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Mame - Good or Bad for the Arcade Biz ?
tommy:
What about streetfighter and mk they havent come out with new arcade games, now its only consoles, that was a popular series ,no more arcade games
SirPoonga:
--- Quote from: tommy on February 20, 2005, 03:58:00 pm ---What about streetfighter and mk they havent come out with new arcade games, now its only consoles, that was a popular series ,no more arcade games
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The key word is WAS. Look at the trends. MK and SF have come out on consoles. That's where the money is in the gaming industry as a whole. Note the arcade industry is a subset of the gaming industry.
the3eyedblindman:
Whenever I ask friends to go to an arcade they say "Dude, its a waste of money, you have an arcade game at home that plays every game" I think that answers the question.
pointdablame:
--- Quote from: tommy on February 20, 2005, 03:58:00 pm ---What about streetfighter and mk they havent come out with new arcade games, now its only consoles, that was a popular series ,no more arcade games
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They have come to consoles because that's where the money is. You assume that that is because MAME killed teh arcade industry, but that is NOT true. MAME is still not widely known, and it was even less known when those games made the move to console only.
The arcade is dying not BECAUSE of MAME, but because people don't want to go there anymore. If MAME didn't exist, the arcade industry would still be on life support.
SirPoonga:
--- Quote from: fredster on February 20, 2005, 12:15:19 am ---But I think it's really BAD for the arcade business. Classic machines are worth less. People don't want to spend lots of money on repairs. Cabs are tossed away and more people are getting out of the business.
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Not due to mame. Plus many machines are going up in price the more rare they get. How do you know they are worth less? from what you see on ebay?
--- Quote ---Plus, arcade machine makers are going under. Maybe not directly by Mame, but it doesn't help when you can play old games for free. Parts are worth less, harder to sell, etc.
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Nope, this is due to the popularity of consoles. Mame has nothing to do with this.
Mame isn't popular enough to cause a dent in the arcade industry. Consoles are.
Plus what people think an arcade is has changed. An arcade is more of a social place, hence most of the games are heavily into multiplayer. but so is console, hence networking.
If anything mame has been good. It's making the arcade bix realize people want to see classics. Look at all the re-released, remakes, etc that have come out in the last 3 years for console systems.
Even Namco is trying to get on the retro movement with the multicabs (like ms pacman and galaga).
One of the oddities that disproves all of this is DDR. It is super popular in arcade and in consoles. There's even a couple of good simulators are there (DWI, Stepmania) yet it is still very popular in the arcades and consoles.
The only thing mame could affect is the sales of those remakes since mame doesn't emulate anything current.
Someone compared mame to napster. Simular arguements on both side could be made like in napster. I think napster helped the music industry. I tried alot of different music that I wouldn't have before. I still bought the CDs if I liked it ecause in general all the songs from the albums weren't out there and most people can't rip a quality mp3 is their life depended on it.
Plus I now think Metallica are hipocrates. They helped the fight against napster when it was underground trading that got them popular.
Note how popular sites like iTunes are nowadays. This is because people can now buy one song instead of a whole CD or only one song they liked on the CD. If the music industry did soething like that years ago they wouldn't have had the problems with napster and kazaa like they do now.
I'm hoping starroms can get more companies to sell roms through them. I don't like the fact that Atari took many off of star roms because they were going to sell collections (for ps2). I don't have a ps2, what am I going to do. Buying the roms is more economical to me than buying a ps2 just for that collection. I think Atari shot themzelves in the foot there. I don't think mame would affect the selling of the ps2 collection, especially since mame isn't on the ps2.