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Firebat138:
hehe...  yEah...  I remember playing some sort of sit down space vehicle game that rotated all around in a "Contact movie" like bubble in Dover, De. back in the day... like 1990 and that game was $1.00 back then...

shateredsoul:
Yeah, I remember in like 2001/2002 theaters charged about 75c for shooters and 100 for racing games. My undergrad had an arcade, was pretty fair priced. Last I checked it out though they took it out, it wasn't making enough revenue to cover the cost of having the machines and hiring a student as cashier. it was pretty nice, they had a bunch of new games and classics. But, I also remember going there with my friends for freeplay night, we regretted spending our 10 bucks and thought we should have stayed home and play halo instead.

I guess that's why the arcade industry isn't doing too good.

CheffoJeffo:
I was at a ChuckECheese on the weekend for with my kids, their cousin and my MiL.

I was amazed to see some very expensive simulator and driving cabs (many of which I have never seen before) going for a single token on settings that let kids play for a long time.

I was saddened to see hordes of kids lined up at every redemption machine and little interest in the "real" games, with one notable exception -- you even couldn't get close to the Metal Slug 6 cabinet.

 :dunno

lilshawn:

--- Quote from: Ginsu Victim on February 25, 2010, 08:25:43 am ---
--- Quote from: lilshawn on February 25, 2010, 12:25:19 am ---all i'm saying is that there is a huge difference between having a mame pac-man cabinet (that otherwise is no longer in production and no longer supported by it's maker(which i would deem abandoned)) in a public location making money and trying to duplicate a knock off a current production streetfighter 4 cabinet and ripping off another company out of the sale of one of their cabs...if i cant buy that cab from the company today i should be able to mame it instead.

--- End quote ---

Bad example.

You can buy a current Pac-man machine. They have newer versions of several classics that are still out there making money (Pac-man, Ms Pac-man, and Galaga together in uprights and cocktails; Donkey Kong and Mario Bros together in another).

--- End quote ---


i know, i'm a little out of the loop regarding these re-releases...but i don't think they are even based on the original program at all (other than looks). i think they re wrote it.

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