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Use this tag only for questions about arcade gaming as a platform, or arcade gaming in general. Otherwise, do not add this tag to your question and just state that you are playing the arcade version of a game in the question body without using the tag. Use [emulation] for questions about playing arcade games in emulators.

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What is this game type called?

In recent ads a clickbait game called Hero Wars have been faking being a game that scrolls forward, while picking up powerups and shooting enemies. I've been trying to find other games like this (...
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Why does the boot-up screen for Cruis'n USA (arcade version) display this strange text?

When I tried this classic arcade game in an emulator and watched it boot up, I was very puzzled by the text I saw on the screen: It talks about "DOWNLOADING TEXTURES", "LINK PAL", ...
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Are there any official restrictions per Twin Galaxies relating to walking away from a game?

Suppose I'm playing for a world record and planning to submit to Twin Galaxies and the game can be negotiated into a stable state where I can physically leave the cabinet for an arbitrarily long time ...
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Were Bubble Bobble cheats always available in the arcade?

The original Bubble Bobble provides well-know cheat codes (e.g. "Power-up", "Original" mode, etc.). In one guide, I've read that in order for them to work, the arcade need a dip ...
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What characteristics define the "arcade" genre or style of console games?

In the 1980's, an "arcade" game was one that you played by feeding quarters into it in a public place. Businesses known as "arcades" built up collections of these coin-operated ...
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Can't register my Nesica card with Groove Coaster?

Update 11/29/2022: I was finally able to register my card just now. Left out the underscore and used the full width characters and was able to register. I think I lucked out because either my account ...
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Button mapping for PC-Engine on Fightcade2

I am using Fightcade 2 to try playing retro arcade games One of those games is a PC-Engine / TurboGrafx-16 game I am using a Nintendo Switch gamepad with Fightcade For some NeoGeo games, the button ...
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Berzerk Mondegreens or: What did he say?

Berzerk 40 years ago my English was...even less good. I had no idea what the machine said (the brassen robot voice didn't make it any better). At least I now know that (I write everything phonetically ...
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What are the oldest electronic (electric?) arcade games?

Up until now I was more than sure that the history of electronic or electric arcade games (played be teenagers in "game saloons") were around early seventies / late sixties of twentieth ...
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How did electromechanical pinball keeped score during multiball

Electromechanical pinball scoring system is based on wheels with numbers printed on them, an electromagnet that moves the wheel to the next number when activated and a mechanical device that turns the ...
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Why didn't the arcade machines keep on "scaling" as the years went by?

Growing up in the early to mid 1990s, visiting various arcades was truly fascinating. At home, the SNES already felt amazingly futuristic, and its games endlessly fascinated and impressed me. Yet, ...
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JAMMA Arcade: How to properly wire audio

I’m trying to wire build a Jamma arcade cabinet from scratch. I have a question on how to properly wire audio. The Jamma standard have two pins related to audio (+/-). I have connected + to a phobo ...
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Is it possible that an arcade game was only released on arcade and not on video game console?

I spoke with my brother about an old arcade game we liked to play inside an arcade room when we were children. He told me this game was never released on video game console, is that possible? I think ...
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Why were arcade machines so big?

Why were arcade machines so big in the old days? Like, seriously, those things were huge,massive even
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arcade sf2a: akuma Shun Goku Satsu

I can pull akuma's Shun Goku Satsu (3special, lp, lp, r, lk, hp) easily on psx, but trying now on mame with a USB controller I got zero out of a thousand. is this somewhat different to pull on the ...
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