Fondest Arcade Memory

[Mr_Mercury]

I seriously miss Light Gun games on a big CRT TV. The Dreamcast light guns were absolutely amazing bits of kit. Didn't have that many games unfortunately, but the ones they did (HOTD2, VC2 & Confidential Mission) were all brilliant fun.

During a very brief period between jobs in 2000, I sat in my house for about 2 weeks, smoking pot, with the curtains drawn, "dual-wielding" the light guns.

You can buy some light guns for PC that work in a very similar way to how Wii controllers worked. I bought one with recoil to play House of the Dean and Virtua Cop 2 on my M2 Emulator. Its very accurate and is probably about as close you can get without having a CRT these days.

[iLoveLasagne]

Street Fighter 2, Tekken, Mortal Kombat.
Daytona USA - especially 8 player mode
Ridge Racer - full scale cabin with huge screen
Sonic Blast Man - this is when we were about 15 and we all thought we were tough and started doing weights in the back garden during summer holidays.

[DasNutNock]

Sonic Blast Man - this is when we were about 15 and we all thought we were tough and started doing weights in the back garden during summer holidays.

The late, great Gary Mason shows you how to play SBM:

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[S-H]

GamesMaster!!

I'd completly forgotten about that!!

[DasNutNock]

All-time classic GamesMaster episode "Gore Special":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lWynWjCMs6A

[SirStoneyOfBow]

Gamesmaster was great, sans Dexter “Oi, Gameshmasta!!!” Fletcher.

[billybondsballbag]

Sitting in the Space Harrier cab for the first time in Southend and feeling like I was in the future.

I've just realised how the comparative rarity of certain arcade machines has left me with a memory not only of the game but of the location. Space Invaders in the social club, Pac Man and Defender in the local cafe. HyperSports in the Station Arcade in Grays, and Track & Field on a ferry to Cherbourg! Is this just me being on some sort of spectrum or does anyone else have a similarly-encyclopaedic set of associative memories of games and their respective locations?

[-DL-]

Kung Fu Master and Donkey Kong in the local video shop after school and during the holidays.

Heaven.

[Up the Junction]

Is this just me being on some sort of spectrum or does anyone else have a similarly-encyclopaedic set of associative memories of games and their respective locations?

If it is, I'm with you. Not that that's any consolation.

I can't remember the names of the arcades themselves, but I can recall the name of at least one machine in every one from the top of Pier Hill to The Kursaal.

[prophet:marginal]

Past the Kursaal, as it happens, there used to be a tiny little place, almost literally a corridor that opened out a bit at the end.

Therein, we located perhaps the best condition Marble Madness we ever encountered.

Coming in, as we did, from Hutton, we'd always go as far along as that area, to park and then start off in our 'secret location'.

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[Up the Junction]

Therein, we located perhaps the best condition Marble Madness we ever

There was also one in the Bowling Arcade foyer on the Pier for a while.

[prophet:marginal]

It was a fiendishly difficult game.

[DasNutNock]

It was a fiendishly difficult game.

Tried playing it with a mouse? You'd be surprised how well trackball games translate to a conventional mouse (trackpad, not so much).

[prophet:marginal]

I didn't know of any online versions, tbh.

[DasNutNock]

MAME: https://www.emuparadise.me/M.A.M.E._-_M ... mulators/7

MM ROM: https://www.emuparadise.me/M.A.M.E._-_M ... t_1)/14424

NOTE - you must own the original arcade board & hardware or something, otherwise it'd be illegal to download them. Which, of course, none of us would do because we're all 100% honest and legit.

[badabing]

One of my lads mates dad has a machine from Ultimate Arcade Cabinets, quite expensive but the games are absolutely perfect recreations of the originals, it has the lot , Track and Field, Donkey Kong, Phoenix, Space Invaders, Mr Do and so on. If I had one I wouldn't see the family for days.

[AnthraxDave]

One of my earliest memories of holidays abroad as a kid was at a hotel in Kos.
They had Double Dragon.

[Gormalysis]

I just remembered about the amount of money me and my mates used to spunk on Golden Tee in the pub when were around 19/20...

Used to play the full 18 a few times a night.

Loved Golden Tee, still got my old gold card stored away in a memory box. Nothing better than watching someone misjudge the track ball and smashing their fingers into the cabinet

EDIT: there was an old arcade machine in the take out pizza place that had Raiden on it, used to play it after school with friends. Had the high score on there for ages

Also cannot remember the last time I saw an Arabian Derby machine

[Hammerite]

Ghouls 'n Ghosts one of my all time favs (along with Shinobi)...great graphics for 1988.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P2uVsqRYBrs