Arcade Urban Legends - Then and Now | Renegade Cut
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- It's 1993. Mortal Kombat II, NBA Jam, Samurai Shodown and Super Street Fighter II: The New Champions have been released in arcades. Rumors swirled about hidden characters. This is the true story about untrue urban legends.
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Dude, there's genocide going on and you're making this shit?
Congratulations, your comment is so hateful and unkind, that I am pinning it so that everyone can see it and re-read the post I made earlier this year. Copied and pasted:
I would immensely appreciate it if my wonderful, socially conscious audience would please stop asking me to make yet another video about a miserable, heartbreaking, soul-crushing topic.
I'm sorry if this is not what you want to hear, but I have recently accepted that doing these kinds of videos non-stop for 14 years, video after video, week after week, month after month, year after year, has had a profoundly deleterious psychological effect on me.
I'm pleased with my career in the sense that I do not wish to return to wage labor, but I am not pleased with what I have put myself through. Making videos like that requires an enormous amount of research, and most of that research is about war, poverty, abuse, discrimination, racism, dead civilians, and in some cases, the literal end of the world.
It's too much. I have been working on myself lately, and this conclusion is simply unavoidable. I think I have been slowly killing myself by doing this. No more.
I'm a TH-camr living in a studio apartment, not a rich politician with an obligation to the community that elected them. I'm not a leader, I'm an anarchist. I hate leaders.
People write comments like “You're doing really important work.” all the time. No, I'm not. I earnestly believe what I say, I'm no grifter, my politics are sincere, my beliefs are devout, but I have never claimed to be important. I hope my work has been helpful to people, I really do. I don't have children, and my work is my only real legacy, but these “compliments” put so much pressure on me, and I would like that to stop, please.
Another TH-camr went through a similar crisis of faith a while ago, and God, I wish I had listened. I can't change the world. I hope I've done enough, but can I just continue my career as a video essayist making stuff that's mostly fun?
(Not actually requesting. I'm gonna.)
People sometimes notice this and write “Your content is a little too serious and sad for me to watch all the time, so I'm gonna have to pass on this one.” You and me both, buddy. Why didn't I listen to you?
IMPORTANT: If you don't make such requests, then this next part is NOT about you. Relax, much love. But if you have ever pressured me or told me that this is an obligation I have, well, no.
Lately, I've received even more comments than usual like “If you don't make a video about [catastrophe], then you tacitly side with [catastrophe].”
I have been getting those for years but now more than ever. I need you to know that this is HORRIFIC to me, and I do not respect this.
There is an enormous, galaxy-sized difference between “Please don't use your platform irresponsibly.” and “You have a obligation to produce what I have unilaterally decided, no matter how you feel, and if you don't, it's your moral failing.” There is a difference between "Are you planning to make this video?" and "Why haven't you made this video yet?" Because the former, although still a bit unwelcome, feels at least earnest whereas the latter is an accusation. Worse still, it's an accusation that I have not fulfilled an obligation that I absolutely, positively do not have. Even worse still, it's an accusation that does not take my own mental health, my own life, and my own autonomy into account.
It's usually not worded quite like that, but sometimes it's even worse. Sometimes it feels like a threat. No matter how it's worded, the message is the same, and it's not something that a complete stranger gets to tell another complete stranger. It's monstrously self-righteous, and I do not have to acknowledge it as legitimate.
Anything even resembling this is unacceptable. Please see that.
“Why haven't you made a video about [worst thing in the world this week]?”
I don't know, man. Because I'm dying inside? Because I was raised in an intensely Catholic environment (school, church, altar boy, confession, nuns, sin, Hell) to feel guilty about everything that I did? Because my conscience told me that in order to be a good person and be right with God, I needed to do more and more and more and more and more and more, even though the more-and-more was just a bunch of TH-cam videos.
Putting life-or-death responsibility on someone who has no life-or-death power will always be wildly disproportionate, not to mention myopic, ignorant and borderline immoral.
If you don't do this, I thank you sincerely, but if you have done this to me lately, BACK. OFF.
I make videos on the internet. I didn't take an oath of office. More importantly...
I am a person. I am not a TH-cam channel. Please stop telling me that the absence of a video on my TH-cam channel means I don't care or that I don't engage with this elsewhere. I attend protests, I give to charities and the homeless when I can, I signal-boost topics that are important to me, and I write political opinions on the internet outside of my TH-cam channel. I'm a human being, and I live even when you're not watching my videos. I do not blink in and out of existence when you press play and pause.
I think this would be easier if I actually were a grifter chasing trends, like if I didn't really care, but I do care, and it hurt me too much. I'm not quitting TH-cam, this is my job, but PLEASE stop asking me to make a video about the next big massacre. It's not going to happen, and the presumed expectation that it must happen or will happen soon is painful to me.
There are already thousands of videos and articles about whatever you think is so vital that I, specifically, have a moral obligation to do, too. It's an extremely online opinion to think that me groaning into my mid-tier microphone for my mid-tier TH-cam channel is going to solve a global catastrophe or even make a grain-of-sand-sized difference. My video is not going to be the one thing to stop what you and I both wish would stop, and condescendingly telling me that not making a TH-cam VIDEO is a “dereliction” of a “duty” that I did not actually agree to but has been assumed of me is genuinely, completely bonkers. (That is a paraphrased quote I received recently, that making a funny video instead of a miserable video was a dereliction of duty.)
That's too much pressure. My new format is “whatever I want” and that's the way it is.
If I want to talk about sitcoms and goofy nonsense, I will. If I want to talk about the next big bad thing that killed everyone, I will, but don't hold your breath, and PLEASE don't ever ask. I'm ignoring any such request for me to do so, and such a call will not be welcome no matter how much you want me, individually, to help solve a global crisis from the edge of my bed where I write TH-cam videos.
I'm sorry if any of this comes across as hostile, but it seems like saying this in more polite terms and in private didn't seem to work.
I'm turning 42 in May, and I need to start taking better care of myself for the second half of my life.
P.S. - My comments are moderated and do not even appear outside of my TH-cam dashboard until I click Approve. It only looks like your comment appears automatically because it can be seen in your account but nobody else's account. That's where most of this onslaught has occurred: sent directly to me through my dashboard for my APPROVAL. Don't reply to this, because I won't be clicking Approve on any of it, and if you can't help yourself, then I'm blocking your account. I apologize if that sounds aggressive, but the replies are moderated for a reason. You can just not reply, because this isn't about you.
If you make a response video or response stream, even in support of me, I won't watch it because I don't watch videos about myself. Never have, never will. I can't stop you, it's your life, but I firmly, actively discourage this behavior. This is something I'm telling you, not something I am asking to discuss. It's not up for debate, because I make all the decisions in my life, just like every other person on Earth.
Peace out, home slice. New video in about a week, and it's almost entirely about video game music.
Bye for now.
You're free to watch another channel. Leon doesn't have to cover the genocide. There are plenty of channels you can watch that can inform you of it.
"Home slice" 😎🤌
@@renegadecut9875 Hey, I just want to sincerely apologize because I was pos for immediately making a request. I now realize I added myself to the list of people who have done this (selfishly)
You've made it clear that you didn't want a response to your community post, but I just wanted to apologize for being inconsiderate. I was completely ignorant and I should have stopped and remembered that you are a human being. Not to mention undermining the video you have taken the time to make.
That said, I just want to say thank you.
There's genocide going on and you're browsing youtube and making comments? I have arbitrarily decided you in particular should be doing something about the genocide with your time!
Hey Leon, I just wanted to mention that I've enjoyed the lighter format, then saw the pinned comment and my stomach turned.
I had actually fallen off your content, up until your shift in focus, for all the reasons you'd talked about in the video. I supported your doing it, but I started managing how I engaged with social media as a means of supporting my mental health and feeling like I was just purposelessly becoming drunk to the gills with anger that I couldn't do anything with. I keep up with what's going on but I can't help but feel like I was just ruining my life and relationships with media designed to wind me up to no conclusion.
Thanks for making this content. I've even really enjoyed that not only has the subject matter been lighter but the ideas being interrogated aren't, like, reaching to be deep or reach any kind of meaningful conclusion but more to just push an idea around as if to scratch an itch.
I also came to say something nice, then was reminded that everything is terrible, too, when I saw the pinned comment, after I had already written mine. Instantly the pleasant nostalgia was soured.
I am one of the target groups for political violence. I don't need to be reminded to never relax. I am reminded nonstop. Knowing how that makes me feel, why would I think that creators want to make miserable stuff?
If it's a responsibility, it's so distributed that nobody should ever be hassled. These topics are very well-covered on YT, and YT videos aren't going to make Biden not a zionist.
Sigh.
The blood bubble scepter is such an incredible leap of child logic that now I want it to be real.
"I wanted to see Sheeva naked. Because I was a freak."
No. No... I was in the same boat.
Ya'll were freaks.
Freaks of the internet, stand proud!
I got good/bad news for you!
The delivery of the line "Pinball Science Officer aboard the USS Enterprise" made me burst out laughing
Imagine Data playing Pinball for the first time in one of the Holodecks!!
This video made me remember my first time going to an arcade. My cousin and I had roughly $10 and split the tokens. Nearly out of tokens, I attempted to play a fighting game I forget the name of. It wouldn't start after eating my token. Thinking it needed more, I put in a few more. It didn't work. So I went to ask the guy at the ticket prizes for help. He grabbed a bucket, opened the game cabinet, and emptied the token collector. Someone stuck garbage inside making it unusable. I thanked him and was excited to start playing.
But then he sat the bucket in front of me that had ALL the tokens that game had inside and told me to have fun.
It was the best day ever. I hope that guy is doing well.
'No it's gotta be real, it's printed in EGM!' - We were so gullible.
A NEW LEON VIDEO ARRIVES TO BRIGHTEN MY DAY
"We were living in Plato's Cave and everything was shadows" I like the way you do media coverage.
OMG, the CUPS. You just tapped into one of the most tactile memories of pizza arcades
I felt the same thing, it's really weird show the most mundane things can trigger the strongest memories
Absolutely. I had a physical reaction when he mentioned them and did the Leonardo DiCaprio pointing thing. It's so funny the things that get absolutely seared into your memory without you even realizing it!
Pizza hut with the jukebox was my jam.
Why do those cups resonate so strongly with people? Lol our brains are wild
An international nostalgic treasure
I think if there's one business model that I love and have seen work well in this day and age is the flat price model. Basically, have a big arcade full of classic machines and pinball on free play, maybe even a section with console games, and charge basically a day pass to the arcade for 10 to 20 bucks. This allows families to spend an afternoon at an arcade where dad and mom can share their favorites from their childhood with their kids and it's a huge value if you play more than ten or so games. I haven't seen such a win win business model like this before and there's an arcade near me that does it and it has worked well.
One of the best times I’ve had in an arcade was buying a birthday party at a full arcade in the 80’s and playing four-player Gauntlet with infinite credits. It was such a trip to just walk through huge crowds of ghosts, taking thousands of points of damage without caring
“I HAVE NOT SEEN SUCH BRAVERY”
Free Play in the DFW area in Texas does this, and it's a great place for Gen X parties.
Add a bar and you have a place in Seattle
I need to find a freeplay arcade. Seems a lot of people go to cons for the game room these days.
I need to find one. This sounds so wonderful!
People who live in baltimore never pronounce the t. It was pretty funny to hear in such a slickly produced video.
I will not conform.
Depends on what part you’re from. We don’t all talk like we’re from Dundalk.
What part of Baltimore are you from? Because Dundalk is in the county. "Not everyone in Baltimore talks like people who don't live in Baltimore." goes without saying.
more fun to say bawlmur than ball-ta-more ngl
It's not Miss Pacman, it's Ms. The "Ms" prefix is ambiguous and I feel soooooo smart for bringing that up 😂😂😂
Thank you, god, it's one of my pet peeves. That they aren't the same is the whole point of Ms.
Damn it, you beat me to it.
If anything, this just supports the forbidden love theory. They use the ambiguous one because they don't want anyone to know...
Miz haha
I remember kids on the arcades I used to visit saying that there was a way to pick up the rock on Chun-Li's stage and throw it to your opponent. That there was a way to play as the ninja referee in Samurai Showdown. And outside of the arcades, I still remember the legends about how there was a way to save Aerith in FF7. Lies... All filthy lies...
Also, finally someone who gets why Sheeva is best girl, guess I'm not alone in the universe after all 😎👍
that is funny to me bc they actually gave a character a rock toss special move later on when they put Cody from final fight in there
Shiva gives the best hugs.
Great video. My parents use to call mortal combat "murder combat."
I love your blood bubble idea
I remember an urban myth about MK2 about Kano being playable only by a secret transformation as Shang Tsung…
I have this memory from my youth of being inside of a 7-11 wathing soneone play the craziest game of Street Fighter 2 I've ever seen. The guy playing Ryu was shooting multiple hadukens while multi-jumping so high that he went off screen with the fireballs coming down the track the opponent. As I grew older, I convinced myself that this memory was likely a false one because I had grown more familiar with the game and franchise, and these actions weren't possible with what I knew about the game. Fast forward a few decades, and I encounter a youtube video about bootleg arcade cabinets and romhacks showing that very same (or similar) crazy version of SF2.
Rainbow Edition. It was a bootleg hack of the arcade machine. Fun times.
My arcade era predates this by a few years, but one thing that united Arcade Type D in the 80s was their decoration: lurid carpet patterns and black lights everywhere. Usually had background music, too. The ultimate form of Type D had a live, very surly attendant to make change for you.
Ohhh man that quick shot of Pinball Pete's toward the end of the video. I went to college in Ann Arbor for four years, Pete's was such a staple of my time there, even in the early 2000s when arcades were on the decline. Seems to still be going strong today. Thanks for the nostalgia blast , homeslice.
Happy 42nd, home slice -- wish you the best for your next solar orbit on this crazy rock.
Love this type of content! Thank you!
Oh, this one really awakened my childhood through early adulthood.
By the MK2 point. I was so good in my area, that people would pay others to beat me.
I couldn’t get my parents to let me go to the regional tournaments, so I could qualify for World Championships.
I beat the regional champ 20 times in a row, when I first got to play him.
He played me one other time, then just wouldn’t play me again.
Not at Street Fighter, Tekken, Samurai Showdown, Killer Instinct, etc.
Loving this one.
*Street Fighter 2: Turbo was my SF favorite.
As a lifelong gamer of 42, this episode hits at the core of my gaming memories.
Despite the naysayers, I, for one, appreciate you sharing your obtuse, video game related therapy with us.
I remember Pigskin 621 A.D. at a bowling alley. I think I ever only played it once as I was on the younger side with little to no money and even less competence at the games due to the courage to mingle amongst the "big kids" just to see what all the hype and excitement was by the pool tables. Smoking indoors was still a thing then too, with giant and rustic brown panel cigarettes vending machines.
So interesting to hear the perspective about growing up in a city with arcades and knowing that even in small town Indiana, arcades were pretty pivotal to me and my friends growing up too. We mostly had Arcade Type As in rural Midwest, more just rooms or corners in a laundromat or, in my town's case, a dairy queen. It's also how we kind of cultivated relationships in friend groups because we couldn't really walk there. We could barely ride bikes because the roads weren't entirely safe to go down being that a lot of people drive kind dangerously getting off highways, so generally you'd have older friends or older siblings that could drive.
I only bring that up because a lot of the lies and mythology were kind of shut down pretty quick because we'd be talking to those older kids who had been playing the games for a lot longer than we had. That also led to them to lying or being wrong about stuff too and being genuinely shocked to find that out. When it came time for us to start being the older sibling or friend that would drive, a lot of the time we'd just continue that trend of trying to shut down legends but also just kinda bullshitting for no reason other than to exert that kind of "authority".
I didn't get it very long though, when I hit high school, Halo 2 was coming out and the age of even going to those smaller arcades was more limited to playing if we were going to dairy queen anyway but this video really made me remember that brief window in time and kind of realize how the mythologies in my rural small town really work.
In laundry mats in grocery stores ... You never knew where your next electronic adventure may lay.
I played the Super Mario Bros. game in a Laundromat in Chinatown.
Oh no, a rush of nostalgia is flowing through me as I try to remember when and where did I hear some of these. 😂
Great work as always. This current direction of the channel is really fun. Thank you for the entertainment.
Really loving this new era of Renegade Cut. Each video feels like a much needed breath of fresh air
I have been following you for years, I love everything you make, but this is probably one of the most heartfelt and magical videos I've ever seen you put out
Incredible video as always. Much as you cover some very heavy topics it can refreshing to look back on those underrated eras that made an impact in our psyche. Being only a year or two behind you I experienced many of the same half baked myths which surrounded both the home console and arcade scene. Mortal Kombat 2 was definitely a major one, your Kano/Sonia story brought to mind a ton of my own bizarre theories which turned out completely off the way impossible.
Growing up I had more Arcade type B experince. Where it was arcade inside the local discount movie theater. Time Crisis 1&2, House of the Dead, Crazy Taxi, and few of the namco classic where everything back then.
Now I'm lucky enough to live near mall that isnt dying .Where there is unlimated free play arcade that only cost $15! Spend hours in that place just playing all the 90s fighting games I missed out on.
So much of this overlaps with my childhood experience. I remember that Superman game, and how quickly those lies about random nude characters got around. It was weird to go to college and find out that so many other people grew up with those rumors. We were from all over the planet, but those fake stories united us.
I swear I saw my cousin get the Triforce from under the truck in Vermilion Harbor, letting him unlock nude Laura Croft.
This is true. My uncle told me so, and he works at Nintendo.
"In NBA Jam, the jammiest of games, we could Boom Shaka, our entire Lakas, for a measly twenty-five cents." (8:31)
You never fail to bring a smile to my face :)
I remember encountering this one game on a Neo-Geo arcade machine that I would play every time I was in this Arcade Type A minigolf pizza joint. I adored the game, and I think I even saw it on Nick Arcade (the best game show ever), but I never bothered remembering what it was called because I was, like, eight years old at the time and kinda dense.
For so much of my life it was my lost Lenore, when I eventually moved away from that minigolf place and never saw the game again. I had such vivid memories of it, but could never place the name. I remembered it was a Neo-Geo game some years later, but that was it, and once I saw how much those machines could cost I just gave up on ever encountering it again.
It showed up again on the Wii Virtual Store even more years later. It's called Blue's Journey, and even though I only played it once after buying it, it was worth every penny just to know I wasn't crazy and my memories were real.
Good times.
It's nice to see you take a break from the heavy stuff; i hope you had as much fun as it sounds!
I'm an anarchist and a gamer so I'm happy to watch whatever you feel like making
The delivery of "their love would be an abomination before God" was incredible
I played that superman game in a laundry mat but also never saw it anywhere else. I remember the Player 2 model had a red costume I thought was cool
This little video essay felt like a poetic eulogy ✨💖👾💖✨
This video is relatable as hell. Miss these days, I won't lie!
Edit: I was wondering if you'd mention Polybius :) that's a weird one.
My friend, that deviated septum of yours may make it hard for you to breathe, but your videos are a breath of fresh air I always look forward to, and this one was easily one of the freshest. Thank you for your hard work and fun childhood stories.
we gotta bring back calling the homies "HomeSlice"
It's really hard to explain to my kids just how magical and incredible arcades were when I was a kid. In the early 90s, I would have rather spent a week in a dirty cigarette smoke filled arcade than at Disney World. There was just nothing else like that feeling of walking into a dimly lit room full of arcade cabinets. The home consoles couldn't touch what those machines were doing. Walking up to a new arcade game and just staring in awe at the attract mode running, showing off what the game was like. I don't feel like anything today could ever replicate that experience.
So happy to see a local Ann Arbor arcade featured. Did you know Pinball Pete's was set to close this year until they found a new location? The new spot will be larger and should be in a better part of downtown. It is a local icon so it surviving is great news!
Growing up poor in NE Ohio in the 80s and through the 90s, it was a rare luxury to go to Chucky Cheese. AYCE salad bar and kids would get free tokens with food purchases. We'd order one drink with 2 waters and my dad, cousin, and I would run to the fountain with those same red textured cups (and we weren't getting water if you catch my drift)! Ah man......the roar of Colossus from the X-Men cabinet was always my calling to every arcade! They were a Type C place (of course), but they had such a huge assortment of games! Street Fighter, Mortal Kombat, Primal Rage, Killer Instinct, Dragon's Lair, Sunset Riders, NBA JAM.....they even had Time Traveler (it was a holographic 3D game, amazing technology for the time)! Even if I couldn't play, just walking around and watching everyone else play was so much fun! But those times I saved up enough tokens, I beat Captain America and The Avengers and X-MEN.
An AMAZING assortment well into the 90's, they even outdid places like Geauga Lake, and before they closed there was a game where you were in a car but would fly around and shoot stuff, I would think back to it from time to time. The sands of time slowly eroding the memory of this game and I found a playthrough of it a year ago! Night Striker was the name! That feeling like finding a song you haven't heard in 30 years and it instantly takes you back!!
Though doubtfully intentional, I really enjoy the Tim Rogers-like energy this particular piece has. It's about games, but it's really *about* the author, and that's just wonderful.
There was one arcade I used to go to as a kid that would give you five tokens for a dollar. I don't remember if it was Chuck E Cheese's or a regional chain.
Video game renegade cut is pretty cool
In 1994 MKs were funny more than anything else. The sound effects, the moves, the fatalities were always hilarious. But since I bought the books and printed out the release notes with bug reports, I kind of spoiled the mystery aspect. The whole nude-ality thing never held much water. We would usually come away thinking that there was probably a color palette glitch that would turn a character's uniform the same color as their skin making them appear nude by mistake but certainly not deliberately.
Hey Leon, I’ve been following you for a long time, and think I’ve watched most of, if not all, if your videos, both political or media culture related.
You don’t owe anyone anything. Your contributions on TH-cam are a net positive to the world. No matter what the content is, it’s always consistent quality.
I’m glad you’re doing what makes you happy. :)
Awe yeah! A fresh renegade cut!
Make sure to know if your Arcade Type E has a rule about the fully loaded nachos.
No BROWN RYU when you fuck up getting Akuma? Lmao that was my childhood
Fun(?) fact, in Germany arcade games were legally viewed as gambling aimed at children and thus banned. Not a hard ban, you could find some cabinets in adult only areas but they were very rare because their target audience was not allowed to see them.
Was not expecting the "Triangle Man" reference. Hell yeah
Your storytelling chops are sharp as ever 🏠🍕 Glad to see you chasing your essay bliss!
I've commented on every video you've made since your move away from strictly political videos, and I came to a realization about why this is so incredible and why I enjoy these videos as much as I do. After reading your reply to the pinned comment I realize that we're kind of on the same trajectory. I used to keep up on every single terrible horrible awful thing of the day/week/month/year and felt my sanity slipping, after some time with a therapist and some real long hard thinking, I came to the same conclusion. Ingesting all that soul crushing garbage all day every day was ruining my life I had to stop, so I deleted all my social meda apps (twitter/facebook/instagram/tiktok) and just tried my best to enjoy my day, I still talk about politics and still strongly (more than ever) identify as an anarchist but I just can't continue to care about things I'm totally powerless to stop.
All this to say, Thank you for making yet another incredible video that brought me immense joy.
Loved this video lol I love how you speak about your childhood so fondly
I actually remember seeing this exact Superman game in a Hard Rock café when I was a kid.
I'm happy for you that you took a breath and made a fun video. I remember all those rumors flying around. I didn't get to play stuff often, so I didn't have any lies to tell my peers. I do remember a few things, but the NBA Jam secret characters? I had no idea before just now!
I was born too late to experience arcade rumors. I lived in the suburbs so the only arcades around were a car drive away; walking wasn't an option. I never got to visit a dedicated arcade establishment, but I did go to Chuck E. Cheese's twice for birthday parties and a Dave & Buster's once. I think my parents were against spending money frivolously on arcades or vending machines. It was good policy that has stuck with me.
You just narrated some of the BEST parts of my childhhood.
Hopfully AVGN has seen this and is proud.
Thanks for making the last part of work a fun little nostalgia trip
Arcade type E, the designated 'Barcade'. I went to one and liked it; spent my time dying over and over again on the variety of bullet hell fighter plane games.
Urban legends were fun. The closest thing I've come to this in the last decade is when Meltan kept appearing in Pokémon Go
7:00 Oh wow! I love MK and was obsessed with all the urban legends/secrets as I got older. This one is completely new to me! 😱
Excellent video, homeslice! 😎🤙🏽
Mad props for content lately. Keep posting your conscience as needed, but these fun ones are even better 😄
As someone that was late to the Arcarde era, i still have vivid memory when played Time Crisis on both Playstation and Arcade and boy did that made the difference. Tipping a metal plate instead of pushing a button for Reload/Cover felt so much better. There is also a Arcade shaped hole in the community, we lost a third place.
Thanks for the break. A lot of this was me in 1984. I was into Time Pilot and Spy Hunter.
I don't remember the energy blast, but the local quick stop totally had that supeman game. It was hard but fun enough to make me keep feeding it quarters
I really love your videos lately. I really loved them before but I really love them lately, too.
Needed this very much today. Thanks for the shining the bright, old light here again, home slice.
Every day with a new r-cut is a great day. 🙏🏼
I like the gaming content. I love your political content too, but this is a nice change from all the terrifying doomer shit I see all day every day anyway.
You seem like you're having so much fun with these videos! I've really been enjoying them too :)
I enjoyed the nostalgia trip with this one RC, thank you.
i remember a little bit more than 10 years ago barcades became a thing in my area and i was really happy because arcades had been disappearing. i like your arcade categorization system.
Great video! Around 1993, I was living in a small town in Ohio where one of the only things to do was go to the big bowling alley. So while my parents and grandparents and aunts and uncles were bowling or shooting pool, my cousins and I were playing Street Fighter II, Pac-Man, or Galaga. Everything you bring up in the video is spot-on and took me right back there. Thanks for the trip. As for arcade bars today, I've been to one, and it was fun and nostalgic and all, but maybe my age has taken away some of the gloss.
6:34 "I did not want to see Sonia Blade naked. I wanted to see Sheeva naked, because I was a freak." Respect to a fellow man of culture. *tips hat*
Thanks homeslice this video was wicked cool. Peace dude.
We here!! 🏴
Wish I could have experienced arcades more than I did- here in my country the arcade business was heavily regulated against, and the ones that existed where in stuff like amusement parks or on cruise ships and so on. I can only recall a few places where like, a corner store had put in a machine where people could just go and play. Never enough to make arcades into casual places where you could just hang and enjoy games with each other (or beat each other up for more coins, whichever was more likely).
I remember that Superman game. A friend of mine loved it so much, he created a character based on that nuclear punch for a super hero tabletop RPG we played.
Also, I'm loving the new content. We all need a mental health break sometimes. And in these troubled times, I get it. I feel the same way. Take care of yourself. Whatever kind of content you want to make (within reason), I'll be along for the ride.
Its been nice seeing some self care being practiced here, after having spent so long feeling guilty about not doing more than i am physically capable of. Thanks for the reminder that doing what we love when we can, as best we can, is often the best thing we can do for ourselves.
15:21 I totally forgot about Pinball Pete's! There was one of these at my college, I used to live within walking distance of it. I only got into fighting games recently and, had I been more savvy at the time, I probably would have spent way more time there, rather than being limited only to conventions to see cabs.
I remember the first time I was actually given the agency to play on a stray arcade machine. I was 16, on a road trip with my mom in the middle of nowhere Utah. Staying in our nearly empty hotel, I was hungry, and I had a cup of instant mac and cheese I'd been looking to heat up. The microwave was in a backroom of the hotel, and directly across from it was an Addams Family themed pinball machine. I looked at that machine, went back to the hotel room, and asked my mom for a dollar because I couldn't recall if I had ever actually played pinball on a real machine.
I heated up my mediocre mac and cheese cup with the phineas-and-ferb-shaped pasta and played actual pinball for the first time.
In the MGS trailers, Snake uses a spin kick animation that’s just a straight kick in the finished game. (Imagine his combo in MGS2.) A friend of mine swore you could get that move if you cleared the game 3 times with all the endings on the same save. Alas! No. But I cleared the game regularly of an evening anyway.
Nice video, homeslice!
Love this…
Unrelated slightly, but I have 3 cars form 93. So it’s always a throwback when I drive one. Especially for the Nissan NX or Geo Storm
my favorite part is the early segment on Polybius. thanks, homeslice!
My "arcade" was at the comic book shop about a mile away.
I remember how I "discovered" Turtles in Time and no one believed there was an amazing new TMNT game out there. I thought I was mad for a while until it came out EVERYWHERE.
Last time I hit up an arcade was a year ago. Adults only, served beer and pizza, perfect. ❤
There's a cool place north of Chicago called Nickle City. Costs like $10 to get in and you get 100 nickels for the games. Even the most expensive games are like "dive nickles!" So cheap relative to anywhere else now. Heck, cheap compared to games in the 90's. That's a fun one to take kids to.
I did go on an fairground arcade deep dive the other day. I recall a whole range of mechanical arcade games rather than pure video and computer ones. Felt weird to see them all again.
The one I remember most fondly from the 80s was that Spyhunter had a level where the car turned into a plane or copter. A friend told me he had seen someone get that far and that you had to get past the boat level three times to get to it. :D
Great video homeslice
I distinctly remember a kid at school who swore up and down that he used E Honda's punch attack to knock Chun Li's top off
This took me BACK!!! The local pizza place in my neighborhood had a type B arcade with MK II. I would also walk there to play. Those were the days!!!
I miss the arcade. I lived out in the country, so it took a special trip. Fortunately my Dad liked video games and Mom liked video poker, so I got to go fairly often. And our token vending machine took quarters,
Love it, such a random and specific aspect of my childhood highlighted by one of my fave lefty channels