Today I completed a childhood goal. Finished Time Crisis II

Oh damn. Takes me back.

Very good on-rails shooter.

Same for Virtua Cop && House Of The Dead series.

@D-4got10-01 yea I just really needed to get out and I wondered if the old arcade was still there. Turns out this is much easier when you're not 12.

I always wanted a lightgun for my PS2 when I was a kid but never got it right

In my local bar they have time crisis on an arcade machine. They pretty much let me play for free now ever since I showed them I could 1 credit it. It's more advantageous to them to treat me to the game and have me drink a beer during the game 😂

@CoreFusionX nice. I'd like that situation instead of having to drive 22km to the arcade

@TheBeardedOne

It was actually really unexpected, but in Portugal, many bars have like all these super old arcade machines.

It's fucking *awesome*.

I kind of thought the arcades died off. Haven't seen one in decades.

I do remember having roughly three places on my way to school in my high school years.

Killer Instinct, Mortal Kombat, Tekken 2, && The House Of The Dead 2 era...

@D-4got10-01

No, they did die. I'm talking like, each bar has this ancient arcade machine that is probably worth like 20k, not just a Pandora box with a raspberry pi and mame.

@CoreFusionX they probably picked them up for a steal from full blown arcades closing down

@D-4got10-01 the one I went to for this is the only proper one I know of anywhere. There's a bowling alley that had a good couple machines outside and then there's one takeaway joint that a few but that's it.

I swear they were all over the place when I was little

@TheBeardedOne Yup, some 20-30 years ago there were so many arcades here, too.

Last thing I remember hearing about the arcades was Japan still having them in fairly small amounts, but then covid happened which finally did them in.