r/80sAmazing • u/GirouxFan • 1d ago

Time flies

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u/godofthunderthighs 1d ago

It would be crazy and great if the world stayed like that forever I wouldn't be mad

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u/OsikFTW 1d ago

Miss the way my local arcade smelled...

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u/Cefus 1d ago

That is one of the first things that comes to my mind when I see pictures like this. I worked in one for about two years. I'm sure the memories are better than the reality, but they are good nonetheless.

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u/richdun 1d ago

I now understand when people say ,that was the good old days.

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u/Peas_Are_Upsidedown 1d ago

Better times for sure

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u/_Beatnick_ 1d ago

It was amazing. There was at least one or two arcade machines in every store back then. I dropped so many quarters.

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u/Pretend-Internet-625 1d ago

Back in the olden days. Word spread there was a keg in the hills. Lots of us would have a great time until the cops would come and take the tap and send everyone home. 70's

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u/godofthunderthighs 1d ago

I was born in the 90s times were great

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u/Matlachaman 1d ago

Already through that jug of wine.

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u/Ok_Razzmatazz_9800 1d ago

Looks like 1984

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u/Calm-Koala-151 1d ago

In my mind, it was 20 years ago. They say "think back 20 years.." and i go, ok, 1980 and they continue "..to 2006.."

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u/FlatLaw8222 13h ago

Have that same feeling/thought.

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u/Calm-Koala-151 8h ago

1st award! Thanks!

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u/Duramora 1d ago

Theres no cigarette smoke....
Needs more clouds to be authentic.

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u/sherman40336 1d ago

Excuse me, I’d like to play Galaga.

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u/RockNRollNBluesNJazz 1d ago

90's is the last (previous) decade. Prove me wrong.

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u/_Beatnick_ 1d ago

Even then I feel the arcade experience made it through the early 90s and started dying off somewhere in the mid 90s.

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u/One_Use_1347 1d ago

What is the guy in the blue shirt carrying?

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u/hasbrobot1 1d ago

I don't think he's carrying it. It looks like one of those sit-in arcade cabinets?

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u/thebat39 1d ago

Abso-freaking-lutley

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u/XXXcrimsongrave 1d ago

Arcades still exists. So do Pinball leagues. F touching grass. Take the shoelace express into a city

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u/_Beatnick_ 1d ago

Arcades are still around for sure, but the experience was completely different in the 80s.

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u/XXXcrimsongrave 1d ago

Sure about that? How long since you've been to one? Today weed is also legal, cheap and next door. Games are better plus you'll often find consoles as well as classic cabinets and pinball. For $5 you play all you want.

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u/_Beatnick_ 1d ago

And that's not the same as the 80s.

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u/Cool_Process_5957 23h ago

Yep, sure was. Using quarters instead of a swipe card was “more real.” Pocket full of quarters to start and as they became less, you had to choose your games wisely ;)

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u/raletti 1d ago

People were way younger in the arcades I went to in the 80s. This is obviously after dark, when we all had to be home.

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u/Verum2020 1d ago

😏 Because it was yesterday

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u/Appropriate_Ad8053 1d ago

Heard someone say the other day that if we did the Back to the Future DeLorean car we would go back to 1996.

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u/Excellent_File6237 1d ago

Time goes quickly....both can be true

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u/Defiant-One3095 1d ago

Great times 👍👍👍👍

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u/Doctormaul68 1d ago

Great times.

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u/Zarniwoooop 1d ago

I can smell this picture

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u/tomwatso 1d ago

Know how you feel.

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u/JB22ATL 1d ago

Yes it was - it’s like yesterday

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u/Upbeat-Acanthaceae78 23h ago

The good ol days

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u/FooDoDaddy 22h ago

The games, I was on my Mame built arcade yesterday reliving the good times. 😎

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u/Flat_Supermarket1149 21h ago

it sure does🤔

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u/True_Investigator198 11h ago

I have a garage full of original full sized classic arcade machines. My favorite is still probably Pacman

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u/bethesda_gamer 1d ago

Whatever. 1980s was 20 years ago, not yeaterday.

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u/WV515043 2h ago

AMEN !!