What killed the arcade?

What killed the arcade?

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SALAD DODGING

Once consoles reached arcade level graphics, they lost a lot of their appeal

Actual videogames instead of bleep bloop dig dug wakka wakka

Someone will have to pay for my fucking arcade machines

Fat people who can't stand up playing video games.

video(games) killed the arcade star

Even assfucking "live services" bring more value than throwing your money into machines.

home consoles, computers. Not having to pay 1€ for 4 minutes of gameplay.

Home gaming systems

kek

Xbox Live

People urinating EVERYWHERE

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>Arcades tried to appeal to kids
This. Then home consoles became popular and kids stopped going to the arcades, portable consoles were popular among kids too but now they all play games on their phones.

The Neo Geo and Dreamcast made it easy to have perfect arcade simulation at home, and once by the time the PS2 was out, most consoles and PC were already powerful enough to emulate the arcade almost flawlessly.

Not even xbox live. The home console in general ruined arcades.

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Games are preying on your addictions from the comfort of your home or phone, no need for mystical quarter munchers in shady halls.

Home consoles.

Consoles being superior in literally every single way

Consoles and PC, pretty much. Once they caught in the early 00's the last thing arcades had was unique input methods (DDR/PIU, Time crisis) and even those lost their edge sometime later

>fake cries on camera for the 265th time

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Ugly fat fuck with a stupid beard.
He should be ashamed of himself. I would be too embarrassed to be seen like that.

Gross.

>gets over $100,000 in donations yearly

Are those cheap one up arcade things alright?
Thinking about putting some of those together with a pinball machine and a pool table in my future house(if the money keeps coming and/or if the boomer-caust happens).

I think it's ok to have a couple cool decorative items from games or TV you really love, but fuck when you are as old as him, as fat as him, and your job is sitting on your ass, buying a bunch of big toys displaying them poorly to boot is fucking embarrassing.

Consoles catching up to arcade power/graphics
The decline of public trust and culture due to 9/11
The redemption games meme

Just build a MAME cab
If you don't want to build a case you can just find a cheap junker cab on craigslist for like $50 and gut it out

>when you lose weight but still look like shit because you are just ugly to begin with

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Home consoles reaching Arcade level grafics.
Last generation to have superior arcade versions was Ps1/n64/Satrun and only for some 2d games mostly because arcade machines still used rooms and had more ram so more animation frames could be used in 2d games.
Hell even CPS2 and NeoGeo games had inferior Ps1/Saturn ports.
As far as 3d games went consoles where just as good as arcades.
Ps2/DC era then was when they where exactly the same and all Arcade advantages got lost.
This is why it took for the Ps2 and DC to come to pass before we got home ports of SFIII.
This might have also bean one of the reasons why SFIII was not more popular.

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>no teef

>earns high 6 figures annually from twitch+youtube
>plays the victim

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It doesn't help that he's still wearing ridiculously oversized clothes

I can't wait to start my new job in July. There's one or two lightgun cabinets I have my eye on.

Buy just one arcade machine, an original, but your absolute favorite from your adolescence, along with that pinball machine and pool table you'll be the talk of your friends all the time. No need to buy a bunch of cheap 300 dollar miniature cabinets of some pretty fucking bland games honestly.

Don't for get the aquarium, it secretly makes people envy that they don't have the time or skills to care for live fish and plants.

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Whoa, he looks completely different with teeth

I play video games all the time and last year I still lost 60 pounds by simply buying a bike, using it, and making water about 85% of what I drink. I still go to buffets and eat fried chicken strips n' shit but I went from 300 to 230.

Zoomers think that cinematic experience garbage is "actual games" now? Thats sad desu

What the fuck happened to his teeth? I hope that never happens to me.

Thx for the input frens.
Had an aquarium once but had to give up on it because college/job-training. Should probably get one again, if I have the space.I remember the Indiana Jones pinball very fondly or the adams family one. Very expensive stuff.Not sure with the arcade, probably pacman, but the Mame thing looks cool. will check it out.

That's because most of them grew up with the Tell Tale games, The Last of Us, Heavy Rain ect. When I was a kid it was Genesis and Snes but even then most kids my age were playing hand me down Ataris.

Youth culture

Another option is to just get any JAMMA cab (which is most of them), then you can just swap in any other JAMMA PCB you want and play it as long as the cab's control panel has all the buttons for it. Collecting PCBs is a lot cheaper and easier than collecting cabinets

>arcade 1up """cabinets"""
Inferior to LCD tv+mame+a good fightstick
Get a real machine or mame cabinet with CRT

Those are fake. My sister has a set of partials on the bottom row and her top row is a full denture. She was stupid and never brushed or went to the dentist and payed for it. He probably did the same. Eating cariatic foods like candy and limelemon soda do that to ya, and you can't just brush after eating because your enamel is vulnerable for a while so you are scraping abrasive toothpaste on exposed dentin.

Arcades were the microtransactions of the 80s. They were shit.

I am also not nostalgic for cholera and typhus.

>people will actually fall for this
Sad!

>tfw I can feel my enamel slipping away month by month but my dentist says there's nothing to worry about
I have literally 2 dozen fillings so all the common spots where I'd otherwise get a cavity are immune to decay.

No user you are just being a nostalgia whore for something that was shit. And I'm getting tired of it frankly. Fuck your shitty YouTube ecelebs.

Get good zoomer. Unless it's impossible to win in 1 credit (bullshit time limit/reducing health) you are just bad.

The video of his old shitty teeth getting gutted out was fucking gross. How do you let your teeth get that bad?

KIRBY

Dreamcast

See this how I know you're underage. Cinematic games were around since the early 1990s.

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CRISCO BATHING

Go into a Dave & Busters and you'll find your answer

THIS IS A FUCKING VIDEO

Walmart employee here, these things were a complete flop from the word go.

>buying arcades to play nes games

what did he meant by that?

Last time I went was like 3 years ago and every single machine was either a shitty light gun game or a shitty racing game. No Tekken, no Star Wars Trilogy, they didn't even have House of the Dead 2 or Time Crisis 3.

Man he is such a bitch.

PLANET

home video game consoles are just more consumer friendly than arcades.
Im honestly suprised places like chuckecheese are still around.
Boomers has like...minigolf, and dave and busters has alcohol, no one really goes for the arcade alone these days

>Im honestly suprised places like chuckecheese are still around.
They only exist because they switched from actual games to kiddie gambling redemption games.

you forgot about all the mobile and nintendo wii games plugged into big screens and cabinets

They were around long before that and they were all gimmicky trash or not even games

his wife has a feeder fetish

The nes hardware was pretty shit compared to everything else at the time. But except for Street Fighter and Rampage it can run those other games decently becuase they're from the early 80s.

If games scammed people out of their money they would feel cheated and stop playing meaning less money for devs, in reality they had to strike a balance between being hard but fair enough and fun to stay enjoyable and get people to keep coming back and almost all of the games were balanced around a 1 credit clear. So just git gut zoomer

I tried the Street Fighter one at a Frys. Can get kinda crowded if you're playing with another person. Otherwise it's probably better to build your own like most people are saying.

>inside out shirt to hide all the grease stains

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T c e r r o C o r r e c T

Once 50 cents per play became normal that was the beginning of the end. And this was for beat'em up games like X-men. It only went up from there to charging a dollar per play and that is bullshit, I don't care how much the lightgun vibrates.

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