Poor, poor arcades. There's something about eight people crushed into Daytona USA's mock car cabinets with no leg room at all, the smell of smoke and other obscure odors you can't quite place hanging around in the air. The same looping noises of other machines in the background. Everyone smashing eachother into walls rather than focusing on the actual race, glancing down the row, trying to figure out who did it. LAN gaming kinda captures that, but without the leg spasms and.. well.. Daytona.
Let's play generic shooter!
I mainly miss them for the pinball machines though. The only arcade left in this town closed about two years ago. They had a whole section up the back dedicated to pinnies. It was so awesome.
The arcades that are left, in Sydney city itself, are mostly just music games and Initial D. Even then Initial D is too much of a headache, $5 for a bloody memory card or something, $3 for a single race. You took away Metal Slug for thiiiiis!
Jam it back in, in the dark.
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