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.

  • ryepunk [he/him]
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    4 months ago

    My friends used to go to the mall near our school on our lunch breaks and they'd play lightgun shooters (jurassic park was what they played alot of). I didn't have any money so I just watched them play.

    When I was younger I have one time my dad took me to the movie place in a lake town, and we played through the entire Simpsons arcade game together. One of my few good memories with my dad. I don't think we actually finished the game, but we got really far in at least.