Was The Arcade Scene Dangerous Back In The Day?

[manyfaces]

all the Detroit memories in here brehs

I remember playing X Men: Children of the Atom for the first time at Mammoth on Grand River & Greenfield while i was getting airbrushed t-shirt...the shyt felt like the future....


then i saw this nikka Cyclops..........BEHOLD!!!!!!!!!!!!!


*MEGA OPTIC BLAST!!!!!!!!!!!!!*

at Mammoth. The one stop shop for everything. You can get a mixtape at the front, your sounds put in in the back, and a Tupac, Biggie and MLK t-shirt while you wait. Great place to get your winter shyt too.

 

[Kimo_bud]

street fighter, double dragon, bubble bobble, rasputin were the shyt back in the days

 

[Woodrow]

Any jersey city heads remember Hudson mall?

 

[daze23]

bubble bobble

that game was dope for 2 players. they used to have it at this movie theater by me. me and my homie had all these slugs (washers the size of quarters), and we were pumping them in. we actually beat the game. then the dude came to get the money from the machines. he saw all those slugs in there and hit us with the

we were just like

 

[DeVanteSwing]

arcades still exist. support your local arcade.

 

[The Bilingual Gringo]

Probably one of the greatest threads I've seen.

I loved going to the local spots back in the day. Northern VA heads may remember, but there was Tilt at Tyson's Corner where it was real ill for competition for SFII and MKII and then other local spots in the area.

I miss those days, loved the pressure of actually having to perform face to face and then possible in front of others watching. Home systems have added that anonymity to everything, kind of ruined kids socially. Saw the occasional fight, but only if cats were playing dirty, never that dangerous.

Besides, where else could parents take their kids and leave them for hours for $10 or $20?

 

[Swiggy]

To be such a shytty mall, it had one of the better arcades around the city, and a great food court too. Remember it was one of the first to have MvC2 and when I first tried it I straight got handled by a nikka using Cable. I was a beast on the original but I didn't know wtf I was doing when I got on that shyt. I don't even think I really got a chance to move.

I also remember getting caught in one of those endless ultra combos playing Killer Instinct for the first time at the Super K in Dearborne near Fairlane. I would always jump on if I saw something new. Wouldn't really care about getting my ass beat, cause I knew once I got a chance to learn it I would be a beast.

Bet, that food court was the business. I remember taking breaks from dishing out/taking ass whuppins at the table, throwing down some french fries, then standing up with 8 quarters to get back to the battles

Wonderland was only good for the arcade and food court, and that's about it. Dawg, Westland had a little spot like Southland's arcade. I put in more work at the Southland one, tho.

LMAO at all of us going to someplace random, and seeing our favorite arcade machine at the time there. Like a movie theater, 7-11 (In and Out for my Detroit nikkas), or a pizza joint.

We'd react like "Oh, you followed me here, nicca?"

 

[THASTUNNA]

Mannnnn what you know bout that Super Track!

Its a damn parking lot now. I have to pass by it everyday coming to work.

 

[Whitty Hutton]

Anybody from the Bmore area used to hit up Crazy John's? They were and arcade and pizza joint that had two spots on Baltimore St. One by the Baltimore Arena and another one on the block with the strip clubs and peep shows lol. They shut the one by the arena down I think, nikkas got shot a couple times. The other one is still there, but i know it aint popping like back in the day. We be in there playing X-Men and Street Fighter, then come out to a block full of hoes, perverts and neon XXX signs. Now that I think about, I'm not sure it was the best idea to be touching all those joysticks and buttons in that place

 

[tru_m.a.c]

I remember back in the day at The Arcade at Kennywood Park in Pittsburgh. Everyone was on the "X-Men" Arcade Game. We would play it, and watch each other play it, for hours it seems. When the fighting games came in though, people were Soccer Hooligans on that shyt. I remember my boy beat this dude at "Mortal Kombat II" and the dude that lost felt so disrespected afterwards because he was finished with a Babality the security guards had to stop a brawl from breaking out.

nikka babalities and friendships were the ultimate signs of disrespect

they were the equivalents of

 

[StarClout]

This topic is powerful stuff brehs. Brings back memories.

I live in a small town in Ohio. We had a few spots and suprisingly they had most of the new stuff. The local mall had a Killer Instinct machine over by the toy stores and the arcade over by the entrance had stuff like MK games, SF3, etc. The skating rink was where stuff got gully. They had UMK3 and MK4. I remember I was playing my friend in MK4 and hit dude with the Prison Fan stage fatal and dude left before the end of the fatality never saw any fights tho, we left it all at the machine. Friends I met through arcade/fighters I am still cool with to this very day

Arcades meant a lot to me personally, cause you had to come correct and you couldn't talk shyt over a mic. I have 3 arcade stick controllers for the PS3 for when I play fighting games on the PS3 or on MAME. 1 Marvel vs Capcom TE Stick, 1 WWE Brawl Stick modded with Sanwa stick and buttons, and a Mortal Kombat "Klassic" stick.

I'll take pics of them when I get home from class

 

[chineebai]

Anyone from NYC would know this, Chinatown Fair. The best damn arcade store in the city for like 20 years.

 

[valet]

I almost threw hands with this white kid who kept doing M.Bison's Psycho Crusher all the gotdamned time... and won

The worse scenes as a kid was Chuck E. Cheese (Showbiz for OG nikkas) or Little Caesar's Family Fun Pizzeria. You got all these kids there gassed up cuz it's they birthday, walkin around like all the shyt's theirs. My homie and I almost stomped some nikkas out for talking wreckless on Cruisin' USA

Butterflys was my spot

 

[valet]

Co-sign this...In Detroit the Arcades might have been the first dope trap houses. I remember wayyyyyyy back in the days cats used to come into the arcade with the big ass radios and shyt. It was like a party spot and they would be mad territorial. Rival gangs better NOT be seen in the local arcade. I remember several spots getting shut down over shootings, stabbings, robberies etc...but them still were the days

I remember this spot on E Eight Mile. Can't remember the name but it was kinda small. I remember they use to have Asian girls up there though.

 

[CoolazzFemale]

Arcades back in the day were ruthless, especially as a female kicking nikkaz ass in Mortal Kombat.

Remember when the game first dropped and the arcade I went to gave you a time limit of 15 minutes for all brand new released games.

One white boy went over his time and there were like 10-15 dudes who damn near stomped his ass out like .

What I would give to go back to those arcade days.

*makes plans to go to local arcade this weekend*