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Most memorable (WOW!) Arcade video games

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Martijn:
Try gang wars  :D

Harakiri:
Prop Cycle, you could actually fly on a bicycle! :)

Top Skater, even Justin Bieber would look rad playing it!

nakeworks:
I remember how shocked I was at the blood and gore of Mortal Kombat 1. I remember thinking "Am I really seeing some dood's head get ripped off?"  And I kept checking to make sure my mom didn't see me watching it.  Awesome.
That was a big WOW! for me.

wonderalex:
Virtua Fighter

At the time it was unlike anything else.  I got a call from a buddy saying that they installed a new game at our usual arcade haunt he described it and I was downtown in 30 minutes.  :lol I was stunned when I saw it (today it's unbearably slow).

Within days we had become "those guys" who'd walk in and pretty much control the game - but we weren't *donkeys* about it. When others challenged us we'd hamstring ourselves - Only Kicks, Only Grabs - et cetera (unless they were good - then it was "on"), often we'd show our challengers how to do a move, many would eventually mop the floor with us.  Much fun was had by all.  

Unfortunately after VF2 came out - it became far too serious - people would get really mad when we'd beat them or be *donkeys* when we'd ask them how they managed a particular sequence we didn't know. So we'd play within a small group of like-minded players (fun & friendly competition) and on specific days.

Despite it all we've been hooked on the VF series ever since.  I still hope to nab a dedicated VF2 or VF4 cab (or build a VF/fighter cab around my ps2) - the emulators just don't hack it.

Be seeing you,

WonderAlex

RyoriNoTetsujin:
Hard Drivin' definitely gets an honorable mention from me.  As a kid, seeing that cab was a rare event, and my folks had to pull me from it whether I was playing or not. Too cool.  But for the biggest "WOW" sensation, it's got to be SF2CE for me...

I didn't get much opportunity to "roam the neighborhood" on my own when I was young, I lived in a mostly rural area.  I remember just reading about SF2 in EGM and thinking "this game is awesome!"  I hadn't *played* it, mind you, but I knew. I was 13... I knew everything about games. :)

I distinctly remember being in town with my best friend and going to the local bowling alley and seeing SF2 Champion Edition for the first time. It was summer, it was hideously hot, the bowling alley was mostly empty and air conditioned, and the cab was inexplicably unoccupied.  We spent every dollar we had. Between the two of us it was maybe 15-20 bucks (mostly his, not mine) but it felt like the most extravagant thing we'd ever done. 

Ah the halcyon days of youth...

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