Learning in the arcade?

Yeah, you'd google the name of the game you were playing, find a FAQ on some random fan's MySpace page, and print out a copy that you'd treat like a bible, stapled together all nice...

Except there was no google, so we used one of the 50 search engines we had instead, and there was no MySpace, so garish fan pages full of blinking, beeping garbage had to be built from scratch by only the most dedicated and nerdy of tasteless narcissists.
 
Wikipedia says gamefaqs was created in '95. Oh well. I wasn't using the net much back then. I got movelists from Gamepro, from EGM, and from VFDC. Last time I actually felt the need to print out a movelist was for VF4's arcade release, and that's when I went to Gamefaqs.

Some things I don't miss about arcades, though, were those massive dudes (especially bad during the winter when everyone was wearing a jacket) who would crowd the sticks so you'd be playing while standing half a foot to the side and holding on for dear life. And those other guys with their stupid house rules, like no throwing in the early Vs. games. Or a game where a few players got out ahead of everyone else, to the point where the losers would just stop playing and the whole machine would die. Or people who would abuse the machines (especially the MK machines, those guys had no clue; they would hang their jackets off the 2P stick while they played the AI. WTF?).

Still, <3 arcades.
 
back in the day you would go to the arcade and just play against other people. when the match was over then you would share strats and other sorts of things and you helped each other out. tournaments were a great source of information as well
 
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