Rob Ross
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Opening An Arcade
on 6/23/2013 4:15:52 PM
Question: If you were opening a small arcade in your hometown, which 30 games would you have?
I realize this may take some time to answer, but please list the 30 games which you think visitors would enjoy. Try to avoid making this your Top 30 fave list please.
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Nashvillan
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RE: Opening An Arcade
on 6/23/2013 4:37:13 PM
I like the question. I hopefully will have some kind of answer late tonight.
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Rob Ross
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RE: Opening An Arcade
on 6/23/2013 5:50:10 PM
A quick list I threw together...
Donkey Kong
Donkey Kong Jr.
Pacman
Ms. Pacman
Track & Field
Hyper Sports
Ghosts n Goblins
Super Sprint
Double Dragon
Galaga
Frogger
Mortal Kombat
Street Fighter 2
Tekken
Wonderboy
Tron
Dragon's Lair
Qbert
Defender
Joust
Outrun
Rally X
Qix
Gauntlet II
Robotron 2084
Star Castle
Death Race
1942
Rygar
Arkanoid
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nasero
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RE: Opening An Arcade
on 6/23/2013 7:31:43 PM
This is a cool question, I kind of like the Pinball Wizard approach where they have a good mix of modern and old and really new (see BlazBlue and PacMan Battle Royale)
I'd try to do a mix like that so I suppose I'd run with
1) Donkey Kong
2) Street Fighter 2 championship edition or 3 third strike
3) 1942
4) Pac Man
5) Star Wars
6) Aero Fighters
7) a Neo Geo AES with Metal Slug 3, Blazing Star, Baseball Stars 2, Puzzle Bobble 2)
8) Super Sprint
9) Joust
10) Wrestlefest
11) Double Dragon
12) Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
13) Punch-Out!!!
14) Daytona USA
15) Dig Dug
16) Ghosts n Goblins
17) Mortal Kombat
18) Arkanoid
19) Super Street Fighter IV
20) Crazy Taxi
21) Burger Time
22) Qix
23) Tron
24) Marvel vs. Capcom 2
25) E-Swat
26) Defender
27) Juno First
28) Gyruss
29) Altered Beast
30) Rush'N Attack
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Rob Ross
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RE: Opening An Arcade
on 6/23/2013 7:52:15 PM
Impressive list nasero my friend.
My mindset is to keep the games pre-88.
But everyone's list can be whatever they want.
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nycny1978
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RE: Opening An Arcade
on 6/23/2013 8:11:52 PM
That's a good question. I would make it very diverse. A good mix of classics, some co-op games, and some one on ones. Here is my 30 games I would select.
1. Pac-Man
2. Ms. Pac-Man
3. Dig Dug
4. Q*bert
5. Street Fighter II Championship Edition
6. Mortal Kombat
7. Donkey Kong
8. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
9. Final Fight
10. Contra
11. Gauntlet
12. The Simpsons
13. Mario Bros.
14. Centipede
15. Street Fighter Alpha 3
16. NBA Jam
17. Galaga
18. Tetris
19. Joust
20. OutRun
21. Neo Geo MVS with at least one game being Metal Slug
22. Bubble Bobble
23. Elevator Action
24. Frogger
25. Marvel vs. Capcom
26. 1941
27. Smash TV
28. Rampage
29. Tapper
30. Millipede
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Rob Ross
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RE: Opening An Arcade
on 6/23/2013 8:32:52 PM
Rampage, TMNT really gobble quarters nicely....good choices.
Dig Dug, Elevator Action, Tapper and Tetris were near my list. They almost made it.
Marvel vs Capcom could compliment my other fighters.
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Ghostlord
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RE: Opening An Arcade
on 6/24/2013 1:46:01 PM
Awesome question....is this just hypothetical or are you opening something??
I'd need a little more info so I can fine tune my games list even better.
- Free standing building, or in a mall?
- Pay per play or free play business model?
- Who is working there, what is their games repair level? Do they know how to fix everything and are you set up to do your own repairs?
- Is there a fighting or shumps scene at all in your area?
- Will it be strictly arcade? Pinball? Redemption? Beer?
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gf29
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RE: Opening An Arcade
on 6/24/2013 3:42:50 PM
I dream of opening an arcade but with mostly newer games, like:
Darius Burst Another Chronicle
Wangan Midnight Maximum tune 4 or Race Driver GRID (listed in the database as Grid)
Street Fighter IV or Super Street Fighter IV
Tekken Tag Tournament 2 Unlimited
KOF XIII/ KOF XIII Climax
Terminator Salvation
DJMax Technika 3
DDR or PIU
Pacman Battle Royale
Virtua Tennis 4
3-4 Pinball machines:
Metallica
The Avengers
The Wizard of Oz
The fourth pinball would be retro, and would change frequently because I would rent each one for four months from an operator.
From the same operator as the pinballs, or another one I have in Israel, I would rent the retro games, that would also change frequently, but I would buy a machine with a 60-in-1 ICade PCB.
Retro games include:
X-men the Beat'em up ( I hope one of the operators still has it)
Virtua Fighter series
Street Fighter series
Neo Geo games (KOF, Metal Slug, Bust-A-move, and more)
Daytona USA
Time Crisis series
Ridge Racer
Virtua racing
Tekken series
and much much more.
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Rob Ross
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RE: Opening An Arcade
on 6/24/2013 9:55:00 PM
@ Doc
It would be a Barcade kinda place (or like Two Bits in Manhattan with a small footprint) in a strip mall type location.
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Robert
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RE: Opening An Arcade
on 6/24/2013 10:51:05 PM
Here are my 30...22 for single players, 8 for doubles.
Edit (6/26) - replaced "Dig Dug" with the uber-fun "Daytona" linked player title instead.
Arkanoid
Asteroids
Centipede
Crazy Taxi
Depth Charge
Donkey Kong
Frogger
Galaga
Galaxian
Joust
Missile Command
Ms Pacman
Pacman
Pole Position
Q*Bert
Rally X
Robotron
Space Invaders
Star Wars
Tapper
Track and Field
Tron
Atari Football
Daytona or Daytona 2 multi-player linked set
Gauntlet
Mario Brothers
Rampage
Smash TV
Street Fighter 2 CE
Trog
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moneill139
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RE: Opening An Arcade
on 6/24/2013 10:51:45 PM
What about pins?
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moneill139
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RE: Opening An Arcade
on 6/24/2013 10:57:07 PM
Rob Ross Wrote:
@ Doc
It would be a Barcade kinda place (or like Two Bits in Manhattan with a small footprint) in a strip mall type location. |
Sounds 2 years ago. Will you have 14 non- twingalaxie regulation dk machines there?
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Robert
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RE: Opening An Arcade
on 6/24/2013 11:11:03 PM
I like the Barcade concept of beer but nothing harder.
I'd say beers, a mix of standards, some local favourites, and maybe a few special brews to add some variety...all on tap, no bottles.
Add cider if possible (i.e. Mike's hard cider and some other cool ones) and also on tap coke and significant coke products.
Add if possible chicken wings and finger-type foods of that variety. "Bagel Bites" (at a mark-up), "White Castle" via heating up the frozen kind...small style favourites like that. In other words, reasonable foods at reasonable prices, no utensils, paper plates to minimize cleanup costs.
Sports-theme sitdown area in one corner for 10-20 people, maybe another corner showing a movie/cable for another 10-20 people.
Add as a test...schedule a "kids day" maybe twice per month...no beer served/taps turned off except for the soda, and then just serve the finger foods...and see if it can make a profit.
All well and good to map it out...but whether it makes money...
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moneill139
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RE: Opening An Arcade
on 6/25/2013 12:32:46 AM
Gastro-ManCade. Coming soon to a town near me
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Nashvillan
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RE: Opening An Arcade
on 6/25/2013 1:04:08 AM
Ok, I've had enough time to think about it! :)
My 30 would be:
Outrun
Pole Position II
Neo Geo MVS with a Metal Slug game, Samurai Shodown game, Bust-a-Move, King-of-the Monsters, King of Fighters game, and Soccer Brawl (yes, a six slot version)
Pac-Man 25th Anniversary
Gaplus
Gyruss
Robotron/Joust
Tron
Street Fighter II CE
Super Street Fighter II Turbo
Daytona USA 4 seater.
X-men 6 player
Punch Out!
Final Fight
Night Slashers
Aliens vs Predator 3 player
Temple Run
Doodle Jump
Claw machine
Claw machine
Stacker
Rage in the cage 2 player
Slam a winner extreme
Price is Right coin pusher
Wizard of Oz coin pusher
Price is Right Shell Game
Wizard of Oz pinball
The Getaway High Speed II pinball
Pinbot pinball
Now before I get all sorts of flame messages about my choices, bear in mind that my choices are based on making money and kids spend money faster than adults while in these places. They also like modern games, thus my modern redemption games. I have to attract the entire family, not just folks my age.
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Robert
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RE: Opening An Arcade
on 6/25/2013 1:51:01 AM
I thought "Temple Run" was a game strictly for hand-held devices...never saw an arcade version before. When was it released for the arcades ?
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gf29
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RE: Opening An Arcade
on 6/25/2013 2:02:59 AM
Robert Wrote:
I thought "Temple Run" was a game strictly for hand-held devices...never saw an arcade version before. When was it released for the arcades ? |
It was released for the arcades very recently.
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Ghostlord
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RE: Opening An Arcade
on 6/25/2013 4:00:28 PM
The bar-cade concept, I think can (and has proven to be) profitable, but I always worried about the spills in the machines and if it would impact the hardcore "I'm-here-to-play-games-and-nothing-more" crowd. It would make me want to have less RARE games....and the rare games can be such a great draw to hardcore players.
If the crowd you bring in is more heavy drinkers and rowdy it just seems like its only a matter of time before machines start going down due to spills and rough play. Once you start losing machines then you run the risk of losing the players that REALLY want to play there regularly versus drinking. Again I know there is a happy middle ground but, I think it can really impact the games list. Stuff like NBA JAM, X-Men, Blitz, are going to be much more suited than a game like DEATH RACE. Also those games work much better in a Pay Per Play set up, as opposed to classics. A game like X-men or Simpsons will get people shoveling quarters for their group to play where as a game like Donkey Kong (while people love to see it sitting there as its a staple game) don't play it cause its TOO hard and only 1 player at a time. Even on Free Play games like that, people only try a couple of times and move on because of the difficulty. Our regulars play them to death because they are going for scores, but it takes the right environment to get a player into scores.
Also if it has an incident or two because of alcohol then you also run the risk of getting labeled as a bad place for kids.
I've seen a lot of nice bars with arcade games opening lately, but you can tell their focus is on the beer and not the games.
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Robert
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RE: Opening An Arcade
on 6/25/2013 9:31:29 PM
Keep in mind that when the beer flows, reaction time diminishes, thus short duration games like "Death Race" can really have the quarters pumped in once people start issuing personal challenges to their drinking buddies.
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