Arcade gaming - The Bear and Badger

SonicBoomBoy

That's just up the road, might have a butchers

SonicBoomBoy

Lurch666 wrote:

Play expo is on at Blackpool this year. 23rd-24th October at Norbreck castle.
I've already booked a BnB and time off.

davyK

Brooks wrote:

I'm just relieved Mikado have managed to hang on by going hard in the paint on courting their nostalgic nerds and FGC ramblers via soc media, crowdfunding etc. It's like the only place I ever wanted to go, and now that's basically the only place you can. They've done well enough to open a Spanish chapter now.

Mikado a regularly streaming now. I enjoy dropping in from time to time.

digi

SonicBoomBoy wrote:

Lurch666 wrote:

Play expo is on at Blackpool this year. 23rd-24th October at Norbreck castle.
I've already booked a BnB and time off.

That's tempting.

nick_md

Much love to the Blackpool massive. (Where my family are from).

Love me an English seaside town. Shame how the place is now.

digi

nick_md wrote:

Much love to the Blackpool massive. (Where my family are from).

Love me an English seaside town. Shame how the place is now.

I was there last weekend for a friend's anniversary meal etc.
We went to the bank restaurant which was brilliant and classy but finding a decent drinking spot after was terrible so many fuckwits in that place.

Also all 4 outrun c2c machines have something broken on them.

FranticPea

I was asked to stop playing the camel racing at Coral Island and let other people have a chance last time I went to Blackpool.

Its the one thing in life I'm truly good at. Probably world champion material tbh.

TheBoyRoberts

I'm just back from another visit to the Arcade Club in Leeds.

I really can't recommend the place enough. Massive selection of games, all in top nick too.

To top it off, the place sells food/beer which is sensible priced; beers around the £4 mark for pints of Punk IPA and Punk larger. Hotdogs/burgers around £3 and the Wario burger (doubble cheese, bacon and what not) is amazing and runs in a a £5.

My Son and I have been 3 times now and can happily spend 8 hours + there; proper field of dreams stuff!

RedDave2

TheBoyRoberts wrote:

Hotdogs/burgers around £3 and the Wario burger (doubble cheese, bacon and what not) is amazing and runs in a a £5.

Wookienopants

TheBoyRoberts wrote:

I'm just back from another visit to the Arcade Club in Leeds.

I really can't recommend the place enough. Massive selection of games, all in top nick too.

To top it off, the place sells food/beer which is sensible priced; beers around the £4 mark for pints of Punk IPA and Punk larger. Hotdogs/burgers around £3 and the Wario burger (doubble cheese, bacon and what not) is amazing and runs in a a £5.

My Son and I have been 3 times now and can happily spend 8 hours + there; proper field of dreams stuff!

I regularly have to travel around the UK for on site audits... Wonder if I can wangle a visit there...

TheBoyRoberts

It truly is a amazing place and certainly worth travelling to visit.

I live in Newcastle and more than happy to pop down for a day and spend an evening in a cheep premier inn.

dynamiteReady

I thought the industry was winding down.

What kind of stuff do they exhibit? Is it not just gambling machines and ticket dispensers based on the latest mobile craze (tbf, I did see a Halo machine on my last trip to a seafront arcade around a month ago)?

davyK

Arcade club is proper classic era to 90s arcade videogames afaik.

Id love to go to somewhere like that.

Lurch666

Arcade club is run by Arcade cab collectors.
They are full of classic games from the 80's and 90's with some newer games of interest as well from weird games to games you normally only see in Japan.
All on freeplay you just pay to get in.

mk64

i've been to quite a few sea front recently and there are barely any arcade games left. Everything is just ticket based. I even played a ticket producing fruit machine in Brighton last week!

It's a real shame. I don't understand why they don't have fighting games anymore, it's only ever racing games yet two mates will always whack in a couple of quid for SF2 or SF4/MK etc. It's a real shame.

Starting to notice VR games to but i'm always too worried about someone stealing my shit that i never go on them.

davyK

Arcades are rather depressing now. But it looks like the way they are is the way to make money.

Played a versus Flappy Bird game a week or two ago in an arcade. Was enjoyable but it was overpriced and ultimately just a ticket game based on distance achieved.

NI seaside arcades have an 18+ section at the back with the high jackpot fruit machines and pokers. Quiet, seats, coffee machines, ATMs etc. I presume it's like that in GB too?

mk64

yes they do have seperated 18+ areas just for slots / fruities

davyK

Poker machines have been a big thing over here since the 80s. They have been in pubs here as long as I can remember. We have a local company called Noraut who may have a slice of the IP pie. A mate of mine had a job interview with them way back as a programmer.

https://noraut.com/poker-machines.php

mk64

yes i know, they're called pokies there aren't they?

davyK

The Aussies call them pokies. We just call them poker machines over here as far as I know.

davyK

Heh..... MAME runs the Noraut ROMs.

Would love to see a code listing of that bloody hi-lo bonus game.

dynamiteReady

The most impressive thing I'd seen recently, was this:

https://youtu.be/y_WjHZRPafg

I doubt it's remarkably sophisticated, but the water/steam gimmick looked fun. Would wonder if it would pay for itself inside a year.

davyK

Many of the ticket games in arcades are good fun. The cost to play is crazy though. I saw one for kids that has them standing in a transparent chamber with balls being released above them to pick up and place in a container - the more you get the more tickets you get. Simple idea but executed really well. Was fun watching a wee one playing with the parents cheering on.

davyK

got MAME running a Noraut poker machine. Well implemented as it shows the button status at the button of the screen , lighting them up when activated. MAME's config even has poker machine pre-sets in its keyboard setup. One could easily rig a table top unit up if one so desired.

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