consoles=death of the arcade

i can remember when my parents would drop me off at the mall when i was a kidand i would have 10 bucks or so. head straight for the arcade. that was some fun stuff. now i cant tell you the last time ive seen a arcade...aside from dave and busters. i especially miss pinball,street fighter,mortal kombat. having my quarters stacked up on the machine to denote i had downs on the next game.playing at the arcade is kin to online gaming now were you could brag in person and send someone of in shame...sigh memories

I still do miss my arcades...the nostalgia is killing me...

Just a change in the community I guess.

Once consoles provided the same quality gaming as an arcade (and then as time went on got better) then it was pretty pointless to go to the arcade.

Though there's an arcade where I live called Pojos (it's more like a party/pizza/arcade place which is why it's still in business), and they USED to have nickel slots. You could play any of the old 2D arcades for a nickel a turn. Then one day I went in and found them for a quarter or fifty cents, and decided I'd never go again.

Nickel slots owned.

Arcades are still around. I don;t knwo what your talking about

I know you can play these on console now but I miss playing Double Dragon, Shinobi and a bunch of others in the arcade

Consoles don't give you tickets and crappy prizes.

Do you have the time to listen to me whine?lol_haha_dead

i remember playing a hologram game it was awesome to see that at the time...it was a decision based game kinda like dragons lair.

Arcades may have survived if the games weren't so damn expensive to play. I could easily drop $20/hr at Arcades.

No thank you.

[spoiler] but yeah, consoles played a big part in killing the arcades too [/spoiler]

Those were the days. I dropped in so many quarters for House of the Dead, Time Crisis 2, Area 51, and Crusin World.

No they didn't. £1 for one play, often meaning less than one level, killed the arcade. After about half an hour in an arcade you may as well have bought a game with the amount of money you've spent.

-_-........memories

all the best arcades have had there games replaced with fruties :(

Yes they did. But then again I'd rather sit on my recliner with my beer and play games without feeding quarters in every few minutes. Seems like win to me....but this isn't the forum for teh game talks dude.

arcades are the best thing ever. Indie devs should start making games for the Arcade.

I really only ever played the games you couldn't buy for consoles. I played a lot of the shooters where you press the pedal to pop up and what not. I also spent a lot of time with the gauntlet games or with the sniper games.

I wish they had some of those games for the consoles.

arcades are the best thing ever. Indie devs should start making games for the Arcade.

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