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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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[-] Beaver@hexbear.net 4 points 4 months ago

Doing some deranged digital violence on the Mortal Kombat 3 cabinet at the Pizza Hut is a favorite memory of mine. The experience was, of course, made much worse by capitalism; those things were just designed to devour your allowance money. I think what I liked most about it was just that it was a third place where you could have fun with other people, and I was a lonely kid who craved that.

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