Revive arcades?

[Norris2k]

Hiku said:

Norris2k said:

Yeah I had an arcade near my home in Tokyo, open everyday, I just stopped there from time to time for years. Once I passed near, and it was closed, forever. It broke my heart, really. For a long time they managed with UFO catcher, also old games that cost them nothing, but then mobile happened, the electricity cost increased a lot after Fukushima. A few opened in Paris, driven by nostalgy and SF IV, but nothing like a massive trend. Anyway, I think it's gone, the arcade for a long time was about having the most impressive and advanced games on the best hardware, and that will probably not come back.

Yeah, it's really sad to see. My favorite arcade closed down as well. =/ I really wish they were more popular again.

As for most impressive and advanced experience, at least they have these crazy pod Gundam machines.

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qe4mkcuhJk8

Yes, they did fight back, bigger machines, new genres (music games, strategic card games, horse racing), network, the fighting game revived by SFIV alone.

Not really the best arcade game ever, but here is a crazy machine for horse racing :