Do /v/ miss going to arcade?

Not really. I understand for a lot of people, it was about the community. But I hated having to pay for every game played, and how many games were just quarter-munchers made to be extremely hard to force you to pay more. I much prefer to just buy a game so I can play it whenever and however long I want.

Though I was a kid when arcades were still commonplace, so naturally I didn't have much money to use at arcades. I can understand if you were an adult then and enjoyed the community that was present at arcades (especially surrounding fighting games), to which I'd imagine it's something to be missed. It's sad there isn't much in the way of community enjoyment of games anymore, since now everyone is solitary with their PC/console.

>go to arcade
>too shit at vidya and mom gave me maybe like $5 at best
>don't know how to reload in virtual cop
>blow all my money in like 5 minutes
i ended up only playing wack a mole type games because the controls were more intuitive, my parents never let me have much money to play games with and i was too shit to figure out controls before wasting all my money, not to mention all the try hard adults were crowding the fighting game cabinets and it looked too intimidating to use one of the cabinets next to them. One of the older kids said "let me teach you how to play" and kicked me off a cabinet for like metal slug or something even though i paid for it

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>>384762027
Whenever I'd visit the large city malls, I'd check out their arcades. There was always Asian males playing Dance Dance Revolution, and kids playing Marvel vs Capcom and Ultimate Mortal Kombat.

>>384762027
bumpity bump

would be nice but my arcade was infested by puerto ricans hustling lil kids.