Thread 11940915

>arcades were le heckin dangerino in the 80s!
>people openly sold crack and beat each other up!
>gang members and bikers hung out at arcades all the time!
>I saw a guy get stabbed for hogging the Mr. Do's Wild Ride cabinet once no really

>>11940915 (OP)
The overwhelming majority of the time arcades were peaceful happy places literally full of smiling people who were talkative even.
However, on extremely rare occassions, I've dodged/experienced:
>a sucker punch/attack
>an angry gentleman (lol) beating a game to death (gave me a funny look, I walked away)
>and possibly played Polybius
>a guy subtly threatening me with real violence if I didn't stop cornering him in SF II

The usual "tough" in an arcade usually just kicked a game and never talked to anyone. Ooh scary.

>>11940915 (OP)
>what do you mean the arcades weren't full of nonbinary hackergirls and hippies like reddit told me I'm going insaaaane

I never played fighting games, only single player or co-op with my brother. Never had any issue at an arcade nor saw anything happen to someone else while I was present.

>>11940943
lol they never notice that they are projecting themselves onto people in the past
>housewives in the 50s were miserable and addicted to pills! (just like me)
>arcades were full of perverts and creeps!! (just like the gaming communities i hang around in)
>you wouldn't want them deported because then you'll be forced to take care of your own yard and clean toilets!! (just like i would never want to do)

>>11940915 (OP)
guys on the street at 2am near the arcade bar act creepy D:

>>11940943
what in the fuck are you babbling about lol

>>11940915 (OP)
>be playing comfy game in arcade on single player like bust a move or whatever
>kid comes up next to you and puts a coin in
>HERE COMES A NEW CHALLENGER (round ends)
>you mother fucker

>>11941017
>oh no someone engaged me socially in a public social environment
so this is what autism is like huh

I never saw a fight or even an argument but I know they've happened. More in that below.
I've personally witnessed many a drug deal, though. I don't think any were crack. Definitely weed. Possibly pills. Nothing else.
In the 90s, that sorta stuff died down at wypipo arcades but continued at ones more populated by black kids and I know of two in black areas that were shutdown for being nuisance businesses due to shootings. The last one I know of was a black kid arcade and it shut down in 2003-ish? Maybe later. I have pics of some friends playing games in it from back then.

>>11940984
Even if you don't get shot you'll get beat up by the gang of rollerskate punks that terrorizes the city and considers the arcade's roller rink their "turf"

>>11940915 (OP)
>crime didn't exist when i was a kid because i never heard of it
okay grandpa, just don't look up when the civil rights act happened.

arcade can mean a lot of things really. pizza place, bowling alley, bar, etc. im 40 and i never saw a place that was just an arcade really. aside from the big ones at six flags or something. so i think a lot of people use "arcade" to mean some type of possibly seedy hangout where they also had arcade games

>>11940915 (OP)
>>11940915 (OP)
Delinquents did hang out in arcades if it wasn't a great area for such people to be around. They weren't total hellholes by default but yeah, druggie teens and assholes would be there.

Arcades weren't Chuck E Cheese, they were full of teens and young adults, if you don't remember them this is lost on you because your concept of an arcade involves a cartoon mouse, or prize booths/go kart racing

I guess today, the only thing I can really think of as an equivalent is just like, local bowling alleys at night in a trashy area where there's more adults than kids, or if you live in a rural area wherever people drive four wheelers to

>>11940915 (OP)
> get told that city arcade had drug dealers and dangerous people hanging around it
> didn't give a fuck. it had every game imaginable
> go there anyway
> never got in any trouble
> people were obviously selling heroin out the front but inside the same dealers were all challenging people to 2 player games of street fighter 2 and were ridiculously good at it
> it was fucking awesome fun
> i go home or back to school if i had classes that day
so scary.

>>11941428
there was only one "true" arcade, aka not a dinner place or place for parents to take kids, left in my town when i was in my 20s in the late 00s and yeah they had nothing but a huge arcade cabinet section, and a side area with a bar and pool tables, and there were ashtrays all around near the machines. they had every classic cabinet up to that point you could want as well as some more recently released fighter games from the decade, but it obviously was not a place for children. everything else is like as you said, chuck e. cheese and dave and busters, which aren't arcades they just have arcades, they're family entertainment/dining places.

I was raped, twice, at my local arcade.

>>11941447
how many tickets was that?

>>11940915 (OP)
>>arcades were le heckin dangerino in the 80s!
So were schools. We still went those.
>>gang members and bikers hung out at arcades all the time!
So did schools...
You're literally just describing the 80s.... Congrats. In the eighties you had like a 3/8 chance of getting shivved or shot, that's just how things were when everyone was huffed up on lead and reaganomics..

>>11941461
>how many tickets was that?

>>11941462
i still remember a lot about the 1980s and it was far worse than what it's like today. we just didn't have video cameras in everyone's pocket to document all the wild shit that went on. the passage of time and curated view presented by music and archived tapes doesn't do that decade any justice in representing just how fucked the 80s actually were.

>>11941427
To be exact, besides the original meaning of repeating columns in Roman times and before, it's an "arcade" if there's rows of games, that way it ever so slightly figuratively resembles an arc, then it's an arcade.

>>11941447
your fault for going back after the first time desu

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STFU larping zoomer faggots

>>11941447
Looks like you managed to do it without dying, congrats on those 1CCs

>>11941558
yeah right. would rather kill myself than be born after 1995 and experience 30 years of mediocrity and uninspiring advances in tech. you were born with minecraft and will probably die playing minecraft.

>>11941604
I have never in my life played minecraft, wtf are you talking about?

>>11940915 (OP)
Never saw crack, but there was a gang problem and basketball americans would sometimes beat each other senseless for wearing the wrong shoes. I believe there was only one death. I was their mascot, being a White kid wearing Raiders gear wasn’t something exactly common. I didn’t know any better, I just thought it was cool the older kids were talking to me and teaching me their secret handshakes.

>>11941690
>basketball americans would sometimes beat each other senseless for wearing the wrong shoes.
this never happened

>>11941461
This is a true story, no joke.
>in Texas
>ate texmex, lots of greasy enchiladas with queso
>parents wanted to go to the mall
>go to the arcade
>tummy starts rumbling
>go to the restroom, older kids working the register say it’s busted
>but I gotta go
>it’s busted man, go to the one in the corridor
>parents told me never EVER use the corridor restroom
>it’s an emergency so powerwalk over
>say a silent apology to the black guy at the urinal
>go to lock the stall, he kicks it open and shoves me against the wall
>my wallet is in the - bam he punches me in the kidney
>warning sirens going off poop imminent
>he yanks my pants down and starts jerking me off
>rubs his dick against my crack
>I start hyperventilating, had no idea this was a thing, panicking
>his mistakes this for me being into it
>says don’t worry baby I know how to make it feel better
>nigger starts tongue fucking my asshole
>brain shuts down, the floodgates unleash, squirt a torrent of liquid shit all over his face
>he flips his shit, screams he’s gonna kill me
>slips in the shit and falls over since his pants are around his ankles, cracks his head and is knocked unconscious
>panic
>steal his wallet and go to Foley’s to buy some new clothes
>tell the lady I had an accident and need help and the cash is my dad’s
>sweat the whole way home in case my parents notice my new pants
>toss the old ones in the woods

>>11941704
How the fuck do you think gang members recognized each other at a glance?
>it didn’t happen because the news said it didn’t happen
Retard.

>>11941742
>he actually believes gang members had shoe preferences that were enforced by violence
lmfao you're absolutely retarded

>>11941748
Considering it was in the news and was a common thing back then, yes. What should I expect from a zoomer, though

>>11941748
Are you dumb? The two biggest street gangs literally identify each other by whether they wear red or blue flannel.

>>11941742
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>the news said it didn't happen
>it was in the news though
lol what a fucking retard
you know what else was in the news once? satanic cults operating out of daycare centers. lmfao. moron

>>11941756
yeah by colored garments i.e. something easily and immediately identifiable from a distance lol when was the last time you saw red flannel shoes? you really think gang members are bothering to look at each other's feet when a much more obvious and well-understood system of signaling already exists?
yeah bro I know our set wears red dog but he was wearing Adidas! fuckin Adidas my nigga! he ain't one of ussss
fucking retards lol

>>11941815
>wear the wrong color shoes
>gets shot
>>11941807
>is proven wrong
>spazzes out

>>11941950
>losing the argument so badly he has to hallucinate that he proved the other guy wrong
wew lad

>>11941815
They're still correct. Wearing the wrong shoes would get you a beat down if they robbed you for them.

Also gang territory with shoes on wires - Nike's Crips , converse Crips , volleys blood etc

So they beat your ass and tossed your shoes, if they didn't kill you. That's what the shoes were on the power lines.

>>11941990
>another white boy urban legend about what the shoes on power lines meant
all of you are fucking retarded lol
100% none of you have ever knowingly been within 100 feet of a gang member

>>11940915 (OP)
Is this op the fag that got called out for his soft hands a month ago? The sheltered suburban kid who was never once asked to buy weed and now has a manbun and feels safe in the local barcade?
He is still angry after like a month and made a new thread.

>>11942041
>/pol/ shill takes a break to crap up /vr/
Your supervisor will hear about this.

>>11942041
>100% none of you have ever knowingly been within 100 feet of a gang member
Speak for yourself, I'm a thug shaker.

They were still dangerous in the '90s too. There was different types of arcades, though. If you saw one in an outdoor strip mall you knew it was gonna be full of teens, drug dealers and cigarette smoke.

>>11942114
But if you were in another town, they were a reliable place to buy weed in the 90s. Never hard drugs just weed.

For us it was also the place to find a person to pull for you on a friday night. There would always be a sketchy guy in his early 20s who would buy teens a two-four from the liquor store at the other end of the stripmall.

>>11942089
why are you still thinking about shit that happened on 4chan a month ago lol

>>11940915 (OP)
>people openly sold crack and beat each other up!
you mean this isn't normal?

>be a thirdie from Brazil
>only places that have SF II machines are bars filled with drunk people and niggers
>dad never allowed me to even spend a quarter
>hit 15 years
>not a single cabin left in entire town

Now I'm 35 and have never played in a proper arcade in life. And I also developed a furious hate against drunk people and bars/ pubs

last time i was at galloping ghost there was cum in the coin return slot of the ninja turtles game

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>>11940915 (OP)
Stop spreading lies when you live in the most crime-ridden point in history.

My local arcade was apparently a shithole with drug deals and hookers but I never saw them myself.

>>11941427
>im 40 and i never saw a place that was just an arcade really
Weird, they were all over the place in the 90s. But yeah, arcade machines were everywhere and existed in all kinds of different establishments. I used to play Street Fighter 2 CE at Burger King.

>>11941247
well, there's a reason consoles and computers took off. some of us just like playing by ourselves

>>11944320
We don’t live in the 70s though.

>>11941461
>assbury park

>>11940915 (OP)
All of that is true but arcade goes respected each other and had fun.

>>11944376
>Weird, they were all over the place in the 90s.
were those like mom and pop places or franchises? the dedicated arcades i remember were either in malls (tilt, timeout), amusement parks, or similar tourist trap spots where there was like multiple blocks of mini golf, go karts, arcades, etc.

>>11940984
That's a skating rink, retard, not an arcade.

>>11944458
>were those like mom and pop places or franchises?
Both. Locally owned arcades and stuff like Tilt in malls. In my town we had a local dedicated arcade and one at the college campus (in a games area shared with bowling alley and pool tables). That and random cabinets everywhere.

>>11944320
this is absolutely not the most crime-ridden time in history and you're a complete fucking retard for thinking it is.

>>11941730
I came twice

>>11941017
They weren't called challengers for nothing, anon, if you want to hog the machine, then you better be good at defending your position.

People definitely sold weed at my arcade.

>>11944412
Nixon, Ford, and Carter didn't have 34 felony counts nor were they friends with a notorious sex trafficker.

One of my first arcade experiences when I was really young was seeing this guy hock loogies onto a racing game screen. I think it was some Sega game called turbo or something. He just kept doing it. Imagine a river of green slime going down the monitor. How did he have so much in his throat? Never understood that and it's burned into my brain.

>>11942197
I'm from Ukraine, who was back then a Second World country, and I did manage to play some arcades.

>>11946986
At least dad gave me a Snes and a Neo Geo CD, so it wasn't that bad.

Maybe I should buy an arcade stick just to try to understand the feeling of playing with one

>>11941427
That's weird, especially since they're still around. The last independent arcade I've been to is in Philadelphia. That was almost exactly a year ago. No bar. Just arcade. Before that, it was Chinatown Fair on… I'm gonna say Mott Street… in Manhattan in 2014 or so.
Chain arcades, like Namco's Timeout and that Sega one I don't remember the name of, are dead, though.
Arcadestaurants and barcades still exist, both chains and independents, but chain arcade-only joints are gone

>>11941704
Holy zoomie

>>11942089
Must be

>>11941704
Not her but I've personally witnessed someone getting his ass beat for wearing the /right/ shoes. They just wanted to take them, not because of any gang affiliations. But that was in the early 90s, not the 80s. I'm not sure what America was like in the 80s. I didn't move to the US until 1991.

I remember years ago a Brazilian anon posted on this board about how when he was a kid, he'd have to go to bars to play Street Fighter and he said the drunks would take turns playing too then drunkenly fight each other trying the replicate the moves on screen haha. He told the story way better but man what a funny scene, I will remember that image for the rest of my life

>>11941990
lmao
No, you retard. Shoes on a wire were simply a humiliation tactic, nothing signaling gang territory. I lived in the whitest white place and bullies would just snatch shoes off other kids' feet and toss them up there. No gang shit.
>>11942041
Do mafiosos count? I used to live around the corner from a Mafia bar. It got shut down when the owner and a whole bunch of others (I mean like dozens of them) got caught up in a RICO case, charged, convicted and imprisoned.
>>11942089
Do you mean nobody ever asked him to buy their weed or nobody ever asked him if they could buy his weed? Cuz I'm not that guy but I wear s manbun and have been offered weed and pussy by street venders on multiple occasions but not as a teen. Used to live in the hood as a young 20 something in the early 00s and on my way home from somewhere, I heard a bitch say from the shadows, trying to sound sexy,
>you want a blowjob, baby?
"I'm a faggot so no, thank you."
>you like skinny or muscle? I can get you both
"Nah, I'm good. Don't put off that mammogram!" And I kept it moving. First time a ho tried to proposition me.

>>11940915 (OP)
A new episode of Amerifats living in a shitty country.
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Never had any problem with arcades, except for cheap owners who didn’t maintain their machines and would reboot a cabinet if you were too good at a game (OutRun in my case).
Some people were, let’s say, a little too into the game to accept losing (mostly fighting games).
Instead, I’ll share with you a good story that happened to me.

>wandering around arcade looking for something to play
>there’s a small room behind a curtain
>+18 area with sexy/erotic games
>at the entrance there’s a game that looks absolutely amazing (Dead Connection)
>try to get a closer look
>feel a hand grabbing my shoulder
>”what are you looking at, this is not for kids!”
>freeze, scared AF
>it’s one of the guys I always see at the arcade, usually smoking and talking to the owner and his friends
>try to explain I just wanted to see the game at the entrance
>be turbo autistic, can’t speak clearly
>he goes to the counter
>grabs a bunch of change
>pulls the curtain open and puts it on the +18 section
>sits at the cabinet I was looking at
>”come on, the game is fun”
>tells me to take 2P side
>we play for like half an hour
>every time I was out of credits, he fills the machine again
>I’m so happy, he just smokes, listens to me ramble
>puts the curtain back afterwards
>goes back to his friends like nothing happened
>from then on I always salute him when I see him
>he always nods or does a little hand sign back

Today I have those games, Dead Connection PCB (and Girls panic trilogy cause I was lying, I was indeed looking at the ero games too)

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sovl

>>11940915 (OP)
I'm 41 and outside of one go cart place I don't know if I ever went to an arcade as a kid. Mostly I played arcade machines at bowling alleys and returaunts my family routinely went to.

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>>11940915 (OP)
Based

Reminds me of Death Wish 4

>>11940984
Man, not fucking GRAVITAR! Such a rare color vector now, a Tempest too.

F

"Use only the amount of force necessary" to subdue unruly patrons and protect the arcade, set to a blurred action shot. Ah the good old days of 1981 employee training.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QKBtQ6t9hbw

>>11940915 (OP)
>Yeah, come back to me when you see a dude blowing another dude for the first time.

>>11940984
This was every day at my arcade in the 80's, they didn't smoke crack though because the machines told them not to.

>>11941730
How much cash did you have left over?

>>11941730
and then the nigger clapped

>>11940915 (OP)
That was more of a 90s thing.

>>11940928
How many of those things were perpetrated by negroes?
Relevant because I need to know whether the arcade was at fault, or negroes