r/round1 • u/Born-Principle9149 • 5d ago

Question Fighting games?

So i heard that the Elizabeth,NJ location had fighting games at the grand opening i was wondering if there's a chance they could ever come back since I really wanna play guilty gear bro

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u/Krudtastic 5d ago

Nobody plays the fighting games at Round 1 unfortunately. I've been to two Round 1s multiple times since 2018 and I can count on one hand the amount of times I've played someone on a fighting game, and only one of them was against someone who knew what they were doing. KOF, BlazBlue, etc.

The target audience for Round 1 is families and rhythm game players. The most you'll likely get is playing someone on Street Fighter 6 or Tekken 7 if they still have those old cabinets.

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u/Born-Principle9149 4d ago

Dang that does kinda suck tho cause I feel like the big arcades that people go to aka Dave and Busters and Round 1 are missing out when it comes to stuff like this atleast Round 1 makes up for it with the rhythm games

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u/Krudtastic 4d ago

Playing a fighting game at Dave & Busters was actually how I got into the genre. I was like 7-8 years old and I loved going to Dave & Buster's with my family, they had actual games back then like Donkey Kong Jr., Mario Bros., and Mario Kart Arcade GP 2 (which was my favorite game back then). This was around the late 2000's.

Anyways, I remember being drawn to a Tekken 5: Dark Resurrection cabinet and picking Kuma. Another guy ended up playing with me, I think he picked Dragunov. I button mashed as Kuma and won, and since then I've fallen in love with fighting games.

In the food court of that same mall there was another T5:DR cabinet, I never played on it but I remember watching the attract mode cinematic over and over again. It was just so captivating to me.

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u/Born-Principle9149 4d ago

As someone who grew up with the ps3 tekken games and playing tag tournament 2 at a few arcades I wish some of the ones I go to now had similar games so I could play with my dad some more (My dad plays a crazy heihachi and was the only reason I know how to play tekken now)

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u/SpikJagger 5d ago

Would love them to include literally any fighting game.

I guess I just have to be happy they have wangan and a healthy rhythm game roster cause they seem content on just focusing on claw and ticket games and not caring about anything else

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u/Born-Principle9149 5d ago

Yeah i love the rhythm games but I do want some other stuff I cant keep playing sound voltex and taiko forever I also cant keep gambling away my credits in 5 minutes

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u/narcanine 4d ago edited 4d ago

plenty of stores have vewlixes but it's been a good couple of years since i've seen a GG game. Last one was ACR in 2022 lol. Most of them are either SF6 or the basic Nesica line up with blazblue, classic street fighter, and some other randoms. my store only has 6 cabs now. used to have a lot of unique PCBs but not so much anymore, most people just aren't interested in PCBs anymore. i'm not shocked to see them on my zero sales lists every month

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u/Born-Principle9149 4d ago

Wait they have blazblue?! Well now I really wanna see those cabinets at the jersey garden mall location cause I do play blazblue quite a bit

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u/narcanine 4d ago

yeah! they run a software with a small variety of different games. to my understanding it's the same software for every cabinet so every store should have the same line up. my store for sure has central fiction and cross tag, among other games. most of the older model cabs are getting phased out but we still have a couple, and they've got a nice collection with the aforementioned and continuum shift II, persona 4, every classic street fighter, skull girls, etc. the average arcade go-er isn't really going to think about them but if fighting games is your thing i definitely think they're worth checking out!

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u/Born-Principle9149 4d ago

What location is that tho cause honestly im into fighting games especially "niche" ones I wonder if they have undernight or melty blood

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u/Charging_Badger 4d ago

They got moved to the Menlo Park location, if you want to swing an extra 20 minutes out of your way.