Greatest Arcade Memory?

[AdamGomez1987]

As I look around, there aren't many arcades any longer. Every city I used to go to there used to be an arcade in each mall. It's now come to the point that I only know of one city near my area that has an arcade and it is very small unless I head to the Great Lakes Crossing where the arcade is much larger, but doesn't stand to the glory days that it once had. I'm sure many of you have went through this as you got older so here's a question, were you ever in the time where arcades peaked?

I remember in the city of Lansing there was this mall I used to go to. With $5 I would practically live in the arcade until it was time to go home. During this time I remember games such as Street Fighter III New Generation (the first one), Marvel vs Capcom ( 2 wasn't out yet) Mortal Kombat 4, Street Fighter The Movie The Game. There were a handful more but the thing with me was that I was in love with vs fighting games at that time.

Question with the rest of you, was there an arcade you remember that peaked and has disappeared into memory?

[hashiriya1]

I was in 6th grade when Street Fighter II hit arcades. Before that I didn't have any fond memories. After that there were too many memories and friends made to count. That game and games influenced by it (MK, KI, VF) has made such an impact on the lives of people of my generation. The biggest highlight was winning a Street Fighter Alpha 2 tournament at Sunnyvale Golfland. Sunnyvale Golfland was the mecca of Capcom arcade games (Capcom USA's headquarters was close by). After that I slowly withdrew from arcades until Cave shmups started popping up.

[Balasubbie]

The biggest highlight was winning a Street Fighter Alpha 2 tournament at Sunnyvale Golfland. .

What was the prize?

[AdamGomez1987]

I was in 6th grade when Street Fighter II hit arcades. Before that I didn't have any fond memories. After that there were too many memories and friends made to count. That game and games influenced by it (MK, KI, VF) has made such an impact on the lives of people of my generation. The biggest highlight was winning a Street Fighter Alpha 2 tournament at Sunnyvale Golfland. Sunnyvale Golfland was the mecca of Capcom arcade games (Capcom USA's headquarters was close by). After that I slowly withdrew from arcades until Cave shmups started popping up.

wow, I was like 4 when Street Fighter II came out in 1991 and the time I actually remember video gaming pretty hard was when the first Mortal Kombat game out and I clearly remember when I was 8, I would be constantly looking at the Mortal Kombat II machine and it was so highly criticized, the thought of putting 50 cents into a machine! It was insanity!! So while I would be playing Mortal Kombat 1, I would always be looking over dreaming of the thought of playing as Reptile..lol! no joke either!

[hashiriya1]

The biggest highlight was winning a Street Fighter Alpha 2 tournament at Sunnyvale Golfland. .

What was the prize?

100 bucks and a trophy.

[BoringSupreez]

The biggest highlight was winning a Street Fighter Alpha 2 tournament at Sunnyvale Golfland. .

What was the prize?

100 bucks and a trophy.

What's with the sad face? Who doesn't love $100?

[AdamGomez1987]

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What's with the sad face? Who doesn't love $100?[/quote]

Who doesn't love a trophy?

[BurningDoom]

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?

[Runefaust]

My local comic store, back in the day, getting a KoF '96 cab and an X-Men Children of the Atom cab. Trips to the comic store suddenly became even more epic!

[J T]

I remember playing VS Super Mario Bros in the arcade before anyone I knew had an NES. You had to wait forEVER to play that game. Kids would stack their quarters on the screen to mark their place in line and I remember the quarters stretched across the entire screen, 3 rows deep. It was clear that Super Mario Bros was going to be something huge, but I had no idea at the time that I would still be playing Mario games well into my 30s.