Quarters? Neo Geo Cup '98: The Road to the Victory. Pesos? Marvel vs Capcom: Clash of Super Heroes.
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What arcade game did you dump the most quarters into?
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Street Fighter II. I could buy an arcade cabinet with all the money I dumped in that game, more so if I count all the updates/versions until ST.
A mix between Dragon's Lair, Space Ace and the original Donkey Kong.
My friends and I ran the OG Gauntlet machine one night, as well.
My friends and I ran the OG Gauntlet machine one night, as well.
By quarters, do American people mean 25 cents?
In the UK arcades were £1. I blew £20 on House of the Dead, I could have bought a couple of books for that price. Imagine if you had to pay $1 per life.
EDIT: Oh right, the most I spent was on Kankore Arcade in Akihabara. I spent over 20,000 Japanese yen easily so I definitely went beyond £/$200. The cool thing about this though is you actually get physically rewarded with collectible cards that store ship data on the card. So you can go play the same game in a different location and the cards have your progress saved.
In the UK arcades were £1. I blew £20 on House of the Dead, I could have bought a couple of books for that price. Imagine if you had to pay $1 per life.
EDIT: Oh right, the most I spent was on Kankore Arcade in Akihabara. I spent over 20,000 Japanese yen easily so I definitely went beyond £/$200. The cool thing about this though is you actually get physically rewarded with collectible cards that store ship data on the card. So you can go play the same game in a different location and the cards have your progress saved.
Can't remember which one specifically, but it'd either be a beat-em-up like Knights of the Round, a light gun shooter, probably between Area 51, Revolution X, or T2 (due to being locally available in a rental store) or fighting games, namely MKII, Third Strike or Primal Rage.
Tekken 3 has not because it was at the gas station down the street from me which was within waking distance.
I probably played SF2 for the most amount of time total than any other single game just because it was everywhere, there were so many versions of it, and it was so popular that everyone played it, but I do remember how beat em ups like TMNT, Simpsons, and X-Men would take like $0.50-$1 at a time and you could do through all your lives in a matter of a minute. Those games weren't especially long, but there was something about playing with other people, especially the 6 person X-men cabinet, that made it a fun experience and something where you almost didn't want to die or run out of money just so you wouldn't let down the team when everyone was having a good run.
Arcades were really something special during their peak. Anyone born after the 90's really missed on on an element that doesn't exist today. I still remember the first time seeing a Fatality in Mortal Kombat or a Ultra Combo in Killer Instinct or watching a crowd gather around someone playing to the end of Dragon's Lair. Even playing strangers and sharing tips was a cool moment where as a kid, teenagers would tell me stuff or I'd do the same for other kids when I got older. Just a better atmosphere around old arcades than online gaming these days.
Put a good chunk of money into the Time Crisis games. They were my jam back in the day.
Also put a lot of money into the two Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle games, an obscure beat em up called Gate of Doom, and a lot of Rampage.
Also put a lot of money into the two Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle games, an obscure beat em up called Gate of Doom, and a lot of Rampage.
I can't imagine how much I spent on Rush 2049. Letting you store progress and unlock stuff was downright devious.
Time Crisis 2
The Simpsons Arcade
X-Men
....and the GOAT
Die Hard Arcade
Beat it at a Cineplex Odeon back in the day.
The Simpsons Arcade
X-Men
....and the GOAT
Die Hard Arcade
Beat it at a Cineplex Odeon back in the day.
I honestly can't remember which was the most, but I'll list ones I remember I played a lot:
Daytona
Street Fighter ll
Rygar
WWF (can't remember proper name but it had Ultimate Warrior who I always picked)
Wonder Boy in Monster Land
A Volleyball game
Many football/soccer games
1943 or 42 can't remember which.
Daytona
Street Fighter ll
Rygar
WWF (can't remember proper name but it had Ultimate Warrior who I always picked)
Wonder Boy in Monster Land
A Volleyball game
Many football/soccer games
1943 or 42 can't remember which.
Area 51, Time Crisis, Simpsons, and probably After Burner games.
Look at these things. Sure it costs $1 at the time, and I grew up broke, but I always made time to play it at least once when I got to go to the arcade. The whole thing would shake,. move, and rumble with your movements and it used both the joystick and throttle.
My 5 year old self was blown away by this thing.
Look at these things. Sure it costs $1 at the time, and I grew up broke, but I always made time to play it at least once when I got to go to the arcade. The whole thing would shake,. move, and rumble with your movements and it used both the joystick and throttle.
My 5 year old self was blown away by this thing.
My favorite pizza place had a Cruisin' World machine and I was always drawn to playing it, just listen to that attract music!
YOU'VE GOT THE SPEED, YOU'VE GOT THE POWER, TO CRUISE THE WORLD!
YOU'VE GOT THE SPEED, YOU'VE GOT THE POWER, TO CRUISE THE WORLD!
Cadillacs & Dinosaurs. When I was little, me cousin and I would visit this tiny little store nearby that housed two arcade machines. One was Cadillacs & Dinosaurs and the other was a bunch of other games including Contra. We would sometimes spend hours at the C&D machine because practically nobody else in the neighbourhood cared to play and the owner of the store charged very little for it.
Yeah that was definitely a factor. There was a time when I could beat strider every time on one quarter (sure lots of people could do this) and I once beat rastan on a single quarter (pretty tough, love that music so much!). But never Magician Lord because that game is a Bitch!
That's as close to mastering games as I've ever done, and beating r-type, lol.
That's a tough one, it is undoubtedly a fighting game though. It is probably Soul Calibur or Tekken 3. Otherwise Samurai Shodown, Mortal Kombat, Street Fighter 2 are pretty high on the list. I think Turtles in Time is probably the non-fighting game I played the most.