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.

  • reverendz [comrade/them]
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    4 months ago

    Full on Gen X. All we HAD was arcades. I mean.. the non-arcade versions of games like Pac-Man and Space Invaders was pretty janky.

    Some of my fondest memories are spending Saturday afternoons at the arcade, back when $20 in quarters could last.

    So many great games! First game I could ever finish was called Space Harrier. I figured out the pattern and could finish the game on a few quarters.

    I admit I was sad when arcades started to shutter.