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markb:
I live in the North East of England about 3 miles from the coast. In my youth (early 80's) there was a small town called Whitley Bay that had about a dozen arcades as it was a typical English seaside resort, within 20 miles up the coast line there were another 5 or 6 places exactly the same.
Fast forward 20 years and Whitley Bay seafront is starting to look like a ghost town, all bar 3-4 of the arcades are boarded up and of the remaining ones they are nearly all slots & pushers with a few of the big newer games like DDR, Time Crisis etc.

It's a similar story at nearly all the other places as well at best most of them have a few Jamma cabs playing Bubble Bobble.
USSEnterprise:
I know I went to an arcade in Seaside Heights recently and they had some of the older and newer games, along with some late 70's to 80's pinballs.
RayB:
This place I went to didn't even have rows of racing games or other big "sim" games like you'd expect. There was absolutely nothing there that interested me. They didn't even have Tekken 5.
hooded_paladin:
Yeah, oh man I went to Dave & Busters and was so disappointed.  It was all racing, shooting, and redemption games.  Blah.  Played Mechwarrior but it wasn't really worth the $4 or so off my card that it represented.  There was a smattering of Ultracades and a Tekken but mostly I played three games of Pump It Up (which I've decided isn't as good as DDR, because the music is so blah.).

Then take the nickel arcade that I've been going to too many times.  The thing is half redemption games and, as a result, there are far too many idiotic kids there.  The rest are free-play oldies (either the same-old, same-old huge-ies like Pac Man and Tetris, or really really obscure and horrible ones), driving games, assorted modern beat-em-ups which I don't go for, and music games.  Last time I went I don't think I played anything except for Para Para Paradise, Dancemaniax, and one $1 game of doubles DDR which I had to venture into the land of mean-spirited-Junior-Highers-that-think-they're-cool to play.  Meh.  (Those are all music games, mind you.  Nothing else there is worth putting 3-6 nickels into.)

Gaming is just ahead of movie watching in the journey from outside to the home.  Entertainment media is targeting the big market spenders more and more, meaning that it targets average and weird people less and less.
USSEnterprise:
I've never played DDR. When I hear it referred to that way, I think 'double density RAM" before 'Dance Dance Revolution'
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