Remember going to arcades back in the day

[Luke Cage]

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

that feeling basically sums up my 90's nostalgia. Literally everything that happened was some crowd/rush thing.
playing pogs, friends watching like

Remote control cars trying to do some evil kenieval stunts friends watching like

Playing boardgames hungry hungry hippos, little cousins watching like

Hanging out at the mall, see a cute girl walk, us watching like

In school on the playground playing dodgeball hit a nikka dead in the face. Nerds on the wall watching like


fukk it even going to mcdonalds eating your happy in the playground slide kids watching liek


watching late night music videos on cable tv during sleepovers uncensored, friends like

 

[General Mills]

I am I remember The 1st Street Fighter when you had pads that you hit. The harder you hit the harder Ryu laid out the beats.



When SF2 dropped.. shyt was a game changer for real.

nikkas I would practice at a bowling alley arcade on SF2 spending all of my little money before going to the mall arcade. It was that serious in there.

Get in line behind brehs...Then line your quarters on the cabinet to signify that you had next. shyt was no joke. Mad heads up In there just watching



nikkas getting heated cause I’m cheesing with Guile. Flash kicking brehs to sleep.

 

[BlackBall]

 

[Rusty$hackleford]

Ninja turtles
Simpsons
Final fight
Street fighter 2
NBA jam
Terminator 2
Area 51

Them joints with the gun were fun even when you out of coins. Watching them rich kids after you spent all your quarters
Those were the days

 

[Ms. Quick]

My dad would always play moral kombat but I would always choose soul caliber. Lizard man was that dude.

 

[Hawaiian Punch]

Man nothing beat the feeling of respect you could get walking into an arcade and dudes was like “yo that’s that kid I was telling you about!”
To walk into an arcade and another kid would give you a quarter just to watch you play and beast on nikkas. To me the shyt that changed everything with games was Street Fighter 2 championship edition. nikkas would travel everywhere for good competition. Hell I remember seeing a kid getting the piss beat out of him for cheesing. I even posted about it before.

Remember when Arcades were scary?

What a time that was..

 

[NinoBrown]

- When Grandma hit you off with 20 dollars for your birthday to hit the arcade
- beating xmen arcade multiple times with a group of your friends
- When MK3 dropped and people really thought souls were really being snatched up
- Akuma cheat code
- Area 51
- Agony of a broken stick that disabled your subzero moves
- Being in love with Jade...
- Fighting pros and causing them 10% damage while you lose 90% health
- Putting your quarters on the console to claim your spot
- Marvel vs Capcom button mashers

 

[jackswstd]

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

That's my spot

 

[Robbie3000]

The arcade at the mall.

I miss arcades, malls and video stores. Tech killed all three.

 

[CoryMack]

That feeling of walking into an arcade, the smell, checking out to see if the newest game that was in gamepro or electronic gaming monthly came out. Used to get geeked out with mortal kombat and tekken. The arcades were better than the gaming console versions. It didn't capture the same feeling especially with mortal kombat 3 and tekken 3 even.

The best arcade I ever went to had to be in coney island back in the 90s even as unsafe as it was. I remember playing mk3 there, picking Jax and losing. Had a fatality pulled on me in the outerworld or clocktower getting impaled by the spikes at the bottom..

At the end of my sr year in high school me and like 4 of my boys would hit one after school and play the car racing game where you all raced each other

 

[DaPresident]

Kids these days too introverted for all that...



We used to make friends up in arcades. Dim lit, no windows, those were our "casinos" lol


Hell, I was never really good, just okay, but going to watch some of the pros play was an experience I'll never forget!

That feeling when ya moms would call for you to leave or come in looking for you so ya'll could bounce. The thinking of what you gonna do or play when you go back...


Simpsons, MK's, SF's, XMen Children of the Atom, MvC, TMNT, Killer Instinct, Them Konami games with like 2 or 3 of them in there together (there was one of these machines at our local Pizza Hut also lol)...


Some of my favorites right there lol

 

[Mandarin Duck]

How the fukk do you emulate games?! On a laptop

Spoiler

Emulators - Doperoms.com

 

[Mandarin Duck]

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

I remember being no older than 9 and beating some dude on MvC with Venom while his girl watched

 

[Tribal Outkast]

Man I was the man playing that Smpsons game and TMNT!

Them NBA Jam games were epic as well. I hit up Abari in Charlotte from time to time and get flashbacks.

 

[datnigDASTARDLY]

The Marvel arcade games were my favorites: X-men, Spiderman, Avengers, then MvC 123


Then the Simpsons one


Ninja Turtles, Sunset Riders, Alien vs Predators, Street Fighter


Then a lot of the shoot em up games


How the fukk do you emulate games?! On a laptop

Dap + rep