I find it laughable that you're exploiting the suffering of your loved ones to fail at proving a point on the internet. It must be hard to see them occasionally bothered by (*gasp*) "the sniffles" (*double gasp*) and in a spot where they can stop sneezing (any time they want to at that!) You're lucky to have a scenario like that be a serious problem. I would advise you not to use that card in your deck (for future arguments) unless you're looking to get blindsided by stories and events of a more... horrific nature. You call my alternative to an otherwise homogenous perspective a self-righteous crusade of fallacy. What I really did was play the wrong tune in the echo chamber. On-topic: What are the odds of finding Mortal Kombat I or II in a Japanese arcade?
Or maybe I'm just pissed off with the people that think they deserve to be able to smoke anywhere they please with no thought of other people. Again, you try to change the topic (entering your own echo chamber) and deflect to other problems, so you have no ability or desire to even try to empathize with someone who has been harmed by smokers. That's fine, I've said what I needed to in response to your "smokers are second class citizens" post. For the record, I've disowned my family many years ago over this and other things of a more "horrific nature" and live in a 100% smoke-free community. And please tell me how I am lucky that I have permanent health issues because of them?
Ok, no more about bloody smoking. Any more posts about smoking will be deleted. This is a thread about arcades, not smoking. If you want to post about smoking then please go to the unmoderated thread. Thank you.
absolute 0. I've been here for 16 years and visited many arcades over the years yet have never seen a Mortal Kombat machine. In fact American made arcade games are very rare.
I grew up in San Francisco and the only arcades I remember were on near Chinatown and in Fisherman's Wharf. The only place that was close to my house and regularly had new arcade machines was the local 7-Eleven. In the early 80s, it had up to 4 arcade machines. By the mid 80s, it went down to 2 machines. Then by the 90s, the arcade machine had disappear from that 7-Eleven. Some of the titles that I remember playing there were Star Wars, Return of the Jedi, Marble Madness, Ikari Warrior, Spy Hunter, Operation Wolf, MACH 3, Out Run, Afterburner, Gauntlet, TMNT, Tron, and the most memorable for me was Disc of Tron, which I had spent the most money on and gotten really good. Anyway, the Happy Console Gamer just put up a great episode on the subject of arcade machines at 7-Eleven.
How often do you run across the American style of arcade cabinet? (about 6 ft tall (or 2 meters), with side art, etc)? Woah woah woah, just about every arcade I see in the States has MK 1 and maybe 2 or 3, at least one of the MK games.
Can I say my anecdote even though I live in the third world country? In the early nineties, the biggest arcades here do have US made machines, however, the arcade cabinets usually come from japan (Unless they're custom made) . So it's not unusual to see say "Mad Dog Mcree" in a modified Japanese style 30' screen arcade machine. I have seen Race Drivin, Mad Dog MCree, MK1, MK2, MK3 ran this way. Although rarely some are still in their original cabinets. The less bigtime the arcade is, the more chance they will be housed in a cabinet that's intended for Japanese games. When SF2 hit, every machine basically turned into a single design, one that's designed for fighting games.
Never. They are not very nice to use anyway as you have to stand up and squeezing two guys around a small space for two player action is uncomfortable. I'm quite glad they don't those arcade cabinets over here
