The Arcade

[Tank]

I’m going full @notherhalohere . . .

15 year old you has been dropped off at the mall with a pocketful of quarters and a three hour window. You head to the arcade. What are you playing?

[arch stanton]

Defender or pinball

[St1ck]

Victor's mom. 

[Blarg]

That arcade would be in Newport Beach and I would need dimes for skeeball and the gunner trainer that used real footage of Messerschmitt Bf 109's attacking a bomber. I never got into pinball and Missile Command was still five years away. 

[gotbeer]

9 hours ago, Tank said:

I’m going full @notherhalohere . . .

15 year old you has been dropped off at the mall with a pocketful of quarters and a three hour window. You head to the arcade. What are you playing?

On a side not to that.  Whenever I see Karate Kid, can't help to say, Golf N Stuff is nowhere close to Reseda.  

And whatever I played, the quarters didn't last long.  I don't remember what I played.  I know the classics were in there, asteroids, missle command, space invaders, pac man.  I remember the Stop n Go had Sinistar.  And the Pizza place had Dragon's Lair.  

[Jason]

Mortal Kombat 

[Tank]

2 hours ago, gotbeer said:

On a side not to that.  Whenever I see Karate Kid, can't help to say, Golf N Stuff is nowhere close to Reseda.  

yeah, that always made me chuckle. it's at least an hour away. we used to take our 8th graders there every fall for the first class activity of the year. lots of fun memories.

[Tank]

10 hours ago, Blarg said:

That arcade would be in Newport Beach and I would need dimes for skeeball and the gunner trainer that used real footage of Messerschmitt Bf 109's attacking a bomber. I never got into pinball and Missile Command was still five years away. 

my experience was similar - didn't really have a local arcade where i lived but when i found skeeball, i was all over it. i think that was mostly at shakey's pizza place. 

my favorite "video game" to play back then was an arcade baseball game at Disneyland. it was mechanical and "pitched" a ball by rolling it to home plate, where you controlled a bat and swung at it to hit. depending on where the ball landed, that's what you got - a single, a double, an out, a homer, etc. I think they even had mechanical base runners for a while. this game was found on main street in what is now the back part of the candy store. i loved hitting that up at the end of the day before we left the park.

[Amazing Larry]

Street Fighter II Champion Edition

[Justin]

NBA Jam

Maybe Street Fighter 2... as long as there are no Asian kids around. 

[Roy Hobbs]

2 hours ago, Tank said:

yeah, that always made me chuckle. it's at least an hour away. we used to take our 8th graders there every fall for the first class activity of the year. lots of fun memories.

The Golf n Stuff they filmed at is actually in Norwalk.I happened to be there that night,  you can see my Harley in the parking lot. I did not know what movie they were filming at the time and I wondered why the parking lot was wet in the middle of summer.I have to admit it was pretty cool when I saw that scene.

[Brandon]

1 hour ago, Justin said:

NBA Jam

Maybe Street Fighter 2... as long as there are no Asian kids around. 

This is a very slanted post with everything going on lately

[Lou]

You guys were going to arcades when you were 15? 

I was touching bewbies. 

[HaloMilliVanilli]

Probably Pac man, Mrs. Pac Man, Centipede, Donkey Kong and Jr., LadyBug, Frogger.

[HaloMilliVanilli]

Also Roy Hobbs, I always thought that Golf N' Stuff was in Downey.  But maybe the border of Downey/Norwalk is right there.

[St1ck]

22 hours ago, Roy Hobbs said:

The Golf n Stuff they filmed at is actually in Norwalk.I happened to be there that night,  you can see my Harley in the parking lot. I did not know what movie they were filming at the time and I wondered why the parking lot was wet in the middle of summer.I have to admit it was pretty cool when I saw that scene.

Did you catch a glimpse of Ms Larusso's piece of shit car?

[failos]

Galaga, Street Fighter II, and/or Crusin’

[failos]

20 hours ago, Lou said:

You guys were going to arcades when you were 15? 

I was touching bewbies. 

You can do both, pal

[gotbeer]

31 minutes ago, failos said:

You can do both, pal

 

[Roy Hobbs]

1 hour ago, st1ckboy said:

Did you catch a glimpse of Ms Larusso's piece of shit car?

No such luck.

[Lou]

1 hour ago, failos said:

You can do both, pal

No, you can't. 

[JAHV76]

Gallaga but more like ages 9-13

[ten ocho recon scout]

13 hours ago, st1ckboy said:

Did you catch a glimpse of Ms Larusso's piece of shit car?

"I really like your car, Mrs Larussooooooo"

I always quote that and nobody gets it.

[Tank]

On 4/9/2021 at 2:58 PM, Lou said:

You guys were going to arcades when you were 15? 

I was touching bewbies. 

in fairness, it's not an either-or proposition.

[Lou]

2 hours ago, Tank said:

in fairness, it's not an either-or proposition.

If you were spending time at the arcade when you were 15, the bewbie option definitely wasn't available to you.