Couple stand out to me:
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Seeing Virtua Fighter for the first time back in what 1993 or so at an amusement park and being wowed by the graphics, thinking it was photo realistic.
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Seeing Mortal Kombat 2 on a big screen CRT cabinet and thinking I was going to go to hell because of the violence (lol).
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Playing X-Men with my dad and his friend and his kid on a 6 player machine that had widescreen, very cool for the time.
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Pumping endless quarters into Aliens vs Predator (one of my favorite arcade games).
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Seeing some dude beat Tekken Tag which I could never clear and thinking he was the coolest.
Arcades were great. A dream of mine is to visit a game center in Japan and play some of the classics on an actual machine.
Loved it as a kid. Gauntlet, Rampage, Arkanoid, TMNT, Cruisin' USA, the boating version. Obviously pacman+ms, qbert, galaga, I think there was a Terminator game with a gun, mortal Kombat, street fighter, X-Men. And of course plenty of pinball.
Surprisingly enough, I'm not much of a gamer.🤷