My favorite memory was beating the Simpsons arcade game with my two brothers and some other kid at the mall. That was the only arcade game I ever beat until MAME came along.
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My favorite memory was beating the Simpsons arcade game with my two brothers and some other kid at the mall. That was the only arcade game I ever beat until MAME came along.
Beating Virtua Cop 3 on a single credit for the 1st time. That was like, back in 2005 or so, I think.
Metal Slug, Puzzle Bobble and Time Crisis 2 swallowed a lot of my coins when I was a student. They were 10p, which was ludicrously cheap even back in the late 90s.
[font=georgia]When MK II dropped, that predicated a trip to the mall for that alone. When it first came out not even everybody had all their special moves yet lol. The upgrade happened a couple weeks later. There used to be 5, 6 guys deep like next on the basketball court to play MK II. All three were MK games monsters but I specifically remember the days trying to make it work on II. It was kind of intimidating too when you got to the front of the line, man some of them cats were NICE with it. I don't know if they showed up when the mall opened but there were times a dude would cut through 4 or 5 dudes and he was king of the roost for that shift.
I also remember the barbershop my cousin used to cut at got a Samarai Showdown II machine. That game was dope too, when you found a cat that new how to play that, that was some real fun.
Loved the gun games too, me and my brother got pretty good at Leathal Enforcers and then bought the Sega version when it came out. House of the Dead, and Area 51 I know I spent 50 bucks on over the life of that machine. Good times. [/font]
Being in the arcades when games like MK2 and Killer Instinct were brand new. I remember watching guys pull of Fatalities--the few that were known--and seeing the crowd erupt. Killer Instinct was just unique in appearance and the fighting itself was fascinating to watch, especially when two skilled guys were going at it. I once blew the minds of two young Asian kids at an arcade in Flushing, Queens by doing the Dan trick in the then-relatively-new Street Fighter Alpha.
[B][I]I recall playing quite a bit of Mortal Kombat 2 and Konami's X-Men at Malibu Grand Prix in Tampa. 1990's was wonderful times.[/I][/B]
Oh man, I used to be addicted to them. I would go after school or on a Sunday afternoon to take a crack at them constantly. They were usually in newspaper/candy stores or bodegas. I played classics like Double Dragon, Robocop, Toki, Neo-Geo, etc. I'd love to play those games again. Nowdays, there's these places called Barcades which are bars with arcades and has most of the classic games I played. It feels so good to be 13 years old again.
[QUOTE=Dr. Skeleton;5727041]Oh man, I used to be addicted to them. I would go after school or on a Sunday afternoon to take a crack at them constantly. They were usually in newspaper/candy stores or bodegas. I played classics like Double Dragon, Robocop, Toki, Neo-Geo, etc. I'd love to play those games again. Nowdays, there's these places called Barcades which are bars with arcades and has most of the classic games I played. It feels so good to be 13 years old again.[/QUOTE]
There is a barcade by me. it is always packed. I have done some Mame Emulators but there is nothing like standing in a crowd while you just own a cabinet!
I was in the third match of a heated game of Mortal Kombat 2 when it was brand-new, and my opponent knew his Liu Kang well. We were down to our last slivers of health, and by now we had a huge crowd watching us. Two lovely Hispanic girls were among the crowd, and the game being as popular as it was their attention was on me, my opponent, and the game. The guy kept whining every time I'd foot sweep him, until finally I said, loudly, 'stop being such a baby'. With that I did a quick motion with the joystick and buttons and with a quick puff of smoke Liu Kang was turned into a crying baby. The crowd erupted as if a major game-winning touchdown had been scored. I was so full of myself that I didn't care at that point, sliding my designer sunglasses down over my eyes and lighting a cigarette in one cool, smooth motion. Everything seemed to be in slow motion with cool music playing (in my head) as I walked out of the arcade feeling like the entire thing was a cool movie scene. It was right at that moment that one of the cute Hispanic girls casually pointed out that I had lit the wrong end of the cigarette.
My most prominent Arcade memory is a grade school field trip where my class went to a water park and we were given free time to just go around the park in our own little groups. When we took a break from swimming, me and three other classmates went into their Arcade and fully played through and beat both the Simpsons Arcade game and Turtles in Time back to back.
I have assorted memories of when I played MKII, MKIII and MKIII Ultimate, X-men vs. Street Fighter, and some SNK fighters at local arcades, and railshooters like House of the Dead and that Time series at Casino arcades before I was old enough to gamble, but nothing quite as vivid as that one.