Losing my marbles at the arcade. 

Berd

Berd

berd is certified based for watching brutalmoose

It's a Konami machine. I think they know what they're doing, given they run actual gambling parlours.

Just imagine playing that marble game while high on cocaine. Whoa.

Thus, Panda Express for lunch that day.

I got an Alien with a purple Hoodie.. Need 10 trys to get him... Sad hes gone..

@@Rebnirak187 How'd he die?

Just buy it online.

he earned $77,000 off this video alone

You did not lie, exactly 3 seconds in.

He had me at plop

plop

2 seconds later and there's a shooting joke

A Man of Taste.

wholesome af

You're a girl tho, gurl

@@keard558 what does that have to do with anything

@@katthedestroyer9653 idk flirting. Also I'm dumb

@@katthedestroyer9653 Women commonly get things for free, it's pretty simple what they were getting at lol

The malls where I live basically weren't affected by covid because they were still packed.

@@GrumpyIan same with me in England. Our local ‘’mall” (though we say shopping center) is one of the only places where there’s tonnes of shops in the center of the city, our high street essentially only has a McDonalds, a Costa (coffee shop), a Waterstones (book store), a bookies (gambling place), a Caffe Nero (a chain of Italian inspired cafes), a Subway and a Primark (clothes store) along with a church and a few pubs and flats (apartments).

OMG, that and Phone Talk were my absolute favorites! I miss the the late 90s when scoring a clearance sale in that game and catching up on the newest Sabrina were all the worries we had.

@Amazingly Awkward A casino and then a church located on the same street? Now that’s convenience!

i have 2 mall buildings in my area: one is literally dead except for a dillards. The other one is basically walking dead because it's still open, but virtually nobody uses it.

Seems like there’s quite a bunch of us viewers in the area haha

I was just going to comment this lol

For real man now I have to take my son here.

Did you get shot?

dude it feels so uncanny i love it

Same here, they’re so entertaining

plop up

PLOP

Totally agreed! Watching him go places is fun no matter where he is.

TRUE

Might be Dance Dance Heaven for you, but it's Don-Ka Heaven for me.

@@coreylineberry8557 Nah man, wacca heaven

For me it's a Groove Coaster heaven or Taiko heaven... although I don't have a Round 1 here in the Netherlands, but we do have a cool ass game museum

@@coreylineberry8557 what ROUND1 are you going to that has taiko? i have to drive a couple hours to make it to one and as amazing as it is, it doesn’t have taiko!

whats that

@@Matthafford It's a place where you shoot pachinko balls up into a Pinball style board to try and win more of them. Many of them utilize a slot system that's activated by shooting a ball into it. You get to enter a bonus mode when you hit the right combination, often 3 matching numbers.

@@user-xi3jg1eu8v thanks. just sounds like weird plinko. does sound fun tho. ill have to visit ammerica for the arcades some day

@@Matthafford Essentially vertical pinball. Popular in Japan due to it being a way to legally gamble. (You get the balls, win or lose some, exchange the balls for prizes, and "Oh look, that's convenient! You can exchange said prizes for cash in this close separate building!")

@@Matthafford though* (Sorry, seeing people not use actual words irks me to no end 😖) And pachinko is a super popular game in Japan. No idea why. It looks boring as eff to me. But I've never liked things like pinball either.

I actually tried both of those, and couldn't finish either. My mouth was hurting so bad.

as hot as they are they’re so delicious especially the curry one

Oh man the burn on these is intense. But god damn they are tasty. The real trick is to just eat it fast so your mouth is in so much pain you can’t feel anything.

when i was in college i ate the red packet once in a while to relieve stress lol. you should try the Samyang ramen that has orange or red (spicy) packet, not the dry one like Bulddak Chicken in this video. it's really good

Is shin ramyun more or less spicy? I've had both the spicy and 2x spicy buldak and they're about in the "hot enough that I won't add hot sauce but I can eat it for a whole meal and be alright" range

I don't know which would be scarier asking him how much he spent in total or how much he spent on just the sailor Moon game

"I can rack up a million dollars debt on a hundred different credit cards and then when I die, it's somebody else's problem" Life Pro Tips with Ian McMastercard

it's for youtube so it's a business expense

@@minty2156 Take THAT, IRS!

@@dominateeye Reminds me of the Gus Johnson keyboard video

It’s actually the largest arcade in the world!

My dad takes me every year and it always slaps! The third floor has exclusively retro games! It's also a token arcade, which I hardly ever see outside of NH (most use cards and have a digital token system)

Yeah there was one at Weirs Beach that was also more retro and they’re just so much fun

Ah, a fellow new Hampshire citizen

This round 1 has a lot of Fighting games. When I was there last week they had the following. Street Fighter V, Tekken 6, Tekken Tag 2, Fight of the Gods, Blaz Blue, Tatsunko vs Capcom, the SNK game with the female terry. They also had a lottt of Japanese rhythm games. I know they cycle the fighting games every so often

I know that due to the popularity and graphical power of home consoles most modern arcade games tend to lean towards simulations

@@damianm2896 Fight of Gods? That's hilarious 😂 And wow that they have Tatsunoko Vs Capcom

Yeah the only arcades that aren't that are round1 and locally owned ones. Arcade chains mostly care about that money squeeze

brutalmoose actually kind of did Round1 dirty. You really go there for the import cabs - i.e. rhythm and fighting games. The redemption games and crane games are really just icing on the cake. In fact, the people who do advantage play at arcades kind of hate Round1 because the advantage play never works out to be profitable in the same way a D&B or Main Event might. As for *why* Round1 is the only arcade that runs rhythm or fighting games... uh... #FucKonami. That's why. A decade and change ago Konami moved to revenue sharing, where all their arcade cabinets have to be connected to function and the online servers keep track of your revshare payouts. The cabinet will not accept coins or swipes until you have paid an equivalent amount of revshare to Konami. If you don't prepay your revshare, the cabinets lock up and won't boot until you do. SEGA, Namco, and (I *think*) Taito have similar systems. Revshare is industry standard in Japan, while operators everywhere else balked at it. Which means there often isn't actually a US rollout for any of these games, because all the licensed music in these games was paid for out of revshare, and renegotiating all that would be a pain. (D&B convinced Konami to do it for DDR A but pulled out after A20 Plus.) The manufacturers also *will not* allow you to pay revshare on a JP cab that is operating in the US... with one exception, which is Round1, because they're a Japanese company that somehow convinced the manufacturers to let them extend their licensing deals to the US. The US arcade manufacturers (e.g. Raw Thrills) went in the completely opposite direction, focusing almost entirely on racing, shooting, and mobile game ports. They tried rhythm games *once* with Guitar Hero Arcade, and that was that. If you absolutely want to run rhythm games as an indie arcade operator, your options are Pump It Up (because apparently the brain rot in Japan didn't jump over to South Korea), StepManiaX (because Konami's patents over *the entire rhythm game genre* started to expire), old cabs (which is more maintenance and hassle for something fewer players want), or importing new cabs anyway and hacking the software to remove the revshare checks. Which is *hella illegal*.

The mad lad

You must be new here lol

@@uthgerd666 read the description broh

Wmmt too

I definitely want to get back there to cover more of the stuff that I didn't talk about this time - there's a lot of offerings! I barely even got to scratch the surface of the rhythm games while I was there, but I plan on it.

It's pretty much the only place you can play most of the best rhythm games and it's a place you'll often see top level DDR or Pump It Up players.

The only people I've ever known who went to Round 1s went to play rhythm games but that might also be because all of my friends play IIDX and SDVX

@@brutalmoose You should definitely try Dance Rush Stardom. It's the one with the rainbow glowing floor

who else unironically reviews Hungry Man meals? That was my hook line and sinker

Yeah in my city we don't have any dedicated arcades anymore but there's a Cynergy, which is where I had my 31st birthday last year, it has a theater, bowling, escape room, axe throwing & arcade, plus food & alcohol, Dave & Busters of course, & a Main Event which is similar to Cynergy but more aimed towards kids exclusively & has bowling & laser tag, plus a rock wall & giant jungle gym thing. I'm sad the old school arcades are gone but the new hybrid entertainment centers are nice.

Get yourself a partner who looks at you the way Ian looks at a Marble Carnival AND also plays alongside you

yeah this arcade was like dead empty huh? thankfully i was just BARELY able to see the tail end of the cool arcades packed with people back in the early 2000s before they all shut down. there was a bit of a dark era where the only thing was like, nickelcade. i'm glad there are some more robust places now like round 1 and dave and busters, and it is funny that they serve alcohol because they know most of the people going there are adults xD

Go to a casino, it's very similar. The feelings I felt watching that marble machine are like those I felt playing slots or roulette

@@rapmastac1362 Yeah, but you'll lose way more money in the process.

Not drugs, you've just learned you have a gambling addiction gene. Congrats!

The pattern on the carpet determines if an arcade or bowling alley is cool or not. If it has that cool 90s pattern, issa a good one

That game is awesome!!

personally I live close to the one in ohio. I have quite a bit of an addiction to their rhythm games lol

Where was the good guy with a gun to stop him ?

@@Gatorade69 He moved the Hell away from there.

Live about 10 miles from South Center....had lunch there about 6 months ago. Probably had not been there in 5 years. I didn't really feel safe in the parking lot after eating at 3 in the afternoon. I of course remember the shooting a few weeks ago. The news always starts the new with a mall tragedy & they lose their mind

@@Gatorade69 exactly. thing is the way the justice system works if you try to stop them you are just as bad if not worse than the person that started it.

Your icon is so cute! Excellent hue and shade choices too, really cohesive.

@@kaitlyn__L Oh thanks hehe. I didn't draw it, was a commission from sparksfurart a few years back ^^

I would like to go to some arcades but I really don't know Seattle all too well. It's either too much of a drive or a ferry trip. I really only know the area around the stadiums. I have wanted to take the ferry one day and just walk around.

@@Gatorade69 yeah Seattle is a nice place for a day trip ☺️

@@plutoum3335 Sorry, I don't know if your comment is supposed to be somewhat sarcastic. Seattle definitely has a homeless problem that definitely detracts from the experience but It's cool to walk around a big city, especially all the old parts and underground. I would likemto see some of the historical parts and some museums. Definitely wouldn't want to live there though. Like I said I have really only been to Seattle a few times for a Mariner's game.

@@Gatorade69 no I wasn't being sarcastic, if you go to the board walk or something then it is a very fun place to go for a day

Dude the Disney store left my local mall too! You could never get to the back of that store without someone greeting you 😂

Dude no way! The Disney store left my mall too

The Disney Store left my mall probably about 20 years ago. I think it only lasted a year or two before closing.

The stores "Box Lunch" and "Hot Topic" are the new Disney Stores

which one? the old one, or the new one?

Also Ian, has now become Spamton, since he’s a [BIG SHOT].

Ian plops for our sins.