A Boy And His Dad's Blog

In my second post, I had mentioned how fascinated I was at the etiquette of people knowing when their turn was when playing a video game at an arcade, especially when swarms of people are crowded over one game in particular. In my years of wasting, quite possibly, thousands of quarters at arcades, I'm pretty lucky in that I've saw very few instances to where someone would vulgar scream someone down or start a fight at an arcade. I've always consider arcades safe and friendly place to go to and hang out at, with or without quarters.

Whenever I'm playing against someone, I try to say "Good game", win or lose. I don't always say it as I'll forget due to myself getting caught up in the moment of "Damn I was so close!" Most of the time when I do say it, I'll get the same response from the other player. It felt good, showing respect to the other player while they returned the favor.

There was this one time that I dealt with someone who was more interested in winning than actually playing. I was playing on Marvel Vs. Capcom, and had gotten pretty decent at it. Some guy comes up, "NEW CHALLENGER!" Picked my two fighters, he picked his, and we both eliminated one fighter. Almost down to the wire and I managed to come up with a win at the end. The same guy plops down more quarters for another game. Deja-vu, almost, except this time, I managed to keep both of my fighters. More quarters drop, my win count goes up to 3. The guy is getting frustrated and goes for game number four. Now something strange is going on as he's starting to lean over my side and start slapping his hand down on the control board, as if a spider was running loose and he's trying to kill it with his hand. Then he found his target, the Player One Start button.

If you're not familiar with what this button does in Marvel Vs. Capcom, it's pretty much your taunt button. Press it and your character does this taunt pose for a few seconds to the point that you cannot control them at this time. So he's slapping down on the Player One Start button, but the problem with this is that I'm Player One. This guy is trying to make my fighters go into this taunt pose which basically makes them vulnerable to his attacks. Throughout the whole fight, he did this tatic. He managed go get some hits in to deplete both my fighters life bars down to a quarter. But I didn't say anything. I don't know why. He wasn't this menacing figure head and was a few inches shorter than me. But I kept going as if not noticing. I made some adjustments in how I played by keeping my fighters in the air and with me playing in this approach, it had thrown him off of his gameplan of how to attack me and then game is over. Player One win count: 4.

Here's the one time I can actually say "Cheaters Never Win" and have proof.