Share you most memorable arcade stories

[Hikari.EXE]

Yes, in House of The Dead case, co-op throw you more enemies to shoot and bosses' health that you need to deplete before they can hit you is increased somewhere between 50% to 70%, in some cases the amount of projectiles they shoot increased too.


Maybe it's because the shotgun in 3 feels heavy for me and it impacted my aiming, another is I feel the camera work during Sloth battle makes you feel like it's weakpoint is always out of range to the top screen most of the time. But yeah it's the most bs indeed, Fortune too.

Fortune is fiiiiine. I watched a "perfect" 1cc playthrough of the 3rd game, and even the player struggled with Fortune, but he didn't die! Just cheesed the wheel mechanic to always get an easy pattern to fight against.

 

[CardcaptorEd2019]

There was this one arcade that I discovered the same day that I had to go to an event for school(college). I was wearing dress clothes when I went to this arcade and I played various arcade games. The two I played the most that day was this one game called Rastan and an Initial D Arcade Stage Version 3. Rastan was a fun game to play. I'd never played an Initial D game before and man,it was exhilarating. The farthest I got was the stage with Mako Sato/Sayuki and the song that played in that stage has got to be my favorite from the game. Partly because of all my attempts trying to beat it and also it being a really good song.

I haven't been to that arcade in a while. The last time I went they got a different Initial D arcade game and it usually has people playing it. I did enjoy playing a rhythm game that they added that had an insane number of songs on it. That was fun.

 

[groundbeef]

In New Jersey on the Boardwalk in another lifetime (feels like it) I used to play Sky Shark competitively with a guy from Canada named Marcello. We dumped probably 100 dollars worth of quarters into that machine in a weeks time. I ended up taking a break to play 1942 or Hat Trick every now and then. Almost didn't bother seeing the rest of the Wildwood because of it. Drank a ton of Sunkist soda and shot up the pixel skies in that Toaplan gem.

 

[Deean]

Just like you,i spend more time on console rental instead of arcade.

So mine was,playing for 2 hours(?) hunting the egg in Rumble Racing.
Also creating silly looking wrestlers in Here Comes the Pain(because me and my friend don't have a memory card at that time,we must create it everytime we play the game).

My only memorable arcade memory was just playing some motocross game with my dad.

 

[prnzo x BOOZE-o ka-BEER-o]

In New Jersey on the Boardwalk in another lifetime (feels like it) I used to play Sky Shark competitively with a guy from Canada named Marcello. We dumped probably 100 dollars worth of quarters into that machine in a weeks time. I ended up taking a break to play 1942 or Hat Trick every now and then. Almost didn't bother seeing the rest of the Wildwood because of it. Drank a ton of Sunkist soda and shot up the pixel skies in that Toaplan gem.

I posted in this thread about one of my Wildwood experiences on page 1... lemme see if I can link or copy it here...

Edit: here ya go (I apologize if you already saw it lol ^_^)

growin up in South Jerzee - the 2 baddest-ass local arcades were one in this super-dim-lighted bowLing aLLey n the one at the Berlin Auction's interior part which had me runnin back n forth in a trianguLar nexus between the arcade, the PC/archaic computer store with bargain-bins with a veritable ubiquity of floppy-disk games, n the comic book shop which had stacks of rare comics in hills that could've avalanche-piled across the main walkway...

n the Wildwood boardwalk arcade. spent about 5 min at the crappy beach n the rest of the cumulatively-numerous hours in its massive, labyrinthine arcade... only leaving it to grab more quarters or any change that could add up to increments of 25 cents. the loudest cabinet was by far Punch-Out! ..."LEFT! LEFT! BODY BLOW! BODY BLOW!"

 

[TheWanderer]

he main Asuka

Oh dang Asuka mains they had to do use dirty

 

[prnzo x BOOZE-o ka-BEER-o]

Oh dang Asuka mains they had to do use dirty

I main Asuka in 8 (as well as Raven n King)... never main'd her in any other Tekken tiLL now

 

[TheWanderer]

I main Asuka in 8 (as well as Raven n King)... never main'd her in any other Tekken tiLL now

While I do respect the King and Raven ,but I'm not gonna respect you Asuka mains

 

[prnzo x BOOZE-o ka-BEER-o]

While I do respect the King and Raven ,but I'm not gonna respect you Asuka mains
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fair nuFF

I won't pick Asuka against you then...

...unless you make it *personaL* xD

 

[GuyZero32k4]

From 1996 to 1999 there was an arcade called CyberZone in my city, opposite side of town for me. But I'd go every time I was off, it was 20 miles away from home. But the sheer amount of games there was amazing. The owner made it a point to get huge 60" cabinets for big name release games. Met KOF 96 the first time there, fell in love with it. Tried SF Alpha 2 the week it came out there. Played Street Fighter III there first, no other arcade here had gotten New Generation at the time. Same with Virtua Fighter 3, no other arcade had gotten it. My friends and I got to know the owner Jason pretty well. He was making bank, it was ALWAYS crowded, even during the week. So much so, that a new release deluxe cab would be payed off in weeks, he commented to us. The first month after release, there was a Wargods tourny, cashprize of $5000. (which he put up with his own money) I was tring to play but kept looking over my shoulder at the VF3 cabniet wiuth the large crowd around it, be in awe of the graphics.

Ultimate, one time he had over night lock in, with ALL the games set on free play. EVERY GAME, even big ass games like Gunblade NY. It was an over packed house, but everyone behaved, had fun; the 2 cops he'd gotten for event got easy money as no body acted up.
One time during my birthday, Jason set the cabniet I'd go to, on freeplay for me.

Jason's investors got greedy, as they did a rug pull on him and took the arcade from him and fired him. He was making them back thier money and THEN some he'd later tell us. With him gone, bisness went down big time, no new releases, though the new staff was friendly, it just wasn't the same. Without his smart managment, the arcade closed a year later. We were all crushed.

I'm not gonna lie, I cried like a bitch when it closed. I'm being completely honest, if I'm dying, being tortured, or whatever, CyberZone 1996 is my happy place.

 

[Kamako]

Completing Superman The Arcade Game with a girl I met on holiday when were both like 14-15 years old.

Completing House of the Dead 4 with my brother

 

[Samatonic]

fair nuFF

I won't pick Asuka against you then...

...unless you make it *personaL* xD

Room for one more ?

My arcade story would be playing this on weekends at the arcade.

 

[prnzo x BOOZE-o ka-BEER-o]

Room for one more ?

My arcade story would be playing this on weekends at the arcade.

I'd main Hwaorang but too many players complain of him lol wouLd rather main underdogs as a general rule or tendency

cool KOF '97 was where I first started practicing the short-hops after some tips of higher-lvl play xD on some ruFFian rushdown shit