Why did the arcade die out in America? Do you miss them?

If you hate microtransactions you have no reason to like arcades. They're arguably worse.

because consoles gained online services. i'm an oldfag that spent the 90s going to arcades nearly every single day, and it was around in the early 00s when their popularity start to wane and less people showed up. less people meant less money, so malls and local spots decided it was a business loss to continue keeping them open.

some of you might be too young to remember this, but local convenient stores and laundrymats used to have cabinets in them. you could ride your bike 5 minutes to the 7/11 and play SF/MK all day with your buds.

Attached: 456658354356.jpg (345x348, 12K)

Because massive amounts of foot traffic guarantees income, and because they still make high quality games. The only shit you get in the US is RAW THRILLS garbage and literal mobile games.

gamers have become entitled these years with stuff like micro transactions nobody wants to actually have skill and rely on 1 quarter to make their way to the top of the score board everyone just wants a easy toddler rated e for everyone so their fee fees dont get hurt. real old school arcade games like guantlet would make these sjws shit their pants and have a existential crisis

Are you the Raw Thrills guy?

It's me, Wangan man.

>what happened to .25?
Profit-sharing schemes, mostly.

it's better suited for the culture. Get off work, take train home, stop by small arcade that's on the way, smoke, go home, be depressed. Meanwhile in America you have to drive to some arcade megaplex and charge $10 on your card to play 1.5 games of HoTD.

No but Wangan Midnight is great. When the fuck is MT6 coming stateside

>Because fuck paying $3
This is what you deserve for living in California

Why the fuck don't arcades optimize prices for their games? Round 1 near me charges 8 fucking credits for a shit ton of games that no one plays. People are more likely to try new games if they didn't cost 3 dollars to play.

House of the Dead Scarlett dawn is $1.60 a play.

>gee billy wanna pay to play some 90's game for 10 minutes and then game over?

Because americans build their homes away from their work like morons. That means you got to drive to the arcades instead of walk. Why waste fuel to get to a place to play, when you can just play at home.

8 credits is $1.60 real world dollars assuming you buy $30 or more.

i was born in 94, i basically missed the arcade era. same is probably true of most people on this board. it made sense when home consoles were shitty/less of a thing and the games themselves were much smaller, but arcades aren't suited for the direction video gaming took

Yeah tough guy, I bet the first time you sat your ass in front of a Battle Garegga machine you 1CCed that bitch. The reality is these machines were deliberately made to be retardedly difficult so that you'd credit feed if you wanted to get to the end. It takes a lot of time and practice to 1CC arcade games and if you're doing all that practicing then that means a lot of money, and it's precisely the fact people don't appreciate being jewed like that what killed it.

Its a few factors. Arcades were big draws to a place like a mall where they would get people to spend money nearby but Malls have generally all closed across the country.

The smaller arcades were usually run by vending machine company people looking to cash in on the trend and most of them had no clue what they wrre doing. This is why there were tons of empty arcades with outdated broken down unplayable games

Quarter guzzler games can't compete with modern consoles either. This was mitigated for years by fighting games feeding arcades based on competitive drive but even that faded by the time Street Fighter 3 came out and home consoles improved

Finally because arcades wrre loud dark places that attracted teenagers they developed an unsavory reputation. Gangs end up fighting pedos try and pick up lone kids drugs get delt in corners etc. The problems often get exaggerated by old people scared of those new fangled whatsits and suddenly new zoning laws prevent arcades from even being built

They already translates it, so soon. I just hope we have global online instead of being stuck in burgernigger/maplenigger ghetto.

They also jacked up their prices recently. Most of the $1.20 games jumped to $1.29 (we NEED that 9 cents) and Time Crisis 5 for some reason jumped to $1.40 from $1.00.

fightan is available on home console, racing wheels were made for home console, light gun games aren't enough to prop up an arcade

I go to Ground Kontrol in Portland now and again for my arcade kicks. All the games are set to only be a quarter or two and if you pregame elsewhere or just don't drink the drink prices don't fuck ya.

Arcades at least in Tokyo are literally pachinko for the young.
Only claw machines and gacha shit

They're just shitty games when your average person didn't have a console to actually play games on. Its just an inferior way of playing games.

And
>b-but the community!
it was always a shit community of socially awkward retards being either retarded and in your face about being next, or just twiddling their thumbs sharking for an open spot.

>buy an e-amusement pass for jubeat/groove coaster
>the machine at my arcade is forever in offline mode
O-oh...

THIS THREAD AGAIN LOLOLOLOL

>What happened to ¢25?
Inflation, retard

non-whites, in summary.

Online play and arcade games coming home
I go to my local Dave and Busters for DDR and Round 1 for more JP rhythm games, I have the Konami eMusement card set up but i wish i didnt have to drive a fucking half hour

You have fighting and music/rithming in there and they have a huge fanbase.

Japan doesn't have a surplus of niggers who will throw a skee-ball through the front panel of Tekken when you beat them

>picture from japan

>Jubeat
My nigga. Too bad the only arcade near me is shit and scammed me last time.

Attached: gooff.png (546x479, 505K)

>Why did the arcade die out in America?
because Hollywood and the media began portraying them as seedy hangouts for social outcasts

yet, they're working on the imports

>began portraying them as seedy hangouts for social outcasts
So, accurately?

>everything I don't like is /pol/
you have to go back.

>start going to round one near me and they have a good selection of jp stuff and connect online
>see sound voltex machine finally
Do they make home controllers for that shit at all? i've never played a more galaxy brained game in my life and id consider myself decent at DDR (can usually at least keep up to speed with 15-16 footers these days more with just stepmania)
Voltex is wild

gamo2.com/en/index.php?dispatch=categories.view&category_id=277

>its ok to like racism
nah you

i want to go back

It is though

>good selection of jp
Do they have the kancolle arcade machines? If so do they work with kancolle cards you got in Japan?

Attached: b1f97c32aeec7bf560b5201332cb0b7d1477410969_full.jpg (600x753, 100K)

Shit, not bad, thank you, is there a home version to play like stepmania?
>click on DDR tab
>theres nothing here
I really hope those new metal pads konami teased at KAC8 earlier weren't just dumb demo prototypes
twitter.com/bemanistyle/status/1088967892152938497

>just want to play Pop'n music at home
>can almost justify buying a controller but shipping and VAT more or less double the price

Attached: 1548596940413.gif (236x482, 2.04M)

No they arent.
Japan outright refused taking any refugees after they let in 25 of them and like 18 began raping natives immediately.

Not sure about the cards but they may have had that
If you're in So Cal its the Lakewood Round 1
I know they had a fucking Theatrhythm arcade machine, didn't know those existed. Had Xenogears music on it and everything, wild

God damn it Round 1 please open a location in NY that isn't in upstate buttfuck nowhere.
Please

p.eagate.573.jp/game/sdvx/iii/p/index.html
SDVX 3 is the current home version
There's also the ultimate mobile version coming Soon™

Awesome. Tabbed for later. Thank you fellow rhythm friend

No American arcade looks like this or has ever looked like that.

Yeah, I miss good arcades. My brother took my nephews to a local amusement park that has an arcade. At least half a dozen machines had something wrong with them, and they're all too expensive now.

Nothing for me to miss really. I've got retro arcades, barcades, and round 1 where I live.

>arcades still have some good sims and stuff like newer Pump it Up and DDR even if most games are ticket trash for kids
>almost 30 years old
>tfw unable to even enter without feeling like a manchild

I just wanna play PIU, man. I wish I had enough money to buy a metal pad.

Attached: 1522629386157.png (350x350, 88K)

Also forgot to mention about k-shoot mania which is a clone if you don't want to shell out money for a monthly sub

My Round 1 has the game but it's not online for some reason.

>tfw unable to even enter without feeling like a manchild
Just tell them you're waiting for family. Luckily the crappy amusement park arcade in my city is attached to a park with rides and pools, so I could just lie and say my nephews were riding.

>arcades
accept your fate

Attached: pachinko.png (640x405, 496K)

>it shoots fucking air at you while you're ziplining around across skyscrapers to get into the next sniping position
Arcade games are fucking awesome. Thank god for Round1.

Attached: ssbe_14.jpg (500x666, 170K)

There's a bar/arcade combo opening in my city next week. I'm praying it won't be shit because it'll be the closest thing this place has had to a traditional arcade in a decade

Maybe talk to the arcade manager? not sure. my local dnbs and the round 1 are usually pretty good, ive seen the staff connection checking when im there doing regular upkeep which is nice, good luck
saved as well. have a funny picture
just go man, people dont care, its just games

Attached: megamix.jpg (675x1200, 120K)

Luckiliy I have a younger sis who has as interest in Pump It Up so whenever we're close by, she asks me to go and play, especially because she likes to watch me dance. Still, it's not the same than going to an arcade after college and still play a few rounds because there were other people around my age too.

Scarlett Dawn is out of control with this kinda stuff. Vibrating seats, air jets, lighting around the cab that flows with the game, it's the best spectacle game I've played. And it's an actual game to so it beats Dark Escape 4D.

Abari was a nice place to go to in Charlotte, NC. Most games were .25, including the Intial D machine there.

We have two where I'm at thats very popular Round1 and Freeplay

They also have a fightstick section with nothing there.

There are no (true) AC styled DDR pads being made by a third party. Stepmaniax has several design differences that are different from official pads because Konami hasn't done one Goddamn fucking thing differently to the pads since maybe DDR Max. Even brand new cabinets are still over a decade behind Andamiro's pads for ITG2, which is fucking embarrassing, and it took until 2016 for the DDR I/O to not have super drifty timing issues.

This isn't venezuela, dumbfuck.

Attached: inflation.png (539x170, 27K)

This game is going offline April 1st.

What sort of online integration does it have? Just leaderboards? I've only played it recently a few times.

Have like 2 in my city they're very much alive

Yeah, its fucking wild.
Good luck trying to get a StepmaniaX stage pad too
I tried ordering a new in box (unopened anyways) red octance ignition foam pad because i had one for like 10+ years till it died awhile back and the sensors for it wonked out in like a week, thankfully the seller had a return policy so i just lost the $20 for shipping really
I just wanted some comfortable way to play at home
It's not they are at least pushing for some arcade consistency but boy did Konami just puss out of the home rhythm game market when Guitar Hero/Rock Band over saturated things 10 years ago
Really a shame they won't at least licence some decent home pads for retail use, even if they were made to order i bet they could make it profitable