What are your worst arcade moments?

Everyone speaks about the good times but how about the bad. The fights, the slaughtters, the humiliating losess and the embarresmenstts. Share your stories...

The first one that comes to mind is when I fell off a DDR platform in the middle of an SSR song and nearly twisted my ankle...

lol

the way I came in third in that CvS tourny( mentioned in the "good memory" thread ) Dude went DM crasy in SNK mode and super hadokened like made, had lil health left and lost while blocking....cheap bastard.( Glad he got his ass handed to him by the guy in 1st place's Geese )

When my first crush's( again mentioned in other thread ) best friend called her over to play some game with her when she was gonna play outrun with me again...........the bitch called her over on purpose

whenever I go to familyfun now because I get no mercy. They try the cheapest shit I've ever seen. They have got perfects on me a few times.

The most recent one that comes to mind is...
I was at this restaurant "Sweet Mesquite" and they had a dedicated 2-slot NeoGeo, so I brought my memory card. It had Super Sidekicks 3 and MS3. Well, my brother and I played MS3, and I noticed that the joystick barely works on P1's side. It feels "wrong" and you had to like slam it and keep it in its "sweet spot" to move a direction. Well, we run out of credits, and it asks if we want to save. I tell it yes, and it says something like "Memory Card can not be read or formatted". I'm like "uhh, whatever." And it didn't save, either. So I get home and put the card in MY NeoGeo. It doesn't ask me to load. I pull it out and carefully put it in again. Still nothing. THE STUPID MACHINE FORMATTED MY CARD!!!

There's a happy ending: My brother and I got to each state we previously were at, and in some games even further.

Damn I never thought the neo could be so cruel, I always thought of it like an older woman: very nice, classy, and having alot of character. and also downright sexy. but hearing that dosen't make me want to get a memory card anymore. It's like it can get a std if you stick it in the wrong one!

I was playing Marvel Super Heroes vs. Street Fighter (for you youngin's out there, it's the one BEFORE Marvel vs. Capcom), and stomping the crap outta the computer when some older lad came up to me and politely asked if he could play. I said sure, and he began to choose his characters...when I began to notice something was off. He moved the joystick in very deliberate, very weird motions until Mecha Zangief, a secret character, appeared. This being a game I was relatively new at, I had no idea how he chose him and was pissed he would choose a secret character. I was Spider-Man and Wolverine, and he rocked me hardcore ninja style because he could cancel out any of Wolverine's combos and just suplex me over and over...and he WAS LAUGHING IN MY FACE WHILE HE WAS DOING IT!!!!!!

So, I walk away, think about it, decide to go back and choose Gouki and just pummel him with air borne fireballs, but when I turn around...he had left already, and I never got my revenge. It still haunts me to this day, and ever since then I have adopted a more, eh, "cynical" playing style, with absolutely no code of honor. I play to win. BASTARD!!!!

my worst arcade memory...was trying to play KOF on a MVS machine...and realizing that the joystick was broke...Why did i get my ass kicked by choi bounge...with that slow ground roll he does! I was livid! angry

Playing Tekken 4 and getting beat the fuck to sleep to the point where I felt I wasn't good enough to understand how to play it properly and I almost gave up 3d fighters. If ya'll would have seen how I used to get my ass beat ya'll would see why I almost gave up. I used to be the arcade "practice mode". I was basicaly paying 2 tokens to get my ass handed to me.

I used to play a lot of MvC2 at the arcade. I was pretty decent at it. There were very few people here that weren't scrubs, and I know most of the good players. Anyway I moved on to bigger and better things, like skill based fighting games. Anyhoo, I play every once and a while just for a lark. It's usually pretty cool, but my skills went waaaay downhill. I go and decide to play one of the new kids that's playing it these days, he isn't very good at it. Same combos over and over, easy characters to play. Anyway, he proceded to stomp my ass thoroughly and made some smart ass remark as he was finishing it. I don't know why, but poor sportsmanship pisses me off. Especially when it's some punk kid that thinks he's hot shit. Almost made me start playing that game again just to whoop him

Imagine - It's Christmas Eve in '93 - Fatal Fury Special is a hot new game in your arcade. You're 12, have 5 rolls of quarters that was given to you as an early Christmas present at 6pm. It's dark outside, and it begins to rain. You're very excited about all these quarters - that means that much more of Fatal Fury Special. So you call a cab to take you to the arcade, only to see it closed early for the holiday when you get there. By the time you realize this, the taxi is gone, the pay phones are out of order, and you have to walk home in the soaking rain depressed because you have to wait a couple of days to be able to play.

I'll never forget that, I wanted to die that day crying

i think my worst moment was at a tourney a few days ago hehe

in cvs2 i just had a bunch of the best matches i had ever had...crowd cheering and i JD'd everyTHING i was super hot i even managed to perfect a guy in the final round of the match

so i guess after that i got a lil over confident or somthing...but anyway I got OCV'd...with eagle! a fukin eagle ocv'd me in a tournamant...i almost felt like crawling under a table

it was horrible
but on the plus side the tourney was amazing and not only did i have my worst match..i also had the best match ive ever had

Oh! The HORROR!!! eek! eek_2 All of your tales move me to recount me own... crying

2nd worst: It was in 1996 at a local mall arcade just right down the street from my appartment. On Saturday's I'd go and just mess around with X-Men vs. Street Fighter or Marvel vs. Capcom, but one day all that changed. This guy who occasionally frequents the arcade with his friends came around and challenged me when I was playing X-men vs. Street fighter. I knew the guy was good because he would often decimate people at Street Fighter Alpha 2 (yet another game I hate to play now because of him), but I was looking forward to a good challenger.

My tag-team: Ryu and Cyclops. His: Charlie and Akuma. oh_no

It was a fact that this guy was a combo freak with Charlie, so he meticulously combos the crap out of me in the first round, smashing my Ryu good but not taking him out when I called in Cyc. The guy was good with Akuma, but not that great, but he did manage to waste Cyclops and then had his way with me with his Charlie/Akuma cross-over combos and supers. He'd love to do Charlie's Sonic Break super, and then advance on me and combo me when I blocked it, often throwing me or knocking me out of the air if I jumped it.

My Ryu lost to him and it was sad because I knew I would lose. I just hated the guy because he was so popular and could almost beat you with his eyes closed with Charlie or Akuma. I admit I was jealous, but just seeing Charlie doing weird combos on me when I thought I knew how to counter-attack just unnerved me. To this day I still despise the guy...*shudders*

WORST EVER ARCADE MOMENT: It was July of 2001. I was down in Gulfport Mississippi (Hey, Spinmaster! ) with family and we were checking out this big grand hotel right on the beach (I forgot the name of it, but it's near Keesler AFB). It was around 3:00 p.m. and I happened to find a nice big arcade on the ground floor a ways from the entrance desk. Well, I decided to see how US players were fairing in arcades since I heard that these places were a dying breed (I was on vacation from the Middle East). I get about 10 tokens and tried my hand at Soul Calibur.

My Mitsurugi makes short work of Inferno and as I watch the credits role, I peek around to see what else this big black pit in forever-fading time had to offer. Aside from the countless Time Crisis and Houses of the Dead and Racing game cabinets, there were a few fighting games littering the floor. I spot Tekken Tag Tournament and MvC2, but as I made my way to TTT, I glanced at this lonly forgotten red cabinet and see 2 games on it: it was an MVS cab!

Ecstatic, I quickly put in 2 tokens and pay tribute to SNK's dead legacy by playing Sengoku 2001, which looked really good for a new game on a dead machine (the other game being Magic Drop 3)! After I get wasted on the second level, I decide to go over and have a few rounds at TTT. My chosen warriors: Bryan Fury and Lei Wulong. As I make it past level after level, this guy comes up and challenges me. His team: Tiger Jackson and King. oh_no

As hard as I may have tried, this guy whopped my ass with Tiger ALONE just by mashing the kick buttons!!! blow_top NO SKILL AT ALL!!! I tried to combo him, but he'd either knock me down or have King come in and throw me to death. I thought I could take him out with Lei, but King and Tiger made short work of the Hong Kong SuperCop.

But this isn't the best part: Appalled at my defeat, I decide to play MvC2 to ease my mind. Unfortunately, this guy who was watching me quickly came over and without asking, challenged me.

My team: Jin, Captain Commando, and Sabretooth.
Challenger team: Iron Man, War Machine, and CABLE!!!

I SWEAR, THE WHOLE FUCKING ROUND I HEAR NOTHING BUT "UNIBEAM!", "UNIBEAM!", "UNIBEAM!", "SHOULDER CANNON!," "SHOULDER CANNON!", "VIPER BEAM!", "SMART BOMB!," SHOULDER CANNON!", "UNIBEAM!", "HERE'S MY SUNDAY BEST! PROTON CANNON!", "HYPER VIPER BEAM!!!,"

I was too shocked to focus. I spent the WHOLE round blocking lasers; just barely getting in to combo with Jin or counter attack with Capcom!

First to go was Sabretooth, and then Capcom, and as there was only 3 seconds on the clock, Jin finally succumbed to a mix of Viper and Unibeam...

I had NEVER been so insulted in all of my life!!! NO SKILL WHATSOEVER!!! THAT FUCKING LOSER DID THE SAME MOVER OVER AND OVER AND OVER AGAIN, chipping away what little life (and dignity) I had.

To this day, I dare not to even think about touching a MvC2 game EVER!!!

Fin.

one of my 1st dates with this chick i took her to enchanted castle(aracde type place)and tried to wow her with my skills at Tekken 3 when this little kid comes over and schools me with King .
Try as i did i could not beat him and i had to walk away with my tail between my legs!

Imagine - It's Christmas Eve in '93 - Fatal Fury Special is a hot new game in your arcade. You're 12, have 5 rolls of quarters that was given to you as an early Christmas present at 6pm. It's dark outside, and it begins to rain. You're very excited about all these quarters - that means that much more of Fatal Fury Special. So you call a cab to take you to the arcade, only to see it closed early for the holiday when you get there. By the time you realize this, the taxi is gone, the pay phones are out of order, and you have to walk home in the soaking rain depressed because you have to wait a couple of days to be able to play.

I'll never forget that, I wanted to die that day

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Damn Wes, that shit fuckin sucks. I'd have nightmares about that shit every day of my life.

WORST EVER ARCADE MOMENT: It was July of 2001. I was down in Gulfport Mississippi (Hey, Spinmaster! )

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hehe you got rocked by some of the GPT's finest baby!!!! G-Town in the house baby!!!!!! j/k.

One time I was playing some guy in SF2 Hyper Fighting. He was using Ken and I was using Vega (Balrog), I think. He wasn't bad, but he had one hell of a temper. He was super agressive and I basically stayed calm and swiped away at every opportunity.

As the match progressed so did his anger, and with my finishing blow he slammed the shit out of the 2P button with his index finger, and the game reset (?). Then he stormed off, me being out of my 25 cents, but admittedly satisfied that I had laid his sexually frustrated ass to waste.

God, I have too many to count.

Just One:

I'm in a local third strike tourny and
I'm doing pretty good with sean. So I
make it to the top tier and there are
four of us left. So I'm pretty psyched
and ready to get my ibuki on. I've seen
the guy I'm about to play in one or two
matches before, but holy hell...once I
sat down, thinking I was all good, this
guy is a fucking "parrying MONSTER." So
I got a few combos in but overall, I'd
say I got to watch my ibuki get beaten
with my friends around me.

It sucked to high hell.

Later

shir0

Haha yeah, I fell off a Max2 machine before.

Oh, just some interesting incidents with DDR.

Neon_Sonic:
Oh, just some interesting incidents with DDR.

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We all were egging my friend on to start slapping his ass while playing Cowgirl on Max2. Since we were all being jackasses that day he started doing it without looking at us or anything. Little did he know that there were about 25 people watching him.

I was down the shore about 5-6 years ago and I was in an arcade. I saw they had a Virtua Fighter 3 cabinet, so I was like awesome, I've been wanting to try this.

Someone was playing against the CPU, so I asked if they had a problem with me joining in, they said no problem so I dropped in a few quarters in the first player slot and hit start, hit the button on whoever the cursor appeared on first and was ready to get rolling. The match starts up and to my shock and disbelief, the joystick was not responding when I pushed it to the left to move back. I was like what the hell, meanwhile I'm getting my ass kicked because I can only move forward or up and down along the planes. So I start smacking the joystick lightly thinking maybe something is loose or of that nature. To no avail did anything change, lost the first round, the second was the same thing. So I hit it a bit harder, because I am upset it's not responding. I lose the second round and walk away from the machine looking for something else. I hear someone yelling at me so I turn around and look, it's a security guard. He and a few of his sidekicks come up to me and tell me that I was beating on the machine. I explain to them I understand that it appeared that way, but it was not working properly and I thought something was stuck. Naturally showing off their egos since they probably were losers in the real world, I get 86'd from the place in front of a huge crowd. It was an unfortunate incident.