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brophog:

--- Quote ---If you are talking about the "plug and play retro collections" in arcades - they are more often than not unlicensed bootleg hardware or even emulation.  Sticking a quarter in those isn't doing anyone any good.

But the $20 tv-game units are definitely licensed (AFAIK).


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I'm not talking arcades here, merely home units. In fact, use that theme for basically everything I wrote there. There are reasons arcades are nearly non-existent while consoles are at their absolute peaks......and few of those reasons have anything at all to do with emulation.


--- Quote ---As for arcade game designers themselves: they simply need to move with the times.  The arcades always were and always will be about offering something you can't get at home for cheap. 
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That has been their advantage and they're losing it. The advantage is two-fold: processing power due to dedicated units and control apparatus not easily available for home usage. Next generation consoles and PC's have completely eradicated the former, and the latter is being chipped away by specialty controllers (guitar hero, others) and affordable force feedback units (racing games/flight games). With the inevitable move of consoles toward more active gaming controls, arcades will see that advantage dwindled even further. This is the reason nearly all arcades are exclusively redemption, racing/flight, DDR, and shooting games. It's extremely common to find not a joystick or pinball in the room with the very rare exception being a fighting game.

The real problem is that people don't want to go anywhere anymore. All sorts of amusement businesses are having problems these days because our lifestyle is getting busier and busier and it's more convenient/easier to simply play xbox at home.

elvis:

--- Quote from: brophog on August 20, 2006, 06:07:58 pm ---The real problem is that people don't want to go anywhere anymore. All sorts of amusement businesses are having problems these days because our lifestyle is getting busier and busier and it's more convenient/easier to simply play xbox at home.

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You've hit the nail on the head there.  Once apon a time it was perfectly viable for me to make the trip to a central arcade and waste the day away with friends.  Now with the pressures of work and family life, that's nothing but a distant memory.

And again, this is where the successes of online play shine through.  It's much easier for me to challenge a stranger over the net from the comfort of my own couch than it is to find an arcade and challenge a stranger there.

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