So, I was watching Wreck It Ralph 2 and I was wondering how these things even worked back in the days

So, I was watching Wreck It Ralph 2 and I was wondering how these things even worked back in the days.
The owner himself says in the movie that his most modern game don't even make 200$ in a year, how could they even afford to pay electricity bills and not running out of business, and how even any kid could be interested on paying for games while standing when in the 90s I suppose everyone had a PS2 or whatever

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>PS2 in the 90's
Research better before posting OP

snack bar sells? IDK it a kids movie about video game characters being alive in the power brick. It's not really based on reality. .... Is that what there called power bricks? I always called them 6 plugs..

i really miss arcades. not like dave and busters bullshit either, i mean real "spend all day there with $20 worth of quarters" arcades

Got em also didn't they talk about Beyonce? So wouldn't it be 2000's. Wait and they had Moana and shit?

my dad had one of those PS2 grey consoles back then in 1998, nice bait anyway

Yeah coinop died a long time ago. In its heyday just a sf2 cab would make more than the rest of your entire bowling alley did all year.

The pedos really threw their money around. Great way to get quarters.

>200$ a year
I alone spent that much on a something like metal slug X, playing and then trying to 1cc it, multiple that with several thousand people that come trough an arcade in a span of a year, for that one game alone, and you have a healthy profit.

Back in the 00s every store in my town had a bootleg arcade machine with literally hundreds of games installed.

If you look at the place, it's not just an arcade, it's a "fun center", so it's probably got other shit like mini-golf, maybe some rides, maybe a few things like batting cages.

Also, Sugar Rush at his place was a piece of shit with an OP character that guaranteed wins. It makes sense that interest in that particular game would decline so much that it wouldn't warrant paying for an expensive replacement.

There's a "Family Amusement Center" down the street from my house.
It has water slides, a race track, batting cages, mini golf and bumper boats, but it's really only ever busy during the summer.
>Go to their arcade one weekday
>Some fat guy unlocking the token machine to get the money
>Some bored girl at the prize counter
>There's a snackbar next to her but it looks closed
>None of their pinball machines work
It was depressing.

It's still alive in Japan with no intention of going away.
Almost every major fighting game has it's release in the arcade first, and then the consoles.

They're making a comeback as Barcades, I spend at least two days a week in the pinball league and playing UMK3 and NFL Blitz with bros.
One day I will meet my wife there.

That's a net yaroze tard

>when zoomers try to talk about videogames not called fortnite
Embarrasing

This. Worth a pretty penny if he's still got it.

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Fortnite died last month granpa. Apex Legends is the shit

>I was wondering how these things even worked back in the days
The owners used them as fronts to sell drugs.

>i really miss arcades. not like dave and busters bullshit either, i mean real "spend all day there with $20 worth of quarters" arcades

Me Too. I also miss video stores and all the cinemas they've torn down!!!FACT!!!

Looks like that but not black, it was light grey.

>PS1 = 1994
>PS2 = 2000
That was a PS2 you retard

Yeah it was a PS2 as I said, what's your problem

It is dark grey

My bad
>*It was a PS1 you retard
The PS2 was release in the year 2000, so the one he had was a PS1

This thing is not a PS1, it's a PSX

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