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.

  • Dirt_Owl [comrade/them, they/them]
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    4 months ago

    Younger Millennial here. Too young to have been around for the arcade craze, but the Fish and Chips shop near my childhood home had a Metal Slug cabinet me and my friends used to love.

    • HiImThomasPynchon [des/pair, it/its]
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      4 months ago

      Awh fuck yeah Metal Slug on an arcade cabinet, I can't count the number of pizza shops/video rental shops/low-end malls I've seen Metal Slug machines in.

      Edit: Shout out to Point Blank and Puzzle Bobble too. Those were great for just random little businesses.