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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 1 month ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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] 8 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (4 children)

I really liked Burger Time. I felt like it wasn't mind numbingly hard and it was a good value proposition for a quarter. I similarly feel the same way about DigDug.

Spy Hunter was a revelation. But really hard.

Seeing Dragons Lair for the first time was mind boggling. But I sucked at it.

Street Fighter 2 definitely got me going back to the arcade.

Edited to add: look into the MiSTer FPGA project. I've had one for 5 or 6 years and it scratches an itch where most emulation falls short.

[–] [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

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