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Wow, if you thought the PC specs were going to be difficult to talk about, you ain't seen nothing yet. Arcade games (until the advent of standards like System8, System16 etc) are pretty much individual every time. Custom hardware, custom software, and even custom cabinets.
So hey, I really can't write much about arcade games... but arcades themselves have changed so much! I remember times where arcades had row upon row of video games, maybe an area devoted to the latest video games (especially when something like Daytona USA or Mad Dog McCree came along) and a small smattering of the "one-armed bandit", or Fruit Machines, as they are better known. Now, it's pretty much all Fruit Machines with just a few arcade games (usually the newer more reliable games rather than classics, many of which get bought by collectors if they are still around and working).
I prefer the old style arcades. Some of them are still around, but they are getting increasingly thin on the ground. Fruit Machines take more money, and although there's more and more gambling being encouraged as a result, the benefit of all the extra income makes up for it. Seriously, a pound on a Fruit Machine (even at 5p play) will last about 40 seconds, unless you actually get some feature play to slow things down a bit, one credit on Time Crisis 2 lasted me 15 minutes or so whilst I completed it. And these days, that's more likely to be 50p than a quid.
It's not a surprising situation. But it's the reality. How I wish it wasn't.
Bad Dudes vs. DragonNinja
10th August 2012
Chase H.Q.
11th October 2011
Crime City
July 2010
Daytona USA
July 2010
Double Dragon
November 2009
Gauntlet
February 2010
Ghosts 'n' Goblins
16th September 2011
Golden Axe
29th June 2012
Hypersports
22nd November 2011
Indiana Jones
17th November 2011
Kung Fu Master
June 2010
Mad Dog McCree
November 2009
Mortal Kombat
23rd November 2012
NARC
October 2010
Operation Wolf
25th October 2011
Operation Wolf 3
7th November 2011
Pac-Man Ball
April 2011
Paperboy
27th March 2012
Pit Fighter
February 2010
Q*Bert
30th November 2011
Rampage
23rd November 2011
Sunset Riders
14th September 2011
Tapper
20th November 2012
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
May 2011
Track & Field
22nd November 2011
Vendetta
June 2011
Vigilante
June 2010
WWF Wrestlefest
August 2010