I’ve been around here a while, despite the account age. I’m trying to be better with my anonymity
The only time I’ve ever seen that was back in the day at that arcade. Pretty slick system though
Sure do! In fact, my mom worked in an arcade when I was pretty young. She would hook me up with the quarters painted blue that they use to placate kids whose quarters were “eaten” by the game.
When my mom was dating my stepdad, we went to the arcade often.
When I was a young teen, I figured out you could eke out a few extra tickets if you gently pulled on the tickets that you won.
I liked the shooters the most. Driving was pretty cool too.
Side note, does anyone remember an Aerosmith themed shooter where you were the band, and you shot nondescript thugs? It was the kind of console that had the plastic gun. Pretty sure they were uzi style. I also remember the special button shot gold records.
We had a kid on our elementary school playground that had older brothers who told him about all the “bad stuff”. He would hold court as we could sit around him and learn all the bad words for lgbtq people, the subtle differences between a blowjob and a “hummer”, all the made up sex things like “rusty trombones” and whatnot.
That Kid turned out really weird. Hope he’s doing ok out there.
Oh jeez. I remember that. I was a large, overweight kid who was bad at sports. I was given the ball a lot.
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A lot of us did. But look at us now! I’m proud of anyone who realized that was wrong and changed their behavior. Too many people double down on “it’s just words bro” or “it didn’t used to mean that. It just meant dumb”.
I look forward to looking at how far I have come from where I am now in the future
I tell myself this all the time. You should always be able to look back ten years and be like “what was I thinking??” It shows growth, and it shows you won’t ever stop working on yourself. Anyone born in the U.S. that has taken our path knows how much unlearning you have to do in life.
I was 12 in 2000. There were a lot of words that were “ok” to say back then that I regret having come out of my mouth.
The important thing is to move on and learn why that was bad. Don’t beat yourself up over it.
More like G.O.A.T.
That’s it! I haven’t seen one in over 20 years. I always thought it was a weird concept for a video game