>>12005906
>Do you really think making Ridge Racer Full Scale and selling it to arcades for 100k a pop and designing it bespoke for each space it was installed on was profitable and sustainable for either party???

Believe it or not...It actually was profitable. The arcade industry was big enough and popular enough in the early 1990s that selling something like Ridge Racer Full Scale was viable. It earned Namco a nice profit. The 1980s to mid 1990s was the Golden Age of arcades.

I saw this posted in an earlier thread.

Can I play it?

Is there really no other machine left?

I don't mean in Europe but what about America or Japan?

One anon said 50 of them were made in the 90s. Surely at least 1 of them is in storage somewhere?

>>23357793
>But when my family moved homes, a lot of my older projects were thrown away. Looking back I wish I took a photo. But it was the early 2000s it didn't occur to me. We also only had film cameras back then and used them only for special occasions.
It really bothers me that all the cool gadgets and technology happened in the 90s and 2000s before we all carried cameras. Now that we have cameras, all the cool stuff is long gone. Why?