There was a time in my adolescence where I was completely addicted to arcade shooters. I think before the year 2000 I had beaten every single one on the market.
Question of the Day, March 11, 2010
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I played the original TMNT daily during my lunch break in grade school. I don't know where I even got the money to afford it.
Stuffed somewhere on my hard drive is a half-finished text file of a post I was going to write here on the Escapist, detailing my years growing up as an arcade rat, from Pac-Man and Centipede to Virtua Cop and Mortal Kombat to House of the Dead 4 and Tekken 5. I have been epically ninja'ed!
But anyway. As said above, I practically grew up in arcades, and I am sad to see their decline. Even at the age of 34 I still have the urge to plunk some tokens into a machine, pick up a heavy plastic replica gun, and blast things. Going guns-akimbo on House of the Dead 4 is a serious blast. And has anyone had the chance to play these [http://www.coinopexpress.com/products/machines/shooting_games/Gun_Blade_NY_(DX)_744.html] games [http://www.coinopexpress.com/products/machines/shooting_games/LA_Machine_Guns_(DX)_727.html]? Mounted machineguns + rocket-launcher-toting androids = SO MUCH FUN.
But anyway. As said above, I practically grew up in arcades, and I am sad to see their decline. Even at the age of 34 I still have the urge to plunk some tokens into a machine, pick up a heavy plastic replica gun, and blast things. Going guns-akimbo on House of the Dead 4 is a serious blast. And has anyone had the chance to play these [http://www.coinopexpress.com/products/machines/shooting_games/Gun_Blade_NY_(DX)_744.html] games [http://www.coinopexpress.com/products/machines/shooting_games/LA_Machine_Guns_(DX)_727.html]? Mounted machineguns + rocket-launcher-toting androids = SO MUCH FUN.
I haven't spent too much time in arcades. Something I'd like to remedy to be quite honest. The only problem is the fact that there are only 2 arcades in my country.
Granted, one of those two is in my city, but the most recent game they have over there is Tekken 4. The last time I went I spent most of my time with the pinball machines and a few rounds of every single House of the Dead machine they had. If they'd update the games a bit, or at least stop removing the machines I actually enjoy I'd go more often.
I would like to take this time to complain about the fact they removed Super Monkey Ball within a month. That was one of the best games they had over there.
Granted, one of those two is in my city, but the most recent game they have over there is Tekken 4. The last time I went I spent most of my time with the pinball machines and a few rounds of every single House of the Dead machine they had. If they'd update the games a bit, or at least stop removing the machines I actually enjoy I'd go more often.
I would like to take this time to complain about the fact they removed Super Monkey Ball within a month. That was one of the best games they had over there.
Not since I was about 6, and even then I think it was one within a bowling alley/general leisure centre. And I couldn't make the bloody things work most of the time anyway, but then I was about 6 and the machines were probably crap too.
