Totally agree here man.
As a kid, we had there Arcade cabinets and man did they get an absolute flogging!
I wasn't afforded pocket money often as a kid, wheat little I did get went on trying to acquire 2nd hand TFs, but man I enjoyed watching the older blokes destroy each other from MK I to 3.
It made it all the more enjoyable when me and my mate hired them for his Megadrive and we'd go gang busters but man were so many controllers replaced due to those bloody Fatalities!
MK I was fine, MK II was a mongrel and 3? - forget about it!, 1 button fatality codes FTW!![]()