Remember going to arcades back in the day

[ORDER_66]

Arcades are like shrines now. They're around, but forgotten. It's sad. New brehs will never understand that feel of dims lights with neons everywhere, fresh pizza aroma in the air, kids of all ages competing and building friendships!

House of the Dead!
Virtua Fighter!
Time Crisis!
Double Dragon!
Street Fighter!

Finishing nikkas in MK Getting finished by nikkas in MK

Man man man. . .the times they are a-changin'

I remember when MK3 dropped in the arcade with the run button and we was doing combos.... Iceman not to be fukked with...

 

[jackswstd]

There's a spot here in Chicago called Galloping Ghost Arcade. 20 dollars gets you unlimited plays, and they have just about every classic arcade game you can name. They're open until 2am, you can leave and come back as long as you have your receipt.

 

[Luke Cage]

whats the modern day equivalent that kids do these days. Online mulitplayer with strangers trolling you through headsets?

 

[Sterling Archer]

There's a spot here in Chicago called Galloping Ghost Arcade. 20 dollars gets you unlimited plays, and they have just about every classic arcade game you can name. They're open until 2am, you can leave and come back as long as you have your receipt.

Just go to Headquarters or Replay. Ain't nobody going to Brookfield.

 

[Apollo Kid]

I sometimes head out to Barcade and play TMNT from time to time.

 

[Pazzy]

I never played video games at arcades. We played skeeball, and the shyt where you hit the gophers on the head etc, and got tickets. I never wanted to save my tickets for the big prizes, so I got the stupid stuff like the little army man with the parachute, and the chinese finger trap. Our "arcade" was on the boardwalk, and was like Dave And Busters without food, and on a smaller scale. They had mini golf on the roof.



My mom never let me go to the real arcade at the mall with the video games. But we did play Pacman at our local pizza spot.



We did have Nintendo NES, and I was emotionally attached to Super Mario Bros 2, and The Simpsons game. Then we got Sega, and I got Sonic The Hedgehog, and Mortal Kombat. I was always Scorpion, and my sister was always Sonya.

Don't blame her for doing that. Arcades used to be dangerous places back in the days. Used to hear about kids getting abducted all the time at arcades as a kid. I know for a fact one of them that I went as a kid by the corner of Stillwell and surf got shot up. That place was grimey as fukk too. Foggy windows, Crack windows with bullet holes, dim lighting... would drag my father to that shyt just to play mortal Kombat 3. Smh

 

[Ninjaz In Paris]

The Simpsons, Wrestlefest, TMNT, NBA Jam, NFL Blitz...

What a time it was...

 

[Another Man]

Not back in the day. the arcades used to kill the home console version. That made them game developers go extra hard with the home console versions like with tekken 2 and 3. Namco had to go in. Mortal kombat didn't and they ended up having to go back to the drawing board by the end of the 90s.

Heres a fun fact, the Neo Geo arcade boards and consoles ran on the same hardware. This is why Neo Geo boards always had four games installed. You could also go into the dip switches and switch from console to arcade mode and back. This is both the home consoles and arcade boards. This is also why games ran you up to bout 200 each

 

[Kyle C. Barker]

I'd walk up on that MK 2 machine as a 10 year old...grown ass geek nggas at the machine...

Look all of em in the eyes...and lay my quarter down on the machine....


Mom dukes on my side...as my "wingman"...

Talkin her shyt..."Your only getting $1(4 tokens)...you betta make it do ...


"That's all I need.".....


Get up to my turn and run thru those fakkits wit Baraka...


Nggas wasnt fukkin with me...

I wish I was that good.

I was the kid getting whooped in 2 minutes then waiting in line for 20 minutes to get whooped again.

 

[315]

Arcades were at their height when Street Fighter 2 came out. That shyt used to be intense

 

[Pazzy]

Heres a fun fact, the Neo Geo arcade boards and consoles ran on the same hardware. This is why Neo Geo boards always had four games installed. You could also go into the dip switches and switch from console to arcade mode and back. This is both the home consoles and arcade boards. This is also why games ran you up to bout 200 each

Wow

 

[Another Man]

my favorite game back then

Konami had the beat em ups ON LOCK

 

[DoomzdayzV]

fukkin dudes up in MK and Streetfighter with a whole crowd behind u watching is a rush that young nikkas today wont never know

 

[Mr Rager]

Whoopin multiple asses and hearing them say 'dang that kid good'

 

[DJ Paul's Arm]

I miss those days. Especially when there are huge crowds on that 1 SF or Killer Instinct arcade. You put your quarter up in the middle of the fight, everyone lookin at you like "who this foo that want next?" Then you whoop homies ass that was on a streak. Next thing you know it, you got the juice. Even the bytches that would hang around the arcade would give you attention.

Had you feeling like a super star. Especially if you frequent that place. Once you walk in, the regulars would be like "oh shyt hes back!"