I use to think my arcades where ghetto.

[ShingoKick]

http://revolv.in/uploaded_images/dharavi-arcade-736051.jpg

This is a picture I stumbled upon while searching for Street Fighter Marquee's. It was posted on a blog about the life, art and culture of India.

It's a picture of an arcade in Dharavi, India. It looks like it's just two King of Fighters cabinets in a storage shed.

I would hate to be in the arcade and have some big kid shut the door.:shake:

[SaBrE]

wow yeah, that would hella suck if someone closed that on me. shit would get hot fast.

[hoax]

You're looking at the evo2k9 GG:AC finals.

[fallot]

I used to see stuff like this all the time 10 years ago. Now I miss it :(

[SiLLiEMutAfuKA]

Aw man that is hilariously sad.

=(

Are there any more?

[centennial]

That is one weird hybrid of American bat sticks and Japanese ball sticks

[Lord BBH]

lol the high scores of the KoF '97 shows it's some bootleg where Orochi (the last boss) can be used. awesome

[Antonius]

The only arcade my town ever had, was full of jocks. Nuff said, our loved games attract bad people to them..

[Aquashark]

You're looking at the evo2k9 GG:AC finals.fatality! :rofl:

[xero15]

closet gamers

[megaultrasuper]

I've played on sticks like those before. They suck, to put it lightly. But even on those shitty sticks I bet some of those players are pretty damn good.

[R | C]

LOL.

Top scores all same characters.

[Virtua_Leon]

I used to see stuff like this all the time 10 years ago. Now I miss it :(


well i dont know where you're from, but yeah around 13 or 14 years ago you'd have some sort of machine EVERYWHERE, from cab offices chip shops newsagents, also you had your dingy small arcades full of rudeboys playing by there bizzare rules "NAH MAN NAH MAN NO THROWS BLUD"
" BLATENT SKANKS!" " YO ALLOW ME A ROUND" No AC no Sanwa no daigos no internet champs just a people that loved streetfighter and games in general, great days.

those sticks are not that bad actually, i've used alot worse, the only this wrong with that machine is that SHOCKING colour scheme

[PaRt2]

The picture made me smile and laugh and I don't know why. Those sticks look too serious.

[DeadlyDomain]

I'd be happy if we had one of those around here, mad kids would line up to play I bet.

[ShingoKick]

That is one weird hybrid of American bat sticks and Japanese ball sticks

Ya those sticks are weird. They have the same type of arcade cabinets in Pakistan.

http://i166.photobucket.com/albums/u83/klb_001/MurreePakistan2.jpg

This is a picture of two guys playing KOF '97 in an arcade in Murree, Pakistan.

I assume the guys from Cyberfanatix play on the same bubblegum looking sticks and still manage to play beastly. Also they play with CRAZY button configuration like.

DB
AC

[ShingoKick]

Aw man that is hilariously sad.

=(

Are there any more?

No I don't have any more and ya it's sad but to them it's probably the coolest place ever. I doubt they get to play many video games besides what's in that hole.

[BaSiK_TeKniK]

You're looking at the evo2k9 GG:AC finals.

Stop hatin Zero:arazz:

[Luigi-Bo 87]

Future beasts!:rock:

[Jimmy Bones]

Hell yeah,
That's shows how the fighting scene has a global influence....

[TheDarkPhoenix]

I'd take that over what we have here now.



Which is nothing...

[RaishinX]

Also they play with CRAZY button configuration like.

DB
AC

:rofl: stomach is killing me.

[fallot]

stomach is killing me.

The places in Islamabad and Rawalpindi had this config:

..D..
C..A
..B..

Unfortunately I got used to this :/. Some places C and A were switched. Same layout for Tekken.

Not sure what the cabs are like now, haven't checked out "real" arcades in years since the ones near me closed down. The shitty one (like three times the size of the ghetto Indian one with MAME cabs) near me had ShingoKick's config.

[Bill Wood]

I'll bet that picture was taken shortly after Ryu knocked over that little girl's milk jug...

[kaB00M]

"I'll bet that picture was taken shortly after Ryu knocked over that little girl's milk jug... "

dude...

[Ephidel]

Beats nothing. :D

[Pablo_the_Mex]

I find it awesome what people can get accustomed to for their gaming needs. This reminds me of people who won't go near certain sticks because they suddenly forget to play the game once they touch a different stick.

[ShingoKick]

Beats nothing. :D

That's true.

That tiny storage shed in Dharavi, India probably has more King of Fighters comp then the whole Canadian prairies.

[fallot]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3cxvqn_2YTI

I've lived in Pakistan all my life and I have no fucking idea where Rajanpur is. Dat SNK is everywhere D:

[FatalFuryD]

Oh man. This shit brings so much memories. Thanks. These kind of places that had random one or two cabinets were not uncommon. In the early 90s, where I grew up had tiny ass cabinets in front of grocery and stationary stores. Often times it was a type of emulator that let kids play SNES games for 5 minutes/100 south korean won(equals about 10cents). This kind of place was my first encounter with Power Instinct series, and Sam Sho.

[plasmakill]

ahaha that's funny and sad at the same time. those kids probably still love that shed though, more power to em. you gotta work with what you got.

[pc1x1]

They look happy, its an arcade, its not super dirty, or etc. I think its looks great, wish we had one here. Which in good old USA, theres none.

[Edizzle]

That's pretty crazy, but I wouldn't mind if we even had something like that around my parts...there are no arcades around here anymore. Even pizza parlors don't have them sometimes.

[ShingoKick]

They look happy, its an arcade, its not super dirty, or etc. I think its looks great, wish we had one here. Which in good old USA, theres none.

As I said before I agree it's better than nothing but comparing it to ABSOLUTELY NOTHING isn't saying much.

I'm sure the State of Florida has something better than two hack KOF cabs in a tool shed.:wtf:

[Sazae]

As I said before I agree it's better than nothing but comparing it to ABSOLUTELY NOTHING isn't saying much.

I'm sure the State of Florida has something better than two hack KOF cabs in a tool shed.:wtf:

Not in the panhandle we don't.

[complexz]

I actually think that looks pretty cool.....id play there

[FatalFuryD]

I keep saying this is not that rare. There are places like that even in the states. Doods don't know about swap meet cabinets and random d00ds who don't speak a sentence of English but will kick yo ass in kof97.

[n8archer_XI]

I wish my city (Evansville, IN) had arcades; when I was little, they were everywhere, but now they've all shut down and disappeared...

[katraqueyous]

Are those sticks the ones with the ultra tight square gates in them?

[ShingoKick]

I keep saying this is not that rare. There are places like that even in the states. Doods don't know about swap meet cabinets and random d00ds who don't speak a sentence of English but will kick yo ass in kof97.

I would have to say the closest thing we have to a place like that is the arcades we have in mom and pop Hotdog and Burger places. Some of those places have crazy Frankincabs.

We have a restaurant called Great Burger that has a Street Fighter II: World Warrior cab painted with white house paint and it has Bust-A-Move in it with funky green ball top sticks.

[bl4rg3s]

lol great pic, but i couldnt get used to not playing a, b , c , d

[Tiberious]

For FFS/KoF, I'd me more comfortable with:
AC
BD

Reason for that is because it's a nice compact SF-styled layout. Maxing up is like a CC activation, and rolling/knockdown attacks are like throws in 3S.

[fallot]

Are those sticks the ones with the ultra tight square gates in them?

Circular restrictors, like Bao Lian. Also, quality varies but the throw is huge >.<

[Superking]

For FFS/KoF, I'd me more comfortable with:
AC
BD


That's the layout they've been using since 2003 actually.

But of course, the Atomiswave KOF games made that more popular.

[dbostick]

I'd rather play there than to play where Jamal is packin' heat and ready to unload as soon as I beast him. :amazed:

[orochizoolander]

I remember when visiting my relatives in Bangladesh a few years ago they had a small place like that with 2 metal slug3 cabs, metal slug 4, kof98, and marvel vs sf:rofl:

[Ephidel]

I keep saying this is not that rare. There are places like that even in the states. Doods don't know about swap meet cabinets and random d00ds who don't speak a sentence of English but will kick yo ass in kof97.

They only don't know because those kinda places have extreme liability. Most meets get scrapped or shut down instantly, forcing lesser cabinets if any. The sticks are probably already fucked to begin with when they transfer certain machines there.