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Topic	ITT, we are nostalgic about arcade culture in the 1990s.
s0nicfan 07/23/18 3:15:32 PM #5:	MeIon Bread posted... Wow, those things are still around? To be fair, perhaps arcades were too limited in their range to really stay popular. It was almost entirely light gun and racing games. In Britain, at least, they had pretty much died out by 2000. Of course, consoles pretty much caught up in terms of graphics, so that was probably part of it as well. It's still a shame, though, I guess. I mean there was always a Simpsons or X-men cabinet to work with, or MVC1 (plus other fighters) in the later 90s. Personally I always just preferred a good pinball cabinet, but light gun and racing games always dominated because they could charge the most and/or got the most out of a single person (I don't know anyone who just put one quarter into Time Crisis or House of the Dead... you knew you were going in for at least a dollar). Ultimately I think it was the return on investment that killed arcades... they kept going for bigger and bigger "experiences" and then DDR came along and fundamentally altered what arcades were for and that was that. --- "History Is Much Like An Endless Waltz. The Three Beats Of War, Peace And Revolution Continue On Forever." - Gundam Wing: Endless Waltz <cite>s0nicfan posted [p:905588570] in ITT, we ar... [t:76834580]...</cite> <quote><cite>MeIon Bread posted...</cite> <quote>Wow, those things are still around? To be fair, perhaps arcades were too limited in their range to really stay popular. It was almost entirely light gun and racing games. In Britain, at least, they had pretty much died out by 2000. Of course, consoles pretty much caught up in terms of graphics, so that was probably part of it as well. It's still a shame, though, I guess. </quote> I mean there was always a Simpsons or X-men cabinet to work with, or MVC1 (plus other fighters) in the later 90s. Personally I always just preferred a good pinball cabinet, but light gun and racing games always dominated because they could charge the most and/or got the most out of a single person (I don't know anyone who just put one quarter into Time Crisis or House of the Dead... you knew you were going in for at least a dollar). Ultimately I think it was the return on investment that killed arcades... they kept going for bigger and bigger "experiences" and then DDR came along and fundamentally altered what arcades were for and that was that. --- "History Is Much Like An Endless Waltz. The Three Beats Of War, Peace And Revolution Continue On Forever." - Gundam Wing: Endless Waltz</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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