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| Ginsu Victim:
You don't call a roller coaster a "theme park". |
| u_rebelscum:
I think "arcade" started being used to discribe a single machine when the first cab was mamed. "The whole arcade in one machine!" ::) Me agree: arcade = location, arcade cab = a machine in the arcade that with others make it an arcade. Of course, the really old people who grew up before there were real arcades think arcade show mean something boring, like "a passage or walkway covered over by a succession of arches or vaults supported by columns." Ridiculous. |
| Ginsu Victim:
--- Quote from: u_rebelscum on October 27, 2009, 02:58:10 pm ---Of course, the really old people who grew up before there were real arcades think arcade show mean something boring, like "a passage or walkway covered over by a succession of arches or vaults supported by columns." --- End quote --- Columns? ;) |
| MaximRecoil:
--- Quote from: zelony on October 27, 2009, 01:52:17 pm ---Most people use the term arcade as both the machine and the location. --- End quote --- No, most people don't do that. --- Quote ---By your logic these forums should be renamed to game controls. --- End quote --- No, "arcade controls" are controls you use in an arcade when playing the games. "Space Port" for example, is an arcade (a chain of arcades in fact). Pac-Man for example, is an arcade game / arcade machine / arcade cabinet. |
| ChadTower:
Now it's a pedant party! |
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