Round 1 shall save us all someday

Most kids don't seem to care about arcades anymore and most adults either games at home, or probably go to a place like Dave & Busters.

In a rather related point,

MAME was just ported over to the Vita by Retroarch! Audio takes some sorting to get working but sexy sexy mame locked at 60fps in OLED goodness, Playing through some In the Hunt now and going to gorge myself on Tumblepop in bed.

That's another thing that put the bullet in the head of old arcades... Mame is now available on literally everything... and the old arcades where I live didn't have OLED screens... nor were they handhelds hah.

I don't think there's much that can be done to revive them. Also, do they really need to be revived?

Nope, your not :P


Arcades never really had to die. Back in 2004 we had a Playdium that had stuff like this:

Ours was in the shape of a monster truck and was a monster truck simulator where you would drive a monster truck in real time over hills and what not. It had 360 movment and was equipped with pedals, steering wheel, and a shift stick.


This Bobsled one actually is the same unit from Edmonton. You move them youreslf but they do tilt on the slops. This video is to show them to auction them off :'(



We also had a Indy car one as well that was in the same style. The line was alway busy and they had around 8 or 12 of them for multiplayer.

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 :

The main reasons Arcades died was because the games you could only play in the Arcades came to consoles. You no longer had to pay £1 a go or £2 a go.

However, i believe there is a market for games that cannot be replicated properly for home gaming such as:

1) proper light gun games
2) The big golf Arcades with the wrap around screen
3) dancing games
4) games with a moving vehicle

However, if it's too be done properly, the pricing structure might need to change. People won't pay £2 a go. They might be better off dropping the price to 50p and having people play more games.

Or maybe even hire out rooms for £50 an hour that might have a special set up for gaming with a bunch of different gamelan accessories.

On another note, I've been to a retro Arcade bar that had a few old Arcades and it's doing pretty well.

Arcades died in North America a long time ago.

But you can always go to Japan, arcades are everywhere.

Casinos. Make arcade games pay out for high-scores and challenging gameplay - especially for tournament play.

As it is, you'll spend somewhere between 25 cents to 2 dollars to play an arcade game these days. That's fun enough to play maybe once - but when the stakes are raised that you can win $100, $500, or more to clear the most difficult parts of a game - this gets really interesting and you want to play more. What makes arcades awesome is when you can witness a really skilled player take on something no one else could. Arcade tournament play would be really fun as well.

Considering how droll most slot machines are, this should be really easy to do.