I remember that most of the games I would ever play would
be at those scummy arcades on Granville Street.
Since most of the games there were fighting games which
at the time I really sucked at. I just sat there bashing at
buttons hoping that some sort of combo or special move came
out. I suppose that only really worked on games like Tekken
and Soul Calibur.
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After much practice on the home consoles, (you can read
some of the long horror stories), I have gotten better at
fighting games.
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Playdium at Metrotown was not the first arcade to have
Tokyo Wars but it sure was one of the cheaper places to play
it. It is a sit down tank driving and shooting game. Quite a
lot of fun when you have a couple of the linked together so
you can do 2 on 2 teams.
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I was playing the Drummania game at Metrotown at CHQ one
time. The stool they have is kinda busted and sits kinda low
for me. The result is I tend to get my sticks caught under
the drum pads. This is always a problem because if I am not
holding the sticks tightly, they will fly out of my hand.
Well, one this time, not only did I go to low and I hit the
underside of the pad, the sticks came flying out of my hand,
they flicked up and hit the screen and landed back on my
lap. I was able to quickly recover but the surprise of the
fluke threw my rhythmn off a bit but I survived to the end
of the song... I wish I could say I planned that, but I
didn't!!
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I was playing Gundam DX at the UBC arcade during one of
their ally you can game days. I was playing the game and I
was trying to finish the game using guntank and I got to
about level 6 of 13. Then some loser joins in as Zion to
challenge me. I played against his Zaku. Not bad of a player
but I beat him down. Ok, fine. Maybe he would leave me
alone. NO. The moron challenges me again. I waited until he
selected his mechs and was about to start the game and I
left that terminal and started a new game on the adjacent
terminal. Har Har. He was stuck where he was for that round
playing with himself while I started my game again on the
new terminal. This time, he got the hint and didn't bug me
anymore. If he did again, I would have really screwed him up
by picking Zion too and pick something like the Char's Zaku
or Gelgoog and stand around him so I will get hit by
friendly and unfriendly fire. Of course, if you are a big
target that takes over half of your life meter when you die,
then that become pretty tough win the round when one of you
is trying to kill the enemy and the other one is waving his
arms yelling "SHOOT ME!"
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One day at Metrotown, CHQ put 2 DDR and 1 Para Para
Machines in the main concourse and put them on free play. I
skipped a day of work to go in and play. They had a
tournement for high scores. Of course, I won the hard
setting for Para Para without any opposition.
I was talking to some of the other girls who won prizes
in the easier setting. I said, "I don't play on easy anymore
since that is girls. (ie. refering to the writing on the
ring on the game "cute girls and maniac guys". Well, this
Nazi BITCH who handed out the prizes said that I was being
"sexist". She also says that I was "irrepsonsible" and I
should "grow up!"
Of course, I gave her a good reply. "I said, if it is
such a sexist remark, I challenged her to turn the machines
back on again, and we can let the "girls" refering to the
winners to try hard. Of course, she said NO and I already
knew the girls in line have rarely tried hard if ever. After
stunning her there, I proceeded to say. "Yea, I am playing
hooky from work right now, yea, that is pretty
irresponsible." "Yea, I wasted a whole day here playing
kid's games, yea that is pretty irresponsible." But you know
what, "These aren't my kids, and when they get to a point
when they get a job, play hooky, still get paid, and play
Para Para on the hard setting; then they will be MATURE
enough to challenge me. I waved her off, held my winning
gift certificate in my hand and walked away.
Almost 6 months after that, I saw MOKA's name appear a
couple times at hard at CHQ. Pretty good score, but score is
not a good indicator of profiecency and speed, only
accuracy. I used to play cheap and play the easier and
slower songs really accurately to keep a good combo and get
high scores. Problem is I look stiff and look really stupid
doing it so I don't play points. But it is nice to see
someone was inspired by me to try their best.
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