MAMEWorld Forums - EmuChat - Re: Yeah, that's not true.....

> I think arcades were alive in last decade only for DDR/PIU and other music games,you
> cannot have the same experience at home,even getting those redoctane metal pads,and
> for the good old driving games like Daytona...
>
> But at least here we´re getting those Raw Thrills games like Batman,not the best one
> but it looks amazing

Daytona is just about the only arcade game that simply won't die! And even after all these years, it is never $1 per credit in Australia; it's always $2 per credit (it could even be $4 per game, I can't remember if it needs 1 or 2 coins to play since I never touched it, but it wouldn't surprise me if the default is "2 quarters" and all they do is use an Australian coin comparator in place of the US one). I think DDR helped me walk out of the arcades and never come back, that kind of music gives me nothing but headaches (I don't follow the whole bright/flashing rainbows-and-unicorns thing of the dance/clubbing scene either). That and the fact that the last Tekken Tag Tournament vanished into oblivion years ago (I don't play the later games in the series, nor do I play other fighting games, mainly just Tekken 2, 3 and Tag). You can basically say I wasn't someone that hung around arcades even back then.

Also, game cards were another reason for me to turn off playing arcade machines; the fact that some places give you a $5 game card with $6.00 credit installed, and then charge no less than $1.20 per credit (or $2.40, or $3.60 etc.) is he biggest scam of all. Why even bother advertising a "free" dollar (e.g. "Get $6 for the price of $5 when you buy a $5 game card!") when you just jack up the prices anyway? I can literally last longer at the pokies (slots) than in a modern arcade if I was to use the exact same amount of money (e.g. $10; you will be surprised how long it lasts playing 1 line, 1 credit bet on a 1 cent game, even if you win next to nothing and people look at you weirdly or mutter to themselves that it's a waste of time or that you are wasting the free games/feature/bonus or should be betting 25 because you missed out on five 9's scattered all over the place but actually on a payline - WOW, one dollar's worth of nines! That would have taken me no less than 63 spins to get on the bet of 25 lines (let's see, 63 * 25 = $15.75 not counting wins; sorry, that's a little bit out of range of my $1 in each game rule) if the RNG wasn't actually random but simply had each future spin generated like the "next" brick in Tetris!).