/vr/ - Retro Games

>>5185073
>>5141173
GFdamit... right in the feels.
Mere months after I had been born that picture was taken. I may cry.
> though im sure this picture may have been worthy of crying over, the sight of seeing your own arcade machine right there in the truck
> no longer will it eat your quarters, because you can get them all back again

>>5141319
As others mentioned a couple frenzy inducing games to panic spend tokens on to keep playing were Street Fighter 2 and Mortal Kombat. It was also confusing as heck and difficult to pull off doing combo moves even though the combinations were usually listed right there on the plaque for the game. Thats where you really ate through tokens because you'd really focus on trying to do some move and get your butt kicked because you wasnt paying attention to the normal gameplay, so you'd have to keep dumping tokens until you managed to get it right and incorporate that move into your skill set. Die before even getting the move off because you're not even looking at the screen. If you were poor like me and only had 2-5 bucks of tokens per visit because dad-just-doesnt-understand! then that could wipe you out before you even got a chance to get the move done properly.
Arcade Games started their downward spiral around 1998-2000 and it was mostly due to Playstation. Full stop end of story. Because many of the games that were being recycled year after year or had never moved from their spot for the last 5-10 years could now be played, or rivaled in quality by the PSone.
> N64 was really abit more cartoony than cinematic, but it helped drive PSone, so it did have its effect too if indirectly.
Destruction Derby, Tekkens, Resident Evils, Silent Hill, this shit was like having your own arcade machines.
> Pizza Hut
Yeahhh... I must have lost 10-15 bucks in quarters total playing that NBA game and 1942, with the smell of breadsticks and oregano in the air under dim light.
It was romance. As a kid it rivaled the experience of sex as an adult.