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| BobA:
Hopefully arcade games will be a bit like bicycles. They will probably be around for a long time but they may change as technology advances. |
| mcseforsale:
Here in the south, it seems like there are 2 types of arcades. One is usually built as part of a larger complex with bowling and/or lazer tag. Our development group goes a couple times a year for a day and bowl, lazer tag and do some gaming. The second is a Dave and Busters type facility where dinner is served around a giant arcade with the latest interactive games and simulators. Both usually have some old school flavor tucked in a corner somewhere. AJ |
| sdweim85:
I feel like things would be different if arcades in general weren't so costly. I'm a 90s kid and I enjoy games from that era. I have friends who are younger that want to get into his hobby but enjoy the newer Jap version arcades like the astro cabs, and vewlix stuff. But its wayyyyy overpriced. |
| keilmillerjr:
--- Quote from: mcseforsale on March 17, 2013, 04:25:32 pm ---Here in the south, it seems like there are 2 types of arcades. One is usually built as part of a larger complex with bowling and/or lazer tag. Our development group goes a couple times a year for a day and bowl, lazer tag and do some gaming. The second is a Dave and Busters type facility where dinner is served around a giant arcade with the latest interactive games and simulators. Both usually have some old school flavor tucked in a corner somewhere. AJ --- End quote --- We have a Dave and Busters here in RI. It's not a real arcade though. There isn't a single pinball machine, and zero machines with a joystick. Sure there are Daytona games and crusin USA spinoffs... But who gives a ---fudgesicle---. It agrivates me. I only know of one other arcade left and its all kids ticket crap now. No longer any initial d or golden axe. :( |
| SavannahLion:
Short of a major economic meltdown or social collapse the custom fabrication of arcade cabinets and the related industries are unlikely to disappear entirely. I have greater concern for the long term stability of the collector (eg KLOV) than I do the DIY hobbyist. But I digress, the DIY arcade isn't going to disappear. For example, as a child, Meyers Manx bodies or their clones were everywhere in the summers. By the time I turned 16, they all but disappeared. Other styles came into vogue and for years I thoroughly believed I would never see one again until just last year. I spotted a local Manx and to my surprise it was accompanied by a more modern "mate". I still much prefer the older style but that was proof enough that there are people out there that still have interest. You can find the same kind of parallel occurrence in nearly every DIY hobby. Things swing up and down. But in the long run, someone, somewhere will continue to have an interest and keep the hobby alive. It may even change, drastically. So much that it might become nearly unrecognizable by those in the earlier era. Google 19th century paper-mache boats, suits or sabots to see what I mean. I doubt the vast majority of people who play with paper mache today would know what was done with it in the past and those in the past would imagine how we use (or don't use) mache today. |
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