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bradx:

--- Quote from: sandheaver on April 29, 2013, 04:27:33 pm ---There's an arcade just like this in Chicagoland.  $15 gets you in for a day, and all machines are set to free play.  384 games currently available for play.

http://gallopingghostarcade.com/

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yeah its cool but the vast majority of the games are missing art, no custom controls, or are available to play in mame with no real difference in gameplay.  i went there with some friends and spent all night there, in and out to grab some food or drinks, then back to play some more games until i believe it was close to 2 in the morning, after midnight for sure. 

shooting games still seem to be out on route locally, multicades, and trackball games.  driving games too, pretty much nothing with a joystick tho.  some pins are still out there, theres a couple at a laundromat near here. 

you know those old electro mechanical rifle shooting gallery type games from the 60s and 70s?  i bet if someone designed something like that using new technology it would bring in some real money.  a pizza place near here has a brand new skee ball so i think its possible and would be profitable, but i suppose people figure "why bother?" when they can just put a quarter pusher instead and make ten times the cash for 1/10th the investment? 
05SRT4:
I always try to get my friends to go out to a local arcade but every time we do we get stuck with busted machines that never work so it kills the fun. Plus I've yet to find a local arcade with older gen games still running.

We try to go out because we never really experienced it growing up. When I was a kid the NES/SNES were out and this was our form of visual stimulation. Playing games was just to easy, no need to leave home.
Slydsho:
to be totally honest i always had a console from day 1 in this world (1983) because my father was a big pacman fan. the earliest console we had was an Atari, i barely remember it... the NES was most memorable, but the entire time growing up I've been around arcades and played them heavily at laundromats(720, digdug, bubble bobble, avengers) and bowling alleys(countless games), it wasn't until the PlayStation was released that i quit going to the arcade. Games looked just as good and only costed you the shelf price of the game to play it infinitely until boredom set in... the most memorable arcade machine for me was Mortal Kombat 3, when my parents bowled league I would easily spend $10 a night on that game alone, bought the PlayStation and MK3 then everything else was history... now im wishing i never bought the damn thing...

you want arcades to come back, make the games exclusive to the cabinets, no home versions.
DHTech:

--- Quote from: Slydsho on April 30, 2013, 04:04:42 am ---to be totally honest i always had a console from day 1 in this world (1983) because my father was a big pacman fan. the earliest console we had was an Atari, i barely remember it... the NES was most memorable, but the entire time growing up I've been around arcades and played them heavily at laundromats(720, digdug, bubble bobble, avengers) and bowling alleys(countless games), it wasn't until the PlayStation was released that i quit going to the arcade. Games looked just as good and only costed you the shelf price of the game to play it infinitely until boredom set in... the most memorable arcade machine for me was Mortal Kombat 3, when my parents bowled league I would easily spend $10 a night on that game alone, bought the PlayStation and MK3 then everything else was history... now im wishing i never bought the damn thing...

you want arcades to come back, make the games exclusive to the cabinets, no home versions.

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Maybe an initial exclusive period and then release them for the home console market, it could follow how movies are released, first to the Cinema then to home video.
mcseforsale:
console games are so boring anymore.  Walking around blowing up the same crap for hours.  I get the quest, but the puzzles remain the same. 

AJ
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