oyama82
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Just wanted to show you some stuff from my small but important country for encyclopedic reasons and only.
Greek arcades were closed down altogether at 2001 by the goverment,due to gambling game issues,many money were lost in fruit machines.
There were all types of cabs available,but not uprights.Most cabs were sitdown or cocktails and had bootleg pcbs.A unique feature was that those cabs had a modified control panel,so that the joysticks were on the right hand and the buttons on the left hand!Newer imported cabs at the end of 90's were leaved unchanged though.
Also most of the joysticks were balltops with concave pushbuttons,later years bartops and convex were also introduced.
The most important games that most people played and remember are: pacman,mspacman,bubble bobble,phoenix,galaga,galaxian,space invaders,street fighter 2,tehkan world cup,pang,tekken,golden axe,tetris,sega rally,moon cresta,crazy kong,metal slug,super sidekicks 2-3,nba jam,snow bros etc etc.
most usa games like gaunlet,mk,defender,etc were not much popular here.
thats all
Greek arcades were closed down altogether at 2001 by the goverment,due to gambling game issues,many money were lost in fruit machines.
There were all types of cabs available,but not uprights.Most cabs were sitdown or cocktails and had bootleg pcbs.A unique feature was that those cabs had a modified control panel,so that the joysticks were on the right hand and the buttons on the left hand!Newer imported cabs at the end of 90's were leaved unchanged though.
Also most of the joysticks were balltops with concave pushbuttons,later years bartops and convex were also introduced.
The most important games that most people played and remember are: pacman,mspacman,bubble bobble,phoenix,galaga,galaxian,space invaders,street fighter 2,tehkan world cup,pang,tekken,golden axe,tetris,sega rally,moon cresta,crazy kong,metal slug,super sidekicks 2-3,nba jam,snow bros etc etc.
most usa games like gaunlet,mk,defender,etc were not much popular here.
thats all
