Posted by Ohso on 10, 2000 at 10:41 PM:
In Reply to: HardCore Gamer Stories posted by Phydeaux Brigands on 9, 2000 at 12:31 AM:
My game back in the 80's was Dragon's Lair.
I remember an arcade in the local mall posting monthly and all-time high scores on the marquee of each game and Dragon's Lair had my name on it for 3 years running...
Well after they took it out of that arcade I went into withdrawl. I remember playing some very lame computer version and hating it. I made a written list of every screen in DL and the correct moves to complete them. Nothing helped...
The I discovered the 7-11 down the street (only 3 blocks!!!) had gotten a DL machine. I started riding my bike there after school. One interesting thing about this machine was that after beating the dragon the game simply started over instead of ending. This way I could play for hours on a dollar or so...
Well, one day I rode down to the store ready to play and received a big shock, a paper taped to the front that said "OUT OF ORDER". Arrrgh. I didn't know what to do so I struck up a conversation with the cashier and asked what was wrong with it. She replied she didn't know and that they might be getting rid of it! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!
That wouldn't do at all. So I convinced her to let me take a look at it. She gave me a screwdriver and let me!!! I started poking around in the back (amazing I didn't kill myself, I had no idea what I was doing) and eventually found the problem...a jammed coin mech.
I fixed it and was able to play for the rest of the day. :)