Anyone else played GH Arcade?

**Usagi** · Joined: 23 Jan 2007 Posts: 227

I don't know where else has one, but there's one in the Funland arcade in the Trocadero, London, England which came from the ATEI trade show.

And oh my god it's terrible. If anyone's interested I can post some information on it since there doesn't seem to be a whole lot of coverage for it.

**DipstickSH** · Joined: 08 Jan 2009 Posts: 47

I always wanted to know more about it but since I live in a rather borring town in Texas,I never had a shot at finding one :P

Whats so bad about it? Besides it being an arcade machine in 2009

**Usagi** · Joined: 23 Jan 2007 Posts: 227

Bearing in mind it's pretty much a test machine, not an actual 'full release' as far as I know:

1) The main one. It has a good quarter of a second of lag. Every song, I was having to hit the strum bar extremely early, and eventually stopped listening to the music at all and just strummed to my tapping foot.
2) Both guitars activated star power as soon as you filled your meter enough. The only way to fix this was to pretty much hold the guitar at a less-than-horizontal angle.
3) For some reason, premium songs were ridiculously expensive. The game was £1 for 1 song, but some long songs (Cult of Personality is the only one that springs to mind) had an 'Insert 7 coins to play!' message, which I assumed to mean 70p. It meant £7. I guess that was just an oversight but lols.
4) If I remember rightly, there were only 25 songs total, 5 tiers of 5, at least 8 of them being premium (£8) songs. The hardest song is Take This Life. I didn't think to take a songlist but they were all songs from GH3, a mix of the main setlist and a couple of the bonus tracks.
5) It crashed. I got a picture of the windows boot screen

This thread was pretty much made so I can bitch about it. How did all those glaring errors even get through testing? There were apparently 5 or 6 machines at the ATEI show, and only this one has turned up since.

**Steebeh** · Joined: 17 May 2006 Posts: 1551 Location: Glasgow, Scotland

The fuck?

Seven quid for Cult of Personality?!

*stays the fuck away from a GH: Arcade machine*

The £8 premium songs sounds like arse as well.

**JRummel16** · Joined: 03 Nov 2008 Posts: 71

I played it at a movie theater in Chicago recently, it was a dollar a song which is not that bad I suppose... I played cliffs of dover and got a lolwut from the crowd around me. Didn't notice much lag on it.
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**Slayerpwnsu** · Joined: 24 Aug 2008 Posts: 96

These really sound like an unauthorized copy or something D:
But then again, the makers of GH no longer care about quality?
GH:WT for PS2, perfect example.
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**thecaptainof** · Joined: 04 May 2007 Posts: 7571 Location: ¯\(°_o)/¯

I'm fairly sure we had a topic about this before...

Haven't been to the Trocadero in a few weeks, but there's also one in a little arcade on Tottenham Court Road, just along from Warren Street tube. Didn't bother going in to play it 'cos I was out with a friend I hadn't seen in years, but no doubt I'll be wandering up that way again soon so I'll give it a try.
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**Slayerpwnsu** · Joined: 24 Aug 2008 Posts: 96

If I ever come across one, I'll be sure to give it a go too.
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