Arcades are still around and still populated by gamers. This is the tale of one writer's nostalgic trip down memory lane.
Laced Records is set to release soundtrack vinyls of Capcom’s arcade heavy-hitters Street Fighter Alpha: Warriors’ Dreams and Street Fighter Alpha 2 — the latter of which can be heard now in the form of Yestermade’s 15-minute arcade capture.
After 25 years, a modder finally figured out how to unlock Shin Akuma in Street Fighter: Alpha 2 on the SNES. Learn how here!
shin akuma was lord. I was on alpha 2 on snes all day when i was younger, classic gaming never dies.
"The SNES version was also released in 1996. Since third-party publishers such as Capcom were increasingly concentrating on CD-based consoles, outside of Japan this version was published by Nintendo instead of Capcom.["
Someone didn't read the article.... Alpha 1 and 3 were not on the SNES, Alpha 2 was. I own a copy from a rental store :)
I had it on PS, but it remains tied with 3rd Strike as my favourite SF of all time. Never got the attraction to Alpha 3.
OX writes: "Time and again, games have taught us that going over to the dark side comes with plenty of advantages. Chief among these is that villains are much cooler and better dressed than boring, do-gooder heroes. Consider the evidence: these good guys who turned bad and became much, much cooler in the process."
I miss the arcades. Outside the occasional visit to St Louis for Dave n Busters the only arcade I even have where I live is down to a couple of broken machines, an unlocked DDR machine that half works; and closes around 5-6 pm when everyone wants to at least get free items from playing skeetball.
I vote to bring the arcade scene back; some of the best games I've played started with inserting 25 cents.
There has to be a way to bring arcades back, but how?
I'd love to see more Arcades in the US. For the same reason I love playing LAN.
I'd love to see an arcade resurrection, but with console, mobile, and emulated ports, there is hardly any incentive to go to an arcade, except for nostagia. On the other hand, there is nothing quite like the actual arcade experience, something a controller can't quite match.