Arcades The Americans call them, we called them little machine, came to Colombia in the first half of the '80s and marked the youth of those who belong to the generation of guava, were mere machines, video games and coin-operated today are almost forgotten by penetration with computers and personal systems vidojuegos bored today (Play Station, Xbox, etc).
The first machine that I saw in my life was in Barrancabermeja, was nothing more than an Atari 2600 and a TV screen all tucked inside a wooden box probably made by some village carpenter, but at that time we were all baffled, could not believe that we had to face a machine to play very similar to what went on daily TV program called Telectronico.
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My early career was not very fruitful as a child I do not specialize in any game, that if I had fun on a combination of fun that provided the game itself but the adrenaline of doing something forbidden because our parents would not let us be closer to less than 100 meters from those places full of vague and vicious. The first serious arcades and saw that I lost a very long time were the Martians and a pacman style table and where a player to each side, the display magically turn was reversed each time the other player had his turn. I played Donkey Kong, Galaga, "Eagles" (can not remember his original name), Mrs. Pacman, Mario Bros 1 and many other games coming to the halls of slot machines of my glorious hometown. It should be noted that these panels only had 3 or 4 machines and a put his money and was awaiting trial for their turn.
In the second half of the 80s I moved to Bogota and know the sky of the machines, the UniPlay in Unicentro. A big spend afternoons there after leaving college classes and started to take seriously what the slot machines to the point that I was the king of two of them. Being the king of a little machine was like being a little god to which it played, one was the best player who frequented and had his initials on all records, others admired him a nerd. It was the king of 2 of them, the first was a game called Golden Axe Sega really was not very popular but in my opinion one of the best arcade games ever made. One was a warrior and had many adventures, maybe I'm gumming the game by the literature he read at that time and because I was making my first steps in role playing games (although fortunately never entered the gum at all). Golden Axe The machine was not like the others, did not stay very full and only played one another nerd, had the opportunity to put him another coin and continue when one is killed so it was not that people put coins way forward to take turns, everything is based on respect and a player expected to finish and release the machine, however was not as popular as usually there was no one waiting and when the person was someone I was so happy to see another player who patiently watched him play to learn new tricks or make fun of the mentally Donut rookie who was playing.
The other machine which was the king if he was very popular, a Sega game also Out Run call that practically everyone knows, that of Ferrari, very advanced for its time because not only had changes (first and second), accelerator and brake, but the steering wheel vibrates when you came out of the track. I was the god of that game, I was respected UniPlay and every time I approached the machine other nerds began to whisper and gradually came to see me play. I played so much that almost never made mistakes, crossed the entire game very quietly and with a flawless execution, controlling the spotted with his left hand and right changes, lowered the cash rate at peak times and knew just where speed had to stop and when he had to return to give fuel to Ferrari, the monkey accompanying him to a passenger flying never left the steering wheel vibrated never for more than a second that was when the wheels touched the edge of the road but my experience had allowed me to deduce that it was necessary to optimize these curves. 5 or 10 people running around looking at me as Montoya in his best days, for those 5 minutes I was in heaven. When he arrived at the end and if he had managed to break my own records put my initial FSR which there were already multiple times, sometimes one of the inexperienced nerds who was seeing me for the first time let out a "is the ..." while the friend more expert nerd you said "is the first time she sees him play?". God bless
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Sega and thank them because I have memories of a few minutes a day where he was a hero.
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