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| MrThunderwing:
This is the sad state of what 'arcades' in the UK look like nowadays, a ton of redemption type machines and maybe 2 or 3 actual arcade machines. |
| pbj:
About the same here but now we’ve got these “barcades” everywhere where you pay $10-20 to get in and it’s free play and overpriced beers. Houston has a barcade with 200 games and it ran laps around our annual $45/day annual arcade show. I would have never predicted the business model would work. :cheers: |
| MrThunderwing:
Barcades are starting to become more of a thing over here as well, the few I've seen are usually free entry, but you pay for the cabs as normal (some of which you can tell are not especially well optimised MAME cabinets). There's one called Four Quarters, where you exchange your hard earned pounds sterling for 25 cent pieces to play the games with. There was a pretty good one in the city centre, part of a chain called Kong's, that sadly went bust over Covid times and subsequently shutdown. There's a new one on the horizon though, which I think's going to be opening around June time, that's part of a pre-existing chain. If they get a few classic Sega arcade racers and lightgun games in there, I'll definitely pay them a visit for an overpriced drink or two. Updated: Turn's out Kong's isn't shutdown after all, must've just been a temporary thing. One of my mate's is down at one in the fairly closeby city of Cardiff and he's just sent me a photo of one of their new additions (sadly not working though). |
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