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."

Comments

Not the worst

[Anonymous Coward]

I seen worse, lots worse. Good places to look are small time airports in the back rooms near the gates. Dang.

I agree

[Anonymous Coward]

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...

Re:Saw this on Fark

[00420]

Good question. It appears to be working too even though the article says that only one game was working.

There are much worse ideas from the Snyder camp

[EaTiN cOfFeE bEaNs]

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.

[off-topic] Speaking of worst games ever...

[empaler]

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!

Re:[off-topic] Speaking of worst games ever...

[cgenman]

What, you don't remember the infamous Chex Quest? It used the Doom engine, but really looked like something Wolfenstein would be ashamed of. It even had two sequels.

I guess it is weird enough to escape a "worst of all time" label. But it should garner a "best of so-bad-it's-good." Sometimes you can find them online.

Ouch...the bandwidth costs...

[Gothic_Walrus]

Off-topic, but indulge me...

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... :)

Re:Ouch...the bandwidth costs...

[simoniker]

We perhaps still need some way to signify this, but fortunately for Matt, this isn't a mainpage Slashdotting, but a games-sectional Slashdotting, which is more like a breakfast kipper to the face than a large fish slapping you into a canal, if you get my Python-esque drift.

Or unfortunately, if he wanted the traffic, I guess. YMMV :)

Touchmaster 5000

[hiroshi912681]

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

Re:Touchmaster 5000

[DeadScreenSky]

I actually looked briefly into trying to emulate one of those systems - it is basically a standard X86-based PC, IIRC. So it is potentially really easy to emulate, though I am pretty sure stuff like MAME is actually very poorly equipped to do just that (though it is probably getting better). Might have some very tricky protection, however - other PC-based games (like Raiden Fighters series) certainly do, probably because the hardware is so easy to get.

I never played the quiz game, but the various Playboy games were pretty fun. My gf and I would play a few rounds every time we drove to and from college - a nice break for a 4 hour drive. :D

Re:Touchmaster 5000

[hiroshi912681]

maybe a heavily modified bochs would work for the quiz game? =P

I'm a bit shocked the Raiden Fighters series ran off a 386... I don't see how they did it... considering it's leaps and bounds above any shooter I've ever seen on PC from that era. (anyone remember Kaeon or that shmup from Apogee?)

Chex?

[empaler]

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.)

This ain't nothin'

[mrpuffypants]

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.

World Cup Pinball

[riggwelter]

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...?