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Azazell0 posted:Arcades as a whole have all but died here in Finland anyway. You find an odd pinball machine or an arcade cabinet in gas stations and such, but in major cities, there are no arcades. There are casinos, though. I'm not sure what killed the arcades, is it the fact that handheld consoles made their breakthrough or that cellphones and tablets are nowadays "busy" gamers choices for a quick fix? To me, going to a local arcade was always an exciting feeling, like going to the movies. It's just not the same at home, no matter what kind of rigs you have. Finland is also special in arcade business in that gambling is heavily regulated by the government through RAY (raha-automaattiyhdistys, AKA slot machine association). The story goes that arcades died not only because kids started playing arcade games at home but also due to the business being effectively strangulated by this association. Since RAY has a monopoly in gambling (read: slot machines in general), regulation fees for anyone interested in opening an arcade come into play. As far as RAY's opinion goes, there is no distinction in playing for money or fun (durr it has a coin slot of course it's the same  ).Being a Finn myself, I remember there being two arcade franchises in Finland: Neo Geo Land and Pelikan. The former closed it doors years ago and Pelikan (now PELIKA) had a few arcades around the country but all of them have been closed to not being profitable. PELIKA continues in importing and distributing slot machines in Finland to this date, mainly supplying video game arcades to the few theme parks we have here. Last I went to the local one, however, all games except Sega Rally and some whack-a-mole clone were gone. It's highly unlikely arcades will make a return. Neo Geo Land I went to week after week was fantastic. That's where I first played Metal Slug 3 as well. Yes, Metal Slug is the game every arcade worth it must have, even in this country far to the north. jyrque fucked around with this message at 16:38 on Feb 8, 2013 |
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I'm too poor to have private messages, so I'll just throw this here for jyrque and others: http://www.nokkakivi.fi/peliautomaatit.htm It's an arcade with all kinds of classic games in a local small amusement park. I'm planning to make a visit next summer, since up until recently I didn't even know they have that there.
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Feb 8, 2013 16:53
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If you're into arcade games, especially if you reside in Northern California, I would suggest checking out California Extreme at http://www.caextreme.org. It's the largest collector owned arcade show in the world. Essentially private owners bring their machines to one location for a weekend, you pay a modest fee to get in, and everything is on free play from 10:30am - 2am Saturday / Sunday and 10:30am - 9:00pm Sunday. Some of the remaining industry parts suppliers have tables and Stern Pinball has had a setup over the past couple years but really it's just people that collect and restore the games. You can buy and sell there as well; I've bought machines off the floor in previous years. There's a lot of pinball there in addition to arcade games but if pinball is more your thing, there's the Pacific Pinball Exposition in San Rafel which is the largest pinball show in the world and of course the awesome Pacific Pinball Museum in Alameda. That would have been an awesome location to shoot an arcade segment during the USA special.
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Feb 8, 2013 17:27
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Azazell0 posted:I would go to an establishment like that. Pay 10 € at the door and play as long as you like, all the machines are free. A lot of the arcades I've seen/heard of (in the US) that are still thriving have basically started doing this. They just charge an entry fee and have all the games set to free to play. From what I've heard a lot of arcades have been doing way better with this method. It's better to me too, I'd spend probably more than that anyway and then i won't have to keep going to the change machine or digging out coins.
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Feb 8, 2013 18:30
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There was an arcade I used to frequent that let you buy time on a swipecard. You could play whatever you want for however many hours you bought. Gameworks does this too, doesn't it?
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Feb 8, 2013 18:48
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In Metro Cross Part 1, Abe's daughter appeared in the Tamage segment. She is so cute.
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Feb 8, 2013 19:04
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Gutcruncher posted:There was an arcade I used to frequent that let you buy time on a swipecard. You could play whatever you want for however many hours you bought. Gameworks does this too, doesn't it? This reminds me of a place I went to once that also used cards, except it was all a giant scam. All the machines had a card reader instead of a coin slot. You would load the card with money (I think $10 was the minimum), and then you could play the games until your money ran out, or until an hour or two passed, at which point your card is deactivated and you don't get any of your unspent funds back.
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Feb 8, 2013 19:24
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I wish there was a decent arcade in the Trenton, New Jersey area, but alas there is not.
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Feb 8, 2013 19:52
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I must be the only person to grow up in the 80s/90s who never liked and doesn't miss arcades. Yeah, some of them were alright, but usually they were smelly, the cabinets poorly maintained, and the games little more than the forerunners of today's Free To Play titles. Designed to part you from your money as fast as possible.
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Feb 8, 2013 20:04
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I wish I had good arcade memories. Basically all we had here was Time Crisis, Daytona and Metal Slug. I like all three, but variety is nice. Though I did once get to play in some MechWarrior pods with my little brother and that was absolutely amazing. It was like every nerd dream I ever had come true.
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Feb 8, 2013 20:42
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There are so many releases queued up right now you have no idea. But once that's done with, I'd like to work on an unconventional episode. These will all be done eventually, but choose what you'd most like to see first!  Southernmost Game Travelogue (36 min): Since Arino looked for the Northernmost game in Japan, he goes the opposite direction this time with Kibe, Nakayama and Abe in tow. It's mostly these four dudes hanging out. UPDATE: winner by a landslide  zari-gani fucked around with this message at 21:32 on Feb 8, 2013 |
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Feb 8, 2013 21:24
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zari-gani posted:
This is now my most anticipated anything.
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Feb 8, 2013 21:25
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zenintrude posted:This is now my most anticipated anything. I'd also like to put my vote in for the Southernmost Game Travelogue. It's a little short it seems, but that shouldn't deter from its awesomeness. Other than that I'm honestly just fine with any release whatsoever. Any GCCX is good GCCX in my book!
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Feb 8, 2013 21:27
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This isn't a tough choice - Southernmost Game Travelogue please!
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Feb 8, 2013 21:28
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Voting Southernmost.
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Feb 8, 2013 21:28
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abraxas posted:I'd also like to put my vote in for the Southernmost Game Travelogue. It's a little short it seems, but that shouldn't deter from its awesomeness. Other than that I'm honestly just fine with any release whatsoever. Any GCCX is good GCCX in my book! Oh my gosh, yes. Throw in another vote for Southernmost Game Travelogue from me!
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Feb 8, 2013 21:29
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Yeah I'll vote for the Southernmost Game Travelogue too.
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Feb 8, 2013 21:29
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The Travelogue seems like the only one that would really be interesting.
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Feb 8, 2013 21:30
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I think you should do them in order they were posted in. Taito, Southernmost, Challenge. And since Southernmost will likely win, I vote Taito next.
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Feb 8, 2013 21:30
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Wow I honestly thought more people would be interested in the live challenge. This is why I like to ask first. Southernmost it is! And thank you for choosing the shortest one. You're right though Ineffiable, we should release the Taito special before the Live Takeshi's Challenge.
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Feb 8, 2013 21:31
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e: ^^^^ my vote is unnecessary  KimT posted:Yeah I'll vote for the Southernmost Game Travelogue too. Same.
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Feb 8, 2013 21:33
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zari-gani posted:Wow I honestly thought more people would be interested in the live challenge. This is why I like to ask first. Southernmost it is! And thank you for choosing the shortest one. Yeah, while I fully admit Taito might not be as interesting, it's an important episode. We see Arino begin his 10+ year career as the host of GCCX. It's also more of the first few episodes where we have discussions with game creators, and we don't have many of those already.
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Feb 8, 2013 21:38
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Azazell0 posted:I would go to an establishment like that. Pay 10 € at the door and play as long as you like, all the machines are free. Arcades died in large part because they kept gouging customers and strangling developers' choices (since they had to make sure their games were gougy enough to please the arcade/bar owners) and were generally run by people who had utter contempt for their patrons or the medium of games and would get moody if someone played for more than 3 minutes on a single quarter. Both customers and publishers were more than happy to break free of that system. They were often dimly lit, overcrowded, unsafe and all-around shady, to boot.
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Feb 8, 2013 21:40
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Just so everyone knows, the Southernmost Travelogue is taken from the pre-taped 2008 New Year's special. There's more to the special than that but the Travelogue is the thing that people remember about it.
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Feb 8, 2013 22:06
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Will Mendel Palace and Super Gussun Oyoyo be subbed soon. Need to finish off the first 100 episodes.
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Feb 8, 2013 22:11
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Caitlin posted:I followed you on tumblr before I realized you were running it, I just found it in the GCCX tags and decided it was great fun for a tumblr, but you'll have more fodder if you make it not TVN specific, I think. There is a lot of tvn stuff in this world, but once a month I'm going to go after other subbers for a few days, so there's that.
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This was posted on the Retro Game Master Facebook page about an hour ago...quote:Dear everyone, Yuko here, representing the producer Kan for international. I like to have you guy's advise. I am trying to put the show on VOD/Pay TV in North America. Which station do you recommend? Amazon? Hulu? Netflix? Any others? How I can show the popularity to buyers at those stations? Any good plan? I can not promise to take everyone's advise to be exploited, but at least me and my American producer will try our best!! GCCX on one of the VOD services, especially Netflix since it's the most recognized one, would be amazing in terms of getting the show more exposure.
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Interesting question posted on the Retro Game Master USA Facebook page:quote:Dear everyone, Yuko here, representing the producer Kan for international. I like to have you guy's advise. I am trying to put the show on VOD/Pay TV in North America. Which station do you recommend? Amazon? Hulu? Netflix? Any others? How I can show the popularity to buyers at those stations? Any good plan? I can not promise to take everyone's advise to be exploited, but at least me and my American producer will try our best!!
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Obeast posted:This was posted on the Retro Game Master Facebook page about an hour ago... It would also be the end of SA-GCCX, which would be kind of disappointing since it means no more of the segments that they can't license like tamages and the weird random stuff like Ring Ring Tactics or Everything I Learned I Learned From Strategy Guides. I have mixed feelings about it, I guess, since it would be good for the show overall.
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Feb 9, 2013 08:25
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Humongous Pear posted:It would also be the end of SA-GCCX, which would be kind of disappointing since it means no more of the segments that they can't license like tamages and the weird random stuff like Ring Ring Tactics or Everything I Learned I Learned From Strategy Guides. Well, Random Stranger, nothing's even happened yet but you can still do a service itemizing everyth-- What? Oh sorry. Listen zari-gani, I wouldn't get too disappointed because you've already made great stri-- Wait what the hell
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rdbbb posted:Well, Random Stranger, nothing's even happened yet but you can still do a service itemizing everyth-- Sorry, I thought that if a service licensed out the episodes, they'd get the Japanese DVD cuts, like Discotek. I did jump to conclusions pretty hard there, and I'm embarrassed about that. The show would still be good and I'm sure people could release segments separately, like with the first set, and keep episodes that aren't in the deal available.
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Humongous Pear posted:Sorry, I thought that if a service licensed out the episodes, they'd get the Japanese DVD cuts, like Discotek. I did jump to conclusions pretty hard there, and I'm embarrassed about that. The show would still be good and I'm sure people could release segments separately, like with the first set, and keep episodes that aren't in the deal available. I feel like you're making a big assumption that it would be any more than the Discotek episodes. Nothing else has been officially translated, as far as we know, so it'd be some serious work to bring over their entire catalogue.
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Feb 9, 2013 08:44
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Vamino posted:I feel like you're making a big assumption that it would be any more than the Discotek episodes. Nothing else has been officially translated, as far as we know, so it'd be some serious work to bring over their entire catalogue. Well, yeah. I'll just... crawl off to my corner now.  Sorry guys.
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Feb 9, 2013 08:56
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I hope someone can point them towards Steam. Indie Game: The Movie is already up there and GCCX would get crazy publicity if they were added.
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Feb 9, 2013 09:07
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Getting it on Netflix would only be good if they kept the subtitles and Japanese audio options in there, unlike all the anime they show. Since dubs are terrible (argument incoming), it sucks.
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Feb 9, 2013 09:14
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I wish media licensing wasn't so US-centric that publishing something over there effectively locks it out of exisitence for us in the EU. I know why it happens, but it's still a bitter pill to swallow.
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Feb 9, 2013 09:27
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Kiranamos posted:Since dubs are terrible (argument incoming) I'm pretty sure everyone here is in agreement that dubs are awful, considering KOTAAK's attempts at dubbing GCCX and how well THOSE went.
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Katana Gomai posted:I wish media licensing wasn't so US-centric that publishing something over there effectively locks it out of exisitence for us in the EU. I know why it happens, but it's still a bitter pill to swallow. What? Nothing is preventing someone in the EU from licensing the show. You should do it!
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MaskedTai posted:I'm pretty sure everyone here is in agreement that dubs are awful, considering KOTAAK's attempts at dubbing GCCX and how well THOSE went. Dubs in general can be good. It's just Kotaku that's terrible, which should come as a surprise to literally no one ever.
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