fairyland
01-12-2006, 02:17 AM
Actually this is probably really odd, but I'm really missing the general sounds of a classic arcade. You see, I'm old enough to remember my first arcade experience in 1978 and growing up in arcades though their best times.
Stomping Space Invaders, Gobbling Pac Persons, Digging Dig Dug and Mr. Do, Centerpeding Centipeeds, Berserk Berserkians...and on and on with classic noises and music combonations. I remember rows of dinging and ka-chunking pinball machines as well.
I consider the typical loud noisy video arcade music to my ears. I've lived with it so for long, but now it seems gone, never to return thanks to more modern things out there. I'll never hear the right combonations of the classic sounds again in any arcade out there.
My sad pondering is whether or not there are any "classic" recordings out there for us really "hardcore" retro fans to obtain and to relive the past with? Not some fancy mix thing made by opporitunists ready to cash in on the retro gaming fad, but the actual recorded sounds of the classic arcades with the sounds of real people enjoying them at the time. Insanely best would have been if they was actually recorded during the those classic years.
Yeah. I know, pretty obsessive. I was playing an MP3 of Magic Sword today and thinking how much it lacks without the Hy-ya, thank yoooou, and other noises. I remember lusting badly for this machine in the early 90s and even today it's the only machine I actually want to own. It was in the bowling alley I used to go to and it was so beautiful chiming off repeating the same thing over and over again along with the other machines. *sigh* The Mame I have of it just is not the same at all as it's missing the rest of the noises that made it pretty exciting for me at the time (the bowling alley noise and the other chiming machines). It is totally naked.
Heaven knows how I'll feel when I actually get a Magic Sword machine for my paradise game room and not have the other noises that made the times special. I often wonder if collectors of these machines feel naked and lonely with their treasures. Does not the magic feel gone without the people and noise that goes with a proper arcade? I feel really depressed when I see online collectors showing images of their babies. All I can think of is that they end up being dust collecting machines that are lucky to get powered up a few hours a year. They'll never see their prime again, living their retirement for one persons entertainment. I often wonder how other people feel with these machines and the lost unrecapturible past. Probably keep reminding themselves that if they don't honor the machines the best way that their can with a basement game room, then the systems would probably be rotting in a dump or wherehouse somewhere or in a seedy bar getting spat on.
*sigh* I totally made myself out to be a nerdy freak and probably cheesed off a few collectors as well, but perhaps there are others out there that understand how I feel as well. Sometimes I wish I can time machine back to the 80s and keep going back every time I hit the mid-90s until I die off.
Stomping Space Invaders, Gobbling Pac Persons, Digging Dig Dug and Mr. Do, Centerpeding Centipeeds, Berserk Berserkians...and on and on with classic noises and music combonations. I remember rows of dinging and ka-chunking pinball machines as well.
I consider the typical loud noisy video arcade music to my ears. I've lived with it so for long, but now it seems gone, never to return thanks to more modern things out there. I'll never hear the right combonations of the classic sounds again in any arcade out there.
My sad pondering is whether or not there are any "classic" recordings out there for us really "hardcore" retro fans to obtain and to relive the past with? Not some fancy mix thing made by opporitunists ready to cash in on the retro gaming fad, but the actual recorded sounds of the classic arcades with the sounds of real people enjoying them at the time. Insanely best would have been if they was actually recorded during the those classic years.
Yeah. I know, pretty obsessive. I was playing an MP3 of Magic Sword today and thinking how much it lacks without the Hy-ya, thank yoooou, and other noises. I remember lusting badly for this machine in the early 90s and even today it's the only machine I actually want to own. It was in the bowling alley I used to go to and it was so beautiful chiming off repeating the same thing over and over again along with the other machines. *sigh* The Mame I have of it just is not the same at all as it's missing the rest of the noises that made it pretty exciting for me at the time (the bowling alley noise and the other chiming machines). It is totally naked.
Heaven knows how I'll feel when I actually get a Magic Sword machine for my paradise game room and not have the other noises that made the times special. I often wonder if collectors of these machines feel naked and lonely with their treasures. Does not the magic feel gone without the people and noise that goes with a proper arcade? I feel really depressed when I see online collectors showing images of their babies. All I can think of is that they end up being dust collecting machines that are lucky to get powered up a few hours a year. They'll never see their prime again, living their retirement for one persons entertainment. I often wonder how other people feel with these machines and the lost unrecapturible past. Probably keep reminding themselves that if they don't honor the machines the best way that their can with a basement game room, then the systems would probably be rotting in a dump or wherehouse somewhere or in a seedy bar getting spat on.
*sigh* I totally made myself out to be a nerdy freak and probably cheesed off a few collectors as well, but perhaps there are others out there that understand how I feel as well. Sometimes I wish I can time machine back to the 80s and keep going back every time I hit the mid-90s until I die off.