Aldi is selling arcade machines next week.

[klee123]

On the 31/10 for $499.

You get a choice of Rampage or Street Fighter 2.

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I recall EB was selling them for 700, but yeah...........anyone who wanted an arcade machine can get one next week lol. They look tiny though

For me, I think I'll stick to getting a supergun for my CPS2 boards.

[pilonv1]

If only i had the space and money and time and no family to tell me off about this

[Madmya]

Leave them pilon.

This is cool. But $500.

[lestat]

I think you're better off getting a pandoras box, besides the cabinets are only half size, with 17 inch monitors so not all that great.

[Hercy]

Plus old games are shit. Who really wants to play Joust for more than 12 minutes? Who's still playing their SNES Mini?

[Cletus]

Old games are shit...I couldn't even bring myself to finish Red Dead Redemption...only because it's old now.

[GameHED]

SOME old games are shit.

Dungeons and Dragons arcade was awesome in a group.

Capcom: Do it. You know you want to.

Make it like the SNK NEOGEO Arcade cabinets where you push a button to select the game. (switch from Tower of Doom and Shadows of Mystara)

They still have the DnD license don't they?
The old 90s beat em up games were the party games of the arcade age when played in co-op. You learn from the better players how to beat bosses without dying. There was a kind of spectator sport element of watching people better than you slaughter the game in 1 credit and not spend more money than you to win.

That's what made arcade games attractive to hardcore gamers.
number 1 They were short experiences you could play before going away to do something. (no long term commitment)

number 2 games AI would adjust themselves based on how well you were doing and go easy on you if you were crap and died a lot. (so if you didn't die in previous levels enemies would rush you like psychos with higher speed and response and damage - the point being is the pressure is always on and it's always dangerous to fuck up something we see today in Rogue lite gaming which is trendy now. IF the player dies, enemies go back to being docile so you regain confidence again)

number 3 controls are bolted down to the machine. (one of the problems of console arcade sticks is they wobble a bit in your lap. Arcade sticks attached to a cabinet feel more stable for some reason)

So I think there is a market for this for people who are
A. into hardcore games but not willing to spend hours and weeks like a dark souls player. (the old games like MVC are infinitely replayable but short games) Basically people with more money then time.
B. have enough money to play original over emulated stuff which as we all know has sound glitches and isn't perfect. Owning the original feels more retro because the cabinet makes it feel like the arcade itself. The overall "experience" feels authentic to the 80-90s. It's not just about the actual game but a memory you want to recapture from your kid days.

The another reason older people like older games is because the games did things that today companies don't find worth doing anymore. (eg when capcom got rid of hand drawn sprites and into polygon graphics when MVC2 came out as cost cutting mesaure. Things were consistent: compare the look of Mark of the Wolves art direction to the KOF14 CG stuff. People like the sprites more than CG look because the toyetic look reminds them of toys fighting not comic book people fighting)

If Capcom can release a Street Fighter III cabinet with all three SF3 games I think that would be cool. It's a game that to this day people still find joy playing because of the graphics and animation and skill needed to pull off parry. It was ahead of its time.
The money they make selling high end products to rich kids who were fans of the old stuff and who don't like emulation, they invest into HD remake of SFIII. (add some new illuminati characters which are like Gill's sub bosses.)

It is kind of odd that they chose Street fighter II and not champion edition. World Warrior may have started the one on one fighter craze but champion edition gave it just the right amount of speed increase to make fights feel less like fighting underwater. Plus being the boss characters was a big step up. (the base game is already faster than WW but bosses are fast already so combining the speed increase of the base game with the speed of the boss characters meant you had to have better timing to use these characters than others to do combos.)

About the small screen: that is actually what we used in arcade back in those days. It makes more sense because resolution was low so you would want the small screen to keep the image crisp. Blow up a low res image and use a filter and you are getting a different experience from the past. It's just like emulator version of the game. No point playing on a cabinet if you alter how it was from the past.

What I think would be interesting is original titles made for arcade cabinets but aimed at the home. So for example capcom does a re-release of Marvel Vs Capcom but they add some modified modes just like the home console. (training mode etc)
It would be considered new version like the Street Fighter Alpha 3 upper was to the original Street FighterAlpha 3 but more content and home console features grafted into the arcade cabinet version. I think that would be awesome.
You could have like a Super Street Fighter 2 turbo with options to make it slow like Super. Or place those extra characters fom the Switch version into the arcade cabinet version. Basically you'd have a modified version of the arcade.

If capcom can give us an arcade cabinet version of Street Fighter Apha 3 upper that would be great, then they release a 'home edition' with all the training modes and other bells and whistles later as upgrade.

Do the same thing with SFIII (modes with all the bells and whistls of home ports added into the original arcade cabinet )

[GameHED]

Leave them pilon.

This is cool. But $500.

What shops should do is have a flexible payment plan where you don't have to pay a cent to take it home. You pay in installments like paying off a home loan or car. This will free up space so people can get access to it immediately and the shop can stock more things.

I think EBgames now has AfterPay system now.

I would get a cabinet for the better arcade fighting games lke Marvel Vs Capcom 2, SF3, Street Fighter Alpha 3 since I always play them on console but it's a pain to get out the controllers each time.
The weakness of arcade version is it lacks the cool modes of home editions so what I think capcom can do is make a whole new version of these old games for arcade cabinet fans where it combines the original arcade with the extra modes of home console.
It's the future. People are sick of buying digital copies of things. The best games of the past should be easy to get as arcade cabinet so that people don't have to dig into dusty closets to get the controls out when friends come over. They just turn on the arcade cabinet, and play instantly. Home console has advantages but as you get older you also get lazier. The future is taking the strength of the arcade cabinet ( sturdy construction) with the strengths of home console (training modes and movelists provided within the game, new characters) and combining them both into one thing. (you get all the characters from street fighter alpha 3 dash on PSP but can finally play it with arcade controllers on a arcade cabinet)

What retailers can do is have these cabinets outside their store for people to play them as a demo. (it's an ad for the product for those interested in buying one to take home eventually) SNK can benefit a lot from this idea since most of their franchises were back in the 90s so the tiny screen isn't an issue and keeps the low res graphics crisp.

[Deef]

Way too small. I could shell out for the nostalgic experience, but chucking that thing somewhere is only going to feel disappointing.

Plus as good as Street Fighter is it really isn't my jam. Super Pang, Virtua Racing, Double freaking Dragon, Bubble Bobble... they could work for me.



... Now I just want a big cabinet full of emulators...