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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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[-] lemmyseizethemeans@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 4 months ago

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

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

The first unit I saw had a second monitor mounted on top so people could watch the gameplay from afar.

[-] lemmyseizethemeans@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 4 months ago

Yep. I really thought those were the graphics at first. Funny how now that kind of graphics almost seems trivial

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