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Tabletop, DnD, board games, and minecraft. Also Animal Crossing.

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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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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

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