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sandheaver:

--- Quote from: thefox on April 23, 2013, 04:22:58 am ---Yet for a reason they cant explain, my kids love the old games.

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I can, maybe.  I can't keep my kids off my machines.  They're easy to pick up, easy to learn, and easy to put down.  All the games my kids play on consoles are much longer affairs, often with tutorials and very long-term goals.

Sometimes (most of the time) they just want to play a quick game and try to beat the high score.
keilmillerjr:

--- Quote from: sandheaver on April 23, 2013, 09:58:35 am ---
--- Quote from: thefox on April 23, 2013, 04:22:58 am ---Yet for a reason they cant explain, my kids love the old games.

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I can, maybe.  I can't keep my kids off my machines.  They're easy to pick up, easy to learn, and easy to put down.  All the games my kids play on consoles are much longer affairs, often with tutorials and very long-term goals.

Sometimes (most of the time) they just want to play a quick game and try to beat the high score.

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Thats why I love arcade games. I don't even really play video games. With arcade style games, it's very easy to play for 5 minutes and then go do something else. I bought bioshock 2. Thought my x girlfriend would play it. I barely made it through hat long ass intro movie in the beginning, couldn't figure out the controls, only to be hit with another video a few minutes later. Ughhh... I'm so not a "gamer". I guess this means I will end up being social, have a job, kids and a family. lol
DLinkOZ:

--- Quote from: Slydsho on April 23, 2013, 12:09:33 am ---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.

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That's where I'm at.  Personally, I'm more of a collector myself.  But I *love* that others enjoy my collection.  My sons' friends love to come over.  My huge mass of nieces and nephews love to come over.  Hell, even other adults love to come over.  Play some skeeball, a little air hockey, of course there's the arcade games and a little music.  It may not be a viable business model anymore, but there's no mistaking that the love for classic arcade gaming still thrives.
Gray_Area:
I long ago thought that if I were a millionaire, I'd open an arcade and maybe ask for donations, make it a non-profit, but if none were given, who cares. I'm rich ('That's, uh.....ah, we're rich!' - who can name that?)  But then I got to thinking.....would I want to have to drive that far just to play all those games?.....would I want my arcade on, or next door, my property and people coming round?....would I have a duplicate set-up on my property?

Especially these days, with CRTs for example no longer being made, I think i'd just have my own arcade all for me. Oh, sorta like I have now.

Now if I were a billionaire, I'd buy the local golf castle and make it just like it was in '83-4.....AND have my own arcade at home. Cos I'd have enough money to re-tool the CRT, etc, factories.
thefox:

--- Quote from: keilmillerjr on April 23, 2013, 02:08:28 pm ---Thats why I love arcade games. I don't even really play video games. With arcade style games, it's very easy to play for 5 minutes and then go do something else. I bought bioshock 2. Thought my x girlfriend would play it. I barely made it through hat long ass intro movie in the beginning, couldn't figure out the controls, only to be hit with another video a few minutes later. Ughhh... I'm so not a "gamer". I guess this means I will end up being social, have a job, kids and a family. lol

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Same here. I have a PS3 and a bunch of games I am rather unenthusiastic about. I don't want my game to look like a movie. When I want that sort of entertainment, I.. well, watch a movie.  And I don't want to play the role of Dan Greatgunner (or whoever) in fighting the evil zombie invaders on a blood-soaked, post-apocalypic mission that lasts several months and takes over my entire life. I just want to waggle a joystick for a few minutes and see what score I get.  :-\ Maybe its my age.
 
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