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What Arcade Era Do You Identify With The Most?
manman:
I guess I am one of the youngin's around here... kind of nice actually since I'm a first generation fighting games guy so on a lot of other forums I frequent I'm in the upper age bracket :P So if that doesn't give it away- yeah, i'm a SF era 90's guy as far as my best/strongest arcade memories. All about the various incarnations of SFII, MK 1-3, KI etc...real life started to take over a little while after MvC2 so I didn't get into those as much back then. I was also a big fan of the side scroller beat-em-ups like TMNT, Simpsons etc, and NBA jam of course. Too young to be able to claim golden era status...
Epyx:
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+1
Although back a year for me to 80 and Battlezone..the game that had me curious what the amazing noises were coming from inside the Three Bears Drive In and then mesmerized when I peered in the viewscope and saw a 3d world. Then the early 80s with DK/MS Pac Man/Defender etc...the mid to late 80s with Elevator action/Black Tiger etc.
The addiction has never really ended but was at its most fervent through to at least the early 90s as well.
helpmebuild:
For me it is definitely the early to mid 90's. I think that fighters like SFII and MKII really helped push the market back up out of it's slump. I still personally feel that fighters are the best "feeling" game on a joystick.
Here's another question to tie in though - what age(s) were you during this heyday and identification of an era?
For me I was about 12 when I fell in love with arcades and their sounds and appearance. What about you guys?
drventure:
I started gaming in junior high, early 80's or so, but I didn't really get into games until right after high school. I was working in a comic shop in the mall, and there just happened to be an arcade there as well ;)
Not sure whether they were "current" games at that point or already old, but I remember spending way too much on Defender, Targ, Spectar, Red Baron, and Star wars.
Mauzy:
Sadly, I had no chance. On a technicality I have to say mid to late 90s and early 00s (Damn that DDR....), but I tend to play games from the 80s through very early 90s.
I maintain that I was born about 20 years too late....