{"id":23287,"date":"2023-05-12T00:01:46","date_gmt":"2023-05-12T00:01:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/?p=23287"},"modified":"2023-04-29T00:52:31","modified_gmt":"2023-04-29T00:52:31","slug":"the-games-of-arcade-paradise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/2023\/05\/12\/the-games-of-arcade-paradise\/","title":{"rendered":"The Games of Arcade Paradise"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Last year there was a game that came out that I really wanted to review called Arcade Paradise.\u00a0 I requested a review code three different times and was denied each time!\u00a0 I really wanted to review it, too, because it\u2019s a time management sim where you must run a laundromat business, but you are secretly running an arcade in the back with dozens of fictional arcade games you can actually play!\u00a0 I actually had an idea for a business that was half laundromat, half arcade, and I was going to called it Quarters: Good Clean Fun.\u00a0 So this game really resonated with me.\u00a0 If I had gotten a chance to review it last year, it definitely would\u2019ve showed up on my Game of the Year list somewhere.\u00a0 But this year I used some Christmas present PlayStation Store points to buy it, and sure it was only 20 bucks so I was kind of cheap, but this stuff adds up if you\u2019re not careful.\u00a0 Anyway, so now that I\u2019ve played the game, I thought I\u2019d write a blog about the arcade cabinets you can play on it.\u00a0 Oh yeah, and slight spoiler alerts here and there, but I don\u2019t think it matters much.<\/p>\n

Arcade Paradise does have a story.\u00a0 You are Ashley, an older teen college dropout in the 90s.\u00a0 Your dad is a successful businessman, and gives you one last chance to redeem yourself by running one of his laundromat chains.\u00a0 You discover some arcade machines in the back, and decide to secretly expand this part of the building to house more arcade games.\u00a0 So the game is a time management sim where you must balance running the laundromat, and buying new arcade games and playing them.\u00a0 Everything you do is a mini-game, from picking up trash to cleaning out the toilet.\u00a0 You even do the laundry here, which you wouldn\u2019t normally do, but I guess the makers of the game wanted you to have that laundromat experience.\u00a0 Near the end of the game, your dad catches on to what you\u2019re doing and shuts down the laundromat and makes you work in his meat packing plant where you must play a box taping mini game for a week while listening to flashbacks about how horrible your dad is.\u00a0 Luckily since you invested in an arcade company earlier in the game, at the end of the week you get a ton of money back in interest and can buy back the laundromat and make it a full arcade.\u00a0 And then your dad finally says he\u2019s proud of you.\u00a0 I\u2019m glad the game had a happy ending because at first I wasn\u2019t sure it would.\u00a0 I know not EVERYTHING has to have a happy ending, but in these sucky times, it\u2019s nice that our video games can at least do that.\u00a0 I really don\u2019t think this game needed a story, as I didn\u2019t like having to play as a loser teen.\u00a0 But they did get the 90s feel of the game right, at least in the laundromat section.\u00a0 The arcade felt more like a late 80s arcade, as the arcades I experienced in the 90s were mostly just filled with racing games and fighters.<\/p>\n

So in the game you must balance doing the laundromat chores while playing and running the arcade part.\u00a0 You\u2019ll definitely want to play the arcade games, but we\u2019ll get to that in a bit.\u00a0 A lot of reviewers complained about the laundry section, saying it got in the way of the arcade part.\u00a0 And that\u2019s true, but I didn\u2019t mind it as much.\u00a0 You see, as a kid I loved a Jim Henson show called Fraggle Rock.\u00a0 One of the Fraggles was named Boober and he did all the laundry for the other Fraggles. I thought he was cool so I started doing all the laundry for our family at a very early age.\u00a0 And I still do it to this very day!\u00a0 So the laundry sections of this game felt familiar, relaxing, and a bit therapeutic for me.\u00a0 By the end of the game your business is a full on arcade so you have a lot more time to play them, so that\u2019s rewarding, too.<\/p>\n

So you remember how I said you\u2019ll want to play the arcade games as much as you can?\u00a0 Well there\u2019s a reason for that.\u00a0 Not only are they (mostly) fun, you can get rewarded for playing them. The more you play them, the more money they\u2019ll make.\u00a0 You get little achievements for each game, and when you pass one, you\u2019ll earn more money for that cabinet, too.\u00a0 Also, each day you get a to do list, and many of the items on that list have you doing something for certain games.\u00a0 If you complete items on your to do list, you get a separate currency you can use to buy upgrades that make your time management job easier.\u00a0 You can even arrange the arcade games around so you can put less popular ones near more popular ones and they\u2019ll make more money.\u00a0 You can also raise and lower the price per machine for varying effects.<\/p>\n

You\u2019ll learn quickly that your arcade side hustle is making way more money than the laundromat.\u00a0 I\u2019m sure it\u2019s not very realistic, but by the end of the game I was making around 10,000 dollars per day in the arcade.\u00a0 If that were real, we\u2019d be seeing way more arcades around in real life!\u00a0 When you have enough money, you can order more arcade games and they get delivered by a van that just dumps them in the street.\u00a0 But the box opens with a flash of lightning and you get new arcade game to make more money with!\u00a0 I\u2019m sure that\u2019s how it works in real life, too.<\/p>\n

Anyway, so I figured now I\u2019d talk about each of the games you can have in your arcade.\u00a0 They\u2019re all fictional, but many of them imitate a classic arcade game.\u00a0 Keep in mind that when I say a game on here is like another game, they really aren\u2019t quite as good as what they are imitating.\u00a0 Either because they may play slower, have less features, more bugs, or some other gameplay quirk.\u00a0 Also, many of the games feature a fictional mascot character: a lumberjack named Woodguy.\u00a0 I\u2019m sure this is making fun of Mario as well as Pac-Man as Woodguy has a whole cast of characters like Woodgal and her dog.\u00a0 But we\u2019ll get to those games as we make our way down the list.<\/p>\n

Air Hockey<\/strong><\/p>\n

Just a standard Air Hockey table you can play.\u00a0 It\u2019s actually one of the last things you can buy, too, which is surprising.<\/p>\n

Attack Vector<\/strong><\/p>\n

This vector graphic game has you controlling a tank in top down perspective.\u00a0 Helicopters come in from four directions and you must shoot them before they crash into you.\u00a0 The hard part is you have to aim your turret at them and then fire, and having to wait for it to rotate makes it hard.\u00a0 I wish you could just push in the direction you shoot.<\/p>\n

Barkanoid<\/strong><\/p>\n

So you remember when I said there are a bunch of games here starring a fake mascot named Woodguy and his friends?\u00a0 Well this is one of those games.\u00a0 Apparently Woodgal has a weenie dog named Zebby, and this game stars that dog!\u00a0 Your dog is a paddle, the ball is his toy, and you must break blocks.\u00a0 Clever play on words there, and you can select a stage after you beat one.\u00a0 You get power-ups like in Arkanoid, too.\u00a0 Pretty fun.<\/p>\n

Blobs from Space<\/strong><\/p>\n

It\u2019s just Space Invaders.\u00a0 It has better graphics and some boss stages, but otherwise it\u2019s Space Invaders.<\/p>\n

Blockchain<\/strong><\/p>\n

This is a pretty original puzzle game and it doesn\u2019t play like any other, so a lot of people like it.\u00a0 I\u2019m not one of them, though.\u00a0 You have to arrange falling numbers and when a row or column of them match the amount of one of the numbers, it\u2019ll disappear.\u00a0 I don\u2019t like math so that\u2019s why I don\u2019t like this one.\u00a0 The graphics look like those falling green numbers from The Matrix and it has a hacker motif.<\/p>\n

Bomb Dudes<\/strong><\/p>\n

It\u2019s Bomberman.\u00a0 You can do a single player adventure or four player party mode.\u00a0 Only problem is that when you complete a level, you don\u2019t get to keep your power-ups, which kind of misses the point.<\/p>\n

Bugai<\/strong><\/p>\n

Aw yeah, it\u2019s Puzzle Bobble!\u00a0 One of my favorite puzzle games!\u00a0 I love how the backgrounds are crappy digitized photos of actual landmarks.\u00a0 A lot of games did that back then.\u00a0 Your opponents are characters from other arcade games here.\u00a0 I just wish aiming was better.<\/p>\n

Championship Darts<\/strong><\/p>\n

It\u2019s an electronic dart board like what you see in bars and such.\u00a0 They put it in a horrible place in your arcade, though.\u00a0 Right next to the DDR ripoff!\u00a0 I could see an accident happening right there!\u00a0 I don\u2019t fully understand the rules of darts.\u00a0 It\u2019s not all about making a bullseye every time.\u00a0 A match can take forever here.<\/p>\n

Communists From Mars<\/strong><\/p>\n

It\u2019s Missile Command.\u00a0 The graphics are a little better and they have voice clips telling you how many people died when a major city gets destroyed.\u00a0 But otherwise it\u2019s Missile Command.<\/p>\n

Cyber Dance<\/strong><\/p>\n

A Dance Dance Revolution imitation, except here you push the D pad directions for the arrows instead of your feet.\u00a0 There are only three songs to choose from.\u00a0 DDR was a staple in every late 90s arcade back then, so it\u2019s understandable they\u2019d have it here, too.<\/p>\n

Fruit Crush<\/strong><\/p>\n

It\u2019s kind of a cross between Columns and Dr. Mario.\u00a0 Falling fruit comes down a well, and you must rotate and move them to match up four or more.\u00a0 To pass a stage, you must fill up a juice bottle with certain fruit matches.\u00a0 It\u2019s pretty fun for what it is.<\/p>\n

Graffiti Ballz<\/strong><\/p>\n

This one is a pretty original concept.\u00a0 You aim balls of gray paint from a spray can at the bottom of the screen, and when you match up two of the same color, they turn into one ball of another color.\u00a0 So two grays make a red, two reds make an orange, two oranges make yellow, etc.\u00a0 When you make a match, it fills up some of your paint can, so you don\u2019t want to shoot willy nilly or you\u2019ll run out.\u00a0 A bit like bumper pool, a bit like Puzzle Bobble, but still pretty original.<\/p>\n

Gravichase<\/strong><\/p>\n

Another vector graphics game.\u00a0 You control a spaceship that\u2019s constantly being pulled toward the center of the screen. Circles come in from the outside and you must find a hole to escape so you don\u2019t collide into them.\u00a0 The controls make this one really hard.<\/p>\n

Hustler<\/strong><\/p>\n

A pool table you can play on.\u00a0 I used to play a lot of pool in my first year of college in our dorm basement.\u00a0 I was never very good at it.\u00a0 The table here oddly enough has a coin hopper you can collect money from.\u00a0 Never seen that before!<\/p>\n

Jukebox<\/strong><\/p>\n

Not an arcade game, but you can play music on it.\u00a0 Only problem is the music isn\u2019t very good.\u00a0 Some of it sounds like crappy 90s music, other ones like 80s.\u00a0 But it also drowns out the arcade sounds and is way too loud, so I never used it.\u00a0 You can buy new songs for it and it does make you money, though.\u00a0 And it looks cool.<\/p>\n

Knuckles and Knees<\/strong><\/p>\n

You can buy this game, but it\u2019s also given to you in the story.\u00a0 In the game you invest in an arcade company and when the returns come back to you, they give you the game they were working on, and it\u2019s this one.\u00a0 It\u2019s a side scrolling beat \u2018em up.\u00a0 It\u2019s all right except I think the character graphics are a bit TOO blocky and chunky.\u00a0 I wish they looked more 16-bit.\u00a0 And they have a level up progression system that only serves to bog the game down.<\/p>\n

One interesting thing about this game is that since you helped fund it, I guess they put in your arcade in the game.\u00a0 You can actually go into it and play little mini-arcade games inside!\u00a0 So it\u2019s like mini-games within mini-games.\u00a0 Mind Blown!\u00a0 Granted they\u2019re just very blocky simple stuff, but they do save your high scores in each one!\u00a0 Here are the games in the game\u2019s arcade:\u00a0 Flyguy is just Flappy Bird.\u00a0 Toad is a very simple Frogger game.\u00a0 Brick is Breakout.\u00a0 Snake is that one early cell phone game where you control a snake and eat things to get longer, but you must avoid hitting yourself.\u00a0 And finally is Racer, a top down racing game where you must switch between three lanes to avoid cars.<\/p>\n

Line Terror<\/strong><\/p>\n

It\u2019s Qix.\u00a0 There\u2019s a four player mode, though, which I don\u2019t think Qix ever had.<\/p>\n

Meteor Madness<\/strong><\/p>\n

This tabletop vector game plays most like Asteroids, but has a few elements from Sinistar and Solar Jetman in it.\u00a0 You must shoot asteroids, but some of them have diamonds inside.\u00a0 You must get near the diamonds and use a grapple to pull them to a wormhole in your corner.\u00a0 There\u2019s a four player mode, too.\u00a0 I hate to say this, because it makes it sound like I\u2019m dishonoring the legacy of Asteroids, but I kind of like this game better.<\/p>\n

Racer Chaser<\/strong><\/p>\n

What happens when you cross Pac-Man with\u2026Grand Theft Auto?\u00a0 You get Racer Chaser!\u00a0 You drive around a yellow sports car in city mazes (there\u2019s even one that\u2019s exactly like the Pac-Man maze).\u00a0 You must collect cash on the road (dots), and avoid the police cars (the ghosts).\u00a0 You can pick up a skull icon (power pellet) that turns you into a tank so you can flatten the police cars temporarily.\u00a0 You only get one life, but don\u2019t worry, that doesn\u2019t mean you get a Game Over when you hit a police car.\u00a0 You just walk on foot, and can \u2018shoot\u2019 the police on foot by blasting music notes at them to make them dance for a short while so you can pass.\u00a0 Then you can run and find another yellow car in the maze.\u00a0 The graphics have that 3D PSOne era vibe to them.\u00a0 It took me a while to get used to this game, but once I did, it kind of grew on me.\u00a0 It\u2019s one of the first games that I got all the goals in, and I had to empty the hopper from this one the most.<\/p>\n

Shuttlecocks<\/strong><\/p>\n

It\u2019s Pong. The cabinet even looks like the old yellow Pong cabinet.<\/p>\n

Slime Pipes<\/strong><\/p>\n

Kind of like Pipe Dream or Pipe Mania, except all the pipes are on the field and you must rotate them to direct the sludge.\u00a0 I like these kinds of games a lot.\u00a0 This one kind of reminds me of a cell phone game in terms of progression.<\/p>\n

Space Race Simulator<\/strong><\/p>\n

It\u2019s like OutRun with the super scaler graphics.\u00a0 The cars are futuristic floating vehicles and your goal is to collect as many coins before time runs out so you can use them to buy upgrades so you can go further next time.<\/p>\n

Stack Overflow<\/strong><\/p>\n

In this puzzle game, you must use a crane to move different colored boxes in a warehouse and stack the same colors onto other pallets.\u00a0 It\u2019s a neat idea, but you really have to plan ahead and the time limits are really strict.\u00a0 It has 16-bit style graphics.<\/p>\n

Strike Gold<\/strong><\/p>\n

The best way to win me over in a arcade game collection is make one of your games play like Mr. Driller, and give it to you early on.\u00a0 And that\u2019s what this game is.\u00a0 It stars their Woodguy mascot.\u00a0 Of course it\u2019s not as good as Mr. Driller, but I still played it a lot.<\/p>\n

Table Football<\/strong><\/p>\n

It\u2019s foosball.\u00a0 And not very good to play either.\u00a0 I remember a lot of arcades I went to in the early 80s would have a bunch of foosball tables in the back that nobody played because they were more popular in the 70s.<\/p>\n

Thump a Gopher<\/strong><\/p>\n

It\u2019s Whack A Mole.\u00a0 Just don\u2019t hit Woodguy when he pops up.\u00a0 It\u2019s hard because both Woodguy and the gophers wear the same red hats!<\/p>\n

Toad and Turtle<\/strong><\/p>\n

Can you guess what this one is?\u00a0 Yeah it\u2019s Frogger.\u00a0 It could almost be called Frogger 2 because it features better graphics and scrolling stages!\u00a0 But unfortunately it\u2019s SO buggy that I couldn\u2019t get very far.\u00a0 I would fall into the water when I clearly was on a log, and there\u2019s a stage that\u2019s mostly water but I could just hop all over it!\u00a0 Not very polished.<\/p>\n

UFO Assault<\/strong><\/p>\n

Have you ever played Canyon Bomber?\u00a0 This one\u2019s like that, except with more urgency.\u00a0 You are a UFO and must bomb skyscrapers with each pass.\u00a0 You don\u2019t control the UFO, just the bombs it releases.\u00a0 But each time you make a pass, your UFO goes one notch lower.\u00a0 So you have to bomb the tallest buildings so you don\u2019t crash into them.\u00a0 It\u2019s hard, but at least a more original idea.<\/p>\n

Video Air Hockey<\/strong><\/p>\n

Hey wait, there\u2019s already a regular air hockey table in this game!\u00a0 This one\u2019s just a pixel video game version of it. \u00a0It\u2019s one of the first games you get, and I actually like it better than the real table.<\/p>\n

Vostok 2093<\/strong><\/p>\n

It\u2019s a vertically scrolling space shooter, except the weird enemies take too many shots to kill.\u00a0 You can collect coins to upgrade your weapons, but I lost interest in it before that happened.<\/p>\n

Woodgal Jr.<\/strong><\/p>\n

You know those mobile games where you switch sides on a pole and must avoid things on either side?\u00a0 Well that\u2019s what this is, except you are chopping down parts of a tree and must avoid the branches.<\/p>\n

Woodguy Jr.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Hey wait, this is just the same game except you\u2019re Woodguy instead of Woodgal.\u00a0 I felt ripped off having to buy the same game twice!<\/p>\n

Woodgal\u2019s Adventure<\/strong><\/p>\n

This is an RPG but the battles are like the match three puzzlers on cell phones, and it uses the same fruit graphics from Fruit Crush.\u00a0 I guess Woodgal matches these fruits to cook for the \u2018enemies\u2019 with the goal to cook for the princess at the end of the game.\u00a0 It\u2019s a pretty long adventure, too.\u00a0 As of this writing I still haven\u2019t beaten it yet!\u00a0 Luckily unlike most arcade games, you can save your progress here.<\/p>\n

Woodguy Golf<\/strong><\/p>\n

It\u2019s a simple 8-bit styled golf game where you can play as Woodguy or Woodgal in three different 9 hole courses.\u00a0 Not bad for what it is.<\/p>\n

Zombat 2<\/strong><\/p>\n

Last of the main arcade games is this twin stick shooter where you shoot zombies on a little island.\u00a0 Four can play at the same time, and downed zombies can drop coins that you can use to buy new weapons that I couldn\u2019t figure out how to equip.\u00a0 Plus it takes way too many coins to buy anything anyway.\u00a0 I guess the closest thing to this would probably be Smash TV.\u00a0 It didn\u2019t really hold my interest, though.<\/p>\n

But that\u2019s not all!\u00a0 The pause menu brings up a little PDA device menu where you can look at your arcade games, goals, options, and such.\u00a0 And one of the other things you can do on it is play a little continuous runner called Llama where you are a llama jumping over trees (or lollipops, I can\u2019t tell).\u00a0 And on your 90s style computer, you can also play Solitaire and Minesweep!<\/p>\n

DLC<\/strong><\/p>\n

Of course the game has DLC, with a few other arcade games you can buy with real money.\u00a0 They\u2019re only a couple of bucks each, and you can get most of them in a three pack to save even more money.\u00a0 I got them all since I enjoyed this game that much, but unfortunately none of them are that great.\u00a0 But we\u2019ll go over them anyway.<\/p>\n

Cyber Dance: Euro Mix<\/strong><\/p>\n

It\u2019s the same as Cyber Dance except with three different songs.\u00a0 I don\u2019t know why they couldn\u2019t combine them to have six songs on one cabinet.<\/p>\n

Empathy<\/strong><\/p>\n

The cabinet is shaped like the early Space War game, and the graphics are simple lines.\u00a0 You are a stick figure trying to climb a mountain by pressing L and R alternately, stopping to avoid rocks being thrown at you by people.\u00a0 It\u2019s just a little weird and unsettling, and makes me wonder if they were trying to make reference to that Polybus urban legend.<\/p>\n

Kung Fury<\/strong><\/p>\n

This is the only licensed game on this collection, and because of that it\u2019s the only one you have to buy separately.\u00a0 It was apparently a movie back in 2015 but I don\u2019t remember it.\u00a0 After reading the plot of it, I kind of want to see it though.\u00a0 But it\u2019s really hard to get on DVD and it\u2019s not on any of the streaming services I have, so oh well.\u00a0 Anyway the game looks like the 16-bit sidescrolling beat \u2018em up I wanted, but it\u2019s not.\u00a0 You just press L and R to attack enemies on either side of you and try not to miss.\u00a0 Very disappointing.<\/p>\n

Penguin Push<\/strong><\/p>\n

Aw man, I first thought this would be like Pengo, one of my favorite arcade games.\u00a0 With a name like that, why wouldn\u2019t you think so?\u00a0 But you know what it\u2019s actually like?\u00a0 Mario Bros.\u00a0 And not a very good imitation either.\u00a0 Half of the bottom part of the screen is water you can fall into and die (reminds me of Joust), and the play control and hit detection are awful.\u00a0 Such a bummer!<\/p>\n

R.O.G.E.R.<\/strong><\/p>\n

At first glance it looks like one of those 90s \u2018fighter jet over the water\u2019 style shooters like Strikers 1945.\u00a0 But it\u2019s not.\u00a0 You control a plane in a single screen trying to avoid heat seeking missiles for a certain amount of time.\u00a0 And that\u2019s it.<\/p>\n

Smoke \u2018Em<\/strong><\/p>\n

This is a light gun game where you shoot plate targets in a limited amount of time.\u00a0 It reminds me of Point Blank, or more specifically, Police Trainer.\u00a0 Those were two popular light gun arcade games in the early 90s.\u00a0 Except here you don\u2019t have a light gun and must move a cursor to shoot, so it\u2019s very hard.<\/p>\n

Summer of Sports<\/strong><\/p>\n

It\u2019s Track and Field.\u00a0 That\u2019s all.<\/p>\n

And those are all the games in Arcade Paradise.\u00a0 I guess this game is most like Retro Game Challenge on the DS, except while the DS game focused on quality over quantity, this game is the opposite, going for quantity over quality.\u00a0 I\u2019d say you can just skip the DLC, as you\u2019re not missing much, but the main game felt well worth the 20 bucks asking price.\u00a0 If you\u2019ve always dreamed of owning your own arcade (and what gamer hasn\u2019t?) you may want to check this one out.\u00a0 –Cary<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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