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<blockquote data-quote="Crawley" data-source="post: 164475" data-attributes="member: 2300"><p><a href="http://s19.photobucket.com/user/Grugle/media/Underground%20Retrocade/9.jpg.html" target="_blank"><img src="http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b151/Grugle/Underground%20Retrocade/9.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a></p><p></p><p>More racing games. Turbo was actually a pretty damn good arcade racer. Simple but fun. The wheel for it was probably one of the better ones. Outrun was also a lot of fun to play again. I had forgotten that you got to select which songs/radio stations you wanted to listen to as you played. Pretty great novelty at the time - although I seem to recall the Sega Genesis version had more than 3 song selections.</p><p></p><p><a href="http://s19.photobucket.com/user/Grugle/media/Underground%20Retrocade/10.jpg.html" target="_blank"><img src="http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b151/Grugle/Underground%20Retrocade/10.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a></p><p></p><p>Upstairs had more games. These were mainly fighting, beat'em-up, and sports games.</p><p></p><p>I was an expert at Karate Champ in the day, the fighting game with the two joysticks. And still got it. Made it to like the 10th or 11th fight. </p><p></p><p>I should also point out that you probably see little placards above many of the machines. Those show the current local high-score holders for the machine. It has their score + their picture on it. Very nice. I did not come close to any of those high scores posted.</p><p></p><p><a href="http://s19.photobucket.com/user/Grugle/media/Underground%20Retrocade/11.jpg.html" target="_blank"><img src="http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b151/Grugle/Underground%20Retrocade/11.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a></p><p></p><p>The fighting games should be a lot of fun on the weekends with people playing them. Used to love playing these in college against opponents. I did play a bit of the original Mortal Kombat. I recall using Kano a lot since people didn't know how to deal with him. But man I sucked with Kano this time. The only move I could recall was his ball roll. And zero clue of what his Fatality was. </p><p></p><p><a href="http://s19.photobucket.com/user/Grugle/media/Underground%20Retrocade/12.jpg.html" target="_blank"><img src="http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b151/Grugle/Underground%20Retrocade/12.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a></p><p></p><p>And another mint condition game. The two-monitor, 5-player, version of X-Men. Played a few rounds of this with Nightcrawler but this game really screams for multiple players.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Crawley, post: 164475, member: 2300"] [URL=http://s19.photobucket.com/user/Grugle/media/Underground%20Retrocade/9.jpg.html][IMG]http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b151/Grugle/Underground%20Retrocade/9.jpg[/IMG][/URL] More racing games. Turbo was actually a pretty damn good arcade racer. Simple but fun. The wheel for it was probably one of the better ones. Outrun was also a lot of fun to play again. I had forgotten that you got to select which songs/radio stations you wanted to listen to as you played. Pretty great novelty at the time - although I seem to recall the Sega Genesis version had more than 3 song selections. [URL=http://s19.photobucket.com/user/Grugle/media/Underground%20Retrocade/10.jpg.html][IMG]http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b151/Grugle/Underground%20Retrocade/10.jpg[/IMG][/URL] Upstairs had more games. These were mainly fighting, beat'em-up, and sports games. I was an expert at Karate Champ in the day, the fighting game with the two joysticks. And still got it. Made it to like the 10th or 11th fight. I should also point out that you probably see little placards above many of the machines. Those show the current local high-score holders for the machine. It has their score + their picture on it. Very nice. I did not come close to any of those high scores posted. [URL=http://s19.photobucket.com/user/Grugle/media/Underground%20Retrocade/11.jpg.html][IMG]http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b151/Grugle/Underground%20Retrocade/11.jpg[/IMG][/URL] The fighting games should be a lot of fun on the weekends with people playing them. Used to love playing these in college against opponents. I did play a bit of the original Mortal Kombat. I recall using Kano a lot since people didn't know how to deal with him. But man I sucked with Kano this time. The only move I could recall was his ball roll. And zero clue of what his Fatality was. [URL=http://s19.photobucket.com/user/Grugle/media/Underground%20Retrocade/12.jpg.html][IMG]http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b151/Grugle/Underground%20Retrocade/12.jpg[/IMG][/URL] And another mint condition game. The two-monitor, 5-player, version of X-Men. Played a few rounds of this with Nightcrawler but this game really screams for multiple players. [/QUOTE]
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