Posted on 02/03/2018 at 12:45 PM
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Since I first played Pac-Man in a Kroger grocery store, I didn't realize there was such a thing as an arcade until a little later. A few months after I first played Pac-Man, we were visiting relatives in Alabama. My aunt said she was going to take me to a place called an 'arcade.' When I got there I was in shock. All these video games in one place? Wow! I still remember the name of that arcade, too. "Electric Castle."
The US Xevious arcade cabinet is really cool, art-wise. Xevious actually has a huge lore that's larger than the game itself. Look it up sometime. It has a huge backstory and is probably the first game to use pre-redenered graphics on the sprites.
Speaking of Pac-Man Fever, I sitll have the record album of it that I got as a kid. There was a restaurant called Larry's that we would go to sometimes and they had a jukebox that had Pac-Man Fever on it. I would always ask for a quarter for the jukebox. After a while, though, my mom wouldn't give me any more quarters for it. Wonder why? :)