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dema:

--- Quote from: RayB on July 27, 2005, 01:42:05 pm ---July 25, 2005 - Ray B. Proclaims Video Arcades Dead

"Kids no longer want to play video games outside the home"
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I'd much rather play indoors, where you're not bombarded by mother nature, and where it's easier to find an electrical outlet.
Tahnok:

--- Quote from: USSEnterprise on July 27, 2005, 03:55:13 pm ---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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I hadn't actually played it until not too long ago. It's actually a lot more fun than I thought it would be, despite the fact of loosing horribly. I suggest finding a machine in some dead area (where no one will be around to watch) and trying some of the slow songs.
rackoon:
Yea, your right the out door arcade is dying due to consoles.

Yet the classics will live one in the form of the home hobbyist.

   I wondered myself if the arcade scene was dead because my kids grew up on Playstations and Nintendo, yet, when we get near a small arcade in a theater, or where ever, they go nuts over Mrs. PAC Man.

   If arcade game makers were more inventive, arcades would pop up every where. ARCADE CAB MAKERS NEED TO BE ONE STEP IN FRONT OF THE CONSOLES , OR OFFER SOMETHING THAT CONSOLES CANT (example: in-closed pod with multi screens)
AlanS17:

--- Quote from: rackoon on July 27, 2005, 06:29:37 pm ---
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toolaa:
While in general I agree that arcades in the US are no longer destinations for teens and younger adults, I still find pockets of games in familiar places.

Mini-Golf Course and Batting Cages near by had about 3000sf with 1/2 redemption and 1/2 pinball and video games including some classics. 

Local ice rink has about 25 classic machines.  My kids have PS2 but they are always begging to play Blastroids, Cowboys of Moo Mesa or TMNT.

I find an arcades in some of the hotel's I stay at and while they are not bustling full with people, kids are there having fun on games that are ten years older than they are. 


I think the real problem is that the return on investment for arcade games is very poor.  The cost to design, manufacture and distribute and maintain machines is a looser of a business proposition.  If arcade games could cost around $500, took up 1/2 the floor space, required no maintenance, accommodate quick ROM and CP changes the ROI would be about 1/2 a year.  I think you would see more mini-arcades.
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