Remember when Arcades were scary?

[jadillac]

Y'all nikkas was hanging out in the arcade from ninja turtles

my first thought. lol

 

[Harry Sax]

There was one I used to go to all the time called mr arcade...6 dollars u play all day long...me n my lil crew put in a lot of hrs in that bytch...eventually they started selling and renting games, then took all the arcade games out, then shut down

I remember there was this fat cac whose stomach drooped lower than his balls when he sat down...he used to murder EVERYBODY on mortal kombat

 

[notPsychosiz]

A lot of arcade environments were low key drug/gun dealing spots. nikkas getting yoked up by their collar for winning in the game too much. Plus, hitting the arcade game like Tupac in Juice out of frustration

Yeah, thats cause those spots were doing other things not focused on the arcade business.
You couldn't go to a legit top level arcade out here in LA back then and just dominate cause they had people like me on the payroll to make you waste quarters.

I spent so many quarters on Rival Schools when I was a kid before the dude that kept beating me put me up on game. Cause I was like 13...14 just bleeding money 25 cent at a time. Finally dude was like
Then like 5 years later I was that dude. But it was a scummy job. Had to get outta there so I could enjoy gaming again.

 

[Just like bruddas]

That arcade in downtown Newark @ThiefyPoo @Willstyles

on market street... so much fukkery. Dont even get me started about the spot in irvington on Springfield ave back in the early 90s.

 

[BamdaDon]

I legit feel sorry for you nikkas I always had some form of a dave and busters to go too. The worst person in their was probably me and my cousin trying to get over.

Pressing that refund button and checking the coin return slots for left behind quarters. I'd be like everytime I came up.

Hitting the workers with the machine took my money lie.

Paying for one round of golf but not letting it go in the hole on the 18th so I could play again for free .

 

[JAY?]

Around my way all the bodegas and laundrymats had arcades and that's where we'd play. Street fighter was the shyt. Mortal Kombat rocked out for a few. Then there was the 4 player games. NBA jam, wwf, ninja turtles, Sunset riders

 

[Kaydigi]

throw a dude in street fighter on the flatbush junction... see what happens next.

 

[ℒℴѵℯJay ELECTUA]

killing me with the memories.

 

[Ku$h Parker]

NY arcades were some goon infested locations. You had to have your crew with you and you better not get change for any bill bigger than a 5. You could actually get swung on in real life for beating cats up in Video Games. I almost got in fights over hitting cats with fatalities in Mortal Kombat

 

[~*--------(Big Boom)]

throw a dude in street fighter on the flatbush junction... see what happens next.

Huh ?!

 

[~*--------(Big Boom)]

RIP Funtime USA and Sportsworld by the way

 

[Kaydigi]

Huh ?!

you would get stabbed or jumped if threw a dude.... brooklyn is no joke.

 

[Thatrogueassdiaz]

I got punked by some white kid at the arcade when I was about 10 years old. I wanted to play dude in MK2, but after I put my quarter in, dude was like you better not hit start I just looked at him like I left the arcade 10 minutes later, with my quarter still sitting on the mk2 dashboard

 

[Flychologist]

shyt was real back then. Some cats would take getting hit with a fatality as the ultimate disrespect, especially if it was a hard one to pull off or one cats hadn't really seen before.

 

[num123]

Only bad incident I can remember is being 11 and having some grown man tell me he was going to kill me after I beat him with no damage on Tekken 2. Luckly some other people made him fall back and leave.