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.

  • Breath_Of_The_Snake [they/them, comrade/them]
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    4 months ago

    There was this arcade game which was a time attack sort of game except you started as a tiny dinosaur amd the more you ate you became cooler and cooler dinosaurs. Iirc the final form was a T-Rex and right before that was triceratops. No idea what it was called, but as a dinosaur obsessed young kid it was magical.

    The four player gauntlet arcade game stands out because my two best friends were moving abroad and the last time we got to hang out our parents took us all to an arcade where we spent the entire time on that game with a 4th mutual friend.