Inside The Worst Videogame Arcade In The World? 58
Anonymous Coward writes "Arcades may be a dying breed, so it's a good thing the crusty hotels around the world haven't put the axe to their old game rooms. An article at X-Entertainment provides a lighthearted review of one of the worst hotel arcades out there, featuring broken video games and enough stains to make every joystick in the place off limits."
Not the worst (Score:4, Informative)
I agree (Score:4, Funny)
Bad memories...
Re:I agree (Score:1)
Saw this on Fark (Score:2)
Rob
Re:Saw this on Fark (Score:3, Interesting)
Re:Saw this on Fark (Score:2)
No idea, but judging from the bulge of the screen, I'd say it dates from the 70s.
Re:Saw this on Fark (Score:2)
Touchmaster 5000 (Score:4, Informative)
I don't believe it's emulated... which is a shame, there aren't enough cool quiz games in English to play
Re:Touchmaster 5000 (Score:1)
- The game was in some dirty old wooden japanese case with japanese instructions on all buttons.
- The plug outlet was converted from the japanese wall adapters so that it could fit in the wall.
- The game consisted of this arkanoid like paddle except all you do is move the paddle left and right to get attacked by samurai stick figures.
- Monocolor screen + the greasiest joystick I have ever seen.
- It had an ame
Re:Touchmaster 5000 (Score:3, Interesting)
I never played the quiz game, but the various Playboy g
Re:Touchmaster 5000 (Score:3, Insightful)
I'm a bit shocked the Raiden Fighters series ran off a 386... I don't see how they did it... considering it's leaps and bounds above any shooter I've ever seen on PC from that era. (anyone remember Kaeon or that shmup from Apogee?)
Re:Touchmaster 5000 (Score:2)
Ah, dammit... (Score:2)
The world?? (Score:2)
Re:The world?? (Score:1)
There are much worse ideas from the Snyder camp (Score:2, Insightful)
I, too, have come across these, and at my old high school at that. However,
Re:There are much worse ideas from the Snyder camp (Score:2)
Re:There are much worse ideas from the Snyder camp (Score:1)
Hey, don't knock the Dill Pickle chips. IMHO, "Lays" Dill Pickle is the third best potato chip flavour in the world, close behind "President's Choice" Sour Cream & Onion and "Ruffles" Sour Cream & Onion. ISTR that Dill Pickle chips are one of the things Americans find strange up here in Canada.
Re:There are much worse ideas from the Snyder camp (Score:1)
Imagine a small pack of Cheese and Onion potato chips (crisps as they are called locally)...
Imagine a pickled egg from a jar of pickled eggs...
Imagine opening the pack of chips, throwing a pickled egg in the bag, holding the bag closed in one hand and proceeding to squish the egg and chips between your fingers for a minute to get the whole thing nice and mushy...
Now reopen the bag and enjoy!
Re:There are much worse ideas from the Snyder camp (Score:2)
Re:There are much worse ideas from the Snyder camp (Score:1)
Chocolate
Worcestershire Sauce
Baked Beans
Curry
Lamb and Mint
Gammon and Pineapple
Hedgehog(!)
Mustard
Tomato Ketchup
Brown Sauce (the strong stuff made by HP, Hammonds, etc.)
They're usually only for a few months a year as 'test' flavours by the crisp makers, but bleurgh!, its long enough.
Actually, one of the 'test' flavours was 'Paprika' a few years ago, it proved so popular its now a regular fl
Re:There are much worse ideas from the Snyder camp (Score:2)
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Hedgehog(!)
Err... Hedgehog??? What would that be? Stewed hedgehog? Crispy fried hedgehog? Hedgehog barbecue? Hedgehog with mint sauce??? I mean, I knew you Brits are kind of strange, aren't you, but hedgehog???
And you still wonder why your empire fell???
Re:There are much worse ideas from the Snyder camp (Score:1)
Re:There are much worse ideas from the Snyder camp (Score:1)
Re:There are much worse ideas from the Snyder camp (Score:1)
Re:There are much worse ideas from the Snyder camp (Score:1)
Re:There are much worse ideas from the Snyder camp (Score:2)
Re:There are much worse ideas from the Snyder camp (Score:1)
[off-topic] Speaking of worst games ever... (Score:3, Interesting)
Re:[off-topic] Speaking of worst games ever... (Score:5, Interesting)
I guess it is weird enough to escape a "worst of all time" label. But it should garner a "best of so-bad-it's-good." Sometimes you can find them online [fileplanet.com].
Re:[off-topic] Speaking of worst games ever... (Score:2)
But then, they thought that freaking Battlecruiser 3000 was great.
Rob
Re:[off-topic] Speaking of worst games ever... (Score:2)
Here [the-underdogs.org]
Rob
Chex? (Score:2, Interesting)
- You might think I'm just exaggerating to get my point across, but I did *literally* get nauseated. I tried to keep playing for a while, the little nerd that I was (I'm not little anymore), but it overcame me. The music was ok, though...
* (The Kingdom of Denmark doesn't officially have any military but our "Defense" - yet we've invaded a co
Ouch...the bandwidth costs... (Score:5, Funny)
Now I feel very bad for Matt, the site's owner. The site is already popular enough...but now the link for this article has made its way to Fark (as much of his work does) and to Slashdot.
Poor Matt...say goodbye to your house. You'll be living in a cardboard box from now on... :)
Re:Ouch...the bandwidth costs... (Score:4, Informative)
Or unfortunately, if he wanted the traffic, I guess. YMMV
Re:Boring writing. (Score:2)
Re:Boring writing. (Score:1)
Busy being the lead singer for You Am I, I suspect.
This ain't nothin' (Score:5, Funny)
nah. That's not totally true but it would have been hilarious if it was.
Re:This ain't nothin' (Score:1)
Shoot, you can't mod me up because you've already posted in this thread. So much for karma whoring.
Ok, i just blew both eyes out... (Score:2)
Drat!!!
Re:Ok, i just blew both eyes out... (Score:1)
It's just a two frame GIF animation. The second frame is the same as the first, except it's flipped (mirrored vertically). I checked it out with the Gimp and ImageMagick.
A pattern seems to appear in the center of the animated image -- the easiest thing to pick out is a circle just to the right of center.
I can also see an albatross/transformer dude/helmet turned on its side. It's just an artifact of using a mirror image instead of generating another random static image, I think.
The death of pinball? (Score:2)
Can anyone recommend a good pinball arcade in the New Hampshire area?
Re:The death of pinball? (Score:1)
Re:The death of pinball? (Score:2)
"When I was a kid..." Funworld always had the latest games. They used to put the newest games up front and center when you walked in the door. I still remember when they got the first pinball machine that talked. It was "Gorgar" or something like that. That was bleeding edge technology b
Re:The death of pinball? (Score:2)
Doesn't FunSpot have a decent pinball collection?
Ride-A-Rama (Score:2)
Those days are gone. There's a Staples there now.
Some of the games from that arcade made it into a back room at our local ghetto mall along with an assortment of kiddie rides. The result is called "Ride-A-Rama" and it looks like all that equipment was set up there and promptly negle
World Cup Pinball (Score:2, Funny)
The great thing about it was that it was designed in the States, the one nation on earth that doesn't get football. It showed.
At no point in playing this table did any of the bonuses, options or 'rounds' bear any resemblance to real football term