Why are there no arcades outside of Japan anymore?

Why are there no arcades outside of Japan anymore?

People play videogames 24/7 in other countries, so why are the only arcades in Japan?

Stay clear of UFO catcher machines. They really suck up your money.

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UFO catchers only suck up money if you suck at them.

I won so many figures and statues that I had to buy a second suitcase to take em all home

Usually I throw in like 1000 Yen per figure and it still feels like a fucking waste of money.
I don't even want the figures but holy fuck those endorphines when the box falls down.,

I won some big one piece statues with only 300 yen or so.

Usually I ask the people who work there to help me, and cute girls usually put the items right on edges making it stupidly easy to win.

Because in Japan, population density is high and they put arcades on well traveled areas, like ice cream shops, so people go in on a whim.

In the US, population density is low. You have to elect to visit one and typically requires driving to its own building.

I took a trip to tokyo a few months ago, the arcades there are so great, its really sad that theyve all died out in america.

Also won a mew plush in the ufo catcher, theyre not that bad

>tfw you will never go to akibahara and look at all the cute maids and play all the arcade games
why live

Culturally Arcades are dead, which is kind of funny because people will pay for bullshit like microtransactions up the ass.

Kill yourself if you're that incapable.

>cute
They aren't really cute. They are mostly pretty ugly girls.
I work in a small office behind a maid cafe and the girls always smoke in the back alley and talk shit about the customers.

>ywn learn Japanese
>ywn live in cyberpunk Tokyo

>3 great arcades within driving distance from me.

>live in the fucking desert.

You probably just haven't looked.

>you will never french kiss a girl right off her break and practically suck the smoke back out from her lungs

why even live?

there are many arcades in China, chinks are crazy about KoF '97

yeah most of the maid girls are pretty busted

We always have this thread and faggots like you always repeat the same clichés while ignoring the posts that prove you wrong and/or explain the real reason(s).

The main thing is that gangs took over American cities in the 90s and made arcades dangerous places that kids couldn't go anymore, and with the preteen audience gone arcades could no longer turn a profit. It's as simple as that.

The only other real major factor was inflation, which reduced the profitability of the business model.

Japanese culture is completely different to our culture. It's very homogenic and traditional, with a strong focus on honor and shame.

There was a dude in the other thread that said that no arcade could function in the west because of third worlders vandalizing everything in cities, but the Japanese still take care of shit and don't break everything they touch.

It's an issue in every non-homogeneous society.

In the U.S. niggers steal everything, in Europe it would be arabs, unless the shop is owned by an arab and serves as a front for drug dealing or somehting

Is this why we get such awesome M/S doujins?

I'm glad that's my fetish, it's catered to hard.

There are quite a few arcades where I live, especially in. malls, but the quality is directly proportional to the number of slant eyes living near them.

>living in a city so dense with hoodlums that certain businesses aren't viable
Your own fault for being so poor.

man I live in France and even three arabs and 2 blacks in a town of 30k are enough to make a vieogame retailer go bankrupt due to stealing.

Doujins like Boshi Destiny strike way too close to home for me.

the simple answer is that brown/black people would ruin them/break everything.

>I live in france

Ouch, you might want to start planning to move if shit keeps going south.

I got my asian contingency ready

Good luck then.

Black guilt being a thing would fix most of America's problems. As it is, they have very little humility, because of the way western media coddles them.

this is an issue in every western city no exceptions

black/muslim/hispaniard gangs have destroyed every urban area in the world outside of asia and made it impossible for small businesses to function

This. You'd have to spend a large amount of money on security, so it would be very hard to turn a profit

what's going on in france now?

I've got chuck e cheese, space center, and a few others within 5-10 minutes from me, but they're filled with kids and everyone would probably think I am trying to rape kids if I don't bring my own, which I don't have.

arcades are for kids

THIS

if blacks were made to accept responsibility for their race's collective actions the way that faggots try to force on whites then it'd destroy black entitlement and that would solve nearly all social issues in inner cities

>stay away from UFO catchers
>in Japan

Confirmed for having never been there.
Japanese claw machines are about 400% less rigged and painfully easy to get shit out of.

Hell, shits already like two steps from south pole.

>thread about arcades turns into more Sup Forums bitching

This

The one time I did use a lot of money on a machine, one of the staff was kind enough to open up the machine and personally hand over the figurine I was trying to get.

This article really does explain shit like Evangelion.

Unchecked immigration has led to friction between cultures. Frenchies want to preserve their culture, refugees want to preserve theirs, but in France.

I could give my personal thoughts on the matter, but got a fucking warning from a mod for saying something biased today.

...

That's like trying to get a kindergarten class to accept responsibility for shit.

We just need to deport them. Half of them actually think Africa is a literal paradise, so let's buy them a boat ticket and tell them to fuck off.

Over the long term, the amount of money saved from welfare alone would eclipse the deportation costs.

Oy ve- I mean, das racis, yo

people are saying that crime is the main cause of the collapse of small business in urban areas

this is irrefutably 100% true

it just happens that most crime is gangs and those gangs sure as fuck aren't white

How's Japan if you barely know Japanese for a trip?

THERE ARE HUGE GAME ARCADES IN SOUTH AFRICA

youtube.com/watch?v=GR39KwPSUpI

>I could give my personal thoughts on the matter, but got a fucking warning from a mod for saying something biased today.

Don't be such a fucking cuck, you're making me feel embarrassed. Nobody likes immigrants and they have to go back, we know. Everyone knows.

If you stay mostly in the city, you won't get targeted with the WHITE PIGGU GO HOME shit. Seems like nips that live in the city areas are more accustomed to seeing gaijins more than the rural areas

Try to cram more memes and buzzwords into two sentences

pretend you're Canadian and don't try to speak Japanese

they don't mind tourrists

That's what I mostly here, thanks.
If I really want to go rural I do have some contacts that stayed here in Australia at our place. Went overboard with Christmas gifts, even bought us all these guides for Tokyo, so I think they're keen on us coming.

You have to go back Ahmed. There is no other way.

Cool thread, reminds me of how I lived in Japan for a year and how I'm now trying to get there permanently.

I remember there is a arcade in Lyon I used to go to with my flatmate. Fuckin brilliant. They were niggers and Arabs there but to my surprise they weren't a problem

>Here
Jesus christ I meant hear.

>I got my asian contingency ready

No you don't. Japan is impossible to immigrate to, because their leaders know (literally know and have stated) that multiculturalism makes everyone unhappy. Where else can you go? Korea? Lol no when the Norkies could launch an attack whenever. China? Prepare to die in WW3. Everywhere else in asia is very 3rd world. The Phillipines, Vietnam, Indonesia. All poor countries. You can't escape the minorities of France while still maintaining a good standard of living elsewhere, except maybe Australia, since the bulk of their immigrants are very polite asians from China and people from Britain, but the nannystate laws here are unreal.

Got it on the first try!

Even if you go into more rural areas, just be polite and say their town is very beautiful. Don't expect them to speak English though.

>Why are there no arcades outside of Japan anymore?
Shitskins.

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My girlfriend is a Chinese national and I have business opportunities in Japan and the Koreas.

>travel a lot for business
>every new city I go to I check out if there is a barcade
>at least 1 or 2 somewhere
>always packed with people, especially on weekends

If Sup Forums wasn't composed of autistic subterranean trash they might actually realise the truth

I'm gonna visit Japan in May and I though about spending about a week on a roadtrip between Tokyo and Kyoto. I don't speak japanese, is it gonna be hell for me?

It's doable, but you're going to feel like such a piggu when you take 30 seconds to tell a japanese cashier at Mcdonalds that you want a coke.

And may God help you if you go to a bar and say you want "Seieki" instead of "Sake".

No, because everything in subway is written in Japanese, English, Chinese and Korean.

t. sega employee

The only time I've ever winning is outside Akiba arcades. Make me suspect that the one in akiba are all rigged to suck tourist money. Never again.

Until I visit akiba again proly.

I hope you don't honestly believe this, what about all the parts of america without black people they are only around 15% of the population. The real problem is jail system isn't shit when you get fed better being arrested than holding a job flipping burgers people think its a small price to pay doing whatever you want.

I live 30 minutes from Akiba. This is right outside the main entrance of the station.

>People who work in customer service business talk shit about customers

I've never would've guessed.

>Japan

>road trip

Dont even bother unless you want to spend a shitload in road taxes and tolls. Take the train. Period.

Well yeah but what about the countryside and more rural cities?

are you me, this exact situation happened to me 10 years ago when i went

It's dying in Japan as well to be frank. As for the West, consoles hardware catching up arcade's ones really did hurt it. Arcade industry has also always been supported a lot more by giant JP companies (SEGA, Capcom, Taito...) in the local market than here.

>what about all the parts of america without niggers

>all of my japs friends mom are standard if not sub-par looking asian mom
No wonder they are doing so-so in life.

>the real reason niggers commit crime is cuz da jail yo
kys cuck

The majority of Japanese people live in such tiny houses they can't fit a console in them.

You'll have some problems going to a restaurant or going to a bar for example. Also you'll be perpetuating the stereotype that native English speakers never learn another language.

I'm french

you think people cant get used to prison to the point of going back for doing something is a non issue.

>mfw there are a shit load of arcades in my city

then speak japanese

>he doesn't understand the mental deficiency prominent amongst blacks that causes them to think this is logical
Sub-human IQ syndrome.

Well okay, but remember that Chinese escalators literally eat people.

Love 'em. Got some statues for like, 100 or 500 Yen 'cause they do require skill instead of luck.

Awesome stuff.

Can you?

Probably because it's harder to design games that are immediately captivating and people find it more convenient to have games to play at all times or at home

What happened? Is that blood?

yes I can speak simplified chinese, japanese although I'm not comfortable with the proper way to address people in a polite way, and a bit of Korea.

I've already lived a couple years in China, NATO cherrypicked propaganda has no effect on me.

sure is

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/November_2015_Paris_attacks

Even if you're good at them you won't make a profit from it. Pretty much all prizes in ¥100/try UFOs are bought less than ¥500 by arcades themselves.

And you will find them typically between ¥800 and ¥1,000 in second hand shops besides some extremely rare/limited edition prizes which sometimes go into ~¥2,500 at the very most.

All those Craneking figures are shit. And they don't even deserve suitecase room for anyone having some decent taste. Shipping them abroad would be a complete waste as well. Seriously UFO prizes are just good as a cheap gift while you're there.

I'm French as well, been travelling around Japan for ~5 years now (30+ prefectures visited) and you won't have issues even in the countryside. Seriously your smartphone is enough nowadays to roughly translate a menu. And pointing out saying "this" and "this" when ordering doesn't take much skill.

merci man

>Why are there no arcades outside of Japan anymore?
Because it would be full of blacks.

>speak simplified chinese

That's a speaking language?

the grammar is a bit different

i see a lot that you should assimilate to japanese culture but i don't understand what that means

do i just try my hardest to act japanese or what

ps i am not a liberal/conservative and have no urges/desires to force my beliefs on other people

no you don't

You need to speak Japanese properly, like assimilate the proper way to address people in regards to their position relative to you, their age, their profession, etc... and don't act like a muh duck bix nood american.

Just be polite, law abiding and respectful, they don't expect any more from you.

I was going to talk about my local arcade but it looks like this thread isn't about arcades anymore.

china is poor as fuck on a per capita basis

only reason there's so much money is because there's so many people and they bleed trillions out of the us economy

I think you don't really understand the definition of "Rigged". Rigged machines are what you typically get in Western Arcades like "the Stacker" where valuable prizes can be won (or lots of tickets which turn into valuable prizes). Odds are already presets and players will win every X tries in average, like a slot machine.

Pretty much all UFO machines in Japan are purely skill based, some are easier than others for sure, but nothing is rigged. Odds cannot be preset into the machine, if you are good you can easily win, but then again all prizes are fucking cheap so the moment you wasted that ¥500 coin for your 6 tries, you're already losing money.

Also if you feel that you genuinely have no way to get a prize (it happens sometime, the machine/prize isn't set up properly) you can call a staff, tell him and get refunded (he'll just put your credits back into another machine).

>china is poor as fuck on a per capita basis

they have a better infrastructure than literally every country on earth that isn't Japan and south Korea, but I'm not going to discuss the current state of China since you're probably biased anyway.

The main thing is that they are still partly agrarian and the whole western part of their country is still going through the process of industrialization.

Because arcades actually make money in japan.
>Otaku line up to play their otaku games guaranteeing shit tons of money
>Hardcore players play their fightan game all day
Not to mention how insanely viable it is to hit up pretty much any arcade in the country if you want to compete with specific people.
>Want to play with Mago2dgod or at least play in the arcade he hangs out in hoping his skills will rub off you
>Ride a train for like 30 mins to get there
>Bus for another 30 mins tops
>Play at the arcade all day and eat at the local all you can eat curry house
>All this for less than 10k yen a day
>No niggers
>No mexicans
>Everyone respects the machine which guarantees that they are in pristine order instead of the destroyed buttons that minorities and childrens do in other countries