Why are Arcades dead in the west?

Why are Arcades dead in the west?

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because of the faggot PC gamers

People stopped going to them.

Because people in the west own electronics at home.

People in other countries do not.

everyone just does the same thing online and without being embarrassed about their neckbeards

because being around poor people is a terrible experience. also home consoles

We're a lot more spread out as a whole.

In Japan, the population is very condensed so there's more likely to be people of similar interests within a given area. It's not very difficult.

Every arcade I've known has shut down except for Dave and Busters and the one at the cinema.

I went to the new ritzy movie theatre they built in a high end development a few months ago, it had a big arcade. And it's all full of mobile games. Most people probably know that already but it's fucking shocking that they have an entire 6 foot tall machine dedicated to Flappy Bird. It literally just has one button. This is a game you can play for fucking free.

The rest of the games are pretty much the same, they're all just mobile games on larger screens in big boxes, and they hand out tickets.

Literally the only thing resembling an arcade is the fact that they have Mario Kart in a sit down racer, which is actually pretty awesome.

But still what the fuck man... I'm so jealous of Japanese arcades.

Creative bankruptcy and a public unwilling to play games that need practice.

Everyone wants instant redemption bullshit like claw machines or stacker. Worst of them all is the fucking coin pusher machines. They involve money, so they bring out the absolute worst in people, and the people who play them are already of a low caliber as it is.

Basically, Not enough people want to chase high scores to float an arcade. Blame it on a generation raised on participation trophies.

Western arcades:
>mostly copies of phone games
>same rehashed shit for the last 3 decades
>small market

Japanese arcades:
>new games that are exclusively arcade games
>online multiplayer
>large market

also it's a cultural thing
you'd be impressed at how many fucking salarymen/women show up at arcades around dinner time on worknights in Japan

Movie theaters.

>pay $1 every five minutes for credits to play a game
>buy the fucking game for $15 and play it at home as much as you want

Only worth in going to arcades is to play racing games and DDR.

ayyy thats a picture of gga. also tekken 7 has made level 257 pretty popular here in the chicagoland area.

When home consoles started coming out that were just as powerful as the arcade machines, there really was no point in the arcades continuing to exist. Everyone just started playing the same games on their consoles.

Urban sprawl and the vast majority of US operators being assholes cranking difficulties up/not repairing broken machines/physically modifying electromechanical games to lose more easily(like bending pinball playfields) just to make a quick buck pretty much caused shit to dwindle down and die out.

Arcades have a different cultural relevance in Japland, and nobody want to open up an arcade when they have lots of overhead and everyone already plays games at home.

I grew up in Ireland, lived in the UK and just the other week moved to Vancouver and I have never been somewhere as uninterested in vidya as Vancouver.

Not an arcade or internet cafe with gaming PCs anywhere

Online multiplayer became standard. New tech made arcades obsolete.

because most arcade games that would be able to offer an experience you couldn't get by playing on your console or on pc are japan exclusive

Not trying to promote anyone but there's a video from Super BunnyHop about this issue.

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Here you go, OP

I work at an arcade. AMA.

>because being around poor people is a terrible experience

This. And going to an arcade frequented by blacks, guarantees a shitty experience in terms of noise levels, broken machines, filthy facilities, etc.

Portland has an awesome bar arcade combo downtown

is it dead

What games does the arcade that you work at have? Anything interesting, or just a bunch of redemption shit?

because cars are more prevalent than trains/subways

Is that an MK9 arcade cabinet?

I thought they stopped doing arcade cabinets after MK4?

>majority of US operators being assholes cranking difficulties up
Pet fucking peeve of mine.

I ain't got much in my arcade, but if you lose badly, i usually slide you a free re-do game.

Unless you get lippy.

>Oh man, i just lost on DDR. Heh heh guess i'm outta practice
Here you go dude, Have a redo on me. Infact, i'll join you!

>Your fucking ghost squad is out of fucking aim. I can't even goddamn play it
Alright sir, let me take a look
*Test the machine*
*it's fine, he got a 40 hit combo then missed and blamed it on the machine*
Seems fine to me sir. My best guess is lack of player skill

Honey vs vinegar. Honey vs vinegar.
Quarters, tokens or slide cards?
I use quarters myself

There's one in my city, and it's okay. The booze is retardedly overpriced, but the game selection is pretty good.

shitty parents, religion and attracting unwanted niggers and spics

don't know the reason for the west specifically but it's probably because everyone has a home console now instead of paying 50 cents for one life in a game. also mame emulators

It's probably a homemade cabinet with a computer or console running MK9 in there.

Unlike japan they're not convienent.

I'm not going to drive for an hour to get to an arcade. If I could walk for 10 minutes like in japan sure. But NA is not designed for people, it's designed for cars.

that's galloping ghost arcade here in chicago which has really good ties with ed boon and nether realm. they have cabs for all nether realm releases. they also do beta tests there.

Why would I go to a Dave and Busters to play Tekken 5 when I've got TTT2 at home already that doesn't make me pop money into it every time I want to play like some kind of whore.

This. Also you get to play the shit at home. The majority of arcade games fucked up concepts of difficulty which is the main reason I never play them. The only meaningful thing you can do with them is something like "1cc" or "3cc" etc, which feels super arbitrary. There is also the temptation for the devs to make it much harder in an unfair sense to get more money. Console ports ended up being technically inferior but they often had structure that the arcade versions lacked.

Niggers/other human trash and the new generation just wants to play Faggot Fucker on their iPad or some shit, not play real games in a building. The only ones who bother opening them now are hipster faggots in liberal shitholes who just want a way to charge $12 for a Zelda craft beer or some shit. Come to think of it even as a kid I never saw a real arcade, it was always just a handful of machines at a batting cages or something like that.

Going to Japan and just popping into a game center for an hour was fun as fuck because of just how many of them there are and how quick it is to walk in and start playing. I had more fun doing that every day or two for 2 weeks than I have playing vidya since I was in first grade.

No, it's busy all year-round, especially during summer. We are only closed on Christmas day.

Most games are redemption games, but we have classical arcade cabinets like Donkey Kong, Mario Bros, Pacman, Galaga, Joust, a bunch of other ones that I can't remember the names of. We've got House of the Dead 1 and 4, a bunch of racing games, sports games, and bowling and bumper cars.

Slide cards.

one game per cabinet

low chance of multiplayer

still my favorite genre and the only thing other than pc that i want to see new releases on

This, TL;DW: Western arcades/barcades are too expensive for the time given, along with the fact that America uses Bills for values more than 25c in regular circulation, and Japan uses coins up to value in roughly $4.50, along with Japan's transport being based mostly on train systems means foot traffic walking by these arcades all the time, compared to America where a car is required for most areas, where side store don't catch as much attention and makes these areas more accessible and satisfying. There's more to it, but yeah, that's the gist.

Most major cites in the US have a cliche arcade bars that you can go to with all of your fag friends OP and talk about when dig dug was good.

Because consoles. Duh. Arcades in the west stopped providing experiences that you could only get at an arcade.

That said, last week I went to Round 1 Entertainment and had a great time playing Mario Kart Arcade, Down The Clown, Hydro Thunder, Time Crisis 5 and Dark Escape 4D with my girlfriend

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that isn't the scene anymore and we can NEVER revive it outside of enthusiast places

because you can play these same games at home

Because arcades became hotbeds of crime and drug-usage. Not to mention other things like arcades typically having attached bars, billiards, and gambling machines.

When the target of arcades became people who wanted to get drunk more than play games, they faded away.

one of my favorite arcades apparently had a cocaine ring happening right in the back room. I played Cruzin' USA there for about a year before they were shut down.

>attracting unwanted niggers and spics

Consoles in the home are more common and arcades have also been thought of as a spot associated with juvenile delinquency and drug use much like skateparks and disc golf courts.

you see these machines typically because they're basically free. The hardware to run it is as complex as a phone, and the majority of the money is sucked up by the cabinet configuration. Typically these cabinets which house those cheap games can be reconfigured to become other games for basically pennies.

We could get cool arcade games, or even arcade games that are probably still amazing to play even though they are a decade old. We never will. The era is over.

Funny story. Japan had this one arcade game, I forget the name of it but it's something like Punch Master? Anyway, there's this punching bag thing on a stick, and at certain times you need to punch it as hard as you can. If you punch hard enough, your character will mow through crazy shit like dinosaurs or meteors. It was brought over to the USA and then discontinued after like a month after some idiot injured their hand from punching it.

Japan has some pretty cool arcade games. They have fucking Gundam cockpit simulators and shit, you even get a little card that saves your details so you can play with your account on any machine anywhere. It's even fucking online, so you can play against anyone in the country and not just the guy next to you.

here and I can assure you, black people leave the worst messes and complain about fucking everything.

thanks for the laugh you dumb faggot

>Only in the west
Is there any other country aside from Japan where arcades are still popular?

>black people leave the worst messes and complain about fucking everything.
just like everywhere else, like malls

We have games that use the same pod as the Gundam machine, the Star Wars Battle Pod and Mach Storm. They're alright.

anyone ever been to club sega? always wanted to go there

Because Nintendo figured out that to make any real money they had to kill the middleman. The arcade owner was that middleman.

He's dead now and may his jewish penny pinching soul RIP in piece.

I don't know why, but here in New Zealand literally every single Burger King I've seen has a Time Zone arcade either in it or next door to it. There are two arcades close to me right now. One of them is literally right across the road.

Everyone owns their own technology and the people who would go out to an arcade to pump money into rhythm/fighting game cabinets for hours are too far apart to make them profitable

waiter here, can confirm.

Mobile phones is why.

I think South Korea, although I know that Internet cafes are way more popular there.

Parts of Asia, specifically Taiwan. Nowhere near as popular as Japan though.

arcade style gameplay was pretty much dead after the dreamcast. more and more people wanted games with an interesting story intead

Taiwan, Thailand, China, Korea, Malaysia, Brazil, Argentina, Mexico, California

mostly Asia and South America, though the south american arcades are usually computers running mame, or KOF machines

How fucking bad do you need to be to blow four quarters a minute

>galloping ghost

To anyone living in the Chicago area, do yourself a favor and go to that arcade.

>Argentina
I'm from argentina and that's bullshit. Only a few of those remain and they are only in shopping centers.

Speaking of which, do japaneses play MK?

I went there f-zero AX. sadly, it wasn't the moving cockpit version

>Using Sega as a timing benchmark for anything
The Ps2 still had a ton of arcadey stuff dude

Japan also has those pseudo gambling games where there's like 50 chairs and all the old people sit there and play them while smoking (horse racing and shit)

and make sure to play f-zero gx arcade. you can even bring your gamecube memory card with.

Have you actually gone back and played those 80s arcade games?

They are fucking hard, basically made to make money

Sorry, all your countries look alike to me

>Dark Escape 4D
This is the most loud and obnoxious game I've ever played

>Go to Main Event near me a while back for the first time in forever
>They have a fucking F-Zero AX machine
>Like one of 25 in the whole country
>Hyped as fuck to finally get to play it
>Out of order
>Waves of crushing disappointment
>Come back again a few months later for a friend's birthday
>Bring my GC memory card for those sweet tracks and racers you get from plugging it in
>Excitedly make it over to the arcade area
>Machine is gone
>Talk to an employee
>Machine was trashed because it didn't work anymore

A lot of games ask for more credits just to continue. Fighting games ask for them every two rounds.

>You can bring your gamecube memory card
fucking WHAT I am GOING THERE, I want the entire world to see how autistic I am at racing games

and it didnt sell well compared to the games with great story like silent hill 2

Here's what people would rather do than go to the arcades in the west:

-stay at home on the computer
-movies
-beach, or some other similar physical activity
-mall, restaurant
-clubbing

What localized games would you put in an american arcade these days anyway, keep in mind you'd need many titles.

sega was always ahead of the game, kid

user that went to Japan here.

there are a bunch of club SEGA around japan, there was one in shibuya that i used to go every weekend or so. Every Saturday there was some old guy in business suits playing Virtua Fighter 5, they all seemed to have fun in there. There was also shitload of other games. Akihabara has 2 if I'm not mistaken, one near the station and one in the middle of the street, Saturdays used to be pretty busy.


It was just really fucking fun to play against the japs, i usually played shit like USF4 and GG revelator, got my ass kick most of the time but seeing high level japs playing was fucking awesome, I even started winning often.

Best year of my life.

>MFW I'll never have another go at these arcades or live in glorious nippon with a care free life ever again.

I want to go back.

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The same reason your mom and dad explains casinos as "arcade for adults"

That's funny, mine's the opposite. It's obviously full of the first "classic" cabinets they could get (OG SFII, a NeoGeo 4-game switcher, burger time, etc) but the drinks are amazing, from the drafts to the signature cocktails

So... move there?

3cc is arbitrary but saying that 1ccing games is arbitrary is pretty stupid since they are designed to be played that way. As soon as you put in another coin your score gets dropped into the trash after all, not to mention all the hidden true bosses, levels and loops that were starting to become very common in the 90s.

Because the US is inconvenient as fuck

Quarters? I think arcade machines ask for at least a dollar, maybe even two.

>Why are Arcades dead in the west?
killed by the same thing that's still killing america, niggers, spics and mudslimes.

Watch this video: youtube.com/watch?v=pcgr2ThIWnk

The main reason for this is the fact that there isn't anyone brave enough to build the sort of massive arcade amusement parks like in Nippon. Those type of massive arcade cabinets which have Initial D with real cars jacked up on hydraulic stands are stupid expensive.
In addition, gaming culture in the West is a little different. Same way some people here go out see a movie, some friends might get together and go to the arcade instead of spending all their day cooped up in their room shouting shit at their microphones.

I think the idea of a Japanese arcade could work in the west quite well. There just however isn't an infrastructure to support it very well. Not a lot of Japanese weeb arcade games appeal to normies. And that's what arcades are for. Normies who aren't willing to spend hundreds of dollars for a beefed up gaming system then another 600 dollars for a VR headset.

In short:

What's a mudslime? Is it an actual slime? Are there cute mudslime girls? Can I hold their hand?

I believe your talking about the Sonic Blast Man arcade game

All arcade machines became incredibly cheap to make with the popularization of general purpose desktop computers.
Arcade cabinets being actual hardware is only for people who want to waste money, you can just put an arcade stick/controller, hide a pc/console inside, do some software+hardware configuration related to paying, and you're done.

>What's a mudslime?
a camel fucker, sand nigger, muslim, terrorist etc., achkmhed, AHRHAb

California is a mexican state, that's redundant.

Cant. I havent finished college yet and i cant left my family behind. Maybe one day

rip dilma sem fronteiras

If that were true then arcades would be completely dead in Japan.

So like, a Middle Eastern/Arabian person? The girls are pretty cute, as long as we're talking about the darker ones.

>Sega Derby Arcade games

Were any horse racing games that actually let you feed and pet your horses released on consoles that are actually good?

ticket dispensers killed them

Every person I know that works in some job where you have to interact with customers says the exact same thing. Waiter, Retail, Tech Support, ShopRite, Hotel Staff, all of them say nogs are the worst customers to deal with.

Did they really make arcade cabinets for Mortal Kombat 9 and Injustice?

Is there one for MK X?

If I'm remembering this right, it's actually pretty hard to permanently live in Japan. I think the only way is to marry a Japanese lady and apply for citizenship that way. Dunno exactly how it works if a company offers you a job there though.

it's a play on "muslim"

yes, this counts as clever among the poor

To be fair that program's menagemebt was incredible poor, at least i could go before they cancelled everything

>cute mudslime girls

I can think of one

>Every person I know that works in some job where you have to interact with customers
we're aware of the opinions of poor whites, thanks

Unless you're a native, you will always be a second class citizen. It's not worth spending your life there.

Eh, it's anecdotal evidence, but in terms of tech support, I would say that white people are the fucking worst, especially the older ones.

Used to work for IBEX, particularly Applecare. I can say with absolute certainty that it's white people that are the fucking worst, especially the older generation. Some of the dumbest, self-entitled motherfuckers I've ever met in my life.

>tfw you will never be japanese enough to buy a beer and some weird snack at the 24/7 convenience store and then have some spare change to play Initial D on a fucking car

He's not wrong

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>Why are Arcades dead in the west?
cannot play like a casual scrub, gloat and / or then rage quit, when in person

Indians are worse. They always expect extra attention or to be top priority and never seem happy. They also do that passive aggressive glaring and then looking away to their spouse or a different employee thing with other customers that are in front of them.

...

1$ to play 5 minutes. Of a game designed not to be difficult for fun, but so you lose and pay more money.

Yeah. Nah. It's a waste of money to go to the arcade. If they sold a pass, like 1 hour for 10-20 then I'd go. I assume that wouldn't turn a profit though and thus arcades are dead.

>Butthurt nog

It just doesn't work money-wise. A good location with high traffic just can't be funded with the loose change an arcade brings in.

>Poor woman in that first video trying to shield her kids

No kidding, there was a DZ Discovery Zone here in town that was shut down because the urban youths were getting in knife fights inside of the big maze tubes. They were using the dead-ends as places to go to get hopped on meth.

I miss DDR

it's a rich tapestry of societal dumbing down through lowering the bar of expectation, of which gaming is just one, small element

because millennials

Who else are going to be dealing with shitskins? Certainly not the middle and upper class leftists who are so eager to import them.

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>tfw you will never be in a 4-way battle with 3 other randoms

>he never went to Round 1

It's a japanese arcade chain that started having locations in the west. I don't know how anyone can go back to Dave and Busters after Round 1.

>wangan midnight
i'm guessing no one actually watched this because there's no catchy music

$$$.

That's it.

too expensive, too out of the way, requires physical currency that few people bother to amass due to America's credit-based economy.

even if there's a change machine, the lowest most people have is a 20. and fuck that.


even then, the point of an arcade is one of two: "Play the better version of the game" and "I get to be a loud dick with my equally loud friends!"
neither a problem in the US nowadays because PC Mustard Race and "I can be a loud dick at home".

>bending pinball playfields
this was an actual thing?

Actual arcade worker here, AMA

minecraft

What kind of games do they have there

Do you think the chain is getting enough business to expand?

I would post my uniform as well, but it would reveal my location, and I have coworkers that browse Cred Forums.

Enthusiasts are a great place to start the sight back up. Just got to get them into easier to reach places

How do you stop niggers and mexicans from stealing everything that isn't bolted down?

There's a barcade where I live and two nice arcades on the coast.

1.console tech caught up, not enough reason to go to them, espcially if the game was ported. only poorfags who couldn't afford consoles went to them in the later years.
2.communities don't want them, they attract drugs and thugs. hard to even get a permit.
3.it was never convenient, too far apart for people to get to them in the states.
4.inflation and bad economy makes it harder for them to be profitable.

I WANT TO KISS KAMALA

You'd actually be surprised how many people go to arcades. Especially if events are hosted, due to nostalgia and believe or not the movie Wreck it Ralph.

> Can I hold their hand?
If you don't mind having her father chop off your hand, because that's what he thinks his religion commands him to do.

See We have most of the games in this video without the gimmicks. For example...
> Initial D, with only a car seat
> Skiing game, but not VR
> wheelchair horror game, with 3D glasses instead of VR
and so on. We have Gunslinger Stratos though, which is as fun as it looks.

Sign in our office says they're planning on having 50 stores in the US by the end of 2020, so I'd say yes.

We don't. Our store is built into a mall, and one of the basketbal cabinets is near the entrance. Niggers pull them out and take them all the time.

WHITE PIGGU GO HOME

>Sign in our office says they're planning on having 50 stores in the US by the end of 2020

Nice, would love to see one in Florida around me sometime.

Any user lucky enough to try this or the kancolle game?
how were they?

>Sign in our office says they're planning on having 50 stores in the US by the end of 2020, so I'd say yes.
Ehh, that's just management's wishful thinking.

I was hoping for your take on how much business you're getting at your location and whether you think it's a decent sustainable amount or if it's just running on novelty fumes.

why is the victrola dead? why is the horse-and-buggy dead? why is print dead? why is heterosexuality dead?

Border Break is kinda cool because you get to play it with a mouse-like controller and a joystick at the same time, and it has big tiddie girls and cool robots.

Never played Kancolle

Is it faster paced compared to stuff like armored core/virtua on?

Vegas had a ton of arcades from what I remember. That might have changed though.

My fav was this light gun game. You were a SWAT guy or something and the gun was a G36 style rifle. One of the buttons on the gun was used to free hostages.

Fucking this. Plus the routinely break toilet seat lids by squatting on them. Not to mention half are homo as fuck and will feel up your ass as a male waiter.

>But NA is not designed for people, it's designed for cars.

why is this so true

i wish i lived somewhere worthwhile. my city's public transportation consists of like, 3 old shitty buses (and that's it)

Arcades were already dead years before mobile phones came into popularity.

Well, on weekdays I wouldn't be surprised if we were losing money. There's rarely any more than 10 customers playing at a time during the day. Weekends though, holy hell. Last Saturday when closing, one of the registers had over $2,000 in it from cash alone. Combine that with credit card payments and the other departments and they're making a very pretty penny.

It's also worth mentioning that our games are horribly overpriced (usually $1.50 to $2.00 for a game, ever shitty ticket wheel ones) and yet people still eat it up.

What? Like... They perch on the seat like a bird and shit like that? How do you even fucking know?

>mfw have a massive arcade that's $15 for unlimited play

it's fucking great, guys who work there are chill as fuck too.

youtube.com/watch?v=ytxeWD-GHG8

Still cheaper than DnB. Fucking games can cost $3-4.

there's no arcades around here, really, but there's a place with a lot of pinball machines. $13 and you can play any machine as many times as you want for as long as they're open -- is that a good deal?

I have a crippling fear of niggers and mexicans so I don't leave the house to go to place I know they'll be there. I stopped going to the store all together too. I'd love to visit an arcade again some day.

Christ, I never knew.

Makes sense though. Anyone willing to pay $10.00 for a beer would have no problem paying $4.00 for a game after they're drunk.

sounds like a pretty sad life

>It's also worth mentioning that our games are horribly overpriced (usually $1.50 to $2.00 for a game, ever shitty ticket wheel ones) and yet people still eat it up.
Wow, where do you work?

Feels good living in Seattle where I can get to an arcade with fightan, golden age stuff, and pinball in 10 minutes then drive 5 miles back the other way and play Magic: The Gathering.

He's being smart. White's are open season in the U.S.

welcome to Cred Forums

yet another reason why arcades in japan are still alive in a big way: because poor people and black people don't exist in most major jap cities

Wait... where the fuck are my mk9 and injustice cabs? All the movie theaters around me just have tekken 4 except for that one place that has MvC2.

Fucking this. Racing games at the arcade are a part time hobby in cost alone. It's terrible. A token a minute was what I was raised on, but it's so easy to burn through $20 that it just feels bad.

Same. When I get my one place, I'm hoping you can get a USB metal stomp pad and play it with stepmania.

Why go to an arcade when you can play the same shit at home? Is this thread really necessary?

That's the price here in New Zealand.

you too user?

How much do you laugh at people that play games with shit returns?

We have a Big Bass that's stupidly popular but the $1 per spin is atrocious.Customers are better off playing shit that takes skill,as opposed to luck

Arcades generally have more elaborate set ups like full cockpit simulators. Obviously if you have Street Fighter at home you're not going to go to an arcade to play that, but there are other stuff there too.

I miss the 5 cent arcades that always had the multiplayer x-men and gauntlet legends on free play.

I spent this summer in Japan and, man, those cockpit sims are awesome. God damn their arcades rock. All (well, most) games were online, and I played with people from all over japan on any number of games -- from Marvel vs Capcom2 to the newest Guitar Freaks. It was great.

>Tfw arcades die out but DnD has a resurgence

Why can't we have both?

I cringe a little every time I see someone play Mega Stacker.

It's even worse when they play it several times in a row, and actually think they're close to winning when the game is just fucking them over.

Because Americans think they waste more by paying $0.50 per play than paying $60 once.

expensive to create both arcades and design hardware for the games, no western arcade game developers, less population density, more home PCs

isn't that the moval location?

I know you're not PHM or Santa Ana

I get a good chuckle when I see a family blow $20 in 5 minutes just spinning the wheel,admittedly it's a lot more revenue than our other games would pull in a day,but when the family is ready for ticket redemption,I throw in a few extra hundred tickets for something that they've been working towards.Even though they're wasting money like morons,I genuinely become happy when I see families enjoying each others company and cheer each other on with "that was a good spin user!"

However,last week some couple came in and wanted to win a $5 plush that they could've gotten at Wal-Mart,under any normal circumstances I would've made suggestions on what's best to play if he was trying to impress her,but he gave me a sour attitude when I tried to help him.instead of telling him how to play this and that to maximize tickets,I just point him to our $1 ticket games.He ended up blowing through $60 for a Peppa Pig mini plush.Couldn't help but give him a shit eating grin when I gave him the pig.

My nigga. I try to go there at least once or twice a month.

god damn am I glad I live in an upscale part of NYC. I lived in brooklyn for a couple years and experienced this shit every god damn day.
black lives matter indeed

How do they pay the electricity bill?

i have won an ipod shuffle years ago (off a 50c wheel 1st try,) when they were stick usbs that held 1 gb lol

i took it to walmart and got 90.00$

then a week later i was the top cheesecake seller in my middle school and got another did the same thing,

i think that was around the time i bought samurai warriors for ps2

how do you deal with googles?

This is true, even if first poster is a faggot.

The home console was the cheap arcade experience. You brought home arcade games that were really just a shadow of the real deal. Poor, rigid mechanics, weaker hardware, limited graphics and even content cut from the arcade version because it couldn't fit.

The Arcade was a sort of interstice between PC and console. The Arcade cabinet could be designed with unique tech, a unique controls, far more powerful rendering and audio capability compared to a console port of the same title. Even going as far back as Pong, Pac-Man and the like, the arcade machine would beat out a home platform in every way. Arcade even had a tiny barrier of entry - you just needed some pocket change to play for a while compared to putting down a hundred bucks or so on the console and then thirty to eighty on each of the various carts.

Because Japan never adopted the PC, Arcades have remained as the place to play the "real" version of various arcade style games.

Meanwhile the West took to PC as it was unaffected by and grew rapidly after the Console Crash of '83 (arcades was also unaffected for the most part by the consoles shitting the bed back then, too). PC games had all of the qualities of the Arcade and then some.

Instead of a pinnacle experience in Japan, the arcade is merely an inbetween everywhere else in the world. There's no reason for arcades when the PC exists. And while it may have been possible to argue for them a decade ago, there's no reason for consoles to exist as they are now. They're not even the cheaper option anymore.

Trains.

I visited Tokyo too several years ago. I was kinda bummed going home knowing there weren't any arcades like that nearby and the only game stores would be Gamestops. I was actually trying to get used to all the open space on the highway as I was riding home.

Because it's easier to exploit humanities addiction to gambling with ticket machines and prize grabbers. Prove me wrong.

I'm thankful that I have a Round 1 in my town. I haven't played music games in a while and there was a whole bunch of new stuff that I've never seen before, like Groove Coaster and Cross Beat (Even though it's kind of a Technika clone, it's still fun). It's weird to see all the doujin music in a game like Groove Coaster and the game is entirely localized and dubbed in English (Except for some of the track titles). Although for fighting games they have a decent amount of poverty if that's what you want. They got Nitro Blasterz Plus recently and I'm still waiting on Revelator.

Not to mention that it lets you exploit kids, too.

Modern day arcades were designed by Jews to be casinos for kids.

don't hold your breath on Revelator AC anytime soon user

However,they are getting Tekken 7 AC,so there's that at least

>no clit

I don't know. Every time I've ever passed arcades, I've always played at them. I miss them so much...

>Ed Boon used the terrible PC ports he forced on us to use in his home arcade
Is he just actually retarded or what?

Most of the notable arcade games were made in Japan and modern Americans don't care for that type of game anymore. All of the good American arcade games were made in the 70s - 80s and Americans think those are "too old". Unless they start putting Call of Duty with some kind of special bonus features in arcades, Americans won't care again, especially since they can play CoD from their homes anyway. More importantly, most arcade games were made difficult and require practice, so yet again, modern kids that only play mobile games don't care enough about games to try to get really good at one. I tried to teach my 10 year old cousin how to play The King of Fighters '98 and her first response was "What do you mean practice? It's just some game. There are too many buttons."

Also, bad kids tearing up machines. I used to go to a card shop that had the Yugioh arcade machine and a kid (no, he wasn't black, just poorly disciplined) got so angry after losing a duel, he tipped the machine over. I think that because of Asian culture being a bit different, none of them would be rude enough to do something petty like that since they know their parents would beat them very badly. I mean, sure, Chinese are known for making huge messes and tearing things up, but at least they also severely punish their misbehaving children.

Any fighting/beat em up games? It's been a long long time since Ive played a fighter or a beat em up

>Every Saturday there was some old guy in business suits playing Virtua Fighter 5
I am devastated that I will never experience this. I have to beg my friends just to convince ONE of them to maybe play 1 round of VF with me, but Japanese people actually go out of their way to play it? Too bad the online is pretty dead now as well.

>friend's only criticism of VF is that there is no story and it's just fighting
>he proceeds to play Minecraft and Goat Simulator all day

How are you going to have good KoF matches without Mexicans? Are there a lot of Chinese people in your area?

They're not so hot in Japan either if we're looking at the number of new arcade releases, most of them are just playing games that were released years ago. It's also a country that still clings to fax machines and CRTs so keep that in mind.

is there anything like this on Consoles?

Yes, it's called online.

you can always become a teacher

what is this?!

people breaking all the shit is one huge reason.

cough arcade ddr pads cough

Becoming a teacher in Japan sounds like a bad idea given, their distrust of foreigners and the lack of Japanese knowledge the average Cred Forums poster has anyway.

is there really a game like that on the pc?

I would like links if possible

>tfw you will never be in a 4-way battle with 3 other randoms
No clue what you're on about, i did it fairly often.

Galactic Circus in Melboune was packed with WMMT5 machines, which were their old 4 machines upgraded.

Theres also like 20 places across Victoria that has them, mainly Movie Theaters because they're the most popular "Let your kids drive for two bucks" games but also attract the people who need to maintain their titles, and if they didnt have 4 or 5, they more than likely had 3 or DX+

Shame Galactic Circus is gone (Supposedly), they literally JUST got Tekken 7.

They're not, but I'm surprised Cred Forums thinks of them so fondly. Not only are they the original source of microtransactions, they remain one of the absolute worst offenders even compared to today's games. There might be a few mobile games that jew players even harder than your average arcade, but it's probably a very short list.

Maybe it's acceptable if you only go occasionally to play games that aren't very feasible for home entertainment, like skeeball or something, but in general spending your money at the arcade is a pretty fucking bad idea.

How come everytime I see a pic of Japan I feel relaxed? I don't even like weeb culture like all of Cred Forums does and yet random pics of Japan makes me feel at peace.

arcades are dying in japan too you weeb

The organisation and infrastructure that runs the whole foreigners-teaching-English thing is actually a shitshow and you only hear about the occasional blog talking about the fun times they had with their lucky batch of students.

That job not only drills in the concept of you being a second class citizen but also how fucked you are as a teacher in the Japanese schooling system.

Because racism makes peaceful advanced countries

No, I meant playing an online game with multiplayer. Sure, they won't be in your house, but you can have those many people play together in games nowadays. I guess it's not really the same thing, though.

actually it's not bad

the only issue i really have there is that some of the older teachers that are in their fifties will give you a weird look

Consoles killed arcade games, PC gaming is fundamentally different.

>Fighting games ask for them every two rounds

I hope that this is a joke that is going over my head. Most fighters enable you to keep playing until you lose.

oh

I meant some kind of Horse raising and racing game, because I'm clueless on them

not having a military to fuck up china also helps

Winning Post 8 2016 is on PS4, PS3, PS Vita, and PC, but not outside of Japan. You would need a Japanese steam account to get it. I don't even think they show it in the foreign versions of the store.

I think Tekken Unlimited did something like that, but thats because you were playing online if you werent playing local.

Other than that its winner stays until the end of the arcade mode 12 fight bullshit

I agree with 4 out of the 5 things but is clubbing really some ideal social thing? Do people really like to go to a place where everything is overpriced, has some loud EDM, and is packed with rude people?

Figures it wouldn't have left japan.

What are the odds of us actually getting it? What company is it even made by?

consoles aren't cheap poster

you remember how much PC were back in the fucking day? not to mention even with PC, consoles have unique games that are still only available to them or you can't emu at all like Xbox.

fuck you, fuck you so god damn much because your wrong and you KNOW your wrong,

also, arcades in america died out not because of fucking PC, it was because consoles started giving us the arcade experience at home.

why spend all your quarters at the mall playing SF2 when the SNES version existed? sure it was with friends and fun, but sometimes you couldn't get there easy or at all. thanks consoles, for letting me play that shit at home when i couldn't GET to an arcade.

the difference between arcades and mobile gaming was that I grew up with arcades. I didn't grow up on mobile gaming.

>tfw most godly arcade in the country is only a couple miles from me

youtube.com/watch?v=BGNk2ohf-2E

>Tecmo Koei

Dammit! They usually release just about everything

Koei Tecmo. I don't think raising simulators like that are popular in the U.S., though. G1 Jockey and Gallop Racer, made before the companies merged, were both released outside of Japan, but I have no idea how well they sold.
except DoA Xtreme 3

Yeah but that's because SJWs ruin everything, that still has English Menus and subtitles so it's still import friendly.

Not sure about Winning Post though

It's really just two things:

1. Arcade owners doing a bad job with machine maintenance, updating to newer games, and poor management in general.

2. Lack of innovation. Machines in Japan now are far more innovative than anything we've ever had. They have machines where you can pick up your progress later. You can play things you never could on a console like a Gundam game with a cockpit and a screen that almost surrounds you. No one wants to play a standard cabinet game that you could be playing at home.

Just get rich and take frequent trips to japan, retard. Literally the best of both worlds.

I love going to this place, but I hate driving past chicago to get there

Nigga but the most popular gundam game is just a split screen game that uses a fight stick

Yep. I should've added bars too. Americans like to socialize, which is why they burn money every year on iphones.

How does it work if I have a child in Japan? Needed up with a jap girl I dated who was going to a catholic college in my area. Ended up getting her pregnant.

Bitch didn't tell me until after she had the child.

>arcade games
>released finished and with advanced mechanics
>only 25 cents
>can plan to play once per day around your commute to work
>can get at least 5 rounds of KoF on one credit

>mobile games
>usually are just shitty endless runners
>next to know worthwhile mechanics that make up a good game since no buttons
>need to apply for an exclusive credit card just to get certain characters (granblue fantasy)

>modern pc/console games
>need 30 dollars for a season pass
>need 60 dollars for each expansion
>need to pay 60 dollars upfront for each yearly rehash of CoD
>need to pay for online
>can't have spontaneous matches with strangers unless you have hobos living nearby
>Usually casual as fuck anyway with controls simplified for the ADHD children that by Xbones now.

Lived in China for a year and played KoF 97 pretty often. Playing on qq just wasn't the same. The experience of being the only white guy in the room and being surrounded by other players that really liked the game is something that I couldn't replicate in my apartment unless I just invited a bunch of them in for some reason, so even if it's not the best system, it still was worth it for that alone.

I was thinking of starting one but I would need a loan

>Just get rich
How the fuck do you do that?

>What localized games would you put in an american arcade these days anyway
Eh... good point, I can think of many that I like, but nowadays, the average American hates Japanese shit so much, every game would be labeled as "creepy" or "too weeaboo"
Or is Cred Forums not a good representation of how most Americans would really feel about games like, say, Mushihimesama?

>went to Catholic school
>had premarital sex

Brazil?

I'm playing Dead Rising for the first time now since my last console was a master system and It's a pretty arcadey game, very hard, unforgiving and you are always against the clock.

I could see that type of game on arcades

>only 25 cents
>implying modern arcade games are that cheap
>implying they're not designed to be hard as balls to suck as much money out of you as possible

No shut up you're shitposting. Arcades are literally perfect.

I ought to play that game more.

all the adults are working and no amount of nostalgia can force them otherwise

all the kids have free games on their phones, why would they spend money to play games when its free in their pockets

I'm sorry user. I'll just play a quick game of Time Crisis 5 for $1.50 per credit.

Come on, I never said that.
Aren't scrolling shooters still really cheap?

New York

I miss DDR machines so much. Not enough to drop $5,000 on one, but almost to the point where I want to build one from the ground up.

>Aren't scrolling shooters still really cheap?
Yes, though I haven't played any newer ones. I would assume they would still be cheap.

It's not hard.

Most of your time will be spent on figuring out how to get the electronics working depending on if you decide to build them from scratch or gut an existing pad, and then how much money you want to spend on the board itself.

e.g. you could go the softpad route, or if you're doing hardpads, how much money you want to spend on polycarbonate sheets

Honestly though, I think softpads might be good enough for you if you're playing under 6 feet levels of difficulty.

What you probably care more is having a bar to hold onto and/or enough cushioning to not piss off your neighbour if you're living in an apartment.

Because of stranger danger and gangs.

I've been consistent with 8 footers on softpads, but the biggest problem is the pad slipping out from under me on faster stuff/things with gallops. The bar really was nice to keep going when my legs starting turning into jelly after 40 minutes though, so I'm probably going to include it for those masochistic days anyways.

Then you probably want hardpads then.

Yeah, one of the things I liked about the machines was the fact that they stayed still so that no matter how much you kicked and flailed, it wouldn't move. Once you figure out how to hook up the hardpad plates to the sensors without the sensors getting shredded in a couple hours, you should be good to go for a long while.

The survival of arcade in Japan (read: in Tokyo) can be attributed to the way Japanese lives. Their mass transit system is good that you can go anywhere just by train and walking. Arcades are built near stations and busy pedestrian routes. You can stop by and play one or two matches while going home from school or work. This fosters a sense of community among arcade players.

Americans on the other hand, loathe both using trains and walking. Cars are how they do dick-measuring contest, they can't live without cars. When they go home from school or work, they ride cars straight to home. They never walk in front of an arcade and think, "oh, I will play awhile", no. When they play in mall arcades, they don't think of it as part of their daily life, not a community.

>They never walk in front of an arcade and think, "oh, I will play awhile", no.
The first thing that goes through their minds is "Fuck finding a place to park".

Which comes back to how the public transportation system in Japan makes it all the more viable there.

Are your arcade techs hired to not fix games? Everytime a button goes out on street fighter, they either smile and nod and never come back or they say they'll send someone over and never do.

Nice twisting of the facts to suit your opinion.

>only 25 cents
Every time you play.

>modern pc/console games are 60 dollars
Once, and then you can play as much as you want forever.

>you need to buy a new CoD rehash every year
kek, what

I get that people that grew up with arcades are going to have fond memories of them from back when they were kids and their parents gave them quarters for the machines, but it doesn't change the fact that paying $0.25 to play a game for a minute or two (often less, depending on the game) is inarguably a poor fucking deal.

It just seems like it's not, because a quarter here and there isn't that big of a deal. And that's exactly how microtransactions in every other game fucking catch people. "Oh, just a dollar here, a dollar there. Maybe a fiver today. It's not much money, no harm done."

You're as bad as the rest of them.

I went to one last Comiket, the Kancolle arcade was full of people waiting. Things like that just won't ever happen in America.

Will you give me a small loan of a million dollars?

I don't understand what you expect them to do.

Did people manage to fix buttons on the spot back in the day?

No, they fucking covered the broken controls or the whole machine until they got the replacement parts to fix it.

They're not going to break out the soldering kit and shit out another switch on the spot because you couldn't stop hammering the switches with a metal hammer. I hate the lazy apathetic owners who never fix shit as much as the next guy but there's only so much an employee can do for a machine they need manufacturers' parts for.

did Max Tune have the SVX? I used to use it in Max3.

youtube.com/watch?v=2xjdwwm8rEI

>select all images with cars

cabinets nowadays are usually going for $2,000-$5,000 depending on the condition of everything

truth be told,most cabinets are really only worth $500-$1,000 for both metal pads and maybe the monitor,even then you can always just get a JPAC and build a budget PC to run SM5 or oITG and download every song in the universe

currently building one at the moment and have spent $100 so far,going to be buying the pads from a local source if I stay the highest bidder,and the pads are the only thing left that I need

but the point is that you don't need to drop anywhere near 5 grand if you know what to look for

Disgusting, shame sega won't release a new Virtua Fighter or anything that's actually worth giving a fuck about.

The employees that walk the floor aren't trained to fix games; only mechanics are.

Chances are the mechanics that work at your nearest store are lazy assholes who exploit their position to play free games all day.

Because PC had basically surpassed them.

Consoles back then were to bring the Arcade to the house. Even if it was a little shittier.

But now there's no reason to go to an arcade, since PC's overpower them anyway. The most advanced "arcade" style game was this shitty terminator game. And it really looked like a Ps2 game.

NIGGA when you have to pay $0.50 for a side scrolling shooter you know the fact that you are being jewed out of a $0.05 per play game.

Just make your own.
I made a bartop arcade because it was more compact.
I know I sucked at putting it together but it works well.

Sadly a lot of people like that garbage.Japanese gamers can have the worst taste imaginable at times.

Im the poster. I was specifically talking about Street Fighter, even more specifically, a button. It's not hard to do, most of the time it just gets unplugged and just needs to be plugged in. Any moron can do it, most people do it on their home arcade sticks, they're just lazy niggers. Also, I used to work as an arcade tech from 2008-2011 and when something fucked up, we litterally went into the back and fixed whatever it was and if it was something we couldn't take back, we would whip out the tools right then and there, soldering iron and all and fix that shit. So yeah, they could do it, they're just lazy cunts.

Despite consoles still being a thing in Japan, a vast majority of Japs are not rich people, and cannot afford nice big houses with nice collections of games in them. In Japan, your home is for sleeping and eating. Nothing else.

When you want fun, you go out and you rent it from an arcade.

Western houses are huge, and a large part of the population has disposable income. They don't have to rent what they can instead buy, and keep in their own homes for private use.

There is just no need for arcades here.

>There's no reason for arcades when the PC exists.
I take it you haven't seen the Initial D cabs with a whole car?

>all these discussions about popularity
>nobody talks about completely rigged games that you'll never be able to beat unless you have already memorized every single aspect of it and by that time you have already spent countless of dollars worth of a full console game even more

arcade games are designed to drain your quarters.

What's next, games made to make publishers money?

Oh wait

Depends on which game. I remember being able to survive up to the 4th stage in The Punisher beat'em up with only one credit.

Yes but if microtransaction sales reports are any indication, people don't mind if they think it's convenient and fun.

After all the bad press about American arcades and their scummy practices, people don't think it's fun to have a guaranteed loss. Casinos still make money despite that because they manage to keep people entertained despite draining them of their money. Sure they use a bunch of tricks to bring out the worst in gambling addicts but you can easily do the same for gamers and the general public to keep them playing and having fun.

Personally, I think that America just has a lot of industries that have a vested interest in keeping people away from arcades so they spend quite a lot of money and effort into shaming people into thinking that gaming is wrong. e.g. professional sports leagues, booze, cars, etc. This isn't a conspiracy theory, it's just a lot of industries need the average household to spend money on their own TV subscription, their own consoles, their own cars, their own barbeque grills, etc. and anything resembling a bunch of people having fun without spending a shitton of money is treated like a danger that must be stamped out.

And since NA has a stronger presence in PC and console gaming, arcades and shit die with a whimper.

Arcade Master Race here.

The answer is REALLY complicated, but here's a few bullet points:

1. Tax hikes and rising property costs made it harder to run a business that by nature can only make incremental profits.

2. Console tech caught up with arcade tech.

3. The Atari Crash hurt the industry in general and it never fully recovered, though arcades weren't hurt nearly as much as consoles obviously, but at the same time they never had anything like the NES come along and revive them completely like the NES completely revived consoles.

4. CRIME. This is a HUGE reason. You might not have perceived this in your white suburb, but in the cities crime was so out of control in the 90s that arcade were flat out unsafe and kids couldn't go to them, so the arcade owners lost out on a ton of their potential revenue.

5. Arcade games got too complicated for the general public that just wanted to play stuff like Pac-Man, so the random people that used to wander into arcades after work and spend a quarter or two on some ultra-simplistic single-screen game stopped going to arcades altogether.

6. Arcade owners had ZERO technical knowledge of how the machines worked, so they couldn't repair them on their own. This meant either massive maintenance costs or, more often, broken machines. Either way it hurt the profits big time.

I go there from time to time, 15$ all day that shit is awesome (leave and come back)... I found it really weird that they had all those SNK Machines but none are Metal Slug (unless im very very blind).

its very tight like ass to ass grinding but shit yo, 15$ is awesome.

Man, wish i could afford to go to Nip land. I don't care if people ridicule me on being fat or a foreigner for a few days, it be all worth it just fucking around in an arcade. And probably safer without the mass amount of blacks.

I miss the arcade when I lived in California. It had tons of games and looked like fun... but I never had any money in California to justify a day out. Also, after a day at work, the last place I wanted to be was where my day job was.

It's experiencing a revival here in North Texas. In the course of less than a year 4 arcades have popped up in the area.

Asheville?

So like, what's it like out there in the midwest? This arcade looks pretty awesome, do you guys have retro game stores and shit too? How's rent?
What about Nickel City?

cause juden dont wanna spend a quarter to play for 7 minutes

Midwest is pretty comfy although unfortunately living in Illinois will cost you an arm and a leg.
I'd say it's better to go to Wisconsin or Indiana due to better cost of living and job opportunities, then you can drive into Illinois (which is one of the few states that still has toll roads because Illinois has the shittiest government next to California) and check out the shit from there.
I'm only living in Illinois now due to living at home still

Too late now, I moved to the middle of Kentucky.

On the plus side, I can afford things again. So I can play more vidya and collect more plastic wastes of money.

That sounds cool, thanks dude.

haven't been there in a while but I've loved every time I've been

>someone put this much effort into proving how pcs outted arcades

fucking lol, you people really have nothing better to do

Because who wants to go to an arcade and drop like $20 just to play for only an hour or so

I miss the old 5 cent arcade that used to be near my house... good times

But seriously, who wants to play a bunch of interactive video games for $20 per hour when even the worst fucking game in existence, CoD, will give you like 5 hours @ $60

If arcades were cheaper than they'd be a lot more popular. But charging like $1.00 or more just to play one "setting" is outrageous

it's dead everywhere

This always triggers pc gamers

>check website for locations
>they're building one outside of Atlanta

Adding this to list of reasons I'm moving to Atlanta in the coming months.

>No one here is old enough to remember sega channel