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Zeus posted...

You'd still see Pac-Man machines throughout the 80s. They weren't all replaced by Ms Pac-Man.

I never really saw one. I only ever saw Ms. Pac-Man. (At least until they started doing some of those retro-cabinet mini-arcade style games for home use like Wal-Mart sells, but I'd argue those don't count.)

Then again, some of the first arcade games I ever really saw/played were games like Rampage, Gauntlet, and the original Street Fighter, so that gives you a sense of time scale for when I was exposed to them.

I think the oldest arcade game I've ever seen was Donkey Kong, and even that was iffy because it was in one of those NES collection cabinets where they did a rerelease of older games as an all-in-one deal. Those were around about the same time as the Spyhunter cabinet (some time in the mid-80s or so).

I also remember that my local Ground Round had Golden Axe, which makes me sad because I never appreciated Ground Round enough as a kid, and they're mostly all gone now (and what few are left aren't really the same at all).



Zeus posted...

And older machines might not have always hung around in arcades, but you'd still them in casual dining restaurants (like pizza joints).

I never did. I feel like, if I remember right, the only arcade game I ever saw in a local pizza place was the original TMNT arcade game. And maybe one of those built-in gun games that were either based on Schwarzenegger movies or just very clearly inspired by Schwarzenegger movies and stuff like Rambo: First Blood Part II (with those big meaty guns with force feedback when you shoot).

Maybe you could find them in places like a Chuck E Cheese, but I literally never set foot in one until I was in my late 30s. So I mostly just wound up playing Let's Go Jungle!, and not being able to play Mario Kart because the cabinet was broken.

A lot of this might also depend on where one lives, I suppose.
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