Ask kyleb about old-school video games (or coin-ops)

[kyleb]

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Kyleb,

Could you elaborate more on the arcade you ran? Family business you took over? Got a job and worked your way to management? Opened your own store?

Just curious.

Thanks

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I managed an arcade for someone who had money and a desire to open up several arcades in different locations (movie theaters were popular). I told him the kits/cabinets to buy, what I needed to effect repairs, and managed a small workforce of employees.

Prior to managing the arcade, I was a store manager with a local/regional formalwear company in Cleveland (the youngest in the company). I'd basically been working shtty retail/food service jobs since age 14, working full-time at age 16, and the experience I had by age 18-19 got me on the "fast track" to retail managerial experience.

So, I had the experience to get going - didn't just walk into it.

[tuq]

ColdCaller,

Do you think today's video game makers are capable of a simulation where last year's Laker's beat last year's Suns? Technology being what it is these days I doubt as much but wanted to hear what you think...

[kyleb]

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ColdCaller,

Do you think today's video game makers are capable of a simulation where last year's Laker's beat last year's Suns? Technology being what it is these days I doubt as much but wanted to hear what you think...

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>:[

[tuq]

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I'm not sure what sort of weird Indian smiley you're going for there, so I'll just take it as a "no". Regarding the question, it may be a while before technology is that advanced. -:--)>

[The DaveR]

kyle,

I've played Ms. PacMan at two speeds. The faster speed I can hold my own. The slower speed I am DOA. Obviously the ghosts at the slower speed moved much faster relative to the Ms. than the faster speed. The slower machine was a combo machine with Galaga and something else. The faster machine was a restored original.

Which speed is historically accurate?

Daver

[kyleb]

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kyle,

I've played Ms. PacMan at two speeds. The faster speed I can hold my own. The slower speed I am DOA. Obviously the ghosts at the slower speed moved much faster relative to the Ms. than the faster speed. The slower machine was a combo machine with Galaga and something else. The faster machine was a restored original.

Which speed is historically accurate?

Daver

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To my knowledge, the faster machine is historically accurate.

You're in Cleveland now, right? Want some good arcade recommendations?

[The DaveR]

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kyle,

I've played Ms. PacMan at two speeds. The faster speed I can hold my own. The slower speed I am DOA. Obviously the ghosts at the slower speed moved much faster relative to the Ms. than the faster speed. The slower machine was a combo machine with Galaga and something else. The faster machine was a restored original.

Which speed is historically accurate?

Daver

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To my knowledge, the faster machine is historically accurate.

You're in Cleveland now, right? Want some good arcade recommendations?

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Yes pls. Preferably arcades that serve booze.

[kyleb]

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Yes pls. Preferably arcades that serve booze.

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Arcades that serve booze:

Dave and Busters in Westlake

Arcades that do not (but still are good):

Aladdin's Castle in Parmatown Mall
Play2Win Cafe in Brookpark/Cleveland (Pearl/Brookpark intersection - has lots of nice pool tables)

The arcade at Cedar Point is really nice too, but obviously that's not gonna work right now./

[JFrank]

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Okay, we all know there was the regular edition of Street Fighter, Championship edition, etc. but I remember a version at my local pizza parlor where you could throw as many fireballs as you wanted without having to wait for one to go off the screen. Not only that, you could throw them in the air and keep jumping up afterwards, enabling you to go to the top of the screen, at which point you'd reappear at the bottom. Jumping over your opponent and pressing a fierce button would also initiate a throw without actually making contact. Do you know this version of Street Fighter? There was also another variation at another place where fireballs would fly in a zigzag formation.

I actually did a lot of searching online and the closest version I found was the "Hyper Fighting" hack on the MAME console. Not the same.

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Since I was a top competetive Street Fighter player, I'll bring this old topic to life.

This version you are talking about is not an official version. There were a few hacked-up versions of Champion Edition... people were electronically altering the board to get the game to go faster and do funky things, then setting them back in the cabinet. Many of these appeared in California. These funky versions are the main reason the gameplay speed was increaded in Hyper-fighting (or SF2 Turbo).

[JFrank]

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Who would win in a fight?
bionic Commando or Ninja Gaiden
SubZero or Sagat
Pac Man or Donkey kong
the plane from 1942 or Paperboy

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1. Bionic Commando would stick his metal fist up Ninja Gaiden's.....

2. Sagat would dominate Sub-Zero, only if his fireball cancelled Sub-Zero's iceball. If they passed through each other, I think Sagat would have a tough time.

3. Kong [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img] Pac-man can't jump.

4. The plane would make confetti of Paperboy.