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.

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[-] Des@hexbear.net 7 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

golden axe. only arcade game i ever played to the end.

i had a stack of quarters and other kids jumped in for co-op until one who was decent enough i just funded him until we beat it

went to a birthday or two where the parents rented one of those "free arcade rooms" where you got pizza and unlimited plays on like 20 cabinets

i really do think we need some kind of third space for social gaming again. obviously not designed to just rob you of money

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