During the Street Fighter IV launch event in LA a few weeks back, Capcom invited a group of artists to design some custom arcade cabinets. Starting tomorrow the cabinets will go up for auctions, with the proceeds going an organization called Music for Relief, who are currently providing aid to victims of the recent fires in Australia.
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Golden Axe is a great game I enjoyed it on the SMS, Genesis and in the arcade. Great game but it truly was a quarter eater back in the day. I wish Sega could get the rights to the arcade port of Moonwalker another great arcade game I enjoyed. Collect so many monkeys and become Robo Michael lol.
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Insert a (What’s an arcade center?) JK here
With the current state of gaming it’s almost a miracle there’s arcade centers open anywhere as gaming has became as common as flies on a dead rat with all mobile games available on phone that would had been a massive coins drainage 30 years ago
This is in contrast with the arcade industry in America which is coming back from Japan is just now going through. With the 80s nostalgia and Stranger things romanticizing it for a new generation. Also, at least around me, a lot more arcade machines in bars and barcades for the generation(s) that had arcades.
For reference Im 27 and got into arcades more as an adult than a kid
if i was bezos ballin id open an underground arcade and make it free. dark and dingy with neon lights everywhere. Host tournaments for all the classics and sit in a big chair like an Outworld emperor.
These groundbreaking video games changed gaming forever and drew in scores of fans in the process.
Then I watched the clip and was let down because Capcom has way better artists in house
That's what I call Art.
not that great actually. two of them were good.
Yes, CAPCOMs artists are way better..
Capcom's aretists are better, but these guys were pretty good.
It's for a good cause so it's awesome either way.