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Not to sound like an old man, but kids today will never know the joy of walking up to the cabinet and going head-to-head (side-to-side?) vs another live player.

Not to sound like an old man, but kids today will never know the joy of walking up to the cabinet and going head-to-head (side-to-side?) vs another live player. There's something about the live experience that online play can't match. And yeah there's a few arcades still out there, but it's pretty niche.

trasz 5y ago
Many console (home console, eg ps4) games have a split-screen mode.
- pupppet 5y ago
  Not the same as walking up to a complete stranger and having it out.
- kingcharles 5y ago
  I can't virtually punch my friend in the face when he kills me with a hundred-hand slap for the thirtieth time in one day.
- flashgordon 5y ago
  Sadly - I have been dying to find split screen mode games for RPGs to play with kids and it is really slim picking out there. I keep hearing the economics of building games for this (space, content, ux etc) are just not worth it. sigh!
  - digitalsushi 5y ago
    They're born out of passion, they are wasteful, often mis-designed, and hilarious fun to build. At the end you have a bulky retro kiosk to remember 30 years ago. The huge letdown is when no one wants to be Player Two. The nostalgia high isn't from the cabinet or joystick or rom or screen, it's from two people with incredible enthusiasm to share an ephemeral context of Ryu-vs-Ken together. 8,000 bucks of home entertainment system can dim the lights, drop the curtains, and play matrix 4, but give me a 15 inch TV, Mario Kart, some milk crates to sit on, and some kid bent on destroying me in battle mode. I'll remember one of these in another 30 years. On the other hand, I'm definitely noticing how much I rely on nostalgia to feel happy. That is its own topic.
    - flashgordon 5y ago
      Talk about nostalgia is seductively dangerous mate. Bit like those Perma pods on the Inception movie. May end up stuck there for ever (not a bad proposition at times though)!!
pezezin 5y ago
I totally agree with you. Being born in 1985, I never got to experience the arcade glory days (although I had my fair share of arcade fun), but my teenage years corresponded to their successors, the Internet cafés, or cybercafés as we called them. Oh man, a 10 vs 10 LAN match of Counter Strike was glorious, lots of noisy teenagers shouting at each other, booing the opposite team, cheering a particularly good play... As you say, you can't have the same experience online. I'm a bit sad for today's kids, they have much faster hardware and connections that we did, but they will never get to experience the same excitement.

trasz 5y ago

Many console (home console, eg ps4) games have a split-screen mode.

pupppet 5y ago
Not the same as walking up to a complete stranger and having it out.
kingcharles 5y ago
I can't virtually punch my friend in the face when he kills me with a hundred-hand slap for the thirtieth time in one day.
flashgordon 5y ago
Sadly - I have been dying to find split screen mode games for RPGs to play with kids and it is really slim picking out there. I keep hearing the economics of building games for this (space, content, ux etc) are just not worth it. sigh!
- digitalsushi 5y ago
  They're born out of passion, they are wasteful, often mis-designed, and hilarious fun to build. At the end you have a bulky retro kiosk to remember 30 years ago. The huge letdown is when no one wants to be Player Two. The nostalgia high isn't from the cabinet or joystick or rom or screen, it's from two people with incredible enthusiasm to share an ephemeral context of Ryu-vs-Ken together. 8,000 bucks of home entertainment system can dim the lights, drop the curtains, and play matrix 4, but give me a 15 inch TV, Mario Kart, some milk crates to sit on, and some kid bent on destroying me in battle mode. I'll remember one of these in another 30 years. On the other hand, I'm definitely noticing how much I rely on nostalgia to feel happy. That is its own topic.
  - flashgordon 5y ago
    Talk about nostalgia is seductively dangerous mate. Bit like those Perma pods on the Inception movie. May end up stuck there for ever (not a bad proposition at times though)!!

pezezin 5y ago

I totally agree with you. Being born in 1985, I never got to experience the arcade glory days (although I had my fair share of arcade fun), but my teenage years corresponded to their successors, the Internet cafés, or cybercafés as we called them. Oh man, a 10 vs 10 LAN match of Counter Strike was glorious, lots of noisy teenagers shouting at each other, booing the opposite team, cheering a particularly good play... As you say, you can't have the same experience online. I'm a bit sad for today's kids, they have much faster hardware and connections that we did, but they will never get to experience the same excitement.