California Extreme 2025 🧵

As always, we had a great time walking around and checking out all the games, although most of them didn't appeal very strongly to us since most games before 1985 are too primitive for us. Still, there were some gems worth checking out, like the return of 6-player The Grid, OutRun 2 (!!), and the Atari Recharged series - we tried not to stick too long around the rhythm game corner since many of the games there, we already main anyway thanks to nearby friends and arcades.

Pinball is nice for us to look at, but we don't know The Techniques well so to us, it's all ball-sucking simulators unless we watch someone who's actually good at pinball play.

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Missile Command Recharged (2025)

The newest installment in the funny Cold War ICBM simulator series, this is the same premise as the original, but with modern elements like power-up items, stat building after each stage, boss enemies, and optional online connectivity for online leaderboards and tournaments.

It is also hilariously American, moreso than the original. The stages are all themed after the 50 U.S. states with introductory one-liners like "Defend the Heart of Dixie" (Alabama), "Colorado's peaks don't stop missiles", and "Defend the birthplace of liberty" (Massachusetts).

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California Extreme arcade and pinball expo is next week.

As a point of etiquette, if someone is playing a game that allows a 2nd player to join for co-op, please kindly ask before joining their game, as they might be going for a scoring run or speedrun and having a 2nd player join in will void the run.

If they say no, please wait your turn or play something else in the meantime.

Thank you.

(This isn't just for CA-X, but for arcades in general)

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