Man I feel you. The beauty of the arcade was that you had to have etiquette and respect. Because you were in arms reach or the person you were playing.

Just buy one of those pandoras box things they aren't that much money. Not being able to play ppl online gets old quick with these old games

Not true my dood. Maybe they aren't everywhere like in the 90s and the 80s but they still exist. We have 20 here in Vancouver Metro Vancouver and the lower mainland in British Columbia Canada

Build your own machines it's so much cheaper you build a cabinet and either do the art on it yourself or hire me or another pro artists to. Then either get mame and a retro pie or evercade or pandora pc to run your emulation on and install the mame joy stick button console and VALLA!

​@@alannaramone3821where I live there is one arcade in my town and it's a joke. The only cool thing it has is a Pandora's box 6 machine. It has loads of arcade games and it's the only reason why I go there lol.

The Squids Turf

@@pfcrpb squids didn't play.

Tell me Joey. Have you even been to a River City bath house?

great damn game!

You could argue they peaked with WrestleFest

@@jdevlin1910 has there ever been a good port of WrestleFest to play online or elsewhere?

​@@stevebragg4256I'd like to know as well!

@@stevebragg4256yes. Look up Mame emulator

I'd tend to agree@@jdevlin1910

I didn't know curly voiced million Dollar man?😂

Right we all did, we were soooooooooo young but the memories will be there for a life time u know, I remember Wrestlefest which came out in the Summer of 1991, back when wrestling was still good!

So good I've still got it

Yeah they usually ran on much better hardware.

They ran on much more powerful machines, so home console versions were mostly scaled back to work on the hardware

Only for like 5 years

@@shyguy85 Eh, I'd say a good 20. Early 70's you weren't getting anything past a pong console.

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Unfortunately Andre was immune to Big Boss Man's shoulderblock! Got me at least once, if I reached the finals!

Boss Man's "Sidewalk Slam" was nearly unstoppable and probably the most OP move in the game.

I agree with macho man for sure! Top rope elbow to the outside was what I always tried to pull off in every match. I liked bossman as his sidewalk slam animation was pretty epic and if you pinned your opponent and came in with Bossman you could get a bossman slam off the other guy running in to break up the pin. But my tag team partner was always the ultimate warrior, as he was my favourite wrestler at the time. But in wrestlefest the team was million dollar man for his million dollars dream submission and his fist drop. And of course ultimate warrior again for his gorilla press big splash combo for his finisher BUT his flying close line was the best move in the game. In the royal rumble it could hit multiple people at once. Still play it to this day as I have a 2 player Astro cab and have the wrestlefest arcade jamma board. Unfortunately because i no longer have to pay/gamble my spare change away playing it the experience isn’t close to the same. As a kid it was such a rush playing arcade games and beating a level and stretching a quarter out for as long as you could as a few quarters in your pocket was just as valuable as a bar of gold. God I miss those old arcades, these new ones nowadays are all redemption ticket games which are so boring.

OOOOH Yeah! The Macho & Bossman combo was the jam! Unless , of course, some G was crushing it with Andre. This game was the Szhnit!

Same, well 20p's instead of quarters

If you like arcades, come to Chicago for a vacation. We have a place called, “The Galloping Ghost.” It has a lot of the old school classics in cabinets and they even build cabinets for new games. You’d enjoy it.

I thought the same BUT there is a Arcade club in cardiff town center called NQ64 recently opened. Along with drinks and food its essentially an Arcade with TMNT, Outrun, Operation Wolf, Street Fighter 2 and loads more there, brought the arcade feel back, what I also love is for £5 you get 15 tokens to play the arcades (1 token per machine) sure I got some of them on ROM in my PC but the actual feel of an arcade again, atmosphere is worth the money. Not only that they have consoles free play.

I’d start asking everybody in the convince store if i could bum a quarter when they had this there lol

Id spend all my allowance on this and Final Fight at the 7/11 up the street

Same here in Buffalo New York picking our pizza up every Monday night

Same. At the peak time of day, there was always a group watching the best people playing games like MKII, Tekken and Killer Instinct where the winner stayed on. I was able to get a few good runs on Tekken. Good times.

Alien vs predator was insanely good I wish they would port it to PlayStation

Actually they did have one sequel, only it wasn't really readily available in the US and was more Street Fighter than wrestling.

@@JMFabiano I consider myself a well informed gentleman. Now you have me feeling like an idiot child. Please, sir...tell me more.

I'm glad everything except mortal kombat (and licensed like aerosmith of course) is available on modern console. Missed opportunity no ultimate mortal kombat 3 but people are gonna eat up ole MK1 dlc and comic character guests.

Simpsons, X-Men, Terminator 2 with the big gun controllers 😂 Moonwalker, Virtua Fighter , Virtua Cop

@Hypno_BPM I'm thankful we have VR shooting games like gazzlers as a nice alternative to Virtua Cop. Tiger blade should be fun when it comes out next month too. I wish virtua fighter 5 had more of a story like mortal kombat, soul calibur or street fighter, but I'm glad there seemed to be a balance in that series. Surprised they never had a crossover with tekken as 3d fighters, which also has more story. At least it's in last judgment as the main game is bare bones outside some skins.

It's weird but when people thought wrestling was real everything was super cartoon, but as soon as we entered the internet age they had to switch it up and everything got "real" once people knew it was fake Like taker and Kane were the rare ones, most were like Austin... Black trunks, black boots, knee brace 😂

How old are you? Not trolling, I'm genuonely curious...Arcades started getting phased out around the early 2000's.

@@bradleygermain6288 40 years and 16 days old lol

Wow. That's crazy then. I'd think any western country would have had arcades back in the day! @@Gamesta100

My small town had machines in the bowling alley and a couple of the restaurants lol

@@jarlwhiterun7478 Arcades I went to were in larger cities with a mall, or shopping center for the most part. We had to drive a half hour to get to one from where I lived.

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Oh man. I miss Ground Round. First restaurant I ever ate at that had TVs. I remember watching the 96 Olympics and they were showcasing marathon racers. Some guy was spitting up while running. Burned in my memory forever.