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.
Old ass hexbears lol. I was still able to play some all time classic games with ppl at arcades when I was a kid in the mid/late 2000s and early 10s. Plenty of street fighter, mortal kombat, soul calibur, local ones had carnevil, tmnt, it was great. Will 100% agree that arcades have become shit though. Ever been to a dave and busters? Most disappointing mobile game scam shit possible