I used to LIVE at the arcade! I played most of the games in this show... Though I am a little younger. The games I enjoyed were Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Street Fighter... Around that era.
What was your favorite video game as a kid?
Oh yes! I remember them greatly, and I will never let go of those memories. Some of the really popular ones from my era were Street Fighter II, Mortal Kombat 1+2, After Burner, N.A.R.C., and Golden Axe. I even go a little further back and remember being really little watching people play Gallaga, Pac-man, Donkey Kong, Q-bert, among many others showed in this film, but I never played these classics until much later.
Arcades were such a great way for kids to get together and mingle. Games were thought to be just for children back then. Much different now, and probably well over 50% of gamers are adults.
When consoles like Nintendo and Sega came out, arcades still flourished because they provided much better graphics and sound. Eventually consoles became too powerful, and the lucrative business of arcades were no more. They are still around, but attached to other businesses like bowling alleys, bars, and restaurants.
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I miss them too. I was a 90s teen so I was always hitting the fighting games. Tekken was my fave. I always had a competition at the arcade with other people that would try to beat me. Those were the days
Yep, I grew up in the 80s! :D
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Too many to name. Anything by Sega (I hated Nintendo).
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I enjoyed them in their day. But, things have evolved and they no longer really work in our society. At that time, if I COULD HAVE had lots of video games inside my house to play for free whenever I wanted, I would have. Got the Atari and bought carts to imitate the fun, but of course, the social aspect was not on the proper scale. You invite friends over, play some games, eat some pizza, but you don't meet any new girls inside my house.....
Which brings up the next point: procreation. ARCADES probably lead to very little procreation. Maybe some here and there, but not enough to make it a permanent SOCIAL EVENT like drinking and bars are now. Those last forever because they are an integral part of forwarding societies populous. It's the watering hole of any current society: meet your mate, procreate.
I doubt Arcades would have lasted as long as they did if kids were pairing up and making babies. Parents would shut them down so fast!
Anyway, there's still a few nostalgic based places in my area that are fantastic! Small, but have the old games, and food, and drinks. This will live on this way, like Vinyl records: niche, but fun and supported by some.
Oh, loved this movie too. And Wreck It Ralph.
I miss the arcades but I don't miss the games that cost a dollar 50 etc. Around the mid 90s it seems like games cost a fortune. :(
shareI have 4 arcade machines (Super Punch-Out, Missile Command, Ikari Warriors, and Street Fighter II), along with about ten arcade boardsets (original Punch-Out which can be swapped into my Super Punch-Out machine, Double Dragon which can be swapped into my Street Fighter II machine, and several other rotary joystick games that can be swapped into my Ikari Warriors machine), so that's good enough for me.
The only thing I miss about arcades is competing with others for the high score, and direct one-on-one competition in fighting games like Street Fighter II and Mortal Kombat. In '87 and '88 when I was 12 and 13, I competed with a kid who was a year older than me for the high score on Super Punch-Out at the local general store that we all hung out at after school. That was a lot of fun. That became my all-time favorite arcade game, and it was the first arcade game I ever bought (back in 2005).
I was in elementary school/middle school when they became really big in the early 80's. I loved to go there. I dropped out, however, really quickly. When the first generation games were tapering off and the next generation games started coming out 85'ish and later, I just had no interest in the games.
Other than Super Tecmo Bowl and Super Mario Bros. on Nintendo, I pretty much stopped playing video games.
I loved arcades with the first wave of games; Missile Command, Tempest, Pac-Man, Frogger, Asteroids, Space Invaders, Centipede, Defender, Donkey Kong, Galaxia...etc.
When the newer games started coming out they just never interested me.
I loved the way the arcades made me feel when I was a little kid. It is nostalgic but if there were still arcades now I wouldn't really enjoy going there, I've outgrown it....other than just taking a walk down memory lane.