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.

  • ShimmeringKoi [comrade/them]
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    4 months ago

    When I was a kid, my dad would take me to the arcade in the mall and we would play House of the Dead 2 together. It's one of my most treasured.memories

    Oh man, and that's not even getting into all the elementary school roller rink trips/soccer team pizza parties where I and the other bad children would slink off to the back play Metal Slug.

    Shout out to Time Crisis, up there with HOTD for hilarious voice acting. Actually, pretty much every arcade game had that