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First arcade you ever played
rhoelsch:
Pac-Man. Pizza Hut. I was seven, and remember feeling bad that I wasted my dad's quarter because I lasted only like 30 seconds. We ate out as a family there quite often on weekends, and they had a cabinet that changed out every so often for as long as I can remember right at the "Please Wait to be Seated" section. Later on, I got my first glimpse of a Spy Hunter there, pumping it's Peter Gunn theme during the attract mode. Coolest thing ever, man, especially with the controls. Also remember a Pole Position and a Ms. Pac there later on. To this day, I walk into a Pizza Hut and waves of nostalgia wash over me. Even tho most have been remodeled and are way less "atmospheric", the smell still gets me. :dunno
JeepMonkey:
I would have been nine in 1986 and my dad had a friend that was never married, so he always had the coolest stuff. At the time he had a brand new corvette which was really cool, but even more cool was the fact that he had a real arcade machine in his house, GORF. This was the first time I had ever played an arcade machine, and all of the games were free! He ended up buying another machine, but I do not remember what it was. I played a lot of games on that GORF machine.
shardian:
I remember playing a Jungle King at a store in Wisconsin as a wee lad. That is the only game that really jumps out at me for an early age. I always had the nintendo red tent and Ms. Pac cocktail at my mom's pizza hut, so they might have also been my earliest.
AtomSmasher:
I don't know the first one I ever played, but the earliest ones I remember playing are centipede and joust at chuck e cheese when I was really young.
Also my dentist growing up had a popeye machine with free replays that I played a lot of.
ahofle:
It's pretty sad that I also can't remember the first one I actually played. I do vividly remember watching the attract modes over and over again in awe though. One of those earliest memories was watching the Space Invaders attract mode (where the invader would come out and shoot the extra 'C' in 'CCOIN'). That was at Pipe Organ Pizza in Houston -- they also had a Sprint and Boot Hill.
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