Arcade Players

Hey guys. I was curious as to how many people here still go to or play games in Arcades? I know they are rare and hard to find these days but they are still out there. I am actually now the manager of an arcade attached to a restaurant (The Corvette Diner in San Diego California). We currently have 48 games total. Everything from Skee ball to redemption games to Guitar Hero. I am in the process now of eliminating 5 of our dogs and am looking to replace them with some better games. I am looking for a pinball game for sure. As to others, I am kind of leaning towards trying to find more classic arcade games. (we are a 50's themed diner with an arcade) Do you all think thats the right way to go or should I continue getting new game units?

No offense taken. Seriously. The Corvette Diner relocated to new, much larger digs and the owners decided to add a game room as we are a very family and very kid friendly type of place. We're kind of known for birthdays. Around here its usually everyones birthday every day. The arcade has been and is doing very well actually sales wise. We are definitely making money. We've been open for 4 months now and I was not involved with choosing the games we opened with. But we feel we have enough data now to look to replace our non performers. Being a 50's diner I have had many requests for pinball from our older guests, which i am definitely in agreeance with and will be following. What else to look at is a bit trickier though. Our new games are all doing well, Guitar Hero, H2Overdrive, Blazing Angels, paradise Lost, etc. So new games are popular. But I do kind of feel we have a niche to market some classic games Like Frogger, Burger Time, Donkey Kong, etc. I also want to bring in a fighting game as we do not currently have one. Just trying to get a few thoughts and opinions from the Gamespot community

I'm not an actualy arcade goer, but I play at certain places. I'll play the arcade games before a movie, if I'm at Dave and Buster's (Mr. Gatti's, Happy Joes, other places like that). Basically anywhere that has an arcade and I have some pocket change, I'll play a couple games. I still really enjoy the co-op games, more than a splitscreen experience. My favorite has to be the X-Men arcade game :).

Lol. Pocket Change? whats that? thankfully the owner decided to go with the Sacoa play card system like Dave & Busters for our arcade. No coins, tokens, quarters, etc to deal with. We even did away with the paper tickets. All of our tickets are electronic. they get sent to the play cards automatically when people finish the games