@noslodecoy: It's sad because some people are addicted to it, just like a MMORPG. I played a MMORPG for a long time, sucks your life in. Good thing I sold everything I had on it and got some cash and never played it again :)
@SHMUPGurus: Arcades were a more social kind of entertainment. People would gather around people to watch them play and learn from them. Then when they were good enough they would try and beat the highscore. You would be popular if you possesed a highscore or if you were very skilled.
Today home consoles encourage people to play in an isolated environment, and online play killed the social aspect of multiplayer games. People can be alone in their rooms playing against several hunderd people in a MMORPG or dueling or racing some random person anywhere in the world. This gen more than ever made playing a more individual thing than ever before. Wii is somewhat the exception to the rule as it encourages local multiplayer rather than online, maybe that's Nintendo's strategy.
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Bets with Conegamer:
Pandora's Tower will have an opening week of less than 37k in Japan. (Won!)
Pandora's Tower will sell less than 100k lifetime in Japan.
Stakes: 1 week of avatar control for each one.
