Off Topic: Arcade, Pinball, and Video Game Inspirational Poster Contest
Arcade, Pinball, and Video Game Inspirational Posters!
As one who comes from the era when Asteroids and Missile Command first arrived at the local pizza joint, I find this contest mildly entertaining to watch. I'm sure this could be done with board games as well.
MAME rocks, by the way!
posted by Ben @ 6:41 AM
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11 Comments:
Cool stuff. Yes, MAME rocks. I had to buy a new gamepad...to play those classics that of course, I already own.
Pshh, classics. NEO GEO is the future! Err...was the future...
The arcade, much like the FLGS, is an endangered breed.
One of these days I'm going to either build or (more likely) purchase a MAME cabinet. I'm just afraid that once I plunked down a couple thousand bucks on the control panel, arcade monitor, dedicated PC, cabinet, etc., I'd just get sick of the games. Nonetheless, I'm going on 25 years of playing Asteroids and enjoying it...
Neo Geo games are pretty good... I've had fun discovering games like Metal Slug.
Samurai Shodown my man, Samurai Showdown...
I used to be really into the Street Fighter series (specially alpha), Killer Instinct, Mortal kombat, but indeed my fav was Samurai showdown. Just awesome. Later on it was Marvel vs Capcom until I had 2 heart attacks and a seizure playing it at my local arcade.
MVSC is too easy for button mashers. I like the Soul Calibur, Samurai Shodown, Dead or Alive fighter game style that rewards some skill. I don't like Tekken though, where you have to really know every move to be good (and can be caught in death loops where you can't do crap while an experienced player wails on you). It’s all about striking the balance…
Marvel Vs. Capcom 2 was great and made me keep my Sega Dreamcast for a long, long time.
Perhaps I need to look into getting a USB 6-button arcade panel that might fit on my desktop so I can recapture the thrill of some fighting games...
Dude, MvsC is the epitomy of 2d fighting games. Button mashing? No way man. To be good you have to be able to do a BUNCH of different things:
1. Plan when to use an assist from your patner
2. time your super moves
3. Switch players when hurt
4. Plan when to use the third extra assist character.
5. Learn how to do those combos the CPU uses on you.
6. All this while cursing at your opponent
Rob:
"1. Plan when to use an assist from your partner
2. Time your super moves
3. Switch players when hurt
4. Plan when to use the third extra assist character.
5. Learn how to do those combos the CPU uses on you.
6. All this while cursing at your opponent"
Yeah, because those are all real tough to figure out...Learn two buttons, pause occasionally, and mash the rest...
Don't get me wrong, I like MVSC and I'm no fighter veteran, but it's a noob's fighting game.
You know what fighter was impossible for me to learn? Killer Instinct. Lordy, I got slaughtered repeatedly in that game...
MVSC is a pretty decent game, but it suffers from some nasty character balance issues. Some characters, mostly the ones with "beam" attacks like Cable, Iceman, and so on, were WAY too easy to use. A newbie could sit back and shoot beams all day and give a decent player a hard time, and in the hands of an experienced player it was far worse.
Then again, this situation made it all the more rewarding to use the weaker characters. I had one guy storm out of the arcade and not return for twenty minutes after I schooled his Cable/Akuma/Iceman team without ever switching out characters and only using Cammy.
What all of this boils down to, basically, is that MVSC is pretty cool for casual play, but it doesn't stand up to any sort of real competitive play. When it comes to "serious" 2d fighting, I'd say the pinnacle is Street Fighter 3: Third Strike, although I'm partial to pretty much all of the Neo Geo fighters as well, particularly Samurai Showdown.
Yeah, I pretty much spent all of my middle and high school years, and my first couple of college years, in arcades. I've also kept all of my old console systems so I can play whenever I get the itch.
Oh yeah, and Killer Instinct was all about memorizing combos. If you could remember all the buttons to push to pull off one of the ridiculously long combos, and if you could time it right to break your opponent's combo, that's all you needed to know.
I was a freaking master with Glacius. Wouldn't play with anyone else. I new every move, every combo, etc. I played better though on the Nintendo 64 (I was generally better with a gamepad than a joystick). I wonder when we'll see Mame support for that...
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