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Inside The Worst Videogame Arcade In The World?
Anonymous Coward writes "Arcades may be a dying breed, so it's a good thing the crusty hotels around the world haven't put the axe to their old game rooms. An article at X-Entertainment provides a lighthearted review of one of the worst hotel arcades out there, featuring broken video games and enough stains to make every joystick in the place off limits."
I seen worse, lots worse. Good places to look are small time airports in the back rooms near the gates. Dang.
Didn't bother asking this question because the thread was already old, but what's that odd looking game that's standing beside the pinball machine in the wide shot?
Rob
This is nothing. At least the game machines had the correct sidepanels and banner titles, and no one was currently having *sex* on them...
Bad memories...
I hadn't checked X-E in a while and I'd just been catching up on it. Guess that's not going to be lasting much longer.
I thought the world was a lot bigger than Atlantic City. Come on! That's nothing compared to arcades in China, or other devleoping countries.
Snyder's Hot Buffalo Wing Potato Chips. Holy Christ. It's like they took a bunch of regular ridged chips, wiped 'em along the sides of long discarded Domino's Pizza buffalo wing boxes, sacked 'em up and shipped 'em into the stomachs of unsuspecting chicken and potato fans nationwide. Most people would have a hard enough time picturing a chicken-flavored potato chip that sounds remotely palatable, but even if you can, it's not this.
I, too, have come across these, and at my old high school at that. However, this was quite possibly the best-sounding flavor. How about dill pickle flavored chips? Or how about Coney Dog flavored chips? Trust me, you got the best of the bunch. Stick to Snyder's pretzels and nothing more.
No TiVo and no caffeine make me something something...
When I saw the headline, I remembered the worst FPS I've ever tried; In Pursuit of Greed - the color scheme and 3D engine somehow worked together to create a nauseating experience. I actually had to stop playing the demo because I got physically ill from looking at it!
Now I feel very bad for Matt, the site's owner. The site is already popular enough...but now the link for this article has made its way to Fark (as much of his work does) and to Slashdot.
Poor Matt...say goodbye to your house. You'll be living in a cardboard box from now on... :)
Goo goo g'joob.
I've seen a lot of these games... I do believe it is the "Touch Master 5000" (possibly the 3000?) from Midway. It has a variety of games built into it. One of the best games on it is Quiz Wiz. Well worth the 25c. And if you get the top score, you get a free game. You'll find card games like solitaire, word games, chess, checkers, and weird mini-games...
I don't believe it's emulated... which is a shame, there aren't enough cool quiz games in English to play
Wtf? I don't even know General Mills. I'm from Denmark* - but from the looks of the screenshots, the game wasn't physically challenging, just aesthetically unpleasing.
- You might think I'm just exaggerating to get my point across, but I did *literally* get nauseated. I tried to keep playing for a while, the little nerd that I was (I'm not little anymore), but it overcame me. The music was ok, though...
* (The Kingdom of Denmark doesn't officially have any military but our "Defense" - yet we've invaded a country several times larger than our own.)
For me, and I hope for most, a work doesn't need a high score in Concept, Content, and Execution to make for an enjoyable experience. Just one will suffice, if it's high enough.
My parents are both postal workers. One day I was vititing them and noticed that they had some arcade machines in the break room. One was a shooting game. The poor trigger had been worn down to a nub from all the people playing constantly, shooting villans and innocents on the game.
nah. That's not totally true but it would have been hilarious if it was.
Ok, after reading this older article and FINALLY training my eyes to see those goofy 3d images that people used to look at endlessly in the malls (which are actually kinda cool, I must say) - I was trying to look at the image from this article (the one in this story) and I think I just blew both eye-gaskets. I thought I saw something form in the middle of the image, but it turned out to be a 1/3 block of "TV STATIC".
Drat!!!
Don't think that a small group of dedicated individuals can't change the world. It's the only thing that ever has.
> Where's tim rogers when you need him?
Busy being the lead singer for You Am I, I suspect.
I went to my favorite arcade the other day, hoping to get in a good pinball game. They had a measly 3 (lame) machines hidden on the top floor.
Can anyone recommend a good pinball arcade in the New Hampshire area?
"No matter where you go, there you are." -- Buckaroo Banzai
Used to be my hometown had an arcade. A real one. People lining up, putting their tokens on the screen to play the next round of Street Fighter. The works. There were several pinball machines, mini golf, and Lazer Tag upstairs.
Those days are gone. There's a Staples there now.
Some of the games from that arcade made it into a back room at our local ghetto mall along with an assortment of kiddie rides. The result is called "Ride-A-Rama" and it looks like all that equipment was set up there and promptly neglected. Half the arcade machines are broken; the rest have such severe monitor burn-in that you can barely make out what's on the screen.
I'm afraid one of them kiddie rides will break down and some toddler will get hurt.
N4st0r, trixx0r h0bb1tz0rz! Th3y st0l3 0ur pr3c10uzz!
I started university over here in the UK In '94, and my hall of residence's bar had various pinball tables over the five years I was there, including the World Cup '94 one, it was possibly the most fun I've ever had with a set of flippers and a little metal ball.
The great thing about it was that it was designed in the States, the one nation on earth that doesn't get football. It showed.
At no point in playing this table did any of the bonuses, options or 'rounds' bear any resemblance to real football terminology. I'm so glad they didn't, it was much more fun taking the piss out of it while playing it for three or four hours a day.
Now, why didn't I get my degree again...?
Listening for the sound of the coming rain...