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9 years 1 month ago
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When you were a kid, what were the games you always went to first on your visit to the arcade? And what was your arcade experience like?
The arcade video games that I always played were Ninja Turtles, X-Men, and The Simpsons. But I always preferred the non-video games at the arcade, which gave you tickets, like the Bozo the Clown buckets, the Gopher Whacking, Air Hockey, the one where you roll a ball up a ramp and try to get it into holes in the wall; and the machine where a slider periodically pushes a bunch of quarters towards edge off a surface, and you put in a quarter to try to get it in a position where a bunch of other quarters will fall off the edge, so you can take them. I developed a mild addiction to that one. Yay childhood gambling.
I usually got enough tickets to get some little plastic toy like a little compass or nose-glasses. My sister saved hers in order to get the 100+ ticket items like the stereos. But we never cashed them in and I still have a shoebox filled with long strings of yellow tickets.
I stopped going to arcades when I was around eight, and I never entered one again until 6 years later, in 1999. I was astounded by how much they've changed. No longer was one or two quarters sufficient; all the decent games required three or more! And they were all so flashy and expensive, with huge screens and advanced 3D graphics. The arcade's interior decoration was revamped to give off a dark, moody teenager atmosphere. And quarters were replaced with tokens.
It was no longer the comfortable fun place I visited to get tickets to buy little plastic novelties. Nowadays, even though the games have more dimensions, being inside an arcade almost means risking sensory overload. I miss arcades in the good old days. Does anyone else?
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Seriously though I agree w/ you about TMNT,Simpson, X-men, ect. I wish they still made games like those. 
Narrator: Man lives in the sunlit world of what he believes to be reality. But... there is, unseen by most, an underworld, a place that is just as real, but not as brightly lit... a Darkside
Laughing like heck typing this!!!!
