Anyone used Aurcade?

Yup. Great site run by Auric from these forums. The Funspot tourney runs their scores through Dave's Aurcade system now as well as the Great Richie Knucklez arcade.
 
Not the most accurate as far as games on location, but yes, I use this whenever I visit a new area and want to scope out the arcade scene :)
 
The idea is great, but it needs more help from the little people, such as myself, on keeping the game lists up to date. I have actually gathered a bit of data for the site but I haven't forwarded it to any of the administrators for inclusion in the database.


If we used this site regularly, keeping it up to date on games/location, it would be a great resource for all of us...
 
Great place run by a great guy, doesn't get the attention it deserves. I was a member there before I was here, haha
 
The idea is great, but it needs more help from the little people, such as myself, on keeping the game lists up to date. I have actually gathered a bit of data for the site but I haven't forwarded it to any of the administrators for inclusion in the database.


If we used this site regularly, keeping it up to date on games/location, it would be a great resource for all of us...

Great place run by a great guy, doesn't get the attention it deserves. I was a member there before I was here, haha

I know that a lot of people are looking to play arcade games around me, and they don't know where the machines are. I found the best way to know where the machines are is to ask the Operators. There aren't many "Arcades" anymore, but OPs still put machines out on routes.
 
I know that a lot of people are looking to play arcade games around me, and they don't know where the machines are. I found the best way to know where the machines are is to ask the Operators. There aren't many "Arcades" anymore, but OPs still put machines out on routes.


Will your operators tell you where games are? The ops around here will not tell anyone where their games are out of fear of competition. Instead, I have to go into every place that I think a game may be present and look.


BTW, I just signed up for an account on Aurcade and submitted a few locations. If the creator wants it to be used more then he needs to make it more user friendly. In order to post a new location I had to search through the forums for a thread that described how to do it. Of course, that thread had a title that I would have never opened when looking for this information. A link to the submission form on the front page would make things much more user friendly. I also don't like the form used to add games owned to my account. KLOV has a much easier to use form and all of my games are present. I gave up after a few games on Aurcade due to my games not being in the database.
 
Sure, I have gotten to know them, and have bought their old games. It means more quarters for them.

Will your operators tell you where games are? The ops around here will not tell anyone where their games are out of fear of competition. Instead, I have to go into every place that I think a game may be present and look.


BTW, I just signed up for an account on Aurcade and submitted a few locations. If the creator wants it to be used more then he needs to make it more user friendly. In order to post a new location I had to search through the forums for a thread that described how to do it. Of course, that thread had a title that I would have never opened when looking for this information. A link to the submission form on the front page would make things much more user friendly. I also don't like the form used to add games owned to my account. KLOV has a much easier to use form and all of my games are present. I gave up after a few games on Aurcade due to my games not being in the database.
 
I just added a few others and Head On, Avalanche, and Super Space Fortress Macross are not on the list. I was able to add a few more but I stopped after finding three missing...
 
If there haven't been any on location, they might not be in the database. This is especially true with older pins...I usually end up having to add a bunch when I'm adding a location with older pins.
 
The one listed near me isn't really an arcade per-se. In the flea market is an area where a dude sells games but it is closed up most of the time. Also the games listed on the site aren't the ones there and honestly, even if he did have all of those game, they wouldn't fit in the stall he has.
 
I just added a few others and Head On, Avalanche, and Super Space Fortress Macross are not on the list. I was able to add a few more but I stopped after finding three missing...

Wow! I didn't know there was an arcade game based on Macross! I will fire that up in MAME tonight!
 
I used Aurcade just 2 weeks ago to find some games in my area. Pretty sweet site.
 
I just added a few others and Head On, Avalanche, and Super Space Fortress Macross are not on the list. I was able to add a few more but I stopped after finding three missing...

Head On, Avalanche, and Super Spacefortress Macross have now been added to Aurcade's games database. Also added "Sega/Gremlin" and "Fabtek" to the manufacturers list.

CrazyKongFan is right: the games database is populated mostly as people report finding them in public. There are over 11,000 games in the database now, but a title that is fairly rare today is likely still missing until someone notices it isn't there and speaks up.

I've done some work adding entire series of games and cleaning up the data. The Dance Dance Revolution games in the database were a total mess; several were titled incorrectly and many were missing, so I did some research and filled in and cleaned up the entries. I did the same for the Taiko no Tatsujin Japanese drumming games. This cleanup work still needs to be done for the Pump It Up series and, I'm sure, for other modern series of games that I am less familiar with. Every now and then I get motivated to do cleanup work like this. :)

I used to inventory all of the Seattle area locations every 2-3 months and keep them up to date, but I gave up on it when no one else would help. At $4 per gallon I'm not interested in driving all over the region to do this when I had no indication that anyone was actually using the data anyway. And I can tell that each location needs to be checked at least once every two months if not monthly. Any less frequently and the turnover is high enough that the data gets too inaccurate to be useful.
 
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