Couple stand out to me:

  • 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.

  • Seeing Mortal Kombat 2 on a big screen CRT cabinet and thinking I was going to go to hell because of the violence (lol).

  • 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.

  • Pumping endless quarters into Aliens vs Predator (one of my favorite arcade games).

  • 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.

  • BeamBrain [he/him]
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    1 month ago

    When I was young, during a family trip we stayed at a hotel with a rec area that had a swimming pool, a hot tub, and a Donpachi cabinet. I was a happy kid that day.

    We also regularly went to a Pizza Hut that had a Raiden 2 machine. I'd always beg my parents for change to play, but I never made it past the first level (I was a dumb kid and bad at video games). The first stage theme still takes me back to those days every time I hear it.