Jabroniville wrote: ↑Wed Jun 06, 2018 5:43 amScintillating story, HJ. Though it makes me wistful for the days of Arcades being readily-accessible and well-stocked with games. Nowadays, it's impossible to find a reasonably good one anywhere in my hometown (a city of 1 million!), even though "play carnival games while drunk" is now apparently a trendy hobby.HalloweenJack wrote: ↑Tue Jun 05, 2018 9:48 pm Holy Crap....I remember Fighter's History!
Way back in 7th grade (1994ish or early 95), on a Friday night when I'd probably be watching Mantis and the X-Files, two of my friends invited me out to go to the mall with their church's youth group. What had sealed the deal was them mentioning the fighting game Darkstalkers that they had read about in one of the zillions of video game magazines. A fighting game where you were monsters? shut up and take my money!
Anyway, we had a pretty awesome evening. We played Darkstalkers alot that night, but also hit a few more of the games. I remember we played that Alien vs Predator beat em up, as well as the Simpsons arcade game
Then we played some fighting game who's name I forgot in the long long ago, but as you can guess it was Fighter's History.
I chose Clown.
We played it, then got a slurpee or something.
As I've mentioned before, they closed down the arcade in my local mall before I was ever old enough to stay there by myself, and the others were a bit too far away to manage easily until I was old enough... and they closed. RIP Wizard's Castle.
I hear that. Arcades are next to impossible to find. You have to go to a Dave and Busters or Gattiland or something like that....but they just don't make games like we had when we were kids you know? it's just not on the menu given how the times have changed.