mccNov 18, 2024
Okay, this is the arcade everyone insists to me is the biggest and most retroiest in the area. This is my best bet to satisfy my desire to play some original Gradius series cabinets. If I find nothing interesting in here, this will be the last post in this thread.
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*Walks in the door, first thing I see* WHAT!!!
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Oh god. Oh god this was a mistake. I'm going to lose so much money here
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Is that good

(It's not very good, I can do better at home gradewise if nothing else. In my defense I was adjusting to a new control surface?)

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All of my respect to Sex
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They have the money exchanger game! (It's really good, it's Magical Drop but better.)
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Is this… did they… is this a fucking Tokemeki Memorial tie-up block drop puzzle game??!
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They had everything I was looking for here! Gradius II, Salamander/Lifeforce, Gradius III. The cabinets were all modded for auto fire, with little knobs to adjust autofire rates. My RSI appreciates it.

NES Gradius II was Japan exclusive for mapper reasons; it is lightyears beyond the US Gradius. But it turns out when this impossible-feeling NES title is a pale shadow of the arcade version. I have no words for the scale of this thing.

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@mcc Does that cab have a knob for autofire speed??
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@leona yes. Yes it does.

The gradius 3 cabinet had *four* auto fire speed knobs. I never figured out how the fuck they worked, and lost a whole credit to trying to fiddle with them as spaceships flew at me.

Nov 18, 2024 at 8:09amTusky