Arcade Games

There was a time when if you wanted to play video games, you had to go to the arcade. Arcade games were your only option. Not that arcade games were bad. Heck, they were the best around. You could only find video games at the arcade. Nobody had a personal computer or a video game player. So it was arcade games all the way. Arcade games were state of the art. Though arcades and arcade games had their downsides too. But you just put up with it so you could play those arcade games.

You put up with the inconveniences of arcade games. That is until computer and video game players invaded the home. After that, all bets were off. But before that, arcade games were worth putting up with the sleazy arcade operators and the pucks who all hung around. Arcade games were worth putting up with a lot. And you did. But at least there were arcade games. There was a time when there were no arcades or arcade games except for the arcades the existed in the popular beach front communities, especially the ones with boardwalks.

There you could play the old fashioned style of arcade games like ski ball, rotating trays of quarters and the toy grabbing machine with the moving claw that you centered over the toy you hoped to win. Or the water squirt gun rcade games that made tin horses move along a track or pumped that you aimed in the clown's mouth and a balloon filled up over its head. These old fashioned arcade games were fun and could earn you big prizes as well.

Other than that, you had to be content with the occasional pinball machine. Then the video arcades started to become a common site. Almost every mall had an arcade and in it were all the newest arcade games. People were lining up to pump their quarters into these arcade games. At first there were arcade games like centipede and space invaders, astroids and donkey kong. They were all hot arcade games. We were thrilled by the action of these arcade games. We were spellbound by the graphics of these arcade games. The play was fast and furious on these arcade games.

But the makers of arcade games had some more tricks up their sleeves and just was home video game players were starting to come out and maybe people were getting a little bored with the low tech arcade games, the next generation of arcade games starts to emerge. The graphics on arcade games was getting better. The action was getting more realistic. Arcade games were moving into the realm of personal combat. With these arcade games, all you had to do was have lightening fast reflexes and be able to spend enough quarters to learn all kinds of complicated button pushing, lever pulling pad slapping movement sequences and you could rise up in the ranks of karate fighters and kung fu artists and even get your initials up on the screen of these arcade games.

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