Quarters & Arcades... (Destiny)

by dogcow , Hiding from Bob, in the vent core., Tuesday, January 20, 2015, 13:05 (3384 days ago) @ Earendil

Goodness did I ever play a lot of Street Fighter 2, Mortal Combat, & pinball (Twilight Zone I'm looking @ you). The bragging rights that came with getting your name on the high scores list on a machine... so much fun. So many quarters... so so so many quarters. :)

So, you would say that you are for the idea of pay-to-play aye? ;-)

Certainly not! In some ways it was much better when I was finally able to own those games on a snes (still working on acquiring a good pinball machine), although something was certainly lost with the final death of the arcades in the 90s. Watching other random people (IRL) and then, if you thought you could beat them, challenging them by placing your quarter on the glass... having a group of guys huddled around a cabinet where a couple really good players were fighting it out, the public cheers. There was just something to it. Tho' my pocket book was very grateful to purchase the cart when it was released :).