Thread 723168638

Why did Arcade gaming collapse in the West and thrive in Japan

>>723168638 (OP)
Wages went up here, but not in Japan. Average businessman cuck in Japan dedicates their life to the company, and usually lives out of the office, and then they either go to a PC bang or the arcade to "have fun" for their company mandated 2 hour per week break.

niggas destroy arcades. a few retro halls gave up over the last 2 decades because african kids kept obliterating all the machines.

>>723168638 (OP)
Bro arcades have been dead in Japan for decades.

>>723168638 (OP)
They cant keep up with the upkeep
Acades do not bring in alot of money, its just better to go full on casino

>>723168638 (OP)
It's also collapsing in Japan

>>723168638 (OP)
Do you have more pics like this

>>723168638 (OP)
It's collapsing in Japan as well albeit slower. A lot of smaller game centers are dead while the larger ones are mostly just claw machines now

>>723169121
Queue the footage of a nigger breaking into one of these only to realize there's no money in it so he chimps out even further.

>>723168638 (OP)
Purely economic factors

covid obliterated arcades in japan too.

>>723168638 (OP)
Tons of weeb rhytm game that make tons of noise which isnt wanted at home because they dont want to bother anybody else. That and other gimmick games

The cost of owning a home console in America came down which made driving the kids to the arcades a bigger hassle.

>>723168638 (OP)
-Poor upkeep making people not want to touch those unsanitary things that probably have broken buttons
-Arcades were getting too expensive and home consoles were getting cheaper and more accessible
-The West saw a sharp decline in outings as people don't go to the locations you'd typically find arcades cabinets in anymore, like malls, bars and theaters
-Online play replaced any need for physical social gatherings

>>723169025
This happened to my Round 1. The entire bathroom had to be redone twice. One day I walked in to take a piss and I heard *splash* and realized I was standing in water. The whole thing had flooded. Faucets and urinals ripped clean off.

I saw one gorilla righy in front of me fucking yank off the Time Crisis 5 gun I didn't even know that was possible.

They closed of course.

>>723168638 (OP)
Other than the large gimicky arcade games people can play everything as home.

>>723168638 (OP)
The 1990s were a booming time thanks to the invention of fighting games like Street Fighter, but the spread of the internet meant people no longer needed to make the trip to arcades.
Nowadays, it's mostly UFO catchers or medal games.

>>723168638 (OP)
Liberals, niggers and commie whites kept shooting up the place. They may come back when the commie blacks and whites get exterminated and traditional values make a massive return.

>>723168638 (OP)
because the west wore down arcades and battered them to shit then + doing cab conversions for new games until the cabs were so fucked they chucked em into the dump.
seriously. the fact that you can't find a Soul Calibur/Soul edge cab almost anywhere in the west and the documentation about them are so fucking piss poor, is sad.
If you were to find a SC cab here in the west it'll most likely be a mutt cab conversion. almost 0 chance of it being in a native Big Black Namco Cab.
so to answer your question, because the owner of Arcade Cabinets treated cabs like toys/gimmicks and threw em away after a year or two of use. that and poor conditioning

>>723169703
I live in NL. I tried to go to the Arcade Hotel in Amsterdam (why did i do that) with someone and as soon as i walked in it was just browns. I vividly remember 2 kids crawling over a machine like ants, seething, screaming, giving that machine the absolute beatdown of a lifetime (this happened every time they lose after 6 seconds). Buttons, sticks, metal scrap and screws galore, flying all over the place.
When i inquired the owner it was just.
''haha that happens sometimes, but half the machines still work!''
To compensate they make extra bucks now by openly BBQ'ing at the front door for a high price, kek.
It's self defeatist cuckshit. Don't give monsters rights.

>>723168638 (OP)
Diversity killed the malls and all other public spaces in the West

>>723168638 (OP)
Arcades in japan are just as dead, and only really survive in the most dense nerd mecca neighbourhoods.

>>723168638 (OP)
I dunno about you, but I'd love to hang out with a bunch of nips playing videogames.
Unfortunately that is not the demographics you'll find at any public place in the west that doesn't have an entrance fee.

>>723170441
Start making my race pay for it if they break it acting like monkeys. If they refuse and get violent, lock them up and make them do inhumane hard labor that would break their bones, if their bones break, don't help them as punishment until they learn humility. Also bring back the death penalty, and I don't mean the needle, bring back the chair and lynching.

>>723168638 (OP)
consoles caught up and the fabric of society unraveled

>>723169413
mobile gacha also played a part. Only ufo machines and pachislot make money there

>>723168638 (OP)
>Arcades thrive in Japan

>>723168638 (OP)
>School girl in sailor outfit, panties, arcade games.

wtf happened to japan? all they had to do was keep cranking this shit out

>>723168638 (OP)
I don't know if it was just a bad pick, but somehow the R1 near me in the states was 10x better than the R1 I went to in Japan

>I work in on of the last few arcades in the states.
>Only got the job because i casually mentioned the sf3 machine and I beat him.

>Lots of people come to play the games
>See kids challenging other kids in games and becoming friends
>See teens walking around and just testing random games while talking
>See adults reminiscing about back then looking at a game from long ago and smiling


Man arcades were more than just games, they were a social hub.

>>723169394
Please tell me this video actually exists.

The /pol/fags here will say "le niggers lmao" but the real reason is that third spaces (with the first two spaces being home and work) in general are dying off in the US.
Not helped by the fact that home consoles surpassed arcade hardware in the early 2000s and the gap just kept getting larger and larger. Most modern arcade games are literally just a phone game but on a large screen, or a rigged redemption game, or a modernized version of a retro arcade game. There's very little innovation and most games are just designed to maximize profit for minimal effort.

>>723168638 (OP)
gross dude i can almost see her asshole!!!!!!!!!!!! gross!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

A rhythm arcade opened recently near me and I've been going several times a week to play nostalgia.

>>723172049
>They're just like us! We're all the same color on the inside!
Shouldn't you be in school?

>>723168638 (OP)
this gremlin is a granny by now

>>723172049
>third spaces (with the first two spaces being home and work) in general are dying off in the US.
And why is that?
No racist answers please.

>>723168638 (OP)
>real life pantyshot is as hot as anime pantyshot
Wtf

>>723169526
the cost of luxuries has gone down proportionally, but the cost of literally everything else has gone way the fuck up way faster than luxury good prices have lowered.

its cheaper now to buy a base playstation 4 than it was to buy an original playstation sure, but rent back in 2000 was like 15% the price it is now, even adjusted for inflation

a 1 bedroom apartment in sacramento CA in 2001 was fucking 480$. modern car prices have ballooned out of the stratosphere with 84 month loans for tens of thousands of dollars if you arent buying second hand. If you are buying second hand, expect the same kind of highway robbery prices for piece of shit cars you need to put the same value you bought it at into repairs for it

>"it was more expensive back then"
doesnt fly when everybody everywhere is struggling financially more than any other time in the last 200 years

>>723168638 (OP)
Arcades have been dying a slow death since the 80s, and covid was the final nail in the coffin.
It's also worth noting nobody under the age of 20 even goes outside anymore.

The cost of living now is literally higher than it was during the Great Depression.

>>723172049
>Most modern arcade games are literally just a phone game but on a large scree
I felt pretty grossed out going into a fancier movie theater and pretty much all the arcade machines were this
I haven't seen a single pinball machine in a movie theater arcade in well over a decade, they used to all carry one near here. One I went to the most had one themed off some Frankenstein movie, it was fun.

oh, and you had to swipe a credit card for currency to play anything. No dollar bill machines, no quarters, just lmfao

>>723168638 (OP)
Just make the arcades membership only ( cheap, higher tiers get access to cooler shit), and sell concessions at a moderate price, with discounts for higher tier members.
Then, you have complete control of who can enter the premises, can evict niggers over the slightest property damage, and build up a relatively safe place for kids and teens in the community.

>>723168638 (OP)
Does her ass stink?

>>723169083
Yeah, I don't think OP realizes modern Japanese "arcades" are 95% gacha machines.

>>723169237
Sorry I'm a console gamer.

>>723172698
Is there a way to make things affordable and, at the same time, scare away Bluetooth speaker owners?

>>723168638 (OP)
PANTSUUUUUUUU

>>723172049
Polfags are somewhat correct in that the places arcades could’ve pivoted toward, like sims and VR and games with big props (machine guns for example) that people generally don’t have space or money to put in their own home, are almost immediately destroyed by the first pack of feral brownskins. It’s the same reason playgrounds are so terrible now - everything is heavy plastic because they will just destroy it otherwise.

>>723172408
it’s expensive, why go to a movie theatre and pay $50+ for 1 movie and popcorn when you can watch it at home

>>723172940
make playstation great again

>>723172408
Not that anon, but its a number of things but mostly its a combination of social and especially economic conditions. People are working harder and getting less and less, late stage capitalism has turned nearly everything into the shittiest possible form that is acceptable if a handful of people can profit from it. People are struggling financially and are damned exhausted; they're not going to go to a "third place" because either they're too damn tired or its a poor use of their money for the most place. Socially there's a lot of other stuff going on but people are more insular than ever - even post /pol/ tourist 4chan is still way more exposed to others online than most who stay to their little boxes of social media where everyone is bubbled to think like them, nobody rocks the boat because its too socially costly since there's little to no privacy, while corpos mine all those interactions and show them back to you.

So while some practical things like
>Arcade experiences are no longer massively different, cheap, and accessible compared to home console or PC ones
are part of the issue with arcade specifically, a lot of it has to do with larger societal trends and its only getting worse.

>>723172937
Newfags unironically believe arcades are alive in Japan literally right now.

>>723173183
Was there just last month. Arcades are always busy.

>>723173138
>People are working harder and getting less and less
this is a complaint as old as societiy and i believe it to be utter bullshit

I can see her pantsu...

>>723172951
Uhhhh, no clue. My racism levels aren't high enough to figure that conundrum out

Whenever I see an image of a girl's ass I always let out a nasty fart and pretend the smell is the girl's as I huff as much as I can
Does anyone else?

>>723173068
Its also less convenient, same reason why malls are dead. Why would you go to the mall when amazon has the same shit for cheaper?

>>723168638 (OP)
BRAAAAAAAP

>>723173268
Bro, if you earned, say, $15/hour last year, and earn $15.10/hour this year, your purchasing power has gone down as a result of the massive compounding inflation going on. You're technically earning more money, but that money is now worth less by a much greater amount. You are actually loosing worth every minute.

>>723173567
>eating chips with chopsticks
progamer move. also works with cheetos

>>723173669
nice pits

>>723173282
KYYYYAAAA STOP LOOKING, ELF POSTER-SAMA

>>723168638 (OP)
Arcades failed to top Time Crisis.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y-BYNsmOqlA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DDT_4nqJRSA

>>723173567
code?

>>723168638 (OP)
The only reason arcades "lived" in Japan is because gacha games, crane games, and ufo catchers subsibsed their business and the traditional arcade games got to keep their own little corner on the 5th floor

This didn't happen in the west because generally speaking we do not like plastic junk and plushie slop as much as the japs do

>>723172940
I would fuck her until I cum if you know what I mean hehehe

>>723173268

You know anons like >>723172671 have already listed shit? This isn't just based on feels, there's data to show that ever since the 80s real purchasing power alongside wages have been less and less.
>but but it happened in the past
and you know what else is as old? Convincing rubes that suffering for corporate profit is a good thing because they're big strong independent people who don't need nothing. Its FREE and causes people to put the shackles on themselves - that sort of ideology is a dream to those fiscally in charge exploiting the fuck out of you. Its
>We'll give you a 'promotion' with a fancy title, way more responsibility, and no more pay. However, when you fuck up we'll also have reason to fire you for cause!
writ large, while also telling you're better than the niggers so you can't wait to tell them you'll just work harder because you're not a lazy taker...while they take what you make and laugh all the way to the bank.

The only reason that things that are 'normal' now like a lack of child labor, schooling availability, 8 hour workdays and weekends off exist is because some people banded together and fought the same gilded age elites that claimed you were all lazy niggers for not wanting to go down into the coal mine for 12 hours to be paid in company script. Do you think that the (now corporate) monied elite just gave up? Of course not, they are crying about the same thing, throwing you the scraps and laughing all the way to the bank. So are you going to be distracted by /pol/yps and dangling trannies like jingling keys so they can get you to oppress yourself for their profit, or are you going to do something about it?

>>723173669
Japan doesn't fuck around when it comes to filming and contracts, did they close down an arcade for an entire day and hired a bunch of nerd extras?

>>723174013
i ain't reading your fanfiction, bro.

>>723172940
widescreen crt, japanese panties

fuck bros, idve died happy right there

>>723173242
>please ignore sega closing their biggest arcade after covid! it's totally alive!!

>>723174232
Sega is shit.

>>723173669
CODE

>>723174132
He's saying you're a rube that's being played by the elites in a fake culture war and that there's statistical evidence that we make less for more.

>>723168638 (OP)
Satanic panic and war on drugs.

>>723173669
>>723173567
Someone brave needs to step up and fix these low birth rates.

>>723172940
See that TV emulation bros. you see how you cant see any fucking scan lines? No taking away half the lines on the screen and making it darker wasnt how games looked on crt

>>723168638 (OP)
The majority of US citizens live in suburban sprawl, and it turns out that having to drive everywhere kind of sucks.

>>723174132
Concession accepted. For people so worried about being cucked, its laughably ironic you're willing to put up with whatever fatcat shitting in your mouth so long as they tell you the lazy niggers or trannies or whatever you've been programmed to react to, have to smell it and that you're the bestest most independent boy ever doing SUCH a good job of slurping it down.

>>723174041
That or they just built a fake set

>>723174013
It's always funny when leftoids show up here to insist that everything going to shit over the past decade and a half while they had near total control of our institutions and culture is actually just that nasty heckin capitalismino.

>>723174232
that's because oldfag managers didn't know how to run it, after they shitcanned them they immediately were profitable again

>>723173669
Code?

>>723174535
YWNBAW

>>723168638 (OP)
>Why did Arcade gaming collapse in the West and thrive in Japan
It's not doing so hot in Japan either. BUT, the reason it collapsed sooner in the US, is blacks and browns destroying the machines, stealing from the arcades, and making malls a not safe third place. and a side of boomers doing everything they can to destroy the country before they die.

Just drove past one of the major retirement community in my area (gated and guarded community btw) and the boomers were holding up signs on the side of the road, some about "don't deport them" and "all vaccines are safe"

I need more pictures of cute girls with arcade cabinents.

>>723168638 (OP)
is there a word for the fetish of women wearing skintight underwear that adheres to their body?
if so tell me.
my dick demands it.

>>723172049
But /pol/ is right on this one. Shitskins destroy everything in their sight, it's their underdeveloped third world brain that is incapable of normal interactions.

>>723172049
Anon, these people dont want an actual answer. They just want to be stupid and evil. They truly dont care.

>>723174889
I believe it's called "heterosexuality"

>>723172408
People have gotten less social (offline) and online gaming became much more accessible. In nordics there really never was huge arcade culture to begin with because we had PCs and good internet very early on. In Japan it's basically relic of the past, during covid a ton of arcades shut down because the local boomers stopped going there. Japan also always had bigger console/arcade culture compared to PCs so they lived on for longer. But fact is even Japanese kids don't sit in arcades anymore, it's mostly salarymen.

>>723172049
>third spaces (with the first two spaces being home and work) in general are dying off in the US.
This is one of the reasons why I want to leave this country. There just aren't many communities left where I live that I care to participate in. All that we have left are bars.

>>723174446
You're a fucking retard, zoomer.

>>723172548
First of all, you're talking about the past 25 years. OP's topic is about the years between the 1970s and 2000, during the transition between arcade-centered gaming industry to a console-centered gaming industry. In this period, the rise in the cost of things like housing, education, healthcare were still manageable.

Second of all, you're only talking about first world problems. Over the past 25 years, billions of people have been lifted out of poverty thanks to globalization and the developed world outsourcing so many jobs to third-world countries and importing so many immigrants from them as well. Overall, things have never been better for all of humanity.

And in the first world, people have adjusted. The first-world poor, despite staying poor, now have cheap access to internet, smartphones and F2P video games. Even on console and PC, F2P dominate. The availability of video games has never been broader as the biggest and most popular games can be played entirely for free. So, despite many in the first world becoming relatively poorer over the past 25 years, video games have become far more accessible to them.

>>723174973
The actual answer is both things are true, but one is more funny

>>723172049
Both things can be right.
Arcades are dead due to the myriad reasons posted here as well as the DK crew destroying everything.

>>723168638 (OP)
Yummy

>>723174232
>lets ignore how they are modernized to attract younger people
ok retard, you might not like it but the crane is the crane.

>>723173669
I still remember the anon that called out the machine running SF2Rainbow instead of a real copy. Rent free

>>723174013
Japanese have a significantly worse work culture than the west, and yet their arcades are doing better, which is the topic of this thread. It's almost as if having a high trust society matters and culture war shit like inviting half the third world to live in your country has consequences.

>>723175176
F2P and gacha are predominantly brown and yellow pastimes.

>>723175176
poor vr :(

>>723175503
Maybe since no one has cars they have to be slaves to bus and train schedules so the arcade next door is the perfect place to kill some time

>>723170960
Will never happen.
Right wing whites want us dead or gone no matter what, and left wing whites want us protected and coddled no matter what.
Either way you're treated like the lowest of niggers even if you don't act like one.

Shit sucks man, I just want to play some MvC2 on a working cabinet with randoms.

>>723174232
Ok great. Doesn't change the fact that anywhere there is a mall there is an arcade and anywhere there is an arcade there are people there playing games.

>>723175629
yea

>>723174416
Good morning sir, just in time since Japan has invited me to go into their country. Can't wait to meet cute japanese girls and marry them as soon as I can.

It would be so cool if women really existed.

>>723168638 (OP)
Unironically walkable cities. If you wanna dump some quarters anywhere in America (except maybe NYC), you have to get in your car (or worse, parents' car) and go somewhere, but in Japan? A little arcade with claw machines, DDR and maybe Wangan is right around the corner from where you work (or study, regardless of age), might as well stop by for a round while you're waiting for the train. Have some time to kill on weekend? Regardless of where in Tokyo you are, Akihabara is 30 minutes away by train.

>>723175503
>high trust society
It has nothing to do with that. Their arcades have also seen a major downturn, but between as the other anon have said a predetermined existing arcade presence lasting far longer than in most parts of the US (ie near the train stations and other places near your work there's an arcade etc) but as others have pointed out, what is keeping many of them going now isn't the big giant gundam pod games, sit down cabs, bemani with big inputs like DDR, but the UFO catchers and apparently fuckloads of gatcha games you'd play on a phone but on arcade size screens. Its kind of like even Dave and Busters in the US, one of the few 'big barcade chains' that USED to have real game are now all big phone games, old VIVE headset rides, and RAW THRILLS branded garbage.

>>723175176
>Second of all, you're only talking about first world problems.
Yes, that's the topic of the discussion. We are not talking about arcade centres in India.

>>723175804
phone games are video games

>>723175707
Wow, brainwashed. The truth is the left or the right doesn't give a fuck about you. Everyone on Earth just wants you to stop acting like fucking retards.

>>723175921
>low trust society
>walkable cities
lol? LOL!

>>723170769
someone explain this tweet pls

>>723176019
Walkable city creates opportunities, so people are less likely to become untrustworthy and more likely to find some odd jobs to pay the bills.

>>723175921
You know that there was a time when every little restaurant, bowling hour, grocery store, laudromat etc had at least a couple of arcade games in the US, right? They were rarely the newest or best compared to 'proper' arcades in the 80s and 90s, but I remember going to a pizzeria and there was a Kid Nikki Radical Ninja cab next to an RType, and a few years later a different mom and pop italian restaurant had a Street Fighter II Championship Edition cab.

The cars were less of an issue even in somewhat suburban areas because someplace you'd go by car anyway had some arcade machines or an actual arcade stand alone if it was a mall, movie theater, or if you got really lucky a massive activity center thing (ie a really big arcade that often had a skating rink, laser tag, and other stuff along with a fuckton of games)

>>723174324
>>723174642
just spent 5 mins looking, looks like she didn't do any JAV, just some non-nude softcore teasing

name is iiniku ushijima

>>723174232
This is redditor level parroting in order to seem educated about Japan from someone who's clearly never even left the US.
The arcade in Nakano Broadway is packed and fully staffed.

>>723175956
>stop acting like fucking retards
>no matter what
I've been followed in stores despite having a clean criminal record, and I have been complimented on my eloquence because I speak basic fucking English.
Most people will leave well enough alone unless you behave animalistic, but those who don't are those you remember because they fuck up your day.
I'm not weeping about it, but it does suck and any black with triple digit iq understands it. However rare you believe we are.

Since we're talking arcades, I'm going to suggest

>Abathor
as its an indie, 4 player co-op, Not-Hyborian/Atlantian setting platformer that feels like the kind of thing one could have found in an arcade back in the day. It does a couple of things very well, and even has a
>Beat the game on the harder of the two starting modes, you unlock the hard mode which has an extra level set and different endings as well as new enemies and boss patterns
thing which is kind of neat.

>>723176404
I get it but believe me when I say the world is sick of hearing about this problem like everyone else is supposed to fix it. It's your culture whether it sucks or not you have to fix it.

>>723173073
playstation was never great
it was just a placeholder until Xbox came along and raped playstation and then later killed itself because western man can't have things no more

>>723169526
In past dollar also had much more buying power in general plus majority of families didn't have to worry about finances when you could earn enough for single-family home from the office job you got by walking in and asking for a job.

>>723168638 (OP)
might be
Yuka Kuramochi

>>723168638 (OP)
>Home consoles exists
>Smartphones exists
>It's hard for people to reach arcades without a car(meaning kids won't go there(meaning it doesn't become a "cultural" thing for them))
>People don't have money
>Corona made majority of gathering places quite a cough centrals....
>...And expressions such as "3rd place", that arcades are included in, are considered a political thing
And biggest of all
>People can socialize and play vidya with almost anyone just on their PC/Console/Smartphone

>>723168638 (OP)
1983 tech bubble crash.

>>723176879
>It's your culture
No it isn't. It is just assigned to me due to race.
I have nothing in common with urbanites who ruin arcades because they're bored.
Whether they're blacks pounding the machine because they lost, or whites putting gum in the coin slot because they don't like the game.
The world may be sick of hearing it, but they're sick of hearing about me not wanting box faced trannies in my vidya too.

EXVS2 port when

>>723177596
Never.
But I want one badly.

>>723177571
you will never be black

local late night pizza/italian joint had some arcade machines, two years ago some blacks had a shoot out for some reason. place got destroyed and shut down.

>>723177194
Yup. Fuudo's wife.

>>723172049
>third spaces (with the first two spaces being home and work) in general are dying off in the US.
Third spaces die where diversity reigns. This is an extremely well understood thing.

>>723173669
I wanna use her pits as a cereal bowl

>>723175921
You're not exactly dropping quarters at a JP arcade.
The idea of it is nice but you very quickly buy the games several times over with just occasional play.
SF6 costs like what... 6 rounds?
The people who got really good at Taiko and such dropped several PSs worth of yen across a couple tracks.

People have to chase places which lack customers and let you play more per one coin, or run special events like play-as-much-as-you-can for 1k+ yen and such.
But it's absolutely not 0.25$ level cheap, and that's even before you account for the Japanese median wage of pre-tax 20k$ yearly.

>>723176404
If you act right then you’re fine, tell your brothas and sistas that though because they seem hellbent on being loud, obnoxious, rude and aggressive for literally no reason all of the fucking time.

>>723168638 (OP)
Public transport, urban abodes and no negros.

>>723176879
>Grew up in NYC
>Been to various arcades and places with machines
>Never seen anyone act stupid or fight

>>723176367
>he says while never leaving the us

>>723174597
You realize both parties in the us are turbo pro capitalism, right?

The US's cities are way too spread out compared to places Japan which are structured more like the ideal of walkable cities.

>>723173567
>that thigh jiggle at 0:18
diamonds

>>723168638 (OP)
Look up any of the 1,000,000 times this subject has been discussed in the past. I'm tired of it.

>>723168638 (OP)
Japan has walkable cities, U.S. does not.

It's pretty simple. If you're walking down the sidewalk and you walk by a small arcade, are you going to step inside? Probably, if you're curious and like arcade games. They're easy and accessable. And as such, it's maintained a group of people who will stop by and play regularly.

By contrast, if you are driving down the street and see an arcade by the road, are you going to merge over in traffic, loop back around, and find a parking spot to visit? Probably not. It's a lot more effort, time, and difficulty. Unless someone is really committed to stopping into an arcade, most people will simply pass them by and forget about them. There's a reason that arcades were most commonly found in malls in the U.S., and with malls being dead, the arcades died off along with them.

>>723173567
HAND OVER THE CODE NOW

>>723173068
How much does it cost to keep an arcade machine running? Very little desu, it's just a console and a TV. Yet the price of using these machines is complete fucking extortion by comparison.

>>723168638 (OP)
Because the japanese REALLY love gambling.

>>723173986
What?

>>723180275
This is one of those correlations that really aren't causative. As I mentioned before Japan's way of doing things was fine, but the US (can't speak for other Western countries) outside of rural areas had common arcade games in the 80s and 90s all over the place >>723176308

>>723180141
That was her fucking hamstring you physiologylet.

>>723172049
and third places are dying off because of niggers

>>723174603
What was the "secret"? Charge more?

>>723172940
What game is that?

>>723170441
>NL
Should've gone to Pixel Arcade in Den Bosch or NVGM in Zoetermeer. Both legit arcades with machines in good condition. Also not like the distance is a problem since in that country you can go wherever you like in one hour by train.

>>723181619
Can't tell you, it's a lot of business jargon I don't understand, but it works for them

Dont people just get their social gaming online now? Even if the experience is worse than in person (although there still is splitscreen at home)
I'd say that xbox live + cheaper consoles killed arcades.

>>723175629
>>723175804
Why do Asians love that shit so much? Even if the answer is coomerism, there's better ways to get your fix than mobile "games". I just don't get it.

>>723168638 (OP)
she is not even fat but got a huge ass like this?
the fuck?!

>>723182485
Pretty much. Big events for fightan games and stuff still happen in person, but you don't spend forever practicing at the arcade anymore, you just do that at home.

>>723182485
Pretty much, which is sad because we can't as easily beat people up for talking shit anymore

>>723182683
They love gambling. If they were coomers as well, this allows to combine it with their TRUE passion.

>>723168638 (OP)
>thrive in japan
they dont have big name games anymore
no more outrun no more gauntlet
its all just rhytm and gatcha

>>723168638 (OP)
>>723172940
0 ass

>>723169013
>Wages went up here
It fucking didn't. If anything it was halved since the 60s.

>>723168638 (OP)
niggers will go out of their way to break and steal shit thats why

>>723171236
they do. it just got boring for you after seeing it for the brazilionth time so you dont consume that slop anymore.

>>723176140
Smoke detectors use radioactive material to work.

>>723174446
Anon. Did you know you can set your camera's shutter speed to match the CRT's refresh rate for a clean pic?

>>723182095
Sounds like deprecating the value of their cabinets each year to probably pay less taxes.

>>723168638 (OP)
Anon told me about the massive arcade in Bury, NW england in an arcade thread a month or two ago.

Thread got jannied before I could thank anon, and now I can thank anon more because I've since gone with a friend and it was FUCKING EXCELLENT. We literally spent more on the trains to get there than it cost to enter the arcade.

Four floors and an adult lounge annex. A floor of retro, a floor of JP import and rhythm machines, two floors of modern and mid-classic stuff, and the adult lounge is full of pinball. Under twenty quid for an all day admission. They even have a ring of xboxes to distract kids with fortnite and minecraft.

And the best thing? they had a captive audience of millennial adults and the food and drinks are CHEAP. Two pound double espresso. That's 10p cheaper than fucking greggs. 6 pound hotdog and nachos or 6 pound pizza? Fuck me, they could charge 50% more and still feel like it's "not a ripoff".

Staff told me the owner is obsessed with providing value for money.

I don't think I've seen anything that based in the northwest in a decade.

>>723174597
You dont have left parties on the US fucking retard

>Why did Arcade gaming collapse in the West and thrive in Japan
refer to The House of the Dead series

>>723169025
I work at an arcade and people don't know how bad it really is.
>"people" get done playing a game, they just outright drop the gun/guitar/VR headset onto the floor
>trashcans every 5 feet but they just drop the trash right where they are standing
>soda spilt basically all over the machines, they are constantly getting cleaned because of it
>if its not nailed down it gets stolen
>outside golf course has no ground lights because "people" keep on using the putters and destroying the lights
>scammers saying that the claw machine dropped the prize therefore we MUST give them the prize
>"people" shaking the machine causing the security to activate on the game and then they get pissed that its not working
>billiard tables/hockey tables constantly have "people" taking balls/pucks from one table and moving them to another, and once again getting pissed that its not working
>"people" not understanding the game and literally beating the machine instead of taking 5 seconds to see the text to reload the fucking gun
>indians throwing a hissy fit that they can't use 1 wristband for their 16 kids.
I could go on and on with how bad people are.

>>723172937
But Kancolle is spreadsheet simulator.

>>723168638 (OP)
Blacks. The fighting game revolution of the 90s that saved arcades after they started to collapse in the 80s also brought the FGC thuggery that parents don't really want their kids around, and which older people don't want around if they're just trying to relax after work.

And they collapsed in Japan too.

>>723168638 (OP)
public transport makes getting around easy for anyone plus all the buildings are close together.

>>723185336
Where the fuck do you work at?

>>723183789
Give it a rest Stevie Wonder.

>>723169526
>using the 20GB PS3

>>723168638 (OP)
I'm 35 years old. It'd be weird to go to an arcade alone and even if I did all the arcades near me that have like shmups and beat em ups and stuff are like these weird retro fusion hipster hang outs that serve gourmet doughnuts or whatever and are like an hour drive. Like what the fuck am I even supposed to do

>>723168638 (OP)
Aren't barcades still somewhat popular? Seems like they just changed shape.

>>723168638 (OP)
>>723172940
>>723173567
>>723173669
>>723186297
I want to CUM, yes, CUM, INSIDE of them!

>>723173986
If that was my sister I'd rub my dick on her butt and cum all over her skirt and back. If you know what I'm sayin'

>>723186359
>barcade

please don't make me click my soijak folder

>>723174013
I would rather team up with the elites or watch the entire country burn down than to team up with you leftist scumbags who have worked tirelessly to ruin the western world. I can't state enough how much I hate you faggots and want to see you suffer.

>>723176187
>so people are less likely to become untrustworthy
You gotta remember that the US is like less than 50% people at this point. And of that >50, some of them are disgusting leftists so the number is far lower.

>>723168638 (OP)
Literal mating pose. If I saw her like that I wouldn't be able to stop myself from sliding those little white panties aside and burying my face in her pussy before plunging in. Make a baby right there on that arcade game. Name it Segami.

>>723173742
You jest but as I get older the hoter this shit gets.
I love bitches in skirts so much

>>723173669
This is me, complete focus, no distractions.

>>723185740
I don't want to dox myself. But its really just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to people coming to an arcade. I've went to other arcades and asked if they have those kinds of issues and they have all said yes.

>>723186570
I mean they exist, and seem popular enough for chains to make a ton of them. Seems weird to pretend like arcades in the west are completely dead, they're just worse now. Which is bad, but not dead.

>Arcade thread is just a nigger foolery thread
Kek

>>723173669
iiniku ushijima, for anyone wondering
I think this video is over a decade old now, no actual sex but she still had the most perfect flat tummy known to man

>>723182683
https://gam3s.gg/news/over-70-of-usa-play-games/

>>723185336
Every time I visit my local freeplay arcade, I always see multiple occasions of people starting 4-player sessions on the pinball tables and then walking away after 2 or 3 balls.

>>723173567
Ok but when I do im a neet faggot that needs to shower and get a job???

>>723182683
Better question is why do all other game developers decide that under no conditions should a consumer be able to spend more than $60 on their video game, and if anyone is willing to spend a different amount from that, it has to be less. Imagine you had a hundred million dollars in the bank and wanted to spend all of it on video games. If you refused to spend it on arcades, gacha or just gambling, you literally could not spend all of that money. With arcades you would have to empty every crane game booth, with gacha you can buy anime girls for a hundred years, and with gambling you could lose everything in a weekend. With home console single player video games, it is impossible to spend infinite money. Just think. How fucking retarded the average developer is for inflicting such a limitation on themselves. As soon as someone puts out a piece of merch, like a fumo, they 1000x their income instantly because some richfags are willing and able to buy 100 fumos. Buying 100 copies of a video game on steam is literally against the TOS, though. You could literally just take money from people, except some developers choose to make it impossible. Fucking retards.

>>723169183
Japan is collapsing for nearly 60 years, while it pushes world technology. Worst part, both statements are true.

>>723188042
Different markets, retardo.
Gacha whales aren't going to buy the next God of War just because you can waste money on it, and Snoys, for all their retardation, will nope the fuck out if their movie games require hundreds of dollars to be enjoyed.

>>723168638 (OP)
I wanna go back to a culture like this, where you can do this without screaming nosering women calling it abuse.

>>723173986
Penis in vagene hehe

>>723168638 (OP)
Urban sprawls. Everyone has moved and spread further apart reducing the population density of most areas and this causes businesses to close because who the fuck wants to travel 20-30 minutes to get to a arcade

>>723187159
Unfortunately arcades are only compatible with high trust societies, or fascist police states like Disney world.

>>723188042
>Buying 100 copies of a video game on steam is literally against the TOS,
What. Why?

>>723188336
The key is to understand GDP has no impact on the common man's life, and wealthy people being less wealthy will not make your life worse.

>>723168638 (OP)
Japan still use cash and coins for purchases

>>723188930
I give it less than 2 years before this kind of video is seen as "obscene" by Japan's own population, because they're going woke.

>>723176140
A boy scout almost murdered everyone in his own town using a dangerous radioactive isotope which we dont use any more from alarms

>>723168638 (OP)
un-walkable neighborhoods, slim profit margins, stranger danger, and helicopter parents

>>723172049
not dying down just being removed

>>723185224
idgi

>>723190591
Japanese rights are being taken away. These guys would get canceled in today's climate.

>>723172049
Somebody read Bowling Alone.

>>723172671
Yeah no shit or everyone would have died.

Is everyone you know conscientiously maintaining and repairing their home goods and socks because they can't afford new ones? Hitching trainrides at terrible risk because they have no other option? Making depression food at home and skipping meals half the time because they can't afford proper nutrition?
Of course not. That stat doesn't mean anything like what you think it means. Standards of living are unequivocally higher. Don't be an idiot.

>>723191798
>Yuiichi Nakamura in webm
>ever get cancelled
This nigga is the voice of Gojo Satoru, right now he is quite literally the most untouchable man in all of nipland and protected by the biggest army of yume and fujo you could imagine.

>>723186297
>smoker
I wouldn't be surprised if her breath smelled worse than her pits at that point

For the people who say niggers are part of the reason why arcades are dying. Let me remind you they are why we don't have vidya at McDonald's anymore.
>but muh /pol/fags
Silence niggers, it's not only economics going for worse and the convenience of modern technology. It's your feral kin, both children and adults who should have returned to Africa if it wasn't for seething jews assassinating Abe Lincoln.
I won't forgive niggers for breaking down that GameCube at McDonald's. Never.

imagine how many murders we would have had in america if they brought over the arcade mobas

>>723188042
>Better question is why do all other game developers decide that under no conditions should a consumer be able to spend more than $60 on their video game
bro's never heard of a lootbox, or even microtransactions in general

>>723168638 (OP)
More societal shame from gaming it's like how pc cafes are popular in korea just tell family you are going to study but play vidya.

>>723173858
Time Crisis was my fav because it didn't feel as unfair as the other games. If you had good reflexes you could 1cc it

>>723192979
Not everyone has good reflexes you piece of shit

>>723192642
I'm going to be so happy when AI and Asians completely wipe out your middle class. I wonder what your impotent Gamecube rants will look like then.

>>723168638 (OP)
>walkable cities
Why are so many people mindlessly parroting this and ignoring the real reason?
When arcades were popular in the US, the distance didn't matter. Car culture is heavily ingrained, and people love driving anywhere
Every anon who was born and raised in the US has memories of being driven somewhere by his parents just for fun unless you're late gen z/alphie where that happens less often

EU has walkable cities and arcades were extremely popular there too, but they also died just like in the US.
EU anons have the same memories of enjoying arcades when they were younger just like US anons do too

Arcades have never been cheap which's why they were always profitable, they have solo, coop, party, versus games designed to eat your wallet but people come for the experience, atmosphere, and fun group activity which's why genres like fighting games, have a strong root to arcades and people say the FGC was more fun before it became corporate. Arcades have a strong community aspect

The price of arcades is clearly not a problem with how people will always happily burn their wallets for: MTX, DLC, Gacha, Season Pass, Subs, Live Service etc.
All of these are much more predatory than arcades and cost more too, the predation of people wasting money has only gotten worse since the death of the arcades, not better, it's obvious people are not saving more when these more predatory methods are still returning large profits.

Death of the arcade is a cultural and societal issue due to less focus on family + community, and yes it's also because of the increase of blacks and browns who destroy things around them and make things worse as they don't behave.
It's also why kids don't go out as often as before and why those giant kid fun centers all shut down, and bday parties at chains like Chuck E Cheese, Pizza Hut, McDonalds etc don't happen any more

There's no community

>>723171794
Cringe

>>723193613
True, but you never said we were wrong though.

>>723168638 (OP)
pinball is better than arcade vidya

Aren't arcades in Japan heavily subsidized by gambling whereas in the west that's much more heavily regulated?

>>723193613
>casual

>>723168638 (OP)
God, I love big fuckhuge bubble CRTs. Got one on me desk, and it's beautiful.

>>723168638 (OP)
It didn’t. It just evolved into the Barcade model where the games are cheap and/or free because the point is to make money off food and beverages. And, because it’s kind of a niche thing you can only have a few in any city.

>>723183789
shut up brownie

>>723193665
>"uhmm but some people are like that"
woah such an insightful observation!

I suspect music audience and licensing terms perhaps.
That's the only reason I can think of why Sega, or Konami hasn't brought more to the west.
There's not even a way to play these appropriately at home without the cabinet itself, or building/buying a specific controller.
We lost out on so many awesome rhythm games just after the decline of Rock Band + Guitar Hero, they could have made a killing here.
It's real unfortunate. Rhythm gamers really have it rough here.

Zenius reports only two of this machine in the US.

>>723193782
Guess I need to step my game up.

>>723193613
they call you racist but never a liar

>>723190602
>A boy scout almost murdered everyone in his own town
Not even close.

Also, wasn't building a nuclear reactor.

Also, the levels of radiation were so negligible the EPA didn't bother cleaning it up for almost a year.

The only person who might have been in any danger from the radiation was himself but he didn't think so and he was kind of right because he wound dying of something completely unrelated 30 years later.

born too late to experience the arcade
born too early to experience the American ethnostate
born just in time to argue about why arcades died

>>723173567
Still waiting for the code, couldn't find it

>>723186297
>that one who who makes dresses out of her eviction notices and sleeps in trash piles filled with roaches
god i just want to fill her with my cum

>>723169013
lol idiot

There's an arcade/bar near me and its kinda lame. Some retro games, house of the dead, some newish arcade game that requries like 4 or 5 people. Consoles with fighting games and party games but the fighting games haven't been updated in years. Its 10 bucks to get in and play whatever and they have craft beers in the back. Oh and racing games and pinball. I mean its alright but not really a place I'd want to go to often. I think at the end of the day its just not really worth it unless there's another draw. Gamers for the most part are introverts and covid fried the brains of everyone still in school for some reason so they definitely aren't coming out. Older people are stressed due to the economy and also are slowly losing friends with life pulling people in all sorts of directions. Who's left?
You can play games on your phone, free games and ""free"" games are thrown at you from every angle and piracy is so easy there's a pretty little websites and guides written for the dumbest of users. Why even leave the house? Community? Honestly, I'd rather steer clear of stinky virgins complaining about everything under the sun, but who else would go regularly? A bunch of ghouls like the ones you'd find here is all that's left. And you guys are insufferable.

Arcades are dying because they can only exist in high traffic areas like shopping malls. Shopping malls are dying because people want to shop online.

>>723173567
chopsticks to eat chips?

>>723195869
I went to one of these and it was the gayest shit I've ever seen. It smelled like old plastic shit because thats what it all was. They were selling pizza and shit like you're 1 years old and supposed to be excited and sure enough there were days in there, all of them fat as shit, acting like it was cool. Place looked smelled and resembled a fucked up fever dream of nostalgia. Genuinely unsettling.

>>723174232
>one closed
oh no

>>723195869
>covid fried the brains of everyone still in school for some reason
Lots of people(like myself) graduated school during COVID, so we got used to a solitary lifestyle before we were let loose. It really messes with the social skills because you're both rusty due to not going out as well as not used to going out and putting yourself out there anymore.

>>723169183
source?

>>723168638 (OP)
N

>>723173698
if you're getting 10 cent wage increases thats your own problem, my wages go up 4-8 percent every year. get a better job brother, you're working a starter job, they all suck and its all young people can get because young people are dumber and less productive, thats just a fact of life but if you're over 25 its time for an upgrade if you're even a halfway decent worker. You kids just simply lack perspective, things arent that bad, just calm down becaise it has always sucked being a 20 something year old. You all think people in the past had it better because some professor or talking head twists some statistics to convince you of that so you will be more willing to let them feed you radical ideas if you think its warranted and you are fearful or anxious. My father had to work 70 hours a week in hvac and as an electrician during the day for the first 10 years of his marriage to afford the 13% interest rate morgage on their run down piece of crap house in the bad part of town. Then on top of all that my mother worked full time as well. It wasnt much better for me in my 20s during the great recession and its fallout either and things still turned out well for both my father and myself.

>>723174013
/pol/niggers will happily put on the ball and chain if it means they """"""""""win the war""""""""""
both sides are filled with the same retards

>>723188336
why do yanks think stability = stagnation?

>>723193175
skill issue

>>723193960
Polaris Chord is this weird hybrid of Chunithm/Ongeki/Sound Voltex that just comes off as unoriginal but at the same time very interesting. I'd like to play it but there aren't any cabs near me or even controllers to buy. I'm more of a IIDX guy, I like not having to move my hands off the buttons too much, but I'd still like to try it.
At least for rhythm games, the community is pretty alive worldwide I'd say. Sure, most people buy/build controllers and play home versions, but there are arcades that have a good amount of these machines and there's usually a big crowd around them most of the time, too. We've got a few good ones in that regard here in Europe.

>>723195990
Big brain move, you won't make the controller dirty.

>>723168638 (OP)
This one is my favorite because the employee is pregnant.

>>723196341
a lot of long running arcades have been shutting down the past few years for obvious reasons.
it's not completely dead but nobody is thriving.

>>723196413
>my wages go up 4-8 percent every year
You're still massively losing your ass, if that's all you're getting. But you're not, because you're just baiting.

>>723195869
The cover is there to keep browns away. The barcade near me has some pretty neat “retro” games that are just modernized versions of old school stuff. They had a Pong game with physical moveable paddles and a little square “ball” that I can only assume was controlled by magnets. I liked it, all the games that were older were free and the newer stuff was cheap.

>>723175931
It does matter, no matter how hard you try to find excuses. Everyone living in the "diverse" parts of the west know exactly what >>723185336 is talking about.

>>723195869
>A bunch of ghouls like the ones you'd find here is all that's left. And you guys are insufferable.
What is it with normalfags and this passive-aggressive shit? Why the hell do you intentionally go to places like 4chan and virtue signal like an insect?
Holy shit you niggers deserve everything that is happening now you are literally humanoid bugs and the elites are your masters

>>723196676
Number must grow.

>>723172408
the real answer is car lobby

>>723197023
I like this one because boobies.

>>723198208
>103% master
damn, she mogs me.

>>723190591
>>723191798
I will never get you nutjobs that have been screaming about japan going pozzed for like, almost a decade and a half now.
like what even is the angle? I used to believe you were just right wingers using the place as some sort of convenient argument piece but then there's been the recent chink/gookshills too

>>723168638 (OP)
There are still plenty of arcades in my city, they're all in the richfag areas though.

>>723198585
>right wingers
>china korea shills
these are LITERALLY the same dudes these days

>>723168638 (OP)
>thrive in Japan
Most of them close down or turned into gacha/claw machines or pachinko parlors.
The biggest GiGO on the heart of akihabara closed down.

>>723198683
right wingers WISH they were chinese, korean not so much (due to feminism).

>>723186992
I jest not
Skirts really are the hottest piece of clothing ever