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I miss the old days...
17 years ago
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*sighs* Every title I could come up with makes me sound old...
There are no real status updates or anything of value. Nothing but reminicient rambling from here on out so you may skip this one.
A long time ago I was a mall rat. No not one of those prepy kids who who hang out around the stores. I was more of an arcade rat I guess you could say. Since I was about 13 I would go to the acrade and hang out with all the older guys that hung out at the arcade. For years that was my regular haunt for when I had nothing better to do. After a time I eventually became the manager of said arcade. Day after day it was DDR, Dance Maniacs, Pop'n Music, and numerous fight games. The funny part was the people I knew outside the arcade and those I knew in it did not mingle at all and most people were amazed to discover after years of knowing me that I had OTHER hobbies as it were. I was like batman...except not as cool.
I was an oddball for one of the "arcade regulars". I was one of the youngest members of the arcade family for the longest, also I was always a tad on the goth side, and strangely enough white guys were outnumbered by the number of other races. Being around them had its inlfuence because to this day I still say things like "you are too white", "stop doing the white boy shuffle". "unleash your inner asian!". I was also a bit more aggressive then the other more nerdy members back then. I still fondly remember the looks on a group of prepy kids faces when they tried to mess with me while I was playing DDR like they had done to so many before me. After kicking me a few times thinking like the others I would just yell and keep playing. I turned around jumped over the bar and roared at them "You got a f#*@ing problem! Kick me one more f#*@ing time and I'll kick the S*#t out of you!" Haha there was like three of them and their eyes went wide like donuts and then backed away with thier hands raised in submissive fashion.
I miss all the differant people and the humor...it was more the vibe then the actual games. I miss the antics, I miss the guys who would spout memes all days when the memes were still new, I miss scaring the white kids by playing dominos with the mexicans and the black folk right there in the store. I miss sitting around making lines around the fight machines taking turns and having everyone comment or chant as the fights went on, I miss playing Risk and yelling rather loudly as I marched my forces across the world, I miss everyone talking about the anime con in Dallas and ploting out what to do at the next one all year long, I miss the ricers blathering on about their new mods, I miss the music and the noise, I miss watching the 13 year old asian kids stomp random scrubs at every game in the store, I miss going down to Hot Topic to talk to Wolf and listen to the industrial and EBM that he would insist be played overhead.
The entire company one day closed up all their stores and there has not been another arcade since. I miss my $8 an hour to do nothing. (there was work invovled but I got it done in like the first few hours of the day)
How I long to get in on some fight game and pass the stick (or for those of you who don't understand, loser hands the controller over to the next guy) for hours on end switching from game to game. Some old school Soulcal, some Tekken, some Guilty Gear, some Marvel VS Capcom, some Capcom VS SNK...*sigh*
All the people I hang out with these days are either not a gamer or just not a gamer of that breed, or just suck too much for me to get any fun out of it. And nobody plays DDR anymore.
There are no real status updates or anything of value. Nothing but reminicient rambling from here on out so you may skip this one.
A long time ago I was a mall rat. No not one of those prepy kids who who hang out around the stores. I was more of an arcade rat I guess you could say. Since I was about 13 I would go to the acrade and hang out with all the older guys that hung out at the arcade. For years that was my regular haunt for when I had nothing better to do. After a time I eventually became the manager of said arcade. Day after day it was DDR, Dance Maniacs, Pop'n Music, and numerous fight games. The funny part was the people I knew outside the arcade and those I knew in it did not mingle at all and most people were amazed to discover after years of knowing me that I had OTHER hobbies as it were. I was like batman...except not as cool.
I was an oddball for one of the "arcade regulars". I was one of the youngest members of the arcade family for the longest, also I was always a tad on the goth side, and strangely enough white guys were outnumbered by the number of other races. Being around them had its inlfuence because to this day I still say things like "you are too white", "stop doing the white boy shuffle". "unleash your inner asian!". I was also a bit more aggressive then the other more nerdy members back then. I still fondly remember the looks on a group of prepy kids faces when they tried to mess with me while I was playing DDR like they had done to so many before me. After kicking me a few times thinking like the others I would just yell and keep playing. I turned around jumped over the bar and roared at them "You got a f#*@ing problem! Kick me one more f#*@ing time and I'll kick the S*#t out of you!" Haha there was like three of them and their eyes went wide like donuts and then backed away with thier hands raised in submissive fashion.
I miss all the differant people and the humor...it was more the vibe then the actual games. I miss the antics, I miss the guys who would spout memes all days when the memes were still new, I miss scaring the white kids by playing dominos with the mexicans and the black folk right there in the store. I miss sitting around making lines around the fight machines taking turns and having everyone comment or chant as the fights went on, I miss playing Risk and yelling rather loudly as I marched my forces across the world, I miss everyone talking about the anime con in Dallas and ploting out what to do at the next one all year long, I miss the ricers blathering on about their new mods, I miss the music and the noise, I miss watching the 13 year old asian kids stomp random scrubs at every game in the store, I miss going down to Hot Topic to talk to Wolf and listen to the industrial and EBM that he would insist be played overhead.
The entire company one day closed up all their stores and there has not been another arcade since. I miss my $8 an hour to do nothing. (there was work invovled but I got it done in like the first few hours of the day)
How I long to get in on some fight game and pass the stick (or for those of you who don't understand, loser hands the controller over to the next guy) for hours on end switching from game to game. Some old school Soulcal, some Tekken, some Guilty Gear, some Marvel VS Capcom, some Capcom VS SNK...*sigh*
All the people I hang out with these days are either not a gamer or just not a gamer of that breed, or just suck too much for me to get any fun out of it. And nobody plays DDR anymore.
I never had the pleasure to randomly meet people who loved the same things I did (at the time my favorite fighting game was tekken). When I did finally meet people, they wouldn't let me join because I was a girl.
But anyway.. I hate how things change like that. And I hate how I can't find people who enjoy the same things I do. I'm lucky I finally found someone else who loves Chrono Trigger finally!
That is really too bad you never got to meet arcade gamers. They are a vastly differant breed. You learn a lot from them and get really good really fast with them there to teach you. We had some girls at our arcade and we always welcomed the newcomers. I loved making fun of the rednecks when they would get their ass handed to them in Tekken and rub it in their face they lost to a girl. I hate to admit though as sexist as it sounds the girls were never as good as the guys at anything sadly. Though nobody cared because it was hot they were playing anything especially DDR.
Ah I LOVE Chrono Trigger. I have the full OST and remixes of a ton of the songs. It was one of the best RPGs of all time IMO. Where do you live exactly that there is nobody that shares your interests?
my uncle used to take my bro the our mall when the arcade was there.. he loved that stuff
i always loved playing the fight games at my campground game room too.. but we dont have those games anymore.. now the stuff is all for little ones...
i miss it all as well =(