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WHO REMEMBERS ARCADES?! — The Days of Quarters, Double Dragon & Hanging Out

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Channel: Mike Martins · 2017 · Gaming

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today I'm taking a little trip down memory lane.

I'm walking through an arcade, and looking around this place really brings back memories of what arcades were like when I was growing up. The machines today are absolutely incredible compared to what we had back then. Huge screens, elaborate shooting games, dancing machines, drums, guitars, racing games and all kinds of technology that would have looked unbelievable when I was a kid.

Back in my day, we had games like Double Dragon and the classic machines where you'd walk in with a pocket full of quarters and hope they lasted as long as possible.

That's what an arcade was.

You'd meet your friends, put a quarter into the machine and play. Sometimes we'd spend hours in these places. You weren't sitting at home connected to somebody through the Internet. You actually went somewhere, met people and hung out together.

Now I'm looking around at machines like Terminator Salvation, table hockey, dancing games, guitar games, drum games and even one of those punching machines. I actually knew somebody who punched one of those things so hard he ended up breaking his wrist!

What's strange is that despite all these incredible machines, the arcade I'm walking through is practically empty. The machines are sitting there flashing, making noise and beeping away, but there doesn't seem to be anybody around playing them.

It makes me wonder what arcades are going to look like another ten years from now.

Maybe somebody watching this video years into the future won't even know what an arcade was.

So consider this a little time capsule from 2017.

These were the places where generations of kids spent their quarters, competed against their friends, discovered new games and sometimes spent entire afternoons trying to beat that one impossible level.

Who remembers the heyday of the arcade?

What games did you play?

Double Dragon? Street Fighter? Mortal Kombat? Pac-Man? Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles? Racing games? Shooting games?

Comment below with the arcade game you remember spending the most money on.

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