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Thread for gamers who actually got somewhere and played a game in an arcade machine.
Do you remember the first game you played on an arcade?
What was your favorite if you tried more than one?
Wanna share memories with us? Cool stories of the moment? Bets, dares and all you can remember about that fateful arcade day!

My first game on an arcade was a fighting game, I don't recall the name, but it looked like "Dead or Alive" but I know it wasn't, trust me.
However the best memories I got where playing Puzzle Bubble. Recently I even got to play the game on an arcade, on a boat, traveling around Madeira Island. That day was spent with my girlfriend and we were have some strong nostalgia. Felt like we were kids again. Magical!

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I'm pretty sure my first was Pac-Man, and I've always appreciated classic Namco arcade games. I've had a lot of good experiences in arcades, honestly. Mario Kart Arcade GP is always fun.
 
Oh fuck yeah, I love the Arcade.

First one was Metal Slug 2 in the arcade of the hotel I stayed in with my family first time we went on holiday. It was unlike anything I'd ever seen up until that point and I'm willing to bet it was really important in shaping my tastes in games.

I really love arcade gaming and it's something I'll genuinely get giddy about when I'm offered to go out to one with a group. Luckily there's a decent Arcade in the retro game shop in my hometown where I'll go to squander a few coins from time to time, and for ticket-prize arcades there's several coastal towns nearby.
 
For a time, I was very big on playing older arcade games through Perfectly Legal Means, but as there are no arcades in my area, I've only went in one twice: at Disnyeland and at a ski ressort.

I played a shitload of Afterburner Climax (hydraulic seat and everything), the Jurassic Park 3 gun game and CART Fury.
 
Too young to have had any real substantial memories in an arcade type environment but I think if there was still a continued interest in arcades it'd be cool to see what else we could find in arcades besides the older games we see nowadays. In Japan the arcade scene is still pretty vibrant so it'd be interesting to imagine that sort of continued atmosphere elsewhere.
 
Arcades were pretty much a non thing here in the UK, at least as far as video games go. Non gaming arcades have a sort of nostalgia around them, but the days of stuff like Pac-Man and Donkey Kong as arcade games was never really much of a thing that happened over here. Same with the fighting game craze with Street Fighter 2 and Mortal Kombat. Think gamers mostly moved to computers prior to the newer systems like the Xbox and Playstation lines.
 
CM30 said:
Arcades were pretty much a non thing here in the UK, at least as far as video games go. Non gaming arcades have a sort of nostalgia around them, but the days of stuff like Pac-Man and Donkey Kong as arcade games was never really much of a thing that happened over here. Same with the fighting game craze with Street Fighter 2 and Mortal Kombat. Think gamers mostly moved to computers prior to the newer systems like the Xbox and Playstation lines.
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Gaming in Europe for the longest time was mainly fixated on computers wasn't it? Even consoles didn't have much impact until as you said the last 15-ish years or so.
 
BigMagma said:
Gaming in Europe for the longest time was mainly fixated on computers wasn't it? Even consoles didn't have much impact until as you said the last 15-ish years or so.
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In Portugal, we always had arcade machines. I never saw an actual arcade place, but Pubs and clubs always had at least one machine to play. I thought arcades where more common in Europe.
 
BlueJackG said:
In Portugal, we always had arcade machines. I never saw an actual arcade place, but Pubs and clubs always had at least one machine to play. I thought arcades where more common in Europe.
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Maybe it was a British thing since from all the British people I've met gaming was mostly popular on computers. I'm not too sure about the rest of Europe.
 
Perhaps. I know the ZX Spectrum and Amiga and BBC Micro and stuff were pretty popular in the UK. It's that era that Rare themselves started in.
 

Hm... I've seen a pinball machine and a racing game somewhere in Germany. I've also seen an arcade racing game with a chair, pedals and a steering wheel once.
I'm a young one, though, so I don't really have experience with anything pre-2000 besides Notepad.
I'd like to ask, do similar things like the old arcade machines still exist in the USA? Like, where you pay money to a thing that lets you play a game?
 
I still bump into arcades every once in a while. Usually in movie theaters, though I even bumped into a few in the place where I got my original Xbox, unexpectedly. I saw some like Marvel Vs. Capcom 2 and Killer Instinct.

I could have played them, but I didn't have any quarters on me. Ah well, I can play the latter at home on my Xbone anyways.

I've been to places like arcades as well. So many arcade games to play, there were. Tekken 4, Guitar Hero Arcade, that Jurassic Park one was fun. It's a blast whenever I can do something like that. :)
 
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