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Podbod:
Only places that have arcades in london are bowling alleys. We have a few retro arcades (Heart of gaming, 4 quarters) and Namco world is still going but thats it.
They're full of those Thrill ride shooters but I find them all soulless personally. I've loaded them onto teknoparrot and I never play them.

Jayinem:
I didn't even know until recently that Sega made a new House of the Dead in 2018 called Scarlet Dawn. That's another game I'm hoping to play one day.

lightgungamer:
I think consoles are out because it seems so expensive to get games out now. Although there are quite a lot of indie titles making it into the big platforms.

I’ve never understood why they don’t just release them on steam though. As far as I know, these arcade machines are basically just pcs anyway so it should be an easy port.

Podbod:

--- Quote from: lightgungamer on August 05, 2020, 01:45:25 pm ---I think consoles are out because it seems so expensive to get games out now. Although there are quite a lot of indie titles making it into the big platforms.

I’ve never understood why they don’t just release them on steam though. As far as I know, these arcade machines are basically just pcs anyway so it should be an easy port.

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There's just not the market for it and in most cases there's licensing issues I'd suspect. If not licence cost by itself to have it on more than one platform theres probably issues with other companies owning the pc/console rights.

Howard_Casto:
Consoles have license issues with hardware as well. If you want to release a controller for a platform I believe you have to require a license. Sony might be more lenient with that but I know Microsoft stuff puts those security chips in all their gamepads and if you want to get something to work you've gotta have that chip. This is just intuition but I don't think the Sinden gun is the solution... it's going to be a stop-gap. Tv refresh rates are getting better every day. We might get to the point to where an old-fashioned dot crawl can be simulated on screen and then with the appropriate sensor light guns would work the traditional way again. Either that or laser tech is going to take off. I wonder what happened to that Mars gun?

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