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.

  • Storm [she/her]
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    4 months ago

    Three:

    Playing MvC 2 by myself was interesting, but I don't like arcade controls or just standing like that.

    Playing Virtual On was amazing with the cockpit layout. I wish it had a first-person option. But it was so cool piloting mech.

    Finally the Simpsons game for the arcade. I played as Marge and loved how she swung her vacuum cleaner as a weapon in the beat'em up