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What Arcade Era Do You Identify With The Most?
Havok:
Don't mind TOK - he just likes to post so he can have a higher post count...
RayB:
It used to be, me and a couple (or few) friends would go "arcade hopping" (sometimes combining it with bar-hopping, for a better experience ;) ). We'd walk into an arcade... there'd be a good variety of games, some old, some new... we play a few oldies, but mainly try to get at the new ones.... then.... came fighting games. It was cool at first, but then the arcade-hopping experience became: Go into arcade; See all the new games are fighting variants; Yawn really loudly and then leave after spending a lot less time and money than we used to.
A lot of people, A LOT, reacted like this. Especially chicks. (bye bye 49% of your potential customer base).
saint:
--- Quote from: RayB on May 26, 2010, 10:33:04 pm ---It used to be, me and a couple (or few) friends would go "arcade hopping" (sometimes combining it with bar-hopping, for a better experience ;) ). We'd walk into an arcade... there'd be a good variety of games, some old, some new... we play a few oldies, but mainly try to get at the new ones.... then.... came fighting games. It was cool at first, but then the arcade-hopping experience became: Go into arcade; See all the new games are fighting variants; Yawn really loudly and then leave after spending a lot less time and money than we used to.
A lot of people, A LOT, reacted like this. Especially chicks. (bye bye 49% of your potential customer base).
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+1!
I don't mind fighting games for other folks, but they're not my cup of tea. When they crowded out the older games is when the arcades died for me. I don't have a basis to say if they helped or hindered arcades in general, but that's when arcades stopped getting my money.
manman:
someone before said that virtually every public venue had arcade games back in the golden era- how many different kinds of places did you actually find a lot of games? I probably started playing arcade games around 86 or so where I mostly found them in pizza places and movie theaters until I actually found arcades. I never saw many girls though, wish we could have kept THAT trend around :cheers:
opt2not:
--- Quote from: manman on May 26, 2010, 10:44:48 pm ---someone before said that virtually every public venue had arcade games back in the golden era- how many different kinds of places did you actually find a lot of games? I probably started playing arcade games around 86 or so where I mostly found them in pizza places and movie theaters until I actually found arcades. I never saw many girls though, wish we could have kept THAT trend around :cheers:
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I remember convenience stores, and malls had them scattered around the common areas. I also remember restaurants (mostly family ones) putting them in the lobby/foyer areas, those were mostly cabarets though.
Roller rinks too...though I didn't hang out there much because they were ridden with drug dealers that my folks warned me about. Funny enough, the actual arcade & billiards I went to when I was young was pretty good at keeping it clean of dealers and the like.
:dunno