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Arcades


Mar 2018
I've seen a lot of talk on the Horror board and here over the years about how much it sucks that the video stores died out, but the same thing kinda happened to Arcades too, right? I was just thinking about how much time I used to spend in those places. More time than I spent browsing for movies, which is saying a lot.

Anyone used to live in one of those places like I did? What games stick out in your mind? I think it was around 1991, I discovered Street Fighter II at my favorite Arcade, Putt Putt Golf. After that, I started going a lot more. I obviously wasn't alone in my love for Street Fighter II seeing how there was usually a line in front of it. Plus, I remember several ripoff games quickly showing up, like World Heros, Art Of Fighting and of course Mortal Kombat, which broke the Street Fighter II spell pretty quick. I played a lot of different games back then, but the tournament style fighting games is what really made my grades suffer. emoticon


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zed says:
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Mar 2018
yeah back in the early 80's. I remember in my town population ~3,000 in 1979/80 there were 3 or 4 arcades. Total about 35 machines and every single one of them except one was 'space invaders'. I'm not making this up, It was massive, though I didnt really hang out in them until donkey kong, gyruss, stargate came out


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zed says:
#4, Reply to #3

Mar 2018
Not sure if many were clones or not, yes I remember pong, in the mid 70s ppl would bring it back from HK or singapore to NZ the games that you would plug into the TV and play with paddles, yes pac man was big, but no where as big as Space Invaders that literally was the game that started video games as we know them today, until then it was a super small Niche, I wish I could find photo's of that time you wouldnt believe it rows and rows of arcade machines playing the one game 'space invaders'


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