Hahaha! What a creepy story. My arcade memories are pretty much limited to playing beat em' up games with my older brother back in the day. I don't know how many times we beat the Simpsons Arcade game, but every time it was worth it.

Wow! An episode with a wardrobe budget! NICE!

I wish Arcades still existed. :(

When I was 6 or 7 years old, and this was around 1988/1989, I was watching two guys play the last stage of Double Dragon. After they beat the machinegun guy final boss, they were stuck and didn't know how to finish the game. I had watched my older brother and his friend beat the game weeks before so I said to the guys "Hey, you have to fight each other to see who gets the girl!" but they didn't believe me. I told them that only one of them could finish the game and get the girl and they had to fight each other until one of them beat the other. One of the guys started hitting the other player and the other guy was like "No, stop! He's trying to trick us!", so he stopped beating his friend's character (either Billy or Jimmy Lee), then eventually time ran out and they both got a game over and quit. I tried to help them but they thought I was just some dumb little kid lol.

This channel always sends me back in time. Love it.

Awesome stories and story tellers! could listen to this stuff all day

That arcade rival story was badass! Stuff like that is why I wish arcades were still big.

This is one of the best episodes yet. Tales of arcade days gone past are always such magical tales to me. Man I miss arcades!

It's so much fun watching you guys talking about gaming memories it,s just so entertaining!

More stories! Such a great episode! I wish I was older back then. I was too young to ever appreciate the arcade properly.

Love this video. I remember back in the early 90's playing the new Street Fighter 2 Turbo arcade at a local store. Spent hours on that till in 93 i got a SNES with SF2 for xmas.

+happy console gamer love your stories love your shows . I have some good stories as well in the early 90s in Chicago

These are the kind of HappyConsoleGamer videos I love most! Thanks for sharing!

I have a couple of arcade stories myself. I went into this arcade at the local mall and I was a mallrat at the time so I did this a lot but there were these punk looking guys I havent seen before just going at it on soul caliber 2. I had all the highscores on that system and they beat my lowest one and it really bothered me so I went over and challenged them. I used kilik and they never hit me but that was the last of my money so they paid me to stay so they could challenge me. I let them pick my characters and they wanted me to stay cervantes. I was never hit once for an hour or so and made $10 in quarters. I never saw them again and its a shame that the arcade is gone and now a nail salon.

Awesome. I absolutely love these. To someone like me who never had a lot of experience in arcades, this kind of stuff is gold. Some of my favourite stuff from you Johnny. I look forward to seeing more. Love it.

I remember the "no throw" rule. I used to get so pissed when someone would start to throw me. I even got in a couple of real fights over it.

One of the best intros to a video

I know this video is old but I have a great story about an arcade game. It was in a pizza joint and they had the original Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles along with a few others. So me and my cousins start playing the 4 player co op mode and we finally run out of quarters. Before we left I noticed the coin box below wasn't shut the whole way and there were quarters basically hanging out. So being the goof ball kids we were, we took those quarters and kept playing. Every time we put quarters in they would keep falling out and we kept going! They eventually caught on or someone tipped them off and our fun was over... but man that was a good time. We got kicked out but it was worth it haha.

Street Fighter is one of the most competitive video games.

Absolutely brilliant! I could watch you two all day, so entertaining, keep it up guys :D!

That intro was impeccable so funny keep it up guys!

Great stories guys, I was expecting a new episode and kept checking my sub box for some reason. I'm happy I did, never knew arcades could be such strange places!

Awesome story. Arcades were so scary back in the day, but I miss those smoke filled loud dark rooms.

1980. Me and my buddy , who were both 15 years old , Went to the older teens arcade downtown with much newer and cooler games than our at the mall. It was empty just as it opened on saturday at 11 o'clock. We were very nervous and jumpy for entering enemy territory , but we absolutely HAD to try the new "Tempest" arcade game. In the 5th or 6th round I hear a dark voice behind me saying loudly : "BONUS....RIGHT SIDE"!!! 6 or 7 of the 18-19year olds had entered soundless on the soft carpet. I nearly had a heart failure and/or soiled my pants and my buddy had vanished into thin air. I got the bonus , advanced a couple of more levels before my game ended. Then I offered to move but they insisted me to continue 'cause I was there first. From that day we were accepted and made a bunch of new friends and I felt like on top of the world.

these stories are great!! keep them coming!

One thing I remember very vividly about the arcades during the start of the fighting game craze was that I was a younger kid (maybe about 12 or so) and of course I was playing mostly older teens. They would do some amazing move and I would ask them how they did it. Several times, they sort of looked at me, and they would say something along the lines of "I'm out of quarters. Give me 2 or 3 bucks in quarters and I will show you." Maybe we would haggle a bit, but then I would hand over the quarters and most of the time they actually gave me pretty good lessons. One of the guys showed me how to do Babalities, a handful of Fatalities and a few secrets in Mortal Kombat II when I only paid him to show me one Fatality. Yeah, a couple of guys sort of screwed around, just told me the directions and buttons to press and then split, but normally these guys would actually work with me on the moves I was learning until I got it down. No one ever simply took my money and didn't even tell me how to do it. The arcades were a weird place with strange morals back in those days.

This was a great episode!! The robman intro was hilarious!! Robman can really act!! I enjoyed these tales very much. Man, just thinking about early 90's street fighter arcade culture takes me back. i've never heard of the "no throw" rule, though. But there was a "only 2 cross screen attack"(blanks rolls, pycho crusher) rule. lol Oddly enough, I can honestly say that in all my vintage arcade days in even the most ghetto arcade, i never felt unsafe, and nothing crazy happened.

Love the facial expressions Johnny makes when Rob tells the first story :)

Dude Rob's intro here is so rad!

Wow, I totally forgot about guys draping their jackets over the controls. It's been a long time.

hehehehe, great intro and a real creepy storie to start with - the "red fading in" catched really my attention to go closer and closer to the monitor ^^...

I wonder how many takes Rob took to do the intro without cracking up haha. Really good video guys.

When the screen turns red sooo much tension builds!!

Great episode guys. I have a few horror stories myself but the mainstream days of Arcade gaming truly kicked ass! Street Fighter 2 was definitely an intense game in those days. Canadas Wonderland had an insane tournament style setup with like 20 SF2 Champion edition cabinets lined up in a row and it was jammed pack all summer long with street fighter fans brawling it out....it was just fuckin awesome! Miss those days :[

I remember going to a amusement park on a class trip. Knotts Berry farm is southern California. Anyway a lot of us spent the entire time in the arcade playing Street Fighter 2 Champion Edition. We didn't go on any rides or do any kind of other activities. I remember parents got passed when they found out. They didn't spend good money for you to only spend the entire time in a arcade bla, bla, bla. That arcade was packed. Good times.

Finally new episode is up! I kept looking all the time for the next episode! That was EPIC! Just.. EPIC!

That shin megami tensei music in megaman story made me laugh hard. Fits perfectly.

I went to an arcade called Wizards in Anchorage, AK. I was really stoned and I was playing Rampage. I see and hear people laughing at me and I didn't understand why. I finally realized that I died along time ago and the screen was flashing "GAME OVER." Aaaaah.

Loved this video please tell us more of your arcade experiences.

I've actually just recently started doing videos, all be it in another "area". I've actually just started doing a Let's play, and I want to thank you Johnny! You and the other guys from AGG are a big inspiration!

Great Video!!! Brought back a lot of memories

I love these comments about sportsmanship rules and how that is so unheard of for a lot of people. You have to remember, this is Canada after all. We used to say sorry after destroying someone too....LOL!(okay maybe we didn't)

Those are some strange, but entertaining stories. Awesome video as always.

Great episode! Robmans intro and at the end about the chucky cheese puppets. Haha classic

Your arcade tales are the best lol

I stayed in the more friendly arcades back then haha, bowling alleys, mini golf parks, I remember crowds of people playing the popular games, mortal combat, wwf wrestling, I was into Golden Axe and Final Fight mostly, it was cool when randoms would join in.

great video love to hear more stories form back in the day

I know this video is old but I'll throw my comment in. I had something similar happen where creepy guys kept putting quarters in to watch you play. I think I had the same dad story. What's crazy to think back on now is outside of the mall, all of the good arcade games were found in pool halls and creep places. You'd be thrilled to find a machine in a laundry mat or convenience store but for the good stuff, you had to go to smoked filled pool halls with shady people and drug dealers. Considering video games were catered towards kids back then, it kinda doesn't make any sense.

Love this series, keep up with more episodes! :D

it took me a while to find your channel, i remember watching aome videos but did not recall the channel name, i just spent like 2 hours searching, and i have to say, time spent was worth it

Episodes like this remind me why I subscribed.

lmao great vid - my story - playing "Sunset Riders" at putt putt with a buddy, all of a sudden a gang fight busts out 3 ft away from us. trays were flying, gangstas were getting slammed probably about 10 dudes rumbling as we ducked behind a sitdown version of race drivin'!!! what memories, thanks for the vid!

Great intro, loved it very much! Ah, the good ole 'no throws' during SFII. As a kid, I used to love throwing teenagers and adults by accident and watched their reaction. Even though I beat them, I got much more satisfaction at throwing em. But oh God, I was just as naive as Rob at them Arcades. I'm glad I didn't get into any tough creepy crap. Thanks for the vid guys it was awesome to hear your guys perspective.

Finally, another Street Fighter Tales, or I guess it's now Strange Arcade Tales. I've been waiting for another one of these. Thanks a bunch.

i really enjoyed the stories, more please!

Every video makes me more excited for the hcg movie .Cheap up the up the great work can't wait for your next video

Lol! This is definitely in my top five HCG episodes list. 🤘🏻

It's good to see there are people my age that still play video games. My family and friends think I'm weird because I'm 36 and still play video games. I don't know anyone my age that still plays them. Most of the people I grew up with started doing drugs or have 10 kids.

Robman - Innocent - PFFFFTTTTTT!!!!!!!! Still guys, awesome stores, and I can always count on you guys for some great video game memories. I absiolutely loved the prime time of the arcades but surpisingly I don't have many great stories from the arcades, but as a young teenager I use to play the 4 player arcade games with some girls, and the use to ask how to do this and that and I actually felt pretty happy with myself thinking I impressed them as a young teenager.

I'd love to see more episodes like this!! Fricking hallarious!!

I love these arcade videos.

Really weird that arcades in your area used to have adult stores in the back. I hear you on the fact that arcades didn't make enough in the late 80's and 90's to pay the rent, but where I grew up they were always regular family-owned video stores or pizza restaurants (before big chains killed these mom'n'pop places, they were massively profitable and could easily pull the bills for the arcade).

I wanna add 2 thumbs up! One for Rob's intro alone, and one for the episode as a whole. Awesome guys!

I laughed so hard that I cried. Thank you guys so much for this.

I was gonna say that the intro was awesome, but the rest of the episodes acually overshadows it... So AWESOME EPISODE! Please give us more! MVHH

Fucking loved the intro guys :L keep doing what your doing, honestly my favorite gaming channel by far :)

Arcade tales would be an awesome segment to add to the all gen gamers podcast johnny

"House Rules" now that's something I've not heard in quite some time, yeah looking back at that..it was absurd damn scrubs making up their own version of Street Fighter.

Wtf that intro was actually funny and well made hahaha

I NEED more of these intros please!

Greetings from Vancouver as well! Subbed

Yo, great episode, bringin back memories!

Those stories are awesome!

I loved how you'd come across a good game in the arcade and it would have a broken button or two or the joystick wouldn't work properly. There was one of those games in every arcade.

The intro with Rob was fantastic.

i am subsribing by the way, not gonna lose track of your videos anymore, great videos =)

This one is a classic with Robs instruction. 😁

this is why I love your show. Prime example of quality over quantity. Others release too many videos a week, and do a ton of live streams, but just 1 of your well put together video, beats all of theres. I love you real stories that always take me back to where I was and brings back my similar memories. Over here, arcades were the drug dealer hangouts too. But I didn't care, they had a game I wanted to play so I played. I got spit flung at me constantly by them pricks. Until Next time!

i had a group of 18yo guys ( i was 12yo) chase me and beat me up for spilling soft drink on a 1942 arcade machine out the back of a general store lol we played that game every day before/after school so when the soft drink got on it it make the buttons sticky and not work properly. i got my ass kicked

lol your guys arcade experiences sounds like a martial arts club. you guys should have done that hhahahahah

My best memory of the arcade games was when i was playing SEGA Super GT at a skating rink. I was never very good at skating, but the arcade games that was a different story. I was addicted to it. I loved it, because i had a 13-win streak!!! I had to stop, because i ran out of money

That creepy Megaman story happened to me too except the Old man just gave me quarters and left.

This is one of the reasons I wish I grew up in the eighty's. I remember my first, and probably last real arcade experience, and from then on it was the one or two arcade machines in the basements of cheap hotels. Still the ninety's will always house my favourite gaming memories.

Great video guys! Keep up the fantastic work!

Hahahahaha! Everything you said about that era was true! You've awakened alot of memories both good and bad! Luckily there are more good memories than bad ones! One thing that I distinctly loved about the release of Street Figher 2 was how exiting the environment was. Each day you visited the SF2 cab, there was always somebody who was using a new move or technique to imobilize their opponent. Those were exciting times. It is one of the reasons why so many people still love SF2! Excellent video!

OMG love the SMT nocturne music in the background

Haha, I remember that creepy story from the Live Stream that Rob Man told. That's some pretty creepy stuff@_@ I missed out on the arcade stuff for the most part, other than things like DDR and even then, I wasn't that heavy into it. Thanks for sharing your strange tales. Have a good day:D

I remember playing SF 2 on SNES and getting good at it. I was decent at it and went to the arcade after work (it was 1992, I was 22). I wanted to go all the way to end without losing a match on the initial 50 cents. This Asian kid joins in without even asking me. He looked about 13 or 14 years old. He kicked my ass! I couldn't do shit against him. Then round 2 would start, I actually was able to beat him down to 25% of his health and then he'd turn it on and kick my ass... Sometimes he'd let me win rd 2 just so he could torture me in rd 3. One these fuckin' kids spending his whole life doing those "super duper deluxe combo no throw" moves while I work for a living and could only hope to be decent at it.... It certainly wasn't the same when I was his age in an arcade just trying to get a high score on Galaga '84 or Gorf...

Nice, tales of money, molestation and violence. Gotta love the arcade! Thanks for reminding me about hippodrome too, i sucked so bad at that game but it never stopped me putting in more cash than i should have.

Great memories. lol I also remember the unspoken rules like "Don't throw!". lol

Bahaha such a hilarious story about Rob! He was sooooo innocent haha, great video guys :D

That's quite a dashing suit you've got there Rob Man.

My hometown had a bar/pizza place with a Galaga machine. I was having the best game of Galaga ever, and this drunk old lady comes over and starts hitting on me. Then she throws up on me. All over my clothes, and in my hair. Oh, it was disgusting. Now, I can't even play Galaga anymore without think about it.

Your videos are awesome, dude.

I really enjoyed this episode!

My strange arcade tale was when I was 9, I was in the arcade while the place was being held up, scared the shit out of me, about a year and a half later the arcade closed.

I totally remember dudes bringing hankerchiefs in and covering there hands during Mortal Kombat 2 street fighter days.

Another awesome episode from Johnny & Robman!

the beginning remembered me of Video Game Confessions from TGWTG.

Keep 'em coming!