edit: well, help them out anyway
Help STRIDE Save the Arcades
Stride Gum has a contest where you play a flash game and donate the points you earn to an arcade; and the arcade with the most points gets $25,000 to spend on new games and so forth. Please play and donate money to Arcade UFO. Registering takes about a minute, and doesn't spam your email at all. The contest ends October 6.
Arcade UFO is one Texas' best arcades. UFO is the only arcade on this with an actual emphasis on Bemani, what with having DJMax Technica (IIRC they were the first in the country to get it), and a customized OpenITG setup with exclusive songs made by its patrons.
In general, they're one of the best arcades you'll find. The main emphasis is on fighters, and they also have lots of shmups. Arcade UFO is run by famous fighting game tournament player
fubarduck (
who is a member on these forums), and he definitely knows his stuff when it comes to fighters. They hold tournaments about once a week (last time I was there, they had a 2v2 tournament for that cool Gundam fighter that's sorta Virtual On-ish).
Anyway, I am hyping this up for you guys because right now, UFO is losing, and lately it has not had a very strong lead in general. As fellow Bemani fans, I am hoping that you will take some time out to play this game, and hope that we earn enough points to win this thing.
The game is tedious, I won't lie. All of us playing it hate it. Most of the people playing for UFO are trying to each earn a daily 1,000,000 points. Anyway, it's not hard to earn a lot of points in one go. Use joytokey and a controller to play the game with more precision. Pick a character with a shield and deploy the shield when a barrage of bullets comes your way, and you'll absorb them with no penalty.
If nothing else, play to help out a fellow forum member. Ryan (
fubarduck) is a great guy who has worked very hard to make Arcade UFO into something so great in such a short time, and he deserves all he can get for his efforts.