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Showbiz Pizza was my first and most favorite arcade experience. Mid 80's birthday paradise. Ball pits, bubble hockey, air hockey, skee ball, and all the Ms. Pacman, Qbert, Pole Position, etc. you could play. The animatronics were an afterthought, just something you got to watch while scarfing down pizza too quick so you could get back at running around like a crazy person playing everything.

Pinball was prevalent as well and I probably enjoyed it a little more than most my age. It was always cool when your favorite movie was made into a machine but Pinbot stood out over most others.

There was also the Williams Slugfest. It was a pinball like machine set up like a baseball field. It was a quarter an inning and it pitched a pinball and where you hit it determined the results of that at bat. The coolest part was when it was released it dispensed baseball cards. later they were converted to dispensing arcade tickets, but the freaking baseball cards were the draw.

I played Golden Tee heavily from the time PBR was $1.00 until it was $3.00, so early 2000's maybe? Lots of fun with friends and beers. Arcade 1up has several different versions for the low low price of 500 bucks. There are new machines in bars and arcades that have huge screens and cup holders. It's still going strong

I couldn't wait for a physical release and bought it on Steam when it came out. I was excited for it but wound up lukewarm on the game. It 100% didn't get the time it deserved but I couldn't get good at the run and gun melded into a tactics game and lost interest before I figured it out. I also didn't appreciate the roguelike aspect of the game despite generally liking roguelike games.

This game would absolutely hit different if I was looking for what it offered. It's a fresh take on a tactics game incorporating the Metal Slug essence unexpectedly well.

I don't recall enjoying this game.

I found it at a time where I'd just trudged through Shining Force 3, Dragon Force, Disgaea 2, and tactics ogre so in fairness I may have just been burned out on the genre.

People who enjoy tactics games have raved about it and IGN usually has it at the top of its lists so it's probably a great game and I'm sure I'll get around to playing it one day, although now I really want to break out Shinning Force.

I've really dialed back the spending on game nostalgia, but this is a must have for me. It'll likely get encased in acrylic and never be used but it'll look pretty on a shelf.

how many lego games does that bring you up to?

I get your point but why wouldn't Nintendo come out and say that? If they straight out blamed tariffs or just raised their prices in the US I'd wholly agree. With half the US blaming tariffs for everything, Nintendo could say tariff and would get no push back what so ever. Why be coy only citing market conditions? Even if it was BS it'd be completely believable. Why lump in Canada if it's US Tariffs that's causing the spike?

I've not seen Nintendo come out and say it, I've only seen sites like CNBC and Gamespot, and of course the youtubers citing said sites. 

I don't get it. Nintendo says "market conditions" seemingly implying tariffs (as well as the dood in the video) BUUUUT Nintendo also raise rates in Canada who's got some 14 consonant (exaggeration - its CPTPP) acronym for we've mutually agreed to keep tariffs at a minimum and haven't raise tariffs on Japan.

Nintendo has been moving from reliance on China to other Asian countries (Cambodia and Vietnam) which have from my understanding been able to undercut china in a lot of areas. I think US tariffs make a great scapegoat and could be a smoke screen. Price increases are pretty accepted at this point except when it comes to video games. People lose their mind over video games costing more and Tariffs make a great red herring, especially when Nintendo isn't the one actually blaming them.

The inter-web says the switch 2 sales are record breaking for Nintendo, kinda hard to believe they're not making lots of money. It is more expensive to live, why wouldn't it be more expensive for a corporation. Market conditions could just mean we don't want to absorb costs so here you go consumers.  It seems to me why no matter what the last two administrations have done, the stock market has flourished and whatever dip happens rubber bands back further to the good in no time.

We've got a barcade and pinball museum in Asheville that's fairly decent but I usually steer clear of downtown so I'm not there much.

When I go visit my brother in Myrtle Beach I usually take the kids to a few of the arcades scattered out there. The four player beat-em-ups, the racing ones, and the light gun games were always favorites.

Grocery prices been doing that for me. Once upon a time I'd buy 50 or so physical games in a year, now I'll be lucky to end the year out with 5.

I wish. My one slotter got gone years ago. I miss it but it didn't get used much what seems like a week after I got it. I likely only miss it because it and all the MVS carts I had are worth 10x what I paid for it / sold it for.

I went ahead and ordered the xbox series x one, game looks good, can't wait to play something I've got on playstation again!

missed the switch deal, thinking about getting the xbox one for 29

I'll stop by

case queen, officially commandeered.

I saw Noodles from Offspring doing an interview on Youtube recently and he looked like hippie grandpa... He looks like the Asheville bar flies that frequent the bars that were cool here in the early 2000s.

Almost as bad, there's 20 somethings at work talking about bands like Highly Suspect like they've been around forever. 90s and 2000s rock is called divorced dad rock and Dave Mustaine is 63 going on 112!

maybe this should be reposted in the loser section!?

ooooh I woulda bought in at 60, its 122 right now

Early 30's Dave, dood's mid 50s now. Makes you feel old...

I'm kind of ready for a new Nintendo IP. Newer iterations of Mario, Mario Kart, Mario Party, Donkey Kong, Kirby, etc. are fun, but just don't bring back the excitement each once did. It feels like how junkies talk about their first time, a video game chasing the dragon scenario. I looked at a few lists of future releases for the Switch 2 and the only game I even might play is Disgaea 7, and I quit that series 5 iterations ago. DK Bananaza looks like they built the game around the chunk gimmick, and everything else looks like stuff we already have. Not to mention 80 dollar Mario kart looks a lot like Mario kart 8 with more characters, less tracks.

So far, the entire thing seems miss able. I'm certain I'll change my mind over time but for now, I'm saving my money.

probably a case queen at this point.

It was my first playstation game. Most of my 100% completes came from the xbox 360 days, although if you added up xbox live, steam, and playstation I still don't have 16. I typically try to finish the game, just not necessarily the achievements.

thanks guys!

Its been so long I cant remember what games I got!

looking forward to the mission impossible collection steel book (please make this happen!)

I spend less buying the special editions than a trip to the movies in all honesty. I am looking forward to watching the movie though, just from the comfort of my own couch and loud enough so my neighbors complain.

yeah maybe if we get out of this multiverse phase things will start to work out. Its only seemed to have worked out for No way Home, the rest of the multiverse stuff fell flat.

It's deep in the back log at this point.

@BLUEVOODU being generally decent human beings, I think we tend to overcompensate for the haters sometimes. Age was meh. I didn't hate it but it didn't hit as hard as its predecessors.

Scared!

Marvel's first family has never been done well. 1986 movie was low budget and no one watched, second iteration of fantastic four was better but never caught and the second movie BARELY used the Silver Surfer, and the last iteration was completely forgettable.

Once again a new FF is coming out later this year, and its success will likely have a big impact on next year's avengers flick. I refuse to watch or read anything about these movies outside of the trailers. Lets face facts, the last few Marvel movies haven't been great and the net nerds are in full blown Disney hate mode. I just don't want any bias heading in because I'm already scared its not going to be good.

I got into comics in the copper age and bought what silver age stuff I could. My favorites were Xmen and Fantastic Four. I'm way more critical of those two and may join the net nerds in Disney hate if they get ruined.

It seems to be getting more and more difficult to find new stuff to binge, Streamers are moving back to the drip feed model and amping up the commercials... wonder where they got the idea?!

With that being said, I've been looking for some deep cuts I've missed. HBO Max has come through so far with Last Ship and Banshee. I finished Banshee and it was pretty great and has Homelander in it! I'm on the last season of Last Ship. also great. Its pacing isn't perfect but there's four seasons and pulling your content from a book or books makes that difficult, but in this case very forgivable.

Prodigal Son is also on Max but harder to recommend. Fantastic show despite following the same formula for the majority of the show. Once it broke that formula and got going it wasn't renewed for another season, leaving on a cliffhanger with no hope of conclusion.

I loved it for what it was. There were flaws but it told an entertaining story. Die-hards will / did hate it. Without spoiling anything, there's a back story that was rushed and had liberties taken. Even the showrunner addressed it, basically admitting it was shoehorned in.

I didn't appreciate the earlier series until later in life and have not been through all of it yet. They were more soap than action, so I wrote them off and have only recently started watching the legacy stuff. The Next Generation movies were great and cut the fluffy stuff to seemingly attract a wider movie-going audience and was more my thing. I think that's why I liked Picard. It took a little more of the action route and had some ties to the Star Trek materials I most enjoyed.

I get the hate, when Marvel or DC takes too much liberty with some of the comic story lines I read as a kid, I took it as a put-off. Sometimes big changes work, other times they don't. People are always going to find issue when others take liberties with source material. I'm less resistant to it than some, I just ask for quality, which in general does seem to be fading.

Next time I'm in the mood for a little masochism, I'll try to power through