{"id":21946,"date":"2013-05-24T13:51:44","date_gmt":"2013-05-24T20:51:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/?p=21946"},"modified":"2013-05-24T13:51:44","modified_gmt":"2013-05-24T20:51:44","slug":"the-utter-hell-of-capcom-arcade-cabinets-30-time-machine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/2013\/05\/24\/the-utter-hell-of-capcom-arcade-cabinets-30-time-machine\/","title":{"rendered":"The utter hell of Capcom Arcade Cabinet&#8217;s $30 time machine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Capcom Arcade Cabinet - All-in-one Pack\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/XVybbuJkBKo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>There must be some demand for ports of these arcade cabinet games from the 80s, right?  Otherwise, Capcom wouldn&#8217;t be selling them in bundles of three on Xbox Live and the Playstation Store, carefully arranging the familiar with the &#8220;what the heck is that one?&#8221;.  And now you can buy all fifteen games for $30.  That&#8217;s got to be a good deal for someone, somewhere.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve tried a few of these ports, and I appreciate the retro atmosphere around the edges of the screen.  But in 2013, I just don&#8217;t understand the appeal of the actual games.  Knowing what I know now, having played great modern games, I break out in a cold sweat imagining what sheer hell it would be to have only these to play.  Can you imagine whiling away the hours with Ghosts n&#8217; Goblins or 1943 or Contra, with those tinny electronic squakings reverberating in your head, jerking a stubby joystick left and right and left, slapping one or two buttons, seeing the game over screen after losing three lives with a nary a checkpoint to be seen.  I&#8217;m in hell.  I can&#8217;t take it anymore!  <em>Make it stop<\/em>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There must be some demand for ports of these arcade cabinet games from the 80s, right? Otherwise, Capcom wouldn&#8217;t be selling them in bundles of three on Xbox Live and the Playstation Store, carefully arranging the familiar with the &#8220;what the heck is that one?&#8221;. And now you can buy all fifteen games for $30. 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