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Console gaming. I'm pretty fed up with console gaming - it's so restrictive! If you ask me the the present and the future of truly sublime video gaming is down at your local arcade. But wait, what's all this about Sega, Namco and Capcom - supposedly pulling out of the coin 'op expedition? I sincerely hope that people wake up from their single player role playing games, from their resident evil nightmare sessions and get yourself and a few mates down to that polygon parlour and experience the best games - first hand.
I can't even imagine what it would be like without these great machines, the 5minute break between a round of bowling when there's nothing better to do than make your way promptly to the Scud Race, Daytona or Sega Rally 2 departments! Where would we go? Surely those money grabbing 10p game things can't be the future? No of course not.
Competitions should be held at the arcade, the arcades should have a new name, something exciting to reflect the fun that you can honestly have there! Consoles are great yes, but the increase in popularity of the home console, of the PlayStation or PS2 or whatever you have, is only helping to deter the masses from the neon lights, from the 'Game Over, yeaaahhhhh' voice from Sega Rally, and it's causing gaming to shy away into people's homes - and it's becoming, dare I say 'geeky'!? In Japan they've got the idea. Every weekend people gather to the latest gaming exhibition, to try out the new games - that come out at the arcades first, but later appear on the games consoles - as that's where the money is made.
I just think there should be a national uplift, a revamp, no - a major overhaul! Bring in the Sega Marine Fishing games, get some new rallying games in and let us be playing Crazy Taxi 2 before it's on Dreamcast! Ok so SR2 is great fun, but who really wants to be playing House of the Dead still (yeah it's fun, but come on - surely HOTD2 should be there!), and Tekken 1 is well and truly out of date now!
So let's quit the fighting, go to your arcade machines - go now before they're gone forever. Feel every bump and turn on the rally sims - don't pretend you can with a 'rumble featuring' racing wheel for your home console. It's not the same.
I want to be able to forsee the future of the arcades having online competitions, with large crowds of excited people gathering round to cheer on the local games master as he or she takes on 'Vladmir' from Russia at Virtua Tennis - perhaps even with Real/Virtual racquets? I want to be able to imagine Daytona USA online - actually online, with people queing up to experience time lag free next generation classic racing against people from the USA! There should even be a little commemorative ChuChu Rocket online machine, where kids who never really 'got' gaming could play against people on the moon perhaps! After all ChuChu Rocket was the first 'console' online game!
Anyway, that may never happen.
Just take it from me: - nothing beats a good old half an hour session down at the Sega Raly arcade! It may cost you anywhere up to £30 depending on your skill level, or lack of it, but for me, if you can't partake in actual 'real' rallying, then you should experience the next best thing! I prefer arcades to home games consoles despite the cost - the thrill of beating 'up to 4 players' of which only to machines are connected, combined with the jolting racing seat, that tries to simulate the real thing (and does a fair job at it to!).
Cheers,
Dan2K1
I can't even imagine what it would be like without these great machines, the 5minute break between a round of bowling when there's nothing better to do than make your way promptly to the Scud Race, Daytona or Sega Rally 2 departments! Where would we go? Surely those money grabbing 10p game things can't be the future? No of course not.
Competitions should be held at the arcade, the arcades should have a new name, something exciting to reflect the fun that you can honestly have there! Consoles are great yes, but the increase in popularity of the home console, of the PlayStation or PS2 or whatever you have, is only helping to deter the masses from the neon lights, from the 'Game Over, yeaaahhhhh' voice from Sega Rally, and it's causing gaming to shy away into people's homes - and it's becoming, dare I say 'geeky'!? In Japan they've got the idea. Every weekend people gather to the latest gaming exhibition, to try out the new games - that come out at the arcades first, but later appear on the games consoles - as that's where the money is made.
I just think there should be a national uplift, a revamp, no - a major overhaul! Bring in the Sega Marine Fishing games, get some new rallying games in and let us be playing Crazy Taxi 2 before it's on Dreamcast! Ok so SR2 is great fun, but who really wants to be playing House of the Dead still (yeah it's fun, but come on - surely HOTD2 should be there!), and Tekken 1 is well and truly out of date now!
So let's quit the fighting, go to your arcade machines - go now before they're gone forever. Feel every bump and turn on the rally sims - don't pretend you can with a 'rumble featuring' racing wheel for your home console. It's not the same.
I want to be able to forsee the future of the arcades having online competitions, with large crowds of excited people gathering round to cheer on the local games master as he or she takes on 'Vladmir' from Russia at Virtua Tennis - perhaps even with Real/Virtual racquets? I want to be able to imagine Daytona USA online - actually online, with people queing up to experience time lag free next generation classic racing against people from the USA! There should even be a little commemorative ChuChu Rocket online machine, where kids who never really 'got' gaming could play against people on the moon perhaps! After all ChuChu Rocket was the first 'console' online game!
Anyway, that may never happen.
Just take it from me: - nothing beats a good old half an hour session down at the Sega Raly arcade! It may cost you anywhere up to £30 depending on your skill level, or lack of it, but for me, if you can't partake in actual 'real' rallying, then you should experience the next best thing! I prefer arcades to home games consoles despite the cost - the thrill of beating 'up to 4 players' of which only to machines are connected, combined with the jolting racing seat, that tries to simulate the real thing (and does a fair job at it to!).
Cheers,
Dan2K1
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Dan2K1 wrote:
> Depends how good you are really. In Italy - in Sienna I think
> (Tuscany), there was this huge arcade - looked absolutely brilliant,
> and of course accompanied by the classic dodgem/bumper car track (I
> think*). Virtua Tennis was only something like 10p!
Great stuff,
> and the Pizza was nice. Oh - and Fruit machines are not great fun in
> my view!
I went to Italy as well they use chips that you pay for and 3100 lire is about a pound and that lasted me nearly 2 hrs on virtua tennis and on Tekken Tag all of the machines were Japanese and they were very fast!
> Depends how good you are really. In Italy - in Sienna I think
> (Tuscany), there was this huge arcade - looked absolutely brilliant,
> and of course accompanied by the classic dodgem/bumper car track (I
> think*). Virtua Tennis was only something like 10p!
Great stuff,
> and the Pizza was nice. Oh - and Fruit machines are not great fun in
> my view!
I went to Italy as well they use chips that you pay for and 3100 lire is about a pound and that lasted me nearly 2 hrs on virtua tennis and on Tekken Tag all of the machines were Japanese and they were very fast!
I think it just jumped on the bandwagon of everyone else, and now it wont stop, because no one is brave enough to put a foot on the brake!!
I think its disgusting, particularly when even the official Namco Arcade in the centre of Britain cannot afford to make its Arcades reasonably priced.
I was Tenerife last year and the average cost was 100 pesetas, which is about 40p. We do really get ripped off over here, it just ain't fair!!
Arcades would be really popular in Britain if they werent so expensive, a few weeks back I went to a Namco Arcade on the (Across from BigBen in London). TimeCrisis 2 cost £1 a credit, the same machine only cost 25cents a pop (about 14pence a go) when I visited America 2 years ago in a shopping mall.
Why should Arcades be Five to Six times as expensive over here, its not right.
Why should Arcades be Five to Six times as expensive over here, its not right.
Grix - Time Splitters, despite it's ageing graphics and awfully coloured/designed guns, is one of the most popular in the MK snowdome! People spend SO much on it!
I like the air hockey games the best - I vow that if I ever have a house, with a spare room, I'll get an air hockey table and game set up. That'd be nice I'm sure!
I like the air hockey games the best - I vow that if I ever have a house, with a spare room, I'll get an air hockey table and game set up. That'd be nice I'm sure!
Power - nothing with out control.
Err, well ummm...
Anyway - the SR2 machines are well designed! OK, if you have a Dreamcast with all it's power, and say, for arguments sake, Sega Rally 2. If you don't play it how it should be played then you lose a sense of gameplay - it's more fun at the arcades, and please try the manual setting for once!
Dan 2 K 1
Err, well ummm...
Anyway - the SR2 machines are well designed! OK, if you have a Dreamcast with all it's power, and say, for arguments sake, Sega Rally 2. If you don't play it how it should be played then you lose a sense of gameplay - it's more fun at the arcades, and please try the manual setting for once!
Dan 2 K 1
The new Street Fighter 2 arcade machine is going down well in Pembrokeshire... but the most popular arcade machine at the moment is the X-Wing one...
No joke.
No joke.
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