Playing at home doesn’t count!

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    Dance Dance Revolution. I spent 5+ hours playing/watching/shadowing with my best friend at the local ice cream parlor for a year-ish. The time I spent made our friendship even stronger, was foundational for my love of exercise, and kept me from doing dumb shit like getting addicted to pills.

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    Hydro Thunder!

    Arcade jet-fuel boat racing game with a bunch of crazy environments and shortcuts. All the machines seemed to have really overturned motors (or whatever made the seats shake) and it was awesome.

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    The Simpsons, because my dad spent ten bucks on it with me at the local bowling alley just to humor me

    Killer Instinct, because I’d drive to Carowinds every other weekend as a teenager to play it and ride roller coasters. It had Ultra 64 technology and a slick combo system that actually clicked with me

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    Missile Command, classic cold war cope: make a game out of nuclear annihilation! Panic slapping the big ball trying to move the cursor. I don’t even want to think about how many germs lived on that ball.

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    Mortal Kombat. Fucking love that game. I used to work at an arcade in a mall, and after close I’d hang out and play for free in the dark all by myself.

    One night I was playing, again, by myself in a dark arcade with just a row of games on, in a dark empty mall. I was playing Liu Kang and had just beat the shit out of and fatalitied Kano on the bridge.

    I’m expecting to go to the next level, instead this green ninja looking like Scorpion and Sub-Zero that I had never seen before drops into the screen. I had no knowledge of Reptile being hidden in the game, and it scared the ever loving shit out of me. My heart was racing, adrenaline pumping, and my hands were shaking so bad I got my ass handed to me in the next fight.

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    Time crisis, loved the first game so much in arcades i begged my parents for the ps1 version with the light gun. Never much cared for the sequels but the first games vibes are unmatched

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    Four player Golden Axe, and then the four six player X-Men game that needed 2 screens to display all of the action.

    Of course they were designed to eat the maximum amount of quarters possible, but it was an amazing bonding experience with the boys after a hard afternoon of competitive roller-rinking. That’s all we had back then.

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    Im too young for the real heyday of arcades, but i guess air hockey was the first gameni really got good enough at to beat my parents

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    Joust and Virtual-On

    I think Williams’ games in general really set the stage for the kind of sounds/visuals I like in a game, good crunchy explosions, flashy particle effects, excessive screenshake. Big fuckin’ surprise I grew up to be a fan of Vlambeer lmao.

    Virtual-On is just super unique and had a cool cabinet and its music fucking whips

  • DayOfDoom [any, any]@hexbear.net
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    Playing at home doesn’t count!

    I have nothing to say then. Both in regards to being disqualified from this as well as a protest to your gamer-bigotry.

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      This is about the arcade experience. If it counts emulation play, then there is no real difference between arcade play and just picking up your N64 controller.

  • pooh [she/her, love/loves]@hexbear.net
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    Here are some I remember fondly:

    • The Simpsons
    • TMNT: Turtles in Time
    • X-Men (6 player version)
    • NBA Jam
    • Cadillacs and Dinosaurs
    • Splatterhouse
    • Sengoku (very cool and underrated Neo Geo game)
    • Samurai Showdown