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| Smeghead:
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| DeLuSioNal29:
Do you know what really got ruined? Not the golden arcades by fighters, but the original topic that was posted... by all this arguing crap. --- Quote ---The back and forth over this just wore me down. Should have just ignored it. Sorry. --- End quote --- +1 on this last comment. It was one of the best things said here. Can't we all just get along and appreciate each other's stories? Sheesh. DeLuSioNaL29 |
| RayB:
One time, at band camp... I ... You know what else related to fighters killed it for "us regular folk"? You'd find a free machine, try to play, and some punk comes up sticks his quarter in and then "challenges" you. Then kicks your ass (usually using the "cheapest" character available). I couldn't stand that. I wasn't there to play some kid who spends every day in the arcade. |
| Havok:
That's true - I never did like that. Ask me first if you want to challenge me, don't just jump in and ruin my game... |
| manman:
Oh yeah, I do remember seeing them in some of the places you mentioned still during the mid-late 80's and early 90's- bowling alleys, convenient stores, etc, and some restaurants, but probably a lot fewer. Never saw them in department stores though. It's interesting the things that some people dislike about the 90's era are the same things that some specifically liked about it. Things like the more involved inputs/learning curve before internet was as widespread were fun for me because it got people talking to eachother etc. It was fun (for me at least) to learn from people and share information, and build a community of friends who were interested in the same thing as me. Of course, some people were jerks and wouldn't want to help anyone else etc, but that's just the way it goes I guess. It is a lot to have to go through to play a game competently though, I can see how if you don't care about all that and just want to drop in a quarter and have fun for a while it would be a turn off.. I also welcomed any punks that wanted to drop in a quarter during my game (partly because I don't think playing the cpu in fighting games is all that interesting), but also because it just gave me a chance to test my skills and see if I was improving. One point of pride I hear from people who played during the golden age is "I could put in one quarter and last x amount of time". That was a similar point of pride for a lot of people who played fighting games I think. To see how long you could hold your spot on a machine with just one quarter. |
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