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Post by derboo on Jan 5, 2014 20:25:31 GMT -5
We need more trivia brainstorming threads. Let's collect a list of games that have video game arcades in them! Bonus points if they actually have playable games.  Shenmue. Of course the obligatory prime example, probably the first fully functional arcade in a video game. Yakuza series has arcades with some playable stuff as well, but as far as I've played, there was only garbage like toy cranes. Does it get any better later in the series?  Maniac Mansion. No actual playable games, but IIRC you could let one of the kids "play" one to get a secret code from the high score table or something?  Date Quiz Go Go. Board/Quiz game where the topic of questions is determined by several locations. In the arcade of course are several questions about video game trivia.  Vac-Suit Jack. Dunno if this was even released. The only disk image I could find has a screen that says "early demo". Very early on in this platformer you walk into an arcade where you can play a more primitive platformer or a slotmachine, on a tiny screen-within-the-screen.  Spare Change. A 1984 game for several home computers, depicted is the Apple II version. I don't quite understand this game yet, but apparently the two weird little guys are characters that broke from the newest video game in the arcade, and you need to prevent them from stealing tokens for some reason. You can also put tokens in the jukebox for some bleepy background music. Not sure if I want to count the Ganbare Goemon mini games. They're definitely presented as games-within-a-game and shown on screens-within-the-screen, but the setup doesn't strike me as particularly arcade-like. |
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Post by alphex on Jan 5, 2014 20:30:00 GMT -5
The Simpsons arcade game has an arcade-machine of Alien in it... not playable, though, and not the real game either (it's "simpsonized").
Candybox 2 has an arcade machine in it, if that one counts.
Day Of The Tentacle has Maniac Mansion in it, although not on an arcade machine, but a PC.
Space Quest games also include several trips to arcades, usually involving minigames (yaaaaay...ish).
I think you also pass an arcade in Streets Of Rage 2 and in Scott Pilgrim VS The World?
SNK vs CAPCOM: Card Fighters Clash also includes an arcade.
Duke Nukem 3D.
About Goemon: Isn't there a complete level from Gradius in one of the SNES parts?
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Post by Joseph Joestar on Jan 5, 2014 20:31:01 GMT -5
 Alex Kidd in Hi Tech World is all about him trying to get to an arcade (I think the original Japanese version, Anmitsu-Hime, was about the character trying to get to a sweet shop). |
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Post by The Great Klaid on Jan 5, 2014 20:31:09 GMT -5
Pac-Man 2: The New Adventures had one. You had to find cartridges(IIRC) and you could play Pac-Man, Ms. Pac-Man, and I never found the others, but there were some other Pac-Man games in there.
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Post by starscream on Jan 5, 2014 20:53:01 GMT -5
Earthbound has one: What came immediately to my mind was the 8-bit computer title "Lazy Jones", but I guess this is probably supposed to be about playing on giant computer screens:  |
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Post by Weasel on Jan 5, 2014 20:54:00 GMT -5
GTA4 has an arcade machine called QUB3D that appears in a few places that is playable (and actually kind of fun).
Streets of Rage 2 has a somewhat lengthy arcade stage, most of the machines are labeled "Bare Knuckle" and can be destroyed. Some of them have food in them, bizarrely.
Catherine has an arcade machine called Rapunzel in the Stray Sheep; its gameplay is remarkably similar to the main puzzles, though limited by number of moves instead of by time.
Doesn't Animal Crossing have arcade machines, too? Or is it just NES games?
I'm reasonably sure Donkey Kong 64 had arcade machines of the three DK games in it as well as one of Jetpak...
The Yakuza series has a bunch of these too!
-- The first game only had the UFO Catcher, if I remember (which, until the fifth game, was the only one that's actually a real Sega machine).
-- The second game introduced YF6, a neat Tron-esque first-person fighting game, where you could actually meet a few NPCs who would challenge you to a game.
-- Yakuza 3 doesn't have YF6, but it does have BOXCELIOS, a neat side-scrolling shoot-em-up, and the Japanese version had the trivia game, Answer X Answer (and I don't know if that's a real game or not).
-- Yakuza 4 adds BOXCELIOS 2 to the mix in addition to retaining the first game and AxA.
-- Yakuza 5 has a perfect emulation of Virtua Fighter 2 in it. I think it even has online play.
The 2013 Shadow Warrior reboot by Flying Wild Hog has a handful of (mostly) non-interactive arcades in it. While most of the games are not even switched on, the ones that are include machines of the original Shadow Warrior, Serious Sam 3, Hotline Miami, and Hard Reset; all of them will play sounds from their original games if you walk in front of them, and if you use them, they take 5 coins and begin playing music from their games until you walk away. (The machines also explode if shot.)
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Post by Reiji-kun on Jan 5, 2014 21:08:56 GMT -5
 Double Dragon on the Neo Geo had one.  As well as Robocop 2 in the arcades. |
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Post by TangoBunny on Jan 5, 2014 21:37:23 GMT -5
Yu-Gi-Oh The Sacred Cards has an arcade. There's no playable games, but it does play the song Miracle Moon from Beatmania as BGM.
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Post by PremiumXS on Jan 5, 2014 21:41:19 GMT -5
Postal 2 has a two-story arcade building, complete with playing NPCs and a prize cabinet. While none of the machines can be played, tokens can be collected and exchanged for prizes.
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Post by jjc14 on Jan 5, 2014 22:00:01 GMT -5
Gold Saucer in Final Fantasy VII immediately comes to mind...
The "cast" of Golden Axe escaped from an arcade, right?
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Post by Deleted on Jan 5, 2014 22:17:47 GMT -5
Sorry, had to.  |
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Post by Malev on Jan 5, 2014 22:28:47 GMT -5
I gotta find the mission but Elebits has you searching an arcade in a carnival for the little bits, complete with Konami arcade machines.
Not sure if it counts but Donkey Kong 64 has one Donkey Kong arcade cab that you need to beat in order to get to the final boss
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Post by Malev on Jan 5, 2014 22:32:04 GMT -5
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Post by Ryu the Grappler on Jan 5, 2014 22:36:59 GMT -5
About Goemon: Isn't there a complete level from Gradius in one of the SNES parts? All of the SFC Goemon games (except for 3) had a minigame based on a Konami shooting game. Goemon/Mystical Ninja - Gradius Goemon 2 - Xexex Goemon 4 - Time Pilot '95 Pac-Man 2: The New Adventures had one. You had to find cartridges(IIRC) and you could play Pac-Man, Ms. Pac-Man, and I never found the others, but there were some other Pac-Man games in there. It depended on the version. The SNES version had Pac-Man and Ms. Pac-Man, while the Genesis version replaced the latter with Pac Jr., which was just a reskinned Ms. Pac-Man with different intermissions (it was unrelated to Midway's Jr. Pac-Man arcade game). Incidentally, I think Ms. Pac-Man's inclusion in Pac-Man II (or rather Hello Pac-Man) might have been the first official release of the game in Japan (the arcade version was never distributed there). The Namco Museum games were literally set in virtual arcades, especially the Japan-only Encore volume. |
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Post by Gilder on Jan 5, 2014 23:26:10 GMT -5
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