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NIVO:

some folks are missing the whole deal here. Graphics dont make the game. Gameplay makes the game. If it were true about just wanting updated graphics, then go figure how the "acclaimed classics" such as Pac Man for instance, has survived the test of time?

Minwah:


--- Quote from: NIVO on August 15, 2004, 03:39:37 pm ---some folks are missing the whole deal here. Graphics dont make the game. Gameplay makes the game. If it were true about just wanting updated graphics, then go figure how the "acclaimed classics" such as Pac Man for instance, has survived the test of time?

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True.  But I feel somewhat that many people (esp. kids) don't really care nowadays.  You hear 'look at those graphics' not 'wow that plays great even tho it doesn't look very good'.

I hate to say it but I think arcades as we know it are doomed, unfortunately  :'(.  Unless someone comes up with something *really* special.

nipsmg:

I was *trying* to look at the whole thing from a kid's perspective (since kids tended to be the largest group arcade games are marketed to.).  Most kids can't AFFORD to go to the arcade anymore.

When I was a kid, if my mom gave me $10 in the arcade, I'd play for HOURS.  EVERYTHING was $0.25.  Now you're lucky to find a game for $.50, most are a dollar or more, easily.  

I guess I was looking at it more from the perspective that it has to be really really special to get attention, because I wouldn't pump $1.00 into a cabinet unless it was something I absolutely couldn't have at home.

Again, for $10 I used to be able to play like 40 games.  Nowadays, 40 games costs $40, and I could buy 2 games for my Xbox for that much and play them indefinitely.

Sadly, arcades ARE doomed. (look at Jillians in boston.. no more games at all, they put in all pool tables >:(  )

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