Remember going to arcades back in the day

[Pazzy]

That feeling of walking into an arcade, the smell, checking out to see if the newest game that was in gamepro or electronic gaming monthly came out. Used to get geeked out with mortal kombat and tekken. The arcades were better than the gaming console versions. It didn't capture the same feeling especially with mortal kombat 3 and tekken 3 even.

The best arcade I ever went to had to be in coney island back in the 90s even as unsafe as it was. I remember playing mk3 there, picking Jax and losing. Had a fatality pulled on me in the outerworld or clocktower getting impaled by the spikes at the bottom..

 

[Unknown Poster]

Those were the days.
Whooping peoples asses on SFII, Mortal Kombat, And Tekken 2 & 3.

Buying a CD after the arcade and maybe a dimebag too.

 

[Luke Cage]

my favorite game back then

 

[ORDER_66]

Flushing Main Street!!!!

 

[ndthentherewasx]

The Marvel arcade games were my favorites: X-men, Spiderman, Avengers, then MvC 123


Then the Simpsons one


Ninja Turtles, Sunset Riders, Alien vs Predators, Street Fighter


Then a lot of the shoot em up games


How the fukk do you emulate games?! On a laptop

 

[Doobie Doo]

The best arcade I ever went to had to be in coney island back in the 90s even as unsafe as it was. What happened?

What happened was console systems getting better.

Arcades were a moment in time

 

[Entropy Fan]

The speakers and bass in arcade games were something else.


SF2 was completely different experience then console.

 

[Black_Jesus]

When Tekken Tag 1st dropped in the arcade

 

[Pazzy]

Those were the days.
Whooping peoples asses on SFII, Mortal Kombat, And Tekken 2 & 3.

Buying a CD after the arcade and maybe a dimebag too.

shyt was fun. Used to play against older gamers and losing. They were serious with that shyt. Now theres the whole online shyt which people obviously cheat especially in tekken.

 

[8====D]

Arcades are like shrines now. They're around, but forgotten. It's sad. New brehs will never understand that feel of dim lights with neons everywhere, fresh pizza aroma in the air, kids of all ages competing and building friendships!

House of the Dead!
Virtua Fighter!
Time Crisis!
Double Dragon!
Street Fighter!

Finishing nikkas in MK Getting finished by nikkas in MK

Man man man. . .the times they are a-changin'

 

[Pazzy]

What happened was console systems getting better.

Arcades were a moment in time

Not back in the day. the arcades used to kill the home console version. That made them game developers go extra hard with the home console versions like with tekken 2 and 3. Namco had to go in. Mortal kombat didn't and they ended up having to go back to the drawing board by the end of the 90s.

 

[puppetmaster]

I truly believe I was a top 5 SFII player in the world in the 90’s. I used to torture people in that game with Guile

The arcade experience was special

 

[DatNkkaCutty]

I'd walk up on that MK 2 machine as a 10 year old...grown ass geek nggas at the machine...

Look all of em in the eyes...and lay my quarter down on the machine....


Mom dukes on my side...as my "wingman"...

Talkin her shyt..."Your only getting $1(4 tokens)...you betta make it do ...


"That's all I need.".....


Get up to my turn and run thru those fakkits wit Baraka...


Nggas wasnt fukkin with me...

 

[CreepyMcCreeperson]

I never played video games at arcades. We played skeeball, and the shyt where you hit the gophers on the head etc, and got tickets. I never wanted to save my tickets for the big prizes, so I got the stupid stuff like the little army man with the parachute, and the chinese finger trap. Our "arcade" was on the boardwalk, and was like Dave And Busters without food, and on a smaller scale. They had mini golf on the roof.



My mom never let me go to the real arcade at the mall with the video games. But we did play Pacman at our local pizza spot.



We did have Nintendo NES, and I was emotionally attached to Super Mario Bros 2, and The Simpsons game. Then we got Sega, and I got Sonic The Hedgehog, and Mortal Kombat. I was always Scorpion, and my sister was always Sonya.

 

[010101]

i still hit the floor at new.roc from time to time*