Robotron Jon
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Token/quarter eating.
Also trashy kids watching you play and rooting for you to lose faster so they can play.
Also trashy kids watching you play and rooting for you to lose faster so they can play.
Worst pet peeve in an arcade
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pookdolie
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My ex-landlord once came by with her 4 year old, and I had my Frogger set up in the dining room. He walked through the front door, saw it, ran as fast as he could, grabbed the joystick, and started swinging from it. Didn't look at the screen, or anything else - just treated it like a jungle gym. It's programmed into kids somehow.
But I honestly can't think of any pet peeves I used to have for arcades that were nearly as important to me as pet peeves for when I'm playing pool in a bar or pool hall these days. I never spoke up when people were hovering right over me while I played video games but, if someone stands at the same pocket (on purpose, no less) I'm trying to sink the 8 in, they're getting a mouthful.
gorfchampion
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People who put quarters on the machine while you're playing. Also, tall people crowding the machine so you couldn't see the gameplay.
gozer5454
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Stains on the carpet. Can't stand them.
Great looking machines, beautiful lighting, neon glowing, rich colors painted on the walls, and then looking down and seeing 4 or 5 huge dark patches on the carpet. Hated that. I'd always be wondering (as I would manuever past it a good 3 feet away) did some kid drop a soda? Puke all over the floor? Piss his pants? How fresh is that shit? Am I gonna get sticky sneakers? Is it going to smell like moldy mushrooms while I play this game? Fucking ruined the experience for me if I had to lose all focus on the ambient beauty in there pondering such foul thoughts.
Concrete floors for the win.
Great looking machines, beautiful lighting, neon glowing, rich colors painted on the walls, and then looking down and seeing 4 or 5 huge dark patches on the carpet. Hated that. I'd always be wondering (as I would manuever past it a good 3 feet away) did some kid drop a soda? Puke all over the floor? Piss his pants? How fresh is that shit? Am I gonna get sticky sneakers? Is it going to smell like moldy mushrooms while I play this game? Fucking ruined the experience for me if I had to lose all focus on the ambient beauty in there pondering such foul thoughts.
Concrete floors for the win.
cabsR4pimps
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When I was a little kid, I would put my quarters on the machine to hold my spot and these older douchebag guys would use my quarters.
tec9
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Bingo....this is what I HATED back in the day. Some kids put their hands and head on the side of pinball machine, talking and telling you "how to play".
I also HATED the jackass who did not know how to put a dollar FACE UP in the changer. They would stand there and try to put it in 10 ten times, before they realized it was the wrong way. Meanwhile I am about to beat the piss out of them because the continue timer on the game I was playing just ran out..
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jar155
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I didn't get bothered by too much, but the one thing that did bother me was people begging for quarters. It's not my fault they blew through them in record time.
I'm surprised to see so many people complaining about putting up quarters. In my local arcade it was expected that you put up your quarter. Although the occasional fight would break out over whose quarter was up first. I'm 34 so my best arcade years were late 80s to mid 90s. I played a lot of Capcom and SNK fighters in those days and I was usually the guy everyone was trying to kick off the machine, along with a friend of mine. I'm proud of the fact that I once got a win streak of 64 in a fighting game and had a couple people who wanted me to go outside and fight them for real because of it.
I'm no longer the fighter ace I used to be and can now have my ass handed to me by a 12 year old on Xbox live. It is all good though, I remember how good I was at a young age and kids today just have better reflexes since they can play complex games as soon as they can hold a controller.
My biggest pet peeve was definitely machines that were not kept in working order. Nothing pissed me off more than a crap spring in a joystick or a sticky button.
I'm no longer the fighter ace I used to be and can now have my ass handed to me by a 12 year old on Xbox live. It is all good though, I remember how good I was at a young age and kids today just have better reflexes since they can play complex games as soon as they can hold a controller.
My biggest pet peeve was definitely machines that were not kept in working order. Nothing pissed me off more than a crap spring in a joystick or a sticky button.
CrazyKongFan
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Yeah, putting the quarter on the marquee or bezel was the way we always did it too. And I've been zapped by a few pinball machines too, usually when touching the siderail.
Sectorseven
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The quarter on the game to hold your spot thing must have died out either when games started getting two player mode or when 50 cents became the normal price. I got into arcades about 1990 when multiplayer and 50 cent games were pretty much brand new and I've never seen someone put a coin on the game even when all the spots on a game were in use.
copious
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Quater on the game while I was playing was intimadating for a 10 year old.
The kid that left his cigerette on the CP like it was supposed to be there. Plus there was a lot of smoke in the arcades back in the day, just as much as a bar.
The kid that left his cigerette on the CP like it was supposed to be there. Plus there was a lot of smoke in the arcades back in the day, just as much as a bar.
This really bothered me when it was someone much older than me. I was like 10 or 11 when I started visiting arcades without parents. It was really intimidating when some smoking teenage hoodlum would line quarters up all the way across the marquee and the stand there hovering over me with his one hand on the top of the game and his other hand in his pocket...
EDIT: LOL- copious and I had the same creepy feeling
Sectorseven
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This really bothered me when it was someone much older than me. I was like 10 or 11 when I started visiting arcades without parents. It was really intimidating when some smoking teenage hoodlum would line quarters up all the way across the marquee and the stand there hovering over me with his one hand on the top of the game and his other hand in his pocket...
EDIT: LOL- copious and I had the same creepy feeling
Heh, this got me thinking: I used to be really intimidated when an adult would coin up against me in a game of Street Fighter, but these days with Xbox Live and online gaming, it's not uncommon for an adult to get cursed out by some 10 year old over the internet. Funny how times have changed.
Sammy_No_Thumb
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only time i saw people quartering up was in fighting games. street fighter and mortal kombat primarily
Sectorseven
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We just lined up and "winner stayed, loser paid" /shrug
I dont like it when the game dificulty is on super duper pooper hard. I think that a new game should be put on easy, and then maybe gradually raised over a few months or so. There have been many a game that i didnt know how to play, dropped a quarter in, sorta played for ten seconds, game over, and still didnt know how to play. Maybe im just stupid or somethin
Playing any game after a sweaty pig. Wet, greasy, slimy, or sticky controls...YUCK!!
I now consider a burnt CP a sign of old school provenance. I'd never replace it.
The DK (well, Congorilla), Asteroids and Defender I grew up playing all had it.
towlebooth
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Mom pulling me out of the arcade when I still had quarters to burn.
