• xijinpingist [none/use name]@hexbear.netOP
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    13 days ago

    The whole thing is it has to be on stock hardware. The different color joystick meant it was a different ROM. PS Baby boomers had mechanical arcade games, like shooting ducks. Generation X was the video arcade generation. Up until non-games like Dance Dance Revolution started, then that was it for arcade culture.

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        13 days ago

        Really? I remember the first time I went to Japan, they had people playing what are now called rhythm games, the screen showing patters and people pressing the buttons to match. I thought that couldn’t possibly even be called a game. I pitied the poor players, how empty they must be to try something like that. It had about as much chance of catching on as the crab machine. It’ll never catch on in the west, I said to myself before putting the whole thing out of my mind.
        Imagine my shock when 5-6 years later they started appearing everywhere.

        • LeeeroooyJeeenkiiins [none/use name]@hexbear.net
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          Are you trolling me because rhythm games are very much games

          The most fun fucking game i’ve ever played in my fucking life was a Fist of the North Star rhythm game where these pads come out and you punch them in time with the rhythm

          But i guess it fucking breaks all the time and the one arcade that had it got rid of it