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Slydsho:

--- Quote from: thefox on April 22, 2013, 11:39:17 pm --- I've always said that if I were a multi millionaire I would open an arcade somewhere & fill it with old school games. I would charge a fixed entry fee in return for a bunch of tokens. Maybe it wouldn't guarantee a young, cool crowd, but I think people of a certain age would flock to it, and bring their kids.

Whether I would make any money out of it is questionable. But I can't think of a better way to blow my fortune !

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i love that you would do this! my goal is a little bit smaller and involves a smaller budget though, i want to open my garage and have a bunch of arcade games for my kids and their friends to come play, they would need to only buy sodas and have fun being that everything would be set to free play, i wouldn't get rich, i would actually lose money to the electric company, but my kids would get rich in the fact that they would be some of the most popular kids on the block.
abcmanusn:
Love it :D
thefox:

--- Quote from: Slydsho on April 23, 2013, 12:09:33 am --- i wouldn't get rich, i would actually lose money to the electric company, but my kids would get rich in the fact that they would be some of the most popular kids on the block.

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Nice thinking. I like your style.
thefox:

--- Quote from: southpaw13 on April 22, 2013, 11:59:44 pm ---I think there is two ways to look at it.

1.  Why did you actually go to an arcade as a kid?  Can you capture it with the new generation?

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That's a fascinating question. I guess I went to the arcades for 2 reasons: firstly, for socialising, cos it was a cool way to spend time with friends & meet people. Secondly, cos before 16 bit consoles arrived, it was the only way you could play "high performance" games. I mean, have you seen Pac-man on the Atari 2600 ?! Terrible ! It proves that you just couldn't play those games in the same way at home.

I guess nowadays, the first factor might still be there. Kids today might find that getting away from the insular, solitary experience of online gaming would be a really good thing. But the second factor is long gone - games at home became as good as arcade games in the early nineties, which i suppose marked the beginning of the end for arcades.

Yet for a reason they cant explain, my kids love the old games. My eldest son (13) loves his Xbox but spends just as much time playing gauntlet and ghosts n goblins. He used to always ask me if there was anywhere he could go to visit a proper arcade. Sadly, the answer was no.
Fursphere:

--- Quote from: thefox on April 23, 2013, 04:22:58 am ---Yet for a reason they cant explain, my kids love the old games. My eldest son (13) loves his Xbox but spends just as much time playing gauntlet and ghosts n goblins. He used to always ask me if there was anywhere he could go to visit a proper arcade. Sadly, the answer was no.

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Take him (and family) to CAX.   http://www.caextreme.org/

I think there are a few more huge shows around the states - but this one is worth going to, if nothing more than to just walk around and see all the old games.
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