what started your madness(arcade gaming/collecting)

[SuperPang]

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What the hell do wall plugs look like over in europe?

Safe

[thomj]

lol

that's a UK plug. Mainland Europe are a lot like US ones

[NOAH]

I'll try to keep this concise.......but.........I had no interest in video games until my stepdad bought the family an NES. From there, I was introduced to arcade games with a trip to an arcade in Fairfield, CA called Scandia. At this point in my life (5 years old), arcades didn't really interest me with the exception of one game, Punch-Out!!. Over the next few years I'd play arcade games whenever I was in a movie theater or amusement place that had games, but not very often. Street Fighter II changed all of that in June of 1991 and it was the first game that had me walking over a mile every week to liquor stores and a pizza place to spend my lunch money and allowance on a game. I can remember daydreaming as a kid of owning an arcade game, but I knew my parents wouldn't allow it. Less than a year after moving out of my stepdad's house, I bought a mint-conditioned Punch-Out!! machine and thought that this was the only one I'd ever own. 6-months later I thought I should probably own something that I could play with my friends, so I bought a Street Fighter II World Warrior in a 3-Koam K-3 cabinet. I stuck with these two cabinets for 2 1/2 years until a friend of mine offered his garage as additional storage space. Then came Super Off Road, NBA Jam, Killer Instinct, 4-Player X-Men, Smash TV, Paperboy, Popeye, and a New Astro City cab which I later exchanged for a Capcom Q25. I now own over 50 pcb's/carts and it's still growing. I'd eventually like to pick up two 29" tri-sync candy's and a Galaga, then I'd be done.

[dj_johnnyg]

Mainland Europe are a lot like US ones

Except with round pins.

Kiwi ones look like US but the pins are slanted

[dj_johnnyg]

Not that anyone cares really
+1

[pogfanatic]

It's some what interesting just awkward to see when I see the U.S/Japanese style all the time.