Greatest Arcade Memory?

[Xeogred]

Always and forever The Simpsons beat em' up and TMNT Arcade. I liked how I was always pretty good at the games, so I'd come in and sometimes wow the spectators or kick butt with someone else that was also really good, and then it was just awesome teaming up with a bunch of random kids for a few rounds and bam, you've made friends to hang out with and spend coins with for the night.

[Betelgeuse]

I remember when Mortal Kombat 2 came out and all the bugs and glitches were still in the game. Not many people I knew had internet at that time, myself included. People would pass around these midway sheets in the arcade that had the current list of fatalities. They didn't always work because the machines weren't up to the newest version yet. Soooo many rumors of special moves and abilities haha. The game would just say "game over" when you beat it too. That was always great.

[AdamGomez1987]

I remember when Mortal Kombat 2 came out and all the bugs and glitches were still in the game. Not many people I knew had internet at that time, myself included. People would pass around these midway sheets in the arcade that had the current list of fatalities. They didn't always work because the machines weren't up to the newest version yet. Soooo many rumors of special moves and abilities haha. The game would just say "game over" when you beat it too. That was always great.

Wow, you actually beat the game? When I was 8 and put my 50 cents in the game, it would usually eat my 5 dollars in a couple of minutes because I would constantly be losing, especially in the case if I were fighting against Kintaro, I thought he was even harder than Shao Khan when I foght him.

Heh, I don't go back that far with the internet, it would probably a little further where I would be going to a website called "cheatplanet.com" for all my cheats, gamefaqs.com rules em all now

[AdamGomez1987]

Golden Axe and Teenage Mutant Ninja Tutles: The Arcade Game. Those games were beat-em up heaven when they came out. I was a little, little kid just getting into gaming and these blew me away. Especially the 4-player controls on both games. How cool was it when you got 4-players on the same game kicking Foot Clan or Barbarian ass?

I don't remember Golden-Axe but I defintiely remember The Ninja Turtles arcade game and since I was kid, I sucked at it so badly. The funny thing is that I remember I had the NES port, but since I was a little kid I treat them like seperate games because it was obvious the arcade version was so much better lol

[brunoafh]

Always and forever The Simpsons beat em' up and TMNT Arcade.

I think I have to go with this all the way also, but throw the X-Men beat em up in there too. I was always fond of the Capcom and SNK fighters too of course.

[scarper]

Back when Sega's chain of arcades were still open (totally forgot the name.)

Two story tall arcade filled with nothing but awesome arcade games. Every single Time Crisis, House of the Dead 3 on a bigass screen, bajillions of racing games, fighters, multiple DDR machines, a few quality shmups, IT WAS AMAZING AND NOW ITS CLOSED DOWN.

I had a birthday party there two years ago. We all got unlimited everything for free for the entire day. That is my fondest arcade memory.

[AdamGomez1987]

Back when Sega's chain of arcades were still open (totally forgot the name.)

Two story tall arcade filled with nothing but awesome arcade games. Every single Time Crisis, House of the Dead 3 on a bigass screen, bajillions of racing games, fighters, multiple DDR machines, a few quality shmups, IT WAS AMAZING AND NOW ITS CLOSED DOWN.

I had a birthday party there two years ago. We all got unlimited everything for free for the entire day. That is my fondest arcade memory.

Wow! that sounds like a a place in the the mall not too far from here. It's two stories high and unfortunately it's reached its peak because of the discontinue of technology. It's a rotten shame to that they stopped over here, I guess people started to come to the fact that home consoles are the way to go.

In that machine, you dont' put quarters in, you give them money and you swipe a credit card and it would deduct a number of *points* that would be left.

Now that it's losing popularity, you get the card you can do whatever for the rest of the day which I assume they don't count the ticket games.

[BoringSupreez]

Back when Sega's chain of arcades were still open (totally forgot the name.)

Two story tall arcade filled with nothing but awesome arcade games. Every single Time Crisis, House of the Dead 3 on a bigass screen, bajillions of racing games, fighters, multiple DDR machines, a few quality shmups, IT WAS AMAZING AND NOW ITS CLOSED DOWN.

I had a birthday party there two years ago. We all got unlimited everything for free for the entire day. That is my fondest arcade memory.

Wow! that sounds like a a place in the the mall not too far from here. It's two stories high and unfortunately it's reached its peak because of the discontinue of technology. It's a rotten shame to that they stopped over here, I guess people started to come to the fact that home consoles are the way to go.

In that machine, you dont' put quarters in, you give them money and you swipe a credit card and it would deduct a number of *points* that would be left.

Now that it's losing popularity, you get the card you can do whatever for the rest of the day which I assume they don't count the ticket games.

Where is this arcade, anyway?

[AdamGomez1987]

In Auburn Hills called Great Lakes Crossing: Great Lakes Crossing Outlets, as I'm trying to look at their official site I no longer see it so I'm going to sadly assume that it's been put to rest. It's been well over a year since I visited that mall.

They still have Jeepers! Food Fun and a Monkey their mall version of a Chuck E. Cheese which I know has their own row of arcade games in the corner.

Yeah, I just went to the official Gameworks website: Gameworks fell off the face of the earth in Michigan. R.I.P.

[thatdanGguy]

TMNT the arcade machine made me miss my friends birthday(sort of). I remember he had his birthday party at a malibu castle when they had just received the 4-player TMNT cab. Me and another friend used our party money to play through and were at the end battling krang when they called for everyone to sing happy birthday. My friend was torn, stay and see the end of the game, something that was rarely accomplished in arcades in those days, or go be part of the actual birthday party which was the reason we were there at all.
Needless to say I stayed and kept playing and he went to go sing happy birthday. He ran back just as the credits were ending and the game restarted. I'm not friends with the kid whose party it was. Big surprise there, but I am still friends with my TMNT buddy, and we still bring up that party once and a while and laugh.
I got lots of arcade memories but this one sticks with me because of the awesome game and even better friends. My arcade buddy, not the birthday boy, screw that guy:)