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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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RE: Opening An Arcade
on 6/24/2013 10:51:45 PM
What about pins?
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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