I can't find any descent game room in Dallas areas

I rarely see any descent arcade place nor Neo machine in Dallas areas.

For the past 8 years in Dallas I only see
- ultracade "Striker 1945 Plus" at Sack-n-Sav
- Metal Slug cab at Pizza Hut
- Metal Slug 3 and KOF2k2 at Cyber Zone in Valley View Mall

That's about it....

Game World at Grapevine Mall sux big time. No fun at all....... frown

Maybe you should look above-ground

*rimshot*

descent...decent...ahahah

<small>[ May 19, 2003, 03:17 PM: Message edited by: Kid Aphex ]</small>

Kid Aphex:
Maybe you should look above-ground

*rimshot*

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glee

There's a used book/ comic/ video game chain in Japan called 'Book Off'.

The one close to my apartment in Koriyama had five candy cabs lined up beside each other in the videogame section... all of them were SNK games. They changed the games about every six months or so, but again, each time a game was changed it would be to another SNK one.

First of all it was wierd seeing these cabs in a videogame store (I haven't seen them in any stores in Tokyo), and it was great that they were all SNK...

Last time I went it was something like KOF2001, KOF2002, ROTD, SS4...

wait a minute... Liquid, you live in Irving?

If you do, go check out "Animation Town" at the Irving Mall. It sounds like the best arcade in Texas to me! It has a shitload of Neo-Geo games (including Shock Troopers although it's possible they've switched it out for another game by now, sigh), lots of fighting games on big screens, imported Japanese games, plenty of Bemani games like DDR Extreme and Beatmania IIDX 8th Style... it sounds sooooo good.

I saw a post on another message board that listed a lot of the games the arcade has, I'll have to try to find it

Chuck Clown runs the store. I did a deal with him this past winter for some Neo Geo games. He has a nice new store in Irving Mall. I might go take a look myself one of these days.

I thought it was "autobotclown" that owned the place, not chuckclown.

Anyways, I found a list of games off an old DDR Texas post. It's not 100% complete as these are apparently the games they had when they first opened, and of course they've gotten other stuff since then, maybe gotten rid of a few... but anyways. Sounds pretty descent (errrrr, decent) to me. wink


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(75 cents)
beatmania II DX 8th style, 3 songs + extra stage
DDR Extreme , 3 songs + extra stage
boxing mania

(sessioned, 75 cents)
keyboardmania 3rd mix, 4 songs
drummania 4th mix, 4 songs + bonus stages (2)
guitar freaks 5th mix, 4 songs + bonus stages (2)

(50 cents)
para para paradise 2nd mix
bust a move 2
crackin dj


(50 cents megalo)
capcom vs. snk 2
street fighter III: third strike
guilty gear xx
tekken 4
marvel vs. capcom 2
street fighter zero 3
rival schools 2
virtua fighter 4 evolution

(25 cents normal cab)
king of fighters 2002
super gem fighter
super puzzle fighter
twinklestar sprites
garou: mark of the wolves
u.n. squadron
buriki one
waku waku 7
mars matrix
shock troopers
shock troopers 2nd squad
super dodge ball
samurai spirits
top hunter
nightmare in the dark
king of fighters 1998
super bomberman
dimahoo


EDIT: there are lots of pictures of the arcade here:

<a href="http://shin.hahcoe.net/atown/" target="_blank">http://shin.hahcoe.net/atown/</a>
<a href="http://shin.hahcoe.net/atown2/" target="_blank">http://shin.hahcoe.net/atown2/</a>

<small>[ May 19, 2003, 09:00 PM: Message edited by: BBH ]</small>

BBH:
wait a minute... Liquid, you live in Irving?

If you do, go check out "Animation Town" at the Irving Mall. It sounds like the best arcade in Texas to me! It has a shitload of Neo-Geo games (including Shock Troopers although it's possible they've switched it out for another game by now, sigh), lots of fighting games on big screens, imported Japanese games, plenty of Bemani games like DDR Extreme and Beatmania IIDX 8th Style... it sounds sooooo good.

I saw a post on another message board that listed a lot of the games the arcade has, I'll have to try to find it

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Irving Mall? 5 min away from my office and 10 min away from my house.

I don't like Irving Mall that much. Are you talking about that game room behind a video/audio store (I forgot the name)? I don't remember seeing any good game when I was there two weeks ago. I will go there tomorrow after work for sure.

Hey, come to Dallas. Really want to see you finish Shock Troopers with one credit. Or maybe MERCS *cough*

Liquid Snake:

BBH:
wait a minute... Liquid, you live in Irving?

If you do, go check out "Animation Town" at the Irving Mall. It sounds like the best arcade in Texas to me! It has a shitload of Neo-Geo games (including Shock Troopers although it's possible they've switched it out for another game by now, sigh), lots of fighting games on big screens, imported Japanese games, plenty of Bemani games like DDR Extreme and Beatmania IIDX 8th Style... it sounds sooooo good.

I saw a post on another message board that listed a lot of the games the arcade has, I'll have to try to find it

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Irving Mall? 5 min away from my office and 10 min away from my house.

I don't like Irving Mall that much. Are you talking about that game room behind a video/audio store (I forgot the name)? I don't remember seeing any good game when I was there two weeks ago. I will go there tomorrow after work for sure.

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I'm not sure where in the mall it is, I just know it's in there and opened up a few months ago. I just hear all these raves about it since it's a real GAMER'S arcade, without any of that kiddie redemption shit and whatnot. It has all those Neo-Geo's, and it sounded like you were looking for Neo-Geo games to play, so...

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Hey, come to Dallas. Really want to see you finish Shock Troopers with one credit. Or maybe MERCS *cough*

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It's more than an 8-hour drive for me... Maybe for the big DDR tournament this summer, I dunno. I'm thinking about it. I'm pretty rusty at MERCS though.