Okay well mostly I was just curious who has or hasn't seen or played the original Street Fighter machine with the pressure sensitive buttons. I've encountered the game at least once, but it was the revised version with 3 separate punch and kick buttons like SF2. All of the home versions seem to emulate this revised version.


Otherwise, this topic can be about other things you have or haven't seen in person.

I've never seen any Street Fighter EX or King of Fighters arcade machines, and I don't think I've ever seen Street Fighter Alpha 2. I have seen a NeoGeo 64 machine, playing Samurai Shodown 64. From a graphics standpoint, I can see why it didn't catch on. Anybody else?

On the console front, I've never seen a Lynx, NeoGeo AES, NeoGeo CD, or any variation of the TG16 besides the first one, but I have a Vectrex.


Feel free to add your own.

I know i played the original Street Fighter arcade machine, but i honestly can't remember about the buttons. I want to say they were the pressure sensitive ones, but time may have blurred that memory. I honestly wasn't very interested in 1-on-1 fighting games until SFII hit the SNES. That's what started it all for me.

I've seen and played a Street Fighter EX machine at least once. Hated it then, still hate it now. Which is sad, because Skullomania is a pretty awesome character name.

I've seen Lynxes and NeoGeo consoles for sale at various places, but i've never played either one. The only Vectrex i've ever seen is yours, but i've still never seen it in action.

I don't think i've ever seen or played the Tron arcade games, which makes me slightly sad. And it seems weird, because i loved me some arcades as a kid. I played a LOT of different stuff. But i at the very least have no memories of Tron.

I've never seen a good yard sale...DAMN YOU CORINTH!

I should point out that the one (two?) time(s?) I did see SF1, it was well after SF2 had been around.

Never seen Tron machines either.

I've played Discs of Tron's environmental cab. It's pretty neat, but I like the regular Tron arcade game more. My uncle got pissed when I said he had no game since it was the machine he grew up on.

I spent many, many hours at Sesame Place playing the arcade games there, which is how I encountered the original Star Wars vector based arcade game, which is so much more awesome in the sit down cab. It's all "R2 watch those Tie Fighters!" and then your dad is like "I didn't pay $40 just so you could play video games all day!"

I saw Primal Rage in the arcades when it was new. Does that count?

I still remember when my arcade replaced Street Fighter II with Time Killers. I loved the time travel idea, but when my medieval knight got dismembered by the chainsaw wielding punk rocker, I almost fainted. It was that gory for its time. I was only about 12 and I was NOT ready for that.

I was at an arcade in Chicago which had 3 Capcom games whose marquees only said "NEW GAME by Capcom!" They were Street Fighter Alpha 2, Super Puzzle Fighter 2 Turbo and Mega Man the Power Battle. It was orgiastic.

I was lucky enough to find an arcade near me that had a Dance Dance Revolution USA machine. Later they got a second one with Dance Dance Revolution 3rd Mix Korea v2, which was then upgraded to Max, Max 2, Extreme, and finally the bootleg copy of Extreme called Megamix. I spent many a Ten Buck Tuesday at that Gameworks.

Oh, um, Philly had a Gameworks. It was pretty badass.

Another thing that Gameworks had was a "3D Simulator". This was a fancy way of saying Tekken 3 with a REALLY bad "3D movement" interface. It cost about $5 to play, and you fought by standing in a circle then punching or kicking. It was horrible. Character selection was nearly impossible, and controlling your character was worse.

So instead of that, we spent a lot of time playing Brave Firefighters. I'm sorry, but that game was just fun, even with its barely Dreamcast level graphics.

Ever play Revolution X in the arcade? There's no other way to play it. No control scheme can accurately re-create how awesome that game is with a huge, phallic toy gun in your hands. Even if you hate Aerosmith.

A laundromat near one of my friends had a Neo Geo MVS with Metal Slug X and Samurai Shodown IV. Jesus christ, do you even NEED anything else? I mean yeah, you COULD throw Mark of the Wolves in there, but that would be overkill.

I've played display cab versions of SvC Chaos, X-Men vs. Street Fighter and Street Fighter III 3rd Whateveritis.

TMNT? Played it. Simpsons? Played it. Turtles in Time? Played it. X-Men 6-player? Beat it several times. Which license based Konami brawlers am I forgetting?

So you know Dragon's Lair? Sega made a similar game at one point called Time Traveller or something. It had this weird layout, and the graphics were "holograms". I'm not quite sure how it worked, but it was a cool effect. It was such a hard game it made me cry though. Quiet you, I was like 10.

There's an old vector based game called Warrior. It's lame, but apparently significant. I've played it. That's about all I can say.

There was this place in Niagara Falls on the Canadian side that had this smallish arcade with REALLY expensive machines. There was a rail shooter of some sort. It was HUGE and had 6 players. I wish I could remember what it was called. I want to say it was a sequel to a classic shooter, but I can't remember which. They also had a VR headset with Duke Nukem 3D for 5 minutes. That wasn't so much fun.

If you've never played the following games, you and I have nothing to discuss: Pit Fighter, Narc, Defenders of the Hood. They are the video game equivalents of the From Dusk Til Dawn series.

Never seen Super Puzzle Fighter 2 Turbo either, and I didn't know Mega Man the Power Battle was released in the US.

Brave Firefighters is pretty cool. It's the best thing Toledo's Chuck-E-Cheese has, by far.

Ya know, I don't know that I've ever seen Samurai Shodown 3 or 4. Only time I've ever seen a Metal Slug game was some crappy mall arcade I happened to be in with Scumdogg once.

"display cab"?

Don't know that I've ever seen a working Dragon's Lair, but I saw one somebody was restoring at a garage sale.

As I recall from my research, my localest arcade had Sega's other hologram game besides Time Traveller. It looked really damn cool, even if it played like crap. I wish more companies had experimented with those holograms.

Cedar Point used to have Duke Nukem 3D with the VR headset and at least one other game, but I didn't feel like it was worth the $5(?).

Not sure I've ever heard of Defenders of the Hood.

Giant display cab. Those are the ones with the huge 30something inch screens that are farther away from the controls. Sorta like this:



I got the name wrong, it was Guardians of the Hood. Even though there are 4 selectable characters (at first), there are only 3 joysticks. Good planning, Atari.

I remember now that I've also seen what I think is a Neo-Geo candy cab. It was a lot smaller than a standard cab and you had to sit down to play it with any degree of comfort. I must have spent hours on that thing playing Sengoku, which I still think is an awesome game despite what anyone says.

The huge 6 player monstrosity turns out to be Galaxian 3.