Playing at home doesn’t count!
This is just outing people that are in their 40s.
You could be in your 30s. Movie theaters had them as a way to kill time into the 00s sometimes. I believe a chunk of the Dreamcast library were arcade ports! I think? Idk
I was mostly joking. I know that arcades still exist but I didn’t think it was super prevalent.
its definitely not super prevalent anymore, nobody wants to do the maintenance for one thing
Even the ones that are just nostalgia bait for adults are usually kinda trash, “toss a couple machines in the corner of a bar and call it an arcade bar” type deals.
Some decent ones are out there but you have to seek them out usually
Dance Dance Revolution. I spent 5+ hours playing/watching/shadowing with my best friend at the local ice cream parlor for a year-ish. The time I spent made our friendship even stronger, was foundational for my love of exercise, and kept me from doing dumb shit like getting addicted to pills.
Mortal Kombat. Fucking love that game. I used to work at an arcade in a mall, and after close I’d hang out and play for free in the dark all by myself.
One night I was playing, again, by myself in a dark arcade with just a row of games on, in a dark empty mall. I was playing Liu Kang and had just beat the shit out of and fatalitied Kano on the bridge.
I’m expecting to go to the next level, instead this green ninja looking like Scorpion and Sub-Zero that I had never seen before drops into the screen. I had no knowledge of Reptile being hidden in the game, and it scared the ever loving shit out of me. My heart was racing, adrenaline pumping, and my hands were shaking so bad I got my ass handed to me in the next fight.
i play pinball not arcade, and my favorite machine is Red and Ted’s Roadshow
Other greats are The Addams Family pinball machine and Theatre of Magic
also I played a Stranger Things pinball machine the other day, it was a new one but was surprisingly fun and actually felt like it was worth a dollar
Hydro Thunder!
Arcade jet-fuel boat racing game with a bunch of crazy environments and shortcuts. All the machines seemed to have really overturned motors (or whatever made the seats shake) and it was awesome.
