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I'm sure many of us have been to the Arcade and played many games and had much fun with stories to tell so I decided to start this thread. The idea here is to keep the Thread on track with the title "Arcade Stuff" Examples: Tell us a story of an Arcade Game you played years ago or recently or post pictures of your favorite Arcade Games. Now we have the jest of it I'll start with my little story. At a near by grocery I visited often Arcade Games where brought in and taken out to be replaced by the more popular one as many of us seen. Well Asteroids arrived one day and this one was a blast! I loved this game and it became my favorite. After playing many times with many quarters I was getting really good at this. Here are some tips along the way of how I got to this punch line. My first tactic was destroy one large Asteroid at a time without hitting others in the background. Often this would happen anyway but it was a good way to keep the amount of Asteroids to a minimal on the screen and boy did we want to do that! Next the annoying Flying Saucer, the large slow moving one wasn't too bad to shoot but that little one was a real pain. Keeping things honest here I don't remember if I discovered a way to take that little one out quickly or if I saw someone else do it but hey whatever works right? Because this little dude was worth a lot of points, what I would do is leave one tiny Asteroid on the screen and keep waiting for the Flying Saucers to come out, also while doing this I was flying often at a high rate of speed upwards through the top of the screen and coming in from the bottom so when a Flying Saucer would enter the screen I would place a stream of bullets just ahead of him so that he would hit them. After a few points were being made eventually the last Asteroid would get hit and oh wow here comes those huge Asteroids filling the screen once again! As I said before I was getting good at this, and now for that punch line. The big plan when playing an Arcade Machine is to see your name at Number One .....Numero Uno!! of course. So now I am reaching 999,999 and as an ignorant young child having fun in life, I did not know the Game would start over?? Back to Zero?? Are you telling me after all these hours of playing I will not have my initials on the top??? Number One?? for all the World to see?? Well it was a lot of fun and for those of you that would like to know......the initials you would have saw would have been CAC.