Posted by Phydeaux Brigands on 9, 2000 at 12:31 AM:
Just how addicted are you to Arcade Games? Just how far have you been willing to go? I would like to start a thread with humorous and tragic stories concerning our love of the games!
Have you ever not been able to sleep, went out in the middle of the night, and played one more game of Pac-Man? Add to this thread and share the stories.
I'll go first.
1985. I went to Marrietta Ohio for a Summer Vacation to visit my Grandparents. It was a rural small town, protected from the real world. In many ways, the going to Marrietta is like going back in time 10 years.
I was there for about a week, when I NEEDED to play a game to feed my addiction. I spent over an hour cruising the pizza parlors and bars looking for a game with a monitor and buttons. No luck. I ended up in the next town at the Parkerburg mall. This mall had NO Arcade. I was shocked!
After searching the Mall, I finally spied 3 machines. They were in the Movie Theater. One was an AstroBlaster. I don't remember what the other ones were.
I started to enter the Movie theater towards my prize when the Lady at the Door says "You need a ticket to enter."
I said I wasn't going to see a movie, I just wanted to play some games.
She said, "You can only come in if you buy a ticket."
A ticket was $2.50. I had $4.00. That left me $1.50. Enough for 6 games! It was only a little over 50 cents a game. Unheard of at the time, but I was desperate.
I bought a ticket for a movie that I never went to see, and put 4 quarters in the AstroBlaster machine. :) The other 2 quarters went to the other two machines.
I survived the week!
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