Tron (1982) FULL WATCH ALONG w/ Jonathan
Added 2024-12-31 21:02:04 +0000 UTCJonathan is ready to go into the matrix!
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Freshman year of High School, one of my best friends and I would go to the Driving Range where he worked every Friday and play Double Dragon on a single quarter for as long as we could. We made it a quest. As we got farther and farther into the game, we started drawing small crowds. When we got to the final big boss room for the first time, the crowd cheered... but some were audibly confused as to why we didn't enter another quarter after the big boss got us. When we walked in the following Friday, the crowd nearly filled the lobby and they had gathered around the Double Dragon console. We stepped up and got to work. We entered the final room a bit over an hour after we started, and we beat that sucker... all on a single quarter! The place cheered and the manager gave us gift cards for free hot dogs and sodas for the rest of the school year. For a brief moment in the late 80s, we were gods to a group of teenagers at the Driving Range arcade. Good times.
Crimson Ace
2025-01-01 17:50:21 +0000 UTCI was 2 when this came out so I watched it later on in the 90s and it blew me away. Seen it so many times and was excited when Tron: Legacy came out in 2010. Being in an Arcade was so much fun! The lights, sounds of various games and the sound of quarters going into them was always a delight. Some of my favorites to play in them were Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, X-Men, The Simpsons, The Real Ghostbusters, Robocop, WWF Wrestlefest and Double Dragon. A few years ago I came across "Emulation" where people have taken a ton of arcade games and made them available to play on computer! There are even "Arcade 1-Up" machines that are designed like classic Arcade games that can have as many of them on there as you want.
Wade Wallenstein
2025-01-01 01:42:25 +0000 UTC
