But this impressive retro love letter does take a little while to get going…
3 or Ridge Racer that would be newly added to our local, the likes of Out Run, Final Fight, Dig Dug and Centipede continued to hold their own, proving that they still deserved their place among the newcomers.It’s this ‘melting pot’ era that Arcade Paradise attempts to emulate, by putting players in the role of Ash, an irresponsible teen who finds themselves running their own arcade in the mid ‘90s.
The main task becomes clear – continue to operate the laundromat to make sure it remains in business, and use its profits to slowly build the back room into an increasingly larger arcade, all while trying to keep the old man happy as he stubbornly warns not to entertain this stupid arcade idea. It isn’t just washing clothes either – players have to regularly pick up trash from the floor , pull chewing gum off the walls and clean the toilets. Some of these tasks are presented as basic mini-games, but that doesn’t make them any less repetitive and dull.
This brings us to the games themselves. There are around 35 in total, and while the arcade management side of things is clearly an important part of Arcade Paradise, it’s the actual playing of the games where the most fun is to be had. Strike Gold is clearly just Mr Driller, for example, and Bugai is little more than Puzzle Bobble with a hat on, and while there’s nothing particularly wrong with that, they’re no different than any other clone you’d find online.
Most of them are also presented with a brilliantly accurate old-school filter designed to make them look like they’re playing on CRT displays. We usually turn these off in legitimate retro compilations, but here it’s pulled off so well that we thought they added a nice touch of atmosphere to the experience.
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