Hahaha! What a creepy story. My arcade memories are pretty much limited to playing beat em' up games with my older brother back in the day. I don't know how many times we beat the Simpsons Arcade game, but every time it was worth it.
When I was 6 or 7 years old, and this was around 1988/1989, I was watching two guys play the last stage of Double Dragon. After they beat the machinegun guy final boss, they were stuck and didn't know how to finish the game. I had watched my older brother and his friend beat the game weeks before so I said to the guys "Hey, you have to fight each other to see who gets the girl!" but they didn't believe me. I told them that only one of them could finish the game and get the girl and they had to fight each other until one of them beat the other. One of the guys started hitting the other player and the other guy was like "No, stop! He's trying to trick us!", so he stopped beating his friend's character (either Billy or Jimmy Lee), then eventually time ran out and they both got a game over and quit. I tried to help them but they thought I was just some dumb little kid lol.
These days of course you can play anyone you want all over the world, but back then you actually got to see the torment on their face when you schooled them. It was extra sweet if they were talking trash beforehand.
I know this video is old but I have a great story about an arcade game. It was in a pizza joint and they had the original Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles along with a few others. So me and my cousins start playing the 4 player co op mode and we finally run out of quarters. Before we left I noticed the coin box below wasn't shut the whole way and there were quarters basically hanging out. So being the goof ball kids we were, we took those quarters and kept playing. Every time we put quarters in they would keep falling out and we kept going! They eventually caught on or someone tipped them off and our fun was over... but man that was a good time. We got kicked out but it was worth it haha.
I have a couple of arcade stories myself. I went into this arcade at the local mall and I was a mallrat at the time so I did this a lot but there were these punk looking guys I havent seen before just going at it on soul caliber 2. I had all the highscores on that system and they beat my lowest one and it really bothered me so I went over and challenged them. I used kilik and they never hit me but that was the last of my money so they paid me to stay so they could challenge me. I let them pick my characters and they wanted me to stay cervantes. I was never hit once for an hour or so and made $10 in quarters. I never saw them again and its a shame that the arcade is gone and now a nail salon.
One thing I remember very vividly about the arcades during the start of the fighting game craze was that I was a younger kid (maybe about 12 or so) and of course I was playing mostly older teens. They would do some amazing move and I would ask them how they did it. Several times, they sort of looked at me, and they would say something along the lines of "I'm out of quarters. Give me 2 or 3 bucks in quarters and I will show you." Maybe we would haggle a bit, but then I would hand over the quarters and most of the time they actually gave me pretty good lessons. One of the guys showed me how to do Babalities, a handful of Fatalities and a few secrets in Mortal Kombat II when I only paid him to show me one Fatality. Yeah, a couple of guys sort of screwed around, just told me the directions and buttons to press and then split, but normally these guys would actually work with me on the moves I was learning until I got it down. No one ever simply took my money and didn't even tell me how to do it. The arcades were a weird place with strange morals back in those days.
I know this video is old but I'll throw my comment in. I had something similar happen where creepy guys kept putting quarters in to watch you play. I think I had the same dad story. What's crazy to think back on now is outside of the mall, all of the good arcade games were found in pool halls and creep places. You'd be thrilled to find a machine in a laundry mat or convenience store but for the good stuff, you had to go to smoked filled pool halls with shady people and drug dealers. Considering video games were catered towards kids back then, it kinda doesn't make any sense.
I remember going to a amusement park on a class trip. Knotts Berry farm is southern California. Anyway a lot of us spent the entire time in the arcade playing Street Fighter 2 Champion Edition. We didn't go on any rides or do any kind of other activities. I remember parents got passed when they found out. They didn't spend good money for you to only spend the entire time in a arcade bla, bla, bla. That arcade was packed. Good times.
Love this video. I remember back in the early 90's playing the new Street Fighter 2 Turbo arcade at a local store. Spent hours on that till in 93 i got a SNES with SF2 for xmas.
I remember trying to explain to my parents the fact that even though SF2 Turbo was $90 on SNES (yes, freaking $90 in the early 90's!), it was actually going to save them money in the long run. $90 on SF2 at the arcade is only good for a few hours! Still sound logic to me to this day.
I went to an arcade called Wizards in Anchorage, AK. I was really stoned and I was playing Rampage. I see and hear people laughing at me and I didn't understand why. I finally realized that I died along time ago and the screen was flashing "GAME OVER." Aaaaah.
1980. Me and my buddy , who were both 15 years old , Went to the older teens arcade downtown with much newer and cooler games than our at the mall. It was empty just as it opened on saturday at 11 o'clock. We were very nervous and jumpy for entering enemy territory , but we absolutely HAD to try the new "Tempest" arcade game. In the 5th or 6th round I hear a dark voice behind me saying loudly : "BONUS....RIGHT SIDE"!!! 6 or 7 of the 18-19year olds had entered soundless on the soft carpet. I nearly had a heart failure and/or soiled my pants and my buddy had vanished into thin air. I got the bonus , advanced a couple of more levels before my game ended. Then I offered to move but they insisted me to continue 'cause I was there first. From that day we were accepted and made a bunch of new friends and I felt like on top of the world.
It's good to see there are people my age that still play video games. My family and friends think I'm weird because I'm 36 and still play video games. I don't know anyone my age that still plays them. Most of the people I grew up with started doing drugs or have 10 kids.
I love these comments about sportsmanship rules and how that is so unheard of for a lot of people. You have to remember, this is Canada after all. We used to say sorry after destroying someone too....LOL!(okay maybe we didn't)
"House Rules" now that's something I've not heard in quite some time, yeah looking back at that..it was absurd damn scrubs making up their own version of Street Fighter.
Really weird that arcades in your area used to have adult stores in the back. I hear you on the fact that arcades didn't make enough in the late 80's and 90's to pay the rent, but where I grew up they were always regular family-owned video stores or pizza restaurants (before big chains killed these mom'n'pop places, they were massively profitable and could easily pull the bills for the arcade).
I loved how you'd come across a good game in the arcade and it would have a broken button or two or the joystick wouldn't work properly. There was one of those games in every arcade.
Holy shit what a trip, growing up I lived in a small town and the closest arcade was about an hour away so whenever I got chance to go I'd just take it all in, one of my fondest memory was actually of a friend who went to the arcade over the weekend and told me of a new Street Fighter game and when he used Ruy's fireball that the fireball was 10X bigger than it was in SF2. Watied for weeks till I found out it was Street Fighter Alpha. Good times
LOL, SF2. We didn't always give 2nd round, we gave mercy rounds when we thought someone was going to quit. Throws were ok, jab throws were not tolorated. Good times...
My strange arcade tale was when I was 9, I was in the arcade while the place was being held up, scared the shit out of me, about a year and a half later the arcade closed.
Awesome. I absolutely love these. To someone like me who never had a lot of experience in arcades, this kind of stuff is gold. Some of my favourite stuff from you Johnny. I look forward to seeing more. Love it.
Back in the early 90's, if you were playing an arcade, ANYONE could walk up next to you and put their quarters in to try to kill you or play with you. There was no need to ask or anything, that made you want to get better so that you could survive a stranger joining in. Now it would feel like an invasion if someone got that close to you during your game.
lmao great vid - my story - playing "Sunset Riders" at putt putt with a buddy, all of a sudden a gang fight busts out 3 ft away from us. trays were flying, gangstas were getting slammed probably about 10 dudes rumbling as we ducked behind a sitdown version of race drivin'!!! what memories, thanks for the vid!
LOL I remember those Street Fighter days!!! The unwritten "no throw rule" was definitely popular at the arcade I played at. You would literally let the opponent throw you right back, just as show in your vid. The other thing that would make people want to beat you ass is chipping away their last bit of health with a fireball as they block (or the short, short, short, throw). I remember this one guy was watching me play and I lost the round by blocking a fireball. He immediately started dancing around in a circle screaming "Cheeeeeeeeeeesssssseeeeeeeeee!!!! I SMELL VELVETA!!!!!!!" I don't think I ever felt so good losing a game to this day. The cheese icon appeared on later versions of Street Fighter for pulling that move.
My best memory of the arcade games was when i was playing SEGA Super GT at a skating rink. I was never very good at skating, but the arcade games that was a different story. I was addicted to it. I loved it, because i had a 13-win streak!!! I had to stop, because i ran out of money
I stayed in the more friendly arcades back then haha, bowling alleys, mini golf parks, I remember crowds of people playing the popular games, mortal combat, wwf wrestling, I was into Golden Axe and Final Fight mostly, it was cool when randoms would join in.
Arcades were seedy as hell. I remember beating Turtles In Time with a few friends at a local waterpark. Half of the employees were gathering around 'cause they'd never seen it beat. Fun stuff.
Great stories guys, I was expecting a new episode and kept checking my sub box for some reason. I'm happy I did, never knew arcades could be such strange places!
I'll never forget the "WARNING" signs posted on alot of our arcades' front doors in Memphis, TN back in the early 80's - mid 90's always mentioning gangs, drugs, weapons, sex, etc but it always seemed a hearty hardcore environment to grow up in! Miss all those days now I can't even find one in town not even in the local mall or movie theater...
Im from the UK.. and back in 97 - 98 we had a street fighter 2 machine in the student union in my college... and we had that SAME!!! no THROW rule... how crazy is that.. rules that travelled the world!!!!
We had one in Florida where you would pay I think 5$ and they would let you play all the games from like 6pm-midnight on weekends. Someone that worked there would just open a machine up and add credits when you walked up to one.
I remember years ago when Mortal kombat first came out there was a weird rumour going around that if you got a flawless victory in Goros dungeon the skeleton would jump of the wall and fight you.
This was a great episode!! The robman intro was hilarious!! Robman can really act!! I enjoyed these tales very much. Man, just thinking about early 90's street fighter arcade culture takes me back. i've never heard of the "no throw" rule, though. But there was a "only 2 cross screen attack"(blanks rolls, pycho crusher) rule. lol Oddly enough, I can honestly say that in all my vintage arcade days in even the most ghetto arcade, i never felt unsafe, and nothing crazy happened.
i had a group of 18yo guys ( i was 12yo) chase me and beat me up for spilling soft drink on a 1942 arcade machine out the back of a general store lol we played that game every day before/after school so when the soft drink got on it it make the buttons sticky and not work properly. i got my ass kicked
Robman - Innocent - PFFFFTTTTTT!!!!!!!! Still guys, awesome stores, and I can always count on you guys for some great video game memories. I absiolutely loved the prime time of the arcades but surpisingly I don't have many great stories from the arcades, but as a young teenager I use to play the 4 player arcade games with some girls, and the use to ask how to do this and that and I actually felt pretty happy with myself thinking I impressed them as a young teenager.
The best thing about street fighter arcade days was winner stays on, one credit could last all day if you were good enough as the amount of peeople waiting to challenge the current winner was high in the arcades i used to play at
Putt putt golf and games, military circle in Norfolk VA, circa 1991 or so - playing sunset riders (cowboy shoot em up game) with a good friend Brendon. Two gangs start getting into heated dicussion behind us. Punches are thrown. then a brawl breaks out! we dive behind the cabinet, trays flying, employees can't do a thing....it's mayhem, like 12+ gang members just straight brawling!!! We catch an opening and make a run for it!!! Finally make it outside, call my friends mom to pick us up ASAP!!! Will never forget that one.....didn't stick around to see the brawl end...
hehehehe, great intro and a real creepy storie to start with - the "red fading in" catched really my attention to go closer and closer to the monitor ^^...
Great episode guys. I have a few horror stories myself but the mainstream days of Arcade gaming truly kicked ass! Street Fighter 2 was definitely an intense game in those days. Canadas Wonderland had an insane tournament style setup with like 20 SF2 Champion edition cabinets lined up in a row and it was jammed pack all summer long with street fighter fans brawling it out....it was just fuckin awesome! Miss those days :[
One strange (to me, anyway) moment at the arcade was shortly after Mortal Kombat first released to arcades. I was walking up to the machine and there were a crowd of guys trying to beat-down this other fella on the machine. He was using Kano...and the dude had only one arm. He would do Kano's spinning ball move by rotating the stick and use his long fingers to block and attack...all the while his palm never left the stick. Simply awe inspiring.
This is one of the reasons I wish I grew up in the eighty's. I remember my first, and probably last real arcade experience, and from then on it was the one or two arcade machines in the basements of cheap hotels. Still the ninety's will always house my favourite gaming memories.
ROFL! Arcades, pool halls, bowling alleys, laundry mats, 7-11's...all places where we'd get our game on back in the day. Arcade gaming was about SKILLS...keeping techniques secret and beating games on one credit.
Hahahahaha! Everything you said about that era was true! You've awakened alot of memories both good and bad! Luckily there are more good memories than bad ones! One thing that I distinctly loved about the release of Street Figher 2 was how exiting the environment was. Each day you visited the SF2 cab, there was always somebody who was using a new move or technique to imobilize their opponent. Those were exciting times. It is one of the reasons why so many people still love SF2! Excellent video!
So true about the rumors (a few Street Fighter rumors, and oh so many Mortal Kombat ones) and unspoken rules. I remember once accidently thew an opponent, won, and I felt so bad about it for the rest of the day! When I played there was also the unspoken rule of showing respect by not hitting a dizzied opponent.
I remember buying a bag of crickets then going into this old trashy arcade also with adult stuff in the back. The guy was so curious about the bugs, he tought it was some kind of drugs.Creepy guy.
I can't even begin to express my happiness to this. Even today, I play Tekken all the time, and to any hardcore players that are skilled, "grabbing" is considered cheap for sure, and if you grab them, you walk forward and allow them to do a grab to you of equal damage.
Hahaha! What a creepy story. My arcade memories are pretty much limited to playing beat em' up games with my older brother back in the day. I don't know how many times we beat the Simpsons Arcade game, but every time it was worth it.
Wow! An episode with a wardrobe budget! NICE!
I wish Arcades still existed. :(
+The Gayming Tube In Los Angeles they do. Blipsy Barcade and EightyTwo.
00Venkman I'm kinda far away though. I live in Sweden lol
GaymingTube arcade there still arcades around
Shitty country to live in for the time being.
Here in Tokyo they do
When I was 6 or 7 years old, and this was around 1988/1989, I was watching two guys play the last stage of Double Dragon. After they beat the machinegun guy final boss, they were stuck and didn't know how to finish the game. I had watched my older brother and his friend beat the game weeks before so I said to the guys "Hey, you have to fight each other to see who gets the girl!" but they didn't believe me. I told them that only one of them could finish the game and get the girl and they had to fight each other until one of them beat the other. One of the guys started hitting the other player and the other guy was like "No, stop! He's trying to trick us!", so he stopped beating his friend's character (either Billy or Jimmy Lee), then eventually time ran out and they both got a game over and quit. I tried to help them but they thought I was just some dumb little kid lol.
No, friendship lost.
+what? That's a great story!
Classic.
This channel always sends me back in time.
Love it.
Awesome stories and story tellers! could listen to this stuff all day
That arcade rival story was badass! Stuff like that is why I wish arcades were still big.
These days of course you can play anyone you want all over the world, but back then you actually got to see the torment on their face when you schooled them. It was extra sweet if they were talking trash beforehand.
This is one of the best episodes yet. Tales of arcade days gone past are always such magical tales to me. Man I miss arcades!
It's so much fun watching you guys talking about gaming memories it,s just so entertaining!
I remember the "no throw" rule. I used to get so pissed when someone would start to throw me. I even got in a couple of real fights over it.
That shin megami tensei music in megaman story made me laugh hard. Fits perfectly.
One of the best intros to a video
Awesome story. Arcades were so scary back in the day, but I miss those smoke filled loud dark rooms.
Dude Rob's intro here is so rad!
I know this video is old but I have a great story about an arcade game. It was in a pizza joint and they had the original Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles along with a few others. So me and my cousins start playing the 4 player co op mode and we finally run out of quarters. Before we left I noticed the coin box below wasn't shut the whole way and there were quarters basically hanging out. So being the goof ball kids we were, we took those quarters and kept playing. Every time we put quarters in they would keep falling out and we kept going! They eventually caught on or someone tipped them off and our fun was over... but man that was a good time. We got kicked out but it was worth it haha.
Street Fighter is one of the most competitive video games.
Wow, I totally forgot about guys draping their jackets over the controls. It's been a long time.
I have a couple of arcade stories myself. I went into this arcade at the local mall and I was a mallrat at the time so I did this a lot but there were these punk looking guys I havent seen before just going at it on soul caliber 2. I had all the highscores on that system and they beat my lowest one and it really bothered me so I went over and challenged them. I used kilik and they never hit me but that was the last of my money so they paid me to stay so they could challenge me. I let them pick my characters and they wanted me to stay cervantes. I was never hit once for an hour or so and made $10 in quarters. I never saw them again and its a shame that the arcade is gone and now a nail salon.
One thing I remember very vividly about the arcades during the start of the fighting game craze was that I was a younger kid (maybe about 12 or so) and of course I was playing mostly older teens. They would do some amazing move and I would ask them how they did it. Several times, they sort of looked at me, and they would say something along the lines of "I'm out of quarters. Give me 2 or 3 bucks in quarters and I will show you." Maybe we would haggle a bit, but then I would hand over the quarters and most of the time they actually gave me pretty good lessons. One of the guys showed me how to do Babalities, a handful of Fatalities and a few secrets in Mortal Kombat II when I only paid him to show me one Fatality. Yeah, a couple of guys sort of screwed around, just told me the directions and buttons to press and then split, but normally these guys would actually work with me on the moves I was learning until I got it down. No one ever simply took my money and didn't even tell me how to do it. The arcades were a weird place with strange morals back in those days.
More stories! Such a great episode! I wish I was older back then. I was too young to ever appreciate the arcade properly.
I know this video is old but I'll throw my comment in. I had something similar happen where creepy guys kept putting quarters in to watch you play. I think I had the same dad story. What's crazy to think back on now is outside of the mall, all of the good arcade games were found in pool halls and creep places. You'd be thrilled to find a machine in a laundry mat or convenience store but for the good stuff, you had to go to smoked filled pool halls with shady people and drug dealers. Considering video games were catered towards kids back then, it kinda doesn't make any sense.
Love the facial expressions Johnny makes when Rob tells the first story :)
I remember going to a amusement park on a class trip. Knotts Berry farm is southern California. Anyway a lot of us spent the entire time in the arcade playing Street Fighter 2 Champion Edition. We didn't go on any rides or do any kind of other activities. I remember parents got passed when they found out. They didn't spend good money for you to only spend the entire time in a arcade bla, bla, bla. That arcade was packed. Good times.
Love this video. I remember back in the early 90's playing the new Street Fighter 2 Turbo arcade at a local store. Spent hours on that till in 93 i got a SNES with SF2 for xmas.
I remember trying to explain to my parents the fact that even though SF2 Turbo was $90 on SNES (yes, freaking $90 in the early 90's!), it was actually going to save them money in the long run. $90 on SF2 at the arcade is only good for a few hours! Still sound logic to me to this day.
That creepy Megaman story happened to me too except the Old man just gave me quarters and left.
I went to an arcade called Wizards in Anchorage, AK. I was really stoned and I was playing Rampage. I see and hear people laughing at me and I didn't understand why. I finally realized that I died along time ago and the screen was flashing "GAME OVER." Aaaaah.
I wonder how many takes Rob took to do the intro without cracking up haha. Really good video guys.
This one is a classic with Robs instruction. 😁
1980. Me and my buddy , who were both 15 years old , Went to the older teens arcade downtown with much newer and cooler games than our at the mall. It was empty just as it opened on saturday at 11 o'clock. We were very nervous and jumpy for entering enemy territory , but we absolutely HAD to try the new "Tempest" arcade game. In the 5th or 6th round I hear a dark voice behind me saying loudly : "BONUS....RIGHT SIDE"!!! 6 or 7 of the 18-19year olds had entered soundless on the soft carpet. I nearly had a heart failure and/or soiled my pants and my buddy had vanished into thin air. I got the bonus , advanced a couple of more levels before my game ended. Then I offered to move but they insisted me to continue 'cause I was there first. From that day we were accepted and made a bunch of new friends and I felt like on top of the world.
+Rogerio Frederico That's a cool story. Much better than worring about some creepy guy trying to put his hands on you like Rob experienced.
It's good to see there are people my age that still play video games. My family and friends think I'm weird because I'm 36 and still play video games. I don't know anyone my age that still plays them. Most of the people I grew up with started doing drugs or have 10 kids.
I love these comments about sportsmanship rules and how that is so unheard of for a lot of people. You have to remember, this is Canada after all.
We used to say sorry after destroying someone too....LOL!(okay maybe we didn't)
"House Rules" now that's something I've not heard in quite some time, yeah looking back at that..it was absurd damn scrubs making up their own version of Street Fighter.
Really weird that arcades in your area used to have adult stores in the back. I hear you on the fact that arcades didn't make enough in the late 80's and 90's to pay the rent, but where I grew up they were always regular family-owned video stores or pizza restaurants (before big chains killed these mom'n'pop places, they were massively profitable and could easily pull the bills for the arcade).
I loved how you'd come across a good game in the arcade and it would have a broken button or two or the joystick wouldn't work properly. There was one of those games in every arcade.
+happy console gamer love your stories love your shows . I have some good stories as well in the early 90s in Chicago
The intro with Rob was fantastic.
When the screen turns red sooo much tension builds!!
These are the kind of HappyConsoleGamer videos I love most! Thanks for sharing!
That intro was impeccable so funny keep it up guys!
Wtf that intro was actually funny and well made hahaha
Holy shit what a trip, growing up I lived in a small town and the closest arcade was about an hour away so whenever I got chance to go I'd just take it all in, one of my fondest memory was actually of a friend who went to the arcade over the weekend and told me of a new Street Fighter game and when he used Ruy's fireball that the fireball was 10X bigger than it was in SF2. Watied for weeks till I found out it was Street Fighter Alpha. Good times
LOL, SF2. We didn't always give 2nd round, we gave mercy rounds when we thought someone was going to quit. Throws were ok, jab throws were not tolorated. Good times...
My strange arcade tale was when I was 9, I was in the arcade while the place was being held up, scared the shit out of me, about a year and a half later the arcade closed.
these stories are great!! keep them coming!
Awesome. I absolutely love these. To someone like me who never had a lot of experience in arcades, this kind of stuff is gold. Some of my favourite stuff from you Johnny. I look forward to seeing more. Love it.
Back in the early 90's, if you were playing an arcade, ANYONE could walk up next to you and put their quarters in to try to kill you or play with you. There was no need to ask or anything, that made you want to get better so that you could survive a stranger joining in. Now it would feel like an invasion if someone got that close to you during your game.
lmao great vid - my story - playing "Sunset Riders" at putt putt with a buddy, all of a sudden a gang fight busts out 3 ft away from us. trays were flying, gangstas were getting slammed probably about 10 dudes rumbling as we ducked behind a sitdown version of race drivin'!!! what memories, thanks for the vid!
LOL I remember those Street Fighter days!!! The unwritten "no throw rule" was definitely popular at the arcade I played at. You would literally let the opponent throw you right back, just as show in your vid. The other thing that would make people want to beat you ass is chipping away their last bit of health with a fireball as they block (or the short, short, short, throw).
I remember this one guy was watching me play and I lost the round by blocking a fireball. He immediately started dancing around in a circle screaming "Cheeeeeeeeeeesssssseeeeeeeeee!!!! I SMELL VELVETA!!!!!!!" I don't think I ever felt so good losing a game to this day. The cheese icon appeared on later versions of Street Fighter for pulling that move.
how the guys would cover up the buttons to hide their moves is crazy
My best memory of the arcade games was when i was playing SEGA Super GT at a skating rink. I was never very good at skating, but the arcade games that was a different story. I was addicted to it. I loved it, because i had a 13-win streak!!! I had to stop, because i ran out of money
I stayed in the more friendly arcades back then haha, bowling alleys, mini golf parks, I remember crowds of people playing the popular games, mortal combat, wwf wrestling, I was into Golden Axe and Final Fight mostly, it was cool when randoms would join in.
Absolutely brilliant! I could watch you two all day, so entertaining, keep it up guys :D!
And that's how Rob met Clifford Olson.
Arcades were seedy as hell.
I remember beating Turtles In Time with a few friends at a local waterpark. Half of the employees were gathering around 'cause they'd never seen it beat. Fun stuff.
Great stories guys, I was expecting a new episode and kept checking my sub box for some reason. I'm happy I did, never knew arcades could be such strange places!
I'll never forget the "WARNING" signs posted on alot of our arcades' front doors in Memphis, TN back in the early 80's - mid 90's always mentioning gangs, drugs, weapons, sex, etc but it always seemed a hearty hardcore environment to grow up in! Miss all those days now I can't even find one in town not even in the local mall or movie theater...
Im from the UK.. and back in 97 - 98 we had a street fighter 2 machine in the student union in my college... and we had that SAME!!! no THROW rule... how crazy is that.. rules that travelled the world!!!!
I wanna add 2 thumbs up! One for Rob's intro alone, and one for the episode as a whole. Awesome guys!
We had one in Florida where you would pay I think 5$ and they would let you play all the games from like 6pm-midnight on weekends. Someone that worked there would just open a machine up and add credits when you walked up to one.
Where was this? I live in Florida too
I remember years ago when Mortal kombat first came out there was a weird rumour
going around that if you got a flawless victory in Goros dungeon the skeleton would jump of the wall and fight you.
Loved this video please tell us more of your arcade experiences.
Your arcade tales are the best lol
biggest fighting game rule we had no corner trapping and fireballs wars were frowned upon but not really banned err nothing
I totally remember dudes bringing hankerchiefs in and covering there hands during Mortal Kombat 2 street fighter days.
This was a great episode!! The robman intro was hilarious!! Robman can really act!! I enjoyed these tales very much. Man, just thinking about early 90's street fighter arcade culture takes me back. i've never heard of the "no throw" rule, though. But there was a "only 2 cross screen attack"(blanks rolls, pycho crusher) rule. lol Oddly enough, I can honestly say that in all my vintage arcade days in even the most ghetto arcade, i never felt unsafe, and nothing crazy happened.
i had a group of 18yo guys ( i was 12yo) chase me and beat me up for spilling soft drink on a 1942 arcade machine out the back of a general store lol we played that game every day before/after school so when the soft drink got on it it make the buttons sticky and not work properly. i got my ass kicked
I love these arcade videos.
Great Video!!! Brought back a lot of memories
Finally new episode is up! I kept looking all the time for the next episode! That was EPIC! Just.. EPIC!
I'd love to see more episodes like this!! Fricking hallarious!!
Robman - Innocent - PFFFFTTTTTT!!!!!!!!
Still guys, awesome stores, and I can always count on you guys for some great video game memories. I absiolutely loved the prime time of the arcades but surpisingly I don't have many great stories from the arcades, but as a young teenager I use to play the 4 player arcade games with some girls, and the use to ask how to do this and that and I actually felt pretty happy with myself thinking I impressed them as a young teenager.
great video love to hear more stories form back in the day
The best thing about street fighter arcade days was winner stays on, one credit could last all day if you were good enough as the amount of peeople waiting to challenge the current winner was high in the arcades i used to play at
i really enjoyed the stories, more please!
Putt putt golf and games, military circle in Norfolk VA, circa 1991 or so - playing sunset riders (cowboy shoot em up game) with a good friend Brendon. Two gangs start getting into heated dicussion behind us. Punches are thrown. then a brawl breaks out! we dive behind the cabinet, trays flying, employees can't do a thing....it's mayhem, like 12+ gang members just straight brawling!!! We catch an opening and make a run for it!!! Finally make it outside, call my friends mom to pick us up ASAP!!! Will never forget that one.....didn't stick around to see the brawl end...
hehehehe, great intro and a real creepy storie to start with - the "red fading in" catched really my attention to go closer and closer to the monitor ^^...
Lol! This is definitely in my top five HCG episodes list. 🤘🏻
Love this series, keep up with more episodes! :D
Great episode guys. I have a few horror stories myself but the mainstream days of Arcade gaming truly kicked ass! Street Fighter 2 was definitely an intense game in those days. Canadas Wonderland had an insane tournament style setup with like 20 SF2 Champion edition cabinets lined up in a row and it was jammed pack all summer long with street fighter fans brawling it out....it was just fuckin awesome! Miss those days :[
One strange (to me, anyway) moment at the arcade was shortly after Mortal Kombat first released to arcades. I was walking up to the machine and there were a crowd of guys trying to beat-down this other fella on the machine. He was using Kano...and the dude had only one arm. He would do Kano's spinning ball move by rotating the stick and use his long fingers to block and attack...all the while his palm never left the stick. Simply awe inspiring.
Great episode! Robmans intro and at the end about the chucky cheese puppets. Haha classic
I have been to the Arcade that the bald guy talks about in the beginning, went there a couple years ago it may even still be open
what if the old guy from rob's story is watching this video...
Those stories are awesome!
This is one of the reasons I wish I grew up in the eighty's. I remember my first, and probably last real arcade experience, and from then on it was the one or two arcade machines in the basements of cheap hotels. Still the ninety's will always house my favourite gaming memories.
They should bring arcades back, even if its only for the hardcore retro gamers out there.
the beginning remembered me of Video Game Confessions from TGWTG.
Arcade tales would be an awesome segment to add to the all gen gamers podcast johnny
Those are some strange, but entertaining stories. Awesome video as always.
I NEED more of these intros please!
man the guile theme goes with everything
ROFL!
Arcades, pool halls, bowling alleys, laundry mats, 7-11's...all places where we'd get our game on back in the day. Arcade gaming was about SKILLS...keeping techniques secret and beating games on one credit.
Episodes like this remind me why I subscribed.
OMG love the SMT nocturne music in the background
Yeah it fits tgat part perfectly
Hahahahaha! Everything you said about that era was true! You've awakened alot of memories both good and bad! Luckily there are more good memories than bad ones! One thing that I distinctly loved about the release of Street Figher 2 was how exiting the environment was. Each day you visited the SF2 cab, there was always somebody who was using a new move or technique to imobilize their opponent. Those were exciting times. It is one of the reasons why so many people still love SF2! Excellent video!
Guile had the handcuff throw glitch, and Dhalsim had the reset the system glitch.
We use to go to a pool hall that always had three cabinets. We would beg the managers to get Mortal Kombat, but they never did.
So true about the rumors (a few Street Fighter rumors, and oh so many Mortal Kombat ones) and unspoken rules. I remember once accidently thew an opponent, won, and I felt so bad about it for the rest of the day! When I played there was also the unspoken rule of showing respect by not hitting a dizzied opponent.
I remember buying a bag of crickets then going into this old trashy arcade also with adult stuff in the back. The guy was so curious about the bugs, he tought it was some kind of drugs.Creepy guy.
I can't even begin to express my happiness to this. Even today, I play Tekken all the time, and to any hardcore players that are skilled, "grabbing" is considered cheap for sure, and if you grab them, you walk forward and allow them to do a grab to you of equal damage.