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Anyone in the older gen-x to millennial crowd of hexbear have fond memories of playing a game in the arcades? (hexbear.net)
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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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[–] 8 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

I really liked Burger Time. I felt like it wasn't mind numbingly hard and it was a good value proposition for a quarter. I similarly feel the same way about DigDug.

Spy Hunter was a revelation. But really hard.

Seeing Dragons Lair for the first time was mind boggling. But I sucked at it.

Street Fighter 2 definitely got me going back to the arcade.

Edited to add: look into the MiSTer FPGA project. I've had one for 5 or 6 years and it scratches an itch where most emulation falls short.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Yeah Dragons Lair really dropped jaws. I remember the line to play it. And it cost like 50 cents a game. Crazy

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