you know you were addicted to the arcade when...

[nytemare]

1) Your bike got stolen and you didn't want to take your eyes off the screen far less move your legs to go see if you can find it.

2) when you starved all day so you can use the lunch money to play x-men vs. street fighter.

3) That bigger gutter cat forced his hand in your pocket and took your money forcefully and you continued going.

4) your backpack and all your text books were stolen, your moms whooped you’re a$$ and you went back the next day.

comeone, I know you guys can make some input. Lol                    

[vinion2000]

1 youve seen atleast one kid get a cutarse from their parents for liming late
2 your beging for shilling like a pros in woodbrook
3 that sweaty aroma becomes your colonge
4 sunday comes and you suffering advance withdrawal symptoms
5 when you use sound effects when describing fights
6 when youve tried atleastt once to hit someone an uppercut in a fight
7 your parents hide spare change like if it was drugs
8 you have worked out a long-term non-binding taxation agreement with the arcade bully                    

[wesleigh]

1.you sit at home with a hammer trying to flatten out a 5 cent piece so that it becomes like a token
2.after you make that 5cent token you try to bore a hole through it and attach a string
3.you eatin doubles for lunch instead of buyin normal food cause u only wastin money on coins
4.de arcade ppl start to give u dey calender cause u is a regular customer-happen to me
5.u sweatin like a pig and de place hot and stink but u like u figure u home so u take off u shirt and play u games in u buss up old wife beaters
6.when ppl around watchin u, u hadda make sure u over emphasize ur hand gestures while doing d move to look more like a hot man
7.u take off ur school uniform shirt so that when police come lookin, u not in school uniform
8.u cant bear to lose so u always say that de game not workin good...
9....u know de games not workin good but u still go back
10.ppl know u on a first name basis                    

[TrinireturnofGamez]

1. you regularly get locked in the arcade
2.  people start calling you the name of your fave character in Tekken .
3.  your hands are always in bandages from all your blisters
4.  at least once a week you walk around town with a sign saying "will work for tokens"  
5. you fight the vagrants for every 5 cents they find in the gutter .
6. you'v passed out several times in front of the Xmen vs Street fighter machine
7. you  start to name the arcade machines .                    

[Imperial_X]

You knock someone out with a super and you scream out what your character says.   IZUKE!!!!!!  SHORYUREPPA!!!!!!!!!!

You get a nickname for every arcade you go to.  I've been called Disastaroth before.  Where did that come from?    >_>

When you have developed a code of conduct when on a machine with someone else for in and out of match play.  (You'll see that thread soon)                    

[PapaSmurf]

You look down and where your hands should be you see only flippers.                    

[Crixx_Creww]

in between yur cxc exams, you ran up the road to techno junkies in st james to sweat game.

run back down to do the exam and all the while yu thinkin bout how to perfect ur aerial raves in xmen vs.

yu worship men like orochi nick for mentoring you kof

you learn how to hide between and behind machines when yur mother come lookin for yu in techno/maximum.                    

[carlsberg]

. . .. .U pass ouT @ the arcade drooling.....and waKE up thE neXT moRinG
reaDY to go aGAIN.. . .. [.*hUH *..  .itz moring alredY???]                    

[Sage]

U try to glue two 5 cent together and use it as a token.

U had to walk all de way home cause u spend all yuh $ playing game.
U tell yourself u going for a quick game but end up staying 3-5 hrs (closing time).

U help lock up de place on more than one occasion (because u last to leave).

U know everyone name/ nick name there.(all the staff and regular gamers)

U does push yuh finger in de slots now an' then hoping u'll find a token.                    

[Tm1]

1 Every sat nothing to do butplay watch Pokemon and Yugioh in the morning .
1 Bored as hell
2 A PHONE  call, wanna go to the mALL
3 Playing KL2 andstreets Alpha 2, ex2 and tekken the rest of the evening
4 Challenging any one in sight
5 Eventually get beaten Known you always get better by every lose
6 Come back next sat until Best in arcade                    

[carlsberg]

-alwayz l00king on the ground expecting......hoping....maybe u'll get lucky and find some spare change
or better yet. . . . find some tokenz
[oh yeah...u noe wat i'm talking bout]                    

[New Era Outlaw]

.....somebody ticks you off and you feel like wringing a Super to teach them a lesson.
.....the theme songs of the games you play stick in your head.
.....you become accustomed to loud noises.
.....you always buy one coin each time you lose, and frantically race to the counter to buy a next one when you lose again.
.....you're late for school, but figure that it won't hurt to spend a five minutes extra to beat the game you're playing.
.....you picture yourself as a fighting game character, and often spend your lonely nights imitating that character in the privacy of your bedroom.
.....people from all over recognise you as 'that guy who does mash people up with (insert character(s) name here).
......you pitch a tent outside of the mall, just so you could be the first in the arcade the next morning.
......you take precautions to watch out for sprangers and smart men EVERYWHERE you go.
.....you have a collection of arcade coins from EVERY arcade you've ever been to.
.....you get vex when you see small children mash buttons and wring the joystick back and forth like lunatics.
.....you get EVEN more vex when tactics like that beat you. (Ha, ha!)
.....you get vex when you lose, and mutter things like 'using cheap moves to beat me' and 'you real lucky' under your breath.
....you NEVER go to an arcade to buy one token for one game.
....you know what 'magic', 'supers' and 'wring backwards' mean.                    

[Mugsy]

When men start movin tuh give you 1st preference on the games
When they name the arcade after u
When yuh start namin yuh pets miramax and other token names                    

[cereal_killer]

when u start sellin anything u can find to buy tokens                    

[nytemare]

when u break open your pops' exotic coin collection to use them as tokens.                    

[ShowTime]

you suddenly find your wednesdays and Saturday afternoons occupied by AA meetings in an abandoned looking building upstairs St. Augustine.

AA- Arcade-aholic Anonomous                    

[flŶpcŶde]

you cuss your dean while he was telling you he taking you back to the vice principal's office for breaking biche, beacuse he was destracting you from giving a man the cutarse of a lifetime, wid of all ppl zangief in SF II                    

[Mugsy]

u sign your passport as Ken or Ryu                    

[wesleigh]

when u walk in de arcade men start to stueps and say tings like...dis man doh rest...or u doh get tired or ...aye ent u does work taxi down by me
                   

[MeGaMan]

when u spen all u money to TRY an finish metal slugs X and have no money to travel home