Kids of the Arcade

[danny_galaga]

As a mere 14 year old, I wasn't exactly around in the golden days of arcade goodness. This is rather saddening, but it's not like I can fix it without a time machine(and a good one, too. Not one of those cheap ones that can only go as far back as the moment they started working), so I've gotten used to it.

a MAME cab IS a time machine (",)

[javeryh]

I'm 31 (already!) and I definitely spent a lot of time in arcades when I was growing up.  I didn't get into the BYOAC thing until last year (and I'm still not done with my first cab).  I can't wait to sit down with my daughter and play some of the classics when she is old enough!

[loddie]

17 (2 weeks from 18) here. I finished my first mame cab a few months ago (are we ever truly finished?). I just love the look on peoples' faces when they ask "What game is it?" and I get to reply with "All of them."

Here's a few pics of my cab, Metallicade (because of the metallic theme, not the band):

[JonnyBoy]

Very cool cab, man. If I only had the space...

[Glaine]

You guys aren't getting old, you're just vintage retro NOS.

[Virtualmatt]

I'm 19, and should be finishing up my first cab (a 3 sided cocktail) this weekend.

[DZuroff]

I still remember the days when I would look forward to my birthday because I knew at least one family member would give me 20 bucks.  I would ride my bike to the mall, which was a good ten miles away, walk into te dark musty room full of all those wonderful sounds and have the time of my life until I spent all the money I had...and in those days most everything cost a quarter to play and you would get 25 tokens for 5 bucks so it would last awhile.  I was also fond of 7-11 back when they stocked a couple arcade games.  We had about five 7-11's within a five mile radius so a friend and I would walk from one to the other munching on 7-11 hot dogs, slurpees, and we would feed our quarters into the machines.  Aaaah... the good 'ol days.  Jumping forward, I am now 32 about to turn 33 in July, I am married I own a house, two cars, five cats, and my baby is due next month.  I will never regain the 80's and the fun I had but the memories will always live on!

[97thruhiker]

"munching on 7-11 hot dogs, slurpees, and we would feed our quarters into the machines"

Amen  !

[MYX]

Hey, do you guys remember in about 86-87, 7-11 had a machine that would deep fry little boxes of french fries or little apple pies. You would open the box top and put it in a little door. Press start. And the machine would dump the fries into frying oil (God only knows how old). When it was done a basket would raise up and dump the fries back into the box and open the door. I remember playing Dragons Lair with a thouroughly scalded mouth.
MmmmmmmmmFrenchfries.....

[MYX]

Hail yeah!
Dude, can I bum a token
Santoro : Secretary of BYOAC Treasury

If we go for the Latin thing, I really like pixels Latin "I poke badgers with sticks"

EDIT: Sorry this was supposed to go in the Token Slogan thread.

[epic69]

My arcade memories in high school in my small town were of laser disc games. Biggest line at our local arcade was by the Dragons Lair, Galaxy Ranger and Space Ace. I was a maniac for Galaxy Ranger though that was the coolest game ever. Compared to games on my Commodore64 it was the greatest. Now turning 36 this year and set up Daphne emulator and played Galaxy Ranger (ouch did i have a shock!) man perspectives sure do change! I dont remember it being so lame... but it still did give me flashbacks and made me feel younger. I guess thats the whole attraction with this hobby!

[psychopanda]

I remember standing in line watching other people play games alot. Maybe that's why I'm building my own arcade cab!? 

The fun thing about that though, is I got to try alot of "less popular" games. An old style Pharmacy (they even had Sodas, Malts, etc.) near us got Super Mario in and kids played that ALL day long. I never got the chance to, but I did get to play Matt Mania which is one of my favorite games to this day. It was sorta the Yie-Ar Kung Fu of wrestling. 

[quarterback]

Hail yeah!
Dude, can I bum a token
Santoro : Secretary of BYOAC Treasury

If we go for the Latin thing, I really like pixels Latin "I poke badgers with sticks"

Was this post supposed to be in the Slogan Ideas thread?