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versapak:
Arcades are gone (IMO obviously) for a few reasons...

The cost of going
RayB:
When I was a teen, we went to the arcade to play games, not really hang out. Cuz the general attitude of arcade managers was that if you weren't spending money, Get out!

In the early 90's, most teens I knew complained there wasn't anything to do. I think it's still the same now. Businesses dont want teens hanging out. Teens don't have that much cash. So a bunch of rowdy people hanging out at your establishment not spending money isn't good business.

Arcades won't come back for the social aspect cuz teens today have text messaging, internet chat, and all that for socializing.

Japan, as mentioned already, is a whole different social dynamic. In that society, people go out all the time and the population is so condensed.

DYNAGOD:
The whole movement for "better than home performance" (BTH) has been one of the arcade industries attempts over the last 10 years to revitalive from the perspective that consoles were the sole culprit..but as paigeoliver pointed out, when you make cost prohibitve amusments you essentially put people out of work..
i guess we all need to move to japan then :P
Dexter:
Joining the thread a bit late guys. Anyone else experience bad customer service from Happ uk? I've had problems with them returning mails, giving accurate times for them receiving items from the states and not contacting me in relation to delays.
NiteWalker:
A few things Happs needs to do: Color pics, lowered shipping (what is this Happs or ebay?), NOT charging your credit card twice for some retarded method of verification, give you shipping before you complete your order and give better bulk discounts.

And in my opinion the only reason arcades almost completely died is that 98% of arcade games are console available. If arcades have any chance of coming back it'll be when a hardware developer makes an uber powerful hardware arcade machine that cannot be ported to consoles and have some developers make some new games for them. 
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