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| iscariot:
At 31 years old I managed to play just about everything out there. Literally everything. I lived in Japan for awhile so I got access to some nice stuff that never saw the light of day stateside. It's great. Anyone remember the Jackie Chan fighting game? I actually had a jamma board of it but I stupidly sold it. |
| mimic:
--- Quote from: TOK on May 04, 2009, 06:33:47 pm ---The main games I played in person were Major Havoc II The Atlantis Missions, Time Pilot '85, Pole Position 3: Fukuoka Drift and Robotron $20.84. As a follow up question, I'd like to ask people what foods they've eaten! :) --- End quote --- Ok, great, mister "funny". I'm not correcting the subject line again :blah: |
| Blanka:
Actually not many, they were scarse on the Dutch countryside. There was a Galaga machine at a restaurant close to my place. I played Arkanoid and Tiger Heli in Houstrup Denmark, at the campsite we visited a couple of times. And we raced Virtua Racer quite often during the study years, until the place (like most others) became a slot-machine casino. |
| TOK:
--- Quote from: mimic on May 05, 2009, 12:27:16 am --- --- Quote from: TOK on May 04, 2009, 06:33:47 pm ---The main games I played in person were Major Havoc II The Atlantis Missions, Time Pilot '85, Pole Position 3: Fukuoka Drift and Robotron $20.84. As a follow up question, I'd like to ask people what foods they've eaten! :) --- End quote --- Ok, great, mister "funny". I'm not correcting the subject line again :blah: --- End quote --- As an arcade-rat kid of the 80's, I could have spent 3 hours listing nearly every classic and second tier classic made, totally ignored the topic, or gone with a smart-ass reply. I'm happy with my decision. >:D |
| Turnarcades:
As I've mentioned elsewhere before, we never really got dedicated cabinets frequently in the UK so it was hard to spot across an arcade what games were in there. Most arcades I ever saw were seedy, dark places with none of the fancy flyer advertising or any money spent to make the centre more appealing; rather they were dumped in the back room of a regular 'fruit machine arcade centre' in the few inner city locations that had them, or in poorly-maintained seaside town arcades. The largest selection of arcade centres I ever witnessed was in Newquay, Cornwall but few of these contained original machines. This was the first time I played TMNT and thankfully it was in an arcade that had spent money on brand new cabs. Living in-land as I do, during my teens I was limited to playing some bad Neo-Geo conversions, Street Fighter 2 hacks and a few decent JAMMA side-scrollers in some seriously questionable establishments where kids were mugged for their pocket money frequently. Sad really isn't it? :'( |
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