Still Remember The First Time You Played It....

[2DForever]

The singing was the best bit

It just isn't an arcade unless you hear "Daytonnnaaaaaaa" ringing in the background somewhere!

 

[MarkGrossi]

Street Fighter 2. The build up was incredible. I'd re-read my copies of C&VG and Mean Machines, looking at the same screens of the game, over and over and over; memorising moves before I'd even played it.

Everything about it looked perfect, and I still vividly remember a screen of E Honda A Hundred Hand Slapping Ryu with that blur the camera would produce trying to capture movement. It looked magical.

When I finally found a machine in Portobello I couldn't believe I was actually playing it.

 

[Vorbis]

Space invaders, Asteroids , Donkey Kong & Wizard of Wor are the ones I remember having a first play of.

Space Invaders - campsite in the lake District somewhere

Asteroids - at my first and (thank fuck) only visit to Pontins

Donkey Kong - in a hotel on a school trip to the Rhine valley somewhere near Cologne

Wizard of Wor - in my (then) local model shop in Romford.

I was and still am shit at all of them

 

[Alpha1]

Space Invaders tabletop. Hotel foyer Jersey or Guernsey.

Frogger tabletop. Isle of Wight hotel bar area somewhere between Ryde to Shanklin.

Atari Starwars. Marwell Zoo. Actually got this actual machine many years ago but foolishly let it go doh.

Double Dragon / Black Tiger / Armed Formation F / Legendary Wings / Rabbit Punch. Circle K convenience store. I am 99% certain I have the actual Rabbit Punch PCB which i bought from Swallow Amusements in 1998!

Cube Quest. Clarence Pier Portsmouth

Time Traveller. Clarence Pier Portsmouth

Virtua Racing. Clarence Pier Portsmouth

Daytona. Clarence Pier Portsmouth

Mortal Kombat II. Olympia Amusements Lee on Solent

Rodge Racer Full Scale. Clarence Pier Portsmouth

Galaxian3. Clarence Pier Portsmouth


Great memories ❤️

 

[Bods]

OutRun I remember so well

Operation Wolf I can remember having first go on it but can't for life of me remember where it was, I don't have any memory of playing it in local arcades
we played Double Dragon so much I can't remember the actual first go but least i know where it was with all the other classics in that small arcade
Only cab I can remember playing for 1st time in that place was Road Runner because I decided one day to have a go as I'd been playing it on the C64 loads and I lasted probably 1 min so it was my first and last go lol due to lack of money and getting game value

100% remember seeing Dragon's Lair for first time my mate says was in Ross's Cafe M1 Servies though it had changed names buy then but names stick, mate had a go.. obviously didn't last long but I stood watching it for a while in amazement. Maybe it was in the services I played some games was be before we were driving, we could walk over the fields straight to the services which was cool back then to go somewhere you couldn't go unless in a car. Possible I played Op Wolf there in the main area when they had video games, assuming it was the main reason we walked there to see what arcade cabs they had else it's a bus ride into town, shame I can't remember more about going there than Dragon's lair, I'll have to ask my mate

Pretty sure it was Skegness I first saw Ridge Racer Deluxe and had a go, looked incredible at the time but didn't do well in full manual mode
Also I remember having first go on OutRun Deluxe at Skegness in early 2000s in arcade next to mcdonalds, had the Japan layout in that one

 

[Bods]

Retroman839 obviously got far too much pocket money as a kid?????

I think “outrun” was the first driver I actually felt I was in the car in spite of standing with one foot on throttle ….I didn’t own one for ages due to cost but played it on M6 services at knutsford when I engineered part time for associated leisure…great way to spend winter days when seaside seasonal arcades closed.. There have been lots of good drivers in my opinion…

** The one game stands out in my memory is “Hunchback”… took delivery mid afternoon and wife and I played it till 4am next day by which time we clocked over 1400 metered units £140 worth! The meter read about 660 when it was bought ex showroom demo from hazelgrove music ltd it passed 2000 by next morning……

It took about 6 hours nearly midnight before I got on the rope swing first screen, I would have spent over £50 if I didn’t have the keys for sure just to achieve that…

Then the following levels were a bit less stressful until the level where random arrows come in behind as you also jump to clear castle battlements, maybe with soldiers spiking you from below on each jump too (screen 4 if I recall?) so frustrating if you stand you get an arrow in the arse .. if you run and jump you get an arrow back of your head …. Ouch either way life lost..

Went to bed dreaming about falling in the pit missing the rope… it took so long to realise reverse back to edge of screen and run fast to leap at the rope .. still needed expert timing but once succeeded I enjoyed the game and once sited it made a lot of money … I had about 4 or more of them in the end….

We similarly got quite addicted to “missile command” …….. playing into the night!

before I was driving a car playing OutRun I was like this is like driving a real car That's how amazed I was with it, everything worked with precision it was a dream to play it with the sense of speed, super cool scenary and a Red Ferrari and cool music, must have been mind blowing to play it in the Deluxe Sitdown cab at the time

 

[big10p]

before I was driving a car playing OutRun I was like this is like driving a real car That's how amazed I was with it, everything worked with precision it was a dream to play it with the sense of speed, super cool scenary and a Red Ferrari and cool music, must have been mind blowing to play it in the Deluxe Sitdown cab at the time

You forgot about the hot chick riding shotgun. 😀

 

[Bods]

You forgot about the hot chick riding shotgun. 😀

Skipped that part as it was even harder than getting a car and passing test trying to get Hot chick