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Me and my best friend at the time used to spend our Saturdays hanging out at the local deli/convenience store that also featured 2 or 3 machines, while the other places that featured them were the local theaters.

Some of my most fond memories are playing the X-Men, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle, and Street Fighter games, and Final Fight, Streets of Rage, and Double Dragon games, plus some few others that I'm forgetting but those were our favorites.

I always enjoyed and looked forward to play, except however, for one important detail that eventually made my experience bitter and sour and that became a problem to the point of having to desert the arcade shops altogether.

That being, that thugs have always been around NYC, but during those days in particular there were a lot of thugs that would cause trouble, the types that would be thieves, drug users and drug dealers, and menace the shop owner, and do damage by kicking or breaking their merchandise, and these were tall, strong, alpha teen males.

They weren't always around, but at the same time they were frequently around enough that they were hard to avoid, and when me and my friend would be on the machines first, those thugs usually tried to stir trouble and threaten us, and other times when we would be waiting in line for our turn, they would just literally hog the machine and would be there like it was their property and prevent anyone else from using the machines.

So that's why we eventually had to stop altogether, because the same guys we saw previously, would show up at the same shop and since we already had negative encounters with them prior, it would be pointless to try to have an enjoyable experience there again.

Other than that, though, I just found arcade games to be sometimes such a much more enjoyable experience than console games, especially the remakes of the same arcade games.
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