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Arcade machines would only keep the high score until the machine was powered down, and if anything it would accept no more than 3 letters. I can assure you when cartridge games started saving progress ( Legend of Zelda on NES ) That was magic. Still long after that arcade games still never saved all time records.

In the early 90's I remember when Street Fighter II hit the arcades. It was the best game I ever played. From the time I got home, I was like....Wait... I must play that game again. Then the next time I saw it, it there was a huge crowd waiting to play. The spectators would cheer at the rounds, some arcades bumped it up to 50c per credit and us youth would blow away a lot of money on this over time.

At the time the SNES was on the market, and gaming hype was done through magazines. When the magazine showed SFII for the SNES, it was a miracle. No game on the home console was this damn close to the arcade, and on it's release it did not disappoint.

For me the last great Arcade Game was "Killer Instinct" An arcade game that was suppose to display the power of the upcoming N64. In short the N64 wasn't powerful enough to handle Killer Instinct which is funny, cause the arcade ROM still has an announcement with a logo in the beginning saying something like, coming 1995 on Ultra64.

In malls Arcades were clean and packed with youths with some guy in a dealer uniform with a pouch of coins while the arcades downtown were packed with youths but it had a more urban grimy feel to it, and the exchange guy would be behind a glass. If you were a student there was always that vibe that you should not be at the arcade.

Some places were touted with never powering down the machines, allowing the scores to last until the next power surge. Having a three letter name combination meant that figuring who got the high score could be a matter of urban legend. There were contests held in places too, locally, and they didn't look nearly as corporate as where it is now. 

It was truly a time of legend through a simplistic ingenuity. Everything's becoming streamline and it's led to people not trying as hard with less of a desire to socialize. It's a time clock towards the death of the simple solution. 


Watching the death of arcades in general was kind of odd and sudden. These days I only see them in random bars (the ones that serve food) and in the occasional college town, as otherwise it's gone the way of Dave & Busters. 

I'm sorry, it had to be done.

Turncoat said: 

Some places were touted with never powering down the machines, allowing the scores to last until the next power surge. Having a three letter name combination meant that figuring who got the high score could be a matter of urban legend. There were contests held in places too, locally, and they didn't look nearly as corporate as where it is now. 

It was truly a time of legend through a simplistic ingenuity. Everything's becoming streamline and it's led to people not trying as hard with less of a desire to socialize. It's a time clock towards the death of the simple solution. 


Watching the death of arcades in general was kind of odd and sudden. These days I only see them in random bars (the ones that serve food) and in the occasional college town, as otherwise it's gone the way of Dave & Busters. 

 You like the in person/social aspect arcades had to offer. In my personal experience with them high scores never stood out much, if someone was able to finish a game that put them up there with the best, then after that whoever is actually the best depended on how long they can keep winning. 

In fighting games I know a black guy that would basically destroy anyone and he did achieve legendary status in some arcades. I watched him dismantle a group of Asian guys, funny enough things like that determined who is king.

What arcades really started dying is when the first PlayStation came about. The CDROM console allowed more data/bigger games. It released with SoulEdge/SoulBlade and it was identical to the arcade for dirt cheap.

Other games came out in the arcade that drew crowds but it wasn't long before it was released on the PlayStation and again it was exactly like the arcade.

Some guy toying around with a tool assisted run for the beyond human playing ability.

On a side note that game was made after the Infinity Wars books, so the game makes use of the infinity stones while Thanos is the final boss. If you want to know what happens in the next Avengers movie, you can sum it up by reading The Infinity War. But yeah after 1995, things got real grim for the arcade scene.

Though there is a business model tested and proven. We had a shop here that had screens lined up and for a fee the owner would let you play any game for a period of time depending on how much you paid. the business model worked and he had people playing there all day. He also sold games, and even sold under the table. So when asked if you can make an arcade with gaming consoles, the answer would be yes. Mind you the return on investment for something like that is insane.

spatial, you can check the UTC time(used for everything here) by pressing this as well:

I see. If the time of posting were automatically displayed, I can see that being used as evidence in some situations.

i was wrong

this function shows your local time, not utc time

just realized that

That I noticed. I'm in Eastern Time, and I just noticed it shows the local time twice, probably one of them is a 24 hour clock.

I don't know much about how programming is done, but that mechanism is probably tricky to get in the chat log I presume, since we're seeing 2 clocks in this package.

Spatial Mind said: 

man I had to dig to find this. Just recalled us back in the day going to and fro on perpetual motion ideas and philosophies. 

Also, wow has the quality dropped in intellectual conversations and pursuits 

This ?

weeaboo/weeb/weab = a person who is of the belief that the Japanese culture is so much better than their own culture that they have to intersperse Japanese into their speech, think anime/manga is some higher art form, and that Japan in general is some perfect holy land.

  I don't insert it into my daily life, or worship it.

Being a digital artist I've taken pride in Canada being the great animators of the world.

I don't know how many Japanese words I know, but I can probably count it on my hands.

I don't dislike Japanese stuff either. I have a taste for Japanese Motorcycles.

Anyone who thinks I'm a weeb, hasn't been around for very long, or if they were around for awhile then they are special.