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Question 30: Most memorable arcade experience?
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Apr 10, 2009 2:40 AM
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Some of you may be too young to have such a thing, but odds are the vast majority of us have SOME kind of crazy/dirty/embarrassing/compromising story relating to arcades.
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Re: Question 30: Most memorable arcade experience?
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Apr 10, 2009 2:49 AM
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Playing Galaga on a cruise. I really had nothing else to do so I resigned myself to the one arcade game on deck. Basically, the routine was
1) Room service dinner
2) Refill unlimited drink mug with coffee
3) Play until 3 in the morning.
It's interesting how obsessed I got with one machine when I had no other distractions. These days, I'll play a much more complex game for like, 3 hours and never touch it again.
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Re: Question 30: Most memorable arcade experience?
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Apr 10, 2009 2:51 AM
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I got called a slut, because I beat someone with Christie Monteiro (Eddy Gordo clone) in Tekken 4. Other then that I have had a pretty good run with arcades.
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Re: Question 30: Most memorable arcade experience?
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Apr 10, 2009 3:22 AM
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One summer I was on a family trip to Florida when we stopped at a restaurant that had a Ninja Gaiden arcade machine. After eating, my grandpa game me a quarter to play, and he stood behind me and watched while I played. Everything was going fine until I lost all of my lives and reached the game over screen.
My grandpa is fairly conservative, so needless to say, the sight of a buzzsaw slowly descending onto a writhing ninja got him a little upset. Once he saw the screen, he started yelling to speak with the restaurant manager.
The manager came into the arcade room, where my grandpa yelled at him for a solid ten minutes for allowing such a game in his establishment.
Even though I was fairly young, I got really embarrassed. I never mention the story to my grandpa, but my immediate family and I still talk about it.
Here is a link to the ending in case you haven't seen it:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Q7xFKtRj5g
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Re: Question 30: Most memorable arcade experience?
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Apr 10, 2009 3:24 AM
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I can't remember going to any "real" arcades, but I think my story might count.
So we were down in Nashville for something (I can't remember, but I think we went to see a Preds game with some friends), and one day we went to Dave & Busters. And it had this one game machine, where it has this huge wheel, where there are slices in it, and lights to show which one you land on. Basically, the light spins around, until you press the button, and it gives you the tickets shown on the wheel. It has different totals, such as 20, 40, 80, and 1000 (from what I can remember). Now, this game uses a level and a big button to control it. I decided to try it out, so I approached it, scanned my points card, and pulled the lever to start the game. The light spins around and around, passing and lighting up the bulbs as they're passed. I hit the button, I land on 40. I try again, 20. I keep playing for a few minutes, and eventually, I land on the 1,000 slice. Of course, I'm happy, I've just won 1,000 credits. However, about 200 in (Note, the tickets were each worth two credits, thus only handing me 500 actual tickets), the machine stops printing (I guess you could call it that). Turns out, it needed more tickets, so I went and got an employee, and he refilled it. After that, it finished giving me my tickets, and I went a played some more games.
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Re: Question 30: Most memorable arcade experience?
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Apr 10, 2009 4:07 AM
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Playing four player Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and beating the game. It was the first and probably only time I ever beat an arcade game. There were a bunch of us at Challenges arcade for someone's birthday. Probably yours.
Or maybe seeing Street Fighter 2 at S.I. Bowl for the first time. I didn't actually play it, but I remember watching you playing the game as Blanka. I'd never seen anything like it before.
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Re: Question 30: Most memorable arcade experience?
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Apr 10, 2009 4:14 AM
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Almost beating House of the Dead while dual-wielding light guns.
Also, playing Metal Slug 3 for the first time and fighting the Giant Enemy Crab, my 8 year old mind was blown.
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Re: Question 30: Most memorable arcade experience?
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Apr 10, 2009 4:18 AM
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I was playing Capcom Vs SNK 2 and this one guy just woudn't stop challenging me, despite me beating the crap out of him multiple times. He'd lose repeatedly and keep cursing that the moves he's inputing aren't happening. After around the tenth time losing to me, the guy starts getting sweaty and flushed. I thought he was getting pissed. Then it happened: He tries keying Akuma's Raging Demon so hard that I hear a sloppy fart sound. He still has one character left and he quietly walks away from the machine slightly redder than he was just moments before. Then, like a dirty bomb with a timer, the nastiest smell ever in the history of American arcades chokes my senses. I then spend the next few minutes walking away, laughing and trying not to vomit, with a few others telling them about the guy that tried doing a Raging Demon and instead performed a Raging Shart.
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Re: Question 30: Most memorable arcade experience?
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Apr 10, 2009 4:26 AM
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When i was around 6 or so, my parents took me to a theme park (i lived in south florida at the time).. anyway.. I remember having the absolutely worst time, Until... i found the arcade.
I played a few rounds in Street Fighter 2, and Turbo Outrun.
It was incredibly fun, until my parents ran out of quarters, and i had to leave.
Good times
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Re: Question 30: Most memorable arcade experience?
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Apr 10, 2009 4:35 AM
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I once played Marvel vs Capcom 2 for about two hours straight, using approximately $3 worth of quarters in that entire time.
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Re: Question 30: Most memorable arcade experience?
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Apr 10, 2009 4:37 AM
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At some store they were selling some arcade game (don't know what it was but it was awesome) and it was turned on and you could play it in the store. I played for an hour in that store, finally the manager came up to me and told me if I'm not going to buy anything then just get out!
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Re: Question 30: Most memorable arcade experience?
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Apr 10, 2009 4:44 AM
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Wel, there's a local pizza place near where my dad used to work, and when I was a little kid I would go there with him whenever we picked up pizza. They didn't let you order ahead (for some reason) so we would wait in the lobby thing. In the lobby they had a Mrs. Pac-Man and a really bad arcade-y racing game. I spent hours upon hours playing that game. The place had good pizza and FREE LOLLY POPS. That place was awesome, whenever I go back I'm struck by how bad the racing game was and how expensive the pizza was.
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Re: Question 30: Most memorable arcade experience?
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Apr 10, 2009 5:06 AM
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Similar to Kreativeassassins post, my most memorable experience is spending about 10 bucks with some friends beating the Simpsons beat-em-up arcade game at the local pizza shop. It was the first game of that type we ever beat completely (after getting totally raped in the X-Men themed beat-em-up) so it was a pretty big deal at the time
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Re: Question 30: Most memorable arcade experience?
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When I was 12 or 13, Circle Center Mall opened in Indianapolis and I made my dad drive me 60 miles to go to the new gaming center on it's top floor, Virtual World. you had to go in and schedule a time at a front desk, when you went into the gaming room you were shown to a "pod". The pod was a self-contained cockpit and was awesome:
Each one of the orange and yellow buttons altered your ammo, defenses, com channel, everything - 80 buttons worth! And this was in the mid '90's. the only 2 websites that even mentioned this stuff was an old tripod.com site http://members.tripod.com/kangarookoncepts/VWEpix.htm and http://www.virtualworld.com - the company site.
They only had 2 games that you could play in these things Battletech, and Red Planet - a racing / destruction derby / hoverspeeder game that took place on mars.
The graphics were astounding by '90's standards and the room sounded like a server farm. But that was the most amazing thing that I have ever seen.
I believe that the SciFi channel showed an infomercial for them for like a week straight too.
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Re: Question 30: Most memorable arcade experience?
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Apr 10, 2009 6:04 AM
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Mine would be the time I went to this skate place because I was forced to . . . anyways there was an arcade there. I had enough coins to beat time Crisis 3 and it felt good.
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Re: Question 30: Most memorable arcade experience?
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Apr 10, 2009 6:17 AM
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Running up a 75 match winning streak in Street Fighter Alpha 3, letting my opponents select my characters for me.
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Re: Question 30: Most memorable arcade experience?
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A good friend of mine had his bachelor party at Dave & Buster's, in case you don't know it's a huge arcade with a bar in the middle (genius). Spent most of the time playing the skeeball horse racing game and hitting on the attendant, who latter turned out to be 16, whoops!
Funniest of all I got into some Star Wars game, you know rideable racing something kind, I can't remember which cause of the drinking. Well, as soon as it game started the damn thing started bucking like a mad bull, I spent the next 8 seconds holding on for dear life, spilling my drink, nearly tossing my cookies and the whole thing ended with the blue screen of death and completely shut down ALL of the arcade machines in D&Bs. Needless to say, I wasn't very popular there after that.
So we used our tickets to buy some T-Rex reach extender toys and spent the ride home using them to chew on the drivers ears and barking at passing cars out the window. Ahhh, alcohol.
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Re: Question 30: Most memorable arcade experience?
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Apr 10, 2009 1:20 PM
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The only arcade experiences I can remember besides competing in SFII Hyper Tourneys is that it makes me remember my grandpa... My grandfather passed about 4 years ago now on April 1st (April Fool's day...kinda fitting for my Grandpa). Anyway, when my brother and I were very young, my parents split up so I used to spend a lot of time with my grandparents.
While we would visit with my grandparents, they would take my brother and I to the arcade in the local mall...this was back when arcades were popular (late 80s-early 90s) So my grandparents would tool around the arcade while me and my brother kicked the crap out of people playing Mortal Kombat/Street Fighter II and anything else. We'd even get my grandpa to play the motorcylce games (the ones where you ride the 'bike').
It just makes me smile, ya know... I think its one of the reasons why I feel so happy when I go to Dave and Buster's...reminds me of those good times.
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Re: Question 30: Most memorable arcade experience?
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It's not really crazy/dirty/embarrassing/compromising, but I was in Tokyo about 10 months ago (back when the pound was worth something), and was in a mall and got separated from my friends in a McDonalds of all places, so I went looking around and ended up in a really loud, massive arcade with flashing lights thronging with people, which was was a complete culture shock for me, as round where I live you get Time Crisis 1 and Sega Rally lying around in a corner of the bowling alley if you're lucky.
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Re: Question 30: Most memorable arcade experience?
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I was on vacation and in a mall we stopped at there was every time crises lined up(One through three). Instead of seeing a movie with my family i staid outside and finished each one for three hours strait.
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