Author Topic: Your best "real life" arcade accomplishments. (Read 8588 times)

paigeoliver · « **on:** October 07, 2003, 06:18:51 am »

Ok, not talking about Mame now, or the dedicated machines that you might have in your basement. I am talking about real games that you were actually putting your money in.

My best are really pretty weak I must admit.

Beating Star Wars Trilogy without dying, without being hit the first 3 levels, and having 70 something life left at the end of the last one (unsure of my score on that one though, somewhere around 2.5 million, I still can't manage to get a high enough score to knock off any of the factory high scores on the scoreboard (every score on both machines I play is TRL).

Pump it Up. Probably the time I did a round of 4 level 6 songs on hard mode at double speed without a miss. (Come Back, Pom Pom Pom, and I forget the titles of the other ones). I can beat Beethoven's Virus on hard, but I only get a C, so that doesn't count.

Tempest - Filled all ten positions in the high score table. The only thing that really makes this special was that it was only a couple of months ago. (When was the last time you saw a TEMPEST on location?) City Museum in St. Louis operates one.

Ms. Pac-Man - Set the high score on 3 different machines in one day. That also occurred this year.

Oh yeah, getting a "Best Time" on Moon Patrol. that was back in '84, and I was only 7, so I was pretty excited about it.

mkdevo · « **Reply #1 on:** October 07, 2003, 08:25:24 am »

pretty weak for me as well, but when i was 14, i was on vacation in new hampshire... went to FunSpot, and had 37 wins in a row against other people at the original Mortal Kombat....

i'll never forget what this one kid said - "dude... you're like a god to me!"

hyiu · « **Reply #2 on:** October 07, 2003, 10:43:30 am »

accomplishments ??..... hmmm..... I think this is too weak to count as one.... but.... would like to share....

Yearsssssss ago, I used to play Guantlet in school.... (and we're basically killing each other while going thru levels... stealing foods... shooting other's potions... etc.. btw, that is a fun way to play....)

anyway... I went to a pizza place after school one day... and saw a guantlet machine....

I keep on going with the same 1 quarter...... lasted over 100 stages... (I was standing there for I think 4+ hrs.... maybe more.... don't remember....) and finally that pizza place owner "accidentally" unplugged the machine while "brooming the floor"...... (yeah right....

)

That was the longest lasting quarter I have EVER played on ANY arcade.....

I would have lasted FOREVER if they don't unplug the machine.... haaa haaa haa haaa....

RandyT · « **Reply #3 on:** October 07, 2003, 10:56:20 am »

No real gaming accomplishments other than I almost always have to walk away from pinball machines with credits left on them.

After a couple of games to figure out the scheme, it's rare that I don't get free game after free game.

And I don't need eye, ear or mouth plugs to do it (you have to be an old timer to understand that one

)

RandyT

saint · « **Reply #4 on:** October 07, 2003, 11:48:12 am »

You have to be WHO?

Quote from: RandyT on October 07, 2003, 10:56:20 am

And I don't need eye, ear or mouth plugs to do it (you have to be an old timer to understand that one )

RandyT

RandyT · « **Reply #5 on:** October 07, 2003, 12:13:59 pm »

Quote from: saint on October 07, 2003, 11:48:12 am

You have to be WHO?

Exactly

RandyT

abrannan · « **Reply #6 on:** October 07, 2003, 12:31:48 pm »

I'm the same way on pinball. Usually it only takes me three games before I start racking up too many free games to play. Other than that, I can still play a full game of Police Trainer on one credit while looking bored out of my mind the whole time. (I know, its a relatively new game, but it's all I've got)

CM · « **Reply #7 on:** October 07, 2003, 12:36:21 pm »

Definitely the ability to finish Dragon's Lair and Space Ace on 1 life. That was the biggest ego trip back in the arcade since they were some of the first 50-cent machines .. and the owners usually put the extra spectator monitor on top.

Side note .. the brain is a VERY scary thing .. many many many years of not playing Dragon's Lair, I fired up Daphne and completed about 70% of the screens right off the bat. Why the hell does my brain store THAT info, but not other useful information like where I parked my car at the mall?

menace · « **Reply #8 on:** October 07, 2003, 12:40:53 pm »

maybe you can tell me how to play that damn game (dragon's lair) I never made it past the first part where you have to jump off the falling platform--I'm getting frustrated now just thinking about that damn thing grrrrr.

Sadly, I have no accomplishments

( I was too poor as a kid to pump in enough quarter's to get real good at a game)

RandyT · « **Reply #9 on:** October 07, 2003, 01:03:13 pm »

Quote from: menace on October 07, 2003, 12:40:53 pm

Sadly, I have no accomplishments ( I was too poor as a kid to pump in enough quarter's to get real good at a game)

Heh, you must not have perfected the "pitiful little kid with no cash at the arcade" act

RandyT

*edit*

Hey, maybe that's an arcade accomplishment in itself

!

Krynos · « **Reply #10 on:** October 07, 2003, 01:06:51 pm »

Finishing Afterburner on one credit was pretty cool.

The cheesy black and white photos from the end of top gun as an end sequence was a total let down.

- Krynos

Dartful Dodger · « **Reply #11 on:** October 07, 2003, 01:20:34 pm »

When I was 10 my family and I were staying at a Holiday Inn (it was a Holidome). It had an arcade room and there was this guy playing Pac-Man, he had the pattern down and he was getting real far, people were even gathering around to watch him play.
This arcade room had only one outlet that was near the door, and a bunch of extension cords going to all the games.
With my foot I pulled out the extension cord going to the Pac-Man game.

NY_in_TX · « **Reply #12 on:** October 07, 2003, 01:40:24 pm »

I am afraid to admit this.

I beat a game on it's first day at the arcade. Newly delivered, and brand spankin new.......unfortunately it was Moonwalker.

If I knew then what I knew now.......geesh

One I'm proud of is winning my arcades Air Hockey tournament every week for a month. I was zen with air hockey then, probably couldn't keep the goalie in my hand now.

Police Trainer Rules (I gotta get my act labs gun) I haven't had enough practice on the hgher levels, but I make the wife watch me play every now and then at GameWorks. I can whup anyone's ass at the counting stage. Makes me feel like a real man

ny

Apollo · « **Reply #13 on:** October 07, 2003, 03:40:36 pm »

Probably the ultimate for me was the first time I clocked "Black Night", the greatest pinball game ever made. I probably clocked it about 10 times all up but I'll never forget that first time. There were probably a dozen people watching, unfortunately "Black Night" turned out to be one of the main reasons I never finished my degree, now that's real dedication, lol.

Tailgunner · « **Reply #14 on:** October 07, 2003, 07:58:19 pm »

Wasn't at an arcade, mine happened at a 7-11 near my house. They had a Flash pinball machine, and I went there everyday after school to play it. One day I show up and the route technician was there servicing the machine. I hung around and chatted with him while he went through it, and he gave me a free game to test it when he was finished. I won 4 games on the first ball, 3 on the second, and 3 more on the third. The tech was impressed.

hooded_paladin · « **Reply #15 on:** October 07, 2003, 08:50:45 pm »

Quote from: paigeoliver on October 07, 2003, 06:18:51 am

Pump it Up. Probably the time I did a round of 4 level 6 songs on hard mode at double speed without a miss. (Come Back, Pom Pom Pom, and I forget the titles of the other ones). I can beat Beethoven's Virus on hard, but I only get a C, so that doesn't count.

grr a pump player... haha
I can do most 9-footers and the cheapest 10-footer on DDR, with reasonable grades.
I'm fairly good at Tetris. I can pass like 4-star beatmania songs.

I can get highscores at Tetris, but not REALLY high scores. Nothing else, because everything else at my local arcade is played by really hardcore people. (All the good fighter and bemani players in the area go to SVGolfland...)

CitznFish · « **Reply #16 on:** October 08, 2003, 01:16:39 am »

I can get through Black Tiger with one guy. Only did that twice in teh arcade

at "Tilt" I played Joust on one quarter for 8 hours. Had my name on the machine for monthly record holder.

those were back when I was a teeen....

Snarbald · « **Reply #17 on:** October 08, 2003, 01:24:47 am »

I beat the simpsons arcade game once. Took like $10 in quarters. Does that count?

hooded_paladin · « **Reply #18 on:** October 08, 2003, 01:38:20 am »

Quote from: Snarbald on October 08, 2003, 01:24:47 am

I beat the simpsons arcade game once. Took like $10 in quarters. Does that count?

I watched my friends waste their money on the final boss of Time Crisis III... that counts right?
haha ... sorry, that's not an insult, just a joke, although it really did happen

paigeoliver · « **Reply #19 on:** October 08, 2003, 01:40:13 am »

Quote from: Snarbald on October 08, 2003, 01:24:47 am

I beat the simpsons arcade game once. Took like $10 in quarters. Does that count?

Come now, a 9 year old girl could beat the Simpsons given $10 in quarters.

kspiff · « **Reply #20 on:** October 08, 2003, 06:46:47 am »

I recall that I can beat Time Crisis 1/2 on 1 credit.. I made it to 'War Master' ranking in War: FA (damn you for not making a port, Atari!@)..

All other accomplishments were likely stored in brain cells which have since been destroyed (cause I don't remember 'em :/)..

I'm a bad-ass at those Wacky Gators and Cosmo Gang redemps, does *that* count?

paigeoliver · « **Reply #21 on:** October 08, 2003, 06:59:42 am »

I have to add another one to the list.

Last night I accidently played an insanely tough level 8 song on Pump it Up ("She Likes Pizza", it is like 240 beats per minute, and I had the arrows set at double speed). I was playing with this girl and she was looking through the songs when the time ran out. Somehow I got a C on the song (20 misses, was probably almost a B). Of course Little Miss "Oops the time ran out" got an A on the song, which made me look pretty stupid.

hyiu · « **Reply #22 on:** October 08, 2003, 10:37:18 am »

Quote from: menace on October 07, 2003, 12:40:53 pm

maybe you can tell me how to play that damn game (dragon's lair) I never made it past the first part where you have to jump off the falling platform--I'm getting frustrated now just thinking about that damn thing grrrrr.

Sadly, I have no accomplishments ( I was too poor as a kid to pump in enough quarter's to get real good at a game)

nope... I'm broke most of my childhood also... (in terms of $$ for arcade...) but then what you need to do is stand next to your favorite games for hours.... no blinking... no bathroom... and watch how everyone plays.... watch the screen... watch their movement...... (and drool.....)

literally.... I really donno how much of my childhood was spent that way.... you can just keep watching.... (no food... no drink...) until suddenly... you hear a familiar LOUD voice.... in the background... YELLING out your name..... (in anger....) and you turn and realize that you sneaked out to the arcade.. and somehow... lost track of time.. and your mom came to grab you back..... (ok... this is the starting of a nightmare... maybe I shouldn't mention here....)

Nailz · « **Reply #23 on:** October 08, 2003, 12:46:05 pm »

Played Pac Man one day for several hours on the same quarter, I lost track of how many key levels, the guys watching me play said I had 17.

That was pretty cool, my dream as a kid was to be so good at a game that people would crown around while I was playing to cheer me on, Pac Man was the only one I was ever able to do that with.

Brax · « **Reply #24 on:** October 08, 2003, 09:05:21 pm »

Let's see, that would have to be the time I played Gauntlet all day long. My cousin would distract the change kid and I would swipe the same five dollar bill out of the carpenter belt he use'd to hold the change. What's with all these warm and fuzzy arcade memories? I remember when arcades were nasty, dirty, dangerous places! They were GREAT! ......and pretty much brought out the worst in me..........

Magnet_Eye · « **Reply #25 on:** October 09, 2003, 01:10:28 am »

let me see...

could beat 720 on one quarter, all gold medals.

got to some crazy level in Star Wars, usually around 20 million points. i had all top scores in that arcade for a while. Oh, and to show off, I would play one handed and still kick ass! reason is cuz i broke my arm, and hand to play with one hand. then once i was healed i could still kick ass one handed!

got to some level on PacMan where the maze disappears! I dunno what level it was, but it was crazy! I was like 10/11 years old...1980/81 i think.

turned over Galaga (no fire cheat)

Completed Arkanoid. Now that was a ---smurfette---! 50 levels of madness!

Used to kick ass at TRON! Spent way too much money on that one!

As a kid i could rock so many games, i can't remember scores, but I was good. I practically lived in those damn arcades/bowling alleys/liquor stores! The benefit of being a latch key kid in los angeles i guess. All my paper route money..GONE! I miss those days.

some of the games I rocked:

burgetime
crystal castles
joust
commando
hogans alley
tempest
crazy kong
pooyan
vangaurd
scramble
rip off
star castle
excitebike
moon patrol
spy hunter

ok, now i am just rambling on. the list would be too big!

Snarbald · « **Reply #26 on:** October 09, 2003, 01:26:41 am »

Quote from: paigeoliver on October 08, 2003, 01:40:13 am

Quote from: Snarbald on October 08, 2003, 01:24:47 am
I beat the simpsons arcade game once. Took like $10 in quarters. Does that count?

Come now, a 9 year old girl could beat the Simpsons given $10 in quarters.

Well, I was a little kid when I did it.

Magnet_Eye · « **Reply #27 on:** October 09, 2003, 08:42:49 am »

Quote from: Snarbald on October 09, 2003, 01:26:41 am

Quote from: paigeoliver on October 08, 2003, 01:40:13 am
Quote from: Snarbald on October 08, 2003, 01:24:47 am
I beat the simpsons arcade game once. Took like $10 in quarters. Does that count?

LOL!

But are you a "girl"?

Like all that mean ---steaming pile of meadow muffin---! Girls kick ass!

Come now, a 9 year old girl could beat the Simpsons given $10 in quarters.

Well, I was a little kid when I did it.

Lilwolf · « **Reply #28 on:** October 09, 2003, 01:18:00 pm »

1) I went on a date in early highschool. At the end we where waiting on a ride, went into an arcade to wait (yes young... no car) we played galaga together. She kicked ---my bottom---! So the next day, I got to the point where I could flip the game and play forever... I never got to play her again... (she found out and refused)

2 ) Games I could beat with one quarter (or play forever)

galaga
black tiger (great game)
720 (all golds) (NAAR, nar, nar, NAR)
Captain America
Every streetfighter... but not much there..

Once the fighting games came around... it wasn't about winning... it was about beating others.

Jakobud · « **Reply #29 on:** October 09, 2003, 02:08:27 pm »

Beating the original Street Fighter 2 (using Guile) without loosing a single round.

SNAAAKE · « **Reply #30 on:** October 10, 2003, 12:08:35 am »

hmm,lets see.

Too many to list !

- 67 wins on xmen vs sf(withtout loosing once..DAMN RIGHT)
- Beat Cadillacs and Dinosaurs with single credit(yes true)
- won 2 online tourny(sf2 C.E,sfa3)
- Won sfa 2 tourny local(5 years ago)

jerryjanis · « **Reply #31 on:** October 10, 2003, 03:22:53 am »

Quote from: Jakobud on October 09, 2003, 02:08:27 pm

Beating the original Street Fighter 2 (using Guile) without loosing a single round.

Hee hee, I used Mame's "save state" feature to horribly cheat and get through the whole game with all perfects on the most difficult setting. To this day, I continue to search for the rumored battle with Sheng Long.

One day I was quarterless at the mall, and I was hanging out at the arcade waiting around for a free quarter opportunity to pass my way (coin returns, digging under machines for pennies, sneaking change from the wishing well, etc.) I was watching a game of Street Fighter II and some kid stormed away from the machine. His opponent had a full life-bar, and the kid's was at 0. I lept onto the controls and made a dramatic comeback.

The great thing about Street Fighter II is that all you needed was that one chance and you could potentially play for the rest of the day.

APFelon · « **Reply #32 on:** October 10, 2003, 08:07:10 am »

I used to hustle Mortal Kombat when I was in my early 20's (too much time on my hands then... Oh, how I miss those days). I used to go to the local malls and kick the crud out of the "regulars" at the location.

I got over 90 wins in a row at the Original Sports Bar arcade at the Mall of America. I was finally beaten by a guy who claimed he had the game at home. I played him again and I beat him sorely. Seven times in a row. Haw.

APf

CitznFish · « **Reply #33 on:** October 10, 2003, 12:39:30 pm »

Quote from: Magnet_Eye on October 09, 2003, 01:10:28 am

Oh, and to show off, I would play one handed and still kick ass! reason is cuz i broke my arm, and hand to play with one hand.

Now that's dedication. you broke your own arm and hand to force you to play one handed!

Magnet_Eye · « **Reply #34 on:** October 10, 2003, 04:26:35 pm »

Quote from: CitznFish on October 10, 2003, 12:39:30 pm

Quote from: Magnet_Eye on October 09, 2003, 01:10:28 am
Oh, and to show off, I would play one handed and still kick ass! reason is cuz i broke my arm, and hand to play with one hand.

Now that's dedication. you broke your own arm and hand to force you to play one handed!

LMAO!!

Well, uh, I crashed my Schwinn Spitfire and destroyed my arm actually. Oh, and the one hand I could play with was my left. Did I mention I am RIGHT HANDED!

Edgedamage · « **Reply #35 on:** October 14, 2003, 09:16:34 pm »

Being the first to figure out the Pterodactyl bug on joust. In the local arcade.

DaveMMR · « **Reply #36 on:** October 14, 2003, 11:02:01 pm »

I beat Revolution X using less that $5 in credits. Got my name on the top (the one that has it's own screen with dancing ladies). I pointed out the DMR to friends at the bowling alley, but cruely no one cared.

Howard_Casto · « **Reply #37 on:** October 15, 2003, 08:53:48 am »

Getting to the end of Killer Instinct 2 on a single quarter the first time I ever played it. Of course it could be that this simply shows how weak of a game it is.

Ironically I hate the ki games and deem them to be a cheap imitation of the superior mortal kombat series. But regarless getting to the end of any game on a single quarter is pretty dang cool.

1UP · « **Reply #38 on:** October 19, 2003, 04:05:44 pm »

#1 Getting thru Space-Ace on one life. It was easy to get an audience, as few people had ever seen the ending animation, let alone all the other dialogue scenes inbetween. IMO, that's what really set it apart from Dragon's Lair, where the only dialogue was Dirk's Homer-esque shreiks. DOH! That game seemed like magic at 14...

#2 Getting really far on Dig-Dug one afternoon. My sister and I went down to the local dollar theater every day for a week, just to play the Dig-Dug in the lobby (I think we discovered it after watching some cheap 3-D movie over there.) We only had a few quarters every day, but I managed to figure out the patterns of the monsters well enough that I almost couldn't lose...

#3 Getting so good at Popeye that I rolled the thing over a few times! Also met a cute girl and played a 2 player with her because of it... The hormone rush was even better than the win!

#4 Getting all the way thru Vanguard after many attempts.

#5 Getting really REALLY far on Discs Of Tron during a youth bus trip. It was the environmental version that you stand inside of, and I got really good with the up/down spinner, banking shots off multiple walls so Sark didn't know what hit him. I literally had a crowd of people around me at the end!

#6 Getting all the way thru Terminator 2 with my wife-to-be. That game was definitely easier with 2 guns, but still took a pocketful of tokens to do. I think that's when I realized I had met the right woman! That, and when she asked me for a Playstation as a wedding present...

#7 Getting all the way thru Soul Calibur 2 on my second try. This was on a machine we had in the lunch room at a studio where I worked this spring, and I had really gotten a solid ass-stomping rhythm down for Kilik. Somehow, though, I still managed to get my butt kicked by my co-workers on a regular basis.... However, I've now got the game on my PS2, have learned how to guard impact, and I'm going back there next week...

On that note, #8 would be any time I was able to whoopass repeatedly on someone after they jumped in on a fighting game when I was about to beat the machine! Gawd I hated punks like that!

Shoryuken! CYA punk!

Too many other memories to bother y'all with...those were all fun times....

Jakobud · « **Reply #39 on:** October 20, 2003, 01:08:40 am »

Quote from: jerryjanis on October 10, 2003, 03:22:53 am

Quote from: Jakobud on October 09, 2003, 02:08:27 pm
Beating the original Street Fighter 2 (using Guile) without loosing a single round.

To this day, I continue to search for the rumored battle with Sheng Long.

Lol I forgot about that haha

JesterDEV · « **Reply #40 on:** October 20, 2003, 12:33:40 pm »

I would have to say that my best accomplishment was back in '84. I won a local Tempest tourny, and beat 16 other people and won a trophy. Ended up getting in a fight afterwards when someone tryed to steal it from me. Later "someone" broke into my house and stole it anyway.

JamesS · « **Reply #41 on:** December 04, 2003, 02:30:51 pm »

Super Basketball.

I ruled that damned Game. I wish I could play Donkey Kong half as well.

Only 100k player here on DK. Oh how I love that game.

Now playing way too much Cyberball, I realize early 90's game, but I could not be beat in Tournament.

F|end · « **Reply #42 on:** December 04, 2003, 04:23:35 pm »

Usually get 1st place playin' Pinball Action in arcades!? I think that's a real acomplishment for me!

People here are "still" pretty good playin' that game!

clok · « **Reply #43 on:** December 05, 2003, 11:34:18 am »

add me to the gauntlet group, I could play till I was sick of it.. Back in 88(0r 89 i cant rember) I was going to beat some record, cant remeber if it was for guantlet, or just playing Vid games.. Had a Local TV crew come film me start, and where going to film on and off and at the end. They had some offical who was going to confirm it all and so on... I was playing in a Stop N Go and they had a little rope baracade around me (and all the free pop I could drink!, think pee break). Iplayed a little over 16 hours and needed to take a break, I had enough food it could just tick for roughly 10 + hours and I would still be playing (again, its been awhile so I cant remeber exactly), since I they just had a camera on me ( to confirm) but nobody was around I left my friend at the machine to make sure nobody screwed with it..I was going to pee and when I get back he has a very sheepish grin and says he broke the joystick...

well He did... I just said Fug it and left... my greatest feat, left unfinished never to be tried again

Oh I can play (err, could) pacman on 1 quarter till the screw fugs up... and I learned it without a cheat sheet.. talk about quarters...and memory training...but once the investment was done..I could play a long time on a quarter...

Tempest is my favorite game, and cen get to the Orange levels on 1 quarter...but I'm not sure if that anything or not...(I sure thought it was when I did it).

Clok

Rocky · « **Reply #44 on:** December 05, 2003, 12:20:08 pm »

My first accomplishment was on Crazy Climber back in 80 at Penn State. Arcades were new and the game room at East Halls had a Donkey Kong, Crazy Climber and maybe one other game.
I remember the first time I completed all 4 buildings. Wow, I must have had 15-20 people surrounding the game watching.

The only other accomplishment was Spy Hunter. I could always put the high score on it! Now, I use my custom built Spy Hunter controller on my Mame machine.

Rocky

DARRYLICSHON · « **Reply #45 on:** December 06, 2003, 05:25:14 pm »

I use to almost live in the arcade in the 80's i have mastered alot of games once i sat down in the star wars for 23 million ( 1 credit )took almost 12 hours on missile command once you make it to 808.000 you get 99 free cities , the most i played that game on 1 credit was about 10 hours , the owner of the arcade got mad at me when i did it a few days in a row , told me to learn another game so other pepole could play the game and he could make some money, HA HA HA defender i have also played for 8 hours stargate for 8 also I could land mach III on one credit both fighter and bomber gravitar was a harder one but i finally did master that one , think i only played it for a few hours robotron player for 9 hours. galaga always froze up on me after 2 million pac-man was eazy just boreing , could only keep me intrested for maybe a hour space duels i could only get alittle over 500 thousand it's really hard in the high levels Tempest i could get to the invisible level , but it took me three quarters Topgunner i could get to the end on one credit zaxxon i could also get to the end 1 credit mr. do i could only get 600 thousand

Jakobud · « **Reply #46 on:** December 07, 2003, 03:46:01 pm »

Quote from: DARRYLICSHON on December 06, 2003, 05:25:14 pm

robotron player for 9 hours.

Hmmm... for some reason that quote makes me question the validity of your entire post...

DARRYLICSHON · « **Reply #47 on:** December 07, 2003, 06:22:13 pm »

i was really addicted to most games , why do you not belive that i could play it for 9 hours , really on most games once you get to 1 million you can play until you want to quit , if anyone ever went to a place called Jupiter , which is in Cincinnati Ohio , you would see DCD on most of the games and it was on the top!! I would think you wouldn't belive the star wars , that was the hardset , cause you can't save any men ( other than 7 shields) . on robotron you could have 50 men saved up , which gives you time to let a friend play while you go take care of ,restroom food ,what ever , my buddy Les Chard could play most of the games as long as i could. But i did spend alot of money to get that good!!!

AlanS17 · « **Reply #48 on:** December 14, 2003, 05:40:11 pm »

I think I got to the end of the game in KI2 the first time I played, too. I really like that game, though.

I can remember playing for an hour on one quarter one time in Xmen vs SF. Only reason I didn't keep going was cuz I had to leave. I wasn't keeping track of my wins. (I don't like those fancy new 3-on-3 games, though.)

I'm also virtually indestructible Puzzle Fighter. I even had a friend go buy the game for Playstation so he could practice at home and he still invites me over so I can beat him.

Ummm.... yeah that's it. I may not be great, but at least I'm better than my friends...

greven grevs · « **Reply #49 on:** December 15, 2003, 01:30:59 am »

As a teen I worked in an arcade called Power Play in the San Jacinto Mall in Baytown,TX. I had no life so I would go to work hours early to play a new game at the time [Street Fighter 2]. By the end of summer me and my friend were so good at the game that we would play for as long as we wanted , hours at a time, and then sell the game and hi-score to some kid for $0.50. We felt so cool beating people one right after the other and then getting our 50 cents back.
In my mind there were a gaggle of hot chicks watching me play and not the swarm of sweaty out of shape , pimply faced , and all around losers.

Not sure if it counts but I also rode the carousal for over 4 hrs. It was a slow night at work so I sat on the darn thing for over half of my shift. Til I got sick. It wasnt fast but man after hours of going in slow circles it catches up to you.

Techoverload · « **Reply #50 on:** December 23, 2003, 02:47:17 am »

For me my best and most uppsetting arcade game were the same

S.T.U.N. Runner. When it came to my local arcade in N.H. when I was living up there it had a cardboard sign from atari on the top that said if you completed the game with a high enough score you got a T-shirt as a prize..... so within a week I had mastered the game. I could go from begining to end in one shot. I had all the tracks memorized as to where the boost pads and star were and could damn near play it blind folded....only takes about 5 mins. to go from start to finish if you take the right warp paths.

So anyway you get to the end and it shows in big numbers the top scores that you break through on the way to your score. Nobody could touch me.

I finish the game wright down the code and the address and send Atari a nice letter (being young and naive) I even tryed asking what it would take to be a game developer and wrote several ideas I had.

I checked the mail box daily for weeks and finally a letter shows up from Atari like 3 months later...........

Sorry we ran out of T-shirts....but thanks for playing.........

PISSED ME RIGHT OFF I mean come on how much does a T-shirt cost to get printed....especialy in bulk.

It was still fun to own a game like that...... Most of the games in the arcade had my initials on top of the list and I used to always love it when some kid I didnt know would watch me play a game and then see me put up my initials and say "oh my god thats you!!"

Heck I even have my Nick tattooed on my arm "WIZZARD" and yes I do know it should only have one Z but I used to use WIZZ on games with four slots for initials.

GOOD TIMES


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