Well, I'm willing to wager that I'm the "baby" of the MARP bunch... I'm only 19 years old! A lot of MY childhood arcade memories were from the mid-1980's, and I loved games like Time Soldiers, Rygar, Black Tiger, Willow, etc. And I've always had an interest in high scores, and feel that any game without a scoring system loses a good deal of its replayability.(posted 9901 days ago)When SF2 hit the arcades back in 1991, I was hooked. Unfortunately, everyone wiped the floor with me. It took me about a year to finally learn what I was doing, learn general strategy and combos, etc... just in time for Champion Edition. I loved the head-to-head competition... competing against high scores in 1P games was fun, but this was so addicting. I fondly remember the first time I got around a 40-game winning streak... being able to hold the machine for hours was a great feeling. I'd learn something new every time I went to play, I always wished I was old enough to drive back then. ;)
But for some reason or another, I've also always held a strong interest in Neo-Geo games. I don't know what it is about them, but I like a lot of the games on the system, and even own a Neo CD. Yes, some of the fighting games SUCK... but there's a lot of good ones. And almost every game has some sort of scoring system, thankfully. I still haven't gotten to break 19 million on Shock Troopers yet, but I will keep trying. :)
So it's strange... even though I still play recent games, I also have a great deal of respect for a lot of the classics. Although there's only a few old games that I'm actually really good at. :P
-BBH