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I would frequently visit the arcade, but my parents warned me that it was like throwing money in the rubbish bin. That advice mostly kept me away from arcade games. But as I said, I would make frequent visits there, and watch the others play. "Virtua fighter 2" was my favourite stop. After seeing the intro movie in a downtown arcade, it stuck to me. I even spent a few quarters occasionally on playing the game in an arcade at my local shopping mall. But I sucked; I would get to level 4 tops.
In another arcade in the same shopping centre, "Virtua fighter 3" was then announced, and I was astonished at its graphics. I never tried it there, however; number one, that game was always the busiest one, and number two, I still could hear 'don't waste money' in my head. But I really enjoyed watching that as well. And the controls were set apart from the screen. Also... I know this may sound stupid, but I found the characters so believable that 'controlling' them would have been too much for me to take.
Unfortunately (or, perhaps, fortunately), both arcades went bankrupt just when I'd reached 14, which was the mininum age to be allowed alone in the arcade. Oh well. I now have "Virtua fighter 2" on PC, though it's made off the Sega saturn game, so the backgrounds aren't alive. But there's a nice portrait mode. I've occasionally rented a Dreamcast just to play "Virtua fighter 3tb". While I find it a bit slower-moving and not as responsive-friendly as VF2 (unlike its arcade incarnation, to my best memory), I still enjoy it a lot.
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I miss those days. Settling for MAME isn't too bad at all. 
