Arcade Experiences?
 

Forgive me if I spelt something wrong in the title. My spell check is on the fritz.

Yesterday I went with a few friends to a cosplay meetup, and eventually we ran into the city to the local arcade. I had been in arcades before, but I don't really play their games. That day was an exception. I got my first experience of Trekken VS (Number 6, I believe) and kicked some ass on it until some Asian guy came on and beat the crap out of me. :( I'm hoping to go back again and redeem myself when I finish my exams or something of the like since I'm just hyped about that arcade now.

So...did any of you cr-a-zy folks go to arcades? Still go? Love them? Hate them?

Voltron is a big arcade player. He still holds the #1 position on the Virtual On machine on the boardwalk he goes to. It's been there for years. So awesome.

Wow. Now that's just epic.

There are no actual arcades in this area anymore v.v The closest one is in a nearby suburb, and other than a couple of DDR machines, their newest game is Area 51.

There are a few arcades within driving distance for me, so I still go a couple times a month or so.

When I was, what, 12, I beat Gauntlet with some dudes I didn't know. Then some jackass "accidentally" skipped over our sweet free "I BEAT GAUNTLET" t-shirt code.

I think I posted about it here afterwards.

I've had some really epic arcade moments, mostly revolving around 4-player co-op games. Captain America and the Avengers was a really fun one for my friends and I, as was one of the Dungeons & Dragons games. I think it was Tower of Doom or something like that. We had those Dragon Slayer hi-scores up on there for a long time.

All the arcades around here are dead now, though. The only one close to me is this one in a mall, but it's Asian territory, and whenever I and my Lenny Kravits looking friend go in there we get the evil eye until we leave.

I still hold that, and I believe in Mocap boxing AND TMNT the Arcade game. I think I hold 1st rank on Fightmania, too. I'm top 5 in Marvel vs. Capcom, first two House of the Deads, and the Star Wars Trilogy. I have a tricked out Corvette in Fast and the Furious, and am getting better at claw machines with every go.

As much as you guys are console gamers, I hit the arcades. I just love the experience. If I stay away from them too long, I actually go into my backyard and club gophers with a mallet.

My fondest arcade experience was in 8th grade. My school went to Hershey Park, and I lodged up in an arcade with the Star Wars Trilogy. I beat Vader's ass with half of my school watching me.

When I clubbed Vader's face in with my light saber? You could almost hear the girls thinking "That is one boy I will never date, EVER." Then, they used their psychic powers to upload it into the female collective hive mind, and now it's common knowledge what I do with my free time.

I used to go to play DDR, but I haven't been in a while. My favorite arcade game now is crazy taxi, I'm kind of good at it and I get better each time I play.

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I'm at the point in my life where I pretty much don't have the desire to ever go to an arcade again. I can't play fighting games worth crap on an arcade stick and I guess I just can't get over the futility of pouring so much money into a machine in order to beat a game that really only requires money in order to beat it in some cases. My local arcade actually has a section in back of free play games, but without any sort of limitation on the playing, most of the are completely pointless. I think the only arcade games that mildly interest me at this point are light gun stuff like Time Crisis.

So, wait. . .

You don't like putting money into the machine, but you don't see a point in playing without having some limitation like money?


MIIIIIIND F*CK! :o

Man, there's almost no arcades in WV, VA or MD. Back in the day I wouldn't quit playin TMNT II, The Simpsons, or Tekken. I guess they're dying because of how good videogames are on the consoles now. Any other theories?

Yeah, I know, right?

Arcades are so much fun. The only decent arcade around me anymore is Dave & Buster's. But a few weeks ago I went to Cedar Point in Sandusky, OH and they had a ton of arcades that were just raw. My friend and I spent a few dollars playing the old X-Men game, that had two screens and like 6 joysticks. They had all of the old classics, Space Invaders, Donkey Kong, Galaga, etc. and some new stuff like House of the Dead 4.

But yeah, I think I might have to go to Dave & Buster's sometime soon.