Which Machine Took All Your Pocket Money?

We would visit the Showcase Cinema (Peterborough) near enough every Friday/Saturday night, after the pub closing, catch a late night showing back in the mid nineties. Before the film, we would have a few races on Daytona USA and later, Sega Rally.

Some decent movies at the time, Se7en & Heat!

We were all petrol heads so a nominated driver was never an issue. Max Power magazine was at its height, after the film, go to McDonalds and critique Vauxhall Nova's, Escorts burning out in the car park, whilst munching on a Big Mac. :p

Good times.
 
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Being born in 1990 the few arcades I visited usually meant a few rounds of Crazy Taxi.

However one particularly boring holiday park we went to in 2003 or so had an "original" Outrun machine! No idea if it was from the 80s or what. But I got really good at it and probably put £30 (of my parent's money) in it over the week.
 
Loads. absolutely loads. Loved the arcades in the 80's. Getting those rolled up tube of 10 pence pieces from the booth and then walking around deciding which machines to bung them in.

I used to walk to Hoxton square arcade at lunch times in secondary school and waste my lunch money on Double Dragon, losing all my lives on that poxy bridge jump!
 
TNMT for me too.

No arcade in my small town, but the independent video store had a single arcade machine and, for a year or two when I was about 10 or 11, it was turtles - a 4-up cabinet.

Also spent all mine and my friend's spending money on it when we went for a trip to Drayton Manor Park with my parents. Still didn't finish the damn thing.

Played throught it on MAME with my kids a couple of months ago. They liked it too, though it's a lot different when you're not spooling actual 10p's into it.
 
The showboat in Loughborough saw all my coin from the age of 16 for a few years.

Most of it got shoved in Football Champ, the rest in Final Fight, Golfing Greats, and MK.
 
I used to cycle 3 miles to a pub in the middle of a forest to play Donkey Kong on one of those sit down table top affairs. At uni I spent most time on Gauntlet and a medieval/greek combat game called Gladiator, where you had to knock bits of armour off the AI opponent. I played this so much I pretty much mastered it. One time a crowd actually gathered to watch. Also I still vividly remember the first time I ever saw and played on the original Star Wars vector graphics machine, the one you sat in. Blackpool Pleasure Beach, 1983. I would make a bee line for this machine whenever I saw one after that. Still the single most impressive arcade machine ever IMO.
 
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