Rampage is coming back to arcades but...

Another reason I have my own arcade in my house.

Not every remake has sucked. Galaga Assault, World's Largest Pac-Man, Pac-Man Battle Royale, Space Invaders Frenzy and Sea Wolf were all solid. But Dave & Busters has not had a very good track record on these releases they've been doing (Pirates Of the Caribbean Crossy Road, Spider-Man Homecoming, Rock 'em Sock 'em Robots; the Tomb Raider arcade they have now is also incomplete and reportedly not earning terribly well). I'll wait to make a final judgement on the new Rampage for playing it but just going in with very low expectations
 
dave and busters sucks.

shitty food and 2 bucks a minute to play a game.... wheeee what fun
 
D&B is great for what it is; a modern arcade; things evolve; have fun with it.

Was there this weekend, and put some time in on Cruis'n Blast, it did not disappoint; great game!
 
Not every remake has sucked. Galaga Assault, World's Largest Pac-Man, Pac-Man Battle Royale, Space Invaders Frenzy and Sea Wolf were all solid. But Dave & Busters has not had a very good track record on these releases they've been doing (Pirates Of the Caribbean Crossy Road, Spider-Man Homecoming, Rock 'em Sock 'em Robots; the Tomb Raider arcade they have now is also incomplete and reportedly not earning terribly well). I'll wait to make a final judgement on the new Rampage for playing it but just going in with very low expectations

Whoa... Nothing personal AtariShag, but I thought all of those totally sucked. I LOVED the idea of Pac Royale until I played it and found it painful.
 
if Raw Thrills made it, it wouldn't be totally horrible. but alas, Adrenaline Amusements did, their entire catalog is basically cell phone game ports. they suck. this game too will also suck.

F D&B
 
I don't really get all the Dave and Busters hate around here. I know it's different than Aladdin's Castle and Time Out and all the classic arcades everyone loves, but it's one of very few big arcade chains still thriving. Everyone says "arcades are dead" but they're ignoring D&B, Round 1, etc... arcades aren't dead, they've just evolved like every other industry since the 80s.

I don't like redemption garbage either for the most part, but I never have trouble finding great games to play there when I get a chance to take the trip. Cruisn Blast, Luigi's Mansion, Star Wars Battlepods, Time Crisis 5, Ghostbusters environmental, Dark Escape 4D, the two or three different sit-down drifting racers most have, a bunch I'm forgetting, and of course DDR Ace and Pump it Up Prime 2 which I love because I can always get a huge crowd watching. And honestly, I get a kick out of a couple of the redemption titles--Space Invaders Frenzy is genuinely fun and I usually get enough tickets from just a couple rounds to win some Pac Man swag to put in my home arcade or something.

I know it's expensive, but it's not terrible compared to what some games actually used to cost BITD ($1.00 to play Ocean Hunter? fucking $1.50 to play Virtual On?) and there are always specials, if you go on Wednesday (or just buy your chips on Wednesday, not like you'd have to spend them then) you can charge your card for half price.

And there's beer. :D

(Having said all that everything Adrenaline Amusements touches is a disaster, this particular game's gonna suck ass)
 
Whoa... Nothing personal AtariShag, but I thought all of those totally sucked. I LOVED the idea of Pac Royale until I played it and found it painful.

To each their own but I am curious - did you play the redemption versions of each of those games or the Amusement Modes? I ask as on Galaga Assault and Space Invaders Frenzy, they are completely different games (more traditional with dozens of levels and lives based gameplay). The redemption versions were terrible as they were a single level+boss and were designed with the same shallow play you get from any other redemption game. I have a Galaga Assault set on Amusement Mode and most people seem to enjoy it - I even hear thanks from people for having it once in a while.

On Pac Battle Royale, did you play it single player or with 3 friends? If single player it really isn't much fun (I have a little bias in that I have a prototype software of that one that populates the field with three AI players instead of 1). Going into it hoping for multiplayer Pac-Man to go for 255 levels also is a point that most didn't like. But from a party game and operator perspective, it's an excellent game in that it gets that job done. I've had one since 2012 and it actually earns better now that it did when I first got it (this month it's been averaging about $95/wk). No, not much of a collectors piece unless you have a lot of parties. But for ops, it does well for what it is.
 
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