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There is nothing like classic video games and pinballs. MAME is great, but still can't capture it completely. I am glad I got to grow up during the great era of arcades.
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Not so fast...The door has swung the other direction. As a child, I wasn't the richest kid in town, and I didn't play arcade games much. It was a quarter a pop, and if you aren't much good (which you can't be without experience) your quarter doesn't last long. I remember quite vividly getting my first nintendo, and how amazing it seemed that I could play Duck Hunt for half an hour with no line, and no quarters. Why go back?
If you have to ask, you just don't get it.
Seriously. I was born in '69, so I was there when all of the classic games came out. Maybe I am just being nostalgic, but it was an awesome time. Take your $5 that you saved and go to the arcade. You could play 20 games, if you didn't buy any chips or Coke. You could watch other people play. I remember when Pac Man came out. I bought the damn "Pac Man Fever" 45. I remember playing Moon Patrol and Joust at the Pizza Hut. I always went for the 5x in Lunar Lander instead of playing it safe with the 2x. Sinistar still scares the crap out of me. I spent many many hours playing Star Wars. Games like Gauntlet let you play alongside other people. I could go on and on. Check out Video Arcade Preservation Society (VAPS) or the Killer List of Video games (KLOV) if you want to go back in time a little. And there is always MAME for a more hands-on approach.
It isn't like home systems weren't fun, I broke countless Atari 2600 joysticks. But you just can't compare the classic arcade scene to home gaming or arcades of today. It just doesn't work.
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Re:All sorts of video games
Just because you can emulate arcade roms, snes roms and psx discs, doesn't mean it's legal to do so, or that they're somehow 'open'.
And what if I'm using legitimate PSX cds?
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Re:Frozen bubble
Seeing a PC rip-off of a game that has been released on the NeoGeo, Super Nintendo, PS1, Game Boy Advance, and really almost every console and handheld game system released in the last decade referred to as an original game disgusted me.
Prowd owner of an F-3 system with Puzzle Bobble 2 [www.vaps.org] -
Re:Why is Slashdot posting this nonsense?Let's face it; the only people that are playing these "classic" games these days are playing them via an emulator
Bullshit! There are quite a few of us that have collections of them. Have a look at VAPS to see how many people collect. --mark
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Check out VAPs to preserve our video game heritage
VAPS The Video Arcade Preservation Society is what it is all about. I mean it is not easy work to obtain and preserve an old stand up but it very very worth it. If you look hard you won't have to pay more then a few hundred dollars, although shipping can be a big hassle. Opps, needs to be HTML formatted, tags to text does not do links
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Check out VAPs to preserve our video game heritage
VAPS The Video Arcade Preservation Society is what
it is all about. I mean it is not easy work to
obtain and preserve an old stand up but it very
very worth it. If you look hard you won't have to
pay more then a few hundred dollars, although
shipping can be a big hassle. -
Do you know VAPS?
If you are interested in old video games, you should check out the VAPS-Site. VAPS is the Video Arcade Preservation Society and tries to collect old video arcade machines, especially old and rare games.