Thread 715973567

How can we make arcades popular again?

>>715973567 (OP)
with gaems

>>715973567 (OP)
They were never going to last in america. People put up with it back bc you had to go to play the best versions of games when consoles hadnt caught up, to play fighting games with strangers, when sitdown drivers and rhythm games were still a novelty.

But also the commercial viability of arcades is limited to dense population centers therefor cities therefore its high crime and nasty, parents want to tale kids to arcades.

But... if you wanted to try to bring em back, put the machines in retro game stores. People like buying retro games rn and those sorts of people will play games. Dont put them in bars, where theyll just get neglected and rot, normie bar fags dont actually play they just like the vibe and the memories.

>>715974286
Yeah arcades are like movie theaters. Something that has been technologically obsolete for years now but is still around because of cultural relevance.

Like malls they've kind of outlived their usefulness in the general populace since nowadays you can find everything online.

I don't care about women

>>715973567 (OP)
The tactic right now is to leverage pinball in order to support actual cabinets. I've seen a lot of arcades and barcades alike that have been able to work this way, and it's allowed them to survive in all kinds of locations
>>715974286
>is limited to dense population centers therefor cities therefore its high crime and nasty
Not necessarily. Cities with populations around 30-40k are large enough to support such things without being crime-ridden

>>715973567 (OP)
I didn't know that a wedgie was considered fashion.

>>715974619
Arcades still make sense, fg locals on console are pathetic in comparison. Sit down driver cabs are way cooler than just holding a dualshock or a little wheel peripheral, and linked set ups let you race strangers irl. Rhythm cabinets can get really wacky and do all sorts of shit thatd be impractical for consoles. You can confine the game design to the limitations of a dualshock, but even then its just not the same.

Theres still a lot of reasons to play in arcade aside from "the tech used to be better but consoles caught up"

I actually wonder if arcades couldve survived in america if theyd put cabs in gamestops and shit like that.

Arcades are still pretty popular where I am.

You ever notice how these big modern FECs have like a 1, 2 punch thing going on?

Like one local operation or chain buys it, too many niggers break everything, they go put of business. Then like 6 months later some other chain or owner is in there like "hey I know how to handle this" and then after the niggers break the urinals off the wall a couple times they close too.

Gameworks, to Tilt, to dead.

Round 1, to Dave and Busters, to dead, etc.

Invent a magical rewind time to when I was a kid and make it stay that way forever machine.

>>715975139
Niggers really go: nahhh i dont want to play games i want to vandalize this shiet, repuhrayshuns yea cuhhhh finna *smears shit swatiska on walls sets arcade on fire*

Is this for real can anyone verify this

never ending coombait has absolutely destroyed my energy systems
i literally feel like a walking corpse because of the dopamine frizzle

>>715974286
I don't think we necessarily need to be looking to the past all the time. It seems every discussion about arcades is relegated to jerking off that one time at Chuck E Cheese when you were 10 and quarter fed through some shitty Konami beat em up.

Arcade games are still being made. Namco just shipped Goldstorm Pirates and Resident Evil Dead Shot is on location test for example.

>>715975458
Mindlessly destroying everything is the way of Lord Moloch, the insane demon god who hates everything good.

>>715975705
Im not asking for midway and atari woody cabinet stuff, i want japanese games imported and real games to be developed in america not just rawthrills slop and mobile ports and redemption slop

But if i can just get nesica / fighting game cabs like, in most major cities and get matches there instead of doing this sovlless online bs i will be content.

>>715975978
Blame Jewnami and Sega for holding back on licensing more shit to arcades in the States.

>>715974619
that's a fun idea, just have games have like 3 months of arcade exclusivity, people would have to make good games though

>>715973567 (OP)
There seems to be more arcades now than I can ever remember even in the 80s, however, they are all filled with redemption games. They may or may not have cabinets and pinball machines. Retro arcades with and without alcohol don’t seem to last very long but I’ve still got some around me.

the downtown arcade near me is constantly packed to the brim every friday night. it is technically a barcade so it has to have the normalfag magnets like raw thrills to play with their hinge date, but it's still far superior to the shitty chaincades like dnb and round 1. i stick to the fighting games and brush up on my cvs2 team.

>>715975139
>>715975458
Yeah which us why there was a big arcade culture in latin america, because you guys think they are civilized.

>>715973567 (OP)
That looks painful, just constant fabric digging into your crotch

>>715977696
I was only asking a question, i did not assert that this was infact the case. My apologies, nog

>>715975608
It's unfortunate that an image takes 0.001 watts of energy to reproduce 10,000 copies, but a lovely lady needs food and water and fresh air and farmland and clothes and makeup and

>>715977471
>barcade superior to dnb
Sure
>superior to r1
Hell nah dude fuck off lmao

>>715973567 (OP)
Make them pay by card, not coin.

>>715978096
the round 1 near me is just claw machines and casual/ticket slop. the only redeeming quality is the large amount of rhythm games but i don't play those.

>>715978640
Alr *your* round 1 blows ass. Mine has fighters still.

>>715973567 (OP)
i went to my first "nerd bar" or whatever yesterday in my city

place had like 5 tables with people playing tcg's or some tabeltop shit, the "bar" was more like a snack bar no alcohol which is wierd cuz i thought d+d and booze is like the ultimate combination but whatever, they sold yugioh and one peice cards and other little games to take home and the corner of the place had some arcade machines

yeah those sucked ass the controls were wierd, the cabinets were obvious set dressing with just a rasp-pi running it on the inside and they had like 5 total games or something.

the only thing worth playing was like Mrs Pac man (why not normal pac man idek)

so yeah arcades are kinda dead cuz nerds do not know how to run them. They wont comeback unless someone has a genuinely good idea for one but the demand doesnt seem to be there in my city.

shame cuz as a gamer / nerd id love to meet likeminded people but a few landwhales sitting in what looks like a cafeteria with some pathfinder maps isnt my idea of bringing back arcades / nerd spaces.


someone should just invent a gamer themed nightclub so that the women drive the footfall needed to bring in people

>>715974286
Arcades in local game stores would be cool, thats actually a good idea.

>>715978902
it's a smaller round 1 that just opened this year, no bowling or anything like that, just an arcade. it has bad reviews online and nobody likes it, idk why they fucked it up so bad with the game selection but it makes dnb look good.

>>715979105
One in my area has a few games. Gauntlet Dark Legacy (or its predecessor, I forget), Time Crisis 2, Metal Slug, Soul Calibur 2

>>715979045
Anon are you sure you didn't go to a card shop that also just sold food?

>>715973567 (OP)
Move to Japan. It's still as big as they were.
>in america
I'm not sure it's even possible to do that. You'd need to bring back the mall mentality in the US for that and I'm unsure it's doable at all now with the interconnected nature of the world via the internet and social media.
Arcades were (and in JP still are to a degree) the gathering places. Leaderboards were social media. Now with actual social media, I don't think people want to go out and experience it in person.
It's not impossible, malls became a reality so maybe if a new AI tech makes the internet an uninhabitable place people will go out again as much as they did before.
Also Pokemon Go moved people to such a RIDICULOUS degree that I can't even describe with words how physically motion-full the summer of 2016 was again. So it's definitely possible but extremely unlikely.

Bring back Dance Dance Revolution.

>>715975109
I'm assuming you either live in japan or somewhere in east or south east asia

Stick arcade games in libraries and charge a nominal fee for 30 minutes of use. People will come.

/v/irgins are too socially awkward to know arcades exist in abundance on boardwalks by the beach. >>715973567 (OP) pic related is literally the norm.

Control methods that can't be easily replicated for the home.

There's no value in arcades when you can play multiplayer games either for free or own them for $60. Unless the arcade model goes back to 25 cents a game instead of the Jewish MULTIPLE DOLLARS for a try they do nowadays

Arcades have atmosphere, man. That’s what it is. That and being able to feel absorbed in a cabinet with the TV set deep into it, the tactile sensation of the buttons and joystick feeling different than a controller. I’m 33 so I caught like the very tail end of the second arcade revival in the US, places like Pizza Hut and the mall. It bums me out cause there isn’t anything that really feels like a good scene near where I’m at. Gotta keep looking.

>>715973567 (OP)
>don't let niggers or brown people in
>make games cheaper to play
>beat the shit out of people who destroy machines

One can only dream.

>>715980834
Naw, a lot of arcades that I use to go to closed right before COVID or during the pandemic. Late 2010's was rough for them.

>>715980025
the "bar" was bigger in floor space than the merch isle so i doubt that, i know what to expect in a store

>>715981389
Covid killed the one in my town

>>715981384
>>715977696

>>715977984
The seething was clear, asking a question at the end does not make you look better.

>>715981095
>"own" the game
Dude anything other than the cab is copium. You dont have the game, you have the (insert console) version of the game. Also like i said here: >>715975108
Really cannot be understated how much fighting games online suck compared to playing them in arcades with people it isnt a replicatable experience

>>715982798
Its 4chan, i was being edgy, i dont really hate niggers. We uh, we cool g?

>>715974929
That's an interesting take because pinball is way more expensive and a bigger pain to properly maintain than other arcade cabs. I guess the pinheads must be enough to cover those costs and then some.

>>715980657
Arcades are popular in the US, they’re just full of redemption games. Every hotel or resort has an arcade, sometimes a giant one. Bowling alleys have them. Round 1 is popular, Chuck e Cheese is still around and is making stand alone arcades. There are retro and barcades that never used to be a thing. Bars have arcade games. Amusement parks have arcades. Etc. They’re just mostly redemption games and claw machines. Traditional arcade games are scarce. The racing games are popular because you can race each other but the stand alone cabinets don’t make any money. When you see a retro cabinet changes see it’s been modified with a 50-in-1

>>715973567 (OP)
You can't. The marching of time and technology irreversibly killed them the same way malls, movie theatres, and skateboarding is dead.

>>715979045
>the "bar" was more like a snack bar no alcohol
That's odd. Every barcade I've ever been to has tons of alcohol and it's like the main selling point.

>>715979045
Sex with Shiver.

>>715983605
Anon... Those things are still very much alive
If you never leave the house just say so

>>715983339
>I guess the pinheads must be enough to cover those costs and then some
mmhm

I go to these locations often, and no matter WHAT, there's always a ton of people playing pinball. It really strikes a chord with the 40-50+ crowd, and it's bolstered quite a bit by weekly and monthly play nights. Most of the time, if they have ANY form of event schedule, it is almost always focused entirely on pinball. Hell, even beyond arcades: I go to the local bowling alley each week, and while Gen Z is actually hitting the lanes, you get all the 50 year old Gen Xers being loud and drunk in the back obsessing over the few pinball machines they've got.

I dunno what it is, but Pinball has really been making a comeback these past couple years, and it makes a lot of money.

>>715984203
Not him but it's true. Kids don't even go out and play in the street anymore. I've seen multiple "did 80/90s kid really stay out unsupervised until dark" questions, because that just does not happen anymore.

>>715984203
It is still rough. You need the right place and luck.

>>715973567 (OP)
you can't make them worthwhile because home gaming is so cheap and good. You would need to make them practically free or much higher quality/complexity.

>>715984203
retard

>>715984203
Can't speak for the others, but malls are definitely dead. Where I grew up there used to be a mall in every neighbourhood, but now they're all dead and each city only has like 1 (or 2 if they're big) super malls.

>>715973567 (OP)
Streamers are like arcades now, you can watch other people playing games, it's just way more one-sided.

>>715973567 (OP)
It's just straight up uneconomical when your competition is
>free short video app on your phone
>free Youtube on your phone
>free Fortnite that plays on literally anything
>constant deluge of easily accessible free entertainment
>physical space you have to go somewhere and spend money per play

Kids don't have their own social spaces so they went online.
Arcades' sole advantage in the 80s and 90s was being better than consoles, and that technological advantage rapidly evaporated by 5th gen.

>>715973567 (OP)
>How can we make arcades popular again?
Put more arcades in the tortillerias and outside of the oxxos though...

>>715980142
The fuck are you on about? DDR is still alive.

You just need to live near a Round 1.

Play IIDX

>>715974867
so you’re a gay?

arcade + breeding mount
>pay for entry
>get your fresh fleshlight
>find an arcade with a sex game
>slap in your fleshlight
>play and fuck

>>715985491
I hate women so much it's unreal

>>715979045
alcohol + expensive cabinets/books/tabletop shit sounds like a recipe for disaster. Little kids destroy cabinets and pinball with their sticky fucking fingers already you want a bunch of sweaty nerds to get plastered on IPAs and then get their grubby mitts all over your arcade?

>>715985491
Glad I'm not the only one with the "erotic_arcade_machine" fetish. In all seriousness we need an American company making fleshlight video game controllers first, only one I can find on the market is chinkshit from taiwan.