>>12208089Star Wars (Atari arcade 1983)And I thought it was preposterous, although I surely didn't use that word. I'm sure as a boy I just said: "WHAT!?" and paid it anyway.
>>12208089Either SF Turbo or MK1 I think, Definitely NBA Jam, it was something absurd like $.50 a quarter.
>>12208092wow i wasnt expecting an answer from the 80s. i was thinking most people would say mortal kombat 2 or some other popular fighter. im assuming that was the sit down cab at least?
>>12208107>im assuming that was the sit down cab at least?It was. Then several years later I got to play the first release of The Ninja Warriors at Disneyland's arcade in California in 1987, before it was released it turns out for the rest of the nation in 1988 I would learn decades later. That specific game at Disneyland's arcade was 75 cents. And even at Disneyland adults and kids alike felt that was outrageous.But the worst was the cockpit version of After Burner II which was an entire dollar. That was the first time I saw the American dollar imprint worked into an arcade game.
>>12208107Nta but hologram and laser disc FMV games were always more than a quarter.I don't count shit like that or VR Racing those games are more like amusement park attractions
>>12208089Some time in the 90s, I was playing metal slug with 10p whenever the fun fair arrived.
>>12208089Dragon's LairI didn't play it myself 'cause it didn't really look fun, but it certainly attracted a crowd of people and I remember being shocked at the price
>>12208216How could I forget that one. Yeah it had a line to it too. And it was roped off--at Chuck E. Cheese.
>>12208128I have faint memories of paying one dollar to play one of those garbage hologram games. I had no idea how to actually play and died instantly. Never made the same mistake twice.
I'm an early zoomer, all arcade games I ever came across were like a full dollar per credit, sometimes even more so I never could convince my parents to let me play any. Even simple stuff like Pacman always had the prices jacked up from what should've just been a quarter.
>>12208216>dragons lair>dragon slayer
>>12208089In 1997, I had to pay $10 per step to play the Waterworld arcade game.
>>12208458my local pizza place where i played most in the 90s is in a sad state. a claw crane game, photo thing, and galaga at $1 per play
>>12208089About 2010 at a house of the dead game in the lobby of a movie theatre.
>>12208475mind brown
>>12208089in my country (australia) it was originally 20c in 1980s. around 1990 or so many operators were trying to charge 40c (because aussie 50c was incompatible with all these imported coin mechs).
>>12208089Point Blank and some hunting game were 50 cents in the arcade I went to in the mid 2000s.
>>12208089the 90s
>>12208089i always paid 25¢ per play and continue in arcades in the 80s and early 90s. the rest of you niggas got ripped off. no refunds!
>>12208089On my birthday
>posting 50 after based Dave Blunts unironically blew that unc tf OUThttps://youtu.be/VfKYL9EUKq0
NBA Jam, 1993, at the local deli. When I bitched about it at home, my much older brother said that Dragons Lair always cost 50¢ and tried to teach 11 year old me about inflation and blah blah blah. I just wanted to play NBA Jam and not have to pay fitty cent to do it.
Back in the '90s I fought this cholo dude. We were playing King of Fighters '94 at the arcade and I whooped his ass. Motherfucker couldn't take the L, started talking mad shit like "Yeah you beat me in a game, but I'll beat your ass in real life."I tried to walk away at first, not 'cause I was scared, but I was on Katella Ave in LA, deep in Mexican territory, and I knew how that shit goes. But he kept running his mouth, so eventually we squared up. Figured if I ran they'd just chase me down anyway, so fuck it, might as well throw hands clean, "tiro limpio" like they say.Ended up being a quick scrap. Dude swung wild and never landed shit. I just clocked him once, basically tossed him on his ass without even winding up for a real punch, it wasn't a badass fight but 2 retards throwing hands. After that it was over, we actually ended up cool. Shook hands, grabbed some root beer floats, then went back to one of his homie's crib and played Super Mario World and smoked some weed. Good dudes at the end of the day.
I remember wanting to try a big buck hunter HD and they were asking for like two whole bucks. unfortunately there was no wildlife nearby so I played skee ball instead
>>12213476Impressive. Glad it went well. For some reason a lot of guys equate fighting games to real fighting, which makes no sense of course, but everyone is dumb sometimes.This reminds me of when I too was playing against a cholo ese and I corned him in Street Fighter II and he lighting punched my shoulder telling me to have "honor!", so I let him out of the corner. Don't remember who won, but he was way bigger than me so he didn't beat me up and we cool on a arcade basis. yeah lame. not cool like your story, but that's life.
*lightlyThat arcade is gone now. *sniff* It's old folks homes now. Maybe arcade cabinets haunt their floors?
>>12213446Akshully, it might've been Super Mario World at a different deli, before the release of the SNES. Nobody has any idea wtf I'm taking about when I mention SMW having an arcade game. It must've been 1989 or early 1990 cuz the deli had the Willow arcade game next to the SMW one and a TMNT cabinet a few games down. There were other games, too, all set up in a back room of the deli (with its own entrance), but those are the three I remember playing. Something about the SMW cabinet was different. Maybe the gameplay was timed? idfrAll I'm certain of is that I thought it was an enormous ripoff and I decided to play Willow and TMNT from then on instead.
>>12214994It wasn't this: https://www.mariowiki.com/Super_Mario_World_(arcade)?
>>12214994Found it, Anon!It was around from sometime in 1991 to July of 1992 only. You got to play a rarity.
>>12215123I remember they had one of these at the Screwattack Gaming Convention, they had Ridge Racer 2, AVP and a bunch of other games as well. Wonder what happened to all their machines.
>>12215335>Wonder what happened to all their machines.Like most of the rest, in some Boomer's basement or garage. Anything like that, you're looking at guys who are 55 minimum and are usually approaching 75. Prices are gonna go sideways in around 15-20 years.
>>12215123>>12215117That's the one! I think so, anyway. I'm 43, bad with dates and I realised that it couldn't possibly have been 89 because I wasn't in the US yet. We moved to America in early September 1991. I must've played it in the few months after because we got SNES with a bajillion games in late April 1992. That is the one date I'm sure about because we got LttP as one of those bajillion games and that didn't come out until April. Friend, my neighbourhood back then had arcade games everyfuckingwhere. The pizza place at my corner had some SNK run'n'gun. The snacks store had Pang. The deli closest my house had X-Men and NBA Jam. One pool hall had so many fucking games, i can't list them all. There was a small arcade practically in a guy's living room that had Pit Fighter, Street Fighter 2, DJ Boy and many, many more. Golden Axe was inexplicably everywhere.The candy shop had that TMNT sequel.There was even a Catholic Church that had some arcade games in the basement, in their combo skating rink and bowling alley area. I used to play Snow Bros there.Just games everywhere. >>12215343>Anything like that, you're looking at guys who are 55 minimum and are usually approaching 75.lmaoI know a guy, a friend of my brother's, who claims to have the largest private collection of arcade cabinets on earth and it could very well be true. He bought a former factory and rather than convert it into loft apartments like a smart person, he uses it as a warehouse for his literal hundreds of arcade games. He's 75 and my brother is 55.
