Why did arcades die out?

Why did arcades die out?

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Too expensive.

Arcade hardware stopped being better than home hardware.

Paying rent

America neither has dense enough populations nor good enough public transit to sustain the business model.

In first world countries arcades are still going strong.

Why did you use that image.

Not enough people knowing how to fix machines, so machines are in a constant state of disrepair. Pricing, as well as consoles.

Places with decent walking traffic have okay arcades still.

Because shit kids don't respect the equipment and break them

I take it you've never heard of big cities?

They figured out they can make us pay money for games from out own homes

Plenty of big cities in first world countries. That's where the arcades are.

people are casual

Most arcade goes are ticket game players. When checking book keeping on most games, the actual games that weren't ticket games were bemani music games.

DDR, IIDX, and SDVX being the most popular ones

A new arcade opened near me recently with tons of Japanese imports including the initial d arcade game. Are they really dying?

Westerners have shit tastes in video games

I assume Round1? They're expanding really fast and don't hire enough qualified mechanics to upkeep games. It's not that they're dying, it's that they're dead. Round1 is *HOPEFULLY* a resurgence of arcades

could you imagine playing Skyrim in an arcade?

Consoles with online play, which also killed couch co-op

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Also people in general don't need to socialize as much thanks to social media/internet

After school its "i'll text you/see you online" instead of "i'll meet you at the mall"

Because no one wants to spend money to play a video game for 3 minutes with smelly fedora tipping cucks everywhere

Too expensive and everything is fucking sticky.

They are making a comeback now but in different formats cartered towards nostalgic adults/manchildren/soyboys

They double as bars now.

Dave and busters, Boxcar arcade, etc
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We never had arcades in commie land and I don't feel like I missed out on anything. The business model incentivizes fucking the player over to keep them paying and the actual game can usually be beat in under an hour.
Can americans explain why bringing them back would be desirable? They're as vile as microtransaction skinner boxes. It's a model based on fucking with you to force you to pay.

not enough crab legs

>riding on the back of an arcade motorcycle

GAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY

home consoles

>riding on the back of an arcade motorcycle and not even looking at the screenlike the far kid.

ULTRA GAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY

If you aren't a scrub you can 1CC even the most gypsy of games, but the real draw is fightans and drivans with multiplayer

Haven't you been looking at the complaints of today? People hate pay2win and microtransactions.

Arcades died in the West before those were a thing.

Nothing makes me laugh harder than people unironically suggesting that the US, the world's sole superpower, is a third world country. There is a reason the USD is the most dominant currency worldwide and not your Zimbabwean dollars.

>Not enough people knowing how to fix the machines

we have a few arcades locally but this problem seems to be in a bunch of them. is it not because they don't want to pay for repairs rather than people not knowing how?

Microtransactions. Arcades are just one large microtransaction.

>In first world countries arcades are still going strong.
I take it that only Japan is 1rst world at this point then.

>locking your legs around the player at the same time
DOUBLE GAY

They started dying about the time they started charging $1 per play
They're also cheap fucks who don't update their games.

Arcades still have the same games from 1995

They're faggy and all of the graphics sucked dick. If they were any good, they'd be around still. Dumb fuck!

>There is a reason the USD is the most dominant currency

Because 80 years ago the US was not a shithole owned by China and manage to buy out everyone's debt while they were fatigued from The War.
Now China has done the exact same thing with America's middle east debts.

Dude what? Arcades ARE pay2win microtransactions.

>you can beat ANY game if you have enough quarters
>for the investment of a quarter you get to play the game for a random amount of time based on how well you do at your current life.

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>la cratura

And nobody cared about pay2win microtransactions until long after arcades died.
It was not a contributing factor.

I think the goblin shit is fucking hilarious desu

Still the most powerful nation in the world though

Literally only Japan has strong arcades you Europeon mongoloid

Arcade games are far too challenging for modern neo Sup Forums audiences. Plus arcades work better in first world countries that have densely played cities and robust public transportation systems.

>you can beat ANY game if you have enough quarters
t.kid that knows nothing about arcades
if you use more than a single credit you didn't beat shit

Fuck off, kike.

>Sup Forums dictates gaming trends
you blew your chances of good bait at the beginning of your post, dude.
try again sometime later

They're opening some hipster arcades with classic games, pinball, craft beer and cocktails in some US cities. There's one in mine at least. Seems cool but Sup Forums will cry about muh SJWs and soyboys ruining the hobby.

there is this one bomb ass arcade in LA i went two twicw it was exactly as you described

>you will never play SF3rd strike on the arcades again
why live?

Ah yes, I remember posting all those things right before I made that post. Could you strawman harder?

I am an old fag who used to go to the "famous" NYC Chinatown Fair back in the day. I even played against Justin Wong once. Anyway one time I was playing X-Men vs Street Fighter and a Latino kid challenged me. My style in XvsSF relied heavily on throwing which back in the 90's for some reason was a taboo thing to the point where some arcades had a rule where if you threw someone you had to stand still and let the guy get a "throw back". Chinatown didn't have such retarded rules. I fought the Latino kid and threw him over and over and he increasingly got madder and cursed and slammed the machine. When the fight was over he literally pulled out a switch blade and said he will be waiting outside to play street fighter for real. Now in retrospect I wish I said Street Fighter has no weapons in it (Cody wasn't a thing yet) but I was pissing my pants. I had to call the police and they had to escort me out to a taxi to prevent me from dying because my Latino friend seemed to have called 10 of his Latino buddies and they were all waiting for me.

My point is I don't miss arcades.

>i'm a sopping wet pussy

Cool story bro.

>tfw have a local arcade with 3rd Strike on a blast city and I go there every week
come to MA

>I am a pussy for not fighting 11 subhuman Latinos armed with knives

ok

>having to go outside to play a game
Fucking shit concept.

Talk shit get hit, hombre.
If you weren't a pussy you would have had 10 of your own bros backing you up, but you had to go solo because no one likes you.

Modern arcades are shit. Its good they died out.

You realize you are making my point that arcades, a place designed to be leisure entertainment, are shit if they require you to take 10 friends to protect yourself in case of a race war.

No, the only point you're making here, besides that you are a pussy, is that New York is shit and America is a third-world shithole.

ooga booga to you too

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>is that New York is shit and America is a third-world shithole.
I don't disagree but in terms of arcades minorities completely ruined it. Every time I played against a white person no matter who loses they praise each other and give advice. Same with most Asians. But blacks and latinos would always get irrationally mad when they lose at any fighting game and call you cheap and have his buddies fuck with you behind while you were playing. I don't miss this experience.

shitty people can and will ruin anything, and they can turn anywhere into a warzone. arcades just happen to be no exception.

>little sissy gets scared by basic bitch banter
>somehow has the nerve to call others subhuman

Bitches gonna bitch.

I agree i just noticed growing up these "shitty people" almost always tended to be black or latino.

why didn't this nigga fighted his way out?

pussy wiped soyboi

how would you play any RPG in an arcade
arcade games are basically inherently pure gameplay+visuals, no story

I am not biting your bait and will keep sharing my experiences so this concept of romanticized arcades die and never comes back.

>that kid on the bikes bitch seat with his arms and fucking legs wrapped around the other kid
Nigga thats gay.

Dungeons and Dragons managed just fine, though admittedly the story was very bare bones.

$1=1 credit model

There needs to be some sort of subscription model or membership fee. That would create a more dedicated community of people who would return regularly to play games. Then you can just sell food and drinks at the place to make more money on top. Even alcohol.

everyone loves Finns though

Arcades are fine, you're just a sissy who lives in a shithole.
You're the one who deliberately went to a bad neighborhood because everyone told you to leave the nicer places for being a shithead, you provoke others into literal knife fights, and you still haven't figured out that you're the asshole here?
Get fucked.

>he still keeps trying

I want girls to bully me

Round 1 is bringing them back

>front of the store is shitty redemption games, bowling, and a bar so they can make their money off normies
>back half of the store is literally a japanese arcade with candy cabs, bemani, wangan/initial D, etc

>he still can't accept that he's at fault

>A new arcade opened near me recently with tons of Japanese imports including the initial d arcade game

Fuck you no fair.

>being this dedicated to a shit troll

this right fucking here

>being this thick-headed and wrong

you are a fucking pussy m8

I spent like 10 seconds googling for it and it seems to be basically a linear hack and slash game with no roleplaying at all
I don't think Skyrim gameplay is engaging enough for people to want to mash one button while pointing the middle of the screen at enemies

No they don't. They're useless fucks.

Hope you are ready to stay 3 hours for this thread to die out.

>All these replies and nobody has mentioned it

Gang violence OP, put anything good or decent in the cities and it becomes a hangout for human trash. Lots of places had to close down because the clientele were too violent.

SHUT UP AND KISS ALREADY YOU FAGGOTS

I have a VR arcade.
AMA

I literally mentioned it here and trolls and subhuman minorities are arguing against it

Of course you're petty enough to keep replying for hours, you've held this stupid and baseless grudge for decades already.
That's pussy behavior.

Are you Australian by any chance?

do you live in australia?

How boring is your life that you get excited about living near a gimmick store in a strip mall?

where in australia is it?

>class selection
>skill selection
>gearing up
>picking paths to take
>levelling up

idk man, most of the staples of RPGs seem to be intact.

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CAVE Mushi and DOJ cabs
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>he's still trying