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[Arcade] Do Arcades still exist?
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Old Mar 14, 2007, 01:08 PM Local time: Mar 14, 2007, 08:08 PM #1 of 45
Thanks for this thread, parKbench - it was a nice trip down memory lane

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Old Mar 14, 2007, 05:29 PM Local time: Mar 15, 2007, 12:29 AM #2 of 45
It seems that the attraction of the arcade is no more for me. I just don't think the same of the arcade that I did back then.
Same here. No matter how powerful this generation of consoles and computers is - little impresses me much these days, whereas the 8- and 16-bit eras held one revelation after the other for me. Oh, those were the days... *sigh*

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Old Mar 15, 2007, 10:13 PM Local time: Mar 16, 2007, 05:13 AM #3 of 45
Exactly. The first voices I faintly remember croaked out of my C64. (Was it Impossible Mission? I'm not sure.) What a sensation that was in those days. Or the oh so smooth and crisp graphical display of the Vectrex. The life-like motion-captured Mortal Kombatants. The fuss that was made about the first leaked "No, seriously, that's exactly what they'll look like because we have a killer console on our hands, you'll see" Killer Instinct screens which made us feel we had to expect a technological sensation with the advent of what was then called Ultra 64 *g* The OMG effect of the first rendered models converted to 2D sprites in the SNES adaptation, and the pre-rendered 2D backgrounds that put every real 3D game of the time to shame.

When was the last time I was really wowed? I think the REmake on the GC did a pretty good job, but compared to past experiences...

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