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.

  • NephewAlphaBravo [he/him]
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    4 months ago

    Virtual-On, Crazy Taxi, and Soul Calibur at the arcade

    Metal Slug and Cruisin' USA at the pizza restaurant

    Time Crisis and 1942 at the movie theater

    Good shit

    • RedWizard [he/him, comrade/them]
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      4 months ago

      Shit I haven't thought about Virtual On in a long ass time. That game was fun as hell. I think you could do 1v1 with a 2nd connected cab of I recall. The dual flight stick controls were a real novelty.