Couple stand out to me:
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Seeing Virtua Fighter for the first time back in what 1993 or so at an amusement park and being wowed by the graphics, thinking it was photo realistic.
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Seeing Mortal Kombat 2 on a big screen CRT cabinet and thinking I was going to go to hell because of the violence (lol).
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Playing X-Men with my dad and his friend and his kid on a 6 player machine that had widescreen, very cool for the time.
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Pumping endless quarters into Aliens vs Predator (one of my favorite arcade games).
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Seeing some dude beat Tekken Tag which I could never clear and thinking he was the coolest.
Arcades were great. A dream of mine is to visit a game center in Japan and play some of the classics on an actual machine.
Younger Millennial here. Too young to have been around for the arcade craze, but the Fish and Chips shop near my childhood home had a Metal Slug cabinet me and my friends used to love.
Cool, I had MS on the playstation, never got to play it in a cabinet.
Awh fuck yeah Metal Slug on an arcade cabinet, I can’t count the number of pizza shops/video rental shops/low-end malls I’ve seen Metal Slug machines in.
Edit: Shout out to Point Blank and Puzzle Bobble too. Those were great for just random little businesses.