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  • #32
    o1s1n
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 36,531 ✭✭✭✭o1s1n
    Master of the Universe


    The arcades I was in during the early to mid 90s on Bray seafront still had a lot of great late 80s machines left too. Dawsons was hanging on to things like their sit down Super Thunder Blade/After Burner etc.

    It seemed like they were all culled suddenly with the takeover of 3D gaming. If I was to go back now you'd wet yourself!

    Hah! I just googled that sit down Super Thunder Blade. It's hilarious, my memory is of the seat being really high up in the air. I must have been tiny at the time. Maybe they only had it up until 90/91.

    cabinet.jpg


  • #33
    Retr0gamer
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 53,387 CMod ✭✭✭✭Retr0gamer


    I never realised that all the backgrounds and characters were prerenders in Killer Instinct when I was younger. Thought it was the amazing power of the Ultra 64 that was generating all those polygons. Looking at the game now you can see the hardware can barely do 3D and it's got some horrible textrue warping problems.


  • #34
    yrwhu8jxtni06a
    Closed Accounts Posts: 362 ✭✭yrwhu8jxtni06a


    The end was nigh for arcade machines in the 90s,home computers became more powerful and cheaper,we where promised arcade perfect ports and some cases we got close to them,along with cost of maintain arcade machine and parts obsolete,it was going to end.

    Lets look at galaxy force 2 with its cab
    118124211049.jpg

    Years later the game was ported to the saturn on sega ages release,jap release,fantastic scaling -
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sd38gTmBZOE


  • #35
    pdbhp
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,041 ✭✭✭pdbhp


    o1s1n wrote: »
    Hah! I just googled that sit down Super Thunder Blade. It's hilarious, my memory is of the seat being really high up in the air. I must have been tiny at the time. Maybe they only had it up until 90/91.

    cabinet.jpg


    I used to love going to Bray and playing Super Thunder Blade, I just thought the cab was the best thing ever. I was crap at it though and could only ever get to the second level:(


  • #36
    LoGiE
    Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 2,976 Mod ✭✭✭✭LoGiE


    The most popular fighting games in my local arcade were VF2, MK2 and Killer Instinct. They were all released in 94 and SF2 CE / SSF2 had been around about a year or two so this was pretty much a new wave of games. Tekken never really got a look in but I put plenty of coin in when i was in Dublin.... Soul Edge was better anyway:)

    I didn't get into fatal fury/SSD et al till much later. The less said about taito fighters the better....


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