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Thank you for your great and insightful response. The Injustice fighting game with slap buttons was the tipping point for me when I saw it I was like "oh my what fight games been reduced to " I guess things change, and I know why the gun games and racing games are there, it just is sad how the classics are mostly gone or at the fringes. I feel bad Capcom deceived you maybe they should change their name to CapCon. I guess seeing as you are still in business you aren't letting nostalgia get that much in the way of the business. I guess the people that held on went out of business or had to pivot into barcade business models.

Will do if I am ever in the Utah area. Is the West Valley the best valley I haven't been there?

Tokens, Quarters or do they use a card and credit system?

I posted a similar post elsewhere in general chat but it was based on limited information and had a bad title that didn't help the conversation. This post is in a more relevant section with expanded and new information with a more relevant and constructive title. I am also far more self deprecating in this post. I am satisfied with the response and it has been mostly positive with people agreeing with me. In fact someone went even farther than my position. I am still learning what the community expects and how it reacts so I am trying to do better. Now I am not saying there are no classic arcades but they are few and far between and all newly built arcades seem to follow the same model. If you think that is bullshit I don't know what to say to that other than this seems to be the case in North America / Europe and may not apply to Japan. I hope that clarifies things a bit.

For those who don't know there is a Cabinet of Berzerk that was in Friar Tuck's Game Room in Calumet City outside of Chicago that has 2 Deaths associated with it. The first death was from heart problems while playing the game and getting a high score. The other was from a deadly knife attack after a fight over tokens left on the game being used by someone else. Friar Tuck's closed and I am assuming they sold off all the games to private collectors and or other arcades. Which brings me to the question did purchase the Berzerk and do they know it's deadly history? Anyone hear about any collectors bagging or talking about the cursed Berzerk? Would anybody want to play on that Berzerk?

I hear you, Arcades used to have better graphics and gameplay than what was possible in the home that stopped being the case around the Dreamcast launch. They still are making new games but they all have to have some mimic either they are racing or some sort of gun game or a cheap mobile conversion. At Dave & Busters I beat Terminator Salvation with a friend which was a high point. I miss the Beat Em Ups and Smups though as well as the classics.

I heard that Funspot passed on the fighting games after real world fights broke over playing the games. Did they have Cadillacs and Dinosaurs, Simpsons, X-men or Area 51?

Looks great, they have a large x-men and a tapper.

No but what is your point? Arcades in 1994 still used tokens, had joystick games and had traditional arcade cabinets.

So a Dave & Busters recently opened by me and for those who don't know it is a chain of Barcades / Restaurant where you can take your kids out and drink alcoholic beverages(seriously there are tones of kids and parents drinking). Anyways what I saw was mostly all new / newer arcade games. It looks almost completely different from an classic arcade where the "traditional games" are gun games or driving games and what is left are mobile game ports using ridiculous slap buttons. I only saw one fighting game and it was the DC injustice but without a joystick and only the large slap buttons to do your moves. There was no skee-ball but there were a small assortment of carnival style games. I went to another arcade that was in a bowling alley and it was all the same things. except they had skee-ball but it cost ~$1 per play. What they do seem to have is a rfid card that you load credits in and tap your rfid card on a small screen that reads the amount of credits the game costs. They absolutely have no Atari Games or traditional arcade cabinets with a joystick style game. No more are the joystick games or classic arcade buttons no more are any hardcore skill games. In someways I get it but it seems as if decades of arcade games are just gone from any new arcade. I remember arcades always used to have the older games, in the 90s they still had the games from the early 80s. Gone are the arcade tokens a tradition reaching almost a century back is gone in a modern arcade, they will only appear as a novelty in the gambling coin push games. If that doesn't make you feel old I don't know what will. What are your thoughts on this and modern arcades? Has the Classic Arcade come to an end? Post any pics of classic arcades to keep it's spirit alive. But hey maybe I am just jaded and becoming an old curmudgeon.

Make the Protagonist distinct enough from Mega Man I don't want the project being taken out by Capcom's legal department. I also want you to be able to sell this worry free and make some dough.

Would love to see a 7800 version. Great design, I am surprised you were able to get a switch that is flush enough to not need modification.

They really should have made a version for the 2600. I agree with the Demon Attack over Phoenix.

It doesn't feel right without the Actoplaque

I am glad someone wants them, these to me are the least appealing variants. You have the bright classic Activision carts with their iconic look and then you get a boring blue wall of text with the cheapened later releases. I have seen a bunch I always pass them up so have fun collecting them.

You tease Al Lowe and pull it I hope it returns can't wait to hear it.

So as we know on the Atari once something was popular there were other publishers rushing to have their own version. With clone games being mirrors of each other which one did you like better? Phoenix or Demon Attack Battle zone or Robot Tank Space Invaders or Gorf Star Raiders or Starmaster Kaboom or Beat 'Em & Eat 'Em You can name other clone pairs and pick your favorites. Feel free to comment below and if you feel a game is unfairly labeled as a clone but is substantially different comment as well.

What games should have AtariVox voice hacks and what should they say? Would you want have Keystone Kapers say: I am going to get you? Would You want tips and ET catchphrases to ET? Would you want taunts and expletives to be had in Outlaw? Would you want menacing voices and taunts from the Boss in Yars' Revenge? Post what games you would think would be beneficial to have AtariVox voice support and what lines you would want to hear.

Interesting choice of a 6 button Sega controller, I personally would have picked up a used 3 button controller as the d-pad is a bit larger and it fits better in adult hands. To each their own I guess. I will refer to this post when I try my own mod. Thanks!

If people don't want you to play a game, you should probably play that game.

I am just slowly learning how this community interacts.

Yes I was aware about the VCR and RetroTINK but lets face it it is a clunky hack and to have to mod a system so it can be played is an even more clunky hack. Wouldn't it be great if you can just get a box with a cartridge port and a pair of db-9 controller ports and be able to hook it up to a modern tv with no extra hardware? Maybe the original hardware is best played on CRTs but going forward having a FPGA 7800 core that is open and available would help ensure boxes and hardware can be made that will just work going forward even if HDMI gets depreciated in favor of Display port V4.3 or USB type G. But yes right now the best you can do without modding is a VCR + RetroTINK or with modding a S-Video + RetroTINK. Well on the bright side at least you can also watch '10 Things I Hate About You' with the VCR setup.

Did you even read the Atari Age has com to an end? I was stating that in a newly built modern arcade there were no Atari games or fully classic cabinets. In that location yes the Atari Age is over. Am I jaded like someone in that thread stated, maybe I am not going to deny that. I am not trying to stir things up to destroy but rather to get people to think about preservation and things going forward. I am new to this community so maybe I am doing this all wrong. How would you have titled the post Flojomojo?