of here.

mediamogul

@lilbud said in MAME ROW #15:

The closest I have been to an arcade would either be...Ed's Funcade

Boardwalk arcades are still arcades. Plus, Ed's Funcade has been around for well over 30 years, making it the original article. You're also not too awfully far away from FunSpot which has the largest collection of retro arcade games in the world. I plan on visiting a friend of mine in Boston this summer and we he hope to make a trip in that direction while I'm there.

UDb23

@mediamogul
At first Bars, then Arcades came and no more games in Bars... then no more Arcades. :-(
Now Retropie! :-))

lilbud

@mediamogul said

You're also not too awfully far away from FunSpot

That's at least a 7-8 hour drive away from where I am. Still, I wish Ed's had more real arcade games. Galaga, Donkey Kong...etc.

TBH if I saw a Phoenix machine in the flesh, I probably start looking for the nearest sledgehammer :)

mediamogul

@lilbud said in MAME ROW #15:

That's at least a 7-8 hour drive away from where I am.

7-8 hours is my outer limit of acceptability for a road trip these days, but it is probably too far just to visit an arcade.

UDb23

FYI
@mviars set up a poll to request new overlays.

meleu

Hey! Today is Monday, right!
Let's move to the MAME ROW #16!

UDb23

@meleu yeah, but first we have to congratulate this week's winner: you!

mediamogul