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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)

submitted 4 months ago by SorosFootSoldier@hexbear.net to c/games@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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[–] HiImThomasPynchon@hexbear.net 12 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Shadows over Mystara and The Simpsons game in the lobby at the theater downtown.

Popped a couple quarters into Arm Champs 2 at lazer tag and accidentally picked the hardest opponent. I held out long enough that other kids wouldn't let me lose, so like 5 of us together beat it.

Went to Texas on vacation and absolutely annihilated the high score board on a Star Wars: Phantom Menace pinball machine.

[–] SorosFootSoldier@hexbear.net 6 points 4 months ago

Shadows over Mystara

This is now my favorite arcade game thanks to discovering it via emulation. We didn't have a machine of it around here or I know I would have fell in love with it as a kid.