cambodiancam said:
It was two years ago and it was house of the dead #?. And arcades are very rare now a days, which is a shame because I love me some pinball!
Win. The most recent thing I played was House of the Dead 2, sometime last month. They had 3 and 4, but I still like 2 the most because that's what they based Typing of the Dead on.
It's
hard to find good pinball machines that are well maintained these days unless you know someone in the secret pinball cult, which I'm only slightly joking about. I used to know someone whose neighbor collected them and had dozens set up in his basement, and they had semi-regular tournaments, which I went to one of a few years ago. I was horrible compared to the guys who played regularly, but it was still fun.
It's probably been nearly 15 years since I spent time in arcades on a regular basis. I remember playing stuff like Street Fighter 2, Mortal Kombat, Killer Instinct, Area 51, Point Blank, etc. when they were new, and I was even pretty good at some of them (but not so much anymore), but I got kind of disillusioned when games started costing more than a quarter to play and I could play the same kind of stuff at home without having to keep feeding money into the thing. It's mostly gone downhill since then.
