@winstano:

HA! I always tease people about me being a Brummie and having a strong accent.
The truth is that I lost my accent many, many years ago, it's really hard to chat someone up when you say,
"alroight luv yow look propper bustin!der yow wanna dance?"
It's only when I am;in the presence of other brummies,watching the football or feeling rough that I lose my rather, well spoken B.B.C. received pronunciation.
Although it is funny watching the looks of horror on the Chinese exchange students and teachers I know when I slip into Brummie.

Weirdwolf

@17-A: Yeah, its nice for a 2 week vacation, but then give me back my city life pl0x. Now living near a calm ocean with familiar people around sounds like a dream, every last day of it.

Still, give us the damn console version though. I want to get my Shoriyuken on!

Suda51

Maybe not so much good news for people in Maine, but Tokyo Game Action in Mass is supposed to be getting a SF4 machine in September, so New England won't have to do without entirely!

Grave

Sweet. First I find out my local arcade imported Tekken 6, now this.

libregkd

we havent had an arcade in Charlotte in like 10 years.

wtf dood

willz0rz

That's real close to my house! Well, I WAS thinking about going to Mt Sac this year, guess I'll pick up a catalog and play a little S.F.IV!

Shigamado

can't wait to play it this weekend. it's been a while since i've been to an arcade. i think i'll bring my purple members only jacket to complete the nostalgia trip.

gooberbaby

Holy crap I used to hang out there for years, surprised that they got it before Arcade Infinity over in Rowland Heights.

seppukake

@zkotaku: I hope its just 25 cents.

zkotaku

I'm that close awesome. You wish you live around.

zkotaku

@17-A:

neat another mainer on kotaku as late as I am.

The good things about maine far outweigh the bad. I'd love to raise kids here someday, but I'm not there yet. There's little crime, the public schools are decent (better than Mass), the air is clean, there's always something to do outside, we're on the coast, etc. As soon as college is done I'm going exploring around the US and Europe because like you said, I am sick of it right now.

Lot Krotan

WOW an actual honest to goodness arcade! the only time you see arcades in the U.K. is at dodgy seaside resorts like Skegness and Blackpool,where they are full of mouthbreathing chavs playing crappy bingo/one armed bandit games.
Honestly it's like watching a seen from dawn of the dead if the zombies where all clad in burberry and moaned "uuuurggh Sharrroooooon...uurrrghhhh" as there knuckles dragged along the floor.

Weirdwolf

for a moment i looked at the pic and the title and shouted WTF. would be funny if the first us sf4 machine was at the box though.

maraxusofk

The real bad news for people who live in Maine? We're living in Maine.

Yes, I'm saying this as a Mainer. The quaint rural charm is nice in small doses but constant exposure to it is its own form of cabin fever. Think of it this way: read "Walden" or another such work by Thoreau. Paints such a pretty picture, doesn't it? Now imagine reading it once a day. You'd get sick of it, wouldn't you?

Now, Penny Arcade's Gabe & Tycho have taken a step in the right direction by planning to hold an east coast version of PAX in 2010, but that doesn't go far enough. I say Capcom needs to get some Winnebagos loaded with SFIV machines out here pronto as a public service. Quickly, before the beautiful forest landscape consumes us all!

17-A

I'm in Texas i dont even think we have any arcades left. unless the game room at my college counts as one but i dont think they can afford street fighter. however we do have many jacks in the box. which reminds me i'm hungry...

Milkzhakes

@Suda51: "You have a accent American women go crazy over"

Not in Leeds they don't :P

(I keed, I keed)

winstano

Speaking of newsbreaks, Narrows Plaza Bowling in University Place (Tacoma, WA) will also host 2 arcade cabinets.
-from Masterman vending
-International version
- $1.00 per play

And it should be ready, at the location very soon. =D

kadosho

@djricekcn:

Exactly, which is why the people at Cal Poly would be happy to know its there :).

golguin

@golguin: Cal Poly isn't that far anyway. it's like less than 10 minutes drive once you get on the freeway.

djricekcn

@radrider82:

I've only been to Mt. SAC once...nice place with cool buildings. I'm pretty sure the people at Cal Poly (where I go) would be happy to know SFIV is there. It's too bad it's summer break and I'm all the way in Riverside.

golguin

The most technically advanced arcade game we have here in Ireland is Time Crisis 1

Jody-Per-Ardua-Surgo

@Dannon: You have a accent American women go crazy over, if that counts for anything. I don't know if thats going to help you get your hadouken on anytime soon, but I hope its some constellation prize.

Suda51

Oh yeah, Super Arcade has lots of stupid high school kids there too. At least it's better now with the pool hall on the other side gone..man when the pool hall was there, it wasn't exactly a place you would want to go to chill

djricekcn

I strangely feel like I'm missing nothing.

Oh well.

Ken

Son of a bitch, I am hungry! Hey, I have leftover chips, I should get some cheese and make nachos!

The Magnificen7

Neat! I can't wait to play Street Figther!

*cough-headlinetypo-cough*

supremesonic

I'm from Leeds, UK, we have nothing... well, not nothing, we have what was once a prosperous football team but no SFIV, in fact I can't even think of any arcades around here

Dannon

Shoot!, i used to work right across the street from there and stop at that Jack in the Crack all the time ! I'd go back this weekend if thought it was safe. All i can say to anyone going out there is to keep your WATCH YOUR CAR if you have ANYTHING nice it WILL get stolen !

Bease

@Lot Krotan: i live in miami. the last jack in the box got shut down many years ago by the health inspectors, and the arcade scene's so dead, ive got a mall nearby with MVC2 nearby and that's it.

but if we're trading things, im keeping the heat and latin womenses. im offering Pitbull and the entire genre of reggaeton for a single SF IV arcade unit.

TheIrishNinja

@Lot Krotan: And we have all the major Expo's across all forms of Geek culture oriented things. So keep your air and writers.

Suda51

I really hate Super Arcade, it's one of the worser arcades I went. Mt. Sac has lot of stupid people there too (which is right across Super Arcade)(not saying everyone is, but there's a lot of students there that still act as if they are in high school)

djricekcn

I like that. But instead of shoving quarters, I pay for Gamefly.

michaelleung

Why couldn't someone show a picture of the arcade instead of the Jack in the Box.
I am hungry now though :P

damatman

I'm not gonna drive all the way from the westside to mountsac. Also: lots of Asians in that area I'm not surprised that they have it.

Baka_Survivor

I live in Michigan. No SF4. No Jack in the Box either :( why Brian!!!! you tease!

foodnaptime

@Lot Krotan:

oh, and you can have your arcades with SFIV. I have something californians will never have... Stephen King and smog-free air =P

Lot Krotan

Capcom damn you don't you get it! Give us the console version first, the closest we got to "arcades" are nickel arcades you go to for wasting time or a random arcade in a mall where the same two guys always go to play DDR. Arcades are not like they are in Japan here!!!!!1!1!!!1!!!!1!

Suda51

I live in Canada! *Jumps in truck*

IceCold

I live by Walnut :P As a matter of fact, I go to Mt. SAC too :PPPP. Can't wait to play.

radrider82

I live in maine :(

Lot Krotan

@radrider82: that's right across the street from my school (Cal Poly) holy crap guess who's not going to school......

Deltakiral

@PATSCRU: I would have no problem with that for Japan at least, but arcades are pretty much dead in the US, and a lot of EU countrys it sounds like from the comments here. In the end though, your right I'm just being impatient, but that doesn't mean I still can't scream at people who will never hear me in my temporary dissatisfaction!

DAMN YOU ALL! Until the console version is released.

Suda51

Also, I'm currently at my girlfriend's parents house in Diamond bar which is just 5 minutes away from this arcade. I'm so happy i could cry. If only it wasn't 3AM.

PATSCRU

Wow. That's my hometown. I guess I'll stop by this weekend when I go home.

Korey

Jack n the Box is like the only burger place I go to. That's not saying a lot though cause the only other burger place by me is McDonalds. JBox > McDonalds

kojirodensetsu

Wish I could have this shit at my place.

JungoFett

@Suda51: Capcom putting SFIV in arcades first is a bad thing?
This is perhaps the only example in the current gen sequel fever of a publisher attempting to retain the soul of a loved franchise. Street Fighter was born in arcades, and it belongs there. God bless you Capcom for knowing this and attempting to keep SF in touch with its roots.

Relax, the console version is coming.

PATSCRU

The only time I went to Mt. SAC was for cross country, shit was hell.

Fadakar

@Grave:

Guess what, you're in luck. I heard from MV that TGA will be receiving it for sure. And yes the target date is still next month. They are actually receiving a set of cabinets to be distributed everywhere soon. =D

kadosho

Oh snap, I only live a block away. Been too busy to be a regular at that arcade.

cakesavant

Sweet, that's not too far from me.

MorbidLilim

@Dannon: Hey bud, I'm from Dundee/Glasgow, I think we may get shafted even more that you do!

Where is my SFIV?! It is still being released on the PC right? Either that or I may have to buy and Xbox.

furiku

Ooh my friends in Cal Poly are gonna love this news! I miss all the arcades in SoCal... Oh and In-N-Out>Jack in the Box. 'Nuff said.

sweetie55

@Weirdwolf: Oh, you so win. But hey, we do all have colour TV right? right?

furiku

@Weirdwolf: OK, this is getting weird now... I live in Lincoln.

winstano

@Weirdwolf: haha, awesome... I went to uni in Brum, and my mates always taunted me that I'd picked up a "brummie twang" :P

winstano

@furiku:

HA!
Ever been to Lincoln? No? Don't be worried nobody comes here unless they come to visit the cathedral,(which is the only reason it's a city,) it wasn't until a few years ago that Lincolnshire had a motorway, and that is only because it is next to the Humber Estuary at the very top of the county.

Weirdwolf

This fills me with rage. Now more people know. I remember when Super once got in a new version of Wangan Midnight Maximum Tune and most of the regulars told nobody about it to keep the lines down.

Nah, just kidding. I'm not filled with rage. Other part's still true though.

ChaiThai

@furiku:

Well I don't but that's because I'm not bothered about watching TV.
It gets worse, If I wanted to go to London I have to go to the next county!

Weirdwolf

@djricekcn: 10 minute drive? Freeway? It's down the street bro, like, literally down the street. No freeways involved, and more like 2 minute drive. @golguin: I feel ya, I go to cal poly, but I live in Anaheim Hills with very little reason to be there during the summer.

aKed

@Weirdwolf:

Blergh, I of course meant by train, I'm not quite that geographically challenged just yet.

@winstano
It's a small world, but I wouldn't want to paint it.

Weirdwolf

@Tyrannical:

Yeah, but that says more about the crappy car you drive.
[en.wikipedia.org]

Weirdwolf

ha! i just ate breakfast! you lose ashcraft!

seriously moar SF4 machines, preferably one near orlando, hey if the arcade up the street were to get one that would in fact rock (i even have 2 bucks in tokens sitting on my desk waiting)

demonknightinuyasha

I live in Maine :)

At least I don't have to lock my car at night.

Tyrannical

@Suda51:
I hear ya Suda. I walk around my local mall arcade... It's like a graveyard now, so many happy memories, playing the newest the best, and now nothing that isn't 10 years old that doesn't involve dancing or Horse?!?! riding. Seriously wtf happened to the american arcade...sigh!

lockes_key

I'm glad I have cereal with meh, that picture makes me hungry =O

I didn't realized people still went to Arcades a lot... They're pretty hard to find in Plano. >.>

SimbaMaliki

Oh man, I went to a jack-in-the-box last year on vacation to the east coast. I will never forget it...

Mink_Car

What's the cost to play SFIV in the arcade anyway? In terms of Jack in the Box tacos? 3 tacos?

Pornosaur

meet you guys there! I'll even give you 2nd round.

rainofwalrus

@lockes_key:

Cost.
Arcade machines were pretty much unbeatable unless you pumped money into them like a government into failing a mortgage seller. Why go to a smelly dank arcade,(because they were,) to spend loads for just a single play when you could go home and get games that played,(if not looked similar to,) games you could have at an arcade.
The moving ride-on hydraulic machines were the last gasp of a failing industry to give an experience that you couldn't get at home, but all they did was price themselves out of the market in terms of cost and space for the small arcades who didn't have the advantage of being part of a large chain.

Weirdwolf

@ djsyndrome, you're actually saying gameworks, speedzone, boomers, and save and buster's are better places that super arcade? then by all means go back to chuck e. cheese and fucking stay there until street fighter 4 a stand shows up

KidKardona

holy crap, Mt.Sac is on Kotaku!? I'm so proud!

KidKardona

That is possibly the shittiest arcade in Southern California. Here's hoping AI gets it; they deserve the business way more than SA does.

djsyndrome

Wow, didn't realize there were this many people from Maine here (*lives in Cumberland*).

Living here I'm pretty used to getting shafted Arcade-wise, this isn't the first time. Even though I live near the biggest city in the state (Portland) I can't really name any big arcades there that would even have it.

DashShiron

You kids need to visit New Zealand, I just installed two SFIV
boards at work today, so thats 2 for the 4 million people here.

DrHairyDwarf

Haha...I played SF 1-3 for the first time at that place (used to be called Western Arcade). Time to revisit my past and see some pissoff azn boyz...ROW-LAND!!

godbitz

Tell me when the first one in Vermont comes, i can't wait

fishbonez

Awesomeness! I'm glad my hometown's arcade gets cool stuff! Plus the Jack in the Box across the way is a deal maker for a cheap meal, haha! And yay for Mt. SAC.

vfxraven19

Hey! That's right down the road!......but I'm not into Street Fighter. LOL

Acute Gamer

I like Jack in the Box.

MunkyMan33

@supremesonic: Is that short for fig-thrower? Cause they just came out with the second one so I doubt that's the same game.

sisedi

@Pornosaur: one taco (do the math) wait are 2 tacos still a dollar over there? I've have not been in a JITB after they closed down our local one for re-construction after some one jumped the curb and smashed into it with their truck. Those wacky drunk drivers. LOL

MURDERFACE

Damn it's a 45min drive from my place. If ya google maps the location you can see the same Jack in the box.

MURDERFACE

Curses!!! I live in Florida!!!

KM91

It's a shame Southern Hills Golfland isn't still around.

Boudabras

Hey, not far from me. Though I bet the line to play will be vicious. Its a pretty weak arcade, but beggars can't be choosers.

StrikerGold

I remember that arcade from my Cal Poly days, they always had all kinds of strange imports, too, but I spent most of my quarters playing San Francisco Rush in the Rec building.

tk.

.50 per play... ^_^

MarkMan

Heh, a lot of the guys out here who are into fighters don't live in walnut but we wind up going there for gatherings for some odd reason... we hate it.

Demonbird

Oh why, WHY???! California always have the good stuff! The Cons, Little Tokyo, Book Off, Kinokuniya, beach, scenery, etc..etc..

Meanwhile living in Las Vegas is just a big hot Dustbowl, fill with Hookers, Gambling, cookie-cutter homes, crummy cons that no one would like to attend, and no TREES!

And what is holding us back from moving further west is the cost of living and gas prices are insane.

I might as well just go sit in the corner and weep.

Shachihoko

HAHAHHA awesome I live really close! Except there mite be a big line there but I'll tell my cousin so me and him could go play some street fighter 4 before it comes out on consel

DespisedMC

Wow I am like 10 minutes away! Sweet!!!!

sergotron

ROAD TRIP!

Gouki4u's avatar has a severe case of Jekyll and Hyde

DAMMIT!! I USED TO GO TO CAL POLY!! I would play all types of imported games in that lil aracde...now I'm in the great, super awsome, bay area, and can not play this game...yet...

kablammyman

Wow this isn't horribly far from me, maybe a 30 minute drive. Definitely worth it to play some Street Fighter IV.

AnotherGamer

Hey that's my arcade and I go to mt sac too! Though, if super arcade has it, then infinity in rowland heights probably has it, which means any number of arcades in san gabriel, monterey park and alhambra may have it because they tend to have the same things. But I guess that means little to anyone outside the los angeles area haha.

DtotheP

SWEET!!! i got to mt. sac!! right across baby!!!

thesilentcircus

Sick! I go to Cal Poly and have actually been to this little AZN infested arcade. Looks like I have to brave the off smells and cigarette smoke to get a glimpse in person. HELLZ YAH BITCHES!

FREIGHT TRAIN

@AnotherGamer:
Yeah not far from me either...
Ill just hop on a plane from NJ to CA to play.... totally worth it.

Sorshha

WOOFREAKINHOO!

I can't believe they got it there. I used to haunt that arcade while I was picking up a math class for CSUF. I've been to the Jack in the Box too! I can't believe they managed to get enough scratch to pick that thing up. The arcade isn't really much to look at, but heck, when you've got SF4 I'm guessing you're not gonna be seeing much of anything else.

sonofnone

*in your
(*wishes for an edit button*)

sayoko

And I was all like.. man, you guys have Jack in the Box AND SFIV arcades your Jack in the Box too?

sayoko

@seppukake: A.I. doesn't have the Japanese ver yet??

AsWater

Wow... He must be going out of business.

Kaire

NICE!!!

umaxyome

@KidKardona: First off idiot, those are not arcades. When was the last time arcades sold alcohol,prizes and full course meals. Wake up, their main focus is on getting people drunk so they don't know how much money they are spending on everything else. Its a disgraceful formula. Good luck Super, everyone needs their 'special drug'.

Kaire

Just saw the arcade machines at EVO in Vegas last weekend and It.Is.Good.

sumzeroclone

Awesome! I live like two miles away from Mt. Sac.
I was pleasantly surprised. "Ah...cool. A SFIV arcade. Oh well, it'll probably be far away. Wait...Grand? I think I live a couple of blocks from Grand. Hurray. I should express my excitement in a comment!"

Ad-hominem

Nice. Right down the street from me. Hooray for Walnut! We finally get something first. Too bad I don't play Street Fighter.

jobble

Bwahahaha I live a couple miles away from there.

Losers. BWHAHAHA

Ping5000

I'm 30 min from this place, but, this is near a college. Imagine the line to just place this?

Keanu

Man that picture makes me hungry for Jack in the Box, shame there aren't any in my area and it's been ages since I've had it

Makidian

I will be there this weekend! I live in Hacienda Heights!

thenk83

I've enjoyed a delicious meal at that Jack in the Box.

It's about 30mins from my house and I used to date a girl that lived right over there. Crazy!

I can only imagine that after a Frank and Sons expo in West Covina there is going to be a flood of people going to that arcade.

Grocerspride

Haha, I saw this article's title and the picture of Jack in the Box and thought that a fast food joint had SFIV.

dougdanger

@KidKardona: he's right, fucking *ANYTHING* is better than SA. They should've just gone down the street to AI.

Genocyde

Super Arcade?

...really?

That place is a dump...maybe that's why they chose that location to test. *shrug*

I'll still be there :D

Genocyde

@dougdanger: LOL, That would be the greatest deal in the world. Could you imagine Capcom getting with Jack in the Box and saying, " So we got this, idea you buy all these dedicated SF4 cabs and see that revenue shoot throw the roof"!

Kaire

Where the hell is Walnut? I swear, they always release new cabinets in the most obscure places. If you're going to release it in California, why not someplace like San Francisco?

catsoup

@catsoup: 2 things. 1 - SFIV isn't being released in U.S. arcades, only in Japan. 2 - It's in Walnut and not San Francisco because the owner of Super Arcade decided to shell out the cash to have it imported and shipped across the Pacific Ocean, God bless 'im

sonofnone

@djricekcn: I think you're confusing Super Arcade with Arcade Infinity. Arcade Infinity was the one that had the pool hall right next door. If only AI was in a better area, it wouldn't be under city ordinance to shut down at 11pm. Super Arcade is the arcade next to Cal Poly and Mt SAC, which is about a 15 minute drive from AI.

On another note, it's nice to see the owner of Super taking more initiative lately. I was really surprised when I walked in there and saw Tekken 6, now we get SFIV, nice. Granted, AI would've been an ideal place to release SFIV, I'm not complaining that Super got it, its only a 5 minute drive for me anyways. Now, if only the owner would take the initiative to focus on the Drummania and Guitar Freaks machines and get those updated! I've been playing DMV and GFV for like....ages now.

day

old news was up @ shoryuken a few days back.

Null-Python

@day: You think they might put in Tatsunoko vs. Capcom there?

shrek187

@TheIrishNinja: Reggaeton sucks anyway, and so does Pitbull.

Yay here in Cali, not to far from where i Live either. From L.A. to here ain't that bad.

@Lot Krotan: Thats why you use your teeth as a filter.

shrek187

Oh no way?! I used to go to Mt SAC for cross-country, that's not far at all! Looks like I'll be making some more trips out there :D

Skrillz

Holy shit!!! I live a town away from there, in a city called huntington park. 5 min drive and I'm there. And to the person that said "there's alot of Asians" will that's not ture.

Just went down to Super Arcade yesterday... (only about 2 minutes away, seriously.)

Picked Balrog.. got whooped by Sagat..

IMO, it's slow and doesn't have a great first impression.. but its also one of those games that you know will gradually grow on you and become one of your favorites in due time.

I just need more time with it and less idiots around the arcade cabinet.

1st2nd3rd4th

CONSTELLATION PRIZE

that is all.

isobelle