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Message: <blockquote data-quote="shutyertrap" data-source="post: 1428" data-attributes="member: 134">I loved going into arcades in the 80's.  Interestingly enough, my parents would never give me quarters, so most of my time was spent just looking over the shoulders of other people playing.  Still, I loved the vibe, the noise, that 'smell'.  Seeing cabinet art, people lining up by placing their quarter on the machine, having my mind blown the first time I saw Zaxon.  Working in an arcade was great fun, cause I got to do all those things and get paid doing it!  At that point I still had never owned a console, so getting to be around all those games, sometimes with the keys to get free credits, that was awesome.I really wish they had of trained me on game repair.  Half the games we had were from a distributor, so those we weren't supposed to touch.  I just recently found out that Williams used to have a seminar where they'd invite arcade owners to learn how to service pins.  That woulda been killer.  If I had that kind of knowledge in my back pocket, I'd be willing to track down a beater of a machine to work on.  How's this for a flashback memory...our arcade was right next door to a movie theater.  I was working the morning shift on the weekends, and there is this huge line up for Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.  Inside our arcade, Streetfighter II had just arrived, and had a massive crowd of its own.  That whole weekend, the arcade was jam packed with kids and there was just this energy.  I had to empty out the change machine twice cause it couldn't take any dollars anymore, it was stuffed full!  Craziness.</blockquote>

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