Reminiscing on... the arcades

[ryu_haneda]

I remember playing coin-op arcade games growing up as a kid and later as a teenager.

Some of my favorite arcade classics include:
Roadblasters
Outrun
Shinobi
Altered Beast
Turbo Outrun
Virtua Racing
Daytona Racing
Cruisin USA

...yours?

[anothernord]

Tyrain!

[Reason]

off road, 4 player, I swear I will own one when I find one

[1996Battlewagon]

Metal Slug FTW!

[Huffer]

Double Dragon
Bad Dudes vs Dragon Ninja
Final Fight
NBA Jam
Gauntlet

[blackmedal]

Great thread! Haha!

Raiden II

I played it recently with a buddy at Ground Kontrol in downtown Portland. Bonus: They serve alcohol! :grin:

[MadScotsMan]

Tempest.

[chuckthefuk]

All side-scrolling fighters..
-Street Fighter II (I actually have the orginal cabinet w/ ROM in my living room)
-Marvel Super Heroes & The Infinity Gems
-Marvel Vs. Capcom
-Tekken 3/Tag
-X-men Vs. Capcom
-Killer Instinct

Light Gun / Pedal step
-Time Crisis
-Jurassic Park
-House of the dead

3D/2D Adventure
-Die Hard Arcade
-X-Men (6-player vesion)
-Metal Slug
-Golden Axe

Driving
-Crusing USA/World
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Just to name a few from my childhood/teenage hood

-Chuck

[Reason]

Who has some good websites to find these refurbished?

[chuckthefuk]

The cabinet?

As in the actual acrade itself?

[Reason]

Yes a full blown arcade unit. I know I can google it and find plenty I've done it before. Im just wondering if anyone dealt with a place and or knows of a place with good prices and assortments. There's a local place here but I don't like the stuff he has, and his prices are high for poor condition machines.

[chuckthefuk]

Do you have "Playdium" in the states? if you do they should have an outlet where all there retired games go on sale for the public.. Other than that if you find someone who deals with Pinball machines then most likely they deal with the Cabinets..

I got mine from a privateer who repairs them on his spare time. The only mod I did to the cabinet was install a 22" LCD with a converter attached to it..

:-D no more eye fatigue.
-Chuck

[Reason]

No shit? Send me pics of this setup?

[Reason]

I found the game I wanted, super offroad that game was great. It was a 3 player not 4...

[Huffer]

I would totally get a Gauntlet machine. Major team button mashing!

[chuckthefuk]

Gauntlet!!! thats what i forgot.. "Pojo needs food"

-Chuck

[chuckthefuk]

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:-D

-Chuck

[TGX4776]

daaayum. I want one even though i wasnt old enough these were big and my parents thought arcades were a waste of money since we had an NES / SNES

[chuckthefuk]

Yup.. i went through the same.... I even had a chance to get a random cabinet when I was 13 but my parents said no dice.... Same with a trampoline :-(

Either way I split the cabinet with my roomate.. $500 cabinet + $80 LCD + $40 CRT->LCD converter.. $620 total.. Not that bad in the end.. Plus with the LCD mounted there was lots of room for me to mount a Pentium 4 small pc in the back with a usb to arcade adapter so I run everything from MAME to SNES

Its the same kind of feeling when middle aged men buy there child hood dream car.... I am not at that point but the cabinet just made sense..

-Chuck

[SubaRooNZ]

Street Fighter 2 hyper ed
mortal kombat
world heroes
robo army
double dragon
hammerin harry

own the big neo geo machines for street fighter/hammerin harry/mortal kombat just have to swap the romms out nd got a southpark pinball machine:D

[phi11]

yeah, one of my friends is building a arcade cabinet right now, I can't wait!