Halflife 2 Coming to an Arcade Nowhere Near You

Posted by Zonk on Tuesday November 2, 2004 @07:23AM from the use-the-dance-pad-mr.-freeman dept.

Phill Proud writes "Arcade board manufacturer Taito is set to begin sales of an arcade version of Halflife 2, including a multiplayer mode, in the Summer of 2005 (Japan) "Taito will develop an arcade version for their original "Type X" circuit board. The Type X is an arcade game circuit board running Windows XP Embedded that can use the Windows game development environment. The arcade game will be a customised version of the Windows software and will allow 3 game modes - a "Story mode" for single-player play, a "Battle mode" for players country-wide to compete in real-time and a "Mission mode" for players to collaborate tactically.""

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Re:that's ok... by dykofone · 2004-11-02 07:37 · Score: 5, Insightful

A quarter would be awesome. Arcades lost their luster for me when I started having to pay $1 for Area 51 because I couldn't afford Time Crisis 2 at $2. Pretty much the only arcades left any more are at places like Dave and Busters, where you get a point card that really starts to screw up the budgeting. "Let's see, $10 got me 4378 points, and Tokyo Wars costs 653 points, so that makes it cost how much?"
On a slightly related note, I was wating in the airport recently and realized how well an arcade would do there. I might even be willing to spend $1 for a round at some shooter, since that'd be cheap compared to the $8 Big Mac I just ate, and beats the hell out of watching the Weather Channel while sitting on those akward benches.