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.

  • axont [she/her, comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    2 months ago

    Oh arcades do the blue quarters thing too? I guess that sense. My grandpa owned a bar and he had a stack of blue quarters to put in the jukebox whenever a song wasn’t playing. It was since he didn’t own the jukebox and the guy who emptied the quarters knew not to take the blue ones.