Greatest Arcade Memory?

[BurningDoom]

Its kinda inappropriate/rude to stack your quarters onto arcade cabinet in the past or present. Its best just to wait behind the person, ask right before session gameplay starts. I recall a girl playing guitar freaks at an arcade and she was really good it, some idiot comes up with a bunch quarters just to show off. He was wearing leather pants with short spike hair. After she finished playing she left the arcade.

Recent arcade memory, I looked badass carrying two m16 guns at the same time like Rambo/Keith- metal slug. If I ever do it again I'll try get a picture. Rambo ARCADE cabinet

I never knew this was inappropriate. I did that, so did plenty of my friends. There's not turns rule. It's first come first serve just anything else you pay for with money.

[Gamerforlife]

Its kinda inappropriate/rude to stack your quarters onto arcade cabinet in the past or present. Its best just to wait behind the person, ask right before session gameplay starts. I recall a girl playing guitar freaks at an arcade and she was really good it, some idiot comes up with a bunch quarters just to show off. He was wearing leather pants with short spike hair. After she finished playing she left the arcade.

Recent arcade memory, I looked badass carrying two m16 guns at the same time like Rambo/Keith- metal slug. If I ever do it again I'll try get a picture. Rambo ARCADE cabinet

I never knew this was inappropriate. I did that, so did plenty of my friends. There's not turns rule. It's first come first serve just anything else you pay for with money.

Where I lived if you wanted to step up, you put a quarter on the cabinet. With groups of people huddled around a game like Marvel vs Street Fighter, that's how it was done. However, I never saw anyone put STACKS of quarters. It would have been interesting to see how everyone would have reacted if someone did that

[Breetai]

Its kinda inappropriate/rude to stack your quarters onto arcade cabinet in the past or present. Its best just to wait behind the person, ask right before session gameplay starts. I recall a girl playing guitar freaks at an arcade and she was really good it, some idiot comes up with a bunch quarters just to show off. He was wearing leather pants with short spike hair. After she finished playing she left the arcade.

Recent arcade memory, I looked badass carrying two m16 guns at the same time like Rambo/Keith- metal slug. If I ever do it again I'll try get a picture. Rambo ARCADE cabinet

I never knew this was inappropriate. I did that, so did plenty of my friends. There's not turns rule. It's first come first serve just anything else you pay for with money.

Where I lived if you wanted to step up, you put a quarter on the cabinet. With groups of people huddled around a game like Marvel vs Street Fighter, that's how it was done. However, I never saw anyone put STACKS of quarters. It would have been interesting to see how everyone would have reacted if someone did that

This is how it is was done. Stacks of quarters is very rude and deserves to just be ignored at least. When someone put a quarter on a vs. machine, it means they are challenging you for the machine. If you win, you keep the machine. Lose, and the winner takes control until the next challenger comes.

The only time a stack is appropriate is if NOBODY is playing the machine.

[BoringSupreez]

This is how it is was done. Stacks of quarters is very rude and deserves to just be ignored at least. When someone put a quarter on a vs. machine, it means they are challenging you for the machine. If you win, you keep the machine. Lose, and the winner takes control until the next challenger comes.

The only time a stack is appropriate is if NOBODY is playing the machine.

I had no idea there were arcade etiquettes.

[J T]

I guess it's different in various regions, but where I was from (Utah) back in the 80s you would put your quarter on the screen to mark your place in line to play the game. This separated the players from the spectators. This was back when arcades were actually popular enough that there were lines and spectators and you needed a system to keep track of who was next. When I say that VS Super Mario was 3 lines deep across the screen, that just lets you know how ridiculously popular that game was. Pretty much everyone was huddled around that machine.

[Breetai]

I guess it's different in various regions, but where I was from (Utah) back in the 80s you would put your quarter on the screen to mark your place in line to play the game. This separated the players from the spectators. This was back when arcades were actually popular enough that there were lines and spectators and you needed a system to keep track of who was next.

Yup. Everywhere I went; Ontario, Manitoba, Quebec, Alberta, Minnesota, South Dakota, Wisconsin, Michigan, Florida... it was like this everywhere I lived or holidayed at as a kid.

I had no idea there were arcade etiquettes.

There definitely was, but, to be honest, it was really just common sense. If you were sure what to do, just watch what others were doing and do likewise.
city arcades back in the day. Campground ones were usually safe.

[BurningDoom]

This is how it is was done. Stacks of quarters is very rude and deserves to just be ignored at least. When someone put a quarter on a vs. machine, it means they are challenging you for the machine. If you win, you keep the machine. Lose, and the winner takes control until the next challenger comes.

The only time a stack is appropriate is if NOBODY is playing the machine.

I had no idea there were arcade etiquettes.

Oh, okay, I see the difference now. You're talking like when Street Fighter II first came out and there were lines of people waiting to face each other.

I was little then and too scared to play the big kids kicking butt. So usually I'd just watch from afar, and then go play TMNT Arcade, Simpson Arcade, or some random space-ship shooter. So I'd stack my quarters up, or it would be me and a friend or two on the machine co-op together.

And by the time Mortal Kombat came out, the craze had kind of died out with SFII in my area. My area was never too kind to the geeks. We don't even have an arcade to speak of in our area anymore except a few machines at 1 of the 3 movie theaters in our area.

[TheSSNintendo]

Back when I was in 4th grade, the local mall had an arcade place called the "Dream Machine". It's still there, just under a different name, and it's not filled with arcade machines like it used to. Mostly caters to the younger kids.

Anyways, in 4th grade, a friend of mine had an arcade party. Basically, you could rent out the arcade about 1 hour before it opened to the rest of the public, I think. I don't know how many tokens it took, but me and a few others spent part of the party playing and beating The Simpsons.

[AznKhmerBoi]

going to the mall as kid and seeing these hip teens playing mortal kombat 2 for the first time. I was already a huge fan on martial art movies just seeing the side cabinet with raiden and lighting coming out of his hand.... .

I asked my rents if i could just hang out in the arcade and watch the older guys battle it out and they cool with it so i just hung around there and watch them played until my rents were finished shopping.

It was amazing at that time , i never seen anything so cool in life. The graphics so real, the blood and gore, and not the mention the sound effects and music.....WOW.

At that time i had super street fighter 2 turbo and that was good, but i wanted these graphics ....

[Balasubbie]

At that time i had super street fighter 2 turbo and that was good, but i wanted these graphics ....

Then Street Fighter The Movie: The Game came along and a cliche about cautious wishes comes to mind.