Remember when arcades were scary?

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As a breh born in the mid 80's, there was no other place I'd rather be at than the arcade. Even as a wee little kid, arcades was always depicted as THE spot. I was never scared of the smoky environment. I started fighting with the teens and grown ups when I was around 7 in Street Fighter II. This was around Champion Edition. I used to see grown men get salty when I bodied them when M.Bison became playable. :demonic:

Around that time if you didn't HYON no matter the age, you wasn't going to get no respect at the arcade.
 
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My man Orb bumped a thread within a thread and used the original thread's name in the new thread to create the world's first Thread-ception. Then made me laugh through it all :leostare:

It's like if you got a bad bıtch in the crib and she's ready to knock boots but you gotta take a shıt, but you somehow transfer that shıt to your future self so that future you can take both shıts, all for the betterment of present you's chance of getting the draws :wow:

Life comes at you fast, and the past comes back even faster. Make It Make Sense Again :ohhh:
 

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My man Orb bumped a thread within a thread and used the original thread's name in the new thread to create the world's first Thread-ception. Then made me laugh through it all :leostare:

It's like if you got a bad bıtch in the crib and she's ready to knock boots but you gotta take a shıt, but you somehow transfer that shıt to your future self so that future you can take both shıts, all for the betterment of present you's chance of getting the draws :wow:

Life comes at you fast, and the past comes back even faster. Make It Make Sense Again :ohhh:

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I remember the local arcade at the mall my bro and I would troll on the weekends. Marcel vs capcom 2, street fighter 3, capcom vs snk 2, and they got Tekken 5 when it dropped :banderas:

I remember being hyped when I finally beat NIGHTRANGER, who was like a whole 20 years older than me :russ:

Also had haters on SRK that wanted to take me down a notch lol
 

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I remember I was in an arcade when street fighter 2 took the world by storm. There was a line out of this world to play. It was a lil breh on the sticks serving people with Dhalsim. He beat this older dude and the older dude didn't take it well. He slapped lil breh and told him to get off the sticks. Lil breh didn't say anything he just left holding his face. So after the initial shock of what happened to the lil breh passed, everyone returned to normal. About 10 mins later I see lil breh walk back into to arcade with 2 goons following close behind him. Older breh is still on the sticks at this time. Lil breh points the goons in his direction. I kid you not, they grab the dude, force him to his knees, and let the lil breh go crazy punching him. He got his face punched on for about 2 minutes straight. Lil breh was hitting him with lightning fast kid punches. They stood him up, and took the money he had in his pockets and passed it out to the kids in the arcade. They made him stay until they left out.

Sidestory:A few years later I actually ended up going to high school with Older dude. He was on the public school bus talking shyt to a lil nerd breh who I was cool with. He was clowing his fit, embarrassing nerd breh in front of everyone. So I stepped in....:sas2: "Remeber what happened the last time you messed with someone smaller than you. I see you ain't learned yet".:sas1:.

One of the kids on the bus yells out:gladbron: " I REMEMBER THAT! YOU A p*ssy!:pacspit:

The whole bus starts laughing at older dude. He puts his hood on and goes to sit in the front of the bus right next to the bus driver.:mjcry: As a kid that's a big no no. It's like the equivalent of being in protective custody. I don't remember him bothering anyone after that.
 

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There were definitely moments that could cause you to catch hands IRL especially during SF2 or any of the Marvel vs Capcom, X-men vs Street Fighter, X-Men Children of the Atom days. I honestly miss those days because nobody could hide behind a computer screen.

Pull of an an infinite combo like this on someone at the arcade back in the 90's and see if you make it out in one piece. :birdman:

 
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