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flampoo:
--- Quote from: Lilwolf on April 27, 2004, 08:38:36 am ---My wife gave birth to my first child in a sitdown turbo cab! We were in a taxi... it didn't seem like she was going to make it... I thought it would be cool and all... so when we passed an arcade, we jumped out at the local arcade.
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You're kidding, right? Is this a joke?
hyiu:
I have 2 arcade memories....
in NYC 34th St penn station arcade...
my friend and I were playing cyberball.... (and we're good at it...) strange because before that and after that... we don't play any sports game at all....
we beat basically everyone... and we're kicking the computer's --I'm attempting to get by the auto-censor and should be beaten after I re-read the rules--....
then this big black guy challenged us.... he is VERY good... (turns out that he works there... duh....)
we played against each other... he uses his quarters to buy extra stuffs... (yes, you can do that on cyberball...)
and we keep on going to sudden death overtime....
people are gathering watching us play... it was very intense... I forgot how many periods of overtime we went thru... we actually ran out of quarters... and the surrounding guys are actually handing us quarters to insert so that we can finish the game....... (well... we did get change and give them back the quarters after the game...)
kinda sad.... because too tell you the truth... I forgot whether we won or lost..... but it was a really fun, intense, challenging game....
too bad in mame, you can't play against each other in cyberball......
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the other memory I have is on guantlet....
I put in a quarter after school on my way home in a pizza place... and played for like 4-5 hrs straight....
have plenty of health and potions... until some guy from the pizza place "accidently" unplugged the machine....
I swear I could have played forever........
well.... good memories.....
Zathras:
One of my fondest arcade memories was beating Twin Eagle: Revenge Joe's Brother in the arcade with a friend. I think it was the first actual arcade game I beat.
I remember having to run for change and getting back just in the nick of time :)
The jet fighter battle song will be forever imprinted in my memory "pow-ow-wwwer! I'm gonna take you dooooown" It seemed so cool at the time....
Harry Potter:
First memory of an arcade machine was when I was living in the former Czechoslovakia and a fair came to town. With it came Space Invaders and Pitfall II. Didn't play it much but damn it was something fresh.
Then as fate would have it, upon our arrival in Sydney (after a nice migration), the first arcade I saw at our hostel was again, Pitfall II.
Right there and then I knew I would own that cab one day. Unfortunately that dream took another 18 years to come true.
Arcadiac:
Good Times!! Anyone else? ARCADIAC!