• ninjamonkey
    • 8 years 9 months ago
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    		 everyone has that game that was in the arcade that no matter what u did, u lost 5-25 bux at a time, sicne u couldnt stop playing it. sure, every time, ud get ur ass handed to u, but it was SO addictive, u didnt care!



    mine is the metal slug series. i saived this game, single handedly, from all the money i spent on it.


    whats urs?
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    • brown_eyed1
      • 8 years 9 months ago
      • Posts: 1951
      		 DDR. At a recent birthday party my friend had, we all spent about a total of $20+ in quarters on DDR alone. It got pretty crazy!
      Cookie!!! OM NOM NOM!
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      • Star_Wolf
        • 8 years 9 months ago
        • Posts: 140
        		 Slot machines :twisted:
        :idea:
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        • IMissThe80s
          • 8 years 9 months ago
          • Posts: 482
          		 those machines that had quarters laying at the bottom w/ a slide going in and out, and you had to drop a quarter in the right spot to get the machine to push more quarters out

          also, the claw machines w/ the stuffed animals


          but for me, I'd say the driving games like Cruisin' USA or Cruisin' World, or any driving game where you could use the manual shifter! those ruled. I even played a Ferarri racing game where you actually had to use the clutch!
          Doc.....are you telling me that this sucker is NUCLEAR?!
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          • System
            • 8 years 9 months ago
            • Posts: 74809
            		 The Simpsons arcade game. Looking back at it now, I have no clue why I did that.

            Also, the X-Men arcade game. I'd tear it up as Nightcrawler as my brother played the role of Colossus.
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            • jetfire426
              • 8 years 9 months ago
              • Posts: 402
              		 guantlet was the game that i pumped alot of change into... ahhh man that was a game..
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              • galaxy warrior
                • 8 years 9 months ago
                • Posts: 13
                jetfire426 wrote:
                guantlet was the game that i pumped alot of change into... ahhh man that was a game..

                gauntlet was such a bastard with quateres :) another bad one was renagade. that game would cheese the hell out me every other quarter.
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                • brown_eyed1
                  • 8 years 9 months ago
                  • Posts: 1951
                  IMissThe80s wrote:
                  those machines that had quarters laying at the bottom w/ a slide going in and out, and you had to drop a quarter in the right spot to get the machine to push more quarters out

                  also, the claw machines w/ the stuffed animals


                  but for me, I'd say the driving games like Cruisin' USA or Cruisin' World, or any driving game where you could use the manual shifter! those ruled. I even played a Ferarri racing game where you actually had to use the clutch!


                  Hell...YES. I'm actually not bad at the claw games, but I recall a time where I went to Chuck E Cheese and spent a great deal of money on one of those quarter-slide games. . .lol....
                  Cookie!!! OM NOM NOM!
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                  • Bloody
                    • 8 years 9 months ago
                    • Posts: 85
                    		 I remember spending $9.00 beating Silent Scope 2.
                    Why save the world, when you can rule it?!
                    -Goldeneye: Rogue Agent
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                    • Steven M
                      • 8 years 9 months ago
                      • Posts: 220
                      		 Metal Slug X. The first arcade game I've played in years... I must've spent dozens of Euros on it. Only ever got onto Mission 5, though.
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                      • Shaqdaddy
                        • 8 years 9 months ago
                        • Posts: 597
                        		 i've spent quite a few dollars in my day on the original gauntlet, area 51, and carnevil
                        Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.

                        -Albert Einstein
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                        • crinos43
                          • 8 years 9 months ago
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                          		 For me, the game was Skeeball.
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                          • Blue Blur
                            • 8 years 9 months ago
                            • Posts: 359
                            		 The only game I've blown a lot on has been that new Star Wars Trilogy arcade game. I'm such a SW freak that it would be unsettling if I started playing it and never beat it. I never could beat that Boba Fett part, though.
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                            • System
                              • 8 years 9 months ago
                              • Posts: 74809
                              		 Gauntlet. That game doesn't actually have an ending, does it? A friend and I must've spent $20 each one Saturday afternoon trying to "win" it.

                              "I've not seen such bravery!" - still one of my all-time favorite video game quotes... usually heard when you lose like 1000 health in less than 30 seconds courtesy of close-range dragon breath. Or charging through a room filled with ghosts without bothering to shoot. :lol:

                              I also spent a ton on Dragon's Lair and Cliff Hanger until I had all the moves memorized. They got pretty cheap after that though.
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                              • happy7117
                                • 8 years 9 months ago
                                • Posts: 267
                                		 Big Bertha!!!! In case you don't know what
                                that is or never played it, it's where you
                                shoot balls into this big things mouth
                                and try to increase her weight!!!

                                Of course I had to keep dumping quarters
                                in to keep playing.. I was desperate
                                to get to 900 points, or the highest
                                the points would go!!!

                                My highest on Big Bertha was 875 points!!

                                "Feed me more!"

                                "I'm not on a diet!!"

                                "Feed me another one!"

                                "I'm so hungry!"

                                "Only xxx pounds!!"

                                "Feed me!"
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                                • KI Simpson
                                  • 8 years 9 months ago
                                  • Posts: 204
                                  		 Almost everything at GameWorks. You'd have to be insane to get anything besides the time based card there.
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                                  • System
                                    • 8 years 9 months ago
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                                    		 Those ticket games at Aladdin's Castle, Hollywood Park & Haunted Trails. Speaking of Aladdin's Castle, after the arcade shutdown, I still have over 100 tokens.
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                                    • number5
                                      • 8 years 9 months ago
                                      • Posts: 57
                                      		 One is Elevator Action. The other one I guess is classified as a game, the claw machine?. I lost alot of coin with that thing.
                                      80sVacation
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                                      • Mad-Mike
                                        • 8 years 9 months ago
                                        • Posts: 539
                                        		 My earliest was Pole Position II at Aladdin's Castle, I could kick ARSE on the Fuji and Seaside Course if I remember right.

                                        A little later I discovered Klax, which I was drawn to because of the teeny cabinet. I was only about 9-10 years old and I was already dwarfing the Klax arcade cabinet, I remember playing klax and having back pain from bending forward for so long, I could probably stand on my knees and play it at my height now.

                                        At Chuck E. Cheese, it was Pole Position II, VS. Super Mario Bros. (which I kicked arse at as I played the normal version religiously at home), and of course, that darn ski-ball machine. Forget the rat, forget that creepy animatronic band, heck, forget the pizza, I wanted to play!

                                        Went to some summer Band thing, lo and behold, they had a video arcade downstairs at the dorms. I pumped the most quarters into Pole Position, Ms. Pac-Man, and Asteroids. Really funny that place was, they had a Playboy pinball machine, and one time I went past when the arcade was closed, and there the owner was playing it with the doors locked :shock:

                                        Cruisin USA and Cruisin World were another pair after they came out, I played those a lot.....but the one to eat up the most quarters ever.....
                                        HARD DRIVIN'! Why, because it had a stick shift, no other car sim at the time had one (this was the days of Pole Position and Rad Racer). It was the only machine in the whole arcade that needed $1 in coinage to play. It had it all, a stick shift, a key, if the graphics were on par with today, it would have been the ultimate car simulator for me.
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                                        • rocktheoldskool
                                          • 8 years 9 months ago
                                          • Posts: 623
                                          		 Man i remember playing the orginal Time Crisis...i blew so much money on that at the arcade..along with The original Simpsons video game for NES that game made me poor :x
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