/vr/ - Retro Games

>>6139549
For me going into my local arcade and seeing the TMNT arcade game for the first time
Like a lot of other kids I was huge on the Turtles, I loved the TV cartoon since day 1 and the Nintendo game was a disappointment for me for among many other things it wasn't all that much like the cartoon.

Then I went into Borden's and saw that TMNT machine right there in the front. My mind was absolutely blown. A TURTLES GAME JUST LIKE THE CARTOON! It looked and sounded like it, it was so faithful there were even the little wheeled robots at the end of the first level, Rocksteady entered in a Transport Module, the third level had Mousers. And you could have all four Turtles playing simultaneously!

I felt like a great wrong had been made right. I've never had as much hype playing a game before or since.

My time in arcades was about 87-91. It was awesome, an absolutely fascinating experience for a kid 7-11 years old. Especially at the younger end, playing loud games with creepy themes in the dark was actually rather scary but in a good way.

My local arcade (pic related) was the major distributor of coinops in the region so their collection was HUGE, with a legacy of hundreds of games going back from the newest games at the time back to 70s games like Night Driver and pinball machines.

I don't remember the kids drinking alcohol and smoking everyone is talking about in this thread, that must have died off by the late 80s. My time was several years ahead of the early 80s arcade boom when teens would have seen arcades as hip. All those games from that boom were there though, as well as new games. Seeing Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles there for the first time blew my mind and was a triumphant experience compared to the first NES game.

I also remember the songs the jukebox would bump. Double Dragon was in the front right next to the jukebox and I have clear vivid nostalgia of playing it while this song was playing:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bzA6yO7BO10

>>4961018
my dad would go with me and put in a 20
That was enough for a good evening of games

>>4900472
I remember that, I also remember Hard Drivin' being 6 tokens (1.50)

New games at the front of the arcade and $1 a play was the usual practice of my local arcade, which I frequented like 88,89,90