I remember a lot of places like walmart had arcade machines in the front lol, I remember pretending to play one (no monies) once in a while.

Virtual-On, Crazy Taxi, and Soul Calibur at the arcade

Metal Slug and Cruisin’ USA at the pizza restaurant

Good shit

teenage mutant ninja turtles beat’em’up at chuck e cheese

Arcades such so much ass now… It’s all a bunch of gambling carnival games and a mortal kombat ii cabinet set to EXTREMELY BULLSHIT difficulty

Time crisis 2 was my shit back in the day! There’s a “barcode” near me I hit up with my lady friend on occasion for some drinks and digital violence. It’s a cool place

DDR was GOAT, we played the shit out of that. My friend even bought pads for his house lol.

House of the Dead 2 we played a lot of too as well, but DDR is the one we played the most. Like before DDR we would just play whatever was around, but that’s the first one we would really look for, or go to certain arcades for

Me and my kid are really into claw machines now. My hit rate is pretty good but I am on a bit of a cold streak

In the mid 90s when I was really young I remember playing Galaga somewhat regularly in a diner near my parents house

Also later when I was older (mid 2000s) my class in school went on a day trip to an amusement park with an arcade, and towards the end of the day I got bored of rides and played Joust to the point where I got multiple high scores on the machine

Pole position every Sunday night at Pizza Hut. I didn’t care for the fighting games at the time but man did I want to whiz around that track.

Shadows over Mystara and The Simpsons game in the lobby at the theater downtown.

Popped a couple quarters into Arm Champs 2 at lazer tag and accidentally picked the hardest opponent. I held out long enough that other kids wouldn’t let me lose, so like 5 of us together beat it.

Went to Texas on vacation and absolutely annihilated the high score board on a Star Wars: Phantom Menace pinball machine.

Full on Gen X. All we HAD was arcades. I mean… the non-arcade versions of games like Pac-Man and Space Invaders was pretty janky.

Some of my fondest memories are spending Saturday afternoons at the arcade, back when $20 in quarters could last.

So many great games! First game I could ever finish was called Space Harrier. I figured out the pattern and could finish the game on a few quarters.

I admit I was sad when arcades started to shutter.

It’s still a thing in my shitty small town. We have a huge one with all the classics. Once a week I’ll go down there with friends and play classic Tekken or pinball.

there was a mall that died in the late 70s and all that was left by the early 90s was this enormous, mother of all arcades. I loved that place. divorced dad would take us there on weekends. I mostly just watched people play games, but the most memorable was this thing, a $10,000 arcade machine in 1989 dollars. the polygon count is a joke by today’s standards, but the real value was in the sound and feel. it was a legit driving sim with serious haptic feedback from the steering wheel. trying to correct an oversteer as an 11 year old doing 90 mph around a gentle curve, it would rip the wheel out of my hands. you really had to fight it to drive fast.

also, the manual transmission was no joke. I lacked the ability as a kid to coordinate the knowledge, speed and strength of throwing the gears to downshift and recover traction, but it took the punishment with steel construction of shifter. I would just play with automatic, but I watched this guy in his 30s go hard on it, and it was made for it. shit was badass.

I bet if there’s one out there that still works, it’s probably worth like more than a new real car. I would love to play it again and kick the shit out of it.

Cadillacs and dinosaurs all the way.

Earliest for me was playing the star wars (vector graphics) cabinet.

Playing children of the atom arcade.

The last big machine was beating star wars trilogy with £5 while some kid watched me play

I remember having chickenpox on the day of my friends birthday party so I had to stay home while everyone went to the Discovery Zone. I sobbed for hours while my mom covered me in calamine from head to toe.

That fucking place was awesome.