Defining an arcade game
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Defining an arcade game
How would you define an arcade game?
What would you think of this definition?
A game where no state beyond a potential high-score is saved between play sessions
What would you think of this definition?
A game where no state beyond a potential high-score is saved between play sessions
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Re: Defining an arcade game
the stuff they used to put in arcade cabs i.e pcb's cd systems dont count except id and hot rod
<trk>:I remember catching a big fat one and my friend said "throw it back in, that one already tastes like wood"
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Re: Defining an arcade game
That would cover coins (and occasionally mountain dew) as wellgeotrig wrote:the stuff they used to put in arcade cabs
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Re: Defining an arcade game
touche
<trk>:I remember catching a big fat one and my friend said "throw it back in, that one already tastes like wood"
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Re: Defining an arcade game
A game which is designed to beat you.
...and quickly.
...and quickly.
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Re: Defining an arcade game
sigh aren't they all ?
<trk>:I remember catching a big fat one and my friend said "throw it back in, that one already tastes like wood"
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Re: Defining an arcade game
I still regard a challenging skill based game where I die a lot as arcade style. I'd call super hexagon an arcade game even though it already got my money up front.
FarmVille is designed to keep taking money to keep playing but it's not an arcade game.
FarmVille is designed to keep taking money to keep playing but it's not an arcade game.
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Re: Defining an arcade game
True, but not frustrate you enough to stop feeding it with coinskernow wrote:A game designed to make money.
Modern games don't have to care about frustrating you since you've already fed it around 240 quarters before you even start playing!
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Re: Defining an arcade game
Cheaper per go than hookers, more addictive than crack.
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Re: Defining an arcade game
No, it's not an arcade game. It's a **** piece of ****, that's what it is. Ugh.pubjoe wrote:FarmVille is designed to keep taking money to keep playing but it's not an arcade game.
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Re: Defining an arcade game
To be honest I've never played it. It might be great for all I know.
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Re: Defining an arcade game
wife has played it so it cant be an "arcade game "
<trk>:I remember catching a big fat one and my friend said "throw it back in, that one already tastes like wood"
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Re: Defining an arcade game
idc wrote:No, it's not an arcade game. It's a **** piece of ****, that's what it is. Ugh.pubjoe wrote:FarmVille is designed to keep taking money to keep playing but it's not an arcade game.
A game which you can play in short bursts and feel just as satisfied as if you were to have played a non arcade game for much longer
Anything which feels longer than it actually is always gets my vote
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Re: Defining an arcade game
A coin-operated game running on dedicated hardware.
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Re: Defining an arcade game
A coin-operated video game !
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Re: Defining an arcade game
Which are?kernow wrote:A subgenre of gaming where there are actually only ten good titles worth owning.
An arcade game is like pornography. You know it when you see it.
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Re: Defining an arcade game
This.emphatic wrote:A coin-operated game running on dedicated hardware.
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Re: Defining an arcade game
The opposite of this...
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Re: Defining an arcade game
Holy hell that's miserable.