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Arcade Wars of the 80s
RayB:
Well I said helped "spur on" the death. It was a very slow process but it really started around 84. Crash + ridiculous city bilaws marked the beginning of the end. You have to understand that in 1980-1983 arcade operators were just rolling in money. Atari, Midway and Williams were producing machines in quantities like 10,000, 20,000, even up to 100,000 units. By 1984, games were produced in numbers like 5000 or less. To us the players, yeah the arcades were still there, but behind the scenes, everybody in the business side was hurting.
TOK:
My dad hated that I loved arcades... I don't think he ever fully understood what I was doing, because he always referred to the whole arcade scene generically as pinball machines (which I rarely played).
The funny thing now is that he's somewhat enthusiastic about the fact that I own and build them, even though he's still not into playing them. The other funny thing is that while growing up, my family always had motorcycles, guns, boats and racecars. All of those things were OK, but spending 25 cents on Xevious was throwing money away. ;D
Mr. Dude:
I guess I was pretty lucky growing up. My dad loved going to the arcades with me. It gave us something fun to do together. Plus he says now it was great cause he would rather of spent $10-$20 going to the arcade for an afternoon than taking me to Disneyland or something... LOL.
Level42:
Since there were hardly "real" arcades here, there was no problem. The "arcades" I visited were on camping-grounds and holiday parcs. Safe and clean and lots of games :D
That woman was right with one thing: THOSE GAMES ARE ADDICTIVE AS HELL :)
Ginsu Victim:
Yeah, I was lucky as well. My parents would take me to arcades some, but usually I tagged along with my brother, who was in his teens. Thing is, since I was decent at the games, he didn't mind me coming along. (Later on, we lived for playing Rastan together. I keep trying to get a machine, just so I can temp him to come visit. Mame isn't quite the same. Gotta have those creepy bats on the CPO.)
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