I got a little bored while ripping a CD for a friend so I played with the site’s code a bit. You’ll notice I moved some things around on the right and added a thing or two.
Yeah….now time to go to bed!
Feb
25
2004
25
2004
Fun Times
I did something today that I can’t honestly remember when I did it last. I had to go to the mall after work to look for shoeslaces (short, but meaningless story). Anyway, while there I was walking around looking at all the new stores that seem to pop up in between my now very casual visits. So, as I am walking around, getting ready to leave actually, I just got a funny feeling. You know that feeling that you know you should go somewhere, but can’t explain what is drwain you there? So, I found myself wandering towards the food court and to the old arcade where I would spend a great many an hour years ago. Since the advent of my love, the Dreamcast, I have never really gone back into an arcade. After seeing the graphics on the DC, compared to the graphics in the arcade, not to mention rising prices, it seemed foolish for me to dump my usual $20 every Friday night at the arcade and instead pick up a DC game and stay home. Sure, you lose a bit of the “feel” of an arcade, but then again, I don’t have some fat fuck standing on my toes as he waits to play.
Needless to say I was saddened to see my once beloved arcade. There was flourcent light filling the entire place, a far cray from the dark place it once was. Back then, the only light coming out of the plce was from the soft CRTs glowing around groups of frenzied gamers. Also, and don’t think me weird for saiying this, but it smelled “clean”. A good arade sould wreak with the stnech of sweaty gamers in the heat of battle. Not “honeydew”. A bit beleagered, I put 50? into Silent Scope II and played a short game. I enjoyed it, but the graphics were dated when compared to Raven Shield, and the “magic” seemed to be gone. Although, I do have to admit that my heart did skip a beat when I saw that they still had a working Marvel vs. Capcom 2 machine there.
Although I so think my fondest arcade memories will be of playing X-Men vs. Street Fighter. Not only did we play that every weekend, we ended up breaking our two local machines and were forced to dive 20 minutes to get to the nearest machine after that. And even after all of that…we never missed a Friday night at the arcade.
