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I get what you mean; I'm rather the video game enthusiast myself as well.

But an arcade gamer? Maybe it's just because I live in a small town, but the arcade gamer is quite rare. All you see or hear of nowadays are PC and Console gamers, my own personal specialty being the the latter.

I do have that unique love for arcade games though. I mostly prefer games like Do Donpachi and Aero Fighters, but I don't know the name of the genre. I also REALLY love Virtual On. While other of my friends were highly enjoying the virtual on styled minigame on Xenosaga ep 1, I couldn't help but feel extremely disappointed from the lack of arcade feel.

I think I want to play more fighters though, maybe not just at arcades. Brawl has opened my eyes to Melee competitively, which is opening my eyes to other fighters. You know when SC4 gets released on console and what consoles for?

Brawl's technique is a joke. Seriously. You don't got anything to worry about. Supposively a "hard" technique to do now is a short hop and lag without lag, which is only hard if you don't immediately press the attack that will work with it. Really, if you can't do that, then you're just proving how bad you were at Melee. The only other difficult things, off the top of my head are zap jumping, and glide tossing with Lucas. But, isn't it a little ironic that you are allergic to cats?

PC gaming has always been a turnoff to me. Owning first a 98 then upgrading to a Vista has kept me from playing PC games, but I might try to get a flashdrive so I can play some Spore. As long as I can play Spore, I think the money will be worth it.

Gamefaqs is my main universal gaming site, but after joining smashboards (lol, smashfandom), I've noticed myself going there less and less. I'll check it out later I guess.

I'm unfortunate with arcades, since we recently lost our own town's mini arcade that was at the waterslides, and now since Metrotown's Playdium being removed, I no longer have a nice place to play my favourite arcade games. Yeah yeah, I know any lurking Vancouverites, there's a new arcade there, and while I did find Do Donpachi there once, I never saw it there on my last visit, and that was the only game that interested me. :/

I really don't view Arcade as a console. Arcade is a different feeling. A gun, a wheel and peddles, a joystick and buttons; there's really nothing like the feeling of playing an arcade games. Some things are just not the same.

What consoles do you have anyway?

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It's the MonJ and Mercain show!
...That'd be an interesting show.

@Druki- I think that's probably why I play the games I do. It's not even really possible for games like Aero Fighters to be competitive, so I can hone my skills and help others get good, and while Virtual On is sorta a fighter, it's usually alone in it's corner, so I can play to my hearts content. Nice to blow that steam, but the whole "losing quarters" can sometimes upset it.

@MonJ- If it's any consolation, my Wii broke. I'm going to get it fixed early june, around a time of a Melee/Brawl tournament. So for now I'm stuck with my memory cardless PS2 and a Gamecube, not always the most fun combonation.

Sitdown? At an arcade? Ha! Stools aren't for me. I love standing while playing them, racers are obviously an exception. Only others that I really play sitting down are those RPGs like Golden Axe or Gauntlet (which is terrible for having a timer, wtf!) that take awhile to play through.

@ks- I find it nice that I found someone who may be as much as a gamer-geek as myself without being too much of a fanboy/fangirl.

Mercain: You and MonJ type too many words. gonk
MonJ: Familiar? Me? Nah.

Ks: Words are food for the soul. :halo'd monk:

Mercain: I guess MvC2 is only for the truly devoted, like WoW. But to a less extent. Still played regardless of it's retroness because of the "secrets" still hidden in the game. [Along with bugs, "glitches", and confusing mechanism due to the crossover of charaters; some glitches ARE banned though. MvC2 is a serious competitive game, among one of the best still today]

You don't necessarily need to choose Cable, Storm, and Magneto; these guys are just common names. Plus, the team kind of sucks compared to MSS [Magneto, Storm, Setenel. MSP {Psylocke} is out now. xp }] A majority of the characters are supposedly "not good", but they're just not played as much because no one really practices them. [That, or the character is just plain bad to choose.] I haven't played in a while, but I usually choose Gambit, Juggarnaut, and Captain Commando, if not Omega Red, Silver Samurai, and Jin. Otherwise I choose everyone, even team Low Tier. pirate

Cabinet means the arcade machine itself, but not the game. The game is [I think] called the "system", because its what makes the game work, thus, the system. Cabinets can be big, small, short, tall, and wide. [Wide, in the case of games like House of the Dead, Time Crisis, etc.]

Our mall had an TWO EXTREMELY RARE ONE OF A KIND SITDOWN CABINETS FOR MvC2!!! [Not ranting at you, but rather the manager who took out the arcade] You don't find those anywhere in the U.S anymore, much less the world. It's just as rare as trying to find the Ps2 copy of MvC2. If you do, then props and can I come to play? [XboX ver. is just not going to cut it for competitive play] However, the staff could find no more parts to repair the continually breaking joysticks/buttons, so they had to give it away. Rumor says that it went to another mall, but that would be bad. Mind you, the competitive players who mashed and even made a ruckus at times were NOT responsible for breaking the machines.

P.S, used a lot of paren... xp