Very 1st Arcade Game you ever played?

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Honestly, I think it was one of the House of the Dead games. Probably one of my dream cabs I want to own.
 
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I'm not sure, but I played a few arcade games fairly regularly as a kid, such as the Simpsons and TMNT beat-em-ups. I suspect the first might have been the Ghostbusters shmup, being that it came out in 1987. I would have been about 6 years old. I remember playing it a lot at a supermarket called Laneco. Not surprisingly, Laneco went out of business in 2001; of course no supermarket can succeed whilst having cool things like an arcade. *sigh*
 
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I sure wish I could remember as well...but its a big foggy :p

However I can say that Double Dragon (Taito) was one of the earlier ones for me. Played it at a local bowling alley that had an arcade as part of it.

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I believe it was or Altered Beast or Robocop, both 1988's. I was twelve years old, these cabinets were located inside bars.
 
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Street Fighter 2. And it was some bizarre hack where E.Honda's slap would shoot fireballs. I was still blown away by it though
 
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My very first, and extremely hazy memory, was playing a cocktail version of Space Invaders at a local restaurant that I do not recall the name to and am sure is long gone. I also remember that it was kind of broken and didn't work well. Knowing what I know now, I bet it was a bootleg of some kind. I don't remember the year, but I figure it was 1984 or 1985.

My first non-hazy memory was playing Super Mario Vs. in a Circle K that's still around. I believe this was in 1986 and I could never get past World 1-2, being 5 years old and barely tall enough to reach the joystick and buttons.

First home video game was some educational games on my uncle's Commodore 64 (Sea Speller being the one I remember most) back in 1985.
 
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for me the first 2 arcade I remember playing was kof 94 and bubble bobble at the local swap meet back in the late 90s before it turned into a supermarket. I used to visit my uncle and aunt since they had a booth there selling stuff. those were the good times. another first arcade games they had at that swap meet that I played were sf2, ms pacman, hard driving, primal rage and virtua racing
 
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In my first post I said Final Fight... but thinking about it a bit more... it might have been Space Gun.

I remember how bad-ass the graphics, cab (it had a mounted gun)and music were.

Holy shit was I amazed at how gorey it was. I was a kid, so it was a bit scary how fast the Aliens popped out and attacked you.

Both Final Fight and Space Gun came out about the same time, so it could be either.
 
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first one i believe was either robocop or bad dudes. it was in a video store where the family would rent something on the weekends.
 
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Pretty sure it was a Spyhunter cab in a lonely little diner up in Washington Island Wisconsin. It must of been 1990 when I was 4 or 5 years old. Don't remember much else about it.
 
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I think my first arcade game was Pinball Action and next Street Fighter 2 and Final Fight.
My first home entertainment was an Intellivision and I remember to play a lot of Frogger, Donkey Kong and Burger Time.
 
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I think my first was a cocktail Pacman or Ms Pacman at a local mexican food restaurant, but I barely remember that. The next was prolly Double Dragon that me and my dad played at a Cirkle K once. I got my butt whipped because of that dang backwards jump kick thing, still fun though.
 
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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, was my first arcade game that I played. They had one at my local Pizza Hut and as a huge TMNT fan I loved that game.
 
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