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So the nes had an arcade "accessory"?
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There was actual cabinets, some with two screens on them that let you pay to play for minutes of some NES games. That always bugged me. Classic asshole nintendo move.
Man I remember that. I had completely forgotten about that until seeing that picture.
A lot of people played Mario in the arcade, so it's not so weird. Plus the NES Advantage was pretty popular too and so were arcades at the time. You have to keep in mind, that a control pad was more odd at the time than a joystick.
A lot of people played Mario in the arcade, so it's not so weird. Plus the NES Advantage was pretty popular too and so were arcades at the time. You have to keep in mind, that a control pad was more odd at the time than a joystick.
yeah of course I realize that... I had friends (older friends) that preferred the Advantage controller... I'm almost 40 but Arcades were on their way out as I got old enough to play games. But I remember trying it out even as a young kid and just thinking... Nah... this plus shaped thing is way better haha
I think it's all what you grow up on.
Huh? How old were you when you got old enough to play games? Arcades were certainly not on their way out around the NES era and it was well beyond the NES era before they even started to fade. In fact with the rise of fighting games in the 90s, they were still super popular during that decade too.
It depends on where you are from. I'm also close to 40 and the popularity of arcade lasted around 2 years where I am from. From 94 to 96 and they were dead after that. Besides the initial wow factor (games looked better than home consoles) people prefered home consoles.
This is cool, but playing Mario on an arcade cabinet sounds painful. Having to constantly hold down the run button with your index finger instead of thumbing both buttons at once on the NES pad sounds like a one way ticket to cramp city. Ouch
I mean I was 3 when I started playing NES but that's far too young to go to the arcades... and being the oldest child means I didn't have any older siblings that my parents would take to the Arcades... By the time I would be old enough to go to the arcades they were mostly gone. Or converted into things like Gameworks. Mostly I missed out on whatever was there ... I didn't live in a place that had a thriving arcade community. Pretty much the only arcades I could think of were at the movie theatres and those were pretty spaced out across the city. I guess I should mention I grew up in Las Vegas ... Movie theatres were mostly in Casinos especially back then.
I first played Super Mario Bros in an arcade at a Holidome as a kid. Blew my mind. I would've killed for one of these cabinets.
It was pretty expensive from what I recall. I'd be guessing on price, but they were easily a few hundred dollars.
I don't know if I saw this specific cabinet but I remember demo units that would reset after a few minutes. The coolest one I played had SMB3 before The Wizard came out.
Sega had a similar arcade with Mega Drive games where you paid for time. Then they released a second version where you paid for lives like a normal arcade.
Yeah I think so. That's why the article mentions some games using those buttons not being playable
I remember they had this at the Liberty Science Center in NJ. One of the first times I played Super Mario
Wow, nice!
Cool that it supports the Master System too. I wonder how they rigged the reset and pause buttons.
My first arcade machine was actually a Sega Saturn with a hand soldered RGB-Jamma loom, and two controllers I broke apart and soldered onto the board. I did the same thing for the Dreamcast and PS2 in a Japanese candy cab.
Cool that it supports the Master System too. I wonder how they rigged the reset and pause buttons.
My first arcade machine was actually a Sega Saturn with a hand soldered RGB-Jamma loom, and two controllers I broke apart and soldered onto the board. I did the same thing for the Dreamcast and PS2 in a Japanese candy cab.