awbacon Posted July 28, 2021 Share Posted July 28, 2021 of all the games on the Capcom CPS Mercs is the one I've played the most because I just love it 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
roots.genoa Posted July 28, 2021 Share Posted July 28, 2021 I love that game too. It was the first game my brother and I played on an arcade cabinet in the ferry to England. The Genesis port was the first game we got for the console along Quackshot. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
awbacon Posted August 1, 2021 Author Share Posted August 1, 2021 On 7/28/2021 at 3:44 PM, roots.genoa said: I love that game too. It was the first game my brother and I played on an arcade cabinet in the ferry to England. The Genesis port was the first game we got for the console along Quackshot. they had arcade cabinets on boats in England?! never heard that before Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
roots.genoa Posted August 1, 2021 Share Posted August 1, 2021 6 hours ago, awbacon said: they had arcade cabinets on boats in England?! never heard that before Absolutely. Actually that's where I discovered most arcade games I know, even though later on there was a annual fair not far from where I live. Since my brother and I were sea sick, we would ask our father his bag of pounds to play arcade games, and we would give it back a lot lighter... ? Mercs was a sole cabinet the first time (or the second?) we took the ferry, but later there would be a small arcade room with maybe 16-20 cabinets. We played Virtua Fighter, World Heroes, The Simpsons, etc. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
awbacon Posted August 3, 2021 Author Share Posted August 3, 2021 On 8/1/2021 at 3:03 PM, roots.genoa said: Absolutely. Actually that's where I discovered most arcade games I know, even though later on there was a annual fair not far from where I live. Since my brother and I were sea sick, we would ask our father his bag of pounds to play arcade games, and we would give it back a lot lighter... ? Mercs was a sole cabinet the first time (or the second?) we took the ferry, but later there would be a small arcade room with maybe 16-20 cabinets. We played Virtua Fighter, World Heroes, The Simpsons, etc. today I learned the British have arcade cabs on boats lol...thats 100% news to me! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
roots.genoa Posted August 3, 2021 Share Posted August 3, 2021 Well, the British or the French, I don't know who the boat belongs to! ? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
awbacon Posted August 4, 2021 Author Share Posted August 4, 2021 On 8/3/2021 at 10:53 AM, roots.genoa said: Well, the British or the French, I don't know who the boat belongs to! ? ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
schuwalker Posted August 5, 2021 Share Posted August 5, 2021 Mercs was sorta of a rare bird bitd. Not as widely spread as the other CPS-1 games. I wonder if it's attributed to that monster cab it was in. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
roots.genoa Posted August 5, 2021 Share Posted August 5, 2021 Off the top of my head, I can't name another 3-player cabinet, so it could explain why it's rare. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
str0m Posted August 12, 2021 Share Posted August 12, 2021 (edited) Yes everytime I went on holiday with my parents from the UK to France/Spain and I got on the ferry I would immediately run around to find the small arcade! They normally had a Neo Geo MVS and a few other cabs. It was in the 90s I last went on one but found a few pics here of someone who went on one of the English Channel ferries after that, much bigger arcade http://planetharriers.blogspot.com/2013/11/pirates-of-english-channel.html Edited August 12, 2021 by str0m Update 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
roots.genoa Posted August 12, 2021 Share Posted August 12, 2021 41 minutes ago, str0m said: Yes everytime I went on holiday with my parents from the UK to France/Spain and I got on the ferry I would immediately run around to find the small arcade! They normally had a Neo Geo MVS and a few other cabs. It was in the 90s I last went on one but found a few pics here of someone who went on one of the English Channel ferries after that, much bigger arcade http://planetharriers.blogspot.com/2013/11/pirates-of-english-channel.html Thanks for that! These pictures are recent indeed but I'm quite sure the room was the same (in terms of size and even colors) in the 90s... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
awbacon Posted August 13, 2021 Author Share Posted August 13, 2021 On 8/12/2021 at 6:42 AM, roots.genoa said: Thanks for that! These pictures are recent indeed but I'm quite sure the room was the same (in terms of size and even colors) in the 90s... I am blown away by all this lol 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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