Worst pet peeve in an arcade

[Tornadoboy]

My contribution to the bitch-a-thon

- Games that are never fixed yet are never marked "out of order". A certain favorite and otherwise terrific arcade of mine has a Major Havoc which has a spinner problem (barely moves right, if at all) that makes it totally unplayable and has been that way for almost a year now, yet it's never fixed or even marked out of order. I go there every few months or so and every time the game screws me out of a token for daring to try it.
- Carpets that are never cleaned and make you sick if you're in there long enough.
- Games that are never cleaned and have cigarette burns, gum and gods knows what on them.
- Duct tape fixes (yep, I've seen them in places)
- Crappy controls that are never replaced, cleaned or tweaked
- Never unjamming or cleaning coin mechs.
- Never maintaining the change machines.
- Monitors that are barely viewable or missing colors.
- Games that are way too loud or you can't even hear them at all.

 

[30FathomDave]

Sloppy/busted controls

People who insisted on standing right on top of you while you were trying to play.

 

[sk8ersublime]

When playing pinball and people walk behind you. I hate that I always feel like someone is gonna try to pick pocket me.

And kids. I hate screaming kids when I'm trying to play a game. And dads yelling at their kids while I am playing because their kid rather play the redemption game that the POTC pinball....

 

[MarioKarnage]

1. Walking in and walking to where my favorite games stood and seeing something newer (and always worse) in its place. Once the takeover of Data East and Sega fighting games happened, I kind of lost interest. To each his own. I will say this: "Violence Fight" is the single best game name of all time.

2. Arcades that decided to raise the prices of the classics to 50¢. I get Star Wars cockpit, but F%$#, man, leave Galaga alone.

3. Back in the put-your-quarter-on-the-marquee days, I had a disagreement with some total dick, who was a few years older, over who had next game and he got me in a completely unnecessary headlock in a fit of anger management failure. I hated that system ever since. That kid needed counseling for Marble Madness.

 

[Ice Cream Jonsey]

These days, there are a lot of events where you pay a flat fee and the games are on free play. At those I can not stand it when dipshits freeplay on a rare or uncommon game or pin for long periods of time. Etiquette should be to look behind you after each game and give the machine up if there's a person wanting to get on. Instead, so many people act like aspie douchebags where the only thing in the universe is them and the game.

 

[sk8ersublime]

These days, there are a lot of events where you pay a flat fee and the games are on free play. At those I can not stand it when dipshits freeplay on a rare or uncommon game or pin for long periods of time. Etiquette should be to look behind you after each game and give the machine up if there's a person wanting to get on. Instead, so many people act like aspie douchebags where the only thing in the universe is them and the game.

I felt like this guy the other day. I went to play pinball at the movie theater by my house and indiana jones had an error that said "this game is not playable in your country contact your distributor" this guy put money in, then saw the error got pissed an left. I unplugged the game, plugged it back in and had 7 free games...I was smart enough to unplug the game so I played all 7 games lol

 

[marxtoys]

..

- Games that are never fixed yet are never marked "out of order". ....

Walking out of walmart and there's a crane with a sign that says it eats dollars.....

Isn't that the whole idea??

 

[mgreen]

I hated the kids whose parents would drop them off while they went shopping but gave them no money. They would yank on the sticks during the attract modes and refuse to move and ask you for a quarter while your trying to just play a game.

 

[Les Manley]

Think back when you frequented arcades in the 80s....(during the heyday when arcade games could be found almost anywhere). When you walked into an arcade establishment (large or small), what was the most disappointing thing you remember?

Could be a dead game you were looking forward to playing?
Game removed?
Too crowded?
People hogging up certain game.
Poor service for getting change (pre-tokens)
Run out of money?

Let's hear it....I wanna know what pissed you off.

Had to have been a fighting game where one button or one direction didn't work. You never knew until after you put in your money.

 

[XXI21]

Light and glare from sources other than the games themselves...

 

[au2bahn]

I would continue. It would piss some people off, but hey, tough shit. I was playing it first. I remember there was this one game at the pizza place and people would put the quarter on the lip of the control panel because you couldn't put them up on the marquee. When they would do that I would yank down on the controller really hard which would lift up the control panel a little and make the quarter slip down through the crack and into the machine.

I would just use their quarters to continue.

 

[Fulltilt]

When they moved in Dragon's Lair at .50 a game! I probably spent a life savings till I finally won.

- Don