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Posted: Wed Mar 07, 2012 11:16 pm
by Tru
Kaito-kun wrote:Oh dammit, I had forgotten about this thread. I was in Namco Station in Gateshead a few weeks ago, I could have got some photos of their stock. There was an interesting (and huge) multiplayer Pac-Man cabinet as well as a Tekken 6 machine and the usual mix of DDR, racing games (including Outrun 2 and Wangan Midnight Maximum Tune 3), dedicated cabs such as that terminator lightgun game and some prize games. Sadly, they seemed to have removed Razing Storm since my last visit. I liked Razing Storm.
I was at the Metrocentre last week (I live close enough to the bloody place!) and was quite surprised by the multiplayer Pacman as well. Didn't have a go on it though, but it seems like they've shuffled stuff around a bit.

I think it would be a great location for a meet up ^_^

Posted: Thu Mar 08, 2012 9:28 am
by richarddavies
There's a multiplayer Pacman Arcade machine? That sounds pretty awesome.

Posted: Thu Mar 08, 2012 2:43 pm
by TCB
Sounds like an awesome place for some arcade gaming, sucks that there aren't any around the NYC area like from what you descirbed Kaito-Kun.

Posted: Thu Mar 08, 2012 3:23 pm
by Reknoc
NYC has Next Level though, where Big Two is hosted, I'd love to go there some time.

Posted: Thu Mar 08, 2012 7:20 pm
by Kaito-kun
CapnCloudchaser wrote: I think it would be a great location for a meet up ^_^
An interesting prospect. I might be tempted.
richarddavies wrote:There's a multiplayer Pacman Arcade machine? That sounds pretty awesome.
It was pretty cool, however, I only had a chance to play it in single player mode.

Posted: Fri Mar 09, 2012 9:07 pm
by TCB
Reknoc wrote:NYC has Next Level though, where Big Two is hosted, I'd love to go there some time.

...Bet it's in Times Square...going to look that up...might.

Posted: Thu Jun 21, 2012 4:24 pm
by Kaito-kun
I was at the Namco in Gateshead (Metrocentre) again today and took a couple of pics of the more interesting cabinets:

First the multiplayer Pac-Man Battle Royale game mentioned earlier in the thread:

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Full size Outrun 2 cabinet. Because y'know, this is a SEGA site and stuff. The cars move on hydraulics:

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Finally I discovered this today. Seems to be called "ReRave":

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I gave it a try hoping for a decent DJ Max Technika clone. What I got was a lousy DJ Max Technika knock-off: Not fun. No explanation on how to play. Expensive - Only 2 songs per credit, every other music arcade game I've played has always been 3 for one credit. If you spot it anywhere avoid it like the plague. I'm not getting that pound back...

They've also got a Tekken 6 cabinet with a slightly dodgy coin acceptance slot - spent 5 minutes trying to get the machine to accept my money. The maintenance guy took a look, sorted it and gave me two free plays for good measure. Didn't take a photo because I'm sure we all know what a Tekken 6 cabinet looks like.

There are some DDR cabinets too, but only Euromix (ollllllld) and Euromix 2 (common), which aren't too interesting. If it had been DDRX or DDRX2 however I'd have pics for you. DDRX2 rocks.

Posted: Thu Jun 21, 2012 7:30 pm
by Pitchshift3r
One of the many arcades in Southend (in Essex, UK to all you non-Brits) has the Pac-Man Battle Royale machines! It also has classics like Crisis Zone (LOVE IT) and Ghost Squad :P

I need to investigate more of the arcades down there ASAP!

Posted: Sat Jun 23, 2012 9:17 pm
by Shadid
I should go to this. Resuming, it's an arcade exposition that features a LOT of old working Arcade machines, like Donkey Kong and Pac-Man, and actually gives video games a sense of art!

But... it's in Lisbon, which is 4 hours from where I live. And more expensive. ;_;

Posted: Sat Jun 23, 2012 10:01 pm
by Gonic
That looks exactly like the namco arcade in the trafford centre