What is your view on redemption games and how they affected the arcade industry?

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CheffoJeffo:

--- Quote from: voltz on November 30, 2015, 02:35:03 am ---I know these ticket and prize games have been with us for quite a few decades and it seems at this point they've pretty much taken over what we used to consider a legit hobby. Right now I just don't know how to feel about them as it seems they appeal to kids and operators, but certainly not with the rest of us.

Your thoughts?

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You seem to vastly overestimate the "rest of us". "We" don't spend enough money to make it worthwhile. "We" are not being wronged.

I remember arcades before video games (yes, I am older than Star Wars) and am not at all upset at the current state of things in the arcade.

tomstewdevine:
What about arcade bars? There is at least one in every city now, they don't have redemption games. Normally just a bunch on pinball machines and arcade cabinets. Nothing to the scale or the amount of arcades that were around in the 80s and early 90s, but still, it seems if you want to go to an arcade the bar is the place to find them now.

vwalbridge:
If it spits out tickets, it's not an arcade.

harveybirdman:
MEH it irritates me, but it just serves as more fuel to restore machines and put them in my house.

wp34:
My kids loved the redemption games when they were little. We had a lot of fun playing the games and picking out prizes. It is not an experience I would like to recreate in my basement however. With the possible exception of picking up a crane machine at some point (way down the road) when we have grand kids.

--- Quote from: tomstewdevine on November 30, 2015, 12:09:33 pm ---What about arcade bars? There is at least one in every city now, they don't have redemption games. Normally just a bunch on pinball machines and arcade cabinets. Nothing to the scale or the amount of arcades that were around in the 80s and early 90s, but still, it seems if you want to go to an arcade the bar is the place to find them now.

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I love the arcade bars and I'm glad we now have 2 or 3 locally. The only downside really is that they have driven up the prices of games. You could get a nice Donkey Kong for $3-400 a few years ago. At the auction on Saturday one went north of $800.

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